Vinny Fonseca

The event of
the 22nd korean american national sports festival
  It was in the arena where Madonna was rehearsing, apparently they left part of the stage installed

Something To Remember
Beautiful Stranger or Beautiful Killer?

Something To Remember
Beautiful Stranger or Beautiful Killer?

First time seeing Madonna in my life was at the MDNA Tour in Istanbul, Turkey - June 7th, 2012. I got early entry tickets, won two Golden Triangle wrist bands for my mom and me, at the show, my father and two brothers won the lottery with 3 bands into the Golden Triangle. We entered early and Madonna was still on stage after soundcheck, and everyone was screaming and she wasn't paying any attention, then they went silence for a second and I screamed MAAADOOOOOONNAAAA and she turns around at me and says "SSHHHHHHHH!" and the crowd went crazy, and then she proceeded to walk on the runways to check the screens and played Turn Up The Radio for us while we sang along and took distant selfies.
Shortly afterwards, she went inside and Guy Oseary came to the triangle triangle and we took photos with, then Offer Nissim did the opening act.
Later when the show started at 10:15 PM, it was epic. During Open Your Heart, people were sort of scattered in the triangle but they were away from the right side of the stage, and for some reason I was so close to the main stage on the right side, and I was extended my hand, then she sang "I think that you're afraid to look in my eyes" pointing at me and walking towards me, and then she sat on her knee and held my hand singing "you look a little sad boy I, I wonder why" and then moved forward. It felt so otherworldly, so heavenly, so dreamy and so damn personal, because it wasn't just a random touch among many, it's like she targeted me among everyone else and walked towards me. I still can't believe that happened. Then later when Rocco came on stage, she came back again to the same spot and she was dancing with him in front of me looking at me and I started crying when reality finally set in that what happened just happened.
Later she flashed her nipples for the very first time during Human Nature and the next morning every newspaper was talking about her. If that isn't an extraordinary experience, I don't know what is, and I'm eternally and immeasurably grateful for it.

Guy posted this

 

Wait a minute, her t-shirt imlediately caught my attention ! It's her Bob-Lo t-shirt she wore when she was 16yo !!!!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvd0sl
 

Borderline
Addicted or I'm Addicted?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvd0sl
 

You're The One
Lament or You Must Love Me ?

You're The One
Lament or You Must Love Me ?

I think it's easy to fall into the trap on a Madonna fan forum of thinking everything she does will be received as widely and excitedly as WE would receive it here. We already saw Vulgar flop. Madonna needs the media attention. I'm sure many normal people have no idea she's going on tour, or didn't know until the news headlines about her health. The average person does not know when an artist is going to go on tour unless they're a loyal fan of that artist who follows what they do on social media. She def needs publicity to let the unwashed masses KNOW about the tour and to build a hype around it that goes beyond us superfans on madonna-infinity.net

Damn. If she’s gonna do Hold Tight and not Causing A Commotion then I’m making a banner for the Toronto shows saying “THE POLICE ARE HERE”

Cherish
Borderline or Lucky Star?

Erotica
Dress You Up or Burning Up?

I hope so (even if I may be one of the few who wants to hear it on this tour lol)... But even without, her comeback will be epic ! Already when she reappeared in the street recently, I felt like it had just happened 🥺

(The topic says "no spoilers"... but not "no kind photomontages" )

Get Together
Holiday or Into the Groove?

Pictures show Madonna out in NYC amid health scare, has ‘no trouble walking’
 

 

thank god she doesn't have the big back anymore

Get Together
Holiday or Into the Groove?

Probably The Blonde Ambition and The Re-Invention Tour DVD's will be released posthumously as well as most of the unreleased tracks.
Speaking of which, many unrealeased songs and demo versions are way better than entire albums.
At first I kinda hated Madame X and found it messy. I used to despise Batuka and Crazy. Now they are among my favorites, but I still can't stand Faz Gostoso, Looking For Mercy, Bitch I'm Loca, Future and Come Alive. I skip those most of times.
I'm afraid that, at some point, she may be forced to postpone/cancel the tour due to a surgery to fix that knee injury. (God forbid it! Especially before the show I'll be attending in Lisbon). ?
I hope that one day she hits the road with a greatest hits tour, singing the studio versions without ruining her classics with dreadful remixes. 
She should also have an "MTV-unplugged-like" show/live album performing some underrated songs such as "I'll Remember", "The Power of Good Bye", "You'll See","Bad Girl", "Joan of Arc"- just to name a few.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

When it´s a downward spiral it's called decadence. 

