Madonna Is the Wildest Party Favor

The Queen of Pop partied with Paper Magazine in Brooklyn for their latest cover(s) story and talked with Nile Rodgers – the only sole producer to ever be credited on a Madonna album – to discuss what strange magic is it that imbues certain artists with preternatural instincts, how does one stay relevant effortlessly, how do you conquer the only trial that matters, that fickle test of time, their joint and individual empires of sound, and how they constructed a civilization of pop that even the Romans couldn’t have built.

• Photography by Ricardo Gomes
• Interview by Nile Rodgers
• Story by Patrik Sandberg
• Styling by Eyob Yohannes
• Hair by Andy LeCompte
• Makeup by Wendi Miyake