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*Screens introduce us to the 90s*, Erotica - Madonna is fighting back against those who say she couldn't be overtly sexual in the early 90s Justify My Love - a continuation of that theme {now this is my own interpretation} Hung Up - Madonna is seeking someone to have a child with because her biological clock is ticking at this point in her career Bad Girl - she's sorry for hurting lovers / being "bad" Vogue - she finds new life in the gay scene of the 90s Human Nature - she's not sorry for being herself Crazy for You - she's crazy about that inner devil inside of her The Beast Within - this is about pregnancy and giving birth to something new; she got pregnant from the last section Die Another Day - her career rebounds after the sex backlash Don't Tell Me - she won't stop her career Mother & Father - she reflects on her mother and now that she's a mom I Will Survive - continuing the theme of survival in her career La Isla Bonita - she's inspired by Latino culture while trying for the role of Evita Don't Cry for Me Argentina - she finally lands the role of Evita which changes her career Bedtime Story - she finds a new awakening in dance music (we're at about the late 90s / early 2000s of her career thematically) Ray of Light - she finds spirtuality Rain - after all the sorrow that has happened in her life / career she has finally rebounded and can enjoy the sun Like a Virgin - its just a silhouette of her without showing her face because if you recall during Holiday, they didn't even know her name, she was a nobody. Now you don't even need to say her name, she has achieved fame as the Queen of Pop, next to the King of Pop. Since the King has died, in royalty, the Queen now takes over Bitch I'm Madonna - basically she's Madonna and there's no one else like her

Popular holds at #18 on the Global Spotify chart with 2,703,154 streams!it beats itself, becoming, again, the 4th best streaming day! Madonna goes up one to #147 (+1) on the Spotify Top Artists chart.

It tells a story when combined with the visuals based on the setlist. For instance: Nothing Really Matters - Madonna in present time looking back on her life *Screens count back from 2023 to 1982* - Everybody - this is the start of Madonna's career Into the Groove - her making it in NYC getting into the groove of things Burning Up - her early days when she was finding her sound Open Your Heart - the lyrics have always been about working hard and getting people to love you Holiday - she's finally made it and is celebrating but her friends die of AIDS Live to Tell - paying tribute to the friends she lost from AIDS Like a Prayer - questioning her faith based upon what has just happened *Screens introduce us to the 90s*, then you get the idea

This is cute: The amount of great songs we've got with this tour. God, I love her.

Can we stay on topic here? Would be great. ❤️

03/01 - 41,656,330 (+88,969) WW #72 (+1)

I had a very different interpretation of this segment. To me Erotica, JML and Hung Up were all about her exploration and expression of her own sexuality through her work. Vogue is directly relating to her support of the Queer community, (you see that on the screens at one point.) and the whole performance is an homage to queer culture. She is arrested and taken away for both of these crimes leading to Human Nature and the whole backlash period. She faces her self during Crazy for You, essentially expressing love and appreciation to her rebellious “I’m not sorry” self from those years. The Beast Within represents damnation to hell as there is the lake of fire, the song quotes the bible etc. I think this is reflective of the guilt she still carries from her Catholic upbringing. Die Another Day is her discovery of Kabbalah and I think that’s pretty clear with the imagery that is incorporated into that performance, not to mention the lyrics of the song itself are all Kabbalah related.

The problem is that the narrative kinda falls apart after this part in the setlist at least that’s how I felt when I saw it live.

I love hung up but the Celebration performance is not that great imo. It's not bad, but it's not one of the highlights to me. Hung up on The Grammys or Ema or Star Academy or confessions tour is iconic 😎

Not just this topic. In general, this end of the year has been quite "dead" in terms of leaks or unreleased musical material if we compare it to previous years. We couldn't even get a special video of Madonna wishing us a happy new year at the end. I can't imagine how busy Madonna's life must be so that she couldn't have a few free minutes to make a video with an end-of-year message for all those millions of people who love her. Videos should not be dedicated only to when we buy and sell out tickets to her shows. Anyway, maybe by the end of this year 2024 things will be different and we will have a more communicative Madonna with her fans or some collector fan who does not lack empathy and decides to share some unpublished material with all those millions of Madonna fans that are scattered throughout the world. It is not for nothing that they say that the feeling of well-being that comes from sharing something with others is something incomparable.

