Dance Tonight

Album: Hard Candy (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Written by Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Tim Mosley and Hannon Lane, this duet with Timberlake is lyrically about doing one's bit for charity. Madonna sings:

    You don't have to be rich and famous
    To be good
    You just gotta give more more more
    Than you ever have before


    Of course, the sexual connotation is undeniable.
  • Justin Timberlake filled many roles for the Hard Candy album: songwriter, producer ... therapist? According to Madonna, working with JT was like going to therapy. "We kind of had psychoanalytic sessions whenever we wrote songs. We'd sit down and start talking about situations. And then we'd start talking about issues or problems or relationships with people," she told Interview magazine. "That was the only way, because you know, writing together with somebody is very intimate."

    Timberlake also co-wrote "4 Minutes," "Miles Away," "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" and "Voices."

Comments: 2

  • Bezup from FloridaMadonna is an Epic Artist who will be forever young at heart in her music as she truly captured the essence of youth in her songs that save You, the world, and everybody in it with compassion in their hearts to catch her spark of inspiration that just lifts off in a spiraled dance of togetherness-enjoyment in the love of Gods gifted life!
  • Leo from Westminster 1, MdMadonna will Dance Tonight because she has changed and saved the world one brilliant song after another! Your move, Madonna! The line-dance/Baltimore Club-forms here!
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