{"id":925789,"date":"2026-10-12T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925789\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:02:10","slug":"madonnas-confessions-ii-behind-the-scenes-with-stuart-price-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925789\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna\u2019s \u2018Confessions II’: Behind the Scenes With Stuart Price, Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter reuniting with Confessions on a Dance<\/a> Floor producer Stuart Price for her career-spanning Celebration Tour in 2023-2024 (he served as the trek\u2019s music producer), Madonna realized she had something she wanted to talk about. And after their second studio session, she had a confession: It was time to make a sequel to her 2005 dance-floor classic.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt wasn\u2019t about going backwards. It was about discovering new territory,\u201d Price tells Billboard of crafting Confessions II. \u201cIt reminded us how instinctive musical connection is, we enjoy making things together. When we went into the studio, there was certainly an awareness of what Confessions meant, but she wasn\u2019t trying to manufacture a sequel or reproduce something she\u2019d done previously.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the English DJ\/producer, \u201cWe were tapping into the same energy, from a completely different point in time. The first\u00a0Confessions\u00a0was very much about the freedom and release of the dance floor, but this record is much more about dance as a confrontation, and as acceptance and reclamation of self.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPrice wasn\u2019t Madonna\u2019s only creative collaborator on the LP \u2013 Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Martin Garrix, Stromae and daughter Lola Leon are credited guest artists \u2013 but he was one of the few people to be part of Confessions II from its studio gestation to its vibrant stage life, joining Madonna for live performances from Times Square to the VMAs and in clubs from Amsterdam to London. \u201cPeople obviously have a huge emotional connection to the original Confessions, but they\u2019re not just responding to nostalgia,\u201d Price says of the ecstatic fan response to Confessions II, which topped the Billboard 200 and earned the Queen of Pop her best reviews in years. \u201cThey\u2019re connecting with something new, in the present. And that\u2019s really the whole point of this record.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the two-decade gap between the albums, Price notes that \u201ctechnology and the world have changed, but our fundamental creative process really hasn\u2019t. It\u2019s still about responding to inspiration, to the moment, to laughter.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s incredibly focused, curious and instinctive. There\u2019s no sense of looking over your shoulder or second-guessing. You follow the idea and see where it takes you. You can hear the sound of people loving what they do. Madonna has an extraordinary ability to take whatever is happening in her life and turn it into something expressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVideo by Ricardo Gomes<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Confessions II, Madonna found inspiration not only in her life right now but in her legendary come-up as a broke, struggling artist in NYC. \u201cI started talking to her about the club Danceteria because I\u2019m a New Yorker and love the history of music in New York,\u201d says \u201cDanceteria\u201d co-writer and co-producer Andrew Watt, referencing the now-shuttered Manhattan club frequented by everyone from Madonna to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Keith Haring in the \u201880s. \u201cNo one has a cooler story than Madonna and as she was telling me about it, we had her doing it on the microphone over the track. She then took it home and wrote her entire origin story down on three pages,\u201d Watt recalls of the sessions that grew into the Confessions II anthem. \u201cIt was one of the coolest in-studio experiences of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Watt has worked with everyone from Paul McCartney to Post Malone to the Rolling Stones, he says Madonna occupies a rarified air. \u201cShe wrote the book on being a pop star. She is one of the greatest producers and songwriters of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVideo by Ricardo Gomes<\/p>\n

\n\tFor more behind-the-scenes looks at how Confessions II came together, check out the videos above and below featuring Madonna, Stuart Price, Andrew Watt and Stromae. Four more behind-the-scenes episodes will be released on Thursday (Oct. 15). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVideo by Nuno Xico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After reuniting with Confessions on a Dance Floor producer Stuart Price for her career-spanning Celebration Tour in 2023-2024…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,8836,134,102249,9607],"class_list":["post-925789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-dance","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-dance","tag-genre-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}