Madonna Wears Literally Many Hats as a Spy in the Teaser for Upcoming Album Madame X

From the look of the teaser, which you can watch above, and which sounds like it includes a snippet of a track, Madame X will be a conceptual album of sorts, maybe? Apparently, Madame X herself is “a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identity, fighting for freedom, and bringing light to dark places.” She is a “a dancer, a professor, a head of state, a housekeeper, an equestrian, a prisoner, a student, a mother, a child, a teacher, a nun, a singer, a saint, a whore,’ and ‘a spy in the house of love,’ which is a lot of (literal) hats to wear, and also an eyepatch.

Last year, Madonna told Vogue Italia she was working on new music influenced by a year she spent in Lisbon. “I’ve just met lots of really amazing musicians, and I’ve ended up working with a lot of these musicians on my new record, so Lisbon has influenced my music and my work,” she said, according to Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t see how I could have gone through that year without being informed by all this input of culture.”

Anyway, I spent many lovely childhood hours playing Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen San Diego? on my parents’ Dell with Like a Prayer on in the background, and therefore I consider myself fully prepared for this album. No release date yet, unfortunately.