Since 2024, Madonna has been teasing that her next album will be a sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor. Yesterday, she cleared her Instagram and changed her bio to read “Time goes by so slowly…”, a lyric from Confessions’ lead single, “Hung Up,” and now she’s officially announced a release date. Confessions II is out July 3 via Warner. Below, check out the cover art and watch a teaser featuring a snippet of a new song titled “I Feel So Free.”
In a press statement about the new album, Madonna wrote:
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 first alluded to the existence of a Confessions follow-up in December 2024, when she posted a video of herself in the studio with the original LP’s producer, Stuart Price. Then, last year, she confirmed that she had returned to her original label, Warner Records, where she put out all of her studio albums from 1983’s self-titled debut to 2008’s Hard Candy.
In the seven years following the release of 2019’s Madame X, Madonna has shared two remix compilations—Finally Enough Love and the Ray of Light-era collection Veronica Electronica—and collaborated with Beyoncé, Fireboy DML, and Sam Smith. She also reworked “Hung Up” alongside Dominican dembow star Tokischa. A Madonna biopic starring Julia Garner was scrapped in 2023, but will apparently be a plot point in season two of the Apple TV+ series The Studio.
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