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Wow, I love everyone's ideas. I so want this tour to happen! ✨???

Version 1:
ACT 1: PARTY LIKE ITS '89
Intro (contains elements of "Everybody", "Where's The Party", "Vogue", "Jump", and "Music")
Everybody (with "Lucky Star" Intro) (contains snippets of "Jump")
Jump (Remix) (Segue)
Into the Groove
Music (contains elements of the Drowned World Tour Mix and "Lucky Star")
 Hung Up 
 
ACT 2 : ACTS OF THE FAMOUS 
Hollywood (Interlude) (contain extracts from "Illuminati")
Vogue (contains snippets of "I Don't Search I Find")
Material Girl / Dress You Up (Medley)
The Beast Within (Segue)
Justify My Love (Willam Orbit Remix)
Erotica (Performed as Love Hurts) 
Burning Up (contains elements of "Impressive Instant" and "Give It 2 Me")
Human Nature (contains snippets from "American Life")
 
ACT 3: CORRUPTION OF UNITY
Die Another Day (Remix)  (Interlude)
American Life / Born In the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
God Control
I Rise
4 Minutes (Segue)
Express Yourself / Don't Tell Me (Medley) (with intro of "What It Feels Like for a Girl")
Papa Don't Preach 
 
ACT 4: LOST
Love Profusion (Interlude) (contains elements of "Miles Away")
Live to Tell
Frozen
Open Your Heart / Secret (Medley)
Drowned World / Substitute for Love (contains reprise of "Nothing Fails")
 
ACT 5: BACK 2 SPANISH LESSONS
Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Interlude)
La Isla Bonita / Medellin (Medley)
Who's That Stranger (Mashup Between "Beautiful Stranger" and "Who's That Girl")
Like a Prayer (contains elements of "Crazy") 
Take a Bow (contains lines from "Don't Cry For Me Argentina")
 
ENCORE 
Keep It Together (contains elements of 12" Remix, 12" Mix, and 12" Extended Remix)
 
ENCORE 2
Holiday (contains snippets of "Bitch, I'm Madonna", "Girl Gone Wild", and elements of "Get Together", and "Celebration")
Celebration (contains reprise of "Everybody" and elements of "Holiday")
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Version 1:
ACT 1: PARTY LIKE ITS '89
Intro (contains elements of "Everybody", "Where's The Party", "Vogue", "Jump", and "Music")
Everybody (with "Lucky Star" Intro) (contains snippets of "Jump")
Jump (Remix) (Segue)
Into the Groove
Music (contains elements of the Drowned World Tour Mix and "Lucky Star")
 Hung Up 
 
ACT 2 : ACTS OF THE FAMOUS 
Hollywood (Interlude) (contain extracts from "Illuminati")
Vogue (contains snippets of "I Don't Search I Find")
Material Girl / Dress You Up (Medley)
The Beast Within (Segue)
Justify My Love (Willam Orbit Remix)
Erotica (Performed as Love Hurts) 
Burning Up (contains elements of "Impressive Instant" and "Give It 2 Me")
Human Nature (contains snippets from "American Life")
 
ACT 3: CORRUPTION OF UNITY
Die Another Day (Remix)  (Interlude)
American Life / Born In the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
God Control
I Rise
4 Minutes (Segue)
Express Yourself / Don't Tell Me (Medley) (with intro of "What It Feels Like for a Girl")
Papa Don't Preach 
 
ACT 4: LOST
Love Profusion (Interlude) (contains elements of "Miles Away")
Live to Tell
Frozen
Open Your Heart / Secret (Medley)
Drowned World / Substitute for Love (contains reprise of "Nothing Fails")
 
ACT 5: BACK 2 SPANISH LESSONS
Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Interlude)
La Isla Bonita / Medellin (Medley)
Who's That Stranger (Mashup Between "Beautiful Stranger" and "Who's That Girl")
Like a Prayer (contains elements of "Crazy") 
Take a Bow (contains lines from "Don't Cry For Me Argentina")
 
ENCORE 
Keep It Together (contains elements of 12" Remix, 12" Mix, and 12" Extended Remix)
 
ENCORE 2
Holiday (contains snippets of "Bitch, I'm Madonna", "Girl Gone Wild", and elements of "Get Together", and "Celebration")
Celebration (contains reprise of "Everybody" and elements of "Holiday")
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Because that's the challenge...
 
great to see how some Just havent bothered to stick to it though and have just pointlessly listed half her discography... 

