'Confessions II': Madonna Returns to the Dancefloor, This Time With Martin Garrix

Previous to the discharge of Madonna’s new album, Garrix mentioned he was “starstruck” when he met the Queen of Pop in New York to document their collaboration.

Madonna has by no means been shy about reinvention, and her newest album, Confessions II, proves the purpose as soon as once more. Amongst its most stunning collaborations is ‘Weird,’ a monitor produced by Martin Garrix that fuses her timeless pop sensibilities with the EDM icon’s pulsing sound.

The anthemic tune arrives almost 20 years after the unique Confessions on a Dance Ground reshaped Madonna’s sound for the disco-revival period. ‘Weird’ takes a unique path, layering Garrix’s shimmering synths beneath Madonna’s effortlessly cool vocal supply.

Madonna has spent her profession absorbing new sounds and handing them again to audiences remodeled. Garrix, for his half, has moved past pure digital music within the years following his breakout hit ‘Animals,’ experimenting with pop songwriting alongside artists like Dua Lipa (‘Scared to Be Lonely’), Bebe Rexha (‘Within the Title of Love’) and Troye Sivan (‘There for You’).

The chart-topping DJ, who just lately debuted ‘Weird’ stay for an unsuspecting crowd at Brooklyn’s Barclays Middle, described the expertise of working with Madonna as humbling. “Very grateful to be slightly a part of this,” he wrote in a celebratory announcement earlier than calling the brand new album “loopy.”

You possibly can take heed to ‘Weird’ beneath and stream Madonna’s full Confessions II album right here.