That is one over the top show. The stage is pretty amazing. Must have cost bundles; explains why she charged so much.

A lot of weird stuff like bondage and killing a black guy and stuffing money in his mouth. Very weird show. Her voice was in fine form.

2freaky4church1 said:

That is one over the top show. The stage is pretty amazing. Must have cost bundles; explains why she charged so much.

A lot of weird stuff like bondage and killing a black guy and stuffing money in his mouth. Very weird show. Her voice was in fine form.

Boy there is alot of violence in the beginning and the sexual bondage I thought was a nice lil throwback to the Erotica era.

I still don't know what to make of the show. Not a fan of the MDNA album except for I'm Addicted and Turn Up The Radiio which she did end up doing.

Nice to hear Open Your Heart for once, but the new songs dont have any life in my opinion.

Candy Shop / Erotica was hawt. Gang Bang had a nice set.

Still dont know what to make of it though..alot of stuff going on

When I was at the actual concert,there were a few things that didn't make sense to me.But now,seeing the show on DVD,I can understand what Madonna was trying to do.For example,at the concert,I thought "Papa Don't Preach" was an odd choice to include in the first segment.But,now I understand it.When she performs it in this show,she never sings the "I'm keeping my baby" line.It now becomes a song where she's pleading for forgiveness,after killing her lover in the previous song ("Gang Bang").The song's meaning has been transformed,to "fit" into this segment.

SoulAlive said:

What surprised me most about madonna's show (I didn't see it) was how sadly conservative her audience has become. She was reportedly booed on more than one occasion. But I know what happened: With age comes conservatism.

CynicKill said:

What surprised me most about madonna's show (I didn't see it) was how sadly conservative her audience has become. She was reportedly booed on more than one occasion. But I know what happened: With age comes conservatism.

Yes, I agree. These are supposed to be Madonna fans! I saw the show in Phoenix and, granted not known as being a very liberal state to begin with, people boo'd her while she was doing a monologue about a girl who killed herself after being bullied for being gay. (It was a news headline during the time.) People around us were bitching that she was "preaching" instead of singing. I'd like to think Madonna knows her audience (including people who are gay and not so conservative) but after the response she got in Arizona - I wouldn't be surprised if she NEVER came back. In hindsight, it actually has made me reconsider if I ever want to go to any more concerts - just because of people's obnoxious behavior. A similar situation happened when I saw Depeche Mode and Fleetwood Mac concerts a couple of years earlier (again in Phoenix). Hmm... Maybe I just need to reconsider where I travel to see concerts.

Anyway - I agree. While Madonna's outspoken-ness hasn't changed, her audience has. It's really too bad because in the early 80's so many teens wanted to be like her. In the 90's, she literally made no apologies for her behavior - and it was a sign then that some people have hypocritical standards. (The fallout from the 'Sex' book and acknowledgement of her gay fans, HIV/AIDS awareness, her political views, etc. were all indicators.) Now - it seems like so much of the world has become a bunch of prudes. It sure makes me miss the ol' days!

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Her best show since The Girlie Show in 1993 imo.

Apparently each individual concert cost over $1million to stage. She had to pay thousands of dollars each night just to each of the estates of the dead Hollywood stars' to show their images during 'Vogue'.

SoulAlive said:

For example,at the concert,I thought "Papa Don't Preach" was an odd choice to include in the first segment.But,now I understand it.When she performs it in this show,she never sings the "I'm keeping my baby" line.It now becomes a song where she's pleading for forgiveness,after killing her lover in the previous song ("Gang Bang").The song's meaning has been transformed,to "fit" into this segment.

That whole segment has a proper and cool theme and concept. It is about her divorce. The show starts with a marriage ceremony and the man is equated with God (the religious chanting is about that). Madonna arrives in a confessional because the woman is the original sinner. "Gang Bang", "Papa Don't Preach" and "Hung Up" represent breaking free from her husband and also from the norms created by the society. "I Don't Give A" is finalizing her divorce, also set in a church, which is blasphemous.

Unfortunately the rest of the show is way too uninspired to me compared to the first segment with so many recycles and rehashes. "Open Your Heart" is a nice performance and the new "Candy Shop" arrangement is awesome but everything else is a letdown, revisits of the Girlie Show, Drowned World Tour and Re-Invention Tour mainly with no concept at all... I really hope the next tour will be better than this and she stops repeating herself. I cannot believe she chose to do the familiar arrangements of "Vogue", "Human Nature" and "Like A Prayer" after bending over backwards on the previous tour to give a new arrangement to practically all the old songs!

