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Isn't it great that this forum has its own Georgina the honest vocal coaches 🥰... Popping up once in a while to tell everybody on here how bad Madonna's voice is, telling us that they are music geniuses and that only their ears hearing how it actualy is... If one pops up, the other few ( always the same people) pop up soon after, telling us how it is and liking each others posts 🥰... awwww you guys thank you so much... Log out

The Detroit speech about her father: https://eu.freep.com/videos/entertainment/music/2024/01/16/madonna-tour-lca-detroit/72239530007/ https://eu.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/01/16/madonna-detroit-little-caesars-arena-review-photos/72239461007/

The show was amazing. I’ve seen hundreds of concerts including 8 Madonna tours and this might’ve been my favourite. I looooooved it. YouTube doesn’t do it justice. She forgot her microphone in Open Your Heart and had to run back for it haha

I found a video someone posted publicly on Facebook. She forgot to take her jacket off and forgot the microphone so it went down with the guitar and amp. 😂 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/fcoA6nhqgvHpPWvS/?mibextid=WC7FNe

She missed the first lines of Open Your Heart as she scrambled to find her microphone. Oops! Haha. But the show was flawless. She was emotional several times. Very sweet speeches about wanting to make her dad proud and make Detroit proud

Thank you for posting this. What is evident is that she's respectful of her father and the fact she had to work for where she is today. Her own kids may not experience the hardship she has, due to her being who she is, but you can bet she will still instill those "hard working values" in them as much as she can. She is one of the last iconic stars living who actually worked for where she is. Not to take that from anyone who came after her, but it's just true! And she still works hard!

I've bought the clean version of Popular on 7digital today, and I'm streaming it like crazy this week on Spotify and YouTube. Come on UK fans, let's get this into the Top 10 this week

Got back from Detroit and it was phenomenal. I had only seen a couple videos, so I wasn't 100% sure what to expect, but I loved it!! I was very against a greatest hits tour, because I thought it would be the same 12--15 songs that get overplayed as it is, but she managed to do a LOT of more obscure references and lesser known songs along with the big hits. Highlights for me were Everybody, Open Your Heart, the entire Erotica section, Ray of Light...but really, the whole thing was great. I loved the snippets and teasers all over, Live to Tell was heartbreaking. I thought the Michael Jackson thing was kinda unnecessary, I wish she'd done Rain instead of Frozen (even though it was a good version), and the end just kinda... happens? It's a little anticlimactic , but overall incredible! The only downside was that most of my section sat down for huge chunks of the show. I was the only one standing the entire time, but 1) I'm not gonna sit down in the presence of royalty, and 2) it's fucking rock 'n' roll! Come on! It's a concert, you're supposed to dance and have fun. The lady next to me was obviously just there...to say she went? I don't know, she never smiled, never danced, stood for like 3 songs. She looked like she was waiting in line for the customer service counter at Walmart. But other than that, fucking amazing. Ten stars!

She put her fist up to her mouth to make it look like she had a mic while running back to get it lol

Frozen in Detroit

This is so so awesome. She made me cry. Beautiful. Thank you!

Let me just say this, i truly love how she's showing her different sides, vulnerability and appreciation for us at this tour. Theres this cool side of her, then the hilarious jokes and the heartearming gratitude. I love her so much.

Disappointed to have missed the show last night - but I had no one to go with unfortunately. I would have gone alone but haven't been downtown alone too many times. Plus I was unsure about fees and parking. Crossing my fingers she does another leg. Glad to see those of you who went had a great time! Next time... I'm making sure I'm there! Thanks to those of you who helped me out!

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It was a Drag Queen… I kinda recognized her but I don’t know the queens very well. Yes, her dad was there and she mentioned him several times

Prince tribute was vocally and emotionally amazing. If you don't like it, all you have to do is becoming a Celine Dion fan 🤪

Almost 44 🤩

Hi, Thanks again for your concerns. My break is for personal reasons so no involvement or issue at all from official sources, Maverick, Boy Toy, Live Nation or anything. I'd say upload all you want @Andymadfor other fans to enjoy. XX

Montreal here I cummmmmmmmm

It's just that when she sings, she always strains a bit, and after a whole tour, her voice gets tired. Also, at the beginning of the tour, she puts in a bit more effort. The only tour where she remained quite consistent vocally was the Drowned World Tour I've discussed this topic before, including with you, and I'm aware it's a sensitive issue for some. Over time, Madonna's vocal abilities have noticeably declined. As a vocal music enthusiast, I've closely followed her singing career, fully aware of her technical shortcomings, which now include a diminished musical ear. She has always been a decent singer, with some performance anxiety issues and technical difficulties. And between the mid-90s and mid-2000s, she reached her vocal peak, singing divinely on albums like Ray Of Light (even from old studio recordings you can assess her technique, as they are free of autotune). After the Sticky and Sweet Tour, which had several embarrassing vocal moments, she delivered better performances but never returned to her previous vocal quality. She was never vocal perfection, but her voice has been better than how it is today, reaching its peak in the early 2000s. Even in the '80s, her vocal performances were superior to what we hear today. Madonna did not believe enough in her own vocal abilities, prematurely ending her vocal training and not consolidating the techniques developed until the early 2000s. She did not give enough credit to her voice. Yet, her voice is special and with the right technique, her potential could be very big. I love her timbre, especially in the low notes, where she sings effortlessly (except when she has to descend from high notes, but this has always been a technical flaw that has only worsened). In my opinion, one of her problems has also been the advent of the modern technological era: she has become lazy, relying more and more on technological aids (both to keep time and to sing in tune) and now her singing abilities are very poor. She was also a better guitarist back then

