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Tue, November 7, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal @ Altice Arena
The tour of Madonna is: "The Celebration Tour".
It was my 12th Madonna show. 2nd of 2 shows here in Altice Arena, Lisbon.
I arrived at Altice Arena at 18:00. Doors opened at 19:00 and Madonna was scheduled to start at 20:30.
For this show I bought the "Where's The Party Premium Ticket Package".
This package includes:
- One reserved ticket,
- Limited edition litograph,
- Merchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasers,
- Collectable laminate & lanyard to remember your evening,
- Designated check in and on-site event staff.
I got in around 19:00. Received my merchandising from the VIP Package, was missing the litograph. They said that I had to ask by email to send it to me.
Before "Madonna" in Altice Arena, played DJ Barata, he started at 19h31 and played 58 minutes.
Finally was time for Madonna. She started at 21:33 (this time only 63 minutes late) and played 136 minutes. Played a set of 27 songs.
Love the concert. One of my favorite Madonna tours for sure. She told a lot of stories on this show about her life all along this last 40 years of her career. She talked about when she came to live in Lisbon for a few years.
You can check all the details of the show in the setlist below.
Act I
It's a Celebration (bob the drag queen; "D&D", "Lucky Star", "Celebration", "Erotica", "Vogue", "BIM" & "Material Girl") 01. Nothing Really Matters (contains elements from the Club 69 Remix) 02. Everybody (contains elements of "Where's the Party") 03. Into The Groove (contains elements of "Into the Hollywood Groove") 04. Burning Up 05. Open Your Heart 06. Holiday (contains elements of "I Want Your Love" by Chic)
Act II
The Storm (contains elements of "In This Life") 07. Live to Tell
The Ritual (Dancers interlude; contains elements of "Girl Gone Wild") 08. Like a Prayer (contains elements of "Birjina Gaztetto Bat Zegoen", "Unholy", "Girl Gone Wild" & "Act of Contrition")
Act III
Living For Love (contains elements of contains elements of the Offer Nissim Remix, “Let’s Go Crazy” & “Fever”)
9. Erotica (contains elements of "Justify My Love", "You Thrill Me" & "Papa Don't Preach")
10. Justify My Love (contains elements of "Gangsta" , "Erotica" & "Fever")
11. Hung Up (contains elements of "Hung Up on Tokischa" & "La Isla Bonita")
12. Bad Girl (contains elements of "Le Regret, op. 332")
Act IV
Ballroom (dancers interlude; contains elements of "Up Down Suite", "Vogue" & BREAK MY SOUL (THE QUEENS REMIX)) 13. Vogue (with Jean-Paul Gaultier as judge)
14. Human Nature (Shortened)
15. Crazy for You
Act V
The Beast Within 16. Die Another Day 17. Don't Tell Me (contains elements of "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly")
18. Mother and Father
19. Sôdade (Cesária Évora cover)
20. I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor cover) (Shortened)
21. La Isla Bonita (Shortened)
22. Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Andrew Lloyd Webber cover) (Shortened)
Act VI
Madonna (video interlude; contains elements of "I Don't Search I Find")
23. Bedtime Story (contains elements of the Sound Factory Remix)
24. Ray of Light (Sasha Ultra Violet Remix)
25. Rain
Encore: Like a Virgin / Billie Jean (contains elements of Express Yourself, Angel & Smooth Criminal, Dangerous, YRMW, TWYMMF by MJ) 26. Bitch I'm Madonna (contains elements of "Give Me All Your Luvin") 27. Celebration (Benny Benassi Remix; contains elements of "Bitch I'm Madonna" & "Music" - Shortened)
In bold are the videos I made.
Videos of Madonna (12 videos):
Madonna-Nothing Really Matters, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdhtbPJb89k
And the video:
Madonna-Nothing Really Matters (End)+Everybody, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrAfy-kwEf4
And the video:
Madonna-Into The Groove, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U95bRY-BrR4
And the video:
Madonna-Burning Up (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6dMPByct8&t=338s
And the video:
Madonna-Open Your Heart, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-P0LcEl5Po
And the video:
Madonna-Holiday (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv-YRozJaP4
And the video:
Madonna-Live to Tell, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nOFw_4tIjY
And the video:
Madonna-Like A Prayer (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfS82JFhUa4
And the video:
Madonna-Vogue (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0oMpBL0J0
And the video:
Madonna-Die Another Day (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE0Wuki50CU
And the video:
Madonna-Die Another Day (End)+Don't Tell Me, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFjRSKvotg&t=193s
And the video:
Madonna-Bitch I'm Madonna+Celebration (LikeAVirgin-BillieJean), AlticeArena,Lisbon,PT, 2023-11-07 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q0KZDPwml8
And the video:
Mon, November 6, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal @ Altice Arena
The tour of Madonna is: "The Celebration Tour".
