Madonna is back with a new video that needs to be seen to be believed.
Madge, 67, has been hitting the promo tour hard as the Queen of Pop attempts to secure another hit album.
Confessions II, also called Confessions on a Dance Floor Part II, is the pop star’s latest offering, a highly anticipated sequel album to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor.
That album gave fans hits like Hung Up, Get Together, Sorry and Jump, so the bar for a sequel was set mighty high.
Madonna has been slowly drip-feeding fans elements of the new album, which is meant to be a darker side of the original album.
She popped up as a surprise act at Coachella, performing alongside singer Sabrina Carpenter, and even this week held an impromptu, unannounced takeover of New York’s Times Square to perform from a billboard.
Now, the first, and potentially only, video has dropped.
Madonna shared the Confessions II - The Film on YouTube overnight, a mashup of new tracks from the album.
“Thanks for coming,” Madonna says as the video begins.
“Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows, create a new persona, a different identity. I can be whoever I want to be.”
As cameras and spotlights converge on Madonna, she reveals on the dance floor she “feels free”.
From there, Madonna dials the shock value up to 11 with a mix of cameos, raunchy bathroom antics and vagina lasers.
Dancers with lasers appearing to be coming out of their private parts pose in risque positions as Madonna moves around them.
Giving Sydney’s Vivid festival a run for its money, the green laser lights make the wet scene glow, with the Queen of Pop eventually moving closer to one woman to close her legs.
The video, which is not a regular music video, then cuts forward to Madonna getting into a car crash while on the way to a nightclub.
Madonna brings out her new bestie Sabrina Carpenter to perform a snippet of their song Bring Your Love.
Carpenter is eventually joined by a sea of celebrity cameos including Odessa A’zion, Benedict Cumberbatch, Honey Dijon, Debi Mazar, Julia Garner, Richard E. Grant, Kate Moss, and Lourdes Leon, Madonna’s daughter and more.
As Madonna pauses the film to take a bathroom break (perform the next snippet in a bathroom filled with people of all genders), the Queen of Pop gets a bit raunchy in a stall.
In true Madonna style, the music legend shows that age is just a number as she gets friendly with a younger man.
When Madge sings the line “hide the cocaine”, supermodel Kate Moss appears, going on to perform one almighty hair toss.
The presumably gender neutral bathroom turns into a dance floor, where Cumberbatch then leads a high-energy dance break.
The vibe is moody, sexy and will likely remind viewers of George Michael dancing by the toilet stalls.
After another scene featuring a light coming out of Madonna’s open legs, the “film” wraps up with people wearing lingerie while eating bananas, watching Madonna on the TV, before the star’s eldest daughter, Lourdes says “cut, bitch”.
Across the creative, Madonna fans were treated to songs I Feel So Free, Good for the Soul, One Step Away, Bring Your Love, Danceteria, Read My Lips, I Feel So Free Part II and Bring Your Love Part II.
The nearly 11-minute offering from Madonna initially appeared to be a hit with fans.
“Every generation gets its Madonna moment. We’re witnessing another one,” one person commented on YouTube.
“We’ve been living through an MTV drought for years. Then Madonna comes along and drops a 13-minute audiovisual feast that reminds everyone why she was never just making music videos—she was creating culture,” typed another.
“This is diabolically goooood! Mother is back,” a third fan chimed in.
In fact, on official channels, comments were almost entirely positive, with it being hard to locate a single negative comment.
For those who plan to dis the Queen of Pop, which is almost unavoidable after release thing provocative film highlighting her new music, Madonna says she is not interested in hearing feedback on her ideas.
“I like the idea of film, because I’m a ‘film-phile,’ a cinephile, and film has inspired a good part of my life,” Madonna told Rolling Stone.
“The movie’s really about connection,” she added.
“I emerge from my solitude of this apartment and go right into a forest with people with lasers coming out of their asses. You just really go through life, take risks, be curious, be observant. … And put your f..king phones down and connect.”
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