Madonna teased her upcoming album, Confessions II, during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
The record includes a duet with her daughter Lourdes “Lola” Leon as well as a song that mourns her late brother, who died in 2024.
The queen of pop is ready for people to hear the album, “because it’s a whole story… I can’t just make dance music about nothing.”
This will be the first time Madonna and her eldest daughter participated in a duet.
“She approached me,” Madonna said about the song. “She’s been very reticent to work with me. She doesn’t want to be perceived as my daughter taking advantage of her privilege.”
The 29-year-old has worked mostly independently as a model and performer. She made her New York Fashion Week debut for Gypsy Sport in 2018 and released her first single, “Lock&Key,” in 2022.
“She’s been very stand-offish, working at her own pace, and I respect that deeply,” Madonna shared. “But then one day she came to me and she said, ‘You know what? I’m holding on to something and maybe it’s a kind of… I don’t want to say anger… maybe resentment?”
Lola is the daughter of The “Material Girl” singer and former celebrity personal trainer CarlosLeon. She is the former couple’s only child together.
“Because at the end of the day she didn’t ask for this [life]. She had been through her adolescence struggling with those feelings for a long time,” Madonna explained. “Then she came to me and she said, ‘Let’s write a song together, I think it’ll be a very healing experience.'”
The 67-year-old also opened up about her relationship with her brother, ChristopherCiccone, who died of cancer in 2024.
She wrote the song “Fragile” after he called her in the studio.
“He was in a lot of pain, on the phone, and he was not in a good place,” Madonna said. “I knew it was close to the end. And then I went upstairs and wrote a song.”
Working on the track was “cathartic” for her.
“To let go of somebody you love, the best way to do it is to write about it. It’s like an exorcism,” she said.
Confessions II will be Madonna’s 15th studio album. It is set to be released on July 3.
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