HolidayGuy Posted April 20 Posted April 20 The best chance of notable commercial success is the track with Carpenter, especially in the USA- but we'll know soon enough what the lead is, won't we.
dollhouse Posted April 20 Posted April 20 5 minutes ago, HolidayGuy said: The best chance of notable commercial success is the track with Carpenter, especially in the USA- but we'll know soon enough what the lead is, won't we. And Carpenter song could be another release after the Lead, we know That #soon as well..
peter Posted April 20 Posted April 20 2 hours ago, Nikki said: how amazing of M to sample THE qaadir ("SHES NOT CUMMIN") Howard!? Looks like he hinted to it being true, in a very rare instagram post https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXU4me_j8W6/ Yes, there was an article that mentioned his name and we were surprised — almost disbelief that it could really be THE Qaadir. I really hope they sample “She’s not coming” or maybe “You tried it!” Oh my gosh so many great lines they could lift. I hope nothing directly confrontational, but we all know it could be indirect shade. 2 hours ago, Michael. said: I was expecting One Step Away as the lead as per the press release. IFSF feels like a buzz/teaser song to set the vibe for the new album. And the surprise Coachella appearance feels more like promo for the album/era rather than to promote the Sabrina collab. They didn’t name the song during the performance or announce it as the new single nor is it available for streaming. I think if it was the first single they would’ve been pushing it more already. I think it’s a similar situation like Eurovision where she performed Dark Ballet and Future. Neither were the single. I wonder if One Step Away will tie into DWP2? Maybe it’ll be used to promote both the movie and the new album? It’s also rumoured to have the Fashion references in it doesn’t it? We don’t really know the title of the song with the Dolce & Gabbana reference. (Tend to think that the yellow/gold heart emoji might be connected to that…?) It could be One Step Away, but … it also might not be, given that she quoted from its lyrics and that has more to do with dance music being considered superficial, but it’s not, etc. Not sure if the D&G and Italian would fit naturally with that (but I suppose it could!)… The press release didn’t really say One Step Away was even a single — it just said it was a song on the album. It could be, but we don’t know yet. By the way … DazedMadonna explained the yellow heart emoji a bit recently … He said it was (paraphrasing) ‘connected to a project that didn’t happen,’ and wasn’t sure if it was still happening. A couple people assumed that meant it was like ‘second commercial for D&G’ (but the rumor about that was more Pensiero Stupendo) … I do tend to think that he meant that the song with the D&G reference is possibly for the DWP2 soundtrack and he’s not sure if that is happening or not (perhaps because he doesn’t have access/contacts with the studio/film, just like he didn’t know anything about her filming for The Studio in Venice)… Just my opinion, but … I think maybe it is still possible the DWP2 is perhaps in play. But then again, could all be a misinterpretation on my part.
HolidayGuy Posted April 20 Posted April 20 Yes, dh, but it would be wisest, from a commercial standpoint, to start with that one, especially as it was previewed at Coachella and would have continued buzz. Also, it would probably fare better as the lead than later on. There's a reason "4 Minutes" was the lead from that album, and not released later than it was.
peter Posted April 20 Posted April 20 15 minutes ago, Gabriel Ciccone said: I'm sorry but who's Qaadir? If you watch that YouTube video or click on the Instagram link, you’ll see Qaadir. That YouTube video was a pretty legendary video (shading Janet for “jancelling” tours) on the forum back in the day … But then Qaadir removed videos or took the channel down…? So the YouTube video above is someone’s re-upload of the original, I think…? Qaadir may be a musician now (?) so the sampling (if there is any on Confessions II) could be an original composition. I guess the Lil Louis spoken word bits of IFSF make me think it might be spoken bits from Qaadir, but that article seems to point more toward music.
Gabriel Ciccone Posted April 20 Posted April 20 3 minutes ago, peter said: If you watch that YouTube video or click on the Instagram link, you’ll see Qaadir. That YouTube video was a pretty legendary video (shading Janet for “jancelling” tours) on the forum back in the day … But then Qaadir removed videos or took the channel down…? So the YouTube video above is someone’s re-upload of the original, I think…? Qaadir may be a musician now (?) so the sampling (if there is any on Confessions II) could be an original composition. I guess the Lil Louis spoken word bits of IFSF make me think it might be spoken bits from Qaadir, but that article seems to point more toward music. Oh I've never heard about him. Put someone who shade Janet on a Madonna album it will be funny
Michael. Posted April 20 Posted April 20 Having heard Bring Your Love and read the description about the new video the two don’t really match to me. If the video was for IFSF that would make more sense. I still think there is a third song that will be the first single. As someone pointed out neither of these songs is an “heir” to HU necessarily. None of the samples we’ve heard so far are that well known to be honest.