It was my 11th Madonna show. 1st of 2 shows here in Altice Arena, Lisbon.
I arrived at Altice Arena at 05:30 am. It was a sunny day with some clouds and a little rain. Doors opened at 19:15 and Madonna was scheduled to start at 20:30.
For this show I bought the "Floor A GA". When I got in through the left side, I found out that the main pit was still open, so I went there and got a bracelet to get in. I managed to stay in the second or third row in the middle of the pit but walked around in a few songs.
Before "Madonna" in Altice Arena, played DJ Kura, he started at 19h30 and played 60 minutes.
Finally was time for Madonna. She started at 21:58 (88 minutes late) and played 137 minutes. Played a set of 27 songs.
Love the concert. One of my favorite Madonna shows ever for sure. She told a lot of stories on this show about her life all along this last 40 years of her career. She talked about when she went to New York and also when she came to live in Lisbon for a few years.
You can check all the details of the show in the setlist below.
Act I
It's a Celebration (bob the drag queen; "D&D", "Lucky Star", "Celebration", "Erotica", "Vogue", "BIM" & "Material Girl") 01. Nothing Really Matters (contains elements from the Club 69 Remix) 02. Everybody (contains elements of "Where's the Party") 03. Into The Groove (contains elements of "Into the Hollywood Groove") 04. Burning Up 05. Open Your Heart 06. Holiday (contains elements of "I Want Your Love" by Chic)
Act II
The Storm (contains elements of "In This Life") 07. Live to Tell
The Ritual (Dancers interlude; contains elements of "Girl Gone Wild") 08. Like a Prayer (contains elements of "Birjina Gaztetto Bat Zegoen", "Unholy", "Girl Gone Wild" & "Act of Contrition")
Act III
Living For Love (contains elements of contains elements of the Offer Nissim Remix, “Let’s Go Crazy” & “Fever”)
9. Erotica (contains elements of "Justify My Love", "You Thrill Me" & "Papa Don't Preach")
10. Justify My Love (contains elements of "Gangsta" , "Erotica" & "Fever")
11. Hung Up (contains elements of "Hung Up on Tokischa" & "La Isla Bonita")
12. Bad Girl (contains elements of "Le Regret, op. 332")
Act IV
Ballroom (dancers interlude; contains elements of "Up Down Suite", "Vogue" & BREAK MY SOUL (THE QUEENS REMIX)) 13. Vogue (with Jon Kortajarena as judge)
14. Human Nature (Shortened)
15. Crazy for You
Act V
The Beast Within 16. Die Another Day 17. Don't Tell Me (contains elements of "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly")
18. Mother and Father
19. Sôdade (Cesária Évora cover)
20. I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor cover) (Shortened)
21. La Isla Bonita (Shortened)
22. Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Andrew Lloyd Webber cover) (Shortened)
Act VI
Madonna (video interlude; contains elements of "I Don't Search I Find")
23. Bedtime Story (contains elements of the Sound Factory Remix)
24. Ray of Light (Sasha Ultra Violet Remix)
25. Rain
Encore: Like a Virgin / Billie Jean (contains elements of Express Yourself, Angel & Smooth Criminal, Dangerous, YRMW, TWYMMF by MJ) 26. Bitch I'm Madonna (contains elements of "Give Me All Your Luvin") 27. Celebration (Benny Benassi Remix; contains elements of "Bitch I'm Madonna" & "Music" - Shortened)
In bold are the videos I made.