I would say that the SEX book controversy has been the most impactful on M's career. Now, it seems that people still find ways to use it against her, whether it's in jokes or whatever else. I don't think the general public ever really got over her releasing the SEX book, which still annoys me.
The Justify My Love video controversy is also another one that is really important for me. The way she handled herself during all of the controversy was so commendable. She was eloquent and intelligent, which was the last thing they wanted her to be, and I love her for it!
I think the controversy that surrounded Like A Virgin at the time also helped M reach her status in the industry. It was really groundbreaking for a woman, especially a young woman to sing what she sang and to perform the way she did in front of a conservative America.
 

'since, Miley Cyrus would never have gotten away with her antics if M didn't break ground with releasing SEX and Erotica.'
was this good for popular culture? i don't think so

Come on guys, we haven't had a set list thread for some time. 
 
Your task is simple:

Create a 5 Part, 18 song show for Madonna to take on the road, visiting only 20 Stadiums for a single night each in 2022 to celebrate her 40th mainstream career anniversary! This could be her 'going out with a bang' final career party (as if)! Therefore, you want this to be the ultimate celebration of her career.
So basically, create a 2 hour show of LOVE, LIGHT and CASUAL FAN JOY!
LETS SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO! X
Voguerista, I know you're going to be one the absolute leads in this!

Everybody Dance Now:
Starlight:
1. Lucky Star (with that intro synth and some nice galactic projections as an intro)
2. Causing A Commotion
3. Everybody
Sunshine:
4. Who's That Girl
5. La Isla Bonita
6. Holiday
Fun Fair:
7. Music
8. Vogue
9. Deeper And Deeper
10. Express Yourself
Jazz Club:
11. Crazy For You
12. Live To Tell
13. Frozen
Street Party:
14. 4 Minutes
15. Hung Up
16. Material Girl
17. Like A Virgin
18. Like A Prayer
Definitely not my ideal setlist, but guaranteed to get Sharon, Tracey and their bestie Stefan out for a night of dancing and Pims.
 

It's too hard. I guess she should just do the 18-21 most obvious hits similar to the 1 disc tracklist of Celebration.
But I think she should also have a section every night where she has 4-5 songs which rotate around that way she can perform all the more obscure singles like Angel and Causing a Commotion that fans have been dying to hear. It would also make it exciting getting setlist changes every night like we had on Rebel Heart.

For a Song i love and a Mix that is good. The Remixer is the Assistent of Niki Harris.

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It's very simple.
A Greatest Hits album with heavy promotion and a whopping new dance anthem included. Followed by a worldwide Greatest Hits Tour. Something epic and celebratory like the Superbowl but a full concert/tour.
There's no other option now. Call it 'The Immaculate World Tour' and the album 'The Immaculate Collection 40th Anniversary' or something like that. It's not the most creative idea but it'll SELL.

Well, she survived a lot of drama and trauma: her mother dying when she was 5, being raped in New York, most of her friends dying in the 80s, her 1st divorce, all the 1992 backlash, a stalker who wanted to kill her, SHE almost died giving birth to Rocco (!!), a second marriage with a man who basically wanted to change everything about her but ended up cheating on her, her brother betraying her for money and writing a book... I mean. Her life could be a soap opera!
She never came off as a victim cause she never wanted to be seen that way. But she's been a victim many times. And you could see a change in her Billboard speech in 2016, she was vulnerable for the first time.
Of course she would need to be open and willing to share her true story. Same if she ever considers writing her memories.

She should cancel the rest of the tour. Cut the loss. Go direct the movie & get that out of her well-deserved system & then find something to be inspired by like Lisbon was but with better songwriters to help out, & yeah, set it to some beats. Come back at 65 and do an arena or stadium tour heavy on the hits.
Also, maybe the right documentary could help. A Netflix? Doc just about her & her life & career throw in some remastered archived live performances from the span of her career.  Express Yourself from the MTV Awards, Sooner Or Later from the Oscars, random tour performances.  It could even serve as a sampling for remastered early tour releases which she should also do to promote her fucking legacy.

