Madonna claimed that she healed an apparent feud with daughter Lourdes “Lola” Leon through music.
“Now that I’ve gotten through it and so many very important things have happened to me along the way,” the 67-year-old music icon said during a conversation with Interview Magazine published on Monday, June 22, while discussing upcoming album Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II.
“For instance, the song I wrote with my daughter, Lola,” Madonna explained. “She approached me about writing a song together as a way to heal our relationship. It was a really important moment, and it solidified the idea that now is the time to make this record.”
Details about the song she recorded with Lola, 29, have not been revealed. But Madonna’s record is set to be released on Friday, July 3. (She announced the album’s release in April, a follow up to the 2005 record Confessions on a Dance Floor.)
While she’s been making music for decades, this specific album celebrated a major turning point because of what she was dealing with out of the public eye.
“I had a lot of stuff going on in my life personally,” she explained. “My brother was very, very, very ill, and my stepmother, with whom I’d had a very traumatic relationship throughout my entire childhood, had just died.”
Madonna noted that all the “symbolic things” happening led to the album’s birth.
“My step-mother died, my brother was ill, my brother died, my daughter approached me… you know what I mean?” she said. “And then I thought, well, it’s like the script of my film. It begins with death and it ends with death, but there’s all this life in between.”
Madonna added, “Paradoxical subjects, obviously, but death is a part of life. It just felt like I had a lot to get off my chest.”
Since releasing her debut album in 1983, Madonna has rarely been out of the public eye — and she’s never stopped delivering floor-filling pop hits. Born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1958, Madonna — whose full name is Madonna Louise Ciccone — started dancing as a kid after convincing her dad to let her study […]
Madonna’s stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, died from cancer in September 2024, at age 81. Her brother Christopher Ciccone died at age 63 in October 2024 following a battle with cancer.
“It’s hard for me to write a song about nothing. I have to tell a story. So I wrote about a lot of family trauma, and then we started making dance music,” Madonna said in the same interview. “I came back and forth a couple of times and then I said, ‘OK, this is right. This feels good. So unless Netflix is going to call me tomorrow with a writer I like, I’m going to start going down this road.’”
The upcoming limited series Madonna: I’m Going to Tell You a Secret is set for an upcoming release on Netflix after the singer’s biographical movie fell apart.
“Of course, in the middle of the process, more than like 75 percent of the way through, we found the writer,” Madonna said. “I was like, ‘I can’t turn back now. I have to move this up a bit.’ So that’s what I did.”
