Confessions on a Dance Floor

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Apparently there's nothing in Kabbalah that disallows sweaty, head-spinningly good dance music, because here comes a flame-haired Madonna hawking a dozen songs' worth: Confessions on a Dance Floor darts seamlessly from Madge's early days, when she emerged as the genre's enduring darling, through the political, kiddie, and acoustic pap that drove a wedge between her and early adopters of the fingerless glove look.

Songs like the pop-leaning "Jump" and first single "Hung Up"--an adrenaline drip on high that, like many of these tracks, will inspire mild shame among those who've thrilled to the much thinner disco-dusted outpourings of younger divas recently--represent both a return to form and an unmistakable march into the future. "Get Together" is a sonic freak-out in the best sense; "Push" traffics in gut-level futuristic trance; and "Forbidden Love" loops in '80s blips and bleeps for a follow-me-into-the-past effect that's both neo and retro.

For all the image-affirming innovations here, though, these confessions find Madonna framed in her share of reflective moments too. "Was it all worth it/How did I earn it?" she asks on "How High," a song featuring vocoder. "Nobody's perfect/I guess I deserve it," comes the answer.

A later lyrical inquiry is left for the listener to judge: "Does this get any better?" Madonna wants to know. But that opens the door to a dizzying proposition--few of us would have guessed, after all, that it got this good. --Tammy La Gorce

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Customer reviews

review by: Game Addict date: 2008-07-21 rating:
Confessions (Madonna At Her Best)
This is truly madonna's best album to date with classics like sorry hung up i love new york like it or not jump get together and all of the album is fantastic! 10/10 must buy!

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review by: date: 2008-07-08 rating:
SHE'S GOOD FOR HER AGE.....not!!!
It comes as no surprise that Madonna gets the retarded media to focus on her looks in ratio to her age. Basically, she and all her output are so shallow you couldn't even splash around in it/her - now there's a nasty image!! This over hyped album is YET another yawn fest of insincere, musically cliched (as in done to death already and done miles better than this!)anodyne trash masquerading as state of the art.....Give it a rest you old rip off merchant! Leave us in peace and let a real musician have the space your're bulemically gorging up!

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review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-06-16 rating:
another great album by MADDIE!!!
Confessions on a Dance floor is an astonishing album filled with disco themed tracks and overflowing with style.
all tracks are just fabulous.
my favourite albums in order are(split up to love([])enjoy({})and are okay)-[music,like a prayer,erotica,true blue,CONFESSIONS,hard candy,American Life],{ray of light,Madonna,bedtime stories,like a virgin},I'm breathless(buy for vogue),and who's that girl?(not a great album).
the tracks are fantastic-
HUNG UP-10+/10-a fantastic track and a classic
Get Together-9/10-pulsating beat
SORRY-10/10-another fantastic track
FUTURE LOVERS-10/10-awesome track,quite something to behold.
I LOVE NEW YORK-9/10-strong song
LET IT WILL BE-10/10-stands out
FORBIDDEN LOVE-10+/10-a meaningful track with a fantastic beat(nothing like the bedtime stories track)really fantastic!!
JUMP-10+/10-glad she released this as a single...have loved this track since i first heard it
HOW HIGH-10/10-a well collaborated song and stands out.
ISAAC-10/10-quite an unusual song yet pretty spectacular...gets your body moving:)
PUSH-8/10-a more calm song but still good pacing and beat to keep it going strong.
LIKE IT OR NOT-10/10-a dance ballad about her career and her life and brings a great closure to quite a spectacular album.
one of my favorites from the highly praised singer(and leGend)although #5 on my list it is amazing as are the albums before it(music etc.)and surpasses American life(also a very good album)...this continues with the fabulous back to basics album HARD CANDY!!!!
buy buy BUY!!!

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review by: date: 2008-04-29 rating:
Are you ready to Jump?
On "How High?" she questions "Does this get any better?".

The short answer is: No.
No, it doesn't.

With its predecessor being the acoustic introspection of "American Life", "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is a complete polarity. A "non-stop, all dance, tour-de-force", complete with Kabbalistic lyrics, seamless mixing and choruses more triumphant than an Ayn Rand hero.

