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Rachel Sykes, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham

Confessions II: a euphoric return to form that reveals a more vulnerable Madonna

Madonna’s much-anticipated Confessions II has just broken official chart records, making her the first American woman to earn number one albums across five decades. It’s her tenth number one record.

A kind of sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dancefloor, it marks a euphoric return to form, released seven years after her last album, Madame X (2019), and two decades since the first Confessions last earned her good reviews.

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