American singer Madonna said that recording a song for her upcoming album with her eldest daughter, Lourdes Leon, was a “very healing experience,” in an interview for the BBC special “Madonna & Graham.”
Madonna explained to host Graham Norton that the artist and model, known as Lolahol, “doesn’t want to be seen as the daughter of someone who takes advantage of their privileges.”
As a result, Leon has distanced himself from his famous mother in order to forge his own career, a decision the “Queen of Pop” says she “deeply respects.”
“She’s a great songwriter and has a much better voice than I do,” he said, noting that the 29-year-old had been “harboring feelings akin to resentment” for years.
“After all, she didn’t ask for this. She spent her teenage years struggling with those feelings. Finally, she came to me and said, ‘Let’s write a song together. I think it will be a very healing experience,'” recalled the 67-year-old singer.
“You’ll say exactly what you want to say, and I’ll say exactly what I want to say, too.’ And I thought, ‘Okay, go ahead, let’s do it.’ It made me happy,” she said.
In addition to that duet with Leon, *Confessions II*, which will be released on July 3, includes a song dedicated to his late brother and former musical collaborator Christopher, which he wrote when Christopher was very ill with cancer, following a period of estrangement between the two.
“It’s cathartic. It’s a kind of therapy—letting go of someone you love. The best way to do it is to write about it… It’s like an exorcism,” he explained.
Madonna said that her highly anticipated new album, which she described as “danceable” and “very confessional,” is a follow-up to her 2005 Grammy-winning album *Confessions on a Dancefloor*.
In the interview with Norton, the American star hinted that the album will feature a collaboration with Australian singer Kylie Minogue, and suggested that she could headline the Glastonbury music festival in England for the first time in 2027, according to Agencia EFE.