Madonna's new album, Confessions On A Dancefloor

[TashieGirl]

I finally listened to the whole song on Sunday on my favorite radio station. My god, it's one the best songs I heard all year. I can't wait till Confessions on a Dance Floor comes out. Then I'll drive everyone crazy by listening to Hung up over and over again.

[Lazario]

I don't know if anyone has heard about this yet, but between 1 and 2 am last night, VH1 said it will be premiering the music video to "Hung Up" Thursday. But now that I think about it, it could have possibly have been MTV. I was watching VH1's Bands Reunited and between the commercial breaks I saw this ad. If it is MTV, I suppose it could premiere during TRL (that show's still on, right?)... I'll see if I see that ad again when I watch VH1 all night tonight (7pm to 11pm), and give you the exact channel. But if that doesn't work, I'll try both www.vh1.com and then www.mtv.com just to be sure.

[MadonnasManOne]

I don't know if anyone has heard about this yet, but between 1 and 2 am last night, VH1 said it will be premiering the music video to "Hung Up" Thursday. But now that I think about it, it could have possibly have been MTV. I was watching VH1's Bands Reunited and between the commercial breaks I saw this ad. If it is MTV, I suppose it could premiere during TRL (that show's still on, right?)... I'll see if I see that ad again when I watch VH1 all night tonight (7pm to 11pm), and give you the exact channel. But if that doesn't work, I'll try both www.vh1.com and then www.mtv.com just to be sure.

I can't find 100% confirmation, but it appears the video was supposed to premiere on VH1, but now it will premiere on MTV's Total Request Live. TRL has moved to 5 p.m, Eastern/4 p.m., Central. The show is on for an hour, so who knows at what point it will debut. If anyone else can find out any other information about the premiere, please let us know.

Madonna's single, "Hung Up" will debut at #20 on Billboards Hot 100 Singles Chart, tomorrow, and it moves up to the top 10 on the Hot Dance/Club Play Chart. Keep requesting at radio, and make sure to buy the single on iTunes! The album can be pre-ordered at iTunes, as well.

[my chicken is infected]

Madonna's single, "Hung Up" will debut at #20 on Billboards Hot 100 Singles Chart

Wow, it's going to debut higher than American Life peaked at! I love this song.

[Lucylover1986]

Yeah, that's one the highest debuts for a regular single in a long time, not counting American Idol contestants who's singles almost always debut at #1. I wouldn't be surprised to see this hit #1 which would be great.

[universALLove]

I really like Madonna's new single "Hung up", it's really catchy

[MadonnasManOne]

Okay, by now, the video has been shown a few times on VH1. AWESOME video! Watch, all day long, as the video will be shown on the hour, every hour (on VH1), from what I can tell.

Also, the documentary, "I'm Going To Tell You A Secret" airs on VH1, at Midnight, Central, as well!

[Lazario]

I will not be missing that, the doc

[MadonnasManOne]

Yes, the video is on VH1, every hour, on the hour, today.

I just saw it at 9:00 a.m., Central. One of Madonna's best, in years!

It will also be shown during TRL, from what I understand.

[Lazario]

I STILL hope that ONE DAY Madonna's COMPLETE music video collection will make it to DVD. Or at least a Complete Volume 1, so we can at least buy part of her legacy.

[MadonnasManOne]

For those of you who want to see the video, but haven't, you can, here:

http://www.vh1.com/artists/charts/top_videos.jhtml

It's #1 on VH1.com's Top Video Chart!

[Alice]

I wouldn't go as far as to say it's her "best" in years...but I do like it very much..

I can see that the album version kicks the radio version ass (as album versions usually always do). I LOVE the break in the middle.

And Lazario,
a Complete Video Collection would most likely begin with Century 1 of Madonna (1983-1991):
-Everybody
-Burning Up
-Borderline
-Lucky Star
-Like A Virgin
-Material Girl
-Crazy For You
-Gambler
-Into The Groove
-Angel
-Dress You Up
-Live To Tell
-Papa Don't Preach
-True Blue
-Open Your Heart
-La Isla Bonita
-Who's That Girl
-Causing A Commotion
-The Look Of Love
-Like A Prayer
-Express Yourself
-Cherish
-Oh Father
-Dear Jessie
-Vogue
-Hanky Panky
-Justify My Love
-Rescue Me
+ Bonus remix/alternate versions

then go into the better century, IMO:
Century 2 (1992-2001):
-This Used To Be My Playground
-Erotica
-Deeper And Deeper
-Bad Girl
-Fever
-Rain
-Bye Bye Baby
-I'll Remember
-Secret
-Take A Bow
-Bedtime Story
-Human Nature
-I Want You
-You'll See
-Verás
-Love Don't Live Here Anymore
-One More Chance
-You Must Love Me
-Don't Cry For Me Argentina
-Another Suitcase In Another Hall
-Buenos Aires
-Frozen
-Ray Of Light
-Drowned World/Substitute For Love
-The Power Of Good-bye
-Nothing Really Matters
-Beautiful Stranger
-American Pie
-Music
-Don't Tell Me
-What It Feels Like For a Girl
-Paradise (Not For Me)
-GHV2 Megamix
+ Bonus remix/alternate versions

Century 3 has just began....

