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@insidethegroove Danceteria would be a cool name for a tour if she takes the album on the road ✅

I wonder how many conversations there were about whether to call the album CONFESSIONS II or whether to call it DANCETERIA?

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The Sun heard Confessions II in London — and calls it a dance banger to be played from start to finish, over and over again. Ellie Henman was invited to a top secret playback in London this week. Her verdict: Madonna and Stuart Price have mixed thunderous beats, a taste of techno, and deep lyrics. Two tracks stand out from what was shared. Good For The Soul is a track Henman says she could dance to on repeat. Price explains the mood behind it: “Good For The Soul really became about that expression of joy, when we were finally doing music together again.” Danceteria is a fantastic stomping track with a serious undercurrent of Vogue — written and recorded in one night. Madonna arrived talking about the old clubs, telling stories about everyone. They had the track and the verse section, but the melody wasn’t coming. She told Price to leave it with her. She came back the next day with three pages of lyrics. “She went, ‘Let me just record it,’” Price recalls. “How this came out is literally just what happened when she walked in and picked up the microphone that day.” And one detail that says everything about how she works: Madonna always comes to the studio with an A4 notepad, lyrics written down, structured from the start.

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I met my husband at Danceteria, where he was a bartender working alongside Chi Chi ValentI, 3rd Fl. The way he hollered when I showed him this minutes ago 😂 😂

The Mirror got an early listen to Confessions II — and was blown away. Tom Bryant was among the first journalists in the world to hear tracks from the album. His conclusion: some of the best music of her entire career. Dark, house-oriented, filthy basslines, built for dancing long into the night. The listening session address was shared only at the last minute — a deliberate move against leaks. This album is being guarded closely. Stuart Price revealed that the Madonna–Sabrina Carpenter connection was entirely organic. Sabrina had spoken publicly about looking up to Madonna, and they connected directly on social media — no label involvement, no industry matchmaking. Madonna’s first instinct: “Let’s get in the room together and see.” Both flew to New York. Price says the result took his breath away — one of the biggest stars right now, one of the biggest stars of all time, and from the second they were in the studio together the chemistry was immediate. Funny, electric, real. And then there’s the microphone. Stuart Price bought it 28 years ago on Tottenham Court Road, spending every penny of his Barclays savings. It’s beaten up, repaired with Sellotape, barely holding together. Madonna insisted on using it — the same one from the original Confessions sessions. Nothing else had that sound, that character. Price says she is forensic about sounds, and hears everything. That one detail tells you everything about how this album was made.

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This morning vs a few hours later — same spot in Notting Hill, documented by our friend who went down to check. The Confessions II tracklist posters appeared this morning and by this afternoon fans had stripped the wall almost completely bare. 😱

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Madonna’s Confessions II street adverts with 12-track album tracklist are now appearing in Notting Hill, UK 💜

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Further reports have now emerged from the same playback event, and the picture they paint only adds to the excitement. Based on multiple accounts gathered from attendees, here is what we know. The Q&A session that followed the playback was hosted by Jodie Harsh. Stuart Price spoke at length about the making of the album, and by all accounts did so with remarkable eloquence. The project was not conceived as Confessions II from the outset — it evolved into that identity organically. The starting point, Price revealed, was the Celebration Tour: Madonna enjoyed the experience so much that she went straight back into the studio afterwards. The initial moodboard centred on revisiting the New York clubs of her early years — Danceteria, Limelight, Twilight — the spaces that shaped her. They didn’t set out to make a sequel; they set out to document where she is now and who she is. When asked at what point he knew the project was going to be Confessions II, Price’s answer was disarmingly simple: when she posted it on Instagram. The recording process was structured and disciplined, and Madonna was uncompromising about one thing in particular: nothing was recorded remotely. No Zoom, no sending files back and forth — everyone had to be physically in the room, including Sabrina Carpenter, who flew in to record Bring Your Love in New York. Madonna would arrive with an A4 notepad of lyrics; Price would bring music; the two would connect. Everything was recorded in one location, using the same microphone Price had bought in Soho 28 years ago for the original Confessions on a Dance Floor — spending all his money on it at the time. The album took over a year to complete. Throughout the process, Madonna had a very specific way of quality-controlling the material: she would listen to the entire album start to finish at the gym every single day, then come back into the studio with notes. On the overall sound, Price framed it clearly: if Confessions I was disco house, Confessions II is Chicago house. The entire album was performed on DJ decks — not simply played through software, but actively mixed through four channels, with pieces and elements woven together in real time. Price revealed that during the making of the record, they would test fragments of songs at DJ sets — just a few seconds here and there — to gauge reaction. Which means, as attendees noted with some amazement, people may have already heard snippets of Confessions II on a night out without even knowing it. The album is confessional, but also takes in loss and world events. There are some spoken words throughout — centred on what the dancefloor means — including interludes between tracks, across the 16-song record. It sits alongside material that Price described as Madonna at the height of her expressive powers, while also showing real vulnerability. Price also noted that no collaborator ever leaves a session with Madonna unchanged — in the best possible way. He also referenced Erotica during the conversation. And on her vocals: Stuart said they are the best he has ever heard her sing. Bring Your Love was described by Price as a defiant record — a statement of control over one’s own career. Price described the chemistry between Madonna and Carpenter as immediate and physical — the two connected over similar experiences at different points in their lives, and the collaboration came together naturally. The attitude behind the track, as he put it, is: you don’t think I’m in control of my career? Bring your love.

The world’s first full album playback of Confessions II was hosted by Jodie Harsh, a London-based DJ, music producer, drag queen and promoter who has been a fixture of the UK queer club scene for over two decades. Long a trusted figure in Madonna’s inner circle, Harsh previously DJed the private London party marking the launch of Rebel Heart in 2015. Of the event, she wrote: “I’ve spent the day confessing! It was an absolute pleasure to host the world’s first album playback of Madonna’s Confessions II. Listening to the songs and delving into the creation of the record with Stuart Price felt like the best night out. It’s truly going to be Madonna’s summer”

THE CONFESSION OF ST. ANTHONY ON A DANCE FLOOR CARRINGTON 1945