The Celebration Tour (No Spoilers)

[Donna 17,202]

59 minutes ago, Mden said:

What MJ turned down was the instrumental demo. That was what Patrick had to offer. Madonna added the lyrics and the melody. 

I'm sure if MJ did use it, it really would have been a totally different song.  Patrick may have provided the makings of the song, but it's because of Madonna, I feel the song became what it was. 

[Justice 326]

2 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

Actually Cherish she almost didn’t put on the album. 

Source?

[Justice 326]

1 hour ago, Mden said:

What MJ turned down was the instrumental demo. That was what Patrick had to offer. Madonna added the lyrics and the melody. 

From the Wikipedia:

One of the instrumental demos Leonard submitted for Jackson's approval had "some form of a vocal", and included the phrase "La Isla Bonita", but Jackson and Jones did not like it and rejected it. After meeting with Madonna to start working on True Blue, Leonard showed her the demo, and she worked on it to create some of the lyrics and melodies; "it wouldn't have occurred to me to do anything like that with her. But she liked it", Leonard recalled.

[Mden 2,252]

36 minutes ago, Justice said:

From the Wikipedia:

One of the instrumental demos Leonard submitted for Jackson's approval had "some form of a vocal", and included the phrase "La Isla Bonita", but Jackson and Jones did not like it and rejected it. After meeting with Madonna to start working on True Blue, Leonard showed her the demo, and she worked on it to create some of the lyrics and melodies; "it wouldn't have occurred to me to do anything like that with her. But she liked it", Leonard recalled.

‘Written and produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, with additional lyrics by Bruce Gaitsch, the song was originally presented by Leonard as an instrumental demo to Michael Jackson, who turned it down; Leonard then played it to Madonna, who liked it and wrote the lyrics and melodies.’  From wiki

P. Leonard is credited for the phrase La Isla Bonita and the Some Form Of A Vocal😁

[Roland Barthes 5,930]

16 minutes ago, Mden said:

‘Written and produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, with additional lyrics by Bruce Gaitsch, the song was originally presented by Leonard as an instrumental demo to Michael Jackson, who turned it down; Leonard then played it to Madonna, who liked it and wrote the lyrics and melodies.’  From wiki

P. Leonard is credited for the phrase La Isla Bonita and the Some Form Of Vocal😁

Yep, Madonna was inspired while dribving in her car and saw the San Pedro exit (maybe she was visiting Bukowski with Sean since he lived there before moving in with them for a while in Malibu) and she pictured an exotic island in her mind.

[missberic 811]

And Open Your Heart was supposed to be offered to Cyndi Lauper but was mistakenly presented to M, right?

[Donna 17,202]

35 minutes ago, missberic said:

And Open Your Heart was supposed to be offered to Cyndi Lauper but was mistakenly presented to M, right?

No mistake!  It was written for Cyndi, titled as "Follow Your Heart" but the writers never got a chance to present it to her. Meanwhile, Freddy Demann (Madonna's manager at the time) was working with the writers of that song.  He mentioned he was looking for songs for Madonna's third album. The writers submitted three demos, and one of them was "Follow Your Heart".  When Freddy heard the song, he asked for a demo recording with a female on it, and that's how Donna Delory entered the picture.  She was the girlfriend to one of the writers.  After the female demo was presented to Madonna, she accepted it, changed the title and the lyrics, and the rest becomes history, including Donna eventually becoming one of Madonna's back up singers for years to come.

[steady75 9,685]

La Isla was probably rejected purely for the fact MJ already had Liberian Girl reworking in the bag from the Victory sessions for Bad and one song with flavour was probably considered enough in 86.

[Lucky90210 741]

I would be happy with this Celebration Tour Setlist 

 

Career Montage

 

Everybody

Into the Groove/Causing a Commotion

Physical Attraction/Crave

Lucky Star 

Borderline/Crazy For You

 

VULGAR 

 

Vogue

Hung Up

Deeper and Deeper/Living for Love 

Girl Gone Wild

Express Yourself 

Justify My Love/Erotica/Bad Girl/Human Nature 

 

This Used to be my Playground 

 

Like A Virgin

Material Girl/Gworrrl

Dress You Up

Open Your Heart

Papa Don’t Preach

La Isla Bonita/Who’s that Girl 

 

Rescue Me

 

Like A Prayer

Frozen/Remix

Ray of Light 

Die Another Day

Secret 

Take A Bow

 

Popular

 

Music

Give me all your Luvin’/Bitch I’m Madonna

Holiday/Celebration 

[Honey Little 4,338]

9 hours ago, steady75 said:

She likes stuff purely because it was disliked at times. She's bratty and doesn't like to be told no which is great in general but it also blurs her judgement. 

