The theme of the show sort of reminds me of The Girlie Show.

suga10 said:

The theme of the show sort of reminds me of The Girlie Show.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice it

suga10 said:

The theme of the show sort of reminds me of The Girlie Show.

That's one of her best tours if this tour is a throwback to that show,I'm thrilled.

BREAKING NEWS

More Breaking News

Madonna draws 4,000 tourists to Israel for MDNA concert premier

Fans pay up to NIS 5,000 for VIP ticket and accommodation package to attend Tel Aviv show; Conan O'Brian arrives especially to cover event.

Spoiler Alert!

Masterpiece

Human Nature

So far, the setlist looks like:

Girl Gone Wild w/Material Giirl

Express Yourself w/ Born This Way/She's Not Me

Turn Up The Radio

Gang Bang

Masterpiece

Human Nature

I'm Addicted

I'm a Sinner

Papa Don't Preach w/ Hung Up

Vogue

Erotica

Like a Prayer

[Edited 5/29/12 12:54pm]

My guess is:

Intro

Girl Gone Wild w/Material Girl

Revolver

Gang Bang

Papa Don't Preach

Hung Up

Interlude: Nobody Knows Me

Express Yourself w/Born This Way & She's Not Me

Like A Virgin

Human Nature

I Don't Give A

Erotica

Vogue

Masterpiece

Falling Free

Interlude: Best Friend w/Heartbeat

I'm Addicted

I'm A Sinner

Like A Prayer

Celebration w/Holiday

No sign of Falling Free...

purplethunder3121 said:

No sign of Falling Free...

Hopefully it just hasn't been rehearsed yet

aardvark15 said:

purplethunder3121 said:

No sign of Falling Free...

Hopefully it just hasn't been rehearsed yet

Hope so--that's my favorite song on the album. I wish she'd add Love Spent, too.

purplethunder3121 said:

aardvark15 said:

Hopefully it just hasn't been rehearsed yet

Hope so--that's my favorite song on the album. I wish she'd add Love Spent, too.

There's a rehearsal of Love Spent on youtube.

Where Beautiful Killer? My favourite, definitely!!

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Hope so--that's my favorite song on the album. I wish she'd add Love Spent, too.

There's a rehearsal of Love Spent on youtube.

Where Beautiful Killer? My favourite, definitely!!

Are you talking about that fake one posted awhile back?

Also I doubt she'll be performing songs from the deluxe edition

purplethunder3121 said:

aardvark15 said:

Hopefully it just hasn't been rehearsed yet

Hope so--that's my favorite song on the album. I wish she'd add Love Spent, too.

There's a rehearsal of Love Spent on youtube.

Where Beautiful Killer? My favourite, definitely!!

purplethunder3121 said:

aardvark15 said:

Hopefully it just hasn't been rehearsed yet

Hope so--that's my favorite song on the album. I wish she'd add Love Spent, too.

There's a rehearsal of Love Spent on youtube.

Where Beautiful Killer? My favourite, definitely!!

IT WAS FAKE? OH GOSH What's up with her, she releases an irregular album, rushing the recording sessions (William Orbit pointed that out in his fb), and it SHOWS. Then three of the gems - if not THE gems - (Love Spent, Falling Free and Beautiful Killer) she lefts out??

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

IT WAS FAKE? OH GOSH What's up with her, she releases an irregular album, rushing the recording sessions (William Orbit pointed that out in his fb), and it SHOWS. Then three of the gems - if not THE gems - (Love Spent, Falling Free and Beautiful Killer) she lefts out??

Unfortunately, it ssems that way. I'm glad I'm Addicted and I'm a Sinner made the cut.

purplethunder3121 said:

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

IT WAS FAKE? OH GOSH What's up with her, she releases an irregular album, rushing the recording sessions (William Orbit pointed that out in his fb), and it SHOWS. Then three of the gems - if not THE gems - (Love Spent, Falling Free and Beautiful Killer) she lefts out??

Unfortunately, it ssems that way. I'm glad I'm Addicted and I'm a Sinner made the cut.

I'm just glad me and Madonna share the same favorite song this time

I'm a sinner is really good. Sister song to one of her best ever: Beautiful Stranger (both with a 60's vibe). I thought one screamed for the other.

