WEBVTT - Madonna 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:05.220 She's reshaped pop music and pushed the boundaries on culture, fashion, 0:00:05.380 --> 0:00:10.790 and sexuality for four decades. Now, live from London, it's Madonna. 0:00:11.030 --> 0:00:15.630 Get an exclusive preview of her new album, Confessions 2. 0:00:16.510 --> 0:00:17.810 It's iHeartRadio and. 0:00:17.730 --> 0:00:22.060 TikTok live premiere with Madonna with support provided by Warner Records. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:23.739 I got something I want to talk about. 0:00:23.860 --> 0:00:25.759 Here's your host, Bob the Drag Queen. 0:00:27.900 --> 0:00:30.310 Welcome to the party. We are coming to you live 0:00:30.410 --> 0:00:33.690 from London, where the party is already underway to celebrate 0:00:33.729 --> 0:00:38.590 Madonna's first album since 2019. Thank you for joining in 0:00:38.610 --> 0:00:42.159 tonight on iHeartRadio and on the free iHeartRadio app and 0:00:42.220 --> 0:00:45.599 streaming live on TikTok. Y'all, we are going to have 0:00:45.659 --> 0:00:49.059 a great time tonight as we celebrate a new album 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:54.340 with the best-selling female recording artist of all time... seven-time 0:00:54.380 --> 0:00:57.730 Grammy Award winner, and you're about to hear exclusively here 0:00:57.810 --> 0:01:02.090 on iHeartRadio and TikTok some songs from the brand-new Confessions 0:01:02.210 --> 0:01:06.010 Part 2 album tonight. Yes, you get to hear them 0:01:06.230 --> 0:01:10.289 right here first over the next few minutes, all right? Plus, 0:01:10.330 --> 0:01:13.290 tonight is all about confessions, and later in the show, 0:01:13.390 --> 0:01:16.900 Madonna herself will answer some of your confessions tonight. while 0:01:16.940 --> 0:01:21.880 sharing exclusive previews of her new music. And I gotta 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.570 tell you right now, you cannot make a legendary pop 0:01:25.630 --> 0:01:28.190 record without a genius, may I call you a genius? 0:01:29.330 --> 0:01:30.410 Sounds good coming in. 0:01:31.350 --> 0:01:34.630 Without a genius in the room. And this is a 0:01:34.709 --> 0:01:37.730 three-time Grammy winner whose resume is longer than my receipt 0:01:37.870 --> 0:01:40.750 at the High Hills shop. He has worked with everyone, 0:01:40.790 --> 0:01:43.910 Kylie Minogue, Gwen Stefani, The Killers, and many, many more. 0:01:43.930 --> 0:01:47.010 And most importantly, though all that, he's the mastermind who 0:01:47.050 --> 0:01:50.650 helped bring us Confessions 1 and now Confessions 2. I 0:01:50.670 --> 0:01:52.890 think we're calling it Confessions 1 now. Please give it 0:01:52.930 --> 0:01:57.750 up for Stuart Price. Stuart, welcome to the madness. 0:01:58.330 --> 0:02:00.150 The madness of the show or the madness of you? 0:02:01.070 --> 0:02:03.500 The answer is yes. Now, before we get into it, 0:02:03.980 --> 0:02:06.160 I want to set up the first TikTok Live fan poll, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:07.960 and we're going to do six of these throughout the night, 0:02:07.980 --> 0:02:10.300 all right, giving you, the fans, another way to interact 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.550 with us. And the first TikTok Live fan poll question is, 0:02:13.610 --> 0:02:20.570 Madonna's daughter, Lola Leon, appears on The Test... or Love Sensation. 0:02:20.950 --> 0:02:23.070 Go vote in the polls right now, and we're going 0:02:23.090 --> 0:02:26.290 to read those results soon. Speaking of albums, Stuart, you 0:02:26.330 --> 0:02:30.990 and Madonna reunited after 15 years working together on this 0:02:31.030 --> 0:02:33.120 new album, Confessions 2. How did that come about? 