Madonna has given her new single ‘I Feel So Free’ a low-key debut on a LGBTQ+ radio station – find out how to listen below.
Earlier this week, the Queen of Pop announced that her new album ‘Confessions II’ will be released on July 3, the sequel to her seminal 2005 record ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ and the album she has been teasing since early last year.
The first glimpse of new music came when she rebranded her official website on Tuesday (April 14) with a clip of atmospheric ambient music, but now Madonna has surprised fans by dropping the first single in an unconventional and unannounced way.
‘I Feel So Free’ premiered on Pride Radio, an LGBTQ+ station that is part of the iHeartRadio network, earlier today (April 17), and it will continue to play on the station at the top of every hour for the rest of this weekend, with no further official release details yet confirmed. Listen to Pride Radio here.
The song is a hedonistic deep house-flavoured floorfiller, in keeping with the dance-centric sound of the original ‘Confessions Of A Dance Floor’ album. “It’s really hard for me to trust people / Can you blame me? / I never know why people like me / That’s why I like to go dancing / Safety in numbers,” Madonna sings, over an interpolation of Lil Louis’ 1989 Chicago house classic ‘French Kiss’.
Madonna dropped the new album news on Instagram on Wednesday (April 15), unveiling the pink and lilac cover art and sharing the title and release date in the caption.
On her website, the record is available to pre-order now and comes in two variations: a standard issue of the album which features 12 songs and a deluxe version that contains four bonus tracks.
She has also said the new record is best summed up in the opening lines of the track ‘One Step Away’: “People think that dance music is superficial, but they’ve got it all wrong. The dance floor is not just a place, it’s a threshold: A ritualistic space where movement replaces language”.
‘Confessions II’ sees the queen of pop reunite with the producer of the original album, Stuart Price, whom she already revealed she had been working with back in December 2024.
“When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto: We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies,” Madonna explained. “These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect —with your wounds, with your fragility.”
“To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people,” she added. “Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions, pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
