Confessions II: 7 raw and vulnerable easter eggs on Madonna’s new album
From hashing out her relationship with her daughter to vividly recreating memories from partying with Basquiat in the early 80s, we unpick the autobiographical lyrics on today’s release
Black News 
Confessions II does something remarkable. In a vacuum, guest production from Dutch big room DJ Martin Garrix and lyrics like “The dancefloor isn’t just a place, it’s a threshold” and “Everybody get up and dance” could be read as empty platitudes about dancing as an act of revolution: sweet nothings whispered to a crowd already ready to celebrate the undisputed Queen of Pop. But situated within a wider project that offers an unflinching retrospective on herhellip;
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