I would LOVE for this to happen but I just don't see it happening in the near future....

[MadonnasManOne]

Here are a few pictures from the photoshoot for "Confessions On A Dance Floor". I believe these, and many more, will appear in the Limited Edition, when it is released. I am sure the regular edition will also feature a few of these, as well.

I printed a few of these on metallic paper (as I work in a photolab), to put on my walls, and let me say...they are awesome pictures! Enjoy!

[musicradio77]

Speaking of the new Madonna album since I haven't to it before, the New York Daily News posted this article:

Never a dull moment

Madonna knows how to create a stir, even
as a spiritually driven, high-minded social critic

By JIM FARBER

Madonna knows what people are thinking.
She's well aware that plenty of eyes roll, or glaze over, every time she talks about politics or war or her parental duties or, most of all, her spiritual quest through the kabbala. But since she has insisted on addressing these subjects so often - both during interviews and in her music - the media have come to consider the grown-up Madonna to be as "preachy" as the younger one was thought to be "dangerous."

"What do you call 'preachy'?" Madonna asks. "Having an opinion?"

"Guilty as charged!" she then proudly announces.

As Madonna holds forth in her Manhattan hotel room, she's obviously in no mind to go back to playing the party girl of old. She may be here to promote her new CD, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," which returns her to the rousing beats and frothy exuberance of early hits like "Holiday." But she says her motivation for recording such an album wasn't simply to make fun music again, or even to shore up her wobbly recording career.

Instead, it seems, she wanted to, ahem, help mankind.

"It's that old cliché," Madonna explains, "when the world gets you down, you need to be lifted up. Look at the state of the world. People need to be inspired and happy."

It's not the only time in our interview when Madonna serves up a lofty sociopolitical theory for what many might consider a simple musical issue.

Asked why her last CD, "American Life," became the first disappointing seller of her career (barely going gold), she doesn't acknowledge any possible artistic deficit. Instead, she asserts that the cool reception was "because I was critiquing America. We had just gone to war in Iraq, and I was criticizing George Bush's decision. People were saying, 'You're not supporting the troops. 'You don't care.' "Which is bull-. I care a lot. That's why I didn't want it to happen. I said the wrong thing at the wrong time."

Back then, the singer made a very un-Madonna-like move by withdrawing her controversial video for "American Life," which equated Bush with Saddam Hussein. Now she asserts that the only reason she yanked the video was "because I was worried for my children. I saw what happened with the Dixie Chicks. I didn't want people to throw rocks at [my kids] on the way to school."

Not that Madonna's retreat lasted very long. She addresses politics again in her new documentary, "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret," which aired last week on MTV and VH1. Though the film covers some of the zippier moments from 2004's terrific "Re-Invention" tour, it finds Madonna pontificating about the importance of "going against the establishment" and of taking "responsibility for the world around you."

At one point, she even dresses down her makeup man for not being registered to vote.

STILL A REBEL

Originally, the "Secret" documentary was supposed to come out in movie theaters. Though Madonna did shop it at the Cannes Film Festival, she says she was turned off by the fact that, "unless you're Steven Spielberg, distributors take all your DVD rights. When I sold 'Truth or Dare' [her 1991 documentary] to Miramax, I got very little out of it. Just to use a clip of it in my new movie, I had to pay them like $7,000."

"It was thinking outside the box to have it shown on TV," she insists.

The new documentary contrasts tellingly with the old one. In "Truth or Dare," Madonna comes off as a flip and provocative fun-time gal. This time she says things like, "Sometimes fun is overrated."

While "Truth" painted her as an outrageous Lady Madonna, "Secret" reveals her to be a cross between Joan Baez and a singing-dancing Mother Teresa in training.

The media have had a field day with the transformation. Long ago, it become a staple of gossip columns to giggle over the contrast between the sassy young Madonna and the prim children's author.

Madonna, who's now 47, sees no contradiction whatsoever.

"Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed," she says. "But I am still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either. I think parents should be constantly questioning society."

Some critics, however, assert that Madonna is being reactionary, or even (gasp!) conservative, in her oft-stated refusal to let her kids (Lourdes, 9, and Rocco, 5) watch TV.

"It's not conservative," she says. "It's actually very punk-rock to not watch TV."

But let Madonna talk long enough about pop-culture excess, and she ends up sounding not wildly dissimilar to Pat Robertson. "It's very surface-oriented and of the moment and disposable," she says. "You have to constantly up the ante. [Celebrities] just have to keep getting more extreme to get attention. It's crap. It's scary. We are obviously creating our own demise."

Eeyow! Are things that bad?