Videos of Madonna (12 videos):
Madonna-Nothing Really Matters+Everybody, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9pQI0tZdLU
And the video:
Madonna-Into The Groove, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNoLd2UESgE
And the video:
Madonna-Burning Up (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzxbVqCQxWk
And the video:
Madonna-Open Your Heart, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQLKCCGNJE
And the video:
Madonna-Holiday (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8YxvS5hLsg
And the video:
Madonna-Live to Tell, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcLjCpVz2zo
And the video:
Madonna-Like A Prayer (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64j9iB7V7Lw
And the video:
Madonna-Vogue (With Intro), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrs8vp6hGY8
And the video:
Madonna-Die Another Day, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMu4dXa0nw
And the video:
Madonna-Don't Tell Me, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x38kJPJB1U
And the video:
Madonna-Bitch I'm Madonna (Like A Virgin-Billie Jean MJ), Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnlnBx-nsjw
And the video:
Madonna-Celebration, Altice Arena, Lisbon, PT, 2023-11-06 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld7ZYRE7ZZA
And the video:
Here it is an article from variety.com about the first concert from yesterday (2023-10-14) of The Celebration Tour by Madonna at the O2 Arena in London.
Getting ready to see her again in my city in 3 weeks in Lisbon, Portugal on November 6 and 7, 2023.
At the end I will put also the setlist.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour Proves the Material Girl is Still the Reigning Queen of Pop Music: Concert Review
By Mark Sutherland
WireImage for Live Nation
Four songs into Madonna’s long-awaited Celebration Tour and a technical hitch gives her a chance to chat for a little longer than was probably planned.
She tells the crowd of her early days being “hungry, broke and scared” in New York, with a lack of support from her father, who wanted her to come back home.
“But I was not about to go back,” she declares. “Because I am not a quitter!”
You can say that again. Madonna has been many things to many people over her 40-year pop career – something this two-hour-plus, 40-odd song, multiple-costume-change telling of “the story of my life through music and dance” makes very clear. But throughout it all, she has always been an absolute trouper.
Most other performers would have balked at taking on a gruelling world tour less than four months after a stay in the ICU with a serious bacterial infection. Many more might have at least considered tempering the ambitious nature of an all-singing, all-dancing show that would be a physical challenge for any of today’s young pop megastars, let alone a 65-year-old pop veteran with strapping on her knee.
But not Madonna. After postponing the scheduled first leg, the tour finds itself starting – a mere 20 minutes late – at London’s O2 Arena, the very venue where, in 2015, she famously fell down the stairs after a cape malfunction at the BRIT Awards.
Those of us who were close enough to hear the thud as she hit the floor like a pole-axed prize fighter that night were amazed when she simply got back to her feet and got on with the show. And tonight, she metaphorically climbs off the canvas of that hospital stay to reclaim her pop heavyweight crown, a metaphor helpfully supported by the elaborate boxing set-up utilized during the lead-up to the show’s second act.
There are few signs that Madonna was fazed by the fraught run-up, let alone the lengthy “reset” required after her punky rip through “Burning Up.” She may sigh, “This is exactly what you don’t want to happen on your opening night,” but she simply gets her hype man Bob the Drag Queen up to tell jokes, while reminiscing about the days when she would trade “blowjobs for showers” in ‘80s NYC.
Tonight, the Madonna show goes on and, after that early hitch, it simply doesn’t stop, laying on spectacle after spectacle and show-stopper after show-stopper. With so many stages, set-ups and costume changes, you could probably catch this gig half a dozen times and still not spot everything (and many of this crowd, teetering on the brink of delirium ever since the Madonna pop-up store opened in the adjoining mall this morning, seem set to do just that).
And for once, Madonna – whose relentless commitment to the present and future of her music had always previously prevented her from playing the fantasy setlist her catalog seemed to be crying out for – is here to celebrate her four decades at the top with almost every song a fan – whether casual or obsessive – could dream of.
Furthermore, tonight she lays claim not just to her own history, but also to her influence on music and the wider world over the last 40 years. Not for nothing did the set start with “Nothing Really Matters” and its refrain of, “It all comes back to me”.
There are nods to her activism – including a passionate plea for peace between Israel and Palestine and tributes to those we have lost to AIDS – and her trailblazing, via a montage of negative news headlines and video footage from across her career. It’s a timely reminder that, in an age where anyone with a million streams that gets a new haircut can be hailed as “iconic,” Madonna really has achieved that status, over and over.
