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Madonna: CONFESSIONS II Album Review
What would it mean for Madonna to release her best album in 20 years? The bar is in hell.
The way she tells it, the triptych that forms the collective nadir of her career—2012’s MDNA, 2015’s Rebel Heart, and 2019’s Madame X—was the result of a disastrous 360 deal with Live Nation and Interscope. It split her off from Warner, her label of nearly 30 years, and hamstrung her creative vision. In 2018, she snapped, bemoaning the state of her career in the comments of a Ray of Light anniversary post by her manager Guy Oseary: “Remember when I made records with other artists from beginning to end and I was allowed to be a visionary and not have to go to songwriting camps where no one can sit still for more than 15 minutes?”
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Madonna’s Dance Floor-Dominating ‘Confessions II’ Is Her Best Album in Decades: Album Review
“Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows,” mutters Madonna at the start of “I Feel So Free,” the opening track on her 15th album “Confessions II.” “Create a new persona. A different identity. I can be whoever I want to be.” As hard as it may be to picture Madonna hiding in the shadows of anything, that’s the thrill of any new album from her: guessing which version we’ll be getting. Will it be a cowgirl kicking up dust this time? A pop eccentric? A spiritually reborn idealist with a penchant for chanting and sitars?
Madonna made it clear at the start of the promotional cycle for “Confessions II” that her first album in seven years would be a return to the dance floor, a sequel to her seismic 2005 album “Confessions on a Dance Floor” that, by all counts, was the last time she conceived a project with such a fully realized scope. And it’s an approach that’s paid off: “Confessions II,” a 16-track album mainly produced by Madonna and Stuart Price, who sat at the helm of “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” is easily the best album that Madonna has made in two decades, a palpable record that celebrates the thrill of the dance floor while embracing its mystique.
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