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There is a noticeable European influence on this album. What were the inspirations?

I take my inspiration from everywhere. In this record in particular, I was inspired by the music of Giorgio Moroder, Abba, Chic, Pet Shop Boys, Cerrone, and a lot of other people, but those are the main inspirations and I guess most of those artists are Europeans.

She first mentions the PSB influence in her interview by Anthony Kiedis throuh AIM

There is this interesting interview with Stuart Price in Pop Justice
http://www.popjustice.co.uk/features/stuartprice/
Stuart Price is the co-writer and co-producer of "Confessions on a Dancefloor" and appears more than Guy Ritchie in the documentary, "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret"

In case the link is gone, here are the questions and answers

Let's talk 'music'! The two Pet Shop Boys references on the album are amazing. Do you hold your hands up to loving the Boys?
I do, yes. I mean, who can not love the Pet Shop Boys? That's the thing. They were the first ever pop act I ever listened to. All of Chris Lowe's parts… When I very first sat there with 'My First Keyboard' I was trying to work out how they did it, how they made those rhythms, how they got those sounds. I love the 'Disco' album with all the 12" mixes and I suppose it's not surprising fifteen years later that when it all pops up on the record I think 'oh, this sounds like the Pet Shop Boys.' I'm not going to try and disguise that, they're a big influence.

So it's fair to say that Madonna wouldn't be where she is today without the Pet Shop Boys?She really loves them as well. Because they worked with Bobby Orlando in New York really early on, and I'm guessing she would've been around there at that same period. So I think there's a huge kind of cross-over there. It's funny because when we were doing 'Jump' I didn't think she'd know who the Pet Shop Boys were but she was the one who was screaming 'Pet Shop Boys! I f*** love them!'

So good news Madonna and her producer love PSB.