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At the outset of her highly anticipated 15th studio album, \u201cConfessions II\u201d \u2014\u00a0 a sonic sequel to her 2005 smash \u201cConfessions on a Dance Floor\u201d \u2014 Madonna only has one request: \u201cDon\u2019t be a vibe kill.\u201d Set against a slithering, seductive Chicago house beat, it\u2019s really more of a command, one that the Queen of Pop immediately follows with another decree: \u201cCome on, meet me on the dance floor.\u201d Considered on its own, one might think this first track, \u201cI Feel So Free,\u201d is the album\u2019s thesis, a call for the listener to check their hang-ups at the door before entering what Madonna later calls \u201ca temple of sweat and surrender, where rhythm replaces reason and movement.\u201d The club is no place for the stressors and anxieties of modern life. Once you\u2019re inside, everything outside must fade away.<\/p>

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But strangely enough, it was Madonna who insisted on killing the vibe in the weeks leading up to the album\u2019s July 3 release. In \u201cConfessions II\u201d terms, it was as if she popped out of the club for a quick cigarette, checked her phone and let herself be momentarily consumed by all of life\u2019s ugliness \u2014 posting a quick AI edit of herself before stomping out her Marlboro with her boot and going back inside. During the album\u2019s rollout, the pop star\u2019s visage was perfected with the help of some uncanny AI smoothing, while her accompanying \u201cConfessions II\u201d short film featured a team of AI artists in the credits.<\/p>\n

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(James Devaney\/GC Images\/Getty Images)<\/span> Madonna<\/p><\/div>\n

As someone who is perennially image-conscious, constantly innovating, and occasionally rash, it\u2019s not surprising that an artist like Madonna would incorporate new technology into her art. What\u2019s disheartening is that she pretends there is no connection, telling Vogue Italia last week, \u201cAlgorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks to me, and that is the opposite of making art.\u201d Two days later, Madonna reposted AI fan edits of herself atop the Empire State Building\u2019s spire, waving a \u201cConfessions II\u201d banner. And while an Instagram story might not be her own art \u2014 and, granted, is probably being posted by a social media manager \u2014 it did place this album\u2019s rollout firmly within this uniquely unnatural era. The carefree, sweat-drenched timelessness of Madonna\u2019s new music couldn\u2019t help but scratch against a very timely problem: Everything\u2019s really bad, and finding space to let yourself forget that is increasingly difficult.<\/p>\n

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By genuinely confessing on the dance floor, Madonna has made a far more moving and crucial \u201cbiopic\u201d than any shiny studio film could afford her. \u201cConfessions II\u201d is better than any film because it\u2019s Madonna\u2019s story exactly the way she\u2019s always told it: through the music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But that\u2019s also exactly the kind of contradiction Madonna has staked her career on. Her first single, 1982\u2019s \u201cEverybody,\u201d encouraged a similar blind devotion to the dance floor, hitting the booming New York club scene just as the city was recovering from one of its most tumultuous decades. And throughout her reign, Madonna has lived her inconsistencies, vacillating between opinions and social, spiritual and artistic beliefs of all kinds. To fight the industry\u2019s double standards, she created a wealth of her own, making Madonna impossible to pin down and thus endlessly fascinating.<\/p>\n

Flattening these nuances into a single feature film would be impossible. And yet, that\u2019s just what Madonna spent the last few years trying to do, writing the treatment for her own biopic at Universal Studios, which she was also slated to direct. But even after the studio won a bidding war for the story, it balked at coughing up the money for a movie worthy of Madonna\u2019s legacy. \u201cWe had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget because I\u2019ve had an extraordinary life,\u201d Madonna told Interview magazine. \u201cI\u2019ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the project fell apart, Madonna returned to the recording studio with her history on her mind. \u201cConfessions II\u201d features intimate retrospectives of Madonna\u2019s career and personal life \u2014 rare, clear-eyed visits to the past from an artist who has always preferred to keep her eyes on the future. These accounts collide with the present era\u2019s eerie uncertainty at every turn, making for an altogether riveting, cyclical listening experience that tells her life\u2019s story without smoothing its contradictions. By genuinely confessing on the dance floor, Madonna has made a far more moving and crucial \u201cbiopic\u201d than any shiny studio film could afford her. \u201cConfessions II\u201d is better than any film because it\u2019s Madonna\u2019s story exactly the way she\u2019s always told it: through the music.<\/p>\n

