Madonna waited five days for Sabrina Carpenter’s team to respond about her collaboration

Madonna revealed that she waited five days for Sabrina Carpenter’s team to respond to her collaboration request.
The Vogue hitmaker and the Espresso singer took the stage together at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in Los Angeles on Sunday night to accept the award for Best Collaboration for Bring Your Love.

During their acceptance speech, Madonna took a light-hearted jab at Sabrina’s team, revealing that she waited five days for a response before messaging Sabrina directly on social media.

“Everyone who knows me knows how impatient I am. Five days have passed and I still haven’t had any contact with Sabrina and I haven’t heard back from her about whether she wanted to do a song with me – five days – I messaged her,” she said, as the Manchild singer looked stunned and laughed.

“And it’s a true story, she wrote me back and I don’t know, a few weeks later, we were in the studio together. It was fabulous,” added Madonna, before praising Sabrina’s professionalism.

Sabrina then took a moment to defend her team, joking that they were “messing with each other behind the scenes.”

“My team is responding, just so everyone knows,” she insisted. “They respond to people, but I respond faster, so a direct line to me is always the best way to get in touch.”

The pop legend opened the show with her first VMA performance in 23 years. Sabrina joined him for a rendition of Bring Your Love before Charli XCX made a surprise appearance for Danceteria Afterhours, her new remix with Madonna.

The toilet-themed set also featured cameos from Julia Garner, Debi Mazar, Seth Rogen, Sombr and producer Andrew Watt.

Bring Your Love was released in April as the first official single from Madonna’s album Confessions II. They had previously performed it live during Sabrina’s headlining set at Coachella that month.