Celebration

hi.... new subscriber... here.... from Italy.... hi everyone....for sure they will put out something..... i hope they start form the beginning and t hey put out album and vinyls fast ... one every 4 -5 months.... but i also hope to have something new.... look how amazing was this year and last year with: forzen with sickick and frozen with 070shake, story with blondish, Hung up on t, popular and vulgar.... i hope to see a more prolific M...

Medusa! 

The first reality show was sometime in the 70's here in the States I think. Was about a family and the son eventually came out as gay. My memory of it is vague ("Vanna White, Ed McMahon, Nicolette Sheridan"...let's see who gets this...)
The Real World  was really the one that set it off though. Survivor and Big Brother brought in the game show factor.
Truth or Dare for me was Madonna playing MADONNA. Performance art. Not even a documentary. I'm sure many will disagree. 
 

Nah. Bob Dylan did his tour documentary Don't Look Back In Anger, in 1987, and then we had the film about Woodstock in 1970, and there is a whole bunch of documentaries about The Rolling Stones. 
Well, MTV's Real World started in 1992, and I think it was the first reality show in Sweden. (Rge Real World: Stockholm, in 1995)
And later Big Brother exploded and was huge here in Sweden for a few years.

His 90s album Cheapness and Beauty is a slice of brilliance. Definitely not a one hit wonder, but an icon. He's had quite a journey.

I probably haven't listened to Boy George or Culture club in 20 years but I can still name
Karma Chamelean Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Victims Church Of The Poison Mind White Boy The War Song Mistake no 3 Bow Down Mister The Crying Game Time Clock Of The Heart I'll Tumble 4 Ya It's A Miracle  Miss Me Blind Move Away Everything I Own I Just Wanna Be Loved Off the top of my head. Far far far from a one hit wonder. They've sold absolutely millions of records. 

Nah. Bob Dylan did his tour documentary Don't Look Back In Anger, in 1987, and then we had the film about Woodstock in 1970, and there is a whole bunch of documentaries about The Rolling Stones. 
Well, MTV's Real World started in 1992, and I think it was the first reality show in Sweden. (Rge Real World: Stockholm, in 1995)
And later Big Brother exploded and was huge here in Sweden for a few years.

Nah. Bob Dylan did his tour documentary Don't Look Back In Anger, in 1987, and then we had the film about Woodstock in 1970, and there is a whole bunch of documentaries about The Rolling Stones. 
Well, MTV's Real World started in 1992, and I think it was the first reality show in Sweden. (Rge Real World: Stockholm, in 1995)
And later Big Brother exploded and was huge here in Sweden for a few years.

Nah. Bob Dylan did his tour documentary Don't Look Back In Anger, in 1987, and then we had the film about Woodstock in 1970, and there is a whole bunch of documentaries about The Rolling Stones. 
Well, MTV's Real World started in 1992, and I think it was the first reality show in Sweden. (Rge Real World: Stockholm, in 1995)
And later Big Brother exploded and was huge here in Sweden for a few years.

There's a solution to this. Box 80s, Box 90s, Box 00s and Box 10s. 
Oh, that's stupid solution. We know which one wouldn't sell much. 