That was just a rumor, no way she's working with Giorgio. Chances are her next album will also be all about A&R-ing tracks from 7-8 producers, from the likes of Max Martin, Fernando Garibay, will.i.am, Stargate and the DJs Lady Gaga is working with now. She has an expensive but outdated contract for two more albums, it will be as safe as it could get!

LiveToTell86 said:

SoulAlive said:

For example,at the concert,I thought "Papa Don't Preach" was an odd choice to include in the first segment.But,now I understand it.When she performs it in this show,she never sings the "I'm keeping my baby" line.It now becomes a song where she's pleading for forgiveness,after killing her lover in the previous song ("Gang Bang").The song's meaning has been transformed,to "fit" into this segment.

That whole segment has a proper and cool theme and concept. It is about her divorce. The show starts with a marriage ceremony and the man is equated with God (the religious chanting is about that). Madonna arrives in a confessional because the woman is the original sinner. "Gang Bang", "Papa Don't Preach" and "Hung Up" represent breaking free from her husband and also from the norms created by the society. "I Don't Give A" is finalizing her divorce, also set in a church, which is blasphemous.

Unfortunately the rest of the show is way too uninspired to me compared to the first segment with so many recycles and rehashes. "Open Your Heart" is a nice performance and the new "Candy Shop" arrangement is awesome but everything else is a letdown, revisits of the Girlie Show, Drowned World Tour and Re-Invention Tour mainly with no concept at all... I really hope the next tour will be better than this and she stops repeating herself. I cannot believe she chose to do the familiar arrangements of "Vogue", "Human Nature" and "Like A Prayer" after bending over backwards on the previous tour to give a new arrangement to practically all the old songs!

I'm sure she'll do well with Giorgio on her next album

That was just a rumor, no way she's working with Giorgio. Chances are her next album will also be all about A&R-ing tracks from 7-8 producers, from the likes of Max Martin, Fernando Garibay, will.i.am, Stargate and the DJs Lady Gaga is working with now. She has an expensive but outdated contract for two more albums, it will be as safe as it could get!

I wish she'd do a dance album again with Stuart Price.

rlittler81 said:

Her best show since The Girlie Show in 1993 imo.

It might be time for us to do a thread where we rank the Madonna tours I actually think The Confessions Tour is her best tour of the past decade or so.

FormerlyKnownAs said:

I wish she'd do a dance album again with Stuart Price.

It's interesting that,when she did the COADF album,US radio wasn't into that type of music...it was considered too "dancey"...too Eurodisco-sounding....and yet now,every other song you hear on the radio these days has that exact same sound.

LiveToTell86 said:

That whole segment has a proper and cool theme and concept. It is about her divorce. The show starts with a marriage ceremony and the man is equated with God (the religious chanting is about that). Madonna arrives in a confessional because the woman is the original sinner. "Gang Bang", "Papa Don't Preach" and "Hung Up" represent breaking free from her husband and also from the norms created by the society. "I Don't Give A" is finalizing her divorce, also set in a church, which is blasphemous.

Unfortunately the rest of the show is way too uninspired to me compared to the first segment with so many recycles and rehashes. "Open Your Heart" is a nice performance and the new "Candy Shop" arrangement is awesome but everything else is a letdown, revisits of the Girlie Show, Drowned World Tour and Re-Invention Tour mainly with no concept at all... I really hope the next tour will be better than this and she stops repeating herself. I cannot believe she chose to do the familiar arrangements of "Vogue", "Human Nature" and "Like A Prayer" after bending over backwards on the previous tour to give a new arrangement to practically all the old songs!

I never thought that I would say this...but I hope her next tour is a greatest hits show.I know she always likes to move ahead and focus on the NEW music,but I think it's time for her to finally revisit her past with a stunning trip down memory lane.I wanna hear stuff like "Angel","Causing A Commotion","Dress You Up","Live To Tell","Deeper And Deeper","Cherish",etc.She has neglected many of these songs for too many years now.Would be cool to see a Madonna show that finally focuses completely on the past.

LiveToTell86 said:

I'm sure she'll do well with Giorgio on her next album

That was just a rumor, no way she's working with Giorgio. Chances are her next album will also be all about A&R-ing tracks from 7-8 producers, from the likes of Max Martin, Fernando Garibay, will.i.am, Stargate and the DJs Lady Gaga is working with now. She has an expensive but outdated contract for two more albums, it will be as safe as it could get!

I predict that her next album will be produced by Daft Punk....or at least they will produce 3 or 4 tracks.

