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Turns out, there’s quite a story behind Madonna’s subversive cover of this iconic American pop song
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie. (It also held the record for being the longest song to reach No. 1 for almost 50 years before Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” broke the record in 2021.)In 2000, the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, recorded her own version of the song to promote the soundtrack to her movie The Next Best Thing, co-starring Rupert Everett.The film is about a single yoga instructor named Abbie (Madonna), who decides to raise a child with her gay best friend, Robert (Everett).