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.200 So actually that came about, Madonna announced that she was 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.420 going to do the Celebration Tour, and my wife said 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.700 she should call her and say congratulations. I said it's 0:02:43.740 --> 0:02:45.840 going to be an amazing tour, and so I did that. 0:02:45.910 --> 0:02:48.639 So I picked up the phone and called, and Madonna said, Oh, 0:02:48.650 --> 0:02:51.570 that's funny. I was just thinking about you. And she 0:02:51.630 --> 0:02:53.690 said she'd been thinking about the other tours that we'd 0:02:53.730 --> 0:02:58.040 done and, you know, and enjoyed that working process. And 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.880 so that's how we picked up and started working together 0:03:00.900 --> 0:03:01.540 again for this tour. 0:03:02.180 --> 0:03:04.589 Okay, here's a question. What is different this time than 0:03:04.590 --> 0:03:04.870 15 years ago? 0:03:06.889 --> 0:03:07.269 Not much. 0:03:08.090 --> 0:03:10.130 What's changed is there's just been, you know, there's just 0:03:10.150 --> 0:03:13.190 been extra living going on. And I think that, you know, 0:03:13.210 --> 0:03:16.290 you always in creative partnerships, you always measure how they're going. 0:03:16.150 --> 0:03:17.549 By how you pick up where you left off. 0:03:17.630 --> 0:03:17.889 Right. 0:03:18.190 --> 0:03:19.670 How does it feel when you start again? 0:03:20.190 --> 0:03:22.310 But really, for us, it was just a straight line 0:03:22.330 --> 0:03:24.869 to continue working again. And it was just, you know, 0:03:24.970 --> 0:03:26.290 it was just like a fresh day. 0:03:26.310 --> 0:03:28.359 It felt like getting back on the bike, just hopping 0:03:28.380 --> 0:03:29.700 right back on and just continuing the journey. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.510 Yeah, that's a fair way of putting it. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.080 Yeah. Now, this is iHeartRadio and TikTok Live premiere with Madonna. 0:03:35.100 --> 0:03:37.460 I am Bob the Drag Queen. I'm talking with Stuart Price, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.160 the genius, and obviously with Madonna, behind Confessions 1 and 2. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.200 Hashtag iHeartMadonna. You can tell us what you think using 0:03:46.260 --> 0:03:49.160 our TikTok custom likes. And let's check in on our 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.360 results from the first TikTok Live fan poll. The question was, 0:03:52.740 --> 0:03:58.700 Madonna's daughter, Lola Leon, appears on The Test or Love Sensation? 0:03:59.180 --> 0:04:03.710 And the correct answer is... The test. Let's see how 0:04:03.750 --> 0:04:06.590 many of you got that right. And if you didn't, also, 0:04:06.610 --> 0:04:09.300 I mean, do some studying, y'all. The answers are out 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.740 there on the internet. You're on your phone already. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.420 You've got to give them a chance. It's only just 0:04:12.460 --> 0:04:12.760 come out. 0:04:13.260 --> 0:04:15.060 I know, but they should know. But they should know. 0:04:16.300 --> 0:04:18.789 You're very leaning. I love that about you. But for now, 0:04:19.190 --> 0:04:21.770 let's listen to our first song of the evening. This 0:04:21.970 --> 0:04:28.970 is School from the new album, Confessions 2. If you 0:04:29.050 --> 0:04:32.529 are not vibing to that, you need to check your pulse. Stuart, 0:04:32.610 --> 0:04:36.280 tell us about the making of School. What was the process? 0:04:36.580 --> 0:04:39.300 So School started off as, like many songs start off, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.599 a song with a different title. It had a different 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.719 lyrical theme, but we loved the melodies. We loved the 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.670 feel of some of the chords. And what happens a 0:04:47.670 --> 0:04:49.670 lot of the time in the studio is that you 0:04:49.890 --> 0:04:50.990 remix a song on the spot. 0:04:51.190 --> 0:04:54.159 It's going in one direction. It's not right. You rework it. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.170 But we had heard this track from this great Team 0:04:57.190 --> 0:05:00.370 Triangle Park, and we loved just the kind of substance 0:05:00.410 --> 0:05:02.570 and the vibe of the music. But we wanted to 0:05:02.610 --> 0:05:04.830 switch it up and make a club track. So we 0:05:04.850 --> 0:05:08.250 just started rebuilding the song in that way. And then lyrically, 0:05:08.290 --> 0:05:11.900 Madonna had this idea just about being the leader, being 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.900 the teacher. like taking control and those lyrics all just 0:05:15.940 --> 0:05:17.740 kind of started to spill out and as they started 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.020 to spill out for me that dictated where we could 0:05:20.060 --> 0:05:22.520 take you know the production of the track and the 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.610 effects all those vocals in that track are Madonna they're 0:05:25.620 --> 0:05:29.089 her pitched up pitched down it's that's all her just 0:05:29.130 --> 0:05:31.290 kind of acting out and playing different characters. 0:05:31.370 --> 0:05:33.410 I'm excited to hear like Confessions 0.25 when we hear 0:05:33.450 --> 0:05:36.950 the The first version of it. All right, now, y'all, 0:05:37.010 --> 0:05:39.190 it is time for our next TikTok Live fan poll. 0:05:39.210 --> 0:05:42.559 The question is, what year did Madonna move to New York? 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:48.380 Was it 1978 or was it 1979? Go vote now. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.219 All right, in fact, we're going to hop right into 0:05:50.300 --> 0:05:53.480 our next track, and let's listen to, I got to 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.260 listen to it early, and I feel really proud. This 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.200 is one of my favorites. Let's listen to, as they 0:05:57.220 --> 0:05:58.560 say in the UK, Fragile. 0:05:58.580 --> 0:06:01.790 People really think. 0:06:03.550 --> 0:06:06.570 That was absolutely amazing. Tell us a little bit about 0:06:06.730 --> 0:06:08.950 the making of that track too, Fragile. 0:06:09.250 --> 0:06:14.089 Yeah, so dance music can be about escapism, exploration, connection, 0:06:14.190 --> 0:06:16.330 but also it can be a lot about reflection as well. 0:06:16.950 --> 0:06:18.890 And, you know, Madonna's just got this. 0:06:19.050 --> 0:06:22.730 Amazing skill where she's always like talking about her life, 0:06:22.830 --> 0:06:24.850 talking about what she sees in the world, but also 0:06:25.150 --> 0:06:27.540 on this record, things that have happened to her personally 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.039 as well. And she lost her brother during the making 0:06:31.060 --> 0:06:33.560 of this record. And we were working on this song 0:06:33.700 --> 0:06:38.190 at the time with that title. And so really she adapted, 0:06:38.210 --> 0:06:41.150 you know, the direction of the song to really encompass 0:06:41.330 --> 0:06:44.110 that moment. And we just we captured it as a 0:06:44.150 --> 0:06:45.890 lot of the songs on the record came about that way. 0:06:46.230 --> 0:06:48.070 That is so beautiful. A lot of time in pop music, 0:06:48.110 --> 0:06:51.130 we're often dancing to people's tragedy. It's really interesting, but 0:06:51.150 --> 0:06:52.719 they turn it into a joyous moment somehow. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.620 Well, and also something a lot of the time in 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.200 pop music is that people, they rush away from getting 0:06:58.220 --> 0:07:00.420 too deep on a track because it's deemed as not 0:07:00.620 --> 0:07:05.040 going to create something instantaneous. But actually, we were in 0:07:05.060 --> 0:07:07.020 the studio for a long time on this album, and 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.290 that allowed us to just kind of go deeper and 0:07:10.430 --> 0:07:13.310 explore lyrically more and go to more vulnerable places. 