Yeah I forgot Daft Punk, they will definitely contribute to the album, she seems to be at the top of her list. I don't want her to revisit Stuart or any other old producer, it seemed to desperate for MDNA already (not to mention that half of Orbit's contributions are co-produced by hitmakers anyway, the guy who co-wrote and co-prouced "Some Girls" also co-wrote Britney's "Piece of Me" and now Katy's "Walking on Air" but for most fans the hitmakers are only an issue if they are related to R&B/hip hop).

As for the greatest hits tour, I don't think that's a good idea, considering she did most of her hits in the past 5 tours. She's cycling the songs that appeared on her greatest hits albums, only "Cherish, "Take A Bow", "The Power of Good-Bye" that are glaring omissions (and now that "Who's That Girl got resurrected for Celebration), otherwise they appeared in one form or another and several of her hits are being overperformed. I'd rather her do a couple of album tracks she could revisit like "Swim" or "Like It Or Not".

What's ironic is that Madonna has more hits than anyone else alive so we are spoiled that she can cycle around THAT many hits but "Like A Virgin" and "Like A Prayer" are tiresome now and she should try to make a show without them (only the Drowned World Tour was free from either) and some other ones like "Holiday, "Vogue" or "Music". But I'm sure the next tour will be half new music and half signature hits again with a couple of lesser hits, just hopefully not "Human Nature" repeated again.

LiveToTell86 said:

As for the greatest hits tour, I don't think that's a good idea, considering she did most of her hits in the past 5 tours. She's cycling the songs that appeared on her greatest hits albums, only "Cherish, "Take A Bow", "The Power of Good-Bye" that are glaring omissions (and now that "Who's That Girl got resurrected for Celebration), otherwise they appeared in one form or another and several of her hits are being overperformed. I'd rather her do a couple of album tracks she could revisit like "Swim" or "Like It Or Not".

What's ironic is that Madonna has more hits than anyone else alive so we are spoiled that she can cycle around THAT many hits but "Like A Virgin" and "Like A Prayer" are tiresome now and she should try to make a show without them (only the Drowned World Tour was free from either) and some other ones like "Holiday, "Vogue" or "Music". But I'm sure the next tour will be half new music and half signature hits again with a couple of lesser hits, just hopefully not "Human Nature" repeated again.

Yes,she performs a few old songs on each tour,but it seems half-assed to me...like she's just doing it because she feels obligated to do so I think a full-fledged greatest hits tour is long overdue.Diehard and casual fans would love something like this.And I'm not just talking about the big hits...she could add stuff like "Angel","Causing A Commotion",Rain","Take A Bow",even "Spotlight"....some of these songs have never been performed before.A tour like this would be so much fun!

SoulAlive said:

Yes,she performs a few old songs on each tour,but it seems half-assed to me...like she's just doing it because she feels obligated to do so I think a full-fledged greatest hits tour is long overdue.Diehard and casual fans would love something like this.And I'm not just talking about the big hits...she could add stuff like "Angel","Causing A Commotion",Rain","Take A Bow",even "Spotlight"....some of these songs have never been performed before.A tour like this would be so much fun!

I agree. I think it would be fun as a one time thing, one tour based around her hits. But not just her 80's hits, some of my favorite songs by her are from the 90's and the early 00's. The reason Greatest hits tours gets a bad name is there are some artists who never seem to be bothered to make a new album, but do a greatest hits tour every single year. Then it becomes boring, but a Greatest Hits tour can be great fun if you do it once. It's great as a one time thing to hear all songs you know and what are your favorite songs of all time. In the past. I would say she'd never do it. but recently with that autobiography in Bazaar and some of her instagram pictures it seems she's not averse to looking back. Plus, we know how she likes to be the #1 grossing artist and bring in the $$$. A greatest hits tour with a few cult fan favorites that have never been been performed like Bad Girl would without a doubt be the highest grossing tour of all time.

I only have seen The blond ambition, girlie show, and MDNA tours all on video, but I still think Blond Ambition is her best and at her peak.

is it worth it? visually, I mean

I despise this entire botox era...

JoeTyler said:

is it worth it? visually, I mean

I despise this entire botox era...

It has some good moments. I saw most of it on youtube.

I'm watching it tonight on Redbox Instant and stream on my Roku player. So excited for this.

kewlschool said:

SoulAlive said:

Yes,she performs a few old songs on each tour,but it seems half-assed to me...like she's just doing it because she feels obligated to do so I think a full-fledged greatest hits tour is long overdue.Diehard and casual fans would love something like this.And I'm not just talking about the big hits...she could add stuff like "Angel","Causing A Commotion",Rain","Take A Bow",even "Spotlight"....some of these songs have never been performed before.A tour like this would be so much fun!