Not sure but I can comfortably confirm us here in Canada are FREEZING

By the way, now it's time to say I wasn't being any ironic when I said I want Candy Shop and Heartbeat added to the Celebration Tour, as @dave2290is a long time witness to it, I STAN HARD CANDY AS FUCK and these 2 songs in particular are my favourite tracks from it, PERSONALLY I HAVE A SACRED EXPERIENCE TO CANDY SHOP BACK TO 2007 WHEN IT LEAKED. WHILE THE MAJORITY OF LIL'MEDONSTERS DESPISE CANDY SHOP, HEARTBEAT AND HARD CANDY, THAT ERA AS A WHOLE REPRESENTED THE APEX OF ME AS A M STAN. HARD CANDY IS IMO ON PAIR TO LIKE A PRAYER AND RAY OF LIGHT. ICONIC AND EARWORM AS FUCK. Thank you all and shall we go back to tour plz.

Get well soon, my dear friend. We at Infinity are all rooting for you!!! @True Blue 84let the dogs bark, while they are mad, M reigns supreme in the UNIVERSE!!! (And honestly I don't see any issue at Like a Prayer, DCFMA, whatever song M is doing at Celebration Tour, autotune this, pitch correction that - unlike the Rebel Heart Tour CD which is just PAINFUL to hear, I have heard several TCT audios from several nights - have enjoyed every single lyric sung and I don't feel even tempted to singalong to her given the mesmerized I get by every single performance of this. I have never felt this way again with Madonna, this sparkle all over me, since my early days as stan during DWT. You all are witnesses to my worshipping to this tour, to the point she can burn all mock ups Rhino have offered her from "expanded editions," whatever, but I do want a BD/4K of the concert film so while there's a Blu-ray player working in this globe I can watch and hear it THE SECOND I WANT TO.) Summing up, people love to talk the talk, but how many can walk the walk? Of course, this came right from Queen's brain.

Detroit 15-01-24 Great video's All Great 🥰

It's exhausting most definitely. If it really was relevant to the conversation, then I would be happy for the discussion, but as you stated, these people are randomly popping in to point out her faults as if anyone is declaring her voice is top notch. I think most of us know that even since the start of her career, she never was the best live vocalist. Even still, let's see them do 80 shows in so many months and hear how great they sound. Even well known vocalist aren't able to keep up the vocal stamina 100% of the time. Still, it's Madonna. Her shows have always been more than just about the vocals.

Put some fucking remixes out for Popular 🤬

On my trip to Montreal!!!!! Major road trip. Weeeeeeee!!!

I really hope this goes Top Ten in the UK this week. It’s so close. Apparently it was only 138 sales behind number ten last week ffs 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm from Brazil and I know how Michigan as a whole and Detroit in particular got immensely broke as the car factories left there to stare at places like China and South East Asia where laws protecting the workers are virtually non-existent (not surprisingly, communist countries in their majority). Detroit even faced the risk of disappearing as a municipality as their residents were at some point just unable to honour their debts to taxes. Madonna has donated a lot to what they call "the rebirth of Detroit." She even alluded that during the Rebel Heart Tour concert film. I guess when a country gets poorer, their areas where were already the poorest ones get even poorer. I believe most people from Detroit were just unable to afford tickets to concert - this in addition to her have stated numerous times "how she found herself in New York." It's pretty logical when a person even subtly disses their hometown, the hometown goes against the person. That was the overall feeling of Americans when Madonna became a Londoner, even trying to speak to cockney accent, and suddenly released an album called "American Life" where "nothing is what it seems" and "there was a time when I prayed to Jesus Christ" when most United States are under the Bible belt. Naturally American Life would be a hit album only in France, the traditional former "queen of the world," where their people still cry they don't see other languages adopting more French words and themselves have to call their petit "shopping malls" DRUGSTORES (of course pronounced "dreugstô," very French-like).

HELP LOL 😭

Yes, she did Express Yourself and Frozen

Oh come on, get back Rain at its place!

Has she sat in anyone's seats yet?

The show started at 10:33

I love the not living look in her eyes.

I think it's mostly due to the flow and comfortability of the performers, making it a tighter and cleaner production that would look better visually. Unfortunately by the time they do tend to film the shows, M's voice is a bit tired and it shows. But she seems to be doing okay so far, would have loved the Toronto show - that show was TIGHT. Plus in the beginning of this tour up to the US leg specifically, it was riddled with sound issues.

It’s no different to how Ricardo edits her Instagram pics, to be fair!

They need to add Let Down Your Guard to Secret

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Detroit

Bring TRULY back!!

The fact she had to borrow money from Israel to be able to score the trip to Peru anyway SPEAKS VOLUMES. Poor Jail Key!!

TRULY must be in CAPS given it's still a stigmatized word to some Infiniters... #TheTWord #TrulyMadlyDeeply #YoursTruly

Here's an image you can use for these covers:

Babes she definitely sang Frozen both nights in Toronto lol Megaupload is a fantastic service for uploading, check it out! it's the most user friendly on here anyway.

PLUS, I don't know what show you're going to, but the MERCH was sooooo much cheaper than buying it on her site. Like, the BAT jacket at the show was $300 Canadian. On the site it's $340 USD - that's like almost 450 Canadian.

for now popular have more than 3 million streams daily....