Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Madonna is set to record with ABBA legends Agnetha Faltskog and Frida Lynstad for her new album. The pop star sampled their hit ‘Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie’ for her hit single ‘Hung Up’ from her last album, and the pair have now apparently agreed to go into the studio with Madonna to record new material with her. A source tells The Sun, “Madonna has been in contact with Agnetha and Frida for a few months. “Madonna was the driving force behind the idea because she was so happy with her sample of Gimme Gimme Gimme on Hung Up. “Agnetha and Frida loved it, they really warmed to Madonna for rejuvenating one of their most famous tracks.”

Starpulse

I am really interested to see how the song turns out!

A woman claiming to be the grandmother of the African boy Madonna is seeking to adopt said that he was visited regularly in his orphanage by members of his family. Asitineti Mwale’s comments contradict claims made by the pop star in a high-profile interview on BBC2’s Newsnight on Wednesday, in which she appeared to suggest that baby David Banda had no living grandmother. Newsnight had reported that the administrator of the Home of Hope orphanage in Malawi confirmed that the 13-month-old boy had received family visits while resident there. In the interview, Madonna said she disagreed with press reports suggesting David had a natural grandmother. "I never met a granny and I was told … that from the day that he was left in the orphanage he was not visited by any extended family members and that’s really why I became interested in him," she said. "If someone had said to me, ‘Oh, his dad comes every week or his granny visits on a regular basis and he’s well looked after,’ I would not even have given it another thought." But Ms Mwale told Newsnight: "David is the son of my son and so, in short, I am his grandmother. I used to visit him almost every month and I have been there several times." Told that it had been suggested David had no contact with his natural family, she responded: "That’s a lie. We used to visit David often and every time he felt sick, we used to get a message from the orphanage and one of the nephews or myself went to see David." "Several" uncles and aunts, including the sister of David’s father Yohane, had been to see the boy, she said. David is currently at Madonna’s London home after the star was granted a temporary custody order – which she says makes her a "foster parent". Her attempt to adopt the child has sparked controversy, in part because of the speed with which she was able to bring him out of Malawi last month.

The Press Association 

With everything going on I am not sure she is going to be able to keep him. 

And rabbis all over the world reach for their Alka-Seltzer: Madonna tells NBC’s "Dateline" tonight that she’s raising newly acquired son David in Kabbalah. But she’s a little confused about actual Kabbalah — which is a study of mysticism in advanced teachings of Judaism — and the Kabbalah Centre, which is a Hollywood-based business to which she donates millions. Buyer beware: Proceeds from Madonna’s latest children’s book, like the five that preceded it, go to the Kabbalah Centre. She gets the tax deduction, by the way, not you. Maybe that’s why the new one is ranked at No. 816 on Amazon.com. Madonna tells "Dateline": “I believe in Jesus, and I study Kabbalah. So, I don’t see why [David] can’t too. The essence of the Kabbalah is the teachings of Jesus. You know, love your neighbor as yourself. If David decides he wants to be a Christian, then so be it. Studying Kabbalah doesn’t mean you can’t be a Christian or a Buddhist or a Muslim or a Jew or whatever." Well, yes, Madonna, it does mean exactly that. Meantime, it’s pointed out that her adopted baby’s father told the Malawi court he was happy his child was going to a “nice Christian woman.” Ouch!

Fox411 

Sounds more like Jews for Jesus then it does Kabbalah.

