Madonna performed a surprise concert in Times Square, New York City on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
To mark the beginning of Pride Month and to celebrate her upcoming album, Confessions II, the Queen of Pop took to the stage at the busy landmark.<\/p>\n
As people flocked to watch the spectacle, Madonna threw off a pink veil and launched into her new single, I Feel So Free. Her longtime producer, Stuart Price, served as DJ.<\/p>\n
“Thanks for coming… creating a persona… I can be whoever I want to be,” she declared.<\/p>\n
Sashaying around the platform in a lilac corset ensemble and knee-high silver boots, Madonna also performed her tracks Bring Your Love – originally a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter – and Love Sensation.<\/p>\n
“Are you ready, it’s Mother,” she declared.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the 15-minute set, the 67-year-old offered up versions of her songs Get Together and I Love New York, from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor, before finishing with an energetic rendition of her enduringly popular dance track, Hung Up.<\/p>\n
And to conclude, Madonna yelled to the crowd: “Thank you, New York City, I love you! Happy Pride!”<\/p>\n
The music superstar is set to unveil Confessions II on 3 July.<\/p>\n
Madonna worked on the project with Price, who produced the original album.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the highly anticipated album in a recent Instagram post, the Material Girl hitmaker described dance music as a “ritualistic space”.<\/p>\n
“Confessions Il is a love letter to dance music and to all the spaces and communities that create it or enjoy it,” she wrote. “The dance floor isn’t about a specific space or building, it’s wherever we gather to dance, celebrate and connect. Thank you for being apart of this moment and for supporting my music.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna performed a surprise concert in Times Square, New York City on Thursday afternoon. To mark the beginning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-461927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}