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I love how she explains the Bad Girl moment.
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Madonna has been clear from the beginning that The Celebration Tour is no mere “greatest hits” circuit. It’s more like an artist’s MoMA retrospective blown up into an arena tour showcasing her singular contributions to the culture. It’s also the Queen of Pop’s most deeply personal tour yet, paying tribute to her influences, mentors, parents, and the friends and collaborators she’s lost. Nowhere is that personal touch more apparent than the inclusion of four of her children in the show. Across 78 performances so far, Madonna has worked double-duty as mom with son David and daughters Mercy, Stella, and Estere along for the ride—each one getting their own moment on stage. Mercy accompanies her mother on piano during “Bad Girl,” while David duets with his mom on “Mother and Father” (which, apparently, required the young musician to work up a bit of confidence to do). Twins Stella and Estere meanwhile, show off their dance skills during “Don’t Tell Me” and a segment dedicated to ballroom.
Ahead of her final arena dates in Mexico and a historic (potentially record-breaking) free show in Rio de Janeiro, Madonna sat down to answer questions over e-mail about life on the road with her children.
Rocco performed on stage during MDNA, and Lola worked in the wardrobe department on that same tour. Your children always seem to be involved in some capacity with your work. How does that feel as a mother?
I have always been blessed with children who are interested in music, dance, and art. Starting from the top with Lola, who was not only an incredible ballet dancer and and a rhythmic gymnast, switching to musical theater and contemporary dance. Now she is a unique singer and song writer in her own right. When I go on tour, nothing brings me more happiness to know, we are all working on the same show creating the magic together. It would be boring if they were just traveling from hotel to hotel, and occasionally coming to watch the show.  Of course, I am also their mother so sometimes we get on each other’s nerves. We are a family of artists but are also a family and that’s what happens.
How did the idea of including your children on this tour come to be?
When I go on tour, nothing brings me more happiness than to know we are all working on the same show, creating the magic together. It would be boring if they were just traveling from hotel to hotel, and occasionally coming to watch the show. Of course, I am their mother so sometimes we get on each other’s nerves. We are a family of artists but we are also a family, and that’s what happens.
It seems like your children have been honing their talents for years. How important is it for you as a mother to make sure they take their art seriously?
Because The Celebration Tour is a retrospective of my life, I thought it made perfect sense to include all of my children still living with me in the show. As they all dance, and play musical instruments, and have been doing so for years.  David has played guitar since he was a child.  Mercy has played piano since she was eight and has been classically trained most of her life. Eventually, when I adopted the twins, they started to play piano and dance as well.  There is always an endless parade of music and dance teachers coming and going in our house. And then we add to that Djing as Estere showed a keen interest in learning. She started taking DJ lessons and took it very seriously.
Each of the children has their own moment in the show. Mercy James playing piano during “Bad Girl” was a highlight. Any back story on how that all came together?
I saw a strange poetic juxtaposition of hedonism, erotic exploration emerging into the light of Mercy, sitting stoically at her grand piano playing Chopin as she beckoned me towards her, making me think about the choices I have made in my life.  Singing Bad Girl was kind of a confession, not an apology, and I felt we had an unspoken understanding of what was happening.
Stella performs in “Don’t Tell Me,” which is a big number during the show. How was she with learning the choreography?
Stella, who I would say is my shyest child, comes alive on stage, and I love having her as my little cowgirl. But she happens to be an incredible fine artist, and I’m hoping that she follows in the footsteps of Rocco who after being a B-boy, skater, and graffiti artist has really come into his own as an incredible painter.
David singing a verse during “Mother and Father” was fantastic. Has he expressed any interest in following in your footsteps with a musical career? He had originally only played guitar at the beginning of the tour. Did it take some convincing to get him to sing?
Mother and Father is one of my favorite moments in the show because it gave me a chance to not only honor my mother and her memory but also to honor David’s mother and her memory. He has always wanted to sing and play guitar.  He loves being on stage. This is nothing new. I love that we both get to sing to our mothers. Much of the show is about motherhood, family, and the importance of that in my artistic life.
How did Estere get so into ballroom? Does she have any vogue mentors (aside from you)?
While Estere was learning how to DJ she became interested in ballroom competitions and just by luck, one of my choreographer’s assistants, Ivy Mugler, has her own ballroom house called House of Mugler.  She started taking Estere aside during rehearsals in another room, and within a couple of weeks she was doing death drops and spins and surprising us with her ability.  So, of course we had to turn that section of the show into Estere’s Ball.
Because this tour is a celebration of your entire career, did you kids learn or realize anything new about you?
I think what my children learned the most in this year of rehearsing and performing is that if you want to follow your dreams, you have to work hard for them.  And if all of them choose something different later in life, they will never forget this year of blood, sweat, and tears.
The tour just wrapped up its U.S. dates. With five shows in Mexico City coming up and the huge free concert in Rio, what’s going through your mind right now?
This show was created for an indoor arena. Transforming and adapting it to perform outdoors on the beach, with no roof in Rio is going to be quite an undertaking and full of surprises. God willing, we will pull it off, and it will be an experience they will never forget.
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I think A LOT of people, including fans, were really questioning her stamina going on tour so soon after her medical emergency. And look at her now, zero cancelled shows, a bonus free show for Brazilian fans... the bitch is now unstoppable. I would imagine she's exhausted but a part of me feels like... this is just the beginning. She's absolutely proven her worth. People can pick apart shit but facts are facts, she's still got it. There's no way she's stopping now. This tour is probably the BEST thing that could happen to her right now. I'm so excited for what's next!