"Look at the world we live in," says Madonna, yet again.

In reaction to this excess, the singer has spent more and more time exploring the inner life through her faith. The shift has inspired more hostility toward her than anything in years.

"It would be less controversial if I joined the Nazi Party," Madonna says of the kabbala.

"'What do you mean you study the Torah if you're not Jewish?'" she asks rhetorically. "'What do you mean you pray to God and wear sexy clothes? We don't understand this.' It frightens people. So they try to denigrate it or trivialize it so that it makes more sense.

"I find it very strange that it's so disturbing to people," she continues. "It's not hurting anybody."

On that level, she relates to Tom Cruise, who has taken endless flak for being a Scientologist. "If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles," Madonna says. "And I don't think anybody else should."

The accusation that her participation in kabbala makes her part of a cult irks her even more. "We're all in a cult," Madonna says. "In this cult we're not encouraged to ask questions. And if we do ask questions, we aren't going to get a straight answer. The world's in the cult of celebrity. That's the irony of it."

Certainly, Madonna should know a few things about that particular cult, having worked its tenets to a T. The difference, she says, is that "I hope to utilize [fame] to make things better, to help people come to their senses."

Even if we, the benighted, fail to heed Madonna's call, at least she can still get us to pay attention to her more routine controversies. Apparently, she has the ability to stir some up even when she's not trying.

A song on the new album titled "Isaac," which uses Jewish musical motifs, has outraged some kabbalist rabbis. They claim the song is about Isaac (or Yitzhak) Luria, a 16th-century Jewish mystic. "Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit," Rabbi Rafael Cohen, who heads a seminary named after Luria, said in a statement.

Madonna insists that her song is not about Luria at all but about Yitzhak Sinwani, who sings on the track. "They're saying I'm committing a blasphemy, but that's not what the song is about," she says. "What are they doing commenting on pop songs? Don't they have synagogues to pray in?"

The album may provoke some milder criticism for another song: "I Love New York," in which Madonna lionizes this city while singing that "L.A. is for people who sleep/London and Paris, baby, you can keep."

"It's just that feeling of 'God, I love [New York]," Madonna explains. "I'll always have a special fondness for this place, because this is where I learned how to survive. This is where I went to the school of hard knocks, where I found myself. Believe me. I love London and I love Paris. But in that song I don't.

"I'm allowed to be contradictory," she giggles. "And I'm a paradox, you know?"

SNEERS AT FAME

Madonna emphasizes the point in the new song "Let It Will Be." In one moment, she sings about having done whatever it took early in her career to become famous. In the next, she sneers at the culture of fame. "I'm posing the question to everybody: How far are you willing to go?" she says of our collective lust for recognition.

As far as acting goes, Madonna feels she has gone just about far enough. All those who've winced through films like "Body of Evidence" and "Swept Away" will be thrilled to know that Madonna says she's not interested in acting in movies anymore.

"I want to direct," she announces.

Which, of course, may bring on yet another round of shudders from Madonna's many foes. The artist herself acknowledges all the "haters" by closing the album with the danceably dismissive "Like It or Not."

Not least, the song captures Madonna's trademark defiance and unrepentance. It's those enduring attitudes that seem to override all the contradictions of her career. Though Madonna may offer a new song like "How High," in which she wonders if she should go on with her work, in the end it's clearly not a question she takes very seriously.

"I'm not thinking of quitting," she says with a big laugh. "I ain't going nowhere."

[universALLove]

I love Hung up, I cant get enough of it. It is so much better than the version Abba did.

[Alice]

I love it Hung up I cant get enough of it. It is so much better than the version Abba did.

.......ABBA nver did "Hung Up".......they did "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)".......which Madge sampled for "Hung Up".

[universALLove]

I love it Hung up I cant get enough of it. It is so much better than the version Abba did.

.......ABBA nver did "Hung Up".......they did "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)".......which Madge sampled for "Hung Up".

You know what I meant!

[MadonnasManOne]

WOW! All I can say is WOW! Madonna's new album, Confessions On A Dance Floor (which is released on November 15th), is AMAZING.

I have a copy, and I am telling you, it is the most addicting music she's ever created. It's very far from what mainstream America listens to, and I am so glad. I don't want a Madonna that follows the leader. I want a Madonna that creates, and isn't afraid to be different.

I don't know if the album will be a huge hit in America, or not, but if it isn't, it won't be because it's not a good album.

I would like to get the opinion of those who buy the album, after a few listens, and see what others think. Confessions On A Dance Floor ranks as one of Madonna's best.

[MutantEnemy]

I Have all of the songs and would like to share, how do I post them?

[MadonnasManOne]

I Have all of the songs and would like to share, how do I post them?

I don't think you should post them, here. I wouldn't want UltimateDisney.com to get in any trouble. After all, the album hasn't been released, yet.

If people would like to listen, starting on Monday, MTV.com will have the album on The Leak.