Madonna was always anti-nostalgia. But looking back on Confessions II has revitalised her music

The veteran pop diva has pressed rewind to move forward on her new record – and beneath the bangers fizz a host of emotionally charged memories • Confessions II review – nostalgic dancefloor trip sparks her most vital album in two decades “Madonna never reflects, she’s always moving forward,” Warner PR Liz Rosenberg told me in 2005, when after a frustrating few months laid up after a riding accident, Madonna re-emerged “like a bullet from a gun” with the glorious disco-driven Confessions on a...

By Lucy O'Brien