The Celebration Tour (Spoilers)

[scion 3,123]

AllAboutMadonna have a video on Facebook of Rain last night and she's actually quite flat in a few places, and additionally a slight mess up on the lyrics. Again proving that Madge is singing live!!!

[DiegoLCL 5,056]

I noticed that depending on where the person was recording the show you can hear the backing vocals louder than her mic and in others places you hear more of her live vocal. These recordings never capture the real thing, I'm sure it sounds 100% better when you're there.
 

[scion 3,123]

Just now, DiegoLCL said:

I noticed that depending on where the person was recording the show you can hear the backing vocals louder than her mic and in others places you hear more of her live vocal. These recordings never capture the real thing, I'm sure it sounds 100% better when you're there.
 

Always the case.

[True Blue 84 1,824]

1 minute ago, DiegoLCL said:

I noticed that depending on where the person was recording the show you can hear the backing vocals louder than her mic and in others places you hear more of her live vocal. These recordings never capture the real thing, I'm sure it sounds 100% better when you're there.
 

This! Thats why I watch video's on tiktok, lots of up close video's with clear loud live vocals. And she looks great 

[True Blue 84 1,824]

12 minutes ago, scion said:

AllAboutMadonna have a video on Facebook of Rain last night and she's actually quite flat in a few places, and additionally a slight mess up on the lyrics. Again proving that Madge is singing live!!!

Like this one 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJT5F8GL/

 

Love it

[ron92 546]

5 minutes ago, DiegoLCL said:

I noticed that depending on where the person was recording the show you can hear the backing vocals louder than her mic and in others places you hear more of her live vocal. These recordings never capture the real thing, I'm sure it sounds 100% better when you're there.
 

Yes that’s right. The microphone of every smartphone is different and use a different algorithm for cut some frequencies. 

[True Blue 84 1,824]

Am i allowed to post those links? Please tell me if im not, im new so i dont know...

[Phil Corcoran 0]

Do we know if there will be a tour program. The woman at the counter of the pop up shop told me they didn’t do one. Can anyone confirm this? 

[liquidlove88 173]

 

Thank you Madonna for remind us all the most important thing in life : NO FEAR !

[Winn 2,201]

11 minutes ago, True Blue 84 said:

Am i allowed to post those links? Please tell me if im not, im new so i dont know...

Yes please post them, the Tik Tok vids are great. Thank you.

[Winn 2,201]

13 minutes ago, Phil Corcoran said:

Do we know if there will be a tour program. The woman at the counter of the pop up shop told me they didn’t do one. Can anyone confirm this? 

Print media is dead I guess.

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48 minutes ago, Leandro Gomes said:

After watching many videos of the show, I can definitely say that I loved it. However, it’s not perfect and could be much better with some tweaks, in my opinion.

Main issues: the narrative is not always clear, there are some very anticlimactic moments (Papa Don’t Preach, Human Nature, Crazy For You, La Isla Bonita), The Beast Within interlude (again???!!!) and the closure.

 

I agree, this is a clunky part of the show when The Beast Within pops out of nowhere between the 90s sex era and the tex/mex motherhood section. I think she should've done maybe a heavily reinvented version of Secret instead of The Beast Within, keeping the same weird religious stuff.

 

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4 minutes ago, Winn said:

Yes please post them, the Tik Tok vids are great. Thank you.

This performance is my favorite of this tour, tears to my eyes everytime 

 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJT5KSmB/

 

[PlasticLimbo 1,570]

[steady75 9,570]

Two good friends of mine went last night. Both big Madonna fans one I went to the Girlie Show opening night with another crazy Madonna fan and another who’s been there since day one. 
 

They alll said it was the best show she’d ever done even with the Rain cut off point. One of them said the best show they’ve ever seen full stop.
theyre gagged and they’ve been to every tour. Actually three other super fans I know have said the same. 
It just translates better in the arena. We’ve seen a potato stream we are NOT the critics really. 