0:07:14.050 --> 0:07:15.110 I do want to remind you all that the Queen 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.330 of Pop will be joining us very, very soon. But 0:07:17.350 --> 0:07:19.890 let's check out the results from the second TikTok Live 0:07:19.910 --> 0:07:22.630 fan poll. The question was, what year did Madonna come 0:07:22.670 --> 0:07:26.170 to New York? Was it 1978 or was it 1979? 0:07:26.170 --> 0:07:28.850 And let's see how you all voted. Now, the correct 0:07:29.090 --> 0:07:32.730 answer is actually a debate. I've actually gotten into this 0:07:32.770 --> 0:07:37.590 debate with Madonna myself. So nobody's wrong. So just so 0:07:37.610 --> 0:07:39.730 you know, nobody's wrong. We're all right here. 0:07:39.830 --> 0:07:40.590 Who won the debate? 0:07:41.050 --> 0:07:45.180 Well, Madonna won. I mean, she was there. Good answer. Listen, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.119 I'm Bob the Drag Queen. I'm here with Stuart Price, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.800 and this is iHeartRadio and TikTok Live premiere with Madonna 0:07:50.860 --> 0:07:53.310 joining us very soon. The last track was Fragile from 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.170 Madonna's new album, Confessions Part 2. Are we saying Confessions 0:07:56.170 --> 0:07:58.950 2 or Part 2? What's the official title we're saying here? 0:07:58.970 --> 0:08:00.210 Confessions 2. 0:08:00.210 --> 0:08:03.650 With Confessions 2, an album about her vulnerability and just 0:08:03.790 --> 0:08:07.830 dancing and just a rebirthing of Confessions Part 1. We 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.500 have another TikTok Live fan poll. This question is, where 0:08:10.540 --> 0:08:14.930 did Madonna give a special performance to help launch Confessions 0:08:14.930 --> 0:08:20.420 2 era. The options are Times Square or Hollywood Boulevard. 0:08:20.690 --> 0:08:24.600 Let's hear another track off the new album. Here's Sins 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:32.660 Are My Savior from Confessions 2. Is that you playing 0:08:32.710 --> 0:08:35.370 piano at the end there? Is that your fingers tickling 0:08:35.390 --> 0:08:36.470 the ivories? 0:08:36.610 --> 0:08:38.650 That is me at the end, yes. 0:08:38.730 --> 0:08:42.890 And then the next piece is Camille, who teaches one 0:08:42.910 --> 0:08:43.850 of Madonna's daughters piano. 0:08:43.870 --> 0:08:47.689 I met Camille. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so that song's called 0:08:47.770 --> 0:08:51.410 Sins Are My Savior. And I feel like the religious iconography, 0:08:51.550 --> 0:08:58.170 the Catholicism, is a pretty constant journey throughout Madonna's work. Like, 0:08:58.429 --> 0:09:03.090 what is it like working within that extremely, like, holy context. 0:09:03.230 --> 0:09:06.050 Yeah but but actually this on this song um since 0:09:06.170 --> 0:09:08.449 like there's a subversion of that idea and for act 0:09:08.670 --> 0:09:11.429 in fact it's not be directly about religion it's more 0:09:11.460 --> 0:09:15.179 about the perception of uh of madonna you know and 0:09:15.380 --> 0:09:17.500 actually how a lot of the time the criticism of 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.080 her about you know controversy for what purpose you know 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.530 is it for attention no actually she's always using um 0:09:25.820 --> 0:09:29.080 language to to draw attention to stuff she always offers 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.100 an incredible mirror to what's going on in the world 0:09:31.140 --> 0:09:32.640 at the time and a lot of the time i 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.600 think on celebration tour you saw the messages from her 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.360 entire career and her entire catalog are as relevant today 0:09:40.500 --> 0:09:42.400 if not more relevant than they were at the time 0:09:42.420 --> 0:09:44.959 that she was doing it but she's often misunderstood in 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.980 that sense that they're just being used for you know 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.880 a different purpose so really this song is really getting 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.310 inside the head of someone who's saying that these things 0:09:54.370 --> 0:09:58.310 that I do, this is how I save myself. I 0:09:58.370 --> 0:10:00.540 say these things so I don't bottle them up inside. 