The chances of a life as complex and purposefully incongruent as Madonna\u2019s fitting into one feature-length film \u2014 even two or three \u2014 are slim, and even that\u2019s an understatement. Today\u2019s musician biopics are almost always overly sanitized stories approved by the artist or their estate. Every so often, a wildcard will slip through the cracks, but that\u2019s become increasingly uncommon, especially in an era where fans are militant in their reluctance to let any unsavory portraits slide.<\/p>\n

Take this spring\u2019s Michael Jackson biopic, a film that purged Jackson of all of his eccentricities in an attempt to downplay the allegations that clouded his late career. The finished product was more like a compilation of shot-for-shot music video and live performance recreations, stitched together with vignettes depicting a tepid version of Jackson\u2019s real, tumultuous life. A musician\u2019s work becomes significantly less interesting when removed from its context. And though Madonna\u2019s screenplay was undoubtedly more colorful than that of Jackson\u2019s film, trying to shoehorn a lifetime of controversy, defiance, art, religion and love into 160 minutes would\u2019ve left too many critical subtleties on the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n

Besides, Madonna\u2019s always been most candid behind the microphone. No exclusive television interview or splashy magazine profile has ever matched the raw personhood of her actual music. As outspoken and sometimes guileless as she is, Madonna tends to choose her words carefully when the cameras are rolling. Even in the midst of her spiritualistic \u201cRay of Light\u201d era, you won\u2019t find a single interview that matches the open-hearted sincerity of the actual music. And the same goes for \u201cConfessions II.\u201d Even hour-long television specials and magazine cover stories, in which Madonna has been recounting her past, don\u2019t reach the same depth as something like \u201cDanceteria,\u201d where she does the same thing over a beat. Here, Madonna takes the listener through a pivotal moment in her early career, as she dances, performs and hustles at the famous New York club where she eventually broke through. The half-rapped verses owe as much to \u201cVogue\u201d as they do to Blondie\u2019s \u201cRapture,\u201d and in the song\u2019s jubilant refrain, she revisits the shared message of \u201cEverybody\u201d and \u201cI Feel so Free,\u201d hollering, \u201cEverybody get up and dance!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dancing\u2019s insouciance is reexamined so frequently throughout the album\u2019s first half that one might read its message as hollow, like a desperate attempt to ignore all of the troubles outside the club. Three of the album\u2019s 16 songs, which all appear on this portion of the record, have the word \u201clove\u201d in the title. Madonna pleads with listeners to bring their love to the dance floor (located at the Club of Love), where they will feel the love sensation \u2014 a love, she\u2019s careful to specify, is without words. But among the repetitive amorousness, she finds real depth in the joy she\u2019s allowing herself to experience, a type of lightness that can only come from her art failing to meet the public\u2019s expectations for the last 18 years, not to mention a near-death experience.<\/p>

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(Rafael Pavarotti)<\/span> Madonna<\/p><\/div>\n

But Madonna\u2019s lived too many lives to be naive. She knows that the sun will always rise again, and that when she exits the Club of Love, she\u2019ll have to face the unbearable truths that the light of a new day reveals. \u201cConfessions II\u201d is, by nature, an album of these oppositions. Its first half is filled with the optimistic insistence that dancing and love will save us all, while the second finds Madonna wrestling with bitterness and regret. The stunning midpoint between these two themes, \u201cFragile,\u201d fuses the hope and lament into one of Madonna\u2019s most personal songs to date, recalling her complicated relationship with her brother, Christopher Ciccone, who died while she was making the album. Just before she slides into a heart-wrenching chorus about who her brother was and all she wishes she could\u2019ve done while he was still here, Madonna admits, \u201cThis is the part I hate the most, the words inside my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

That lyric defines the album\u2019s back half \u2014 and really, Madonna\u2019s entire career. Her candor has been revered as much as it\u2019s been reviled. Madonna\u2019s reflections on motherhood and spirituality in \u201cRay of Light\u201d were unanimously praised. But as soon as those ruminations grew darker and her introspection mirrored a world consumed by political strife, just five years later, with \u201cAmerican Life,\u201d critics wrote her off once more. As much as Madonna might love making music, it never gets easier to grapple with the words inside her heart, let alone release them into the public. No biopic could ever capture how terrifying it is to be honest in front of the entire world with such plain, immediate insight as a song like this.<\/p>\n