There are snippets of other people’s music throughout – a snatch of Sam Smith’s “Unholy” here or Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” there, plus a surprisingly poignant acoustic cover of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”. Some of her children make on-stage cameos, and even her ex-husbands appear briefly on screen. There are tributes to Sinead O’Connor and, more controversially, Michael Jackson, via a dubious mash-up of “Billie Jean” with “Like a Virgin”.
But mostly, it’s about Madonna and her songs. Taylor Swift has undoubtedly crystalized the concept of musical ‘eras’ in the public consciousness, but Madonna is no slouch when it comes to giving each phase of her career a distinct look and sound.
And tonight, she flits seamlessly between different stages of her life, sometimes via a costume change, sometimes by climbing into an illuminated portal that sees her fly over the crowd on her way to another time and place.
From the joyous early ‘80s dance-pop of “Get Into the Groove” and “Holiday”; to big ballads such as “Live to Tell” and “Bad Girl”; to the raunch of “Erotica” (in which Madge gets to saucily, um, interact with her younger self via a lookalike in the iconic “Blonde Ambition” get-up) and “Justify My Love”; to the sheer, irresistible pizazz of “Vogue,” “Don’t Tell Me,” “La Isla Bonita,” “Ray of Light,” “Hung Up,” “Like a Prayer” and so many others; this show is proof that there is no such thing as too much Madonna.
True, the lack of a live band occasionally makes things lack a little punch (most notably on a glitchy “Die Another Day”). But overall, tonight shows that while – just like 40 years ago – Madonna still doesn’t know how to quit, boy has she learned how to come back.
“It’s been a crazy year,” she says, during a rare pause for breath. “I didn’t think I was going to make it and neither did my doctors.”
But thankfully, she did and, by the end, all the different iterations of Madonna from across the decades are on stage, the lookalikes hugging each other with delight during “Bitch, I’m Madonna,” while the real deal stays center stage and supremely focused.
Still dancing, still singing, still the one and only Madonna.
Sat, January 18, 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal @ Coliseu dos Recreios
The tour of Madonna is: "Madame X Tour".
It was my 10th Madonna show. 3rd of 3 shows this tour in Lisbon.
This tour all seats are seated so no need to go to early. Doors open at 20h30. And Madonna was scheduled to start at 21:30.
For this show I bought the ticket on Saturday, 2019/May/25 in FNAC, Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal. Got "Balcão Central Par H76".
Before "Madonna" in Coliseu dos Recreios, played Madame X Fado Band, they started at 21:47 and played 28 minutes.
Members: Gaspar Varela (guitar), Miroca Paris (percussion and guitar), Carlos Mil-Homens (percussion) and Jessica Pina (trumpet and background vocalist) were invited by Madonna to play an instrumental opening set which included Madonna covers: "Secret", "Don't Tell Me", "Like a Virgin" and "Who's That Girl". Between the Madonna songs they played some Fado related sounds.
Finally was time for Madonna. She started at 22:42 and played 148 minutes. Played a set of 21 songs.
Love the concert and the setlist that was created for this tour.
Best moments for me in this Madame X Tour:
Old songs - > Vogue, American Life, Frozen and Like a Prayer.
New songs - > Crave, I Rise.
Well you can check all the details of the show in the setlist below.
Thu, January 16, 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal @ Coliseu dos Recreios
The tour of Madonna is: "Madame X Tour".
It was my 9th Madonna show. 2nd of 3 shows this tour in Lisbon.
This tour all seats are seated so no need to go to early. Doors open at 20h30. And Madonna was scheduled to start at 21:30.
For this show I bought the ticket on Saturday, 2019/May/25 in FNAC, Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal. Got "Balcão Central Imp C59".
Before "Madonna" in Coliseu dos Recreios, played Madame X Fado Band, they started at 21:52 and played 28 minutes.
Members: Gaspar Varela (guitar), Miroca Paris (percussion and guitar), Carlos Mil-Homens (percussion) and Jessica Pina (trumpet and background vocalist) were invited by Madonna to play an instrumental opening set which included Madonna covers: "Secret", "Don't Tell Me", "Like a Virgin" and "Who's That Girl". Between the Madonna songs they played some Fado related sounds.
Finally was time for Madonna. She started at 22:50 and played 149 minutes. Played a set of 21 songs.