I'm not really sure bout I'm addicted, I'm in doubt with many of the songs yet. Girl gone wild for instance just seem to lack the Madonna factor, it's so generic, it could've been sung by ANY pop singer today. Same with Turn up the radio, although it's more Disney-like and not so adolescent-young adult, ie, without the sexyness of GGW. The Martin S collabs were attractive, but they haven't stood after some listens (except for Beautiful Killer). Maybe William O should've produced the whole thing, I don't know... Hard Candy was kind of lost too. Yet up until Confessions she really "expressed her" point. Now I just think it's mixed up.

aardvark15 said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Unfortunately, it ssems that way. I'm glad I'm Addicted and I'm a Sinner made the cut.

I'm just glad me and Madonna share the same favorite song this time

Did she say what her favourite MDNA song was? I thought I heard she said it was Gang Bang somewhere. Is this song you mean?

In the last couple of months Madonnarama revealed lots of info on the MDNA Tour setlist, concept and backdrops. Today, we can confirm the final setlist and give all the juicy details on the whole show…

This post of course includes LOTS of spoilers, so read at your own risk!

TRANSGRESSION

• Opening
  Opens up with bells ringing, followed by religious chants by Kalakan. A very haunting sound.
  Backdrop features a thurible with a light in it.
• Girl Gone Wild
  Starts with repetitions of “Oh my God” and Kalakan chants, then goes into the “Act of Contrition” intro, glass shatters and Madonna appears.
  Similar to the album version, but now has an incredible new instrumental part featuring whip-sounds, “Material Girl” lyrics and “Give it 2 me” music.
• Revolver
  Starts off with a gunshot and similar to the album version
  The backdrop features Lil Wayne.
• Gang Bang
  This is the performance that has the motel bedroom setting.
  It starts with police sirens and the background features lots of blood spatters.
  The live vocals, live spoken parts and live instruments, especially Monte Pittman’s guitar solo, give it a whole new dimension.
• Papa Don’t Preach
  A short, edited, live version with a more prominent organ sound.
• Hung up
  Completely reworked for the tour in an evil-esque way.
  The Abba sample is only heard during a very short part and the vocoder is used throughout the whole song.
  Also features repetitions of “Oh my God” and some “Act of Contrition” lyrics.
• I Don’t Give A
  Madonna on guitar.
  The “I Don’t Give A” intro lyrics are sung by Kalakan and Nicki Minaj makes an appearance on the backdrop videos wearing a long, blond wig.

INTERLUDE

• Best Friend
  Revisited and features samples from Hard Candy’s “Heartbeat”.
  Backdrop is very dark, images from cemetery, coffins and ends with a tombstone with a big M written on it.

PROPHECY

• Express Yourself
  A classic and includes a small marching-band segment.
  The backdrop is very happy, colorful and features old-fashioned comic strip images inspired by J. Howard Miller.
  At one point, when Madonna sings “What happens when you’re not in bed”, the backdrop has cartoon images of two men kissing.
  The big surprise we mentioned a few weeks ago is the appearance of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” after which, Madonna sings a “She’s not me” line.
• Give me all your luvin’
  The “Just Blaze remix” is being used, which now includes more Madonna vocals.
  The dancers, who now have become drummers, are suspended in the air.
• Turn up the Radio
  Starts with an altered version of the Music Inferno intro from the Confessions tour. The intro includes parts of “Holiday”, “Into the Groove”, “Lucky Star”, “4 Minutes” and a lot more…
  It then goes into the intro of the official “Leo Zero Remix” before the album version starts.
  Madonna on guitar.
• Open Your Heart/Sagarra Jo
  Madonna introduces “the Kalakan Trio”, as she calls them, and explains how they met during a trip in the Basque Country and why they’re joining her on tour.
  The song is nothing like the original version and sounds incredible.
  The backdrop features imagery inspired by the Basque Country.
  After “Open Your Heart”, they all sing Sagarra Jo and it sounds beautiful!
• Masterpiece
  Madonna sounds great and is joined by Kalakan at the end of this very intimate and moving performance.

INTERLUDE

• Justify my Love
  The Justify my Love video interlude says one thing: “Dita is back!”
  Madonna is being chased by carnival freaks who are wearing different masks, but goes hiding in a room to enjoy herself! It has the same feel as the “Truth or Dare by Madonna” commercial to it and is very sexy.
  The video is a metaphor for everybody trying to take advantage of Madonna, judge her or exploit her private life. Instead, Madonna chooses to lock herself up in a room to escape from it all and to indulge in her own fantasies. All this in a very sexy setting!

