Listen to Madonna and Charli XCX team up on nostalgic ‘Danceteria Afterhours’

Madonna and Charli XCX have shared their new collaboration ‘Danceteria Afterhours’ – listen to it below.

The track is a reworked version of ‘Danceteria’, taken from Madonna’s recent album ‘Confessions II’ , and sees the two pop stars looking back at the club scenes that helped shape them.

Produced by Madonna, Andrew Watt, Cirkut and Stuart Price, ‘Danceteria Afterhours’ takes its name from the legendary New York nightclub where Madonna spent time during the early stages of her career.

The singer references figures from the city’s early-’80s downtown scene including Fab 5 Freddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Rock Steady Crew. Danceteria also played an important part in launching her own career, with DJ Mark Kamins playing her ‘Everybody’ demo at the club before producing the song, which became her debut single in 1982.

Charli, meanwhile, uses her verse to revisit her own clubbing history, recalling being “sweet 15 in a weird outfit” and performing in London, before jumping forward to her time with A.G. Cook and the late SOPHIE in Los Angeles.

The collaboration was first previewed last week , when Madonna shared a clip of the pair dancing together and asked: “You wanna talk about Madonna and Charli?”

It follows months of playful exchanges between the two artists. Earlier this year, Charli declared “I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we’re making rock music” on ‘Rock Music’, from her latest album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ .

Madonna subsequently appeared to respond on social media, writing: “If your Dance floor feels dead, maybe you’re playing the wrong music,” sparking speculation of tension between the pair.