RoyalMadonna Posted April 20 Posted April 20 5 hours ago, Mr Ciccone said: Lesbians are reclaiming Madonna as we await her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II The singer is not only a hero for gay men. For a young lesbian like me in the 1990s, she was an object of desire and an inspiration Recently, when Madonna deleted every post from her Instagram profile, it was as if a gay flare had been fired around the world. Cue a flurry of texts from gay male friends, with one declaring that this “purging of the Sistine Chapel” meant the release of Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II was imminent, 20 years after her original disco masterpiece, because Madonna had pulled the same stunt on Instagram in 2023 before announcing our gay Christmas: the Celebration tour. “I CAN’T BREATHE,” texted a friend, in all caps. “She’s clearing the decks for the album,” wrote another. “I’m screaming,” texted another friend as gay men across the internet lost their collective minds, posting endless videos about what it all meant. Things went into gay overdrive when it was confirmed that Confessions II would be released on July 3 and Madonna sent our temperatures up even further by dropping the first single, I Feel So Free. Cue a new flurry of text messages. Gay men, of course, have always claimed Madonna. She’s been their champion, particularly during the tragedy of the Aids epidemic when – along with Elizabeth Taylor – she was one of the few powerful voices to speak out publicly in support of the LGBTQ+ community. She also thrillingly showcased gay men’s lives – through her Blond Ambition tour dancers – in the culture-changing 1991 documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare AKA In Bed With Madonna, which at the time felt revolutionary. While so much has been written about her over the past 40 years, missing from the conversation too often has been the central role she’s played in the lives of queer women, particularly of my generation. Madonna made me realise I was a lesbian. And I can pinpoint the exact moment it happened: Madonna, clad in men’s boxer shorts, and sheer black, lace bra, dripping wet, hair slicked back, emerging from a pool in the 1985 cult classic, Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1985, this was a lot for a 12-year-old gender-non-conforming kid from regional Australia to take in. As I sat in my town’s one cinema with my very girly school-friends, I felt what can only be described as lovesick. But, unlike my pals who could talk endlessly about their love of Rob Lowe or Michael J Fox, I couldn’t share this exciting new infatuation with anybody. Instead, I put a poster of her on my wall and stared at it endlessly. In the years after Desperately Seeking Susan, my passion intensified into a full-blown one-sided love affair. I would rewind the Cherish video on VHS repeatedly where she frolicked with a merman just so I could watch her flex her arm muscles over and over again. I would do the same with the Vogue video. For obvious reasons. (The bra-less see-through lace top – there’s a pattern forming.) The Express Yourself video where she had her hair slicked back and wore a men’s suit? Don’t get me started. The Justify My Love video where she kisses an androgynous woman in a Paris hotel deserves its own column. As a teenager, when you’re supposed to be looking outward to romance and to the future, queer kids are forced to retreat, and to go deeply inward. It’s not an exaggeration to say Madonna was the great love of my life during that period. I didn’t have boyfriends, but I had her. Her masculinity and strength drew lesbians to her from the start. Even as closeted teens or out women, we knew she was sending us a wink and a nudge in a way that we weren’t getting from other artists such as Kylie Minogue. I love Kylie, but any sapphic vibes sent our way – aside from the What Do I Have to Do? video – were minimal. Not only did Madonna love us, she also embraced us in a way that was unheard of. Madonna performed for us, she made us visible, and she made us hot. Just watch her performance of Bye Bye Baby at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards where, dressed in white tie, top hat and tails exactly as Marlene Dietrich had 60 years before in the film Morocco, she frolicked with a bevy of beautiful women. The early to mid-1990s when she left New York for Miami – or what I like to fondly recall as her “South Beach lesbian era” – were a particularly golden time for my people. There she was sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden watching the Knicks with Sandra Bernhard’s ex, and rumoured flame, Ingrid Casares. I would cut photos out of magazines of the two of them together and stick them on my wall. Or she’d be hanging out with the Calvin Klein model, and ex-girlfriend, Jenny Shimizu, who also appeared in the glorious Rain video. Another clip that got a substantial workout in my parents’ VHS player. kd lang was often photographed with her, but it was the addition of Rosie O’Donnell into her inner circle that made the rest of us feel as if we were there, too. O’Donnell and Madonna met on the set of 1992’s A League of Their Own (another lesbian classic), giving my people one of the greatest pairings since Abba’s Frida and Agnetha. The true love story at the core of Penny Marshall’s beloved lesbian classic was between O’Donnell’s wisecracking (yet, pining!) Doris and Madonna’s flirtatious but aggressively straight, Mae – a classic lesbian dynamic. Unsurprisingly, those years solidified my own sexuality. It helped