[cyberrage 405]

10 hours ago, Lorx said:

Same. I love Rain, but on this tour I would have preferred she didn't sing it. It's a flat version. Without the bridge, the song loses meaning.

Maybe Nikki and Donna will join her on a US gig and redeem it , it needs harmonies. POG would work better live if its just her lost in the NY stage. We don't need another frozen at this stage

[Voguerista 11,815]

1 hour ago, liquidlove88 said:

 

Thank you Madonna for remind us all the most important thing in life : NO FEAR !

Can we give it up to Stella in DTM? I love her! Esther seems to be the louder twin and a talented dancer but never count out Stella. She is just as talented! 

[Donna 16,441]

Sorry if this has been mentioned, but did we get an official reason why she ended with Rain last night (2nd show?).  I know many speculated it was due to curfew or some camera issue, but has anything been officially stated??

And thank you to all the wonderful members posting all the footage from the concerts.  It's so great to see so many different perspectives, different angles, etc.  Over all, the show is really great.

[Lorx 344]

1 hour ago, DiegoLCL said:

I noticed that depending on where the person was recording the show you can hear the backing vocals louder than her mic and in others places you hear more of her live vocal. These recordings never capture the real thing, I'm sure it sounds 100% better when you're there.
 

At this point, I'd like to know an opinion from somebody who was there

[cyberrage 405]

6 hours ago, MPowered said:

Human Nature was absolutely pointless in that segment to be honest. I find it so strange to hear her sing Crazy For You to her Dominatrix self.

Maybe she wants to talk about how obsessed she is with Human Nature. 💀😂

I liked that angle, loving the younger self who copped a lot of shit at that time for SEX.

Better than the boxing section which l think was trying to show Madonna fighting against the world at that time but feels like an idea backfilled with meaning, someone wanted boxing in there  . Love getting the song live but the theme does not work there.

Madonna must be cursing herself for opening at a curfew venue. Be very interesting to see how it flows without that restriction.

[Lorx 344]

1 hour ago, cyberrage said:

Maybe Nikki and Donna will join her on a US gig and redeem it , it needs harmonies. POG would work better live if its just her lost in the NY stage. We don't need another frozen at this stage

That would be a dream.

I don't think it's going to happen.

Frozen RIT version would be AMAZING. I don't like Rain here: no harmonies and no bridge, it's boring. It makes me sad.

[HNS 118]

I-D Magazine did a very good article about The Girlie Show:

As her Celebration Tour launches in London, we look back at Madonna's 1993 dark and inventive concoction of interwar burlesque.

https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/n7eqgq/madonna-girlie-show-queer-utopia

I loved the last paragraph:

‘Queerbaiting’, a term thrown around increasingly in the 2020s to describe LGBTQ-adjacent but apparently straight celebrities, makes sense in the context of faceless executives selling TV shows. The accusation loses its potency when applied to personalities who know the bends and brooks of gay culture of their own accord, and intimately enough to frolic around in them. This knowledge becomes more impressive the further we move from the public health crisis of the 80s and early 90s, leaving the canon behind in a brave new world of queer politics that does not always acknowledge its precursor. With the Girlie Tour, Madonna wasn’t so much using these drips of subtext to sell albums and concert tickets as she was to make a profound and prescient statement about gay culture itself — its all-encroaching existence, and its slow decline during a period of political neglect and tragedy. It was her extraordinary visual and historical literacy — the greatest of any popstar - that allowed her to do so.

 

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The first night was a disaster yes?

 

And the last songs are so rushed maybe cut short bec of curfew?

[The Ghost 1,602]

2 hours ago, Phil Corcoran said:

Do we know if there will be a tour program. The woman at the counter of the pop up shop told me they didn’t do one. Can anyone confirm this? 

I was told the same,  that they haven't made one,  and that it's not a common thing anymore for any artist..  :(

 

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