Madonna premiered her 'Confessions II' short film at the Tribeca Film Festival and talked about her upcoming album.
‘s forthcoming album. ” This is what they ended up seeing: a surrealistic polyptych of women with lasers shooting out of their private parts, Benedict Cumberbatch voguing in a bathroom, and Madonna in all her various personae, from vulnerable, lonely songwriter to you-can-dance-on-a-moving-table contortionist.
And in addition to Madonna, the short featured 16 celebrity cameos, including Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Debi Mazar, Kate Moss, Julia Garner, Odessa A’zion, Richard E. Grant, Honey Dijon, and Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon, among others, in its 13-minute runtime. With so much stunning imagery and samples of songs from Madonna’s upcomingthe film made the long wait to see it that evening, since attendees’ phones locked in Yondr cases for up to two-and-a-half hours from when doors opened, worth it.
; her memories of discovering gay clubs around Detroit ; feeling out-of-place in New York, so she’d read F. Scott Fitzgerald at clubs; recollections of making out with Mazar “just to attract boys”; the physical demands of performing live and any number of deflections of Cooper’s questions about an upcoming tour ; and, of course, the film, which she assured everyone wasn’t a music video.
“I like the idea of film, because I’m a ‘film-phile,’ a cinephile, and film has inspired a good part of my life,” she said, before channeling herAnd while the film bore all the hallmarks of a big splashy Madonna music video, right down to highly sexual imagery that, it also felt like something unique, neither a clip nor a short film, but a let’s-get-unconscious freaky bedtime story. The previously unreleased songs throbbed with the same easily danceable rhythms as the singles, and everything blended together into a fever dream.
“I’m a storyteller, so, emotion journey, storytelling, and from another planet and they think environment and visual dopamine-firing. ” It opens with Madonna alone in a room as lingerie-clad women chase her with cameras, until suddenly she’s in a forest and a white light is shining out of her crotch … which then cut to green lasers peering out of spinning spread-eagled women’s vaginas and the butts of doggystyle people.
“I really have to give credit to these guys in terms of visuals for each environment,” Madonna said, nodding to the TORSO directors. “Specifically, I never would have imagined lasers coming out of girls’ pussies. Honestly, I really wanted to try it, but apparently, you get quite hot.
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“I did think about asking her in the beginning but she really turns everything down that has to do with me,” Madonna said. “We wrote a song together that’s on my record. It’s called ‘The Test. ’ It’s beautiful.
We wrote it in the studio at the same time, and it was sort of a healing moment between us.
“I’m really proud of her,” she continued. “She’s so immensely talented, way more talented than I am. I’m not saying that because I’m her mom. ” The film took six months to make, since they filmed it in London, L.A. and New York, and it was part of the year-and-a-half Madonna spent on thealbum.
The artist said she decided to make a dance album as a distraction from waiting for films and series projects she was working on to materialize. All of the songs on the LP, she said, blend together.
“The record itself is one long-playing story,” she said. “We wanted to make the record something you could put on to dance with from start to end, something that would take you on a journey. Towards the end it gets a little bit more thoughtful, emotional, and intimate. ”Bob Dylan Played a ‘Basement Tapes’ Song for the First Time Since Recording It 59 Years Ago Ultimately, though, it’s about how the music moves you, physically and metaphysically.
“I don’t want to make mindless music,” she said. “I want to make music that’s about something. Dance music makes you move your body, and you feel the pulse. It’s, like, you’re connecting to the universe, you’re connecting to other humans.
” And connection is what Madonna is all about right now.
“The movie’s really about connection,” she said. “I emerge from my solitude of this apartment and go right into a forest with people with lasers coming out of their asses. You just really go through life, take risks, be curious, be observant. … And put your fucking phones down and connect.
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