Confessions On A Dance Floor
by Madonna
User Score
8.9

Universal acclaim- based on 900 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 822 out of 900
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 900
  3. Negative: 54 out of 900

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  1. JoeyK
    Apr 7, 2007
    3
    About as repetitive, unoriginal, nonsensical, repetitive as most of Madonna's songs in recent history. A lot of the lyrics are just dumb, everything is incredibly repetitive, and all the songs sound pretty much the same, only barely reaching distinguishable. Also, it's repetitive.
  2. LeonardoF
    Nov 16, 2005
    3
    i love madonna but i don't like this album. generic inexpressive and faceless music.
  3. yoyox
    Sep 28, 2009
    3
    Unbelievably repetitive. It's like hearing the SAME song over and over again for an hour. I guess she's just a singles artist to me. Hung up is a good song.
  4. kika
    Nov 18, 2005
    3
    bad
  5. ArchwayJack
    Nov 15, 2005
    3
    Confessions is rather disappointing. It's formulaic and dull. The much hated American Life album had some edge to it. This is euro-dance-pop-cheece by numbers.
  6. GregoryG
    Nov 16, 2005
    3
    This album is a gigantic disappointment. The majority of songs are virtually unlistenable. Some of these lyrics make "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" look like Shakesperean sonnets. The tracks are not DJ-mixed, there are rather "blended" together. To much down time, too many foolish lyrics, boring melodies, lazy vocals, I almost threw the disc out the window of my car after my first listen This album is a gigantic disappointment. The majority of songs are virtually unlistenable. Some of these lyrics make "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" look like Shakesperean sonnets. The tracks are not DJ-mixed, there are rather "blended" together. To much down time, too many foolish lyrics, boring melodies, lazy vocals, I almost threw the disc out the window of my car after my first listen and I've been a Madonna fan since 1983. Go listen to "Ray of Light" again instead.… Expand
  7. StigN
    Nov 17, 2005
    3
    Meh-donna. I'll be honest, I got through song six and had to turn it off. Brutal.
  8. BrianA
    Nov 17, 2005
    3
    Surprised that people like it as much as they do. I think it's sort of mediocre.
  9. henryt
    Jan 12, 2006
    2
    I'm starting to realise Madonna is a brand that's been overhyped from day one. She's never broken any ground artistically and her vocals and lyrics aren't up too much. A weak album from a weak artist trying very very hard to stay on the scene,
  10. NadeemG.
    Feb 8, 2008
    2
    My favorite singer is Maddona and her song confessions on a dance floor.
  11. marie-eve
    Nov 18, 2005
    2
    ok what is it wih the 80's Nothing different, deja-vue. 2 much effects is like not enough. Lyrics .....;-(
  12. BenS
    Nov 27, 2005
    2
    yes i hold up my hand it IS definately pissing over mariah carey but...................it still bores. Maddona seems crushed under a barrage of seemingly pointless beats and melodies while her pointless lyrics and effects betray the talented voice, not at all a good listen
  13. PeterF
    Jan 23, 2006
    2
    Oh dear. How UNDERWHELMED am I with this album...? Uninspired, soul-less and what is it with those lame lyrics ? Churning out yet another commercially glib collection of crap, I yearn for the Madge days of RAY OF LIGHT or BEDTIME STORIES. Just Hang Up why dontcha...?
  14. Marcosotica
    Sep 30, 2017
    2
    Muito ruimmm, parece um monte de demos descartadas, que foram recicladas e jogadas nesse album lixoso. É essa a mulher q revolucionou o pop? llkkkkkkk Claro que nao né?
  15. Adamastor
    Feb 10, 2006
    1
    I like artists that never use the music of others,this shows that Madonna can't make her own sound never,she is always changing it to get success,what a pity,it shows also that she dont have creativity and talent for compose.
  16. FrankD
    Jan 15, 2006
    1
    To be honest, I have never been much of a Madonna fan, but for whatever reason, I assumed I would love this record. Wrong! I was shocked after one listen how I had little or no interest in listening to it again. Her vocals never leave the ground. To make dance music exciting, the vocalist must soar into the disco rafters. She simply hasn't got the pipes. (The same reason the film of To be honest, I have never been much of a Madonna fan, but for whatever reason, I assumed I would love this record. Wrong! I was shocked after one listen how I had little or no interest in listening to it again. Her vocals never leave the ground. To make dance music exciting, the vocalist must soar into the disco rafters. She simply hasn't got the pipes. (The same reason the film of "Evita" was so flat.) And the lyrics! Sometimes (as in the New York number) they are downright embarrassing! A supreme disapointment! Let's allow Madonna to settle into motherhood, and let's all move on to something more interesting... Byebye, Mrs. Ritchie!… Expand
  17. SeanC
    Jan 14, 2006
    1
    Madonna just put out one of the worst albums of her career. I really not feeling anything she does. I wish she would just go away!!!!
  18. JC
    Nov 14, 2005
    1
    Madonna needs to trade in her Cha Cha Heels for a wheelchair. How many times must she inflict her bad singing on the American public??? Give it up girl your minutes of fame are FINALLY dissapearing. And by the way maybe someone should turn her daughters on to the filthy media scandal she created in the past to keep her name in the media. Madonna, stay abroad we have enough bad pop music Madonna needs to trade in her Cha Cha Heels for a wheelchair. How many times must she inflict her bad singing on the American public??? Give it up girl your minutes of fame are FINALLY dissapearing. And by the way maybe someone should turn her daughters on to the filthy media scandal she created in the past to keep her name in the media. Madonna, stay abroad we have enough bad pop music living right here in the US.… Expand