Madonna was accused of snatching away Malawian baby David Banda from another foreign woman who had been about to adopt him herself. In an extraordinary new twist, the boy’s father Yohane Banda said plans for his 13-month-old son to be adopted were already in motion before the singer intervened. Mr Banda spoke of his regret that Madonna has taken him, when he could have had a much quieter life had he been adopted by the unnamed woman. She has been making donations to the orphanage for six years and regularly lived there for three months at a time. He said: ‘The woman’s brother’s name was also David and she sent him pictures of my son and said he was going to come and collect him. ‘We were waiting for them both to come back to the village, but Madonna took him first. ‘If these people had adopted him, no-one would have ever caused this fuss and I could be living my life as normal.’ The new claim came as the main benefactor to David’s orphanage, a Canadian grandmother who has developed a close bond with him in his first year of life, spoke of her anguish that Madonna had taken ‘one of our babies’. Retired schoolteacher Jane Glaves had been making regular trips to the orphanage since 2000, staying for long periods at a time, living at a house she has built there with many of the children. In 2003, she took a set of male twins and a little girl home from the same orphanage to Canada and become the first and only non-national ever to do so. She was also consulted by officials from Malawi over Madonna’s adoption. She said: ‘David is such a special little boy. I would take them all in if I could, but I just could not put myself through it again.’ Speaking about Madonna’s adoption, the 70-year-old grandmother of five told First magazine: ‘All I knew about her was that she cavorted half naked in a conical bra. I found it difficult to come to terms with the fact she wanted one of our babies.’ Mrs Glaves said she was perplexed when Madonna chose David despite being offered children with no surviving family. Pictured here with a baby who is believed to be David at the orphanage, she said: ‘We put forward the names of children who had nobody, but she chose David knowing he had a living parent.’ She added: ‘Madonna has said she was told David’s family had never been to visit him. But David’s dad used to come to see him regularly.’ Malawian law dictates that foreigners must live in the country for 18 months before they are eligible to adopt a child. And Madonna herself has admitted that her team had to ‘make the laws up as they went along’ to adopt David. When Mrs Glaves was involved in the adoption of three local children to two Canadian families, the process took three years. ‘At first I was angry that Madonna seemed to be able to adopt David so quickly because of the length of time and stress the other two families had to endure,’ she said. ‘In my six years working in Malawi, they are the only orphans I know to have left the country. Madonna obviously had very good lawyers.’

Daily Mail

Everyday it is something new with this adoption, I just wonder if she will be able to keep David?

The father of Madonna’s adopted orphan has dismissed as a lie the singer’s claim on TV that his wife and other children died of AIDS. Yohane Banda, 32, whose wife died aged 25 after giving birth to 13-month-old David, says he will now have to live with the stigma. The African peasant farmer also denied the superstar’s allegation that he had never visited his son at the orphanage, to which he was entrusted at the age of two weeks. Speaking on the Oprah Winfrey Show last week, Madonna, 48, said when she met David at the orphanage in Malawi she was told his mother and three siblings had died of AIDS, while his father’s whereabouts were unknown. But Mr Banda, who lives in the village of Lipunga, close to the border with Zambia, said: "She never went for an HIV test and she died in Zambia at her parents’ house, so how could anyone know if that is what she died of?" The clinic she attended when she became ill during pregnancy had diagnosed anaemia, he added. Later, when she was admitted to hospital in Malawi, he was told she had a physical condition that made childbirth very risky. Mr Banda insisted he had two other children – not three as Madonna was told – one of whom had died of malaria, while the other died suddenly at 18 months from an unknown cause. Neither was HIV positive as far as he knew. Mr Banda said he was worried that if people believed Madonna’s claims, they would stigmatise him. In the TV interview, Madonna said David had been abandoned by his family. "No one from his extended family had visited him since he arrived," she told Oprah. But Mr Banda insisted this was also "a lie", adding: "I visited David many times, too many to count." The baby was also visited by his grandmother, while Mr Banda’s brother, Profera, "saw him almost every day, sometimes twice a day". Despite his anger at the slurs, Mr Banda refused to blame Madonna and instead accused the orphanage of giving her "false information". However, an official at the Home of Hope Orphan Care Centre insisted: "We gave her no such information," and instead pointed the finger at Malawi’s Ministry of Gender and Child Welfare. Meanwhile, although David has been in the UK for less than two weeks, Madonna has introduced him to her Kabbalah faith. The move is likely to upset Mr Banda, who was told his son was going to "a very nice Christian lady". Madonna took the toddler to the Friday night Shabat ceremony at the Central London Kabbalah Centre, and invited other children to "come and play with baby David". The boy even wore the Kabbalah red string bracelet, believed by followers to ward off evil spirits.

Daily Mail 

This guys keeps changing story with every interview, I just don’t know whether or not to believe him anymore.

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