Customer Reviews
Confessions (Madonna At Her Best) - By: Maria, 21 Jul 2008 
This is truly madonna's best album to date with classics like sorry hung up i love new york like it or not jump get together & all of the album is fantastic! 10/10 must buy!
SHE'S GOOD FOR HER AGE.....not!!! - By: Langella, 08 Jul 2008 
It comes as no surprise that Madonna gets the retarded media to focus on her looksin ratio to her age. Basically, she & all her output are so shallow you couldn't even splash aroundin it/her - now there's a nasty image!! This over hyped album is YET another yawn fest of insincere, musically cliched (asin done to death already & done miles better than this!)anodyne trash masquerading as state of the art.....Give it a rest you old rip off merchant! Leave usin peace & let a real musician have the space your're bulemically gorging up!
another great album by MADDIE!!! - By: S. J. Pinder, 16 Jun 2008 Confessions on a Dance floor is an astonishing album filled with disco themed tracks & overflowing with style.
all tracks are just fabulous.
my favourite albumsin order are(split up to love([])enjoy({})and are okay)-[music,like a prayer,erotica,true blue,CONFESSIONS,hard candy,American Life],{ray of light,Madonna,bedtime stories,like a virgin},I'm breathless(buy for vogue),and who's that girl?(not a great album).
the tracks are fantastic-
HUNG UP-10+/10-a fantastic track & a classic
Get Together-9/10-pulsating beat
SORRY-10/10-another fantastic track
FUTURE LOVERS-10/10-awesome track,quite something to behold.
I LOVE NEW YORK-9/10-strong song
LET IT WILL BE-10/10-stands out
FORBIDDEN LOVE-10+/10-a meaningful track with a fantastic beat(nothing like the bedtime stories track)really fantastic!!
JUMP-10+/10-glad she released this as a single...have loved this track since i first heard it
HOW HIGH-10/10-a well collaborated song & stands out.
ISAAC-10/10-quite an unusual song yet pretty spectacular...gets your body moving:)
PUSH-8/10-a more calm song but still good pacing & beat to keep it going strong.
LIKE IT OR NOT-10/10-a dance ballad about her career & her life & brings a great closure to quite a spectacular album.
one of my favorites from the highly praised singer(and leGend)although #5 on my list it is amazing as are the albums before it(music etc.)and surpasses American life(also a very good album)...this continues with the fabulous back to basics album HARD CANDY!!!!
buy buy BUY!!!
Just One Try, That's All It Takes! - By: lovelygirl, 10 May 2008 This album is the cure for any person who feels down or justin need of a highly energetic funky disco rush. The dance ambiance is on high gear smashingly going from track to track non-stop --no pauses or breaks. It's about leaving your worries behind, forgetting your problems, & experiencing something completely different!
Hung Up, Get Together, Sorry, & Jump are definite stand-out tracks with much catchy infectious grooves sure to satisfy. The other tracks are excellent enough to be singles as well. Let It Will Be is a fabulous track of letting things take their course & just letting go as destiny takes care of your worries. Push is a song she did for her husband Guy Ritchie expressing how his love helps her reach greater heights at times. Isaac has a very spiritual aura very refreshing to hear as Ray of Light also had many journeys of the soul.
Hung up about a lover who doesn't respond to phone calls or gestures? Let it will be, like it or not life goes on; don't push or jump to the thought of future lovers. Get together with friends, talk about your fantasies & forbidden love; Don't be sorry. Take your problems to the dance floor, let the emotions disappear, don't look back, dance away, & experience the future!
Are you ready to Jump? - By: , 29 Apr 2008 On "How High?" she questions "Does this get any better?".
The short answer is: No.
No, it doesn't.
With its predecessor being the acoustic introspection of "American Life", "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is a complete polarity. A "non-stop, all dance, tour-de-force", complete with Kabbalistic lyrics, seamless mixing & choruses more triumphant than an Ayn Rand hero.
Beginning with the ticking of a clock & lyrics such as "those who run seem to have all the fun", "Hung Up", is a dance anthem on par with "Vouge" & "Deeper & Deeper". Easily her most commercial single since the very early 90's, it overtakes the famous ABBA sample & quite literally turns it into its own. Its breakdown into angelic electronica during the second verse, ranks among the most inspired musical moments of her career. Bellissimo. With the ringing of an alarm "Get Together", a Stardust-esque Daft Punk tribute, lands like a giant discotheque Spaceship. Being pulsating & mysticalin equal doses it calls to mind the resurrection of the sun on an Ibiza summer morning. "Sorry" is, simply put, the most fabulously camp songin the entire Madonna canon. Lyrically, the product of a vengeful drag queen, the project sounds like something that the Pet Shop Boys would have produced for Gloria Gaynor. Likewise, on an album which pays homage to great Gay Icons of the past, the mandatory nod to Donna Summer finds its formin "Future Lovers". "Some have called it religion" indeed some may very well have if she had added a few lines from the chorus of "I Feel Love" (this was later employed during the opening of the "Confessions Tour") towards its closing. "I Love New York" was best left on the set list of the "Reinvention Tour". A disappointing affair considering the hype that surrounds it, its essentially punk undercurrent fails to consummate with an essentially 80's pop production. Tellingly, insite of the hype, it was not released as a single. Dramatic & stirring strings (falsely reported to have been sampled from "Papa Don't Preach") open the precessions of "Let It Will Be" implying that after the hedonism of the opening tracks something of a more serious nature is about to be said. Its reflective analysis of her rise to fame gives the impression of a woman no longer enthralled by the promises of materialism & stardom while slowly building into a dance extravaganza that would not be out of place on a remixed 1980's disco compilation.
"Forbidden Love" is the Disco answer to Michael Jackson's "In The Closet" its icy sexuality reminiscent of the Dita Parlo alter-ego & at this pointin the album, a welcome breather. The spectacular "Jump" (a song which Kylie Minouge would literally kill for) lyrically recalls her leaving home & heading for New Yorkin search of fame. A genuine copper-bottomed pop anthem whichin its lyrics, melody & production is quintessentially Madonna make clear that, like Madonna's musicin the 80's, she is the focus point. "How High" is a weak moment (a song that deals with the inconsequentiality of fame & money) which lyrically echoes the far superior "Let It Will Be" & contains copulas use of a vocoder. Fortunately she had the savvy the place it between "Jump" & a recording of an exceptionally powerful nature. It is quite difficult to put into words how excellent "Isaac" is. Its controversial inclusion of Hebrew chanting - it was also initially titled "The Binding of Isaac" which was dropped due to it being likely to inspire violence from Orthodox circles - marks what is arguably the greatest piece of work which Madonna has ever executed (Please take a moment to consider the implications of this). Lyrically, melodically & vocally it ascends to the heights of the Stars & returns to Earth with a formulae which can only be described as the Hasidic version of "Like A Prayer". Why it was not commercially released is almost as mysterious as the song itself. "Push" is a sledgehammer of a song. Evidently written about Guy Ritchie, a determination is presentin her voice that previously has only been seenin the bridge to "Open Your Heart". The mellow & almost R&B of "Like It Or Not" winds the whole thing up. Its Edenic lyrics reassure that she has no intention of slowing.
Of course by the end of "Confessions on a Dance Floor" those reassurances are unwarranted. Madonna has a track record which would put Rocky to shame, but even as such, only the insightful would have expected this. That it ranks amongst her best work is no understatement. Pulling out all the stopsin what is a compilation of Gay Disco, Electronica & solid gold Pop, indeed it ranks amongst the best Pop work of the century.
Now report to the dance floor!