Love the concert and the setlist that was created for this tour.
Best moments for me in this Madame X Tour:
Old songs - > Vogue, American Life, Frozen and Like a Prayer.
New songs - > Crave, I Rise.
Well you can check all the details of the show in the setlist below.
Sun, January 12, 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal @ Coliseu dos Recreios
The tour of Madonna is: "Madame X Tour".
It was my 8th Madonna show. 1st of 3 shows this tour in Lisbon.
This tour all seats are seated so no need to go to early. Doors open at 20h30. And Madonna was scheduled to start at 21:30.
For this show I bought the ticket on the same day at 13h00 (I tried the ticket offices when they opened). Got "Camarotes 2a 36º".
Before "Madonna" in Coliseu dos Recreios, played Madame X Fado Band, they started at 21:03 and played 27 minutes.
Members: Gaspar Varela (guitar), Miroca Paris (percussion and guitar), Carlos Mil-Homens (percussion) and Jessica Pina (trumpet and background vocalist) were invited by Madonna to play an instrumental opening set which included Madonna covers: "Secret", "Don't Tell Me", "Like a Virgin" and "Who's That Girl". Between the Madonna songs they played some Fado related sounds.
Finally was time for Madonna. She started at 21:57 and played 148 minutes. Played a set of 22 songs.
Love the concert and the setlist that was created for this tour.
Best moments for me in this Madame X Tour:
Old songs - > Vogue, American Life, Frozen and Like a Prayer.
New songs - > Crave, I Rise.
Well you can check all the details of the show in the setlist below.
Act I
01. God Control
02. Dark Ballet
03. Human Nature
04. Express Yourself (A cappella)
Papa Don't Preach (String Introduction)
Act II
Madame X Manifesto (Video Introduction)
05. Vogue
06. I Don't Search I Find
07. American Life
Act III
Coffin (Video Interlude)
08. Batuka
09. Can't Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley cover) (A cappella)
10. Fado Pechincha (Isabel De Oliveira cover)
11. Killers Who Are Partying
12. Crazy
13. La Isla Bonita (With excerpts from "Welcome to My Fado Club")
14. Sodade (Cesária Évora cover) (with Dino d'Santiago)
15. Medellín
16. Extreme Occident
Act IV
Rescue Me (Dance Interlude)
17. Frozen
18. Come Alive
19. Future
20. Crave (Tracy Young Remix)
21. Like a Prayer
Here it is the new video from Madonna named "Medellín" from the new album "Madame X" to be released June 14, 2019.
Madonna, Maluma - Medellín
Published on 24 Apr 2019
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Directors - Diana Kunst and Mau Morgó
Choreographer - Megan Lawson
Album Creative director - Imogen Snell
Editors - Danny Tull & Carlos Font-Clos
Madonna's styling team
Stylist - Ib Kamara
Make Up - Aaron Henrikson
Hair - Andy LeCompte
Styling Consultant - Eyob Yohannes
Maluma’s Stylist - Julien Rios White
Video commissioner - Semera Khan
Production Company - Object & Animal / O Creative Studio
Executive Producer - Dom Thomas
Executive Producer - Zico Judge
Producer - Jane Lloyd
Production Manager - Davina Abrahams
Production Coordinator - Laura Thomas-Smith
Service Company - 24/7 Lisbon
Line Producer - Silvia Reis
Production Manager - Antonio Sao Joao
DOP - Dani Fernández Abelló
Steadicam Operator - Andrew Fletcher
Focus Puller - Alexandre Valentim
Production Designer - Laia Ateca
Local Art Director - Bruno Guerra
Local Stylist - Miguel Cervera
1st AD - Javier Soto
Choreographer - Megan Lawson
Make Up - Daniel Sallstrom
Hair Stylist - Virginie Moreira
Post Company - MPC London
Post Producer - Grace Thorpe
Colourist - Matthieu Toullet
[Intro: Madonna]
One, two, one, two
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, two, one
Two, one, cha, cha-cha-cha
[Verso 1: Madonna & Maluma]
I took a pill and had a dream (Yo también)
I went back to my 17th year
Allowed myself to be naive (Dime)
To be someone I've never been (Me encanta)
I took a sip and had a dream
And I woke up in Medellín (¿Te gusta?)
