Madonna's Confessions II To Be Released On July 3rd
It’s unclear whether the official title is Confessions II, COADF 2, or Confessions On A Dance Floor Part 2, (all three titles appear on her website, which has been completely redesigned to promote the album), but Madonna announced today that her new album will be released on July 3rd. I think it’ll be Confessions II, as that’s how it appears on the album’s Wikipedia page. A brief press release from Madonna:
When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto: We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect—with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people. Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions, pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.
OK.
A very brief snippet from what could be the album’s first single was also released, and it’s a great tease. After a spoken word intro, it cuts off right before the beat (and presumably the first verse) is about to drop. Fantastic:
On the Dancefloor… I FEEL SO FREE! Madonna unveils teaser video to her new ‘Confessions II’ album. pic.twitter.com/H2fzHYoPGE
— DrownedMadonna (@DrownedMadonna) April 15, 2026
There are unfounded rumors that Madonna will be at Coachella this weekend for a surprise appearance with Sabrina Carpenter on Friday night, but those rumors could’ve been started by a stan account on Twitter, so I’m not counting on anything. Either way, I look forward to the first single, and I look forward to seeing what Madonna actually looks like (I feel like I haven’t seen her face in years) without humongous sunglasses, a veil, or 50 zillion photoshop filters, assuming she does interviews and live performances ahead of the album’s release.
ADDED:
“Oh, by the way, it all started like this” (heard at the end of the clip above) is a lyric from the 1989 house anthem “French Kiss,” by Lil’ Louis. “French Kiss” was a major crossover hit, reaching #50 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and it’ll be fun to hear how much of it is sampled on the Madonna single. Like the first Confessions album, most of the tracks on the new album will likely have samples or interpolations from dance/house music classics. There are tons of versions/remixes of “French Kiss” on YouTube, and here’s one:
