Pop star Madonna comments on her back and forth with Prince while writing “Love Song”:
You and Prince wrote “Love Song” together, which is a wonderful song. Did you and he work together or did he give you a track?
No he didn’t give me a track. We sat down and just started fooling around. We had a lot of fun.
What happened is that he played drums and I played the synthesizer and we came up with the original melody line; I just, off the top of my head, started singing lyrics into the microphone. And then he overdubbed some guitar stuff and made a loop of it and sent it to me, and then I just started adding sections to it and singing parts of it. And then I sent it back to him, and he’d sing a part of it and add another instrument and send it back to me … it was like this sentence that turned into a paragraph that turned into a little miniseries.
Source: Songwriters on Songwriting, Paul Zollo
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