MASCULINE/FEMININE

• Vogue
  Madonna wears a white shirt, black tie, black pants, black long gloves, a corset and a reinvented cone bra, all designed by the incredible Jean Paul Gaultier.
  The same version as the Super Bowl halftime show, but this time the full song is performed and sung live.
  The backdrop is also similar to the Super Bowl version including the VOGUE magazine font, pictures of Hollywood stars (Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly…)
• Candy Shop vs. Erotica
  Madonna takes off the corset and cone bra she’s wearing on top of her white shirt.
  A very sensual choreography performed in couples during which Madonna dances with Brahim Zaibat.
  This “Candy Shop” version includes a small “Erotica” interlude which uses lyrics from the 1992 song.
  While she sings “Erotic Erotic put your hands all over my Body”, Brahim Zaibit is doing it!
• Human Nature
  Madonna has performed this song many times but this is the way it should be performed.
  Close to the album version, Madonna goes into a box singing “I’m not sorry” while dancers are touching her and putting their hands all over her body in a very sensual, not sexual, way.
• Like a Virgin
  The song has been oddly reworked using Abel Korzeniowski’s Evgeni’s Waltz.
  Madonna in a bra, looking vulnerable, sings one of her biggest hits, slowly, on one of the most touching track from the W.E. soundtrack.
  Some will love it, some won’t.
  At the end, Madonna sits down next to her pianist and disappears beneath the stage.

INTERLUDE

• Nobody Knows meThe center video screen features Madonna from the waist up. Her hair is shoulder-length, curly and slightly slicked back. She also wears long black leather gloves, a black bra and leather straps. They went for a soft make up look to accentuate the special effects of the whole video.
  
  During the first “I’ve had so many lives, since I was a child” part, bits and pieces of older Madonna pictures are pasted onto the actual video. The only appropriate way to describe it, is some kind of collage. As if someone had cut out different pictures from magazines to recreate a new one.
  The ending of the first part “How many times I’ve died” deals with how the press has tried to bury Madonna’s career.
  
  Using the same “collage” technique, Madonna impersonates different people who have played an important part, positive or negative, in our history: Trayvon Martin, Marine le Pen, Sarah Palin, the Pope, Hitler and more.
  
  The left and right video screen will depict images and video footage from all the events Madonna is referring to.
  
  Halfway through, images of different teenagers who commited suicide as a result of bullying are shown for a few seconds, along with a RIP message and their name. One of those names is Brandon Bitner.
  
  The last segment of the backdrop features positive images of people kissing: different races, straight couples, gay couples, even older couples and parents with their children.

REDEMPTION

• I’m Addicted
  Sounds a lot like the album version with a few added sounds to give it a better live impact.
  Madonna wears some chainmail pieces and a long, glittery robe with MDNA written on the back. Futuristic comics meets “Logan’s run”.
  She also dances barefoot and the choreography is kinda futuristic and a little cultish!
• I’m a Sinner / Cyber-Raga
  Madonna on guitar and the song has a very 70′s vibe.
  The dancers wear colorful clothing, while Madonna puts a flower necklace on her shiny ensemble.
  After “I’m a Sinner”, Madonna pulls her guitar on her back and performs “Cyber-Raga” together with Kalakan.
• Like a Prayer
  The chainmail pieces come off and everybody joins Madonna on stage, wearing black robes with big white crosses.
  Madonna goes to the end of the catwalk then returns to the main stage.
• Celebration
  Madonna removes the lower-part from the glittery robe to reveal some black tight pants, but keeps the upper-part that’s also worn in the “Girl Gone Wild” video.
  A very energetic and happy mood, amazing choreography with Madonna jumping from one dancer to another at the end of the catwalk.
  Madonna explores the DJ culture intensely in this one. She takes a pair of headphones, spins the records and also does some scratching.
  The backdrop features lots of colored cubes and the entire crew disappears into one giant cube.

Summary: The MDNA Tour will blow your mind!

WOW!!! That sounds an incredible show!!

GOT TO GO GET TICKETS NOW!!!!!!!!!! I'm actually interested in Candy Shop

You know I just realized that the 20th anniversary of Erotica album will be in October. It kind makes sense now why this show has a lot of resemblance to the Girlie Show.

[Edited 5/29/12 20:02pm]

This post of course includes LOTS of spoilers, so read at your own risk!