The sun was caressing my skin (Dime)
Another me could now begin (Woo)
[Verso 2: Maluma]
Tranquila, baby, yo te apoyo
No hay que hablarnos mucho para entrar en rollo
Si quieres ser mi reina pues yo te corono
Y pa' que te sientes aquí tengo un trono
Te gusta cabalgar, eso está claro
Si sientes que voy rápido le bajo
Discúlpame, yo sé que eres Madonna
Pero te voy a demostrar cómo este perro te enamora
[Coro: Madonna & Maluma]
Ven conmigo, let's take a trip
Si te llevo pa' un lugar lejano
Ven conmigo, I'll be so good for you
Te enamoro, te enamoro, mami (Ay-ay-ay)
Ven conmigo, let's take a trip
Dame de eso que tú estás tomando
Ven conmigo, I'll be so good for you
(Ay-ay-ay)
[Verso 3: Madonna & Maluma]
Sipping my pain just like champagne
Found myself dancing in the rain with you
I felt so naked and alive (Show me)
For once I didn't have to hide myself (Dice)
[Verso 4: Maluma]
Oye mamacita, ¿qué te pasa? (Dime)
Mira que ya estamos en mi casa (Yeah)
Si siente' que hay un viaje ahí en tu mente (Woo)
Será por el exceso de Aguardiente (Dile)
Pero, mami, tranquila, tú solo vacila
Que estamos en Colombia, aquí hay rumba en cada esquina
Y si tú quieres nos vamos por Detroit (Tú sabe')
Si sé de dónde vienes pues sé pa' donde voy
[Coro: Madonna & Maluma]
Ven conmigo, let's take a trip
Si te llevo pa' un lugar lejano
Ven conmigo, I'll be so good for you
Te enamoro, te enamoro, mami (Ay-ay-ay)
Ven conmigo, let's take a trip
Dame de eso que tú estás tomando
Ven conmigo, I'll be so good for you (Okay)
[Post-Coro: Maluma & Madonna, Both]
Si te enamoro (Si me enamoras)
En menos de un año, no, no (Hahaha)
No' vamo', no' vamo', no vamo' pa' Medallo (Ay, qué rico)
Si te enamoro (Si me enamoras)
Es lo que amo, no, no
Pue' mami, pue' mami, pue' mami, nos casamos
(Cha-cha-cha)
[Verse 5: Madonna & Maluma]
We built a cartel just for love
Venus was hovering above us (Oh, yeah)
I took a trip, it set me free (Mi reina)
Forgave myself for being me (Ay-ay-ay)
[Coro: Madonna & Maluma]
Ven conmigo, let's take a trip
Si te llevo pa' un lugar lejano
Ven conmigo, I'll be so good for you
Te enamoro, te enamoro, mami (Ay-ay-ay)
Ven conmigo, let's take a trip
Dame de eso que tú estás tomando
Ven conmigo, I'll be so good for you
[Post-Coro: Maluma & Madonna, Both]
Si te enamoro (Si me enamoras)
En menos de un año, no, no
No' vamo', no' vamo', no vamo' pa' Medallo (Ay, qué rico)
Si te enamoro (Si me enamoras)
Es lo que amo, no, no
Pue' mami, pue' mami, pue' mami, nos casamos
(Cha-cha-cha)
[Outro: Madonna with Maluma]
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, slow down, papi
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, cha-cha-cha
One, two, ay-ay-ay
One, two, two, one
One, two, two, one
One, one, two, two
Cha, cha-cha-cha
Here it is the amazing new Carpool Karaoke video by James Corden. Today is finally Madonna time.
Madonna, so amazing. Vogue" and "Papa Don't Preach" just a few of the songs they sing on the car. Only problem here is that the video would be so much better if it was an hour video. Not only 14 minutes.
Madonna Carpool Karaoke
Published on Dec 7, 2016
James and Madonna go for a drive through New York City singing classics from her epic catalog of music, and James learns about Madonna's relationship with Michael Jackson.
I was in Paris to see 1 amazing show by Madonna (Wednesday) from the "Rebel Heart Tour 2015".
Went to the Eiffel Tower on the morning of the show. Took many photos from outside and then inside the Eiffel Tower. Went to the top by elevator and then second floor by elevator, then went down the stairs to the first floor and then by elevator again to the ground. It was a sunny day with a little cold weather.
Some photos I took the day before and then on December 9 (day of the show) in the morning when I went to The Eiffel Tower on my instagram (16):
Getting ready 2 c on Dec 9 the amazing @Madonna #RebelHeartTour in AccorHotels Arena #Bercy #Paris with my #VIPPartyPackage https://www.instagram.com/p/-4aD0RiS9z/
Then went to the AccorHotels Arena in Bercy where I also took a few photos outside the Arena and then many photos inside of Madonna show.
Wed, Dec 9, 2015 in Paris, France @ AccorHotels Arena (Bercy)
I had the "VIP Party Package". With some cool stuff. Like a few presents, food service with complimentary bar before and after the show in a special room just for the VIP members.
First part of the show was by "DJ Lunice" who played for 45 minutes.
Madonna played for 136 minutes.
I was seated in the stands on the left side of the stage. The concert was awesome.
Here it is the setlist:
Joan of Arc / Samurai - Revolution (video intro; with "Iconic" snippets) 01. Iconic 02. Bitch I'm Madonna 03. Burning Up 04. Holy Water (with "Vogue" snippet) 05. Devil Pray Rockabilly Meets Tokyo - Messiah (video interlude) 06. Body Shop 07. True Blue (acoustic) 08. Deeper and Deeper 09. HeartBreakCity (with "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" snippet) 10. Like a Virgin (with "Justify My Love" and "Heartbeat" samples) Latin / Gypsy - S.E.X. (video interlude; with " Justify My Love" snippet) 11. Living for Love 12. La Isla Bonita 13. Dress You Up (with "Into the Groove" and "Lucky Star" snippets) 14. Redemption Song (Bob Marley & The Wailers cover) (acoustic; performed with her son David Banda) 15. Rebel Heart Party / Flapper - Illuminati (video interlude) 16. Music (with "Give It 2 Me" sample and "La Marseillaise" snippet) 17. Candy Shop 18. Material Girl 19. La vie en rose (Édith Piaf cover) (acoustic) 20. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Carol Channing cover) (a cappella snippet) 21. Unapologetic Bitch (joined onstage by Jean Paul Gaultier) - Encore: 22. Holiday
Some photos I took inside the Arena on my instagram (6):
Madonna performs in New York City on September 16th, 2015. Matthew Shelter
"You know what they say — it's lonely at the top," Madonna told the crowd near the end of her New York show last night. "But it ain't crowded!" And on the second U.S. show of her hotly awaited new Rebel Heart tour, Our Lady spent three hours proving what a goddess she is, not to mention what an Unapologetic Bitch. Damn right it's not crowded, because there's nobody else near her throne. The whole night was a tour of everything only Madonna can do. She's not the same. She has no shame. She's on fire.
She sang the Edith Piaf ballad "La Vie En Rose" in French, alone on the stage, strumming her ukelele. ("It's en français, though, okay? So try and sing along if you can.") After "Material Girl," she tossed a wedding bouquet to a gay couple up front, then snickered, "Suckers!" She used crucifixes as stripper poles, doing the "Vogue" rap while writhing against a dancer clad in a nun's wimple and feathery hot pants. Her cassocked dancers simulated a group-grope orgy at the Last Supper while the guest of honor chanted "Yeezus loves my pussy best!" And all night long, her banter was the toppest of notch, like when she introduced her gorgeous new acoustic country-hoedown version of "True Blue." "No swear words in this song," she announced. "This is a song about true love. I didn't know what I was talking about when I wrote it." Glad you're the one who brought that up, Madonna.
She hasn't reached so far onstage, musically or emotionally, since her 2001 Drowned World extravaganza. Her last couple of tours had spectacular performances, but dodgy set lists. This time Madonna has much stronger new songs to play with, from Rebel Heart — and she brilliantly revamps the hits. She played a Flying V for a punked-out "Burning Up," dropping to her knees for her guitar solo — the first time she played Madison Square Garden, 30 years ago, she got on her knees in front of the male guitarist while he played a solo, and don't think she doesn't remember these things.
Matthew Shelter
Opening act Amy Schumer helped set the tone — when was the last time you saw a stand-up comedian slay in an arena? Schumer was clearly right at home in a room full of Madonna fans: "I know who's here. It's like taking a warm bath in a tub full of dick that doesn't want you." She talked abut how hot Bradley Cooper's girlfriend is ("She's like a panther fucked a gazelle and they fucked Gisele") and how hot Bradley Cooper is ("you would just grab your ankles and say 'any hole's fine'"). For the encore, she came back out to let Madonna kick her in the ass, right before "Holiday."
But it was Madonna's night. "Body Shop" was a Fifties-style dance routine where she rolled in on the hood of a vintage Chevy, just like Christie Brinkley in Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith" video," then frolicked in glitter ankle boots with a harem of hot greaser mechanics, all looking like the boy who knocked her up in the "Papa Don't Preach" video. (So true: Italians do it better!) Then she sat her dancers down on a pile of tires and adopted a Dolly Parton twang to tell them, "Like my grandma always said, if it's got tits or tires, it's gonna give you trouble."
"Like a Virgin" was one of the night's peak moments — the song got pimped up with the Egyptian-lover electro-beats from "Music," while she took the stage alone to revamp her cowgirl line-dance moves from the "Don't Tell Me" video. She wore fingerless black gloves, reading her 1984 Boy Toy self, yet she humps the stage with enough verve and wit to make the girl she used to be look like the shy type. She also said, "It's so hot in here," which is Madonna-speak for, "You don't mind if I strip this shirt off, do you?"
She kept getting surprisingly sentimental about playing the Garden, 30 years after her 1985 Virgin Tour. Back then, she always used to ask the crowd, "Will you marry me?" Tonight the girl was in a slightly shadier mood. "I don't know about marriage," she mused, after her bouquet toss. "Do you want to marry me?" When fans screamed, she replied, "No, you probably don't. But maybe it'll be third time lucky." She resurrected long-unheard gems like "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" and "Deeper and Deeper," along with a snippet of "Justify My Love." ("You put this in me, so now what?" — such an underrated but on point Madonna line.)
"Music" began as a jazz-flapper café ballet, with Madonna in Twenties Gatsby drag, before it blew up to hit the electro-sleaze heights. (As it happens, it was 15 years ago this week that Madonna released Music, still her hardest-rocking and most seductive album.) After the devils-and-bullfighters-and-Minotaurs pageant of "Living My Life," she began the gratifyingly long Latin segment with "La Isla Bonita," stretching into a generous and unhurried medley of "Dress You Up," "Into the Groove" and "Lucky Star."
"I'm feeling very nostalgic tonight," she told the crowd. "Do you people understand I played Madison Square Garden 30 years ago?" She kissed a fan in a 1985 Virgin Tour shirt who claimed he was there — for all we know, he might have been the goth club kid doing the cobweb dance in the "Into The Groove" video. It led to the emotional highlight of the night, when she picked up her acoustic guitar for one of her saltiest and best Number One hits, a song she hasn't performed since the Eighties: "Who's that Girl," leading the audience in the question "¿Quien es esa niña?" The question hung in the air. "I still don't know," Madonna said after the song. "I still don't know. I think I'm not supposed to know — maybe that's what life's about, figuring out who the fuck you are."
Matthew Shelter
In her producer Nile Rodgers' essential memoir Le Freak, he tells the story of taking Madonna to Madison Square Garden in 1984 to see Duran Duran, where she sat unnoticed and unrecognized in the audience. Just a few months later, she returned, except this time she was onstage as the headliner. (Duran Duran were back in NYC this week too — and like Madonna, brazen enough to jumpstart an excellent show with an excellent new song, "Paper Gods." The Eighties are the flattest of circles.) But that's why she's Madonna. She might be still figuring out who the fuck she is — but a stage this size is always the place she goes to look for clues.
Set List:
"Iconic"
"Bitch I'm Madonna"
"Burning Up"
"Holy Water"/"Vogue"
"Devil Pray"
"Messiah"
"Body Shop"
"True Blue"
"Deeper and Deeper"
"Heartbreak City"/"Love Don't Live Here Anymore"
"Like a Virgin"
"Justify My Love"/"Sex"
"Living For Love"
"La Isla Bonita"
"Dress You Up"/"Into The Groove"/"Lucky Star"
"Who's That Girl"
"Rebel Heart"
"Illuminati"
"Music"
"Candy Shop"
