Madonna - Confessions on the Dancefloor

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A few weeks ago Madonna.com reported that HUNG UP is going to be the first single off the new album. We are now happy to tell you that HUNG UP will debut at radio on October 17th!

Not only that, but Madonna.com is pleased to announce the release date for Madonna's new All Dance Album. Madonna fans all over the world can rejoice, because the album release date is currently scheduled for November 15, 2005! Put your dancing shoes on and plan a date with your best friends to the clubs, because October & November are going to rule!

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Madonna is returning to her roots with the club-friendly Confessions on a Dancefloor, due November 15th. For her tenth studio album, the follow-up to 2003's American Life, the pop legend worked closely with British producer Stuart Price (a.k.a. DJ Jacques Lu Cont) at his London apartment.

Price met Madonna later in her career, playing keyboards on her last two tours -- "I was a bit too young to be a fan in the Eighties," he says, laughing. She approached him after last year's Re-Invention Tour, when she began work on a music-driven screenplay, bringing him onboard to create a sound she called "future disco." The idea for Confessions came from those sessions.

"We live real near each other in London, and we could just send ideas back and forth and get together and work on stuff," Price says. "The creative process was very short. There were a couple of weeks in London at my studio where we were doing a song every day."

At night, the producer would test out the tracks during his club gigs. "Whenever I was DJ'ing, I'd take dub or instrumental versions out with me," Price says. "I had my camera with me, and the next day I'd tell Madonna, 'This is what a thousand people in Liverpool looked like last night dancing to our song.' You can work on a song for twelve hours, but I guarantee you'll know within the first ten seconds of putting it on at a club whether it works or not. So these songs were tested on unwitting subjects throughout Europe."

But Price insists that he and Madonna did not blindly trust the club scene, wanting to create something more lasting. "There's a bit of a danger with dance music that you can create something that's cool but doesn't have much substance to it," he admits. "Every few months, a club record comes along that hits a nerve with people, and they connect to it. They don't know why, but there is something magical in it. That's what we were trying to make."

The first single is the uptempo synth-disco jam "Hung Up," which Price calls "a big feel-good song. You put it on and you want to get in your car, turn it up and drive around smiling."

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Madonna was recovering at home on Wednesday after suffering several broken bones in a riding accident at her country estate, her spokeswoman said. "She is recovering at home," Barbara Charone said. "We don't have any other update at this stage."

The singer was rushed to a local hospital in Salisbury by film director Ritchie yesterday and later discharged. She is due to release her new album "Confessions on a Dancefloor" in November. Charone said she did not expect Madonna's injuries, which will take weeks to heal, to affect the launch or promotion of the record. "As far as I know, nothing's been affected," Charone said.

From Yahoo! News

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Madonna is "in great spirits" Wednesday after breaking several bones during a horse-riding accident the previous day, her rep tells People.
"Madonna is doing great. She's up and in great spirits. She's not feeling that bad. She's getting around," her publicist Liz Rosenberg says.

Madonna has a dance CD due for release this November. It's not anticipated that the spill will prevent her from promoting it, said Rosenberg, who told People: "I'm sure she'll be very restless. She's usually doing lots of things at once." So will she get back on the horse and ride again? "Knowing her, she'll be riding next week," says Rosenberg. "She is a fearless girl."

From People News

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20-08-2005 - Mad for Maddy

What does a megastar need when she's under the weather? Why, a little ego-stroking, of course...

And Madonna's pals have been doing just that since the singer fell off her horse this week.

Stuart Price, who produced her new album Confessions On A Dancefloor, sent snaps of fans dancing to her tunes in Ibiza to cheer her up. A spy says: "Stuart DJ'd at Thursdays at Space and played some tracks.

"The floor went wild so he sent some pics on his phone to her saying: 'Here's 1,000 people going mad to your tune!' She loved it." Well, it sure beats grapes

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"I want people to jump out of their seats" Never one to understate, those were the exact words Madonna used to describe the songs on her upcoming album, -"Confessions On a Dance Floor". The 12 delicious tunes of pure 'unapologetic dance music' including the single "Hung Up" (out Oct.17th) is scheduled to be released on November 15th on Warner Bros. Records. This time out, the original Queen of Dance Music returns to where she began and kicks it up a few extra notches.

"It's in her blood" says Madonna's co-producer/partner in crime, DJ and Madonna musical director, Stuart Price. "She has a dance halo over her head. We made this record without any preconceived notions. It was straight from the gut - unencumbered -not over edited - very spontaneous, concluded Price.

If 'Confessions' were equated to a new dance step, it would a stunning blend of musical styles with one foot in the roots of early disco (a la Girogio Moroder/Abba on ecstacy) and the other foot gloriously ensconced in the future of music - a dance step that could only be accomplished by one artist.

Confessions on a Dance Floor is all about having a good time straight through and non stop." says America's ultimate Dancing Queen.