Madonna’s Back In A Dance Mood On ‘Confessions II’

As expected, Madonna has her eyes squarely set on the club on Confessions II, her first new album in seven years and her debut with Warner Records since returning last year to the label that helped launch her superstar career in the 1980s.

The project is out July 3 and re-teams Madonna with producer Stuart Price, with whom she worked on 2005’s beloved Confessions on a Dance Floor. which went No. 1 in 40 countries and won the Best Electronic/Dance Album Grammy. It is best known for hits such as the ABBA-sampling “Hung Up,” “Sorry” and “Get Together.”

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Says Madonna, who will turn 68 in August, “when Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto: we must dance, celebrate and pray with our bodies. These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect — with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people. Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions, pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass — we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”

Madonna spent the first 24 years of her career on Warner Bros. Records, but after nearly two decades with Interscope, she returned to her original home in 2025. Confessions II is the star’s first studio project since 2019’s Madame X. Click here to pre-order Confessions II.

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