God Control ("almost official" Offer Nissim Rosh Hashanah Remix - was comissioned but single as a whole got scrapped). You can download it through this post: https://madonna-infinity.net/forums/topic/37419-i-dont-searchifindoffer-nissim-requiem-remix-wav/?do=findComment&comment=1203660 (I won't embed link for obvious reasons - right, my idol @Would You Like To Try?) I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) × I Don't Search I Find (Offer Nissim Remix)?

Leaving out the bridge "Here comes the sun..." makes this meaning so empty to me though - unless the sun is the ending which is Celebration. But then I don't see how that silhouette Like A Virgin part fits in between. I get she needs to do a costume change... but an extended Rain ending like the Girlie Show, to me, would have been more effective. So many questions lol

#Popular re-enters at #17 on #NewZealand Official Singles Chart on this week. Peaked #6 Total 29 weeks Platinum

I hope she'll reach 50 M this year 😍

For Hung Up I think this is her lesbian/bisexual side

the song order itself doesn't tell the story, but together with the choreographies, videos, iunterludes, spoken introductions, narrating etc, it tells the story much more clearly. And it's much easier to understand seeing it in person than watching the youtube videos. I will make a separate topic about the narration in the tour.

Question is that ALL THESE SONGS HAVE A MEANING TO HER (once screaming, always screaming, can't help myself). All these songs, TOGETHER AND IN THAT EXACT ORDER, tell THE STORY OF HER LIFE. She could've gladly to present all songs she eventually rehearsed before and after the rebirth but, besides such endeavour being beyond fatigueé, the songs she scrapped wouldn't do any favour to herstory as the ones who did the cut do. And about them, So, irrespectively of charts, these songs - even and esp Mother and Father and Burning Up - are ACTUAL NUMBER ONES TO M.

What I wanna know is, What determines the winner? It's like, I upload my favorite pic and they're like, "No that's not the one!"

Those alternate "Church synth" chords towards the end are great. Also there's some more prominent synth in the first section.

Yes, how inconsiderate of her to take a couple weeks off from a grueling tour and avoid social media to not please your need to wish you a "Happy New Year" . I mean; when has she really done this? Never do I recall her taking the time to make a "special video" to wish fans a "Happy New Year". Not to say she hasn't in the past, posted something that was celebrating the new year, but never have I expected her to just post something "special" as you are criticizing her for, right here and now. How dare she take some time away from everything and spend the holidays and vacation with her family. You seem to think people owe you something here. She nor any fans/collector "lack empathy" just because they aren't providing you with some "unpublished" release/leak. If you're so bothered by it all, why don't you share something rather than creating another shady post, criticizing her and her fan base for not providing you with something unreleased!

My favorite performance is the one at MTV Europe in 2005. Perfect choreography, perfect hairstyle and costumes, perfect attitude, the perfect body, the perfect dance cast. Unfortunately her voice was not one of the best in this presentation. I remember feeling sorry for her as I watched her finish the song with difficulty during the last seconds because her voice was practically going away. Dancing and singing at the same time is definitely not easy at all and only some artists are willing to make such a complicated presentation even though it often does not turn out completely perfect. However, I prefer this type of performance a thousand times over those where the artists simply develops their choreographies automatically as if they were robots. Janet Jackson, her brother or Britney Spears are some examples. The worst performances are that of Sticky and Sweet and that of the Mdna Tour. Totally unrecognizable and insipid to my taste and even more so for a song that was born to be danced to and not to be the subject of experiments and disconcerting proposals that most of us fans do not understand to this day.

Has anyone made a mashup of "Hung Up on Tokischa" and "Hung Up" like a Celebration Tour Studio Version yet? It really is a super high point of the show. She HAS to feel it when the chorus of Hung Up hits. The entire venue gets hype every single time.

I’m glad you like them! 🥰

dont tell me or i dont give a

frozen or nothing really matters

Love Spent (Acoustic Remix). You Must Love Me × I Want You (Orchestral Version)?

