Blue Jean

My hope is that nothing is cut from the show, we get 2 hours 20 minutes. I don’t see why not.

He can indulge in my junk

I don’t think the speeches were that long earlier in the tour were they? I think 4 minutes talking to the audience twice is fine for a tv broadcast. It’s actually rather weird when performers don’t speak to the audience at all.

But with that logic they should also cut Bad Girl, 5 minutes of her sitting down singing a flop single that only hardcore fans know/like.

She’s going to ramble on I’m sure of it

There’s no way she would cut the speeches. And the show is 2 hours 20 minutes. I’m not sure why it can’t go 20 minutes over, surely those time listings are just a guide?

True but he was in a group, his solo career pre Off the Wall produced only a couple of hits. And there was a huge slump in his solo career from 1973 to 1979. It’s like Cher too, she had hits across many decades but lots of years of flops. Madonna had consistent chart success worldwide 1984 to 2012 which is unprecedented.

Madonna had much greater longevity in the singles charts worldwide than any of her peers. Even MJ's chart career was dead long before Madonna. A lot of her alleged peers like Mariah and Janet never really had many hits outside of the US.

As for Madonna and relevancy, I think Hard Candy was when she started to become less relevant. However I feel the last few years, in a strange way, she has become more relevant again. Yes the perception of her can be negative but she is more often in the news and being talked about, and her impact is again felt. There was a period before that where it actually seemed like nobody was even aware of what she was up to anymore and the younger generation didn’t even know who she was. I think her social media presence has grown though through tik tok, the tour, her back catalogue getting released properly on streaming/youtube and so on. Her streaming numbers have increased a lot in recent years. And yes, the shitty sexist/ageist commentary has actually helped her profile too.

I actually wonder if there was too much label intervention with these past few albums for her to really enjoy doing them. Madame X sounds like the label came in half way through and said we need some trap, reggaeton, collabs etc. If the album was all Mirwais and her it could have evolved into something more interesting.

I love that she listened to the fans and gave us everything we ever wanted

Again, no.

That's exactly what I thought too

That would be compromising her artistic integrity