One pure pop album, disco vibes but with more modern sound, no auto tune, no vocader, well maybe a bit but nothing too much, no rappers, no feauturing, just Madonna, no grillz, hair on a side, something like for her interview from 2009 for Celebration compilation for the UK. Lyrics should be more like Confessions/Erotica mixed together, it can be sexy but deep at the same time. Stadium tour, 40 concerts are enough, she does not have to proove anything anymore, but to just keep creating history, cus she is DA KVIN! Amen.

I mean album wise, you can't really win. If she did the "age appropriate thing" people have been clamoring for sure she'd get the respect but it is so unlike her to appease the general public for what they expect of her. We can chuck out a couple of good songs and ballads but she's always going to want to explore with sounds, styles and not go down the cliche adult contemporary route. It won't help if she does Confessions levels of dance music or something off the wall like Madame X, the singles won't hit the top of the important charts and the most she can get is a dance #1 or an album #1. The system no longer favors her or other older artists so she'd have to have an aggressive deal spinning her song or doing some trickery to even hit top 40 at this point.
The one thing she can fix on her own for future touring is the late times. I can't fault her for injuries or unexpected things happening leading to cancellations. I would say advanced warnings so people aren't left in the dark and left scrambling while in queue entering the theater/arena and finding out the show is cancelled. 
I don't think she needs a comeback. Seeing how fickle the GP is and how fast they get over singles and records, she could be out the masterpiece of this decade and if she's not releasing new videos, promoting like hell, or kissing ass and doing what society expects, people just move on to the next scandal, starlet or song that hits. 

To be fair, I was watching The Confessions Tour recently, and she didn't dance *that* much on that tour. I think she could still pull off a show like that today if there were a few modifications. Some of the most stunning performances had minimal choreography on her part (Future Lovers, Jump (minus the bridge, which wasn't overly impressive either lol), Live To Tell, Forbidden Love, Like It Or Not, Lucky Star...)
She needs to go back to working with a creative team that knows how to play up her strengths and retain the "Madonna X Factor" that her shows and music used to have. She doesn't need to do aerobics on stage for 2 hours in order to impress an audience.

Better management, better writers and producers because let’s face it, her song writing isn’t cutting it these days. I mean that with love tbh. 
It can be hard to recapture the magic she’s had throughout her career. I think she can attain some things she once had successfully before but I don’t think I’d call it a comeback. She’s really into trying new things, whether they bring her luck or not. Me personally, I’d love a dance album, going back to what Madonna was all about. Dance. 
 
She may not be able to dance like she did, even a few years ago, but she sure did make great dance music. Even throughout my lack of passion for the Madame X era, I still crave for that fun pop music icon Madonna.

Bedtime Stories Tour 1995
 
Act 1: Secret Garden
(Fantasy/ Ethereal -- Madonna in white, like the Brit Awards but more elaborate, maybe a "Garden of Eden" theme to the stage)
 
1. Sanctuary
2. Secret Garden
3. Bedtime Story
4. Cherish
5. Angel
 
Act 2: Spanish
(Bullfighting/ Flamenco style -- inspired by the "Take A Bow" video)
 
6. Spanish Eyes (begins as an instrumental interlude, then Madonna appears and sings it)
7. Love Tried To Welcome Me
8. Vogue (Spanish style)
9. La Isla Bonita (of course)
10. Take A Bow
 
Act 3: Harlem Nightclub
(inspired by the "Secret" video, but with some Breathless Mahoney added in)
 
11. Justify My Love
12. Human Nature
13. Thief Of Hearts
14. He's A Man
15. Something To Remember
16. Secret (album version)
 
Interlude: Secret (club remix), as the scene transitions to an outdoor block party
 
Act 4: Urban Block Party
(outdoor NYC street scene)
 
17. Medley: Spotlight/ Don't Stop/ Physical Attraction
18. Express Yourself
20. Into The Groove
21. Like A Virgin
22. I'll Remember
Encore:
23. Holiday (with another Sly & The Family Stone cover: "Thank U For Lettin' Me Be Myself Again")