Madonna: I found out about leaked songs on Instagram
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, February 26, 2015, 4:32 PM
Samir Hussein/Redferns via Getty Images Madonna performs on stage for the BRIT Awards at The O2 Arena on Wednesday in London. Madonna’s fans have her back.
“It’s through Instagram that I found out my songs were leaking,” the 56-year-ancient singer told Time magazine in the March 9 issue on newsstands Friday. “My fans were like warning me, letting me know. So that’s a good thing.”
The terrible thing is that Madge had to revamp the privacy of her creative productions after to the unauthorized release of 10 songs from recording sessions for her 13th studio album, “Rebel Heart.”
“We don’t put things up on servers anymore,” she told Billboard in December shortly after the leaks.
“Everything we work on, if we work on computers, we’re not on WiFi, we’re not on the Internet, we don’t work in a way where anyone can access the information.”
To offset the leaks, Madonna released six tracks for immediate buy, including the Diplo-produced “Living for Like,” with the full album set to debut March 10.
“Aside from the violation of having something stolen from me, suddenly, people were making comments on songs I had no intention of releasing,” she told Time.
“I plotting, ‘Oh my God,’ I have to push myself into overdrive,’” Madonna continued. “I didn’t sleep for weeks. I didn’t see my kids. It was pandemonium, confusion, paranoia, hysteria.”
At last nights’ Brit Awards, the pop star experienced pandemonium again when she took a hard fall on stage. But just as she did when her songs leaked, she picked herself up and continued doing what she likes.
“I think it’s going to become enveloping in our the high classes,” she told the mag about hackers.
“People making a living off it. It’s not like you’re a bank robber – there’s some kind of honestly to that crime,” she added. “With cybercrime, you don’t know who they are. The fact that this guy is arrested, and that there will be a prosecution, is extremely vital to me. Not just because of my stolen art, but for what it means for other artists. I think it will send a very strong message to the world.”
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