that Madonna also released the controversial Sex book during that period. Forget the conservative hand-wringers, it was a work of art and a revelation to me: see the photo of her being embraced by a suit-clad Isabella Rossellini. This was the time I fully embraced my true sexual identity, dancing with glorious abandon at queer dance parties in Melbourne, and later, Sydney, London and New York, all places I have lived in because – and I’m not ashamed to say it – Madonna inspired me to explore beyond the geography of where I was born. It’s also not an exaggeration to say that I could not have come out as young as I did in the early 90s if not for her. Of course, there’s little doubt the entire queer community identifies with her in broad-stroke ways, but to erase the specificity of what she means – and has meant – to lesbians feels to me like another small erasure of lesbians themselves. It’s about time we reclaimed her. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/19/madonna-confessions-on-a-dance-floor-part-ii-lesbians-gay-men I'm a lesbian so this is ENTIRELY relatable, bar from the fact that I'm french and that I've lived all this way after the fact since I became a fan in 2007 xD (I was 13 )
Benjl1993 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 I don't even expect the Sabrina Collab to do much on the Hot 100, she has a better chance of a solid chart placing in the UK. Just look at Kylie's Padam, that's considered her biggest hit in 2 decades especially in the US and it didn't even chart there. Critical acclaim, virality and saturating the gay clubs will be the marker of success for any single from this album in reality.
peter Posted April 20 Posted April 20 I notice people online saying they want one of the album posters but they are difficult to remove … And I wonder why they want to take down something that is promoting the album, because there is a similar poster with many of the vinyl packages… ? I know, silly question… Plenty of people collect promo pieces, but … it just seems like there’s a solution (and it’s pink instead of b&w haha )
dollhouse Posted April 20 Posted April 20 6 minutes ago, peter said: I notice people online saying they want one of the album posters but they are difficult to remove … And I wonder why they want to take down something that is promoting the album, because there is a similar poster with many of the vinyl packages… ? I know, silly question… Plenty of people collect promo pieces, but … it just seems like there’s a solution (and it’s pink instead of b&w haha ) what vinyl set i can get this? https://share.google/fu5HbWEIYijJyl0Gx
Mr Ciccone Posted April 20 Posted April 20 2 hours ago, RoyalMadonna said: I'm a lesbian so this is ENTIRELY relatable, bar from the fact that I'm french and that I've lived all this way after the fact since I became a fan in 2007 xD (I was 13 )
peter Posted April 20 Posted April 20 (edited) 38 minutes ago, dollhouse said: what vinyl set i can get this? https://share.google/fu5HbWEIYijJyl0Gx You can’t get *that* — like I said, it’s not exactly the same, but even the least expensive 12-track standard vinyl comes with “an exclusive double-sided poster” that features the same photo, her name, the album title … it’s pink instead of b&w. I don’t know. If you’re buying a vinyl (or more than one) you’re most likely getting that poster, so … just seems kind of futile to try to get one that probably has adhesive all over it or is ruined by whatever means of affixing it they’ve used to post it. And in the process, they’d be defeating their promotional purpose. Edit to add: I’m speaking about the vinyl on her website … not sure if some of those store exclusives also include it. Would need to look at the product descriptions. But three out of four vinyls on her web store include a poster. (We don’t even know what the other side of the poster looks like.) The picture disc is the one that does *not* include the poster. The other three do include it. (Pretty sure the hidden “community exclusive” violet LP does, too.) Edited April 20 by peter
jonski43 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 3 hours ago, peter said: If you watch that YouTube video or click on the Instagram link, you’ll see Qaadir. That YouTube video was a pretty legendary video (shading Janet for “jancelling” tours) on the forum back in the day … But then Qaadir removed videos or took the channel down…? So the YouTube video above is someone’s re-upload of the original, I think…? Qaadir may be a musician now (?) so the sampling (if there is any on Confessions II) could be an original composition. I guess the Lil Louis spoken word bits of IFSF make me think it might be spoken bits from Qaadir, but that article seems to point more toward music. Imagine if she sampled "She's not coming"!!! That would be iconic
peter Posted April 20 Posted April 20 ( @SOON, you can delete this message if you want … first, just want to say THANK YOU for creating the Confessions II discussion section! It is *staggering* to see how many threads about the album that had to be relocated to this section! You did a lot of work! Your efforts are appreciated. Just wanted to let you know … when I was looking for a couple older threads tonight, I tripped over two threads that were titled “untrue rumors, jumping to conclusions…” and those were about the new album, too … Just in case you want to sweep those over to this section, too. I tried to count how many threads we went through, but I lost track. Hard to believe!! We’ve almost made it through the wilderness!! Thanks again, dear Hector!)
