16 tracks, and Madonna’s Confessions II is out on Jul 3, 2026.
Madonna is back with a sequel, and the club is the assignment
Billboard says Confessions II is Madonna’s follow-up to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, with 16 tracks and collabs including Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Lola Leon, Stromae, and Martin Garrix. The rollout leans hard into dance floor drama, with the album framed as a return to disco, electronica, synth, and dance pop — and yes, the mother-daughter cut “The Test” is in the mix too.
Gobble's Take: If you came for subtlety, Madonna politely left it at the door and kept the strobe lights.
Source: Billboard
The album review says Madonna didn’t just return — she dominated
Variety’s review calls Confessions II Madonna’s best album in decades, emphasizing that it’s a 16-track project mainly produced by Madonna and Stuart Price, who also steered Confessions on a Dance Floor. The writeup points to the record’s continuous flow and its club-heavy pulse, while noting Sabrina Carpenter appears in the “Bring Your Love” video.
Gobble's Take: This is the rare sequel that seems determined to out-club the original instead of just saluting it.
Source: Variety
Prime Video is still the streamer people keep sleeping on
Collider argues that Prime Video is underrated compared with Netflix and HBO, even though it has quietly built a catalog of shows that people often discover years late. The piece’s whole vibe is basically: stop scrolling past the good stuff and actually watch the platform’s originals already.
Gobble's Take: Prime Video’s biggest PR problem may be that it keeps making people say, “Wait, it had that?”
Source: Collider
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