Candy Shop on 3 world tours and I am sure it will be on this upcoming one.

[Blue Jean 15,867]

6 hours ago, steady75 said:

Really I don't remember that. Probably because she wasn't feeling very cheery and lovestruck eh?

It was in b-roll of the Molly Meldrum 1989 interview that leaked a few years back. She said it’s because it didn’t fit the theme/mood of the album. But she doesn’t seem overly excited about the song to me.

[Blue Jean 15,867]

4 hours ago, Justice said:

From the Wikipedia:

One of the instrumental demos Leonard submitted for Jackson's approval had "some form of a vocal", and included the phrase "La Isla Bonita", but Jackson and Jones did not like it and rejected it. After meeting with Madonna to start working on True Blue, Leonard showed her the demo, and she worked on it to create some of the lyrics and melodies; "it wouldn't have occurred to me to do anything like that with her. But she liked it", Leonard recalled.

 

4 hours ago, Mden said:

‘Written and produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, with additional lyrics by Bruce Gaitsch, the song was originally presented by Leonard as an instrumental demo to Michael Jackson, who turned it down; Leonard then played it to Madonna, who liked it and wrote the lyrics and melodies.’  From wiki

P. Leonard is credited for the phrase La Isla Bonita and the Some Form Of A Vocal😁

I don’t know which is true but wiki is NOT a reliable source . I literally read things about Madonna on there that I know are false.

[Honey Little 4,338]

4 hours ago, Roland Barthes said:

Yep, Madonna was inspired while dribving in her car and saw the San Pedro exit (maybe she was visiting Bukowski with Sean since he lived there before moving in with them for a while in Malibu) and she pictured an exotic island in her mind.

They were on there way to visit Charles Manson and his girls.

[Lucky90210 741]

I think she could definitely do a few medley’s. And probably has to. If your think about it. She fit four complete songs in the Super Bowl in 12 minutes.

[Blue Jean 15,867]

1 minute ago, Lucky90210 said:

I think she could definitely do a few medley’s. And probably has to. If your think about it. She fit four complete songs in the Super Bowl in 12 minutes.

As long as its not one entire medley like a Janet Jackson concert

[Lucky90210 741]

1 hour ago, Blue Jean said:

As long as its not one entire medley like a Janet Jackson concert

Agreed! THAT would be horrible.

[musicinferno 3,755]

Thankfully she's not big fan of medleys so no Janet esque show would ever happen. But I am expecting 2 or 3 on this tour. 

[lap 1,502]

23 hours ago, Angelo said:

She would probably rather die than singing Cherish again 😂

If it went a viral on tik tok, I'm sure she'll love that song so much again, like Material Girl, lol

[lap 1,502]

7 hours ago, Justice said:

Source?

Herself. I had a small article from Smash Hits she said it almost didn't the final LAP tracklist

[musicinferno 3,755]

9 minutes ago, lap said:

Herself. I had a small article from Smash Hits she said it almost didn't the final LAP tracklist

I think I vaguely remember that too. Strange how a song almost was deleted and it became not only a single but a huge hit. 

 

That seems to happen often... Into The Groove, Vogue, Cherish.... 

[Pedro Beltran 4,834]

8 hours ago, Roland Barthes said:

Yep, Madonna was inspired while dribving in her car and saw the San Pedro exit (maybe she was visiting Bukowski with Sean since he lived there before moving in with them for a while in Malibu) and she pictured an exotic island in her mind.

Wasn’t that when someone asked her where San Pedro was and she said it was a freeway exit, don’t remember it was the inspiration for the whole song though. I was a little disappointed as being my name Pedro it always felt nice. Island nice not exit #65 nice 🫠🫠🫠

[Mden 2,252]

What if she started the show this way?  

https://twitter.com/filiplobo/status/1673787284095639557?s=20

[musicinferno 3,755]

No no no... One of her dancers already confirmed she's gonna come out like this since it's never been done before:

 

[Honey Little 4,338]

2 hours ago, Mden said:

What if she started the show this way?  

https://twitter.com/filiplobo/status/1673787284095639557?s=20

I would love this. 💯👍🤩🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰🥰

[Honey Little 4,338]

1 hour ago, musicinferno said:

No no no... One of her dancers already confirmed she's gonna come out like this since it's never been done before:

 

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