Madonna mulling ‘Confessions’ Tour
Madonna is on the cover of the new issue of Billboard magazine with a previously unreleased picture from the promotional session for the new album by Steven Klein, and the Billboard website features an interview where she talks about “Confessions On A Dance Floor” and her touring plans.
“On the heels of her 2004 re-Invention tour, which grossed $125 million, according to Billboard Boxscore, Madonna tells Billboard she is mulling another round of live dates.
“I’m currently exploring the possibility,” she says. “If I go on tour, it would be next summer. And it would be all out disco, with lots of disco balls. I would focus on dance music and the new record. I already did the older stuff on my Re-Invention tour.”
That new record, “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” arrives November 15 via Warner Bros and the first single “Hung Up” is #1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay chart and No. 21 on the Hot 100 this week. On Monday and Wednesday, the song will be also featured in episodes of “CSI: Miami” and “CSI: NY,” respectively.
The 12-track album was inspired by the many remixes Madonna’s songs have received over the years. “Whenever I make records, I often like the remixes better than the original versions,” she says. “So, I thought, screw that. I’m going to start from that perspective.”
In tandem with producer Stuart Price, Madonna took her music back to the place where she first made her mark in the early ’80s: the clubs. But they did so in a way that, while wickedly retro, pushes the beats and rhythms into the future.
“Our intention was to give a nod and a wink to people like Giorgio Moroder and the Bee Gees,” Madonna says. “Stuart and I didn’t want to remake the past, but make it into something new.”
You can read the full article by Michael Paoletta on the Billboard.com website.