last April 17. She came on stage as a guest of the day’s headliner, Sabrina Carpenter. They performed four songs together and then Madonna, already in the dressing room, lost the clothes she displayed during the recital: a purple jacket, a corset, a dress and her boots. The disgust was tremendous. “20 years ago I presented Confessions I in the same room with the same boots and the same corset. This special moment was different until I discovered that the clothes vintage that he was carrying had disappeared. “It’s not just about clothes, but it’s part of my story,” she wrote, supposedly repentant, on her Instagram account. Despite promising a reward, the clothes have not yet been found. The news of this theft was almost as transcendent as Madonna’s reappearance two decades after her last visit to the most media festival, held in Indio (California).
a few days ago, The New York Times published an article where he defined Coachella 2026 as “a master class in marketing”. Before a regiment of influencers, incessant activity on social networks, scenarios designed to delight those who follow the broadcast via the internet and, thanks to all this, the presence of a surprise guest. “As expected, Madonna was also part of the show,” highlights the New York newspaper.
Indeed, the interpreter of Vogue has demonstrated throughout her extensive career that she practically invented selling glamour visual and musical, products delivered in the most suggestive, provocative and effective way. And on many occasions the musical quality has accompanied.
Today, the 67-year-old singer from Bay City (Michigan) lays one more stone for what is her great construction this year, the album Confessions II, which is published on July 3. On April 18, he released the first song from this work, which breaks seven years of silence (the previous one, Madame X, dates back to 2019), and now it arrives Bring Your Love, duet with Sabrina Carpenter (Quakertown, Pennsylvania, 26 years old).
With these two songs, the singer’s goal is none other than to desperately grasp current pop news, the one she involuntarily renounced years ago with unexciting albums like Rebel Heart (2015) o Madame X (2019). And if music and the figure of Madonna have always proposed something, it is stimulating content. So much I Feel So Free as Bring Your Love They are encouraging advances in this sense.
Confesions II It is sold as the second part of an incontestable success of the artist, Confessions on a Dance Floorfrom 2006, the one that contained the addictive Hung Up (con sampled of the ABBA theme, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), an album that climbed to number one in the United States and shipped ten million units. 20 years ago his partnership with producer Stuart Price delivered a sensational club album, and now the duo repeats. If the first advance, I Feel So Free, It sounds like Price playing Giorgio Moroder passed by. house, Bring Your Love continues with dance music, but this time from a more pop perspective. Madonna leaves the club of sweaty bodies in the early hours of the morning to perform in a nightclub for all audiences with Sabrina’s naïve mischief. It is a light and fun song with one problem: the voices of the veteran and the young girl are indistinguishable. The lyrics exude defiance in the face of dependency relationships: “I don’t want your judgment or your expectations. / Don’t manipulate me like a toy, your vision of me kills joy.”
The warming of Confesions II, which will contain 16 songs, also had a stop last weekend at The Abbey, in Hollywood, a venue focused on LGBTQ+ culture. Madonna appeared there without announcements and danced for a few hours while Stuart Price played the songs from the Confessions from 2006 and songs that are supposed to be included in the 2026 edition. In some songs (Louisiana, 25 years old), another young pop star of today. New blood to achieve the desire of the interpreter of Like a Prayer: to sound eternally young.
Madonna debuted a new “Confessions II” track, probably called “Freedom,” at the Abbey early Sunday! Via @ philliytswehonights on Insta:
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In Madonna’s statement about the new album, she says: “We must dance, celebrate and pray with our bodies. These are practices that we have carried out for thousands of years; they are, in fact, spiritual practices. At the end of the day, the dance floor is a ritual space. It is a place where you connect with your wounds, with your fragility. Partying is an art. It is about pushing your limits and connecting with a community of like-minded people. Sound, light and vibration transform our perception, immersing us in a trance state. The repetitive rhythm of the bass, we not only hear it, but we feel it. It alters our consciousness and dissolves the ego and time. It is difficult to disagree with this thesis that combines pop frivolity with spiritual depth.
The album cover shows the star sitting on top of a speaker, wearing a sheer purple veil covering her face and body, purple thigh-high stockings and a lace dress. His name and the album title appear superimposed on both sides of his body. On July 3 we will have an album that will mark the career of the great pop diva.
