Celestia

So go see Taylor Swift then . You’ll get a 3 hour boring arse Disney Princess/Cinderella cruise ship performance but at least it’ll start on time.

Go to an actual show.  Then try to come back with this nonsense!

Saying Madonna, a 65 years old woman still doing what people half her age (and younger) gave up doing already, is not focused or interested is almost sacrilege. Has she ever been either of those two things?

Sometimes it's just a case of "I don't like it" or "I don't get it".  There's nothing wrong with that. There's no need to blame Madonna.
Just saying...

Oh my god. No. Most critics are not “just journalists”; they’re cultural critics evaluating it as a work of art, not nerd ass obsessive voice coaches that are there to critique every note. And that doesn’t invalidate their opinions or make them less “skilled”. It’s like how an album from a less “skilled” singer can sometimes get better reviews than that of a more conventionally talented singer. It’s being evaluated as a work of art.
I don’t know where these voice obsessed people came from and why they’re even on a god damn Madonna forum ffs.
Oh and Taylor Swift is and has always been a shit singer on record and live. Her voice is shaky, thin as the air and is soul-free. Anyone that wants to disagree can shove it.

She should have included the 91 Oscar look instead of this one nobody remembers
There's a bit of Madonna in that photoshop

To be honest i think this is the last tour with this magnitude, with several dates and cities. 
 
she might do residencies in some cities and with shows more like Madame X. Let’s get real, she is 65 already. Of course she is a Godess, a Queen but she won’t live forever, so get up mother fuck*rs, enjoy her, go and see her asap during this tour. 
 
we are truly lucky she is still doing this, I can’t with the complaints about her moves or voice, delusional talk. I can see all of us crying and crying ig something bad happens.
she needs more credit from us, it’s not fair.
 

This is such a cool fan review of the show last night from RJF at Pop Justice that I had to share. I hope you enjoy this read as much as I have….
So after spending about half an hour panicking in the longest, coldest queue ever to get into the stadium last night, it turned out... I must have been in the first thousand or so allowed into Golden Circle?!?!!! Gag the girls who actually paid for Early Entry a bit, I guess. But basically, there were so many bits where I could be just a few rows away from the stage. I had no idea where was technically best... so I just went for the end of the stage. Now, I am not a barrier girlie, friends. I honestly just don't care enough to put myself through it and normally I turn up to get a decent midway spot which is what I thought I was doing, but I luck appeared to be on my side so I just fucking went for it, toilet and drinks be damned. I have never been that close to the stage at an arena show. I was vibrating!!!! Well maybe not after standing there for the next two hours waiting for her to come on but all was forgotten when the lights went down.

Last night was really just perfect, honestly. Conceptually, the show is just a total masterpiece. I remember when this tour was announced - this greatest hits tour that we all thought she would never do - and even in our wildest dreams I don't think any of us could have imagined it being a two hour invite into the maelstrom of Madonna's mind. At the beginning of last night in that absolutely merciless run of early 80s smashes, I thought I had things pegged: a chronological show, a stylised life story, cool! I was all in! ...but then I should have realised. As "Holiday" guttered out into a desperate plea, the disco ball slowed to a crawl, her dancer ebbed away, and "In This Life" (?!?!?!??!??!!?!?!!?111!11111!) started, I actually thought of that haughty post in here a few weeks ago being all, "I paid for a greatest hits show!!!" and reminded myself of my own words: this was a show for her first, and us second. In fact, she even told us what kind of show this was going to be the moment we saw the imagery: iconography, distorted and warped. Not a discography, but the performance of a life, remembered and misremembered. Sometimes coherent and correct, and sometimes wild hazy and inaccurate.

The staging is... yet another example of her show pushing the medium forward. I actually went to Fotografiska earlier that day and weirdly I felt that it prepared me for what she had in store? The way the screens constantly shifting and moving feel more like someone trying to organise their thoughts as things flicker in and out of focus; how sometimes things overwhelm and overpower. The AIDS memorial was instantly one of the best things she's ever done on stage; how her floating mournfully around it felt like some kind of solemn recollection and a gallery/museum preserving these memories rolled into one. Of course they're also just used to blast you with how much of a QUEEN she is, but they're used really artfully too. Stuff like during "Mother & Father" where she, tiny, is singing up to the monolithic, untouchable portrait of her mother... chills. I also have no real concrete problems with the setlist; I at least understand the logic and reasoning behind all the choices made, some of them were a gag (Erotica ATE!!!) and each suite after the cheery 80s gauntlet becoming something more abstract was really interesting. Less about representing a time period and more about representing an attitude, or a state of mind. The pacing of the middle is wildas things lurch between deep cuts, smash hits, and utterly random connections (Human Nature/Crazy For You and I Will Survive/La Isla/Don't Cry?!?!??!!!!) with all varying tempos... It's chaos... but Madonna is chaos. And we are merely guests for a time in this, the palace of her mind. A hitmaker, a performer, a ferocious deity, a woman, an activist, an advocate, and most importantly to her these days, a parent.

She's also human. Seeing her up close was an incredible reminder of that. After I recovered from being about five people away from her, I was struck by the fact that... she's a person? Tiny in real life and every single inch of her purpose-built for a two hour show, but still just... vulnerable in a way I never think of her as. It was during the third act when she's in the red lingerie, fully exposed, but still entirely in control. There were also moments where she was of course invincible like the fucking silver bodysuit?!?!?!?1/!?! I live.

