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During a Tuesday appearance on TODAY, pop superstar Madonna promoted her new album Rebel Heart and talked about how her four children – Lourdes, 18, Rocco, 13, and 9-year-olds Mercy and David – feel about her racy songs.

“Lola’s horrified by all of it. She just wants me to be her mom,” the Like a Virgin hitmaker, 56, told Carson Daly of her college-age daughter.

As for the younger kids, perhaps the terror will hit them soon.

“At this point, Rocco doesn’t care. It just goes over. He’s like, ‘Ugh, mom. Mom’s being mom,’ ” she said. “The other little kids aren’t tuned into that frequency yet.”

Admittedly, the Material Girl says it can be awkward at times, particularly if the kids would visit the studio when she was recording songs like Holy Water (an EDM track about oral sex).

“It’s a little bit cray cray,” she shared. “Here’s the weird thing, every time my kids would visit me in the studio, it would just so happen I was working on a song like Holy Water or S.E.X., and I’d be like … umm … Okay, just … Stay outside. I’ll be right out.”

In November, she returned to the African country of Malawi, where she adopted Mercy and David.

“I love taking all of my kids there,” she shared. “They walk into hospitals, and tell jokes and stories, and embrace children who are in some pretty extreme states health-wise. And they’re not afraid. And I love that. And I love to see them behaving in a generous way towards human beings, you know, outside of their world.”

Despite being a pop music icon, the mom-of-four insists she lives a normal life.

“The more kids you have, the more responsibilities you have, the more you have to really be aware of time, time management, and juggling lots of balls in the air and thinking, ‘Oh my God, how am I gonna do this? How am I gonna promote my record and show up at my daughter’s show?’ ” she said.

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