AuralAssault: Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor

Madonna
Confessions On A Dance Floor
22 years after she first graced the dance floor, Madonna is sending you an invitation to get into the groove again. And if Confessions is anything to go, she shows the world that she still can dance as well as inspire us to do what she wants us to...

Working with her new partners, most notably the savvy Stuart Price, Confessions is a 12-track segued mix of dance ecstasy. Lead single, Hung Up, amazingly mixes Abba's 1979 hit Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) with Madonna's and Price's retro-disco fluffiness into a bonafide dance floor anthem. Follow this with the throbs of the electro-futuristic Get Together where Madonna invites you to check it out with her as she really wanna be with you. Then, the song fades cleverly into Madonna saying sorry in a few languages before she indulges you into some more disco with Sorry. On Forbidden Love, Madonna morphs into Giorgio Moroder and creates a superb 80s-sounding yet stylish song of two star-crossed lovers. On the Indian-inspired, beats-driven Push, Madonna pays tribute to the one (presumably Guy Ritchie)
who has constantly pushed her to her best.

On Confessions, Madonna's lyrics are never overly self-indulgent though short of any major revelations that we don't already know. There is self-discovery (How High), enlightenment (Future Lovers), empowerment (Jump), love (Forbidden Love, Push), and lament (How High).

Confessions is a true return to form for the Queen of Pop, something all fans have been eagerly waiting for. (A)