Beginning with the ticking of a clock and lyrics such as "those who run seem to have all the fun", "Hung Up", is a dance anthem on par with "Vouge" and "Deeper and Deeper". Easily her most commercial single since the very early 90's, it overtakes the famous ABBA sample and quite literally turns it into its own. Its breakdown into angelic electronica during the second verse, ranks among the most inspired musical moments of her career. Bellissimo. With the ringing of an alarm "Get Together", a Stardust-esque Daft Punk tribute, lands like a giant discotheque Spaceship. Being pulsating and mystical in equal doses it calls to mind the resurrection of the sun on an Ibiza summer morning. "Sorry" is, simply put, the most fabulously camp song in the entire Madonna canon. Lyrically, the product of a vengeful drag queen, the project sounds like something that the Pet Shop Boys would have produced for Gloria Gaynor. Likewise, on an album which pays homage to great Gay Icons of the past, the mandatory nod to Donna Summer finds its form in "Future Lovers". "Some have called it religion" indeed some may very well have if she had added a few lines from the chorus of "I Feel Love" (this was later employed during the opening of the "Confessions Tour") towards its closing. "I Love New York" was best left on the set list of the "Reinvention Tour". A disappointing affair considering the hype that surrounds it, its essentially punk undercurrent fails to consummate with an essentially 80's pop production. Tellingly, insite of the hype, it was not released as a single. Dramatic and stirring strings (falsely reported to have been sampled from "Papa Don't Preach") open the precessions of "Let It Will Be" implying that after the hedonism of the opening tracks something of a more serious nature is about to be said. Its reflective analysis of her rise to fame gives the impression of a woman no longer enthralled by the promises of materialism and stardom while slowly building into a dance extravaganza that would not be out of place on a remixed 1980's disco compilation.

"Forbidden Love" is the Disco answer to Michael Jackson's "In The Closet" its icy sexuality reminiscent of the Dita Parlo alter-ego and at this point in the album, a welcome breather. The spectacular "Jump" (a song which Kylie Minouge would literally kill for) lyrically recalls her leaving home and heading for New York in search of fame. A genuine copper-bottomed pop anthem which in its lyrics, melody and production is quintessentially Madonna make clear that, like Madonna's music in the 80's, she is the focus point. "How High" is a weak moment (a song that deals with the inconsequentiality of fame and money) which lyrically echoes the far superior "Let It Will Be" and contains copulas use of a vocoder. Fortunately she had the savvy the place it between "Jump" and a recording of an exceptionally powerful nature. It is quite difficult to put into words how excellent "Isaac" is. Its controversial inclusion of Hebrew chanting - it was also initially titled "The Binding of Isaac" which was dropped due to it being likely to inspire violence from Orthodox circles - marks what is arguably the greatest piece of work which Madonna has ever executed (Please take a moment to consider the implications of this). Lyrically, melodically and vocally it ascends to the heights of the Stars and returns to Earth with a formulae which can only be described as the Hasidic version of "Like A Prayer". Why it was not commercially released is almost as mysterious as the song itself. "Push" is a sledgehammer of a song. Evidently written about Guy Ritchie, a determination is present in her voice that previously has only been seen in the bridge to "Open Your Heart". The mellow and almost R&B of "Like It Or Not" winds the whole thing up. Its Edenic lyrics reassure that she has no intention of slowing.

Of course by the end of "Confessions on a Dance Floor" those reassurances are unwarranted. Madonna has a track record which would put Rocky to shame, but even as such, only the insightful would have expected this. That it ranks amongst her best work is no understatement. Pulling out all the stops in what is a compilation of Gay Disco, Electronica and solid gold Pop, indeed it ranks amongst the best Pop work of the century.

Now report to the dance floor!


review by: Ron date: 2008-04-29 rating:
Pop Royalty...
...And shows that Madonna is clearly not gonna give up!!

1. Hung Up. 10/10
2. Get Together. 10/10
3. Sorry. 10/10
4. Future Lovers. 9/10
5. I Love New York. 9/10
6. Let It Will Be. 10/10
7. Forbidden Love*. 9/10
8. Jump. 10/10
9. How High. 10/10
10. Isaac. 9/10
11. Push. 8/10
12. Like It Or Not. 9/10

OVERALL GRADE: 10/10
Cor blimey, no one saw this coming!!! The moment I heard "Hung Up" on the radio, I thought to myself, I'm gonna ger her new album. So I did, and I am really pleased that I did because this is the best album of all time, and no one could make a better album than "Confessions on a Dance Floor".

* This is not a cover of the "Bedtime Stories" "Forbidden Love".

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