When it´s a downward spiral it's called decadence. 

From Bowling at Madonna Tribe. Her pain sounds worse than ever  ?
So back from the show, 
Radio edit after a very nice warm up from the band , we took our seat front row when they just started.
First row is definitely NOT the best seat in the house, anything from row 1 to 5 is too close and I mean it.
Yes you get to see her up close BUT she was so not at ease, she s in pain, she s exhausted and after few minutes even my parents look at me with that expression “what is going on”
You could almost felt everybody wondering will she go through the show and she did. But in a bad mood, from pain, exhaustion, and especially after the Polaroid won by a German girl. Someone say something anti German and her expression was terrible. She said” I heard that every country had bad history or history involved tyran so don’t lecture anyone” followed by a long pause and looking aggressively in the audience.
Same when she told the story about Celeste passing away an italian girl next to me said “hun?” Like she didn’t understand. And same Madonna stopped, looked at her and answer her with a stone face and aggressive tone . “It meant she died”. It was awkward... and again a weird long pause :starring at the girl....
There was a lot of love and scream from fan I guess but not enough, she complained about the audience being half asleep. We were not enough so she kinda switch to the auto pilote mode for a while.
She warmed a bit when the whole fado section got wild reaction.
My parents and brother didn’t especially notice the bad mood but they did notice her pain and exhaustion.
What was incredible was her voice, never ever I ve heard sing like that. EVER.
Especially la vie en Rose. Through the roof. Jaw dropping performance. So was extreme Occident.
Now to adress the elephant in the room she is beyond exhausted. Compare to Chicago she was the shadow of herself.
Yes it’s admirable she keep on going but the pain is too obvious now, there something unhealthy for everybody in the room at this point imho.
The dancers looks worried, m look worried at every step she take, the audience was worried about her pain.
It create a weird atmosphere, probably the people in the row far back wouldn’t notice but for us at front row, we could see the eyes contact, the subtle interaction between them. And M facial expression. She had a dancer holding her hand or close to her almost all the time. After butaka dance she seat next to one of the lady, the last one took her hand to comfort her and M was making again that face of someone being in so much pain :-/
M missed her come alive entrance with incomplete costume , her lap entrance and at the end of lap she was almost crying.
I don’t know what to make of this night. It was emotional, brilliant brave, awkward and painful all at the same time.
I don’t how to express it better.
Since it’s the second radio edit in a row I Think it would be the case until the end. 
I have 2 more shows to attend, when I told my parents she has all those remaining shows to do they ask “how she s gonna make it?”
Don’t take this review as a negative one, it’s not, it’s just what I felt being so close to the stage and the whole energy coming from it. 
I guess people not as close had Probably different feeling. But imho was not her best performance, not her best night, not her best crowd, but probably her best voice EVER...
So bittersweet is the word to describe that night even if my guest had a blast, I for one was worried and sorry for her many times.

Unforgivable is starting a tour with these ticket prices after such an injury taking place, before resting and recovering.
Unforgivable is canceling shows when you already have people on a line waiting to see you.  Or that lottery thing they did at the beginning. Or failing to know the measures of every single stage you have shows, so your fucking stage fits. You know...basic things that every act knows. 
Pulling a chair by mistake during a single show? Easily forgivable. The problems are not the chairs or the dancers on this tour. That's not the problem here. 
I also just realized this is the first tour being organized not solely by Live Nation but also by Guy Oseary's management as well. (Maverick)
That explains the mess this has been. 
Speaking of Guy...where the hell is he? One of his biggest artists and supposedly a friend is literally killing herself on stage every night and he's nowhere in sight. I'm sure that mansion in Brazil or wherever the hell he's living is nice. Literally everything he has is thanks to this woman. And she lives in such a bubble that only her doesn't realize how much harm this past year has done for her entire career.