xop

Ray of Light was planned to be on the MDNA Tour as a guitar number but with electric and dubstep elements. 

Sorry I recall very well McKnight's setlist.
This was the very original early war section as it follows song by song:
"American Life" (Headcleanr Rock Mix)
"Love Profusion" (Headcleanr Rock Mix)
"Burning Up"
"I'm So Stupid"
 
"Express Yourself" was meant to close the corset section, following "Swim" (this later replaced by "Frozen").
"I'm So Stupid" was always the song chosen to end war section, given "Dress You Up" was originally on vaudeville section, later replaced by "Die Another Day" (which originally was the very last encore act). After removed from vaudeville section (alongside with "The Devil Wouldn't Recognize You," - replaced with "Deeper and Deeper" - and "Take a Bow," - replaced with "Lament"), "Dress You Up" took the place of "I'm So Stupid" at war section, but later on got ultimately replaced by "Material Girl."

Wow I always thought BU replaced the mash-up to Justify My Love and Whole Lotta Love that surfaced on YT months prior to tour and everybody thought she was actually rehearsing it as suggested by some post of her on Instagram.

what is the narrative? the bodysuit section doesn't really feature an obvious storyline or narrative?

I think Mihran was the last M dancer that I found attractive.

 
#stud

Madonna said: "show hole"

 

I had divided opinions at first. And watching videos again makes those opinions strengthen but remain a little the same as before.
I feel bad for criticizing something that I didn't experience in person, that I watched a livestream that only appreciated the beauty of the ceiling, and that Madonna is not the Madonna she once was, but there is something I don't understand.
The beginning seemed to fit the theme: something personal, introspective, autobiographical. The songs were trimmed but kept a modest margin, and afterward everything felt rushed, and somewhat disjointed. At times I felt like I was lost. I do feel that ending a bit... mmmm, can't describe it. Maybe we expect something like what we saw in Finally Enough Love.
And what happened with Frozen! DM confirmed it with lots of promises (I wanted sickick remix or that "tiktok section" but well).
I'll stick with the good, and that is:
- Holiday, and that ending that hurt my heart.
- Erotica with You Thrill Me, a small sampler of Papa Don't Preach and the connection with her version of BAT.
- Excellent DAD and DTM rendition.
- The most camp vogue to date.
- That Like a Prayer so bizarre but eye-catching.
- Open Your Heart made me feel emotional and I started singing with happiness knowing that Madonna is still here, doing her best, and that I love her so much that my life would not going to be the same without her.💘

I had divided opinions at first. And watching videos again makes those opinions strengthen but remain a little the same as before.
I feel bad for criticizing something that I didn't experience in person, that I watched a livestream that only appreciated the beauty of the ceiling, and that Madonna is not the Madonna she once was, but there is something I don't understand.
The beginning seemed to fit the theme: something personal, introspective, autobiographical. The songs were trimmed but kept a modest margin, and afterward everything felt rushed, and somewhat disjointed. At times I felt like I was lost. I do feel that ending a bit... mmmm, can't describe it. Maybe we expect something like what we saw in Finally Enough Love.
And what happened with Frozen! DM confirmed it with lots of promises (I wanted sickick remix or that "tiktok section" but well).
I'll stick with the good, and that is:
- Holiday, and that ending that hurt my heart.
- Erotica with You Thrill Me, a small sampler of Papa Don't Preach and the connection with her version of BAT.
- Excellent DAD and DTM rendition.
- The most camp vogue to date.
- That Like a Prayer so bizarre but eye-catching.
- Open Your Heart made me feel emotional and I started singing with happiness knowing that Madonna is still here, doing her best, and that I love her so much that my life would not going to be the same without her.💘

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  

What happened to Hold tight?

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

Yes I agree, it felt really random and didn't flow in parts - the random addition of other songs didn't help either - I wasn't sure of what story she was telling - just felt like a random bunch of songs thrown together.
I loved it though - but feel some of the songs and the order could change to create a more cohesive show.

Ok I have only seen bits and pieces, don't want to spoil too much for myself but does anyone feel that this is not the show that DM was teasing us this whole week. Sure most of the tracks they teased were in (though no rain and no Of Father, which had me syched most of all) but judging from the setlist it seems very jarred and like exactly what one would suspect from a GH show. I didn't get the story arc apart from the very short bit in the beginning. I'm gonna have to let this sink in a bit

Nope A short version of Celebration and that was it. 
Not sure what I think about this whole show.  I mean she managed to hit a lot of sweet spots, but it just seemed the whole thing was all over the place.  The finale was very lack luster with Celebration. It was so short and then she just left.
Then again, maybe she had to cut that short being she did run over with technical difficulties.  But I doubt it.

There will be a massive expectation gap between general greatest hits expectations and what this is... Papa Dont Preach tease for example...you can lose an audience energy pretty quick with a tease like that and its gone to some amazing areas for dedicated fans and as one its hard to judge, l love it other than costumes and its really not adding story other than visually... l was hoping for anecdotes from M

Just did my first digital recreation,it's not the best hot i can give HQ download link if wished

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link

Into The Groove getting some love… and getting closer to 100 million streams 😎
 

Maybe, he's using the MDNA skin rejuvenizer

Monte's gone, Kevin's gone, but Stuart is still standing. 
 

I'm quite impressed with the total figure, I remember it didn't start that well when it was released. But now it's, by far, the most streamed remix of the "Club Future Nostalgia" remixes project.
I liked it right from the start but it's very clubby, I get why it didn't do much and the DaBaby version, basically the album version with a feat., took all the spotlight.

I remember every straight guy friend of mine would have 4 minutes and celebration on their phones back then. Either from a youtube converter or recorded from their computer. Good old days

They do show up in the U.S. site.  Not sure if they have already been available, but I noticed all the tour albums as far as back as Confessions are available as well (excluding IGTYAS). 
I think what annoys me is how they are throwing the some of the Remix EP/Singles mixes like ROL, Bad Girl, You Can Dance Edits, and Rain EP under the ALBUM category.  There is a singles and EPs section where they belong.  It's just weird how they organize some of these collections.

If Bitch I’m Madonna reached 100M streams, M would become one of the few artists having at least one song with +100M streams in 5 different decades.
Because, sadly, none of her songs from the 2010s has reached 100M streams yet (and BIM is the closest to that milestone so far).

Why is she growing so quickly now? Is it the tour?

[February 15th Spotify Update]
Female pre-2000 artists with the most monthly listeners:

1. Shakira: 78,219,273 (-91,505)
2. Beyoncé: 51,971,797 (+280,492)
3. Sia: 44,886,152 (+14,104)
4. Britney: 31,904,342 (+90,540)
5. Madonna: 23,539,915 (+147,195)