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Well, this was always going to happen eventually, wasn’t it? Madonna and Kylie Minogue finally join forces for Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix), bringing two of pop’s most enduring dancefloor icons together for their first official collaboration. The track started life on Madonna’s Confessions II, but this rework gives it a new lease of life, with Kylie stepping in alongside Madonna and producer Stuart Price taking things firmly into late-night club territory. The pair first debuted it together at Madonna’s Club Confessions set during WorldPride in Amsterdam, which seems a suitably spectacular setting for a meeting that’s been a long time coming.
Price knows his way around this sort of thing, having helped shape the sound of Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, and the six-minute Afterhours Mix gives him plenty of room to work. Shimmering synths, a driving house beat and a steady, pulsing bassline keep things moving, while the two voices bring their own familiar personalities to the track. Madonna has always had a knack for making the dancefloor feel like a place to reinvent yourself, while Kylie’s lighter, effortlessly melodic delivery brings a different kind of pop sparkle. They make a surprisingly natural pairing, with neither needing to elbow the other out of the way.
There’s something rather lovely about hearing these two finally share a track properly, after decades of occupying parallel worlds of disco, dance-pop and pop reinvention. It’s not exactly a subtle meeting of musical minds — you know precisely what you’re getting when Madonna and Kylie turn up together — but that’s part of the fun. Stuart Price keeps the production sleek and club-ready rather than overcomplicating things, letting the combination of those unmistakable voices do most of the work.
The single also gets a shorter Afterhours Radio Edit, included on the upcoming 7-inch, making this a neat little piece of pop history for the shelves as well as the dancefloor. Madonna and Kylie have both spent years proving that a great pop song can outlast pretty much any trend, and Love Sensation feels like a celebration of that shared instinct: glamorous, unabashedly euphoric and made for the moment when the lights are low and nobody’s quite ready to call it a night.
Tracklist
1) Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix)
2) Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio Edit)
3) Love Sensation