You may have heard that Madonna is back. If you haven’t heard it, you’ve probably seen it: her new live tour – her first in four years – is an elaborate theatrical experience packed with four decades worth of the best pop songs ever made, and it has been plastered all over social media feeds since it kicked off last week. Highlights include: Madonna in a metal box flying around the arena, Madonna in a spinning cage straddling half-naked dancers in lacy gimp masks, Madonna thrashing out on an electric guitar at the end of a catwalk.
Like Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, The Celebration Tour is a journey through Madonna’s banger-filled career with a narrative that follows her from her coming-of-age in New York City, to her embrace of Ballroom culture in the 1990s (RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen leads us through the night as the MC), and her iconic VMAs kiss with Britney Spears in the early 2000s.
“She had been planning to make a biopic and she was going to contextualise that through the lens of New York City,” Ric Lipson, Madonna’s stage designer of architecture firm Stufish (who also designed Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour set), says. But, with that movie scrapped, she poured all of the autobiographical inspiration into this show. The show kicks off in Lipson’s approximation New York City – with areas of the stage temporarily representing the likes of legendary music venue CBGBs (where Madonna kickstarted her career in the early '80s) and Danceteria, a club she frequented on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. From there it takes us on a wild journey through her biggest songs – many of which she hadn’t played in decades.
GQ spoke to Lipson about building the show with Madonna, and the pros and cons of the live music boom on TikTok.
GQ: What concept did Madonna bring to you for this tour?
Ric Lipson: I met with her back in August last year, and we talked about New York and wanting to do something more modern [than her previous tour, 2019’s Madame X], something more about staging, lighting and photography.
On her last tour, there were no phones allowed. So we discussed the idea of letting the fans get close to her, and showing her in ways with camerawork how people are used to seeing her on social media, which is portrait, 16:9. And that we could tell the story of this show, [her career] and these decades, through multiple catwalks and the blocks to emulate the Manhattan bridge. So when she first leaves the circular stage and comes down to [our approximation of the famous New York club] CBGBs, that’s the east side and then we have uptown, downtown and the west side.
The circular stage is a memory and echo of the VMAs performance in 1984, where she was on a large, oversized wedding cake in a wedding dress. Then she tripped and fell down the wedding cake, and everyone was like, her career is over. She turned that around and became the biggest musician in the world.
That movie was scrapped in January 2023. It sounds like she’s put her personal story into this tour instead?
For sure. I mean, I don’t know what the status of that movie is. But certainly some of the ideas that she had for that exist in this show.
Did the show change materially after Madonna’s health scare earlier this year?
A few tiny things but mainly to make the show more efficient. Madonna rehearses unlike most artists. She has been rehearsing the show every day since April. So her fitness has built up constantly from day one. Other artists, their dancers go and build the show somewhere and they come in a few weeks later. After the break, about two months, she was back to the same thing and we did another six weeks of rehearsals.
We met briefly at the show, and you mentioned that TikTok is always on your mind when you construct these shows, because you know much of the world will be seeing sections of it on there. How much of a practical impact does that have on your work?
We're used to designing shows that have to be seen by the audience all angles, without revealing something that they shouldn't reveal. Certainly, we now have to think about what fits well in portrait shots.
One of the weirdest things that has become a thing, which sounds crazy, is colour balance. Historically, you would colour balance the lighting, with a screen everything else for for the eye, or for professional cameras, or for the video cameras shooting the show. Now, if you do that, and you put your mobile phone up that wants to autocorrect white balance, you end up with very strange pictures on the phone. And because so many people take pictures with phones, [lighting designer Rob Sinclair and video director Bert Parre] are now altering the lighting and the video to look good on the phone.
So that’s the biggest thing the phone has added, the extra level of complication to make sure that she always looks good in the light, that her hair isn’t the wrong colour, that her skin doesn't end up looking green because it's self-corrected too much blue or whatever else.
How do you feel about audiences viewing the shows through their phone screens?
I think it takes away from the audience to not be engaged with actually watching the show, but I think that the audience is becoming the curator of the show. It’s interesting which ones they take, because they’re not always the ones we think they will. In any show, you want to create highs and lows, and you go, ‘What are the five key moments on Instagram or TikTok?’ We imagine it’ll be certain moments like when she’s in the frame, when she’s in the cage for “Like A Prayer”, or when she’s doing “Hung Up” with all the cast members with their tops off. We create these things, but actually, the public are the people that decide what memories they take home.
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/madonna-tour-explained

I disagree. I thought her singing was much better than the last times I've seen her live.
Much more in tune and a bit more confident in her singing.

That was really great! Thank you for sharing it with us.
And I agree with you.
I too think this is her last big mega tour. And if she never tours again, she sure is ending her touring career with a triumphant bang!

That's what I thought too, so I bought it there.
The rest of the t-shirts that I want I can order from her online store.

I disagree. I thought her singing was much better than the last times I've seen her live.
Much more in tune and a bit more confident in her singing.

That was really great! Thank you for sharing it with us.
And I agree with you.
I too think this is her last big mega tour. And if she never tours again, she sure is ending her touring career with a triumphant bang!

That was really great! Thank you for sharing it with us.
And I agree with you.
I too think this is her last big mega tour. And if she never tours again, she sure is ending her touring career with a triumphant bang!

That was really great! Thank you for sharing it with us.
And I agree with you.
I too think this is her last big mega tour. And if she never tours again, she sure is ending her touring career with a triumphant bang!

If anyone is interested
 
https://news.madonnatribe.com/en/2023/we-dont-need-a-biopic-we-have-the-celebration-tour/?fbclid=IwAR2Ok8HjO5KYIV6g-AC6YeJkmHgA-3qDkGcHlBqRr-grBa-oFjzmPOJdgDw

Oh my stars!
That was the best show since the Confessions Tour!
Very heavy bass, but Madonna was on fire. She was in a splendid mood, and the show itself was amazing.
Seeing all her friends on big screens during Live To Tell was very moving, and I almost cried when I saw Gabriel's portrait.
Those of you who have tickets for coming concerts are in for an amazing evening.
 
By the way: This is about half of Tele2 Arena. The place is huge, and Madonna was very pleased and said that she likes playing in soccer stadiums.

Oh my stars!
That was the best show since the Confessions Tour!
Very heavy bass, but Madonna was on fire. She was in a splendid mood, and the show itself was amazing.
Seeing all her friends on big screens during Live To Tell was very moving, and I almost cried when I saw Gabriel's portrait.
Those of you who have tickets for coming concerts are in for an amazing evening.
 
By the way: This is about half of Tele2 Arena. The place is huge, and Madonna was very pleased and said that she likes playing in soccer stadiums.

The promoter didn't release any numbers regarding that, but it was practically sold out.
Only the ridiculously expensive VIP-sections were a bit empty...

Actually some people here in Sweden have Halloween themed parties and take the kids out for trick or treating. 

This is also Halloween weekend. Im thinking I’ll dress up and go trick or treating at the concert!

Oh my stars!
That was the best show since the Confessions Tour!
Very heavy bass, but Madonna was on fire. She was in a splendid mood, and the show itself was amazing.
Seeing all her friends on big screens during Live To Tell was very moving, and I almost cried when I saw Gabriel's portrait.
Those of you who have tickets for coming concerts are in for an amazing evening.
 
By the way: This is about half of Tele2 Arena. The place is huge, and Madonna was very pleased and said that she likes playing in soccer stadiums.