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  1. I initially thought it was well-researched, but there was a great deal of information left out, and it became tedious beyond the Girlie Show. There was too much of a tendency to stick to a bird’s eye view of her career, with little actual deeper research. I understand that she wanted to make it a historical account of Madonna’s life, and while it is lengthy and I am sure it took a great deal of work, there’s something lacking in the end. In the second half of Madonna’s career there is practically no insight beyond a basic timeline of publicly seen performances and interviews. The author spends far too much time recounting the details of each tour (with occasional glaring errors), barely making any effort to contextualize beyond her own personal discovery of Madonna’s work and dryly conveying what she sees, which is of no interest to fans as we have all seen the shows. The early years are where the book succeeds…It’s a noble effort, but lacks any real depth or style, and the little attention paid to the latter part of Madonna’s career was almost insulting.
  2. Barbra Streisand gave a free concert in Central Park in 1967, as did Simon and Garfunkel in 1981.
  3. This thread is becoming unhinged again. I don’t even know if these are real people at this point. The posts are so trivial and bizarre that I honestly question if they are written by bots. I get that English isn’t everyone’s first language, but not even the worst direct translation can account for some of the lyrical bile I find myself reading sometimes. And it’s pages of it! Either people repeating the same thing over and over again, or random mood fits that should call for compassion and empathy because clearly there is a mental struggle on display, but then I remind myself that this is a MADONNA forum, not a support group. Can we focus on the actual topic of the thread and try to find the most intelligent and unique way to convey our personal perspectives? Humor is always a plus, as is self-awareness, but a critical eye requires knowledge and understanding.
  4. Take A Bow ends with the lyric “Say goodbye”. The Michael Jackson tribute ends with the words “Never Can Say Goodbye” accompanied by the ethereal sounding “Angel” snippet. Madonna as a singer and cultural icon will live on forever, or at least long after she’s gone. Then all the Madonnas appear to demonstrate the breadth of her musical and visual impact while singing LUV Madonna while the real Madonna sings Bitch I’m Madonna. That’s the concept. It’s pretty straightforward.
  5. I think it is extremely likely that she has indeed recorded a good deal of material that is awaiting release. Her initial game plan was to be done with the tour by December 2023. It is entirely possible she had an entire album ready for release prior to her illness. It's also possible that as Stuart Price has been consistently present throughout the tour dj-ing and overseeing sound engineering that they have collaborated musically on new material. He has had plenty of time to present ideas and she has had plenty of time on her days off to record vocals and co-produce.
  6. Yes. I know your take. You have posted her London concert dates a multitude of times. I am not the enemy, I swear! I think she sounds great. I don't need to watch videos to justify my opinion, although I have watched footage of almost every date she has performed. I was at four of the LA shows and I attended two shows in NY. Her live voice is much louder in the mix currently than it was in NY in January, and from my assessment of multiple videos on dates prior to those and after, this was more often the case than not. The London shows were at the very beginning of the tour; her voice wasn't tired yet. It inevitably happens that she becomes hoarse on every tour. Additionally, she shouts a lot between her trying to reach those higher notes, particularly on Burning Up and yelling "rage" nightly in her Mother and Father rap. It isn't great for the vocal cords. She usually has sounded better when she has had a couple of nights off with the exception of the period when she was nursing a cold. This was different in LA because she performed five shows in a week, and yet her voice was strong with the exception of Saturday when she lost her upper range entirely and acknowledged it.
  7. Her live vocals have been much more prominent in recent concerts. The backing track has been pushed way back in the mix. Her stamina has improved enormously too. It makes sense that she would take at least half a year or more to fully recover her strength and self-confidence, and by the time she landed in LA, she was there! She may have been preserving her voice, or her vocal cords might have been healing from a bout of winter sickness for the mid-tour dates. I was very pleasantly surprised by how much she pushed her vocals in LA, and she sounded good at all of the shows.
  8. Tonight was the best show ever! She was on fire! She even sang a little bit of Hollywood! 💛
  9. It was the new moon in every calendar. The kabbalists don’t have a monopoly on the lunar cycle.
  10. Some random photos I took last night. Sorry they aren’t that clear! 😂
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