The rumor started a week ago, after Sabrina Carpenter’s first performance at the Coachella festival in California. Would Madonna go out on the second date? The great musical event repeats its lineup two weekends in a row, allowing artists to reinvent their show with a week’s deadline to surprise the new attendees. After several songs, the singer looked at the thousands of people occupying the venue set up in Indio, near the desert, and said to them: “Have you ever sung this one?” The first chords of VogueMadonna appeared in the center of the stage and intoned: “Strike the pose”.
At that moment, the rumors were confirmed and Carpenter’s second concert became a cultural event. Madonna returned to the stage where 20 years ago, the artist recalled, she had presented Confessions On A Dance Floor part I, a few days after he announced on his Instagram account that on July 3 he will publish Confessions IItheir first work after seven years without releasing an album. “I’m very excited to be here with the same boots, the same corset and the same Gucci jacket that I wore then. It closes a very exciting circle for me,” Madonna explained.
Just before, after singing only a part of Vogueperformed a new song in collaboration with Carpenter. It was then that he addressed the audience and gave a brief, astral speech. “We are in the new moon of Taurus,” he began and addressed his colleague, who confessed that it is that horoscope. “She’s very stubborn,” the pop diva snapped and then asked the audience to improve their communication skills: “We think we talk a lot on the phone, but we’re not really communicating.”
Then, in a measured communicative juggle, without explicitly referring to President Donald Trump’s military interventions in the Middle East, he once again turned to the universe to launch his particular message of peace. “The other thing we have to do is avoid confrontation because Aries is dominated by Mars, which is the planet of war. So for the rest of the month, we are going to try to get along. Let’s try to be together, avoid disagreement. Music unites people. It’s the place where people put their differences aside and have a good time. And I love being part of this healing experience.”
After this moment, he sang a cappella some verses from the first installment of Confessions, She thanked Carpenter not only for inviting her to his concert, but also for giving her the opportunity to sing alongside someone shorter than her, and the two artists said goodbye with Like a Prayer accompanied by dancers dressed as aspiring priests and a women’s choir.
This same week, Madonna released her new single by surprise I Feel So Free, exclusively on an LGBTIQ+ station, Pride Radio, which is part of the iHeartRadio network, where it will sound every hour throughout this weekend. For now, no official details have been confirmed regarding its launch on digital platforms.