The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)

[sara94 2,208]

Her not performing Express Yourself, Material Girl, Frozen and Give it 2 me is a crime

[EgoRod 5,451]

Here 's the Rain snippet we missed

https://x.com/MadonnaUltimate/status/1713312282917113926?s=20

[Donna 16,451]

1 minute ago, Alex JLR said:

The outfits looks colorful at some point and very joyful, but on one hand I think the whole show felt like a 2h medley, on the other hand I kinda liked it :P I guess we'll have to wait the following to process the experience

I felt that in a way too.  It started off pretty great with her singing the songs in full, but then as the show went on, it seemed like things were more mashed together. 

The show was a grande mix bag for sure.  It was hard to see much with the streaming, so maybe seeing better footage where you see her more, I would be more enthused over this.  I also felt like there were times that the staged swallowed her up. So much space and there were times she just kinda walked about even on some songs you think she could have probably had dancers doing something.

Again, I have to see this again with better footage or see it live myself to really waiver either way on this.  It definitely was fun and most of the songs were very true to the originals.

[Inco 9,848]

Now I need to take a deep breath, the opening was impressive and WOW she's SO young 

[chle70 152]

14 minutes ago, EgoRod said:

Obviously not you

I'm sure you were just dying to hear GMAYL.

[Tex20 400]

So many mixed reviews already. I'm just grateful that she is still alive to be here and provide us with yet another incredible tour... it seems though that no matter what she does, she can't make 'everybody' happy. I'm just going to enjoy it for what it is... Bitches it's a new MADONNA tour! Just enjoy it. 

[Pretender1978 996]

2 minutes ago, Jackie said:

So proud of Madonna. This is monumental for her, after almost dying 4 months ago to delivering an incredible collection of songs! 

This is first and foremost the absolute truth, there is lots to nitpick and I have to say I was really misguided by the immense hype this week. Somehow that is not the show we just saw. It seemed to start that way with the little backstory and I was hoping M would bring the narrative, but as it turns out there was no narrative, like at all just the celebration cd on shuffle. But thinking that a few months ago she was fighting for her life in the IC this is an amazing achievement. Also I'm sure she will ease into the show and be more fluent but from what I could see she was already in very good spirits

[DiegoLCL 5,068]

I am LIVING for this setlist. LOL
Mother knows the 90s is where it's at.

I loved most of it, there's A LOT to unpack on this show, but I do feel that most of the songs don't get a chance to fully go down, it felt very stop/start/stop but I think there's a way to get used to it.

The only part I couldn't care less is the MJ thing... Nobody needs it, Mother, let it go.

In all honesty, BAD GIRL... The rest could be a pile of crap, BAD GIRL alone would save the show. WHAT A PERFORMANCE.

[EgoRod 5,451]

Full setlist here:

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/madonna-bd6bdbe.html?tour=3df3d93

[fauxswan 257]

6 minutes ago, sara94 said:

Her not performing Express Yourself, Material Girl, Frozen and Give it 2 me is a crime

but look at all we got tonight

[Frankito 185]

What happened to Hold tight?

[keiu112 43]

so the repetitive link was the one after all yayyy we got to see quite much

[Honey Little 3,996]

8 minutes ago, sara94 said:

Her not performing Express Yourself, Material Girl, Frozen and Give it 2 me is a crime

Boo boo hooo hooo! 😂😂😂😂😂👋

[lmvc 951]

I want to know about the stage, the visuals, the physical elements, etc...

[Nick Leon 8]

19 minutes ago, Nicmag said:

So, is this the full setlist or are we missing something else apart from the moment the streaming was cut off?

Nothing Really Matters

Where's the Party? (Intro)/Everybody

Into the Hollywood Groove

Burning Up (Demo)

Open Your Heart

Holiday/I Want Your Love

In this Life/Live to Tell

Virgin Mary Intro

Like a Prayer

Act of Contrition/Unholy

Living for Love (Interlude)

Fever (Interlude)

Justify My Love (Intro)/Erotica (You Thrill Me)/Papa Don't Preach (Outro)

Justify My Love (Remix)/Fever (Outro)

Hung Up on Tokischa/Hung Up

Mercy James playing Piano

Bad Girl

Up Down Suite and Break My Soul elements into Vogue (Ballroom Scene)

Human Nature

Crazy for You

The Beast Within

Die Another Day

Don't Tell Me

Mother & Father

I Will Survive

La Isla Bonita

Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

I Don't Search I Find (Interlude)

Bedtime Story

Ray of Light (Sasha Ultra Violet Mix)

Justify My Love (Interlude)

Something missing?

Like a Virgin/Billie Jean

Bitch I'm Madonna/Give Me All Your Luvin' (Elements)

Celebration/Music and Bitch I'm Madonna elements

P.S.: That ending left me cold, though

well it was 23:00 + so I think the cut it a bit....bcoz of the curfew

[stefo 6,393]

Ok I really didn't care about this when she annonced it cause I was disappointed too many times in the recent years, but when I started to understand she really was going deep in the catalogue everything changed and I was so expecting it tonight. 

It was great for me. The major quality of this show is her changing for the first time the whole structure. It's like a continous flow through her career, of course some parts focus the attention on specific moods and aesthetics but I did not feel the usual rigid 4, 5 acts.

The major flaw is the reference to some tracks that just did not give justice to their value, I think of Human nature especially and Papa don't preach really deserved a better treatment, when it started the arena exploded and then nothing, it's Justify my love  At the same time I found interesting the way she hinted thinks and tracks, even major ones, without properly perform them. When she stopped on something she was great.

