More than 20 years after releasing Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna is taking over New York City to celebrate the sequel.

During Friday’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the visualizer for her Confessions II album, debuting July 3, the 7x Grammy winner explained that the short is “really about connection,” which she hopes to convey in her music.

“I don’t want to make mindless music. I want to make music that’s about something,” she said at the screening. “Dance music makes you move your body, and you feel the pulse. It’s, like, you’re connecting to the universe, you’re connecting to other humans.”

Madonna added, “The movie’s really about connection. I emerge from my solitude of this apartment and go right into a forest with people with lasers coming out of their asses. You just really go through life, take risks, be curious, be observant. … And put your fucking phones down and connect.

Following her appearance at Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella set in April, Madonna noted that “everybody had their phones up [and] I didn’t know what anyone looked like,” which is part of the reason she had fans lock their devices in Yondr pouches for Friday’s screening.

Directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase (aka TORSO), Confessions II is a 13-minute short featuring the first six tracks of Madonna’s upcoming 15th studio album, debuting Monday on YouTube. It features cameos from Sabrina Carpenter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Debi Mazar, Kate Moss, Julia Garner, Odessa A’zion, Richard E. Grant, Honey Dijon, Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon and more.

The Tribeca appearance came after Madonna performed songs from the album in a surprise concert on Thursday in Times Square.