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Can we just appreciate how amazing this performance was? And how important it is till today?

Nice recap of Madonna's selfies: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7144563/madonna-selfie-queen-60-shocking-outrageous/amp/?__twitter_impression=true STRIKE A POSE Madonna is a selfie queen at 60 – and here are some of her most sexy, shocking and outrageous snaps She's proud of the fact she's growing old disgracefully - and here are the pictures to prove it By Hayley Coyle 31st August 2018, 5:46 pm THE MOST 60-year-old mums don’t even knowing how to take a selfie, let alone nail them. But most 60-year-old mums aren’t Madonna. INSTAGRAM Madonna is the Queen of the Selfies The Queen of Pop and ultimate style chameleon hit her sixth decade running last week with no sign of stopping. To celebrate her milestone birthday we’ve collated some of her best selfies over the past few years – strike a pose, there’s nothing to it! She’s a fan of big, brazen jewelry and doing her hair in unusual ways so this particular selfie in a hot pink top is on point. Madonna captioned it simply: “Not your b****”. INSTAGRAM Madonna rocked a Vans cap and a lot of bling in this one INSTAGRAM Madge is also a fan of a fun filter Madge seems to love fun filters too so often posts images of her as a cat or other animals. The filters make your eyes enormous and and make your face all soft focus. We count down Madonna’s best selling hits in celebration of her birthday INSTAGRAM This one harks back to her Like A Prayer era Religious iconography has always been a theme with Madonna so a selfie with a crucifix crown isn’t too surprising. In the music video for Like A Prayer she sashays round a church and even kisses a Jesus statue (that comes to life) – so the is nothing new. In another, she’s seen wearing a trilby and a leather harness and the mum-of-six looks far younger than her 60 years. INSTAGRAM In this one Madonna seems to be in some sort of harness INSTAGRAM Here she’s going for a more intellectual vibe Sat in her kitchen here, Madonna has gone for a more intellectual look and actually looks pretty grumpy in another shot. She’s also rocking some serious roots. Another picture shows the singer looking almost ageless wearing a headscarf that is almost Queen-like. INSTAGRAM Madonna has been in the spotlight since the 80s so know how to work a camera INSTAGRAM She has censored her nipples in this saucy selfie Always happy to shock, Madonna a particularly saucy selfie recently – showing her nipples and posing behind a handbag. She did spare her blushes by drawing on a black scribble to preserve her modesty. Madonna rants during bizarre speech at 2018 MTV VMAs INSTAGRAM Madonna seems particularly fond of giving herself animal ears SNAPCHAT / MADONNA This is her most recent one and shows off her amazing figure A smoked glass picture shows off the fitness fanatic’s great body to perfection. Madonna works out religiously to maintain her fit and strong dancer’s physique. In another shot, Madonna looks beautiful and natural – no filter and no make-up. It appears she is in her bathroom and she has pictures of herself on the wall behind, in typical Madonna fashion. INSTAGRAM Madonna looking a bit more au naturel INSTAGRAM Madonna has always been very fashion forward Sporting a Louis Vuitton hoodie, Madge looks quite stern and captioned another selfie: “Supreme”. She has fronted campaigns for the luxe fashion brand in the past. INSTAGRAM This shot is creepily close up but luckily Madonna still looks good. INSTAGRAM Madge with some old school hair waves In the Eighties, she was fond of old school Marcel waves and platinum blonde hair. In one very glam selfie, she’s revisiting the look but with her locks a more natural colour. Madonna gifts her fans footage of her Met Gala 2018 performance in celebration of her 60th birthday INSTAGRAM Madonna getting on some bridal vibes She famously wore a wedding dress for Like A Virgin with wild 80s hair and lot of eye make-up. Now more than 30 years later she posted an interesting take on her 1984 hit. Madonna posted this image in 2016 after “women hating bigots” told her to act her age. INSTAGRAM Giving it some top hat action INSTAGRAM Another spooky filter that makes her look ageless Madonna hasn’t toned down her look or image even though she’s 60. In fact she has upped the shock factor. Over the years Madonna has transformed herself time and time again. She loves flamboyant clothes and accessories and her picture show that. Madonna opens up on the pain of losing her mother INSTAGRAM Madonna hasn’t toned down her image just because she’s 60

TBH I really just want Express Yourself and Causing A Commotion in full. Child we all know THAT was filmed.

