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She's not working for the fans. The fans buy tickets to see Madonna's show, they don't decide what the show has to look like. It's not on demand entertainment or build-your-own-show.

This is Madonna. If she wants to present her music taking a dump in her apartment, then fabulous. 
At the end of the day, it's up to her, not us. The fact she's doing such a unique show that allows fans to get up and close is pretty cool! 
Enjoy it for what it is, rather than what you wanted.

im 23 and ive been a madonna fan since 2010? lmao i was 14 and i still remember of how in love i was with her at the sticky & sweet tour dvd, the front cover of my notebook at school was a picture of her giving the middle finger during s&s round two lmao
 i dont know about you guys but im satisfied with the tour. OF COURSE I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING to see her performing songs like nothing really matters or even rescue me live, but come onnn!!! she literally added rescue me after the dude from billboard asked her to! even if its just an interlude, this is a very unique moment for all of us madonna fans.
and we're only three shows into the tour. the tour has more than 80 shows to go, SO MUCH can happen! she performed so many gems during rebel heart tour, and she rehearsed to many songs during the rehearsals for madame x tour... of course that doesnt prove anything (helloooooooooo hold on tight, how are ya doin!) but this is a whole other level concert that we're talking about. madonna is all about reinvention, and i can feel that madame x still has a lot to show. madonna herself said that the show wasnt complete lmao
what we need to do is trust her and her vision more. from what we have seen (videos, pics and even the full audio of the opening night) this show is just UGH legendary. seriously. lets just wait and enjoy the ride, it could have been waaay more worse if she didnt tour at all lmao. 

I initially got the impression that it was a lazy tour. She wanted to do something intimate, highlighting the sound and voice, but through the leaked videos she simply sings over a pre-recorded base, identifies the version she contains on the album most of the time. It is not a visual tour, it is not a vocal and instrumental tour, it is not an exactly beautiful or technological tour, the only differentiation from the other tours is that it is that you get close to her, but it lacks entertainment content. Of course my opinion is kind of ignorant since I didn't go to the concert, but it's the opinion of a person who visually consumes the tours that she performs.

Fans could cut down the insults, the tantrums and the entitlement and still have criticisms of her and the show. IDK why we gotta be so extreme....

What an amazing stage and an amazing show. 
This is her show, it's her music, her art. She can present it how she wants, whether that's in an Arena, a Stadium, dancing flat out - or into something more transformative like a theatre show, that's more intimate. She's 61 - she's done it all, she's also human, and by that I mean, we all have the right to express our art in ways that are meaningful to us. 
To be honest, I can't see how Madame X could be presented in any other way. I am just envious that she's not yet coming to Australia lol.

It's really difficult to express an opinion after the last 3-4 pages.
SETLIST: Although I feel a few oldies are missing in the setlist, especially in act 2, it's not us who can choose the songs. Also because what I want to hear is not what another fan wants to hear. I'd love to hear I'll remember or Gambler, for instance. I think we were all disappointed by the cutting of Rescue me. I also understand the show is not just for fans and the general audience wants to hear the big hits, as LAP and Vogue. If I went to a Spice girls concert I would like to hear Wannabe, or Wake me up if it was Green Day.
SHOW: I don't totally understand those who say "you need to see it" because we've been saying it's all about the music, so it's not an option to ask for more attention to the musical quality. From our recording I heard very cheap and lazy renditions. I don't know if M herself or Kevin Outoftune is to blame, but this time I expected to hear a different live sound, à la Girlie Show, and I agree with @Bitch I’m Madonnathat she has posted material from rehearsals that gave us the wrong impression (but remember Hold Tight?). I don't buy Madonna playing the piano during Future, when she can have Rickey Pageot performing miracles with it, if they only let him. Then of course when I see it I will be mesmerized and enchanted by her stage presence, as always, but this won't prevent me from noticing the evident musical and vocal flaws.
PHONES/TIME : I hate smartphones. Of course I need full coverage of the tour, but I hate people filming all the time. But once again she is so contradictory, cause she's always on the phone. It's an artistic choice but also a monetary choice. Madonna don't preach! But it'll be interesting for the new generation to experience a tour without knowing. Also, the phone is needed to kill time while waiting. The late start has no excuses. No jokes about it please! So selfish and unprofessional. People work in the morning. If she goes to sleep at 4 am, we don't. Next time she can do a midnight performance in a smaller club for 10000$ 

like a prayer is what eurovision should have been and the projection of lordes almost looks like she is wrapping herself round madonna ...looks really cool 

What an amazing stage and an amazing show. 
This is her show, it's her music, her art. She can present it how she wants, whether that's in an Arena, a Stadium, dancing flat out - or into something more transformative like a theatre show, that's more intimate. She's 61 - she's done it all, she's also human, and by that I mean, we all have the right to express our art in ways that are meaningful to us. 
To be honest, I can't see how Madame X could be presented in any other way. I am just envious that she's not yet coming to Australia lol.