  19. garynuman
    Nov 26, 2005
    1
    Could it be any more blatant that she's trying to make up for American Life's critical and commercial failure? Most of the rest of the world has moved on.
  20. SefroniaS
    Mar 12, 2006
    1
    Instead of pushing the envelope, Madonna seems to have put herself in one and sent herself to 1976. Unfortunately, the best disco was in that era and Madonna is no match for Ms Summer or even Abba. A sad state of affairs.
  21. marioj
    Nov 22, 2005
    1
    Crappy copy-paste music. Madonna discovered a PC. Get Goldfrapp, its the original.
  22. GiacomoS
    Nov 20, 2005
    0
    Another derivitave attempt at reviving a moribund career from this long in the tooth bandwagon jumper, who burns through dance production "collaborators" (read: creators) the way Angelina Jolie burns through male co-stars. Perhaps old Esther should work at perfecting her English accent and recycling her Kaballah cult's ideas into kiddie books instead, because the music ain't Another derivitave attempt at reviving a moribund career from this long in the tooth bandwagon jumper, who burns through dance production "collaborators" (read: creators) the way Angelina Jolie burns through male co-stars. Perhaps old Esther should work at perfecting her English accent and recycling her Kaballah cult's ideas into kiddie books instead, because the music ain't happening. Pathetic.… Expand
  23. adamk
    Feb 1, 2006
    0
    They were playing this the other night when I was at the gyn. I thought about just letting the bar crush my skull. Awful, awful "music"
  24. Rycardo
    Feb 10, 2006
    0
    I prefer Enya to this ....... thing,because its have her own style,never changed,and have talent. Enya is the real music.
  25. BrianH
    Nov 18, 2005
    0
    User comments is not a forum for guerilla marketing... get out of here people!
  26. [Anonymous]
    Nov 15, 2005
    0
    if there was negative score I would score - the biggest number ever. She should not be allowed to make another album after her deathworthy verison of American Pie.
  27. ZippyZeeuit
    Nov 16, 2005
    0
    Totally uninspired album. Sounds like the lable needed an album and just threw it together in a weekend. Sounds like a long fart.
  28. christianv
    Nov 19, 2005
    0
    well, let me tell you that her album is stupid pop, well, let me tell you that this cd has 80's mixed songs with dumb-gay lyrics, it isn't any new shit, it really sucks
  29. SeanT
    Nov 21, 2005
    0
    This is sad. It's just sad. This is an obvious, pathetic attempt for Madonna to jump onto the latest bandwagon (in this case "neo-80s" or whatever they may be calling it -- wasn't that trend about 2 years ago, anyway?). She should have learned her lesson after her laughable obligitory Bush-bashing album. Frankly, this album would be pathetic coming from anyone, but from a woman This is sad. It's just sad. This is an obvious, pathetic attempt for Madonna to jump onto the latest bandwagon (in this case "neo-80s" or whatever they may be calling it -- wasn't that trend about 2 years ago, anyway?). She should have learned her lesson after her laughable obligitory Bush-bashing album. Frankly, this album would be pathetic coming from anyone, but from a woman who's a mother multiple times, it's even more sad and depressing. It's like watching an old drunk think that young guys are hitting on her in a bar, when in fact they're making fun of her. Madonna, please quit music (and writing, and acting, and what ever other garbage you may be planning on force-feeding brainwashed MTV viewers).… Expand
  30. OscarB
    Dec 5, 2005
    0
    ewww....I though she was better then this.
  31. HarvardB
    Nov 21, 2005
    0
    Her pseudo English accent continues to remove whatever flimsy credibility she ever had as a singer. Oops, did I say she "sings"? More like whining. At least if she's making records I don't have to be assaulted by her acting.
  32. Guto82
    May 29, 2020
    0
    Madonna fails to deliver pop art. She tries but fails so much! It's the worst álbum ever. She needs to reinvent herself. She needs more bops. She also needs good people to Write ver songs!!!! Let's teu, madonna!

Awards & Rankings

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#90 Best Album of 2005
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#3 Most Discussed Album of 2005
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#3 Most Shared Album of 2005

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Slant Magazine
    80
    One of the few pop singers whose albums are best appreciated in their entirety and not lopped off into "hit singles," Madonna... has succeeded at creating a dance-pop odyssey with an emotional, if not necessarily narrative, arc.
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  2. The Guardian
    80
    It may be a return to core values, but there's still a bravery about Confessions on a Dancefloor. It revels in the delights of wilfully plastic dance pop in an era when lesser dance-pop artists - from Rachel Stevens to Price's protege Juliet - are having a desperately thin time of it.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    75
    Disco with a vengeance, a whomping, unapologetically airheaded engine of stroboscopic beats and succulent textures that exhumes dance music's time-honored values of celebration and affirmation. [13 Nov 2005]
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