When I first reviewed a track from Juliet’s album Random Order, I said that “Or, if you’re looking for specifics, the proper sequel to Madonna’s Music.”. Random Order was co-written by a man with many pseudonyms. His real name is Stuart Price.

Spookily, Stuart Price was Madonna’s musical director for her Reinvention Tour, and much of Madonna’s upcoming badly titled album Confessions on a Dance Floor was co-written by Stuart Price. But there’s a problem with the lead single. Hung Up is all chorus and little verse. It shamelessly (but officially) uses a riff from Abba’s Gimme Gimme Gimme and pretty much nothing else. Neither is it dance. It’s pop music that wants to be dance. Desperately.

Confessions… is supposed to be a dance album. It will be released in two forms: one continuous mix album, and another with separate tracks. Ker-ching!

If you’re interested in the minutiae of such albums, there is only one album that’s worth buying twice: Sunscreem’s O3. There’s a continuous mix version on CD and a remarkable double album of full length tracks (which I must get into iTunes). The latter is well into hen’s teeth territory now.