What an amazing stage and an amazing show. 
This is her show, it's her music, her art. She can present it how she wants, whether that's in an Arena, a Stadium, dancing flat out - or into something more transformative like a theatre show, that's more intimate. She's 61 - she's done it all, she's also human, and by that I mean, we all have the right to express our art in ways that are meaningful to us. 
To be honest, I can't see how Madame X could be presented in any other way. I am just envious that she's not yet coming to Australia lol.

shes saying that she wants people to enjoy the show but really she is more concerned about a bootleg recording of the show leaking out lol ...lets be real here ...she didn't seem to mind the countless phones and cameras on her previous tours to be fair though she is right ...

NY Press seems to be coming, there look to be articles in the Times (I've hit my limit sadly) and the Post:
https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/madonna-kicks-off-tour-with-intimate-bam-concert/
Madonna kicks off tour with intimate BAM concert
By Chuck Arnold
September 18, 2019 | 5:05am | Updated
Madonna was like a virgin — shiny and new all over again.
In the first full concert of her sixth decade, the 61-year-old Queen of Pop ventured into unknown terrain, launching her “Madame X” theater tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday night. In a 37-year career playing arenas and stadiums, after rising up from the downtown New York club scene, she was still reinventing herself.
This — the first of her 17-night stand at BAM ending Oct. 12 — was indeed uncharted territory for a woman who has done it all. Playing in such an intimate space after all these years, though, the pop diva of all pop divas was adamant about you not sharing videos and pics of her so up close and personal.
Her no-cellphone policy required you to put your device in a pouch that wouldn’t allow you access to it until after the show or at designated phone stations outside of the theater.
The Material Mom of six has gone from “Papa Don’t Preach” to “Mama Don’t Play.” She can still out-diva any opera diva on the planet.
But as fans lined up around Fort Greene’s Ashland Place to get to the opera house entrance on Lafayette Street — no doubt slowed by having to put their phones in those YONDR pouches—it was the kind of New York scene befitting a New York icon. When it was announced that she wouldn’t even go on until 10:30 p.m. — despite the 8:30 start time on the ticket — fans didn’t even blink an eye.
They knew the drill: You wait until Madonna is ready.
When she finally took the stage around 10:45 p.m. to sing “God Control,” her anti-gun anthem from her “Madame X” album, some of her old fans who had been napping on their partners’ shoulders needed to heed the song’s call to “wake up” in a very literal sense.
But just as Madonna wanted to keep it old-school with her no-cellphone policy — which was refreshing and relatively painless — the night was also a concession to the fact that she is, well, older now.
That could be felt in her most throwback moment, when she took a Polaroid selfie of herself and sold it to old pal Rosie O’Donnell — her costar in 1992’s “A League of Their Own” — for a thousand dollars.
But it could also be measured in the fact that this theater tour is not just a creative curve in a career where every move has been calculated, but it’s a reimagining of herself as an artist at a time when she can no longer do the choreography-heavy work that arenas and stadiums would demand of her.
Let’s be real: There’s only so far Madonna had to walk from one side of the stage to the other at BAM.
As shrewd of an agent as Madame X — the spy alter ego she adopted for her latest album — is, she had her dancers do the heavy lifting for her. Instead, she emphasized the performance art that has always been a part of her concerts at the expense of the moves that she honed when dance teacher Martha Graham first coined her “Madame X.”
The setting and the sensibility turned up the theatrics of “Madame X” songs such as “Dark Ballet,” which, with its nod to Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” came to life in a way that made it dig into your soul more than the recording could. And make no mistake, this is a “Madame X” show. A good 80-85 percent of the two-hour-plus show is dedicated to her new album.
That won’t make this tour the go-to show for the casual Madonna fan, but diehards hardly seemed to mind that she only gave you bits of faves such as “Express Yourself” and “La Isla Bonita” while concentrating on “Madame X” tracks such as “Medellín,” “Crazy” and “Come Alive” — the latter of which did just that with a gospel flourish that set the stage for “Like a Prayer” later.
 
“Like a Prayer” and “Vogue” were two of the few straight-up Madonna classics that she really performed in full. But the highlight was another Madge hit, 1997’s “Frozen,” that she did as her oldest child, 22-year-old daughter Lourdes, did the dancing on video projections to keep it in the family groove.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/arts/music/madame-x-madonna.html
 
Could some kind soul cut and paste the Times article?

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Have at it
 
 

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you should add an 'other' option to the poll for people that should be LLM but were screwed out of it due to ICON/LiveNations gross mishandling of the fan club

OMG.
 

I really hope she does Cosmic Climb by Otto Von Wernherr! 

I really hope she does Cosmic Climb by Otto Von Wernherr! 

YES! I would love Sticky and Sweet 2009, the performance of Frozen was everything! But I also liked the tweaks throughout (the auto tune in Human Nature) and of course Holiday/MJ tribute.