TRANSGRESSION

• Opening
  Opens up with bells ringing, followed by religious chants by Kalakan. A very haunting sound.
  Backdrop features a thurible with a light in it.
• Girl Gone Wild
  Starts with repetitions of “Oh my God” and Kalakan chants, then goes into the “Act of Contrition” intro, glass shatters and Madonna appears.
  Similar to the album version, but now has an incredible new instrumental part featuring whip-sounds, “Material Girl” lyrics and “Give it 2 me” music.
• Revolver
  Starts off with a gunshot and similar to the album version
  The backdrop features Lil Wayne.
• Gang Bang
  This is the performance that has the motel bedroom setting.
  It starts with police sirens and the background features lots of blood spatters.
  The live vocals, live spoken parts and live instruments, especially Monte Pittman’s guitar solo, give it a whole new dimension.
• Papa Don’t Preach
  A short, edited, live version with a more prominent organ sound.
• Hung up
  Completely reworked for the tour in an evil-esque way.
  The Abba sample is only heard during a very short part and the vocoder is used throughout the whole song.
  Also features repetitions of “Oh my God” and some “Act of Contrition” lyrics.
• I Don’t Give A
  Madonna on guitar.
  The “I Don’t Give A” intro lyrics are sung by Kalakan and Nicki Minaj makes an appearance on the backdrop videos wearing a long, blond wig.

INTERLUDE

• Best Friend
  Revisited and features samples from Hard Candy’s “Heartbeat”.
  Backdrop is very dark, images from cemetery, coffins and ends with a tombstone with a big M written on it.

PROPHECY

• Express Yourself
  A classic and includes a small marching-band segment.
  The backdrop is very happy, colorful and features old-fashioned comic strip images inspired by J. Howard Miller and Roy Lichtenstein.
  At one point, when Madonna sings “What happens when you’re not in bed”, the backdrop has cartoon images of two men kissing.
  The big surprise we mentioned a few weeks ago is the appearance of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” after which, Madonna sings a “She’s not me” line.
• Give me all your luvin’
  The “Just Blaze remix” is being used, which now includes more Madonna vocals.
  The dancers, who now have become drummers, are suspended in the air.
• Turn up the Radio
  Starts with an altered version of the Music Inferno intro from the Confessions tour. The intro includes parts of “Holiday”, “Into the Groove”, “Lucky Star”, “4 Minutes” and a lot more…
  It then goes into the intro of the official “Leo Zero Remix” before the album version starts.
  Madonna on guitar.
• Open Your Heart/Sagarra Jo
  Madonna introduces “the Kalakan Trio”, as she calls them, and explains how they met during a trip in the Basque Country and why they’re joining her on tour.
  The song is nothing like the original version and sounds incredible.
  The backdrop features imagery inspired by the Basque Country.
  After “Open Your Heart”, they all sing Sagarra Jo and it sounds beautiful!
• Masterpiece
  Madonna sounds great and is joined by Kalakan at the end of this very intimate and moving performance.

INTERLUDE

• Justify my Love
  The Justify my Love video interlude says one thing: “Dita is back!”
  Madonna is being chased by carnival freaks who are wearing different masks, but goes hiding in a room to enjoy herself! It has the same feel as the “Truth or Dare by Madonna” commercial to it and is very sexy.
  The video is a metaphor for everybody trying to take advantage of Madonna, judge her or exploit her private life. Instead, Madonna chooses to lock herself up in a room to escape from it all and to indulge in her own fantasies. All this in a very sexy setting!

MASCULINE/FEMININE

• Vogue
  Madonna wears a white shirt, black tie, black pants, long black gloves, a corset and a reinvented cone bra, all designed by the incredible Jean Paul Gaultier.
  The same version as the Super Bowl halftime show, but this time the full song is performed and sung live.
  The backdrop is also similar to the Super Bowl version including the VOGUE magazine font, pictures of Hollywood stars (Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly…)
• Candy Shop vs. Erotica
  Madonna takes off the corset and cone bra she’s wearing on top of her white shirt.
  A very sensual choreography performed in couples during which Madonna dances with Brahim Zaibat.
  This “Candy Shop” version includes a small “Erotica” interlude that uses lyrics from the 1992 song.
  While she sings “Erotic Erotic put your hands all over my Body”, Brahim Zaibit is doing it!
• Human Nature
  Madonna has performed this song many times but this is the way it should be performed.
  Close to the album version, Madonna goes into a box singing “I’m not sorry” while dancers are touching her and putting their hands all over her body in a very sensual, not sexual, way.
• Like a Virgin
  The song has been oddly reworked using Abel Korzeniowski’s Evgeni’s Waltz.
  Madonna in a bra, looking vulnerable, sings one of her biggest hits, slowly, on one of the most touching track from the W.E. soundtrack.
  Some will love it, some won’t.
  At the end, Madonna sits down next to her pianist and disappears beneath the stage.

