Saturday night’s alright for reconciling.
That’s what happened when two living music legends — Madonna, 66, and Elton John, 78 — squashed their longtime beef at “Saturday Night Live” this weekend when the Rocket Man was the musical guest with Brandi Carlile.
“We Finally Buried the Hatchet!!!” the Queen of Pop announced in an Instagram post alongside a pic of her with John backstage at “SNL” set to the tune of his classic “Your Song.”
“Over the decades it hurt me to know that someone I admired so much shared his dislike of me publicly as an artist,” Madonna wrote about their feud. “I didn’t understand it.”
Attending the “Saturday Night Live” taping in New York with her boyfriend Akeem Morris, 28, Madonna was clearly out to express herself to John.
“I was told Elton John was the musical guest on SNL and I decided to go,” she wrote. “I needed to go backstage and confront him.”
However, there was no knock-down, drag-out fight between the two superstars.
“When I met him, the first thing out of his mouth was, ‘Forgive Me’ and the wall between us fell down,” Madonna wrote.
“Forgiveness is a powerful tool. Within minutes. We were hugging.”
There was even talk about the two music icons working together.
“Then he told me had written a song for me and he wanted to collaborate,” Madonna wrote. “It was like everything came full circle!!”
Madonna also shared how John was an important influence on her as an artist.
“I remembered when I was in high school — I snuck out of the house one night to see Elton perform live in Detroit,” she said. “It was an unforgettable performance that helped me understand the transformative power of music.
“Seeing him perform when I was in high school changed the course of my life. I had always felt like an outsider growing up and watching him on stage helped me to understand that it was OK to be different —to stand out — to take the road, less traveled by. In fact, it was essential.”
But there was no love to justify between Madonna and John in the past.
The feud goes back to 2002 when John dissed Madonna’s “Die Another Day,” calling it “the worst Bond tune ever.”
Then, when Madonna was nominated for Best Live Act at the Q Awards in 2004, John took another shot at the Material Girl. “Since when has lip-syncing been live?” he said while accepting the Classic Songwriter Award. “Anyone who lip-syncs on stage in public when you pay …. to see them should be shot.”
John also allegedly called Madonna a “miserable cow” after she turned down his invite to perform at his bachelor party before his wedding to David Furnish.
In 2012, Furnish even got in on the Madge hate after she beat Sir Elton for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes.
“Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit,” he wrote on Facebook. “Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in its narcissism.”
In response, Madonna said, “Elton has been known to get mad at me, so I don’t know. He’s brilliant, and I adore him, so he’ll win another award. I don’t feel bad.”
John also bashed Madonna after she dissed Lady Gaga — the godmother of his two sons with Furnish — for being “reductive” of “Express Yourself” on her 2011 hit “Born This Way.”
“I couldn’t see why she was so ungracious and nasty about it, rather than taking it as a compliment … particularly when she claims to be a champion for women,” John wrote in his 2019 memoir “Me.”
Their beef seems to be buried now, with John responding to Madonna’s Instagram post: “Thank you for coming to see me at SNL. And thank you for forgiving me and my big mouth. I’m not proud of what I said. Particularly when I think about all the groundbreaking work you have done as an artist — paving the way for an entire generation of female artists to succeed and be true to themselves.
“You were also one of the very first people to rise up against HIV/AIDS in the 80’s, bringing love and compassion to so many who desperately needed it. I’m grateful we can move forward.”
He continued, “I’m increasingly distressed by all the divisiveness in our world at the moment. Both you and I have wholeheartedly been accepted and embraced by communities who are under threat around the world.
“By pulling together, I’m hopeful that we can make great things happen for those who really need support. And have a lot of fun doing it!!”
