DavidEye said:

I bet you thought that was genius!!! Why does she walks around and talk with a fake British accent?

DavidEye said:

Well unfortunately, there is alway exceptions!!!

http://c1.zedo.com/jsc/c1/ff2.html?n=162;c=422/1;s=300;d=16;w=720;h=300;t=UndertoneNetworks.com

By Christian Toto


The mother of reinvention seems more like a master of recycling these days. Madonna, the erstwhile Material Girl-turned-Britney-Spears-mentor, dropped by the MCI Center Sunday night for the first of two District stops on her Re-Invention Tour '04.
Unlike her last tour, Madonna obliged with a healthy dose of fan favorites, from "Like a Prayer" to "Into the Groove."
What stood out for those who have tracked her career through its many phases — virgin, less than virgin, bad actress and children's book author — is that today's Madonna isn't exactly sure who she is.
The show trots out the singer's hit parade of shocks, from political swipes to erotica unhinged, but each came out as if sanitized by time or (gasp) good taste.
She no longer wants to titillate us, and her polemics always fall short of genuine insight.
Madonna, now 45, is one of several '80s icons, including The Cure and Prince, hitting the road again this summer. But while Prince's tour finds the multi-talented musician winning fans anew with his craft, Madonna dazzles with pyrotechnics. The best she can muster musically is to strum an acoustic guitar while a crush of musicians perform behind her, mostly on the periphery of the stage, without a ray of light to illuminate them.
Flanked by massive video screens for much of the affair, Madonna entered from a rising platform to "vogue."
Never mind her occasional British accent, which she should have left behind in her hotel suite.
The singer's voice, an able instrument but hardly her calling card, remained hale throughout the night.
"Burning Up," a nugget better left buried, somehow made the oldies cut, while "Material Girl" got an irony-free treatment. She brought a jazzy touch to "Deeper and Deeper," which showed vocal nuances we didn't know she had.
The best blend of music and the concert's visuals came with "Like a Prayer," which she sang before a backdrop of black churchgoers streaming on the video screens.
The protest singer in her blanketed the night with morose good intentions.
Helicopter sounds and footage of wounded children made it abundantly clear Madonna is against war, but it's equally obvious she isn't interested in mocking our troops. She probably realized she looked smashing in a military beret and olive green shades and took it from there.
Later, she sang an uninspiring version of John Lennon's "Imagine" that was saved only by reverberating guitar chords. She then segued to Scottish bagpipes and drums, which begat "Into the Groove."
One could think for days and not come up with a more incongruous match between music and theme.
The night concluded with a big sign that read "Reinvent Yourself."
One day it might occur to her to actually be herself, and see what happens. It could be the only reinvention she hasn't tried yet

sosgemini said:

One thing Madonna really deserves credit for is....all of her tours are unique and distinctive.Every tour is different,bigger and better than the last one.This new tour is NOTHING like 'Drowned World'.While many longtime artists go on tour every year or so,playing the same tired hits over and over,not even changing the arrangements or the stage design...it's refreshing to see Madonna out there,doing something different each time.


Also,while this tour is widely considered a "greatest hits" show,it's notable that Madonna actually plays seven songs from her current album.On a tour in which she is expected to "play it safe" and just deliver the well-known hits,she STILL finds a way to break the trend and play lots of new stuff.

laurarichardson said:

Madonna experience a huge backlash from the press around the time when Erotica and the Sex book came out - so what you're saying is completely untrue. In fact, I'd say that in many ways she got a much worse battering from the media than P because her profile has always been a little bigger.

And she's one of the biggest selling artists of all time - I think she sells records!

But when did this turn into a comparison of Prince and Madonna?

Either way, I agree with DavidEye in that playing the race card is so low. The fact that Madonna is white and Prince is black has bugger all to do with anything...

This has become one funny thread. Very entertaining.

Supernova said:

You can't take things to seriously....

adoreme said:

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She did not experience a backlash the press gave her a lot of free publicity and she sold a lot of books. She has never gotten the battering that Prince has. Which I think makes his comeback even better but that is just my opinion.

Madonna's sales are down. She could not give this last cd away and if you think race has nothing to do with anything I want to sell you the Brooklyn brigde.

-raunchy music/image (she went further than Prince ever did image-wise during the Erotica era)

VoicesCarry said:

You really think so? I don't know...Prince's "dirty mind" image predated Madonna and pretty much set the standard for raunch in the 80s. I mean, here was a man onstage with women's underwear on, singing about head and incest.

SquarePeg said:

Yeah, but she basically went ahead and published a picture book chronicling the sexual acts you mention.

VoicesCarry said:

that's because she wasn't that good at making us see it through music like Prince did

not bashing Madonna, cuz she's the shit...but Prince, for the most part, was master of leaving it to our imaginations.

Madonna looked nice during the late 80's.