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<\/p>\nMadonna has released a star-studded short film featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Kate Moss, Richard E. Grant and Benedict Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the release of her album Confessions II next month, the American singer has released a film to accompany it.<\/p>\n
After premiering at the Tribeca Festival in New York last Friday, Confessions II \u2013 The Film has now been released on YouTube.<\/p>\n
The 10-minute video also sees Julia Garner, Gwendoline Christie, Honey Dijon, Odessa A\u2019zion, Shygirl, Arca and Madonna\u2019s daughter Lourdes Leon appear.<\/p>\n
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Madonna has a released a short film to accompany her new album (Matt Crossick\/PA)<\/p>\n
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Chelsea players Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro also pop up.<\/p>\n
The short film is set to six songs from the album \u2013 I Feel So Free, Good For The Soul, One Step Away, Bring Your Love, Danceteria and Read My Lips.<\/p>\n
It kicks off with Madonna, 67, backstage at a venue being followed and filmed by female robots, before she then ends up in a forest and dances through lasers.<\/p>\n
After dancing on a desk in a boardroom, she then crashes while driving to a nightclub, before she eventually arrives and dances with the famous faces on the dance floor and then in a bathroom.<\/p>\n
That sequence sees her encounter Marty Supreme star A\u2019zion, knocking a drink out of her hand, while Grant parties in a bathroom stall with two women and Christie peers over the partition.<\/p>\n
At one point Madonna also sings, \u201cHe\u2019s a DJ? Hide the cocaine\u201d as Moss lifts her head into the frame.<\/p>\n
Cumberbatch also urges attendees to \u201cget up and dance\u201d as he shows off his moves by the urinals.<\/p>\n
In another shot, Madonna morphs into Garner, who had been set to star as the singer in a biopic that was later scrapped.<\/p>\n
The film also features a string of steamy scenes, including one where female dancers pose with their legs spread out while green lasers shoot out of their crotches.<\/p>\n
Confessions II \u2013 The Film also sees Madonna\u2019s long-time friend Debi Mazar appear. The actress had also previously appeared in the videos for True Blue, Papa Don\u2019t Preach, Justify My Love, Deeper and Deeper and Music.<\/p>\n
They have been friends since first meeting at the Danceteria nightclub in New York in the early 1980s, with Mazar also doing the make-up for Madonna\u2019s very first video, Everybody, in 1982.<\/p>\n
She is also name-checked in the song Danceteria, alongside the late DJ Mark Kamins, who helped Madonna secure her first record deal and produced her debut single.<\/p>\n
Madonna previously described the short film as a \u201csingle, continuous piece, weaving together interconnected, music-driven sequences into an immersive cinematic experience\u201d.<\/p>\n
She also said she decided to do something bigger than a music video as just producing one of those felt \u201ccheap\u201d.<\/p>\n
The film comes ahead of the release of her highly anticipated 15th studio album, which is a sequel to her Grammy-winning 2005 record Confessions On A Dancefloor.<\/p>\n
Madonna\u2019s 2005 album is known for its nightclub music and hits such as Sorry and Hung Up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna has released a star-studded short film featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Kate Moss, Richard E. Grant and Benedict Cumberbatch.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[521,430,39307,186334,236975,156,236974,1386,46873,1385,111,139,69,114367,3569],"class_list":["post-468366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-benedict-cumberbatch","tag-celebrities","tag-chelsea","tag-cole-palmer","tag-danceteria-nightclub","tag-entertainment","tag-gwendoline-christie","tag-julia-garner","tag-kate-moss","tag-madonna","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-richard-e-grant","tag-sabrina-carpenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468366","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=468366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}