INTERLUDE

• Nobody Knows me

The center video screen features Madonna from the waist up. Her hair is shoulder-length, curly and slightly slicked back. She also wears long black leather gloves, a black bra and leather straps. They went for a soft make up look to accentuate the special effects of the whole video.

During the first “I’ve had so many lives, since I was a child” part, bits and pieces of older Madonna pictures are pasted onto the actual video. The only appropriate way to describe it, is some kind of collage. As if someone had cut out different pictures from magazines to recreate a new one.
The ending of the first part “How many times I’ve died” deals with how the press has tried to bury Madonna’s career.

Using the same “collage” technique, Madonna impersonates different people who have played an important part, positive or negative, in our history: Trayvon Martin, Marine le Pen, Sarah Palin, the Pope, Hitler and more.

The left and right video screen will depict images and video footage from all the events Madonna is referring to.

Halfway through, images of different teenagers who commited suicide as a result of bullying are shown for a few seconds, along with a RIP message and their name. One of those names is Brandon Bitner.

The last segment of the backdrop features positive images of people kissing: different races, straight couples, gay couples, even older couples and parents with their children.

REDEMPTION

• I’m Addicted
  Sounds a lot like the album version with a few added sounds to give it a better live impact.
  Madonna wears some chainmail pieces and a long, glittery robe with MDNA written on the back. Futuristic comics meets “Logan’s run”.
  She also dances barefoot and the choreography is kinda futuristic and a little cultish!
• I’m a Sinner / Cyber-Raga
  Madonna on guitar and the song has a very 70′s vibe.
  The dancers wear colorful clothing, while Madonna puts a flower necklace on her shiny ensemble.
  After “I’m a Sinner”, Madonna pulls her guitar on her back and performs “Cyber-Raga” together with Kalakan.
• Like a Prayer
  The chainmail pieces come off and everybody joins Madonna on stage, wearing black robes with big white crosses.
  Madonna goes to the end of the catwalk then returns to the main stage.
• Celebration
  Madonna removes the lower-part from the glittery robe to reveal some black tight pants, but keeps the upper-part that’s also worn in the “Girl Gone Wild” video.
  A very energetic and happy mood, amazing choreography with Madonna jumping from one dancer to another at the end of the catwalk.
  Madonna explores the DJ culture intensely in this one. She takes a pair of headphones, spins the records and also does some scratching.
  The backdrop features lots of colored cubes and the entire crew disappears into one giant cube.

Read more: http://www.madonnarama.co...z1wK2dm4ES

Madonna's MDNA Tour Might Anger Anti-Gun Activists

Madonna is no stranger to controversy and is once again ready to embrace it as she prepares to launch her MDNA tour.

The Queen of Pop pissed off British anti-violence group Mothers Against Murder And Aggression in 2008 when she wore a pair of Chanel shoes with gun-shaped heels, but now they are REALLY going to be peeved.

According to reports, Madonna's newest stage spectacular involves a sequence in which she aims a pistol toward the crowd and her backup dancers hold machine guns.

Some folks might not appreciate the violent imagery, but the masses will STILL be flocking to her show. In fact, Madonna has announced that $240 million worth of tickets for her 32-country tour have already been sold!

The tour begins this Thursday in Tel Aviv, Israel and the first show has already drawn 4,000 tourists to the country. Guns or no guns, this is a worldwide event that CAN NOT be missed!

We have total faith in whatever Madonna has planned for us!

Okay so basically I'm trying to get a friend of mine to like Madonna's music and last week I let them borrow my copy of Something To Remember to try to turn them on. Today they gave it back and said they really liked it. I told them it was compilation of her ballads and was released in 1995. After saying this my friend asked if I could make a CD of post- 1995 ballads and I agreed. Right now I have the following songs for Something To Remember 2:

Drowned World/Substitute For Love

Swim

Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Paradise (Not For Me)

The Power Of Goodbye

I Deserve It

Devil Wouldn't Recognize You

Little Star

Masterpiece

To Have And Not To Hold

Gone

Push

Time Stood Still

You Must Love Me

Frozen

Falling Free

Mer Girl

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Remixes count too.

[Edited 5/30/12 18:48pm]

This is her best ballad.

aardvark15 said:

Drowned World/Substitute For Love

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

This is her best ballad.

aardvark15 said:

Drowned World/Substitute For Love

Her best song in my opinion