Taylor Swift had a rough Tuesday afternoon.
The 25-year-old pop singer's Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked, and though she was able to, ahem, "Shake It Off," it was understandably a bit rattling. Swift's spirits were lifted later that night after she noticed Australia's Today released its interview with Madonna. "It's good to have princesses [of pop]. It means there's lots of pretty dresses around. I like Taylor Swift. I think she writes some really catchy pop songs," the 56-year-old Material Girl revealed. "I can't get them out of my head."
Swift responded to the praise via Tumblr, writing, "Thanks now I'm dead." She also tagged the post by writing, "#how am i supposed to deal with this" and "#BE COOL TAYLOR STOP BEING EMBARRASSING."
Madonna's feelings are mutual, of course. The "Blank Space" singer spoke about the pop icon's influence last year in a Billboard interview. "One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style," Swift said. "It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable."
During her Today interview, Madonna rolled her eyes at "the reinvention question."
"I'm not calculating anything," she said. "I'm just a changing, evolving creature, expressing myself as I go."
Madonna is currently promoting her new album Rebel Heart. Several tracks were leaked online before Christmas, four-and-a-half-months ahead of schedule. To say she was "cranky" about having her music stolen and published online would be "an understatement," Madonna said. "I was devastated by it. For an artist, it's the ultimate violation to have your work taken from you before you're finished and put out into the world for people to hear, to judge, to experience. I can't begin to tell you how betrayed I felt."
Earlier this month, police in Israel arrested a local man on suspicion of hacking into Madonna's computer and distributing the Rebel Heart demos. "We couldn't figure out, 'What's the common denominator?' We were all ripping our hair out trying to figure out, 'Who's leaking this information? How is it getting out there?'" Madonna said on Today. "It was a great relief to know, but also extremely disturbing. And then if we don't make music, what will people listen to? So they're really just f--king themselves over."