living for love or love spent

Definitely agree with this interpretation, except for The beast within, where she cleverly uses the message and the metaphore of the beast and the universal judjement in the Bible words to reflect on the evil and the present world phase imo (the artistic references are American Life and ReInvention mostly imo): what is the beast in the actual world? What is evil, the evil many of us sell their lives to, without even knowing it? And it's got a connection with the lack of empathy and love, the excess of personal interest over a more communal feeling wich easily takes to judjment, wars and divisions. God is love, is sharing and support. "Behold the dwelling of God is with men He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people And God himself will be with them He will wipe away every tear from their eyes And death shall be no more Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore For these things will have passed away To the thirsty I will give water without price From the fountain of the water of life He who conquers shall have this heritage And I will be his God and he shall be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted As for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars Their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire" One more thing, I don't see a step by step narrative in the show, I mean, I don't feel that every song is a specific aspect or passage of her life/career, It's more about a flow imo. NRM is the main message, in terms of content (love is all we need) and visuals (I created this shit, I'm like a pop goddess), then the 80s are told as her early NYC suburbs, clubs, fun and artistic experimentations life wich was shadowed by the AIDS pandemic (LTT) wich made her definitely question herself about the implications of the way people used their religious beliefs to condamn and judge who got ill, giving them a moral responsability for their illness (LAP). So the whole sexual thing, wich was the same root of the male chauvinism culture, became the core of her interest and she once again just explores her sexual imaginary, frm JML to Hard Candy. She pays her tribute to the queer community then (V), showing again the way the judjmental culture punished her as the gay community (HN-CFY) as (TBW) many other forms of belief and expression wich are not the white, rich, capitalist ones. The third and fourth sets are based on the same kind of passage in different perspective, the more intimate one first (the spiritual awakening - DAD, the overcoming of her loneliness being a mother, wich helped her to overcome the void of her mother's loss - MAF is clear about that imo: she sings going to David "I got to give it up, find someone to love me. I got to let it go, find someone that I can care for."), and the more artistic one later (the electro sound, the ribirth of her success and, yes I do agree, with Rain a big uplifting moment to close the arch). The finale (IDSIF - the only part dedicated to her mediatic fame, wich is interesting, considering she is just a fame addicted by many -LAV and BIM) is all about the Celebration of her icon status. I see everything flowing perfectly to be honest and I can't stop appreciating the synthesis she was able to percieve when it comes to gain so many references, often more than one era is contemplated in the same performance. This is a real bequest, that's the answer if anybody should ever ask "What did Madonna do? Wasn't she just a famous pop singer?"

fever.... all the versions god control or future

honey, like a prayer is holy for me so both Miles away or gang bang

rescue me like a prayer or vogue

Thank you 😊

living for love Holiday or lucky star

Superstar (Eddie Amador Remix). Living for Love × Love Profusion?

💿| Popular has been certified Platinum in Greece, for receiving over 2.000.000 streams, @Madonna

You're right, I'm always quick to say Interscope did nothing for her but I remember checking back her radio airplay positions for those years and almost every single charted on Adult and other formats in the US. Nothing outstanding but they were there. "Crave" would have been quite big with a younger artist and proper full promo. It sounded completely contemporary in 2019, something Halsey could have released for instance.

No more B-C or D List Celebrities!!!

Or this:

I was under the impression that Interscope was merely the distributor and the promotion was up to Madonna and her team. This is why we saw very little promotion with Interscope. If you recall, when Madonna left Warner and made the Live Nation 360 deal, the idea was that Live Nation was going to distribute and promote music as well. It just never happened. Therefore, left Madonna scrambling for someone to distribute her album. So I really don't blame Interscope for lack of promo because I don't believe it was part of the deal. You'd think at the stage of her career, she could have easily just distributed the album herself through her own company.

Anyway, back to M's Spotify numbers, right @milingo83???? The hen is much alive (and in process of being kosher), the mistakes from past were erased and now we have a fvcking multiyear deal which is making M having some Spotify success - ofc, most because of us lil'medonsters.

Not releasing "Masterpiece" as a soundtrack single for the "W.E." movie in September/October 2011 was a huge mistake. It would have helped the movie and her own album, since it was well received among fans and press (not to mention they also bought the Golden Globe for it, so more promo). Instead, it was a ghost single...

I hope her marketing team didn’t pay anything for this service. I kind of think this company paid Madonna to allow them to do it.

.@madonna's "Confessions On A Dance Floor" re-enters at #74 on #Greece Official Album Charts on this week. Peaked #1 Total 51 Weeks 2xPlatinum Also #Popular is #15 (=) on the Official Single Charts on this week. Peaked #3 Total 26 weeks Platinum

In general, the pics being uploaded that website are not so interesting or attractive to say the least.

Why is this being resurrected without it being posted

she looks better on the stolen pictures than on hers LOL

When I was a kid I always thought she had giant pine cones in her hair here

Imagine if Britney came out on the Vogue catwalk juggling knives