peter Posted April 20 Posted April 20 1 hour ago, jonski43 said: Imagine if she sampled "She's not coming"!!! That would be iconic Cannot even imagine! Would be funny, but … i don’t think she would do it, though.
Msig Posted April 20 Posted April 20 In an interview with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, music journalist Kjartan Stolberg from Soundvenue says that he considers "I Feel So Free" and the duet with Sabrina Carpenter as Madonna's best new songs in 20 years, stating that the songs are similar in style to the original COADF album, but with an updated 2026 sound. He considers "I Feel So Free" to be the better of the two songs we've heard so far. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/madonna-har-udgivet-smagsproeve-paa-sit-kommende-album-det-er-helt-klart-madonnas-bedste-sang-i
dollhouse Posted April 20 Posted April 20 1 hour ago, Msig said: In an interview with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, music journalist Kjartan Stolberg from Soundvenue says that he considers "I Feel So Free" and the duet with Sabrina Carpenter as Madonna's best new songs in 20 years, stating that the songs are similar in style to the original COADF album, but with an updated 2026 sound. He considers "I Feel So Free" to be the better of the two songs we've heard so far. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/madonna-har-udgivet-smagsproeve-paa-sit-kommende-album-det-er-helt-klart-madonnas-bedste-sang-i has he heard the duet with Sabrina? because i havent yet, only the live version which cant be really compared to lossless studio versio of I Feel So Free..not a fair comparison, especially since club music is layered and complex production
Benjl1993 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 7 minutes ago, dollhouse said: has he heard the duet with Sabrina? because i havent yet, only the live version which cant be really compared to lossless studio versio of I Feel So Free..not a fair comparison, especially since club music is layered and complex production I agree. My first listen of IFSF from that low quality capture of the radio premiere I was really underwhelmed, now I'm obsessed.
sotos8 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 1 hour ago, Msig said: He considers "I Feel So Free" to be the better of the two songs we've heard so far. i agree
Msig Posted April 20 Posted April 20 1 hour ago, dollhouse said: has he heard the duet with Sabrina? because i havent yet, only the live version which cant be really compared to lossless studio versio of I Feel So Free..not a fair comparison, especially since club music is layered and complex production I guess he hasn't heard any more than the rest of us.
dollhouse Posted April 20 Posted April 20 1 hour ago, Lolo said: I saw and heard the term Madonna summer a couple of times… can u imagine all those summer pride parties with this album on
pithy Posted April 20 Posted April 20 It would be pretty cool indeed if she sparked something along the lines of a Brat or "Hot Girl" summer, as little as I care about Gen Z trends. She always deserves to inspire another phenomenon.
MLVC82 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 Which means she will… we all know Guy lies! https://variety.com/2026/music/columns/madonna-manager-guy-oseary-not-sure-will-tour-again-1236725486/
sotos8 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 Variety took Guy Oseary’s “not sure yet” — about current touring plans around Confessions II — and ran it as a headline implying Madonna might never tour again. A classic case of words taken out of context and made to sound like something they never were. Guy couldn’t have been… pic.twitter.com/cyCeddv2PP— DrownedMadonna (@DrownedMadonna) April 20, 2026
bard Posted April 20 Posted April 20 lol glad guy corrected the record but it's not bad press. when she announces a new tour it will be an even bigger deal.
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