It looks like Madonna is back at work on the follow-up to Madame X, because moments ago the pop icon unleashed a carousel of photos of herself on Instagram in a London studio with none other than Confessions on a Dance Floor producer Stuart Price.
A source said: “Stuart was credited with helping Madonna return to form with their Confessions album, so for her to start working again with him is hugely exciting.
“That record was incredible and Madonna is excited about what they can come up with.
“It has been five years since she released Madame X, which was a concept album and Madonna is ready to put down some new tunes.
“Working with Stu on her tour reignited the spark. She has fire in her belly and cannot wait to get started.”
Madge confirmed she was in London to work with Stu last night and shared photos of herself at Stamford Bridge.
As a Madonna fan, while she has given us plenty of bops throughout her four decade career, in my opinion post Confessions, her body of work has been a mixed bag.
Stuart not only gave us Madonna's best dance album with Confessions, but he's also produced huge hits for Kylie Minogue (her Aphrodite album still slaps), Dula Peep (aka Dua Lipa),The Killers, George Ezra and Take That. He was also the creative music director of her recent Celebration Tour, so it's fitting they'd join forces and work on some new music together. I also think that since they are working together again that the fans have high expectations for the new music.
I just hope they're able to break the curse of her previous collaborators, and are able to create magic again, which William Orbit (Ray of Light) failed to do with MDNA, and Mirwais (Music) failed to do with Madame X.
I'm also hoping she doesn't succumb to this horrible trend of making songs that clock in under three minutes. If you want to do TikTok edited versions of your tracks for people to dance to, then you can create special versions of those songs specifically for that.
However as an artist if one song calls for five minutes, or if you have a song that clocks in at 3:35, then that's what it needs to be.
As for the unreleased songs she was working on with Max Martin prior to the Celebration Tour, no word on if she's recruited Stuart to rework those tracks in addition to newer material she's been inspired to create.
What I do hope is that she's sticking to two producers and one other songwriter, and not an army of producers and a writer's camp, which I feel affected her albums Rebel Heart and Madame X.
I think the fans also want Madonna to capitalize on the fun energetic vibe of her last tour, and release another dance album, and leave the politics off the record.
In this intense political climate we're currently in, I agree that I just want to escape, and hopefully Madonna will provide me with yet another soundtrack to my life.
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