{"id":33078,"date":"2026-08-08T19:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33078"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:38:58","slug":"madonna-remembers-william-orbit-as-singular-in-heartfelt-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33078","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Remembers William Orbit as &#8220;Singular&#8221; in Heartfelt Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Madonna-and-William-Orbit.jpg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" data-id=\"1616812\" data-title=\"Madonna Remembers Producer William Orbit as \u201cSingular\u201d in Heartfelt Tribute\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/madonna-remembers-producer-william-orbit\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/madonna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madonna<\/a> has penned an emotional tribute to late musician and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/william-orbit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Orbit<\/a>, describing him as an inspiration in a transitional moment in her life and \u201cotherworldly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly you could inspire me to write a song like Drowned World or Swim,\u201d Madonna said in a Saturday social media post about Orbit, who produced her 1998 album <em>Ray of Light <\/em>and wrote many of its tracks with her, including \u201cDrowned World\/Substitute for Love\u201d and \u201cSwim.\u201d \u201cYou were so otherworldly. So singular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orbit <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/william-orbit-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died July 23rd<\/a> at 69 years old with his family announcing his death Friday. He left a legacy of having advanced the genre of electronic music through his groups Torch Song and Bassomatic and producing bands and artists like Blur, U2, No Doubt, Ricky Martin, P!NK, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>But it was his work with Madonna that earned him some of his loftiest recognition as <em>Ray of Light<\/em> took home four Grammys in 1999. In her salute to Orbit, the Queen of Pop credited the producer with changing her perspective on making music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had an epiphany when I met you and started working with you,\u201d Madonna wrote. \u201cI realized that music did not have to fit into categories or genres. So we created our own. You pressed a magic button inside of me and I fell into a galaxy of unrealized dreams. Your music gave me a magic carpet to fly on and I visited many places. Sad and Joyful\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orbit, she said, gave her the inspiration to reimagine a part of her arsenal that made her a global megastar \u2014 her voice. \u201cI sang in ways I\u2019d never sung before,\u201d Madonna recalled. \u201cI used words without caring if they made sense or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madonna said she was starting a new chapter, her daughter having recently been born, and choosing to walk a new musical path in the late 1990s. \u201cYou were right by my side with your crooked teeth and your genius, way of hearing music,\u201d she wrote about Orbit. \u201cThe studio was often church like and I would sit in silence, waiting for your ideas to explode out of your keyboard or your guitar and then I would run with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pop megastar ended her tribute to Orbit by saying, \u201cThe years passed and I moved on to make music with other people, but I have never forgotten you or the magical time we spent together.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dbxz4J3iJOz\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=1;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('set','agent','tmgoogletagmanager', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('track', \"PageView\");\n\t<\/script><script defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v7.0&#038;appId=434175690014\" nonce=\"6gwmbCtM\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna has penned an emotional tribute to late musician and producer William Orbit, describing him as an inspiration in a transitional moment in her life and \u201cotherworldly.\u201d \u201cOnly you could inspire me to write a song like Drowned World or Swim,\u201d Madonna said in a Saturday social media post about Orbit, who produced her 1998&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Madonna-Ray-of-Light-William-Orbit.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}