Always exciting how Madonna presents herself with a new CD. Is she in a spiritual mood this time or is she wearing a cowboy hat? For Confessions On A Dancefloor, Madonna was in the mood to dance, recycling 80s disco music. Remarkable, because the entire disco house movement that was mainly made famous by French acts such as Daft Punk and Alan Braxe in the late nineties has long and been declared
… dead. But in fact Madonna has always been more concerned with renewing herself than coming up with something new herself. For Confessions she worked with the English producer Stuart Price, known from Les Rythmes Digitales, Zoot Woman and also operating under his French alter-ego Jacques Lu Cont. Their collaboration resulted in a very danceable album, culminating in the single Hung Up, for which Abba ' s Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) was sampled. The songs flow into each other like a mix, and so you don't get much time to think about whether or not it sounds superficial. But once on that dance floor, it doesn't matter anymore. (IV)more