{"id":509057,"date":"2026-07-04T05:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509057\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:58:13","slug":"review-madonna-returns-to-dance-and-electronic-roots-in-confessions-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509057\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Madonna returns to dance and electronic roots in &#8216;Confessions II&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna is returning to the past in her newest album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Confessions II\u2019 follows on from her 2005 album \u2018Confessions on a Dance Floor\u2019, continuing her exploration of dance and electronic music. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s made in conjunction with Stuart Price, who co-wrote and co-produced the 2005 album, and features guest appearances by Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Stromae, and Madonna&#8217;s eldest daughter Lola Leon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts on \u2018Confessions II\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna is returning to the past in her newest album.\u00a0 \u2018Confessions II\u2019 follows on from her 2005 album&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[41193,41194,253499,156,1385,157,41192,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-509057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albumreview","tag-chrisschulz","tag-confessionsii","tag-entertainment","tag-madonna","tag-music","tag-musicreview","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509057","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=509057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}