0:10:00.820 --> 0:10:04.800 Madonna's the biggest proponent of self-expression. She always encourages that 0:10:04.860 --> 0:10:07.920 in other people and she performs that in herself as well. 0:10:08.380 --> 0:10:10.230 But there's a need to do that as well because 0:10:10.350 --> 0:10:13.410 in life, if you bottle things up inside you, they 0:10:13.429 --> 0:10:15.750 just grow in bad ways. You have to let these 0:10:15.970 --> 0:10:18.510 things out. So there is no sin in saying how 0:10:18.550 --> 0:10:22.199 you feel. There is no sin in being who you are. Like, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.460 doing that is actually what saves you. And that's what 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:25.240 the song's about. 0:10:25.260 --> 0:10:27.400 I think what I noticed, too, during the tour and 0:10:27.420 --> 0:10:30.199 getting ready for it, I was realizing, because I had to, like, 0:10:30.260 --> 0:10:32.160 look at, because I was also, like, we were all 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.860 helping make the show. So many of us were helping 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.770 make the show under, you know, Madonna's tutelage, obviously. 0:10:37.130 --> 0:10:38.270 This wasn't all your madness? 0:10:38.690 --> 0:10:41.390 No, of course not. And watching, I was like, I 0:10:41.410 --> 0:10:43.430 got to look at a lot of Madonna clips and 0:10:43.490 --> 0:10:45.929 stuff in the past. It's a 40-year retrospective. And that's 0:10:45.950 --> 0:10:48.770 when I realized it is never controversy for the sake 0:10:48.790 --> 0:10:51.800 of controversy. It is never noise for the sake of noise. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.120 It is never beauty for the sake of beauty. It 0:10:54.179 --> 0:10:56.900 really all does serve a greater purpose and a message 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.910 that I think the fans can pick up on, which 0:10:58.929 --> 0:11:01.250 is why I think people connect to her so fiercely. 0:11:01.650 --> 0:11:03.710 Yeah, I have to say, you know, often in the studio, 0:11:03.730 --> 0:11:07.210 you know, Madonna's lyric writing and those moments that come, 0:11:07.350 --> 0:11:10.970 she is recalling very specific things that have happened in 0:11:11.030 --> 0:11:13.429 her life. You know, they're all coming back to her 0:11:13.510 --> 0:11:15.670 and she's taking them into that moment to write the song, 0:11:15.790 --> 0:11:18.290 whatever it would be about, whether that is, you know, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.589 that song, Everything. Everything that's on that came from a 0:11:21.650 --> 0:11:24.920 moment of frustration about how at this point in time 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.579 we are all cut into this kind of, there's an 0:11:27.620 --> 0:11:29.439 enforced existence inside. 0:11:29.220 --> 0:11:29.979 A digital world. 0:11:30.780 --> 0:11:33.660 A frustration about that is that actually just go outside 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.699 and feel the beauty. You know, everything has these sounds 0:11:36.740 --> 0:11:39.599 in the background where I was walking through Central Park 0:11:40.460 --> 0:11:43.429 and I recorded just the sounds of nature of being 0:11:43.490 --> 0:11:45.910 outside because I noticed that nobody was on their phone 0:11:45.950 --> 0:11:47.510 out there in the park. They were just, they might 0:11:47.530 --> 0:11:49.170 have bumped into you actually on one of your five 0:11:49.210 --> 0:11:52.600 mile walks. Yeah, you were just talking about. But so 0:11:52.630 --> 0:11:54.780 to capture that kind of those sounds and then to 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:55.980 put those on the record. 0:11:56.059 --> 0:11:56.300 Right. 