This time with floor seats a handful of rows back on the right side of the stage!
Final thoughts: This is my second time going, and it’s by far the best show I’ve ever seen (for now)! I was by far the youngest fan as everyone around me looked at lest 20-30 years older than me 💀. Everything from the first notes in Nothing Really Matters to the last bits of Celebration, I along with everyone else in the floor section were on our feet the whole time. It was that good. Madonna didn’t miss a note at all from what I experienced. I could hear her breathing during the action-heavy parts, so it wasn’t all 100% lip-syncing.
When she came out for the first song, I was in awe yet again since my lovely, beautiful, and amazing M was that close to me (and didn’t need the big screen to see her since she wasn’t just a pixel this time). The rest of the first act was flawless! She wasn’t dropped by the dancer, and since Palm Springs has a lot of gay people, she went over how she had daddy issues 💀💀💀💀 also she spotted a fan saluting 🫡 her which she told them not to do and later remarked how she didn’t want that “weird heil Hitler moment” at her concert, which was funny as hell and we all laughed. She also sang a few lines of Causing a Commotion and unfortunately she was around some fans who didn’t sing anything and then called them out, saying “you’re all either high, drunk, shy, or you don’t know the words” and then later remarked how a lot of fans don’t know the words even though it sounded like the whole arena was singing just about every song and it seemed louder than Chicago (even though that arena was way larger). Also said that all the haters can go fuck themselves which we all loved.
I couldn’t contain myself during the second act. She appeared like 10 feet away from me when Erotica started and also did that little snippet of Papa Don’t Preach about 10 feet away as well!!!! Hung Up and Vogue were also done up close to me as well, but this time in the center (which was way closer to me than I thought).
The rest of the acts (including a good rendition of Take a Bow) follow the same story. I was in shock and awe especially during the parts on the right side of the stage and the outmost part of the center because both were literally like 10 feet away from me. Up close!!!!! During her speech before Express Yourself, she talked about how her kids were so important to her and part of what keeps her going, along with how her kids were her first thoughts when she was in the hospital. She also went on about how she initially couldn’t walk or wipe her ass and has an “unhealthy” work ethic. Also brought up how she didn’t want to let her fans down, which resulted in her receiving the longest applause of the night. In the end, this was one of the most fun nights I’ve had in recent memory, and the post-concert blues are probably gonna hit twice as hard being up close and knowing that this might be the last time I ever see Madonna. If this is it, then I’ll forever be grateful that I got to both have a lifetime that intersected with Madonna and see her on at least one tour. Either way, I can flex that I have seen the greatest female in the history of music to everyone I know. That’s definitely something I can’t take for granted since plenty of my other favorites are dead.
Below are a few photos I’m able to upload. The other photos I wanted to post were all over the 1 MB limit.