The picks for me have been Nothing really matters, Live to tell, the Erotica/Justify/Hung up/Bad girl part, Vogue, Die another day and surely Bedtime story and Rain, even just for their presence. The most scarificed track was Like a Prayer maybe, it really seemed to lack its power, the setting was strong but the track didn't come out. 

The impression is that the first and the closing parts, where she presented the dancy stuff, were not much of her interest and I understand it. Neither are mine and never did so I'm ok with it.

Costumes, special effects and stuff here are present but not the core of the show, she is all about going through the journey and I really felt like reliving it all.

Tonight I love her again, she made me meet again parts of her that kept me loyal for years and it feels like a crazy thing  

[me1981 1,358]

So she confirmed she was at death's door, that was emotional to hear. Made me glad for this show much more.

I do think she could scrap some of the mashups/medley's and replace with a few classics and this would be an even stronger show

Also first tour without new music/an album to support

[litemakr 1,890]

Lots of really great moments but the flow did seem off and the ending was abrupt. And she really should have included a few iconic ones like Material Girl, Lucky Star, Express Yourself and Music (even though we got a tiny bit at the end).  I'd much rather have those than I Will Survive. A good show overall and she is 65 after all. 

[TheGoth 499]

4 minutes ago, Frankito said:

What happened to Hold tight?

Wasn't held tight enough 😂

[Donna 16,451]

 

4 minutes ago, Frankito said:

What happened to Hold tight?

It didn't. 

[EgoRod 5,451]

and here the setlist with a bit more info in each song

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/madonna/2023/the-o2-arena-london-england-5ba34fdc.html

[Alex JLR 1,180]

The vocals on the rain snippet !!! 

[me1981 1,358]

I will wait until she is in a venue without curfew as I am convinced the show was cut. Either the ending was cut short or she let some other things go to stay on time

[Donna 16,451]

SET LIST

Nothing Really Matters

Where's the Party? (Intro)/Everybody

Into the Hollywood Groove

Burning Up (Demo)

Open Your Heart

Holiday/I Want Your Love

In this Life/Live to Tell

Virgin Mary Intro

Like a Prayer

Act of Contrition/Unholy

Living for Love (Interlude)

Fever (Interlude)

Justify My Love (Intro)/Erotica (You Thrill Me)/Papa Don't Preach (Outro strings)

Justify My Love (Remix)/Fever (Outro)

Hung Up on Tokischa/Hung Up

Mercy James playing Piano

Bad Girl

Up Down Suite and Break My Soul elements into Vogue (Ballroom Scene)

Human Nature

Crazy for You

The Beast Within

Die Another Day

Don't Tell Me

Mother & Father

I Will Survive

La Isla Bonita

Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

I Don't Search I Find (Interlude)

Bedtime Story

Ray of Light (Sasha Ultra Violet Mix)

Justify My Love (Interlude)

Rain

Like a Virgin/Billie Jean

Bitch I'm Madonna/Give Me All Your Luvin' (Elements)

Celebration/Music and Bitch I'm Madonna elements

[EgoRod 5,451]

 

**Act I: Opening Celebration**
*(Spoken intro skit by Bob the Drag Queen)*
- "Nothing Really Matters" (First time since 1999)
- "Everybody" (First time since 2015; Contains elements of “Where’s The Party”)
- "Into The Hollywood Groove" (First time since 2004)
- "Burning Up" (First time since 2016)
- "Open Your Heart" (First time since 2017; Contains elements of “Live To Tell”; restarted due to sound issues)
- "Holiday" (First time since 2016; Contains elements of “I Want Your Love” by Chic)
- "The Storm" (Contains elements of “In This Life”)
- "Live to Tell" (First time since 2006; dedicated to all AIDS victims)
- "The Ritual" (Dancers Interlude; Contains elements of "Girl Gone Wild")
- "Like a Prayer" (Contains elements of “Girl Gone Wild,” "Act of Contrition," and “Unholy” by Sam Smith and Kim Petras)

**Act II: The Sacrifice / Erotic**
- (Contains elements of “Living For Love” & "Erotica" & “Justify My Love” & "Fever")
- "Erotica" (First time since 2016; contains elements of "Erotica (Final Demo 2)" and "Papa Don't Preach")
- "Justify My Love"
- "Hung Up" (Contains elements of "Hung Up on Tokischa," "Gangsta" by Kehlani, and “Fever”)
- "Bad Girl" (First time since 1993)
- "Ballroom" (Dancers Interlude; Contains elements of "Up Down Suite," "Vogue," and "BREAK MY SOUL (THE QUEENS MIX)")
- "Vogue"
- "Human Nature" (Shortened)
- "Crazy for You" (First time since 2016)

**Act III: The Beast Within**
- (Video Interlude)
- "Die Another Day" (First time since 2004)
- "Don't Tell Me" (First time since 2016)
- "Mother and Father" (First time since 2004)
- "Little Star" (Snippet, acapella)
- "I Will Survive" (Gloria Gaynor cover) (Acoustic)
- "La isla bonita"
- "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (Andrew Lloyd Webber cover)

**Act IV: Madonna**
- (Video Interlude - Contains elements of "I Don't Search I Find")
- "Bedtime Story" (First time since 1995)
- "Ray of Light" (First time since 2017)
- "Rain" (First time since 1993)

**Act V: Encore Celebration**
- "Like a Virgin" (Contains elements of "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson)
- "Bitch I'm Madonna" (First time since 2016; Contains elements of "Give Me All Your Luvin" and "Unapologetic Bitch")
- "Celebration" (Contains elements of "Music")