0:11:56.820 --> 0:11:59.740 That was a subject that Madonna was frustrated with. So 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.400 that's what the song is. You know, it blows my 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.200 mind why people don't just want to go outside. And 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.560 so I think that in that sense, one of her, 0:12:07.700 --> 0:12:10.500 you know, her whole career she's had that is is 0:12:10.830 --> 0:12:14.420 is is. Channeling these experiences for him from her life 0:12:14.860 --> 0:12:17.260 and putting them on the record. And that's really, you know, 0:12:17.300 --> 0:12:20.330 confessions on the one hand is just the sound of collaboration. 0:12:20.750 --> 0:12:23.189 That's the sound of confessions. One is the sound of 0:12:23.230 --> 0:12:24.450 a collaboration. Same here. 0:12:24.990 --> 0:12:28.310 But the second thing I think is very literally she's 0:12:28.350 --> 0:12:29.190 telling it like it is. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.079 I do want to remind you all that Madonna will 0:12:31.100 --> 0:12:34.910 be joining us live right here very, very soon from London. 0:12:35.170 --> 0:12:36.830 And right now I am sitting with Stuart Price, who 0:12:36.910 --> 0:12:40.330 is the mastermind with Madonna behind both Confessions 1 and 0:12:40.370 --> 0:12:42.360 Confession 2. And I got to meet you. I want 0:12:42.380 --> 0:12:44.620 to talk about this idea of like subverting the ideas, 0:12:44.660 --> 0:12:46.380 which Madonna does a lot. And I want to say 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.939 you kind of do it too. I kind of told 0:12:47.980 --> 0:12:51.100 you we were at MSG or Barclays. And I kind 0:12:51.140 --> 0:12:52.760 of said to you, I was like, I couldn't believe 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:53.350 you were a DJ. 0:12:54.890 --> 0:12:56.770 Because I look like an accountant. 0:12:56.890 --> 0:13:01.929 And I was like, what are you wearing up there DJing? 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.840 How do you get mixed up in this world of 0:13:04.940 --> 0:13:08.740 pop music and looking like. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.620 Well, I love the idea of hiding in plain sight pseudonyms. 0:13:13.220 --> 0:13:16.120 I think that when you use pseudonyms, as I've done 0:13:16.140 --> 0:13:18.560 throughout my career... You know, what I like is that 0:13:18.620 --> 0:13:21.479 you're constantly proving something again and again and again. You're 0:13:21.500 --> 0:13:23.540 drawing the tension on it. It has to be about 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.140 the art. It has to be about the music. And 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.720 I think that whilst there's a lot to be said 0:13:27.740 --> 0:13:30.900 for the power of suggestion with image, you can create 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.059 fantasy and take people to a certain place. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:34.870 If you actually don't conform. 0:13:35.740 --> 0:13:38.480 within the paradigm and the orthodoxy of what, you know, 0:13:38.660 --> 0:13:41.610 pop is supposed to be, you can create an entirely 0:13:41.650 --> 0:13:42.710 different conversation. 0:13:43.050 --> 0:13:43.800 So I loved it. 0:13:43.870 --> 0:13:44.110 I know. 0:13:44.550 --> 0:13:46.170 I feel like every time I go up on stage 0:13:46.210 --> 0:13:48.710 and go up there, it's like, you know, why did 0:13:48.730 --> 0:13:52.240 the lawyer show up? Nothing against lawyers and accountants, of course. 0:13:52.260 --> 0:13:56.850 My parents are accountants. But I enjoy that duality of it. 0:13:56.980 --> 0:13:58.720 And as they say, no mystique, big mistake. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.480 I want to quickly check in our TikTok live fan poll. 0:14:02.500 --> 0:14:05.020 The question was, where did Madonna give a special performance 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.860 to help launch the Confessions 2 era? The options were 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.390 Times Square or Hollywood Boulevard, and the answer is Times Square. 