Madonna may have a collection of unreleased songs from the sessions for her latest album, Confessions II, that could eventually see the light of day.
The singer reportedly has at least eight tracks recorded for Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II that were left off the final release. Producer Stuart Price has suggested that the unreleased material could still emerge in the future.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Price said: "You just never know, do you? The best thing about good songs is they never die.
"They just find a way to present themselves at the right time. And yes, I'm being cryptic, but that's because I think that we still love this continuum idea that Confessions is really an extended moment of time that has different elements to the performance of it."
During the interview, Price also pushed back against the idea that the album relies on nostalgia, despite following Madonna's 2005 release Confessions on a Dance Floor.
He explained: "Confessions One is 2005, and I think looking back only gets you so far. So really you have to come up with a new spin on what that is, and I think that this is a record that defiantly looks forward.
"If Confessions One is really about dancing as freedom, Confessions II is much more about confrontation and acceptance ... It suggests the idea of vulnerability as strength ...
"Confession is associated with shame. But Confessions II for us, it reframes that idea as actually power and strength and the courage to ... the, you know, daring to share as well."
The album also includes The Test, a duet between Madonna and her daughter Lourdes Leon, who performs under the name Lola. The 29 year old recently said she believed making music together might be "easier" than addressing the complicated emotions in their relationship through conversation.
Speaking with Bob the Drag Queen in an interview recorded in June and broadcast on iHeartRadio LIVE in September, Lourdes explained: "It was my idea. I think that between a mother and a daughter in a relationship ... there’s a lot of things that are unspoken.
"There’s a lot of love that is unspoken, but also a lot of tension and emotions that are difficult to put into words.
"A way that I thought would be easier for us to speak about these things would be maybe through art, which is always something that my mom and I have connected over."
The Vogue singer described the songwriting process as "very emotional", while the experience of recording the track felt "magical".
She said: "There were moments in the writing process when we were in the studio I felt like crying, where I felt like hugging her."
