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That’s true but remember we are very lucky as fans of Madonna. Janet never released the Control, Rythm Nation and Janet tour (not even in vhs) and there is only the Japan televised RN show I believe. Fans of Michael Jackson are still waiting for the Victory Tour and the Bad Tour was released only after his dead and sourced from a vhs. Whitney never released a tour on video aside from the special for I’m Your Baby Tonight and the Africa HBO special was never released on video. Spice Girls never released the last two tours, George Michael never released his Faith Tour, Britney never released the Circus Tour, Gaga never released the Born This Way tour and the Joanne tour, Mariah only released the Mimi Tour and the Fantasy Special  and the MTV Unpugged and many many more artists were not as generous as Madonna. All the new artist out there are not releasing shows (only Taylor, and she also skipped some tours). 
Yes we all want a Blond Ambition remaster but between Japan, Barcelona and Nice we have three full shows and two were officially released on laser disc and vhs (the Japanese one). Two Who’s That Girl show were officially released. Only Re-Invention is missing but at least we have the leaked version. So again, of course we want a bluray 4K boxset of every single tour, but we are very lucky. 

I always felt one of her best live vocal moments came from this tour.  The emotion she put into this performance is just so impactful as well.
 

I think for many that's how they see the tour.  I don't think Madonna saw it as that way though.  But she knew with the reception of American Life, she had to creatively bill it as something more than just a tour supporting American Life. A "Re-invention" of sorts.  Still, she included 6 songs from American Life. And that's not including the excerpt of "Intervention" in "Mother and Father".  Also, she reprised "American Life" at the end of "Papa Don't Preach".  So she strongly represented the album on this tour and that's more than half the album.
I think what makes this tour stand out, much like a Greatest Hits, it's the first tour in years she performed some songs she hadn't performed in a long while.  Then there were just some staple classic songs that were included, such as Like A Prayer, Vogue, Holiday, Material Girl and Into the Groove.  Throw in other classics like Express Yourself, Papa Don't preach and Crazy For you (which the latter hadn't been performed since Virgin Tour), it really felt like a Greatest Hits. Then you have some newer songs from more recent albums of the time such as Frozen, Music and Don't Tell Me which now looking back makes the tour seem more and more like a Greatest Hits than not. The tour represented pretty much much of her music career as well as a nod to her biggest film success to date, Evita.  

Well yes but still she had enough material in 2001 for a show without the “hits”. Also she says a lot of things, like not doing ever again Material Girl and Like A Virgin and look how many times she did those two after 98 (Material Girl twice, LAV four times if you count the AL promo tour) 

Such great posts everyone! You take me right back to the moves, the artistry, and the creativity that came from this whole tour.I can’t get enough!

I think the reason they used her hits to sell it and kind of promote it as a hits tour is because of the response to Drowned World. I love that tour but a lot of people were disappointed by the setlist and so with the mixed response to American Life they had to make it clear she wasn’t going down that route again.
But it wasn’t technically a GH tour. She did 5 songs from the new album.

It was an American Life Tour in disguise (the album's themes are front and center through out the show, let's face it) but they used her hits (hence the name of the tour) to sell the show. Very clever if you ask me.




Also, Re-Invention was the best hair she had on tour, it looked great from start to finish, usually the last act her hair is all messed up. 

My first tour and the best to me 

Love the opening of this show it’s so creepy , mysterious and visually stunning - I and Stuart’s mix with that base on the beast within is sublime - I wish we had a better pro shot show than the Lisbon footage but at least we got something in full - of course everyone knows i adore the Bedtime story interlude too - I don’t think M will ever revisit this though and give us the full Paris show ( if it even exists ) guess it will disintegrate like holes of a full BA tour release 🥹😂😜

I would like to have a Blu-ray release for the 20th anniversary of the Re-Invention World Tour. It should include the full tour film along with bonus features such as the iconic backdrop videos that were used during the tour.
The artwork should showcase the iconic headstand that Madonna performed in the opening:

This is the birth of Confessions visually. The leotard, the corset.... Then obviously the horses which came back for the opening of the Confessions Tour. 

 
and the musical breakdown of MUSIC (Reinvention Tour) is the beginning of the sound of Confessions.... Or at least very similar to the breakdown of Hung Up. Every time I see/hear it I think of the birth of Confessions.  Even the same Disco Ball is used in the backdrop that comes back for Hung Up Confessions. 
 
 

This is my favorite thread right now. I love reading every word. What great memories! It had to be one of her best tours for costuming as well! Everything and every detail was just off the hook! 
 

Yeah the Paris show from the ReInvention tour, the Florence one from Who's That Girl and the Toronto night from the Girlie Show are my most wanted live files. But do we have Holiday from Paris? I only remember about Like a Prayer, wich is by the way the best version ever in terms of live arrangement and vocals of the song.
This tour for me is the last one where she had really everything wich made me love her and took me there till that point of the journey: GREAT SONGS, interesting and provocative visuals and ideas (from the video intro to the American Life scene, wich is among her peaks in terms of performing greet and message incisiveness), clean, expressive vocals for the majority of the songs, a good amount of live instruments sound, a real and coherent genres experimentation of the songs (if Deeper and Deeper is amazingly seductive and original, the rock version of Material Girl still makes me feel the song as nothing before and after, the whole building jumping at the chorus is so funny and powerful). I didn't and still don't like the album, I consider it the beginning of the "normalization", from then on she tried things and made some very good stuff but never really got experimental and deep diving into creating something unique as she did with Erotica, Ray of Light and partially with Music imo (Confessions was good but it was quoting something that was new in the past, it had that vintage vibe that worked perfectly but that I felt was not really talking about me). Nobody know me is among the highlight performances of her career, it's one of the tracks I show when people ask me about her. The further tours started to miss something and to repeat themes (Confessions still remains a kind of masterpiece of its own). Till the last one ... wich actually got me back in such a full form 

No - because I was a bullied kid and I wouldn't have made it without her 

No couldn't do it.....that said the tokisha thing almost almost had me do it 

Pretty interesting! She worked on four tours with M and it’s pretty interesting! 
She says there was a big medley that was cut in Celebration at around 45:45  
https://youtu.be/a9IMlEvJV-I?si=GbDGJsmBaP4hQjdx

100% she would be flashing that ass and grillz in no time
I do think the b'day celebrations have become a bit too ostentatious and tone deaf. Go where you can keep it private

Happy birthday to my favorite Leo ♌🎂💙

I think it was a fascinating read - let’s be honest M is never going to to write a memoir at this stage - she is too focused on the contrived bullshit movie to care and we all know that’s going to be a one-sided disaster and she will never show herself in a bad light - her ego and sycophants won’t permit that - I liked reading the behind the scenes stuff on tours the most in his book 

He actually praised her more than speaking negatively about her. And the things that were negative was how she was a complete bitch to work with (which we knew), her sudden change after meeting Guy Ritchie, and her obsession with Kabbalah and how she used it was a weapon towards her loved ones. 
 
I personally loved all the behind the scenes drama. It was quite the ride! 

Read it . Loved it.  Read it again and loved it more.

Same. It took me "DAD"in the tour  to realize that whole thing was gone since forever by then.

True...tbh i never even stopped to realize the Esther era was over until I saw the kaballah imagery in the Celebration tour and was like wait a minute...she hasnt used that imagery probably since...Confessions?