0:14:12.630 --> 0:14:18.650 It was absolutely iconic. Were you there for this moment? 0:14:18.929 --> 0:14:21.630 Hold on a minute. What was the poll? What was 0:14:21.650 --> 0:14:22.120 the question? 0:14:22.130 --> 0:14:24.160 The question was, where did Madonna do the special performance 0:14:24.180 --> 0:14:27.780 to promote Confessions 2? Times Square or Hollywood Boulevard? 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.320 Well, we did do something in Hollywood before Times Square. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:32.160 Oh, what did you do? 0:14:32.260 --> 0:14:34.030 We showed up at the Abbey. 0:14:34.750 --> 0:14:35.070 That's right! 0:14:35.130 --> 0:14:38.190 Which was the first time, which, Hollywood, I mean, it's Hollywood, so, well, 0:14:38.750 --> 0:14:40.220 it's West Hollywood, actually, I'm sorry. 0:14:40.340 --> 0:14:42.380 We have, we have. A whole different city, actually. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:43.540 Close enough, let's move on. 0:15:03.300 --> 0:15:07.710 Well, listen, if you're listening on your favorite iHeartRadio station, 0:15:07.990 --> 0:15:10.850 the iHeartRadio app, or watching live on TikTok, this is 0:15:11.070 --> 0:15:15.010 iHeartRadio and TikTok Live premiere with Madonna. I'm Bob the 0:15:15.050 --> 0:15:17.190 Drag Queen. I am here with producer of the album, 0:15:17.210 --> 0:15:19.760 Stuart Price. And it is time for the queen of 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:25.720 the dance floor herself, a worldwide superstar, the definition of icon, 0:15:25.740 --> 0:15:28.620 and the driving force behind her. the brand new album, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.030 Confessions 2. Please sit at home and stand up and 0:15:33.070 --> 0:15:41.160 make some noise for Mother Herself, Madonna! Oh my God. 0:15:41.180 --> 0:15:47.520 Me again, me again. Now, Em, first of all, you 0:15:47.700 --> 0:15:54.200 look absolutely stunning. That's a given. Second, Confessions 2 finally 0:15:54.300 --> 0:15:59.650 drops tonight. The world has been waiting since 2019. Why now? 0:16:00.410 --> 0:16:04.030 Why summer 2026? Why is this the right time for 0:16:04.070 --> 0:16:05.030 Confessions 2? 0:16:05.030 --> 0:16:06.970 Because I was in the mood to make it with Stuart. 0:16:07.170 --> 0:16:10.790 I mean, it was just everything cyclical. So the tour 0:16:10.870 --> 0:16:13.830 ended and we had been working on music during the 0:16:13.870 --> 0:16:16.460 tour and it was like, I was going to make 0:16:16.510 --> 0:16:16.890 a movie. 0:16:16.980 --> 0:16:18.820 Everybody knows that. And then it didn't happen. And so 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.480 I thought, well, let's make music. 0:16:20.980 --> 0:16:21.680 I mean, that's your thing. 0:16:21.740 --> 0:16:26.979 And then I, yeah. And then everything felt so summer dance. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:31.700 It just felt like 2026 summer was the time. 0:16:32.340 --> 0:16:34.100 I mean, 15 years is a long time to wait. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.440 You reunited with Stuart Price for the new album. You 0:16:36.460 --> 0:16:39.140 haven't worked together for a very long time. And here 0:16:39.180 --> 0:16:42.120 we all are. You've heard, we've all heard Stuart's answer, 0:16:42.140 --> 0:16:44.609 but what was it like for you working with Stuart 0:16:44.670 --> 0:16:45.790 again after all these years? 0:16:46.500 --> 0:16:47.380 Actually, it was perfect. 0:16:47.940 --> 0:16:51.100 I was a little bit nervous at first, but, you know, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:52.920 worried that we didn't have the same chemistry. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.810 But it turned out, like, it was like, how many years? 0:16:56.810 --> 0:16:56.979 15. 0:16:56.980 --> 0:16:57.140 15. 0:16:57.140 --> 0:16:57.310 15? 0:16:57.310 --> 0:16:58.690 Wow. It's like 15 years never passed. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.830 And that's what Stuart, oh my God, that's what Stuart said. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.130 It was like we just picked up like it was yesterday. 0:17:07.210 --> 0:17:08.970 That's literally what Stuart just said. 0:17:09.070 --> 0:17:09.990 Well, that's because it's the truth. 0:17:10.130 --> 0:17:10.629 Get out of my head. 0:17:10.650 --> 0:17:11.470 That's how it happens. 0:17:11.710 --> 0:17:15.090 You actually, it's very hard to work with someone and 0:17:15.130 --> 0:17:18.120 collaborate with someone if you just aren't able to use 0:17:18.180 --> 0:17:20.620 less words and just do more creation. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:21.700 And that's what it's like. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.560 We have a really great shorthand for creating music together. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:26.740 It helps a lot. 0:17:27.820 --> 0:17:30.600 The night is all about the new album, Confessions 2, 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.020 and we have some real confessions from fans who want 0:17:34.180 --> 0:17:35.520 your advice, Em. 0:17:35.540 --> 0:17:36.119 Okay. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.650 Let's listen to our first one. This is from Frankie. 0:17:38.710 --> 0:17:40.430 Let's hear Frankie. Hey, Madonna. 0:17:40.450 --> 0:17:43.230 This is Frankie from New York City. My confession is 0:17:43.270 --> 0:17:43.969 that sometimes I. 0:17:43.930 --> 0:17:46.330 Get really nervous meeting guys when I'm out at the club. 0:17:46.730 --> 0:17:49.149 What's your best advice to open myself up and express 0:17:49.170 --> 0:17:51.680 myself when I'm out on the dance floor? Thank you. 0:17:51.700 --> 0:17:53.040 Frankie. 0:17:53.060 --> 0:17:53.460 Frankie. 0:17:54.109 --> 0:17:56.169 I would say I think the best thing for you 0:17:56.210 --> 0:17:58.950 to do is to listen to Confessions on a Dance 0:17:58.990 --> 0:18:01.970 Floor Part 2 before you go out while sipping a 0:18:02.010 --> 0:18:02.790 glass of rosé. 0:18:03.609 --> 0:18:05.230 Do you ever approach the guys? 0:18:06.570 --> 0:18:07.090 Me personally? 0:18:07.150 --> 0:18:07.510 Yeah. 0:18:08.030 --> 0:18:10.820 Hell yeah. What? 0:18:10.859 --> 0:18:14.580 No, because I intimidate people, so if I don't step 0:18:14.660 --> 0:18:15.240 up first. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.140 That is true. No one's going to go up to Madonna. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.840 I'm just going to be netting no mates forever. 0:18:19.260 --> 0:18:21.230 Exactly. I mean, what do you say? How do you... 0:18:21.750 --> 0:18:22.869 How do you approach the ladies? 0:18:22.910 --> 0:18:25.670 My approach is I'm way too nervous. 0:18:25.790 --> 0:18:28.190 He's very not interested. 0:18:28.210 --> 0:18:29.230 That's why I hang out in the DJ booth. 0:18:29.250 --> 0:18:30.730 That's why people fall in love with him, because he's 0:18:30.770 --> 0:18:31.350 not interested. 0:18:32.030 --> 0:18:35.510 It's actually an attraction to not be out there so much. 0:18:35.530 --> 0:18:36.010 Available. 0:18:36.310 --> 0:18:37.070 Sorry, did you say something? 0:18:37.710 --> 0:18:41.189 Let's get another TikTok live fan poll. The question is, 0:18:41.570 --> 0:18:44.510 what energy are you bringing to the dance floor? Pure 0:18:44.570 --> 0:18:48.270 chaos or release? Those are your options. Make sure you 0:18:48.410 --> 0:18:50.949 all get your vote in right now. And now, Emma, 0:18:50.970 --> 0:18:52.010 I want to talk to you real quick. A lot 0:18:52.030 --> 0:18:56.190 of these tracks touch on some incredibly heavy and vulnerable 0:18:56.250 --> 0:18:58.050 moments in your life. We were just talking about how 0:18:58.070 --> 0:19:01.290 you suffered loss during the making of this album. And 0:19:01.310 --> 0:19:04.990 you've always had this, like, unmatched gift for turning raw 0:19:05.060 --> 0:19:08.419 pain into pure power on the dance floor. What is 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.520 this cathartic process like for you? 0:19:10.940 --> 0:19:16.200