Well, she's human so I expect her to be exhausted, but let's be real, some fans half her age couldn't do what she's currently doing on stage every night like she does.  Some are so quick to say she's not as active on this tour, but she's far more active than many artists who are half her age on tour.  I think the fact that she's stayed fit all through her career and didn't abuse food, drugs, etc, that it's really helped her.  She's hardly your typical 65 year old.  My guess, she will continue till the day she drops or she unfortunately isn't capable of doing so.  Some of the of the most active and athletic people get to a certain point in their life, where things go downhill health wise. I think what is hopeful here is that her father is in his 90's and up until recently seemed to been pretty active and healthy. We can only hope Madonna will reach the same age as her father and still be pretty active.  Though to expect her to perform and do things she did 30 years ago is just unrealistic.  It shouldn't even be a complaint at this point because as I said, she's still on stage being far active than many entertainers half her age.

She's still in a good shape and from what i've seen at the latest florida shows, her movements have even improved these past few weeks. I'm begging everyone to stop acting like she's senile and focus on how great she's actually doing on this tour. 

She isn't going to retire anytime soon - Cher is 77 and still going - might not be doing world tours, but pumping music, serving side dishes and still hustling.

For real, maybe because the idea of being a "greatest hits tour" but I don't see this tour being her last one.

I agree re best thing for her. It gave her focus while she recovered, something to live and work towards - and in a way, forced her to get back on the 'horse' so to speak. To give her confidence and to validate for herself, that she can do it.
BUT let's not forget also, she is extremely lucky - the seriousness of her health scare, she is very fortunate she recovered so fast, so many do not. 

They said it with Madame X as well.
Madonna has made it clear on many occasions that she intends to keep performing until she drops dead. Of course she will slow down but she’s not going to stop doing this. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if she aims for a stadium tour next time around.

Yes! BTW the she definietly used biopic elements in the show but the actual biopic isn't dead; Just paused bc of script and budget issues. The tour being so successful financially and PR wise that it will probably get her the additional pu$h she needs to resume development and into pre-production. 

In 1974, Madonna was 16 and was in high school at Adams High in Rochester, MI. Wyn Cooper was a classmate and they were assigned to make a short movie for film class. Wyn, Madonna and Madonna's friend Carole Belanger did that Egg movie at a house were Belanger was baby sitting at. 
Wyn Cooper remembered this about Madonna then : "We developed a friendship and hung out. I had a Mercury Capri with an eight-track tape player. Madonna and I would hop in the car, drive around and listen to Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars while enjoying a little marijuana. She was social but removed at the same time".
Wyn Cooper became a poet and in 1987 he released "The Country of Here Below" a poetry book, only 500 copies were printed. One of the poem was called "FUN" and started like this "All I wanna do is have a little fun before i die".
Crowe's first album was recorded at Toad Hall Studio in Pasadena with record producers Bill Bottrell* and Kevin Gilbert*. Bottrell took a break and went to next door Pasadena's Playhouse and found copy of Cooper's book in an used bookstore, Crowe wasn't satisfied with a track she recorded "Still Love you", they rewrote the whole song adapting the poem hence Cooper getting a credit that bought him millions of dollars.
* What is really strange though is Bill Bottrell and Kevin Gilbert were respectively mixer and sound engineer assistant on Madonna's albums Like A Prayer, I'm Breathless (he even co-produced the Sondheim tracks) and they mixed the concert parts in Truth Or Dare. Gilbert mixed Now I'm following You Part II and the bottom remixes of Hanky Panky. They both were in Pat Leonard's Toy Matinee band. Bottrell was also a producer for Michael Jackson on Dangerous...
(Gilbert was Crowe's bf at the time and they had a big fall out, Bill Bottrell and him accused her of wrongfully crediting herself for the work they did on the album and ignoring them went it became succesful. Gilbert was also mad at Madonna for unknown reasons. He had a mental breakdown and killed himself in the late 90's)
That's a good example of how small the world can be.
 

I love that Ingrid is included 

The fact there is no Guy Ritchie 

I think she's just playing a little bit? It comes after the "I found love" line on "I Don't Search I Find" and includes MJ, Ingrid... That whole interlude is very tongue in cheek.

I just saw a close up video of her “meltdown” about the AC. What struck me most (and I haven’t seen pointed out) is that 1) she was clearly not in bitch mode though her tone was severe. She looks very very close to bursting into tears. 2) For all the talk of her being “unprofessional”, the audience was very much on her side and seemed to have understood. And 3) anyone (and I do mean Taylor, Beyoncé, Janet, whoever) would have done the exact same thing if their request had been repeatedly ignored an hour into their show. Was it cringe, yes…but hardly unprofessional. At least to me. We’ve all seen her be downright rude before…this wasn’t that.  

I remember being nervous the tour would be rescheduled again or cancelled as we got closer to opening night, I'm so glad I was wrong

Oh please, twitter source?? 😂
cancelling 5 sold out dates would be so crazy and stupid, especially that she will going to perform her last show in front of million people. The last show is going to have, probably, same setlist maybe with one more song, same stage and same lights and costumes. There’s no time to rehearse for something new

Oh honey you never disappoint to be extra unfunny, unfortunately