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So Mirwais did a Q&A on his Instagram Stories and he of course talked about Madonna. The most interesting things:
-His fav Madonna collaboration is American Life (song).
-He would love to do an updated American Life (album). 
-Can’t You See My Mind is different from Die Another Day and it’s NOT a ballad. 
-His fav Madonna production is Die Another Day. 
-It’s true that the first version of X-Static Process was electro. 
-There are some unreleased songs.
-He learned patience from Madonna and she learned patience from him.
-There’s a version of Paradise with Letitia Casta (recorded before Madonna entered the picture) but Madonna changed it and her version is the best version of the song. 
-He would love to work with her again.
 

I have downloaded, extracted and remastered the audio from the highest quality stream. 
Bass/treble has been adjusted to make the sound more clear and 'live'. 
There are some bigger quality issues later in the stream where the audio cuts, however I have repaired the cut during 'Nothing Really Matters'.
Audio ready for iTunes with artwork. 
Let me know what you think.... and ENJOY!
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I uploaded both to Google Drive and Mega. Enjoy, everyone!
 

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@Prayer
Let me quote the words from the backdrop at the end of Like a Prayer performance for S&ST:
Jesus said: we all came from the Light, and to the Light we shall return.
And the first verse of Like a Prayer itself:
Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone, I hear you call my name, and it feels like home.
To talk through a metaphysical point of view (in which M believes), our home is not here, in the Earth, in the flesh - we all will die, we all must die and we all NEED to die - so the flow of Nature and Universe keeps being in. So, what happens after death? But, a most important question is what happens during life? LIFE IS A COMPLETE MYSTERY, AND SO IS DEATH. To the material, flesh people, death is the end of all, and life is just the period one gets until their inevitable end at all. But to people who feel the intuition of an afterlife, death is just a transition, and life in flesh is just the preparation to such transition. As M told in Heartbeat, Isaac, ALL YOUR LIFE IS ONLY A TEST. The real deal is the TRANSITION, THE DEATH. What to expect? What to face? One can only assume, through their intuition, their "third eye," that we will at least face ourselves and our acts we had while in flesh. We can be deprived of speaking as "words are useless, especially sentences, they don't stand for anything," but, "how can I explain how I feel?" Notice that M herself doesn't sing this line in particular live during the performance - because imo this is the ultimate incognito, HOW CAN ONE EXPLAIN HOW THEY FEEL?
So, I'M TRAVELLING... LEAVING LOGIC AND REASON, I'M GONNA RELAX, IN THE ARMS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS... Travelling back to the Light we all came from - AND IT FEELS JUST LIKE HOME.
And after such travel, we find THE RAIN - the REST, the ANAPAUSIS. The moment when we can feel OUR HEART SING.
No wonder, when @Dazedmadonnadrove me to this tour with their setlist hints, I felt mesmerized by the perspective of the Celebration Tour being an actual Gnostic lesson in life - to what I felt certain the moment I realized Nothing Really Matters was the opener - the ultimate lesson in Madonna's teachings about what is really necessary, what really matters to us - LOVE.
Remember, she stated for Israeli newspaper Yedioth Akronoth she studied Gnosticism prior to Kabbalah - and the actual historic Kabbalah, apart from the Berg family cult, is nothing more than a Gnostic interpretation of the Tanach - the Old Edition, in contrast to the traditional, material interpretation given by Talmud.
No wonder I cherish this tour to a religious passion - it aligns completely to my point of view. We Gnostics are indeed obsessed to death - as we see death, as a concept, as the ignorance, the misknowledge about our inner and outer selfs. To not know is the real death - is what makes us lost, in flesh or not anymore, in where we are.
And to finish my essay: when she was pissed off having to tour the Red States, she wasn't feeling the Rain anymore - she was asking people instead to "take a bow, night's over, masquerade's getting older," as pretty expectable from her. And a last remark: the fact she has chosen Bitch I'm Madonna instead of The Power of Good-Bye to close show - after death, we are two realities: the legacy we give to the ones who survive us and what we face while travelling in the arms of unconsciousness - but, for both, bitch, SHE'S MADONNA, SHE'LL FOREVER BE MADONNA, as WE ALL ARE MADONNA - and WE ALL WILL BE MADONNA. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? After all, COME JOIN THE PARTY, IT'S A CELEBRATION, AND MUSIC MAKES PEOPLE COME TOGETHER!
Hope I've been crystal clear.

I'm gonna miss her speeches so much:
Some fans say they're all very somber when she goes there but we shouldn't underestimate the importance DEATH has had in her life... literally her show is full of dead people... and yet she's still here. She's the result of losing her mother, of losing her friends in the 80s, of losing each one of her peers through the years...
Also, I read this interpretation yesterday on PopJustice about the "Bedtime Story/Ray Of Light/Rain" part, and while I'm not sure if I agree completely, made me think:
After watching the full show like a thousand times, something has clicked with me regarding the second half of the show. It always felt strange how well-represented her 80s, 90s and 00s life is and how there is a lack of focus on the 2010s and 20s, musically too, but mostly narrative-wise. But something in her recent, more sombre speeches made me realise that it's not about these decades, it is simply not about post-2000, it is about post-1996.

