Madonna's Confessions II Video: 10 Surprising Moments

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Madonna's new video, Confessions II, has been making waves with its surreal and provocative scenes. The 10-minute video, which has been viewed over a million times on YouTube, features Madonna and several other celebrities, including Sabrina Carpenter and Kate Moss.

The Chair

Madonna's new video is called Confessions II because it’s the follow-up to her album Confessions on a Dance Floor, released in 2005. The chair, however, is a complicating factor; she isn’t bestride it in a coquettish, Christine Keeler way, nor upright like a woman in control.

The Lasers

The Confessions II film is already going by the shorthand “the vagina laser video”. These green lights shooting out of everyone’s vulvas and sometimes butts are there to signify life force and unstoppable orgone energy.

The Airbag

Due to some complicated edits between a car interior and a table, it’s never completely clear whether Madonna is the driver, the passenger or is on top of the car, menacing its inhabitants, but one way or another, this leads the car to crash, whereupon somebody – indicated by a beautiful, slightly 80s, red lipstick bow – snogs the airbag.

Sabrina Carpenter

The absolute poppet of bubblegum modernity, Carpenter appears giving off very much her own vibe. The choreography and camera angles create a lot of strategic ambiguity.

Kate Moss

Doing her lipstick, looking definitively like herself, the supermodel’s arrival coincides with the line “Hide the cocaine”, although it’s unclear whether she is hiding it or an unseen narrator is hiding it from her.

Odessa A’Zion

Odessa A’Zion with her hair falling over her face, wearing a back top.