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\u201cConfessions II\u201d is Madonna\u2019s message of what it means to be an artist, a mother and a woman \u2014 someone whose fallibility makes her human. She did it all, and she still couldn\u2019t do everything right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That\u2019s partially because, with \u201cConfessions II,\u201d Madonna isn\u2019t playing a character. She might \u201ccreate a new persona,\u201d as she says on \u201cI Feel So Free,\u201d but even her personae are versions of her true self. There is no wall up, no layer of artifice between the musician and the actor plaguing modern biopics. Here, Madonna is liberated from Universal\u2019s script notes or editing maneuvers, free from tweaking anyone\u2019s performance to feel more like the real thing. Because when it comes to Madonna, nothing can compare to the unvarnished, utterly contradictory artist herself.<\/p>\n

This is especially clear in standout moments like \u201cThe Test,\u201d a duet with her daughter, Lola Leon, and one of the most important songs of Madonna\u2019s entire career. The track finds mother and daughter writing to each other about their relationship, reconciling the effects Madonna\u2019s fame had on her firstborn child. Calling back to a \u201cRay of Light\u201d track, Madonna refers to Lola as \u201clittle star\u201d and then brilliantly examines the flipside of this affectionate nickname. \u201cYou didn\u2019t ask for all the flashing lights,\u201d Madonna says, admitting she didn\u2019t think enough about how being the child of the most famous woman in the world would make her daughter into a celebrity from birth. \u201cMy butterfly was always being watched.\u201d Sure, you could try to write this gnarled dynamic into a film. But unless Madonna and Lola played themselves, their reconciliation wouldn\u2019t resonate the way it does as they trade verses, trying to express forgiveness the same way Madonna articulated her rapturous maternal affection in \u201cLittle Star,\u201d almost 30 years prior.<\/p>\n

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(Kevin Mazur\/WireImage for Live Nation\/Getty Images)<\/span> Julia Garner and Madonna during \u201cThe Celebration Tour\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Given that the \u201cConfessions II\u201d short film only covers the album\u2019s first six tracks, it seems that even Madonna knows the stories she\u2019s telling here are too big and too intimate for a feature-length movie. It\u2019s as though she\u2019s reminding us that what we see can only ever be some of the story, and that the music is the place where the gaps are filled in.<\/p>\n

Notably, the seventh song on the album, \u201cEverything,\u201d tips the record into a more appropriately confessional place, a perspective one couldn\u2019t get with the short film alone. Madonna looks at a world where \u201cno one wants to go outside,\u201d nodding at the ways the COVID-19 pandemic broadly increased our isolation and made people more fearful of reality and each other. In a rage, she announces, \u201cIt\u2019s not OK; I don\u2019t f*ck with it!\u201d Much of the album\u2019s narrative is rooted in Madonna\u2019s origins, and here, she channels the rage and confusion of the AIDS crisis that took so many of her friends, personal heroes and collaborators. Is it somewhat surface-level for the distinct complications of the COVID era? Maybe. But the song presents another contradiction worth parsing, reminding us why someone who suffered such enormous losses so early in her life would choose right now to return to the dance floor, where healing always awaited her.<\/p>\n

Madonna walks back into the past one final time on the album\u2019s closing track, \u201cL.E.S. Girl,\u201d fondly calling her last days before superstardom, where the memory of a long-lost love with dirty hair awaits her. If there\u2019s a song that proves Madonna\u2019s own music is more compelling than any biopic could\u2019ve been, it\u2019s this one \u2014 the quietest, most tender cut on the album. With only a handful of lyrics, she revisits a million lifetimes replete with monumental change and insights only an artist of her caliber could convey. As the song closes, she makes one last confession: \u201cEverything fades away, except for you.\u201d While one could read this as a testament to everlasting love, I find it most moving as a bit of well-earned gratification. Madonna considers it her duty to remember that early version of herself and to bring that person with her, no matter where she goes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve speculated for a while now that Madonna may be preparing for a future without her, where \u201cConfessions II\u201d becomes her last album. God forbid that comes true, but if it does, this record is proof that Madonna is her discrepancies: She is this, and she is also that. Madonna is everything. It\u2019s not that she holds no firm beliefs, but that she is a real person who changes in front of our eyes and ears, a nuance that no feature-length film could allow her. Instead, \u201cConfessions II\u201d is Madonna\u2019s message of what it means to be an artist, a mother and a woman \u2014 someone whose fallibility makes her human. She did it all, and she still couldn\u2019t do everything right. She danced and sinned and regretted and atoned, and then contradicted herself by doing it all over again. But if there\u2019s anyone who can make contradiction look like reinvention, it\u2019s Madonna.<\/p>

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