It's an Aural Fixation Love Sensation: Madonna's 'Confessions II' with Drew Tweddle

I have got something to talk about.

I actually don't think that this is necessarily the sequel to Confessions that it's been branded as.

I think that's a brand...

I think there are two things that tie up to Confessions.

I think the transitions and the flawless mixing, exec producing by Stuart Price.

and that it's dance music.

Beyond that, after having listened to this start to finish, maybe about 11 times now, I don't really see any other connective tissue

to...

There are sonic siblings.

There are sonic siblings.

But just as much as it connects to Confessions, it also connects to Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Ray of Light.

I really feel like this album is looking reflectively at that kind of... golden period where every album was untouchable and yes it has Stuart Price's amazing exec producing fingers all over it but I actually think this is the musical output of all of the energy that she put into being determined to make this film of her life and then that didn't work so then she went on tour and That was great.

But then she still wanted to do this creative thing about her life.

So then she tried to do the TV show, but she couldn't buy back the script to the film.

So she was like, fuck it, I'm going to make an album.

This album is the biography of her life, I believe, that she couldn't turn into a film or a TV show.

That's really interesting.

When it dropped, we were violently agreeing with each other on the text.

And I kind of hinted at the same thing.

I said, it's not, it is a sequel, but it's not just a sequel to your point.

I think I said something around along the lines of it.

picks up on all of the strands of her DNA that have really worked and builds on them.

Her

own DNA.

Her own