Confessions on a Dance Floor

Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
Critic Score
Based on 20 reviews
2005 Ratings: #145 / 512
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2005 Rank: #52
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Observer

Confessions... clearly wouldn't exist without Madonna, but it's Price who steals the show.

83
Entertainment Weekly

Madonna never completely deserted clubland, of course, but she hasn’t made an album this consistently beat-driven since 1992’s Erotica ... She’s smart enough to know that dulcet dance music for grown-ups is a worthy niche waiting to be filled.

80
Uncut

Sure, its Abba-sampling smash “Hung Up” masked much of Confessions padding, but this fruity homage to ’70s and ’80s disco resonated profoundly with fans.

80
Evening Standard

Confessions is as shallow and shiny as a diamanté cocktail stirrer, and all the better for it.

80
The Guardian

It may be a return to core values, but there's still a bravery about Confessions on a Dancefloor.

80
Slant Magazine

Madonna, with the help of Price, has succeeded at creating a dance-pop odyssey with an emotional, if not necessarily narrative, arc—and one big continuously-mixed fuck-you to the art-dismantling iPod Shuffle in the process.

70
Rolling Stone
For Madonna, the quest for transcendence has always been closely linked to the ecstatic release of dancing.
70
DIY

'Confessions...' isn't the all out disco bonanza it could have been ... Yet even with this criticism there isn't a bad song on the album, just a sense that perhaps Madonna kept inside her comfort zone a little too much.

70
AllMusic

Confessions on a Dance Floor is the first album where Madonna seems like a veteran musician. Not only is there a sense of conscious craft to the album, in how the sounds and the songs segue together, but in how it explicitly references the past -- both her own and club music in the larger sense.

67
Coke Machine Glow

The lyrics ambiguous, vague, slightly nonsensical ... More than ever Madonna is a product of someone else’s vision, or in this case, lack thereof.

67
SPIN

For her latest studio album, Madge has generated 12 tracks of pure dance music sure to please the international club community and her most unshakable supporters: gay men. With its surges and dips, Confessions mimics the rising/falling action of, say, a DJ set, a hit of Ecstasy, or Madonna’s own career.

62
Pitchfork
On her 14th album, the pop star teams with Stuart Price and rolls back the clock; her latest iteration is a pre-Madonna disco vixen, basking in a '70s musical style that she herself, among others, helped to morph and displace.
60
NOW Magazine

Instead of the bubble-gum pop and super-cheesy 80s synths of the Like A Virgin days, Madge teams up with producer Stuart Price ...  to eke out a slick pastiche of Daft Punkian mid-90s club cuts celebrating the popper-happy hedonism of late-70s New York dance floors.

60
The Irish Times
She used to be a trendsetter, dictating pop's direction with just a bump and a grind. These days, Madge is finding it harder to keep up with changing fashions, so she's going back to what she knows: good, old-school 1980s grooves.
40
The Independent

Confessions on a Dance Floor, a collection of routine disco pieces every bit as tepid as its title. The putative confessions here are meagre fare indeed from one formerly so forthright.

rguitar
97

Queen of Pop
In this album she takes me to her party. It starts happy and then the dance get darker.

AntonioF789
90

Época em que essa velha safada era artista...

(⭐️): 9/12
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96🟩⭐️ Hung Up
93🟩⭐️ Sorry
88🟩⭐️ Isaac
84🟩⭐️ Like It Or Not
83🟩⭐️ Get Togheter
83🟩⭐️ Forbidden Love
83🟩⭐️ Jump
83🟩⭐️ Push
80🟩⭐️ How High
75🟩 I Love New York
73🟩 Let It Will Be
72🟩 Future Lovers

P: 82
A: +8

Nota: 90🟩⭐️

EduFurlan
82

Se existisse um exemplo de como a produção de músicas dance deveriam ser feitas, esse exemplo deveria ser Confessions on a Dance Floor.

A era "American Life", com certeza foi um dos momentos mais conturbados para a carreira de Madonna, após isso ela precisava de algo que não fosse tão polêmico, e isso veio na forma de "Hung Up", música que conseguiu entrar no livro dos recordes por ter ficado em #1 em mais ... read more

yoyokversion
85

- Hung Up: 10
- Get Together: 9.0
- Sorry: 10
- Future Lovers: 8.0
- I Love New York: 9.5
- Let It Will Be: 7.5
- Forbidden Love: 8.0
- Jump: 8.0
- How High: 6.5
- Isaac: 6.0
- Push: 9.5
- Like It or Not: 8.0

Média: 83

Pontos adicionais: +2
Pontos retirados: —

Nota final: 85

Whossjoe
85

Um clássico eletrônico que botou novamente Madonna nos holofotes após o público não ter compreendido o ótimo American Life. Sorry, Jump e get together minhas favoritas até hoje.

Undergroundie
88

Hung Up - 10
Get Together - 10
Sorry - 10
Future Lovers - 8
I Love New York - 8
Let It Will Be - 10
Forbidden Love - 7
Jump - 9
How High - 8
Isaac - 10
Push - 8
Like It Or Not - 7

Total - 105
Score - 88

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Track List

1Hung Up
5:37
97
2Get Together
5:14
92
3Sorry
4:41
94
4Future Lovers
5:01
87
5I Love New York
4:35
84
6Let It Will Be
4:20
88
7Forbidden Love
4:22
88
8Jump
3:58
91
9How High
4:03
87
10Isaac
5:59
85
11Push
3:32
80
12Like It or Not
4:35
86
Total Length: 56 minutes

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