Madonna
Confessions On A Dancefloor

THE REVIEW

This album is THE ESSENCE OF DISCO FROM THE 70s-80s-90s-00s.

The references are countless, moreover shameless: DONNA SUMMER, BEE GEES, JACKSON 5, ABBA but also the more recent KYLIE MINOGUE, STARDUST, JAMES BLUNT.

The album opens with that commercial dance masterpiece that is HUNG UP, which not only skillfully remakes the ABBA sample but also updates the lyrics of the song "LOVE SONG" from the old album 'LIKE A PRAYER' in which she collaborated with that genius PRINCE. The second song, GET TOGETHER, in my opinion, recalls an old '90s success from 'STARDUST'. SORRY is perhaps the most Pop piece of the album where you hear the echo of the JACKSON 5 but with a beginning that reminds of her old hit FROZEN. Madonna tells her man he isn't even half of what he aspires to be for her, she wants no excuses.

FUTURE LOVERS is DONNA SUMMER I FEEL LOVE, the only song that doesn't thrill, perhaps also because it has nonetheless been sampled ad infinitum by others, but her reinterpretation is certainly no less, even though Kyle already did it two years earlier in one of his albums. Certainly, he didn't have Mirways' production support. With I LOVE NEW YORK we're still in JACKSON 5 territory, albeit the same song I won't reveal which. LET IT WILL BE: THE TRIUMPH OF THE SYNTHESIZER! Here, in my opinion, we're in the '90s with ROBERT MILES. And at this point comes the most beautiful song "FORBIDDEN LOVE": the triumph of the '80s vocoder with a melody that recalls a video game sample from that era. JUMP consistently cites herself again from 'LIKE A PRAYER' KEEP IT TOGETHER.

More vocoder and we move to HOW HIGH and here too it recalls ROBERT MILES, really captivating but it's not just lightness, there's an underlying melancholy in the project, the past always resurfaces with her. For ISAAC, we're again in FROZEN territory with a MYSTICAL TRANSCENDENTAL DANCE DUET. She reminds us that all life is a trial and there's hope for a way out even if our soul is broken. PUSH refers, in my opinion, in certain ways to the hit by JAMES BLUNT who was in turn inspired by... (help me) it's not true she gave up the ballad for this album as the last piece, whether you like it or not, is in a sense sped up, doesn't remind me of anything perhaps it is the only new piece in the whole album!

But you might ask, where does the skill lie? It's in always being able to rework the past to make something new and enjoyable for everyone as life should be: A CONTINUAL REINVENTION. Continuously reinventing one's life, and believe me, it's no small feat. And don't come at me saying I've been trivial because you would be.

Definitely not her masterpiece but AN ALBUM TO LISTEN TO AND DANCE TO WITH LIGHTNESS AND FRIVOLITY.