The whole thing was just a much needed reminder of how singular she is... and how much she means to me. The pandemic really did a number on my relationship with her music and with this forum; I'll never regret the work I put into the discography rate but it came at a cost, sacrificing memories and associations songs originally had until it was just a spreadsheet and the fucking wall I would stare at between paragraphs when I was doing write ups. I really needed this show to fix that. A pilgrimage to pop's capital to see its Queen and remember why I swore fealty in the first place! It was the hunt for tickets that brought me back to all of you full-time as well, I'm sure some of you will be thrilled to know. It was similar to Dua's tour last year; I needed new memories to obliterate the old ones, and well... I got them in spades. I'll remember it for the rest of my life, I hope.

No one else will ever be like her. Ever.

Madonna, showing what time her shows start 🙂

If you can't see how truly shallow and inappropriate it is to spend this amount of time on a woman's behind then I can't help you, you do you, but don't run around crying when you get called out on it babes. 

To butt or to not butt, that's the question.
Anyway, just to save my time, can someone give me a full concert footage on YouTube from any of the Antwerp dates?? Preferibly the one with Causing a Commotion plz.

Bitches, now sit your asses down (remember the lyrics?) and let's celebrate that, with or without a Brazilian butt, she's fvcking alive and doing a fvcking 2h length show 4x a week???? With plenty of gems and songs that we begged her to death to do??? When her butt rests in a sepulture, we can discuss such byzantine things as the sex of the angels. Talking about that, "I'll never be an angel, I'll never be a saint, it's true, I'm too busy SURVIVING..."

She gives us probably her most intricate live show ever, full of details and info to discuss, just four months after nearly dying and yet some fans are still obsessed with her ass.
I mean.

I have only seen pics and those professionally released videos.
I can’t wait to see this in person and I really hope they extend the tour and bring it to Australia!

This convo is so October 14th Sultrysully… 😉

This tour is blowing my mind. I'll admit I thought that because she was so averse to doing a 'greatest hits' type of show for her entire career, that she might not actually enjoy doing it. I mean we all knew she would bring it from a production standpoint (she always does), but I wondered if she would feel somewhat uninspired actually performing it. Turns out it's exactly the opposite: Madonna hasn't looked this happy on tour since literally 1987. It's like she's discovering her own catalogue and realising, hey that's right I built that shit. There's a joy and sense of peace that she's exuding, she's smiling and having a fucking BLAST with her dancers... and a different type of performing style, less perfectionist machine with something to prove, and more just... confidently the biggest pop star in history and let's have fun with it. FABULOUS to see.
This is a special time to be a Madonna fan and feels like a career renaissance.

Technology is a curious thing. Back when I was just 13 years old, I had a VHS tape that played with scratches, pops, and all sorts of imperfections. It contained a recording of Madonna's Blond Ambition tour, and I watched it until it practically wore out. Alongside that, I had my collection of cutout photos from various magazines, and that was the extent of my connection to Madonna.
Fast forward to today, and it's a whole new world. We can stream shows online from anywhere on the globe. We have access to thousands upon thousands of images, videos, and information, all available at our fingertips. We know what was planned, what was discussed, and even what got discarded. Behind-the-scenes snapshots are readily accessible. It's all laid out for us.
Yet, here we are, discussing the most trivial details like Madonna's butt or a mole above her lip. It makes you wonder if we truly deserve all this.
The transformation brought by technology is astounding, but it also raises questions about how we choose to use it and what we focus on

"Herpes, butt talk again, she's lost, something's wrong with her..." OMG some people in here r never gonna stop? Holy f*ck... Thank God for the ignore button, honestly... 
I see her better and better each night, smiling, and having lots of fun and enjoying presenting her vision and her journey to the audience. Can't wait to see her in both Barcelona shows, spanish people gonna show how it's done when it comes to passion <3 :-P She looks and sounds fantastic, and this show is TOP already, some choreographies r the best she's done in a while. Damien Jalet is an ARTIST, the DAD one is gorgeous, u should check this
https://www.instagram.com/p/CybbkFCL11B/
"Act of living for love
Justify my love
Die another day

Are the numbers I choreographed for this tour

Thanks to @doni_q and @jamesvuanh for helping me developing « die another day » . this number could be also named « the struggle of the magicians » a ballet created originally by the philosopher Gurdjeff who s also quoted at the start of the song and in many movements of the choreography".

She wears the knee as protection and reinforcement not because she can't walk. She does'nt wear it all the show. It's a wise move.
People are having opinions about her playlist , it does'nt means is not finalized. People are having their opinions about what they want to hear instead of what it has been presented to them.
She DOESN'T looks lost. At all. She is smiling and happy and because she  hasn't got a heavy choreography she can breath and communicate with the audience. The speeches and interactions are calm and welcoming. Her mobility and pace around the (massive) stage during the 2 hours is astounding and great.
If you didn't experience the show I wouldn't recommend you to make a judgement particularly of doom. These are your ideas that you are projecting. Nothing healthy, nor contributing to any good cause.

Dramatic much? The setlist is fantastic and the show looks amazing. Just because she's not moving like a 20 year old doesn't mean the world is ending. Chill out.

If folk want to obsessively give their views on a woman's behind or catastrophise about her health after watching shit streams, can they at least create dedicated topics so the rest of us don't have to see it? It's so tedious and for most of us this is a very happy week.

Rachelle is sending every F*ck offs she wants 😂😂😂😂

I think once you understand that Celebration/Music is just an encore, that's why it's so short and she barely sings, it kinda makes sense. It's just that the build up to that moment is not that epic with Rain and Bitch I'm Madonna, but all the Madonnas onstage are actually a cute moment. But this is her weirdest ending since RIT's Holiday.
Is there another America we don't know of? 

I've had the best night ever, easily the best concert I've been to. I am sad that some songs didn't make the cut but it was still an amazing night I'll never forget.

I hope so I have not found one yet. Going for a quick shower and I will be back. And NO am not giving blowjobs for showers at this point. YET!!!