She doesn't define herself by any other means than being a mother. I still remember how the fact sheet came out before the tour and we learned about the "time capsule" that would represent the past, the present and the future too, which should be the Bedtime Story / Ray of Light / Rain act. But she doesn't have a future. Her only future is death - a loss of words and consciousness for good, becoming nothing more than a transcendental idea floating in space, and finally feeling her own mother's love coming down like rain. (Add the Virgin / Billie Jean mashup about the public's perception of the two being the king and queen of pop and being finally at the same place - not in heaven, but in people's consciousness as the two greatest in pop music being gone.)

If anything, the 00s act doesn't represent a past point in her life. Motherhood is her present and if she can fulfil that role for as long as she can, she doesn't have to accomplish anything else in her life. And to think this is her show, her narrative, and she's just survived a huge health scare, she must be hurt being reminded of this every night for the last few months. Be right back, I'm crying.
What do you think?

I imagine the walking on the bigger catwalks having to be something like this:
 

I just watched the whole show again and i said it before and i say it again, The Celebration Tour is definitely one of her best... Im so proud of her... 

I heard that she will be throwing to the audience coloured vinyl version of Celebration and the Blond Ambition Blu Ray.

so she have like 1 week to prepare for show with more than 1 million audience  
with different stage

 

seems they just starting new ad campaign 
or will apply new hard candy themed credit card 
 

It...........samples
 

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I cannot

This is a show for people who GET HER and for herself, of course. She said fuck the locals who want Material Girl, I'm going to celebrate myself with people who love me.

I mean, her children being part of the show at key moments, the tributes to the people she lost to AIDS, her mother, her rebellious relationship with the church and figures of power. These are the main ingredients of what makes Madonna an artist and people who don't understand this will never understand her. Let them complain about not knowing many songs... It's 2023, Madonna is not going to kiss the ass of people who still don't understand her.

If you want the poppy, feel-good hits to go to Las Vegas, there are plenty of girls doing it there!

Into the Groove and then she talks about her early start leading into here playing guitar and singing Burning Up.  Audio sounds very much like the demo.

Candy Shop

7 days to go

Nothing Really Matters starting the show is absolutely fine. You are all doing too much. 
Let’s remember. She has opened her tours with Drowned World, Future Lovers, Candy Shop, God Control, Girl Gone Wild, Iconic.
60% of the audience are casuals who would not know those songs or who had maybe played them once or twice if they had checked out the album. Maybe Girl Gone Wild a bit more but it wasn’t exactly a sizeable hit for her. 
Nothing Really Matters is a much more iconic song than any of these. It was a single, it’s better known, it’s from her most acclaimed album and it has maybe one of her most iconic looks and  video. 
 
it’s the opening of the show. Everyone will be gagging. The first three numbers are always high octane it’s Madonna. 
 
It really could be an absolutely cracking opener. 
 
Y’all chill. 

Guys, I need your help.
Two friends of mine are now looking foward for a girls night so we can watch a Madonna concert together.
The thing is, I'm the die hard fan, they barely know the hits.
Of course, my first obvious option was the Confessions Tour.
But I thought a little bit and considered showing them the Madame X Tour film. As a personal favourite, I think it encapsulates so much of Madonna's work in art, but at the same time it's the most different show she ever did. It's more intimate and has a setlist made, in almost it's entirety, by the Madame X songs, which are... divisive, to say the least?
So, what do you guys think? Confessions Tour or Madame X Tour?
Should I show to them another concert? Give me your opinions.
p.s. Truth or Dare (or IGTTYAS) is out of the question, they said they want to watch a recorded concert.

MADONNA On Instagram: "Love from family and friends is the best Medicine. One month out of the hospital and I can reflect.
As a Mother you can really get caught up In the needs Of your children and the seemingly endless giving……….. But when the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference.
So did the love and support from my friends. If you zoom into this Picture I am holding You will see A Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol of Keith Haring wearing a jacket with Michael Jackson’s face painted on it. A perfect triangle of Brilliance.
Artist who touched so many lives including my own.
I sobbed when I opened this gift because I realized how lucky I am to be alive. And how fortunate I am to have known these people and so many others who are also gone.
Thank you @guyoseary for this gift!
And Thank you to all my angels who protected me and let me Stay to finish doing my work! ♥️

Well she just shut down everyone who thought she’d retire lol. As if. 

New updates from Madonna on her instagram alongside her Lourdes and David

A present from Guy Oseary - a Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol, of Keith Haring with Michael Jackson’s face painted on a jacket!

2 years ago today. Fucking love this woman

the pics!!!!
 

The news from me are the ones Guy, Debi and Rosie shared.
Yes, some of the speculation makes sense but even a broken clock is right two times a day. By pure luck. Whatever. I know she's at home, she's awake and recovering. That is enough. When she's better, she'll speak.
My concerns are for the multiple concert dates next to each other. I think it would be more reasonable to play few dates at stadiums than several at arenas. It is exhausting. But again, I think. It's just a mere thought I wanted to share somewhere.