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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Jess is joined by “Madonna’s Secret Weapons” (per Rolling Stone) — longtime Madonna back-up singers and dancers, NIKI HARIS & DONNA DE LORY! Niki and Donna performed on four (4) of Madonna’s world tours, including The Who’s That Girl Tour, The Blond Ambition Tour, The Girlie Show and The Drowned World Tour. They also appear on the recordings of “Vogue,” “Like a Prayer” “Deeper and Deeper,” “Nothing Really Matters” and more. We discuss filming TRUTH OR DARE, filming the “Vogue” and “Music” videos, currently performing as a duo on tour and more!
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and my next two guests |
0:18.7 | contribution to the pop music lexicon are unparalleled having worked on Madonna's records and live |
0:26.2 | tours including who's that girl the blonde ambition tour the girly show the |
0:32.2 | drowned world tour and let's not forget perhaps the greatest |
0:36.7 | rock and roll documentary ever made truth or dare. |
0:40.9 | Please welcome to the stage, Nicki Harris and Donna Delore better known as |
0:45.3 | Mickey and Donna. Hello it's so great to be here with you. Oh my God now my dog |
0:50.9 | was sorry I have to go get my dogs. The dog was a part of it. |
0:56.0 | He thought the hands were for him. Okay, Calvin, down down. Goodbye. How are you guys doing? I know that you just got off tour you were performing shows in |
1:05.3 | Palm Springs and you are now like doing live shows together. I was at the one you |
1:11.3 | did a couple years ago here in Brooklyn. Tell me everything. Like, I want to come back. |
1:18.0 | I do have a secret agenda as part of this is I'm going to sell you on a New York City show. I have someone to connect you with if you're |
1:25.9 | available in January. We're looking for that. We can discuss your rider, like what you need in the green |
1:31.5 | room. I'll have to hit up my friend who has a beautiful house in New Jersey. |
1:36.0 | I got an apartment. |
1:37.0 | We want to do it. |
1:38.0 | Brooklyn, I'm good. |
1:39.0 | I was just looking at clips from our, from a show, we did a Catalina's such a sweet vibe and with the band the |
1:47.2 | band was great and what is special you know when I really I have to put myself in from the perspective of our supporters |
1:54.4 | and fans coming and how unique and special that experiences for them and we know that we |
2:00.6 | love just saying together and this is our passion but like think about them and for a lot of them it's like a once in a lifetime deal. |
2:08.0 | I mean I've always had this analogy in my mind it very much felt like Diana Ross and the Supremes. Wow. Right? |
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