By Nina MetzContact Reporter Chicago Tribune There’s a moment early on in “Madonna: Truth or Dare” — the 1991 documentary that chronicled her “Blond Ambition” tour — when feedback is marring her soundcheck ahead of a performance in Japan. “Stop, stop, stop,” she says from the stage, wearing a cap and pair of Wayfarer sunglasses. And then: “I’m sorry but the level up here is not that loud and there’s no reason for all this feedback. If we can’t get it to sound better than this then I’m not doing a show — so someone who knows about sound better come up here and explain something to me.” She pauses. “I’m waiting.” Off camera you hear someone mutter: “She’s getting pissed.” It’s such a great scene because her frustration is warranted. This isn’t a pop star copping an attitude. This is about business and she’s instructing her team to identify the problem and fix it. The film (which screens Tuesday at the ArcLight Cinemas) is from director Alek Keshishian, who was 24 when he started shooting the tour’s first leg in Japan. Madonna was 32 and had already married and divorced Sean Penn by this point; had her video for “Like a Prayer” condemned by the Vatican by this point. Had already made “Dick Tracy” with Warren Beatty by this point (the latter of whom she’s dating during the early portions of the tour). The resulting documentary is a mix of exuberantly shot concert footage (color) contrasted with grainy behind-the-scenes footage (black-and-white) of the singer and her entourage of dancers, backup singers and other staff that make the tour possible. Concert films and rock documentaries are a genre unto themselves, but “Truth or Dare” came at a unique moment. Capturing that split second before reality TV would spill into our lives, it arrived in theaters a year before MTV’s “The Real World” would premiere. Watching it now, what stands out aren’t necessarily the things that caught my attention when I first saw it as a teenager (including Beatty’s smirking bafflement that Madonna would allow cameras to follow her without limits) but what’s missing from the film. “My show is not a conventional rock show but a theatrical presentation of my music,” she says in a prepared statement in Italy. So: Less a concert than a work of musical theater — and because it was steeped in Catholic iconography (and at least one number where she simulated masturbation) it was causing controversy. “Like theater,” she says, her show “asks questions, provokes thoughts and takes you on an emotional journey.” But that journey is stripped out in “Truth or Dare.” You see different numbers interspersed throughout the film but they are out of context and leave you without a sense of the show as a whole — or what it’s saying as a narrative. The film never captures Madonna making creative decisions about the show either; all of that was already in place by the time filming began. And yet watching it now, what comes through is that she’s most interesting when she’s working. The other stuff, the goofing around, feels contrived — though I suspect Keshishian would disagree. He declined my interview request, but spoke about the film in 2016 after a 25th anniversary screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In all, he shot 250 hours of film. “And we don’t know where it is,” he said of the remaining footage. “Back then there wasn’t Instagram, there wasn’t Facebook,” he said. “She was the new guard, which was already kind of foreshadowing what was going to happen with social media. And you see that transition in the conversation between Warren Beatty and Madonna when Warren’s going (sarcastically), ‘Well, why would you want to live if it’s off camera?’ And he’s very much the old school of, like, Stars: You gotta keep your mystery. Madonna was kind going to this modern thing of like: Actually, I want to get rid of the mystery. “The irony is that social media has actually made it almost impossible to ever make a movie like that again about a celebrity — because now celebrities curate themselves and they present you behind-the-scenes stuff, which is obviously what they want you to see.” That’s such an interesting observation because to my eyes, Madonna absolutely curates herself in the film as much as any contemporary celebrity. “The whole family thing — that Madonna was the mother figure to all of us — that was a situation that she spun so that she could be seen in a different way for her own brand,” dancer Carlton Wilborn told me last year. He’s featured in the 2017 documentary “Strike a Pose,” which is available on Netflix and catches up with the dancers nearly three decades after their career-defining experience with the “Blond Ambition” tour and “Truth or Dare.” “Madonna made it appear that she collected us and made this kumbaya scenario,” Wilborn told me. “I never bought into it, but (for the film) I played like I was buying into it.” I mean, it doesn’t really feel like she has a maternal relationship with the dancers because we don’t see her having the kinds of conversations that help forge those kinds of deep friendships. Who knows, maybe they did happen ... and are lost in those 250 hours of footage. When the tour stops in Madonna’s hometown of Detroit, her visit to her mother’s grave feels stagey as well; her brother Christopher — credited as the tour’s artistic director — stands watch by a tree while she lies down next to her mother’s headstone. The moment is striking in the way it frames this loss of a parent as Madonna’s experience only, rather than something these two siblings share. It reminded me of her tribute to Aretha Franklin at the VMA’s earlier this month, a rambling story that was about Madonna rather than Franklin. Madonna, you sense, tends to consider the world as it relates to her. Maybe that’s a fact of celebrity at her level. Or maybe it’s just her. You know who would know? Christopher. And it’s odd that we never hear from him in “Truth or Dare.” He’s presumably the one person on the tour who knows her best. Certainly the longest. “There’ve been other pop stars who’ve approached me in the past to shoot documentaries, and there’ve been a couple where I’ve been, like, intrigued,” Keshishian said at that MoMA screening in 2016. “And I go and I usually say, ‘I want to test for one week’ … and inevitably, both times they were like: ‘Well, we don’t want you to use this part.’ Or: ‘We don’t want you to show me doing this.’ And I would say to management: ‘There’s no movie here,’ you know? And so I would walk away from jobs because I just didn’t want to begin that. They would have watched ‘Truth or Dare’ and that’s why they wanted me to shoot it, but they didn’t reallywant me to shoot it.” It’s hard to picture 1990-era Madonna as someone who was fairly accessible, but that’s how she was with Keshishian. “I think today, management, agents — these artists have ‘creative directors’ — there’s so many layers. That wasn’t the case then. She was at the height of her fame right there, and I would pick her up in my Volkswagen with the bad brakes and we’d go out to dinner.” He ends the talk with a funny line that’s also seems emblematic of Madonna and her charm: She doesn’t mind a little pushback and attitude if there’s logic behind it. “I showed her a rough cut, which was around three hours long,” Keshishian said, “and then the rest of the time was me cutting it down further and her going, ‘Why are you cutting it?’ She wanted it to be three hours. “I was like, ‘It’s not “Gone with the Wind,” honey.’ ” “Madonna: Truth or Dare” screens 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the ArcLight Cinemas arclightcinemas.com/movie/arclight-presentsmadonna-truth-or-dare. nmetz@chicagotribune.com Twitter @Nina_Metz http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-ent-madonna-truth-or-dare-curated-celebrity-0831-story.html

Just this one. Just give us this performance in full and I will absolutely die happy. Please.

I wish we had this whole show in this quality(Minus Danny Tull editing of course) :))

As always M. does what she wants with no fucks given, that's why we love her.

Its the exact concept. You can't much more "inspired" than that.

I mean this really shows how many ZERO fucks she gives. She’s not ashamed, she’s not concerned, she’s proud. Whatever imperfections she might assume people see, is nothing to her. Because we ALL know, she’s laughing. this is Madonna at her finest, NOT.GIVING.ANY.EFFS lol. Proud of her.

Sorry but you are the one turning this into drama. I absolutely don't understand what you say. On one hand you say that everybody has the right to say whatver they want and on the other you tell people to not say what they want because they don't agree with you and just ignore the whole thing. Dude, faz me uma favor : try to be coherent before name calling people and lecturing because you make no sense. People don't agree with each other. That's it. No need to lose your cool over it. We deal with what you say, deal with what we say. Nobody is right, it's just opinions.

This new album not being released yet is driving us all crazy!! Once again, I understand both sides: those who find the picture daring and provoking, and those who find the picture ugly and useless. It seems impossible but both are right. We really have nothing else to talk about than the same old stuff: Blond Ambition reels, ageism, fandom. Every discussion seems to end in the forum divided in two. We really need new music. Music (and definitely not social media) makes the people come together.

I love the dark shadow of that hairy pussy. Yas girl, do whatever the fuck u want, if u wanna show off for the sake of it, JUST DO IT. here's the original pic, by the way, no screengrab: https://instagram.fmad7-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/e3c2076f7a14310ca0713010c89bc404/5B8863A8/t51.12442-15/e35/39902794_216493935892655_4248980655959965696_n.jpg

One sweet day...

I still watch because I really love this tour.

I wouldn't say the sound was terrible ? its stereo soundboard and i imagine a raw feed with no overdubbing or fake crowd noises that we normally get on her releases - i think fans are too used to her own tinkering on her concert films - personally i love this show as its raw and no fast editing like the nauseating Rebel Heart and MDNA tour dvd editing - i also love the long intro - you really capture the spirit of the show before it starts and when the lights go out !! wow - you cant beat it - thats another thing missing from her shows sadly

Are you sure that it was your DVD copy that got corrupted? From what I remember the leaked RIT always had a problem in 'Music' and 'Holiday' performances.

I guess he did say that. But the line producer, she said they DID film the shows in its entirety. I want to believe HEERRRRRR just like, help us out girl. Madonna- The Blond Ambition Tour 1990- Unseen and Un-Cut. I can see it now. Because it’s been unseen :(