The Queen of Pop is back on the dance floor.
This is not a drill.
Just days after confirming that Confessions II will bring the Queen of Pop back to the dance floor this summer, Madonna has unveiled the first full taste of the upcoming album, “I Feel So Free.”
Prior to hitting DSPs, iHeartRadio’s Pride Radio exclusively debuted the track at 10 a.m. ET on Friday (April 17) and is playing Madonna’s “I Feel So Free” on the hour for at least the duration of the day. (She even recorded a lil bit of audio for the LGBTQ radio station: “Hi, this is Madonna.” Says it all, doesn’t it?)
A propulsive, driving dance song that harks back to the beat of Lil Louis’ 1989 house classic “French Kiss,” “I Feel So Free” exists within the continued sonic realm of Confessions on a Dance Floor, evoking “Future Lovers” from that 2005 disco-pop masterpiece.
Confessions II reunites Madonna with that album’s producer, Stuart Price, who also served as the music producer on her massive 2023-2024 The Celebration Tour. Since then, Madge and Price have been dropping social media teasers about new music together (when I asked Price about this in 2023, he coyly replied, “You measure a working relationship not by the gaps between but by how easily you pick up again from when you left off”). Just this week, Madonna officially confirmed that Confessions II was dropping via Warner Bros. on July 3.
Label reps confirmed to Billboard that the new Madonna song was serviced to radio on Friday morning. Billboard has reached out to reps for Madonna to learn when it will hit DSPs. “I Feel So Free” arrives ahead of the album’s lead single, which has yet to be announced.
A Confessions II countdown on Spotify reveals the album has 16 tracks. The original Confessions on a Dance floor album was available in standard album format (with discrete tracks) as well as a “non-stop mix” that kept the music going without pause. Madonna’s website lists a 12-track vinyl LP with the “non-stop mix” as well as a 16-track, 2-vinyl LP set with a “continuous album mix.“
