{"id":398314,"date":"2026-04-14T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:48:11","slug":"madonna-readies-confessions-on-a-dance-floor-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398314\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Readies Confessions on a Dance Floor Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2637-madonna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a> has been teasing that her next album will be a sequel to 2005\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/5030-confessions-on-a-dance-floor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Confessions on a Dance Floor<\/a>. This morning, she cleared her <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madonna\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madonna\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madonna\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and changed her bio to read \u201cTime goes by so slowly\u2026\u201d, a lyric from Confessions\u2019 lead single, \u201cHung Up.\u201d Though an official release date or title have yet to materialize, her <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.madonna.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.madonna.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madonna.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a> now displays the words \u201cConfessions II\u201d and what appears to be the new album\u2019s cover art. Check that out below.<\/p>\n<p>Madonna first alluded to the existence of a Confessions follow-up in December 2024, when she posted a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/madonna-teases-new-music-for-2025-8762501\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/ew.com\/madonna-teases-new-music-for-2025-8762501&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/madonna-teases-new-music-for-2025-8762501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> of herself in the studio with the original LP\u2019s producer, Stuart Price. Then, last year, she confirmed that she had <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-new-album-2026-warner-records-1235427964\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-new-album-2026-warner-records-1235427964\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-new-album-2026-warner-records-1235427964\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned<\/a> to her original label, Warner Records, where she put out all of her studio albums from 1983\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-madonna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">self-titled debut<\/a> to 2008\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/11453-hard-candy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hard Candy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the seven years following the release of 2019\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-madame-x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madame X<\/a>, Madonna has shared two remix compilations\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-finally-enough-love\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finally Enough Love<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-ray-of-light\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ray of Light<\/a>-era collection <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-veronica-electronica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Electronica<\/a>\u2014and collaborated with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/madonna-joins-beyonce-on-new-break-my-soul-remix-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/madonna-teams-with-sickick-and-fireboy-dml-for-new-frozen-remix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fireboy DML<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sam-smith-and-madonna-share-new-song-vulgar-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Smith<\/a>. She also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aYQW2VyTURk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reworked<\/a> \u201cHung Up\u201d alongside Dominican dembow star Tokischa. A Madonna <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/madonna-to-co-write-and-direct-her-own-biopic-with-diablo-cody\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">biopic<\/a> starring Julia Garner was <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/madonna-biopic-for-universal-pictures-scrapped\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrapped<\/a> in 2023, but will apparently be a plot point in season two of the Apple TV+ series <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/madonna-movie-the-studio-season-2-julia-garner-1236710682\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/madonna-movie-the-studio-season-2-julia-garner-1236710682\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/madonna-movie-the-studio-season-2-julia-garner-1236710682\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the new Sunday Review of Madonna\u2019s 1992 album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/madonna-erotica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erotica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Madonna Confessions II Webpage\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Madonna-Confessions-II.jpeg\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2024, Madonna has been teasing that her next album will be a sequel to 2005\u2019s Confessions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,1206],"class_list":{"0":"post-398314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-releases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}