Create a Super bowl performance for Madonna

[RebelHeARTPOP 415]

One rule, it must be post Michael Jackson's performance at the Superbowl.

Mine is for 1995

 

 

Intro {Bedtime Story}

 

A giant orange Lotus is carted out on stage and you hear the beginning of Bedtime Story played, slightly extended. It opens revealing Madonna in the lotus position, in a white cloak and doves fly out from the flower.

 

"Today is the last day I am using words

They've gone out

Lost their meaning

Can't function anymore"

*Chimes & let's get unconscious honey echoes* and she stands dancers join her

"Traveling

I'm traveling

Traveling

Leaving logic and reason

Traveling

I'm gonna relax

Traveling

In the arms of unconsciousness"

 

Song 2 {Deeper&Deeper/Vogue}

 

The dancers tear away parts of her white cloak revealing an almost Marilyn Monroe style outfit reminds of the white dress from Vogue also reminds of Vegas showgirls.

 

 

 

The string synth (can be heard at 0:16 of the original D&D) plays with the rest of the layers of Deeper and deeper added in one by one covering 24 counts.

 

"I can't help falling in love

I fall deeper and deeper the further I go

Kisses sent from heaven above

They get sweeter and sweeter the more that I know

 

When you know the notes to sing

You can sing most anything

That's what my mama told me

Round and round and round you go

When you find love you'll always know

I let my father mold me"

 

Daddy couldn't be all wrong

(Not gonna let you slip away, I'm gonna be there)

And my mama made me learn this song

(You're gonna bring your love to me, I'm gonna get you)

That's why

 

I can't help falling in love

I fall deeper and deeper the further I go

Kisses sent from heaven above

They get sweeter and sweeter the more that I know

 

Someone said that romance was dead

And I believed it instead of remembering

What my mama told me

Let my father mold me

Then you tried to hold me

You remind me what they said

This feeling inside

I can't explain

But my love is alive

And I'm never gonna hide it again

 

(Vogue instrumental heard before the Greta Garbo lyric mixed with the guitar from D&D slightly shortened)

 

Greta Garbo, and Monroe

Deitrich and DiMaggio

Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean

On the cover of a magazine

 

Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean

Picture of a beauty queen

Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire

Ginger Rodgers, dance on air

 

They had style, they had grace

Rita Hayworth gave good face

Lauren, Katherine, Lana too

Bette Davis, we love you

 

Ladies with an attitude

Fellows that were in the mood

Don't just stand there, let's get to it

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

 

Vogue, vogue

 

Oooh, you've got to

Let your body move to the music

Oooh, you've got to just

Let your body go with the flow

Falling in love falling in love

I can't keep from falling in love with you even though there's nothing better that I'd like to do

 

(Papa strings start playing)

Papa Don't Preach

 

Papa I know you're going to be upset

Cuz I was always your little girl

But you should know now

I'm not a baby

You always taught me right from wrong

I need your help daddy please be strong

I may be young at heart but I know what I'm saying

 

Papa Don't Preach

I'm in trouble deep

Papa don't Preach

I've been losing sleep

I made up my mind

I'm keeping my baby

 

Oh, I'm gonna keep my baby, ooh

Don't you stop loving me daddy

 

Take a Bow

 

Take a bow, the night is over

This masquerade is getting older

Light are low, the curtains down

There's no one here

(There's no one here, there's no one in the crowd)

Say your lines but do you feel them

Do you mean what you say when there's no one around (no one around)

Watching you, watching me, one lonely star

(One lonely star you don't know who you are)

 

I've always been in love with you

I guess you've always known it's true

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

 

Say good-bye, say good-bye

 

 

All the world is a stage

And everyone has their part

But how was I to know which way the story'd go

How was I to know you'd break

You'd break my heart

 

I've always been in love with you

Guess you've always known

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

[madgefan 10,149]

She could have added Ray of Light or Hung Up instead of GMAYL and it would have been perfect.

[gafuller 1,653]

She could have added Ray of Light or Hung Up instead of GMAYL and it would have been perfect.

No GMAYL was tailored for that performance! But yes Hung Up, 4 Minutes, and Ray of Light were also meant for that performance! I really ought to share my version of what should have been the halftime show. A longer medley of her earlier classics with Express Yourself and Open Your Heart would have been amazing!

[Bobo 1,218]

1999 Madonna featuring Lenny Kravitz and Prince on Electric Guitars with William Orbit.

 

Shanti/Ashtangi

Ray of Light

Deeper and Deeper

Holiday

Like A Prayer

[gafuller 1,653]

Just now revisiting. I would have tailored her 2012 performance. Vogue to Music I would leave as they were, including LMFAO but then cutting to 4 Minutes which would give way to Hung Up. Her 2000s hits (being the freshest in mind to the younger audience) would be covered and tastefully. I'd then go into the first guitar performance. This performance would be Burning Up, to add that rock and roll flavor. Next would be I'm Addicted. I would have had this song released as her first single to MDNA a month or so earlier, hoping it to be a hit. After wards it would be time to debut the next single Give Me All Your Luvin with Nicki and MIA, essentially keeping the same performance from the original. I like the idea of the band and acapella of open your heart and express yourself. I would've taken advantage of this to add in a couple more songs like Deeper and Deeper and Dress You Up or Holiday. Next would be her second guitar moment, doing Ray of Light and then leading into Like A Prayer to close out the show just like the original.