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Madonna Is Back With ‘Confessions II’: Stream It Now

The follow-up to 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor features collabs with Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, daughter Lola Leon and more.

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Madonna

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Madonna has always been a master of reinvention, but this time around, she’s working in extension via the release of her new album Confessions II. Out Friday (July 3), the project is a follow-up to her 2005 masterpiece Confessions on a Dance Floor, which found the Queen of Pop — in partnership with the album’s producer Stuart Price — focused on disco, electronica, synth and dance pop.

Also produced by Price, the 16 tracks on Confessions II focus on much of the same, presenting lush, cerebral productions focused on the club as church and dancing as spiritual work. The project, Madonna’s 15th studio album since 1983, features the previously released singles “I Feel So Free,” “Love Sensation” and “Bring Your Love,” with the latter track being a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter, who Madonna appeared with on stage during Carpenter’s headlining set at Coachella in April.


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Beyond Carpenter, Confessions II includes collabs with Belgian star Stromae (“My Sins Are My Savior”), Dutch dance titan Martin Garrix (“Bizarre”), Colombian reggaeton star Feid (who sings on “Read My Lips” and who, with other collaborations on 2026 albums by Skrillex and John Summit, is having a big year in the dance world) and Madonna’s own daughter Lola Leon. The song featuring Madonna and Leon, “The Test,” explores their mother-daughter relationship via lyrics such as “Sometimes I think you’d wish I’d go away/but my shadow stays/and it’s OK to be yourself,” with the vulnerability of the subject matter matching the confessional nature of the 2005 original, which was released when Leon was nine years old.

Altogether, Confessions II is a stunner, playing as a modern take on club music that simultaneously evokes the genre’s previous eras without ever falling into pastiche. Stream it below.

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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