{"id":2446541,"date":"2019-07-19T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=861385"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:15:22","slug":"watch-madonna-embrace-euphoric-batuque-spirit-in-new-batuka-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-madonna-embrace-euphoric-batuque-spirit-in-new-batuka-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Madonna Embrace Euphoric Batuque Spirit in New \u2018Batuka\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madonna<\/a> celebrates the rebellious spirit and legacy of batuque in the new video for \u201cBatuka,\u201d a track off her most recent album, Madame X<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a series of title cards explains at the start of the video, batuque is a style of music and dance that was created by women in Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the coast of Africa that played a crucial role in the slave trade. Madonna learned about batuque while living in Portugal, where she recorded some of Madame X<\/em>, and both the song and video for \u201cBatuka\u201d feature the Orquestra Batukadeiras.<\/p>\n

The video for \u201cBatuka\u201d was filmed off the coast of Lisbon and finds Madonna and the women of the Orquestra Batukadeiras singing, dancing and clapping in a studio and against the stunning backdrop of the ocean. In an interview with Refinery 29<\/em><\/a>, where the \u201cBatuka\u201d video premiered, Madonna noted that the clip was meant to honor both the legacy of batuque and recreate the pop star\u2019s first meeting with the Orquestra Batukadeiras.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy to replicate the significance of our first meeting and how it all happened,\u201d she said. \u201cHow they invited me in and gave me a leather drum, sat me down and said \u2018Join Us.\u2019 They took turns dancing and embracing me. They invited me into their world and made me feel extremely welcome. When I asked them to record with me it was the exact same experience. They were just as joyful, just as down to earth, just as open, just as loving. I tried to capture the simplicity of that exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madonna released Madame X<\/em> in June, marking her first album since 2015\u2019s Rebel Heart<\/em><\/a>. The singer will embark on a North American theater tour<\/a> in support of the album this fall, starting with a 17-night residency at New York\u2019s Howard Gilman Opera House, September 12th through October 7th. Madonna will perform similar multi-night stands in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia before wrapping with a stint in Miami, November 30th through December 19th.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madonna celebrates the rebellious spirit and legacy of batuque in the new video for \u201cBatuka,\u201d a track off her most recent album, Madame X. As a series of title cards explains at the start of the video, batuque is a style of music and dance that was created by women in Cape Verde, a former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 22:46:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}