Music / Confessions on a Dance Floor

Every little thing that you say or do
I’m hung up, I’m hung up on you

Confessions on a Dance Floor is the tenth studio album by American pop singer Madonna, released in 2005. Considered her second comeback album after the failure of American Life, it received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and fans alike.

A New Sound Album, the album is a combination of 1970s and 1980s disco, as well as modern-day club music. It ultimately topped the charts in 40 countries and was the sixth-highest selling album of 2005 - despite being released mid-November.

Singles include "Sorry", "Get Together", "Jump" and the ABBA-sampling "Hung Up" - considered to be one of the more iconic latter-day Madonna songs.

Tracklist:

1. "Hung Up"
2. "Get Together"
3. "Sorry"
4. "Future Lovers"
5. "I Love New York"
6. "Let It Will Be"
7. "Forbidden Love"
8. "Jump"
9. "How High"
10. "Isaac"
11. "Push"
12. "Like It or Not"

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Hung Tropes

• Backseat Changing Room: In the music video for "Sorry", Madonna and the female dancers use the back of the van as changing room, as the van drives around town.
• Big Applesauce: "I Love New York".
• Dance-Off:
  • The music video for "Hung Up" has a dance-off between Black people (two women, a girl, and two men) at a bus stop in the morning. When the girl goes to show her dance moves, the adults have left the scene in a car.
  • In "Sorry", Madonna rides a van to dance-off against some hip-hop dancers, which happens inside a metal cage.
• Dancing on a Bus: In the music video for "Hung Up", the Black crew from the bus stop scene keep dancing in front of the other passengers in a subway train, to the latter's shock. Then, a busty Black woman appears, shows some dance moves, then struts out.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "How High" is about Madonna herself questioning why she decided to become a celebrity in the first place and what exactly she gained from it, or if any of it even mattered.
• Eiffel Tower Effect: The very first shot in the music video for "Jump" shows the red and white Tokyo Tower in the distance.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: "Sorry" takes this trope up to eleven, where she says "Sorry" in a bunch of different languages (including French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi, Polish and Japanese).
• Iconic Outfit: The pink leotard donned in the video for "Hung Up".
• Lyrical Cold Open: "Hung Up" and "Sorry".
• Parkour:
  • Footage of the activity is used in "Jump", as the Parkour practitioners jump all around the urban Tokyo landscape.
  • Some initial scenes for "Hung Up" have some parkour practitioners jumping from the top of some outside stairs to the ground.
• Rollerblade Good: The last scenes in the music video for "Sorry" feature this:
  • Madonna and her crew go to a rollerskating rink after the dance-off in the metal cage.
  • The shirtless male dancers tumble the hip-hip dancer and high-five each other in the skating rink, then join Madonna for a dance sequence.
• Roof Hopping: In the music video for "Jump", some of the Parkour practitioners are shown jumping between rooftops in Tokyo.
• Sampling: As mentioned, "Hung Up" uses a prominent sample from ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)". This was particularly notable as Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson have traditionally been very reluctant to allow artists to sample their work, in fact this was only the second time they've granted permission (the first being to The Fugees).
• Sequel: The music video for "Hung Up" segues into the music video for "Sorry", and both videos share characters: Madonna, the shirtless male dancers, the female dancers, the busty Black woman (who appeared first in the subway train in "Hung Up", then returns as Madonna's designated driver in "Sorry") and the music-playing radio.
• Shout-Out: "Hung Up" is a five-minute love song to the 1970s, with the video being based on Saturday Night Fever and the song's hook being a sample from ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)".
  • Also, to Death Note of all things, in "Jump" her outfit was inspired by Mello, she and her daughter are huge fans of the manga.
• "Staying Alive" Dance Pose: In the music video for "Sorry", the nerd does a pose resembling the "Staying Alive" moves, then is dragged into Madonna's van.
• Stereotypical Nerd: In the music video for "Sorry", one of the guests to Madonna's van is a skinny nerd with glasses, bowtie and awkward dance moves.
• Tick Tock Tune: "Hung Up" opens with clock ticking, then ends with an alarm that flows into "Get Together".
• Vehicular Kidnapping: In the music video for "Sorry", Madonna and the female dancers enter a white van and keep riding around town, dragging unsuspecting male people inside the vehicle, including a nerd and a fat man who was enjoying some donuts.

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