But that's never going to happen. She performs 19 songs on average at a show, half of it just has to be the new material for her (she won't be touring without new material until 2017-18 after her two contractually obligated albums are released) and the other half of the setlist has to be the usual hits because people go to hear "Like A Prayer" at a Madonna show, not forgotten singles like "Angel" or random album tracks. And I'm also sure Live Nation does remind Madonna of that, I'm thinking that's why she performed "Vogue" instead of "Some Girls" on MDNA Tour. It would be really great to have songs like "True Blue", "Who's That Girl", "Causing A Commotion", "Cherish", "Bad Girl", "Bedtime Story", "Take A Bow", "The Power of Good-Bye", "Nothing Really Matters" and "Love Profusion" alongside a new album at a Madonna show instead of "Music" and the likes but it's not how she operates.

The best she can hope for is that she sings hits (that are on her greatest hits albums) not done in the past 10 years on a tour: "Everybody", "Secret" and "Beautiful Stranger" alongside songs not performed that recently like "Deeper And Deeper" or "Don't Tell Me"...

MADONNA 'LIKE A DREAM' WORLD TOUR' 2014 (a show focusing on the hits)

ACT 1---80s NY nightclub

Holiday

SoulAlive said:

MADONNA 'LIKE A DREAM' WORLD TOUR' 2014 (a show focusing on the hits)

ACT 1---80s NY nightclub

Video interlude: Spotlight (new video)

Lucky Star

Everybody

Physical Attraction

Borderline

Crazy For You

Angel

ACT 2---

Video interlude: Like A Virgin (new video)

Material Girl

Into The Groove

Dress You Up

Live To Tell

Papa Don't Preach

Cherish

ACT 3---

Video interlude: Vogue (new video)

Deeper And Deeper

Secret

Rain

Frozen

Ray Of Light

Don't Tell Me

ACT 4---

Video interlude: 4 Minutes (new video)

Hung Up

Hollywood

Beautiful Stranger

This Used To Be My Playground/Take A Bow

Give Me All Your Luvin'

Holiday

I guess that would be exciting for casual fans, but for me as a hardcore fan I would find it a little boring. If she ever does a tour without new material, I wouldn't want her to limit it totally to the conventional definition of hits, Top 10 songs, but fit in a few singles that weren't as big or even album tracks that fans love. For example stuff like Bedtime Story, Bad Girl, Nothing Really Matters, Skin etc.

One day, Madonna won't be pushing new material as much, and it will be a hits tour. Maybe in her 70s.

Yeah that setlist is almost like simply performing The Immaculate Collection & GHV2 with only a couple of less popular hits. If she tours without new material then I'd definitely want album tracks like "Love Profusion" or "How High".

My only request from the next tour in fact would be that she'd only do ONE pre-Erotica song: "Everybody" as the finale and the rest of the setlist choices would be from the post-The Immaculate Collection era...

My request is she stops touring and overcharging.

Glindathegood said:

SoulAlive said:

MADONNA 'LIKE A DREAM' WORLD TOUR' 2014 (a show focusing on the hits)

ACT 1---80s NY nightclub

Video interlude: Spotlight (new video)

Lucky Star

Everybody

Physical Attraction

Borderline

Crazy For You

Angel

ACT 2---

Video interlude: Like A Virgin (new video)

Material Girl

Into The Groove

Dress You Up

Live To Tell

Papa Don't Preach

Cherish

ACT 3---

Video interlude: Vogue (new video)

Deeper And Deeper

Secret

Rain

Frozen

Ray Of Light

Don't Tell Me

ACT 4---

Video interlude: 4 Minutes (new video)

Hung Up

Hollywood

Beautiful Stranger

This Used To Be My Playground/Take A Bow

Give Me All Your Luvin'

Holiday

I guess that would be exciting for casual fans, but for me as a hardcore fan I would find it a little boring. If she ever does a tour without new material, I wouldn't want her to limit it totally to the conventional definition of hits, Top 10 songs, but fit in a few singles that weren't as big or even album tracks that fans love. For example stuff like Bedtime Story, Bad Girl, Nothing Really Matters, Skin etc.

You would be "bored" hearing the classic songs that made her who she is? Some of these songs (like "Angel") hasn't been performed in decades...wouldn't it be nice to finally hear these songs at a Madonna concert? Don't get me wrong,I like the fact that her concerts focus on new material.That's actually a bold thing to do.Many other veteran artists (even Prince) could never get away with charging fans $300 to hear mostly new songs at a show.I just feel like,she's done this for a long time now (from Drowned World to MDNA).It's time to finally do a greatest hits tour.And it doesn't have to be a predictable,run of the mill greatest hits show.This is Madonna we're talking about it (lol)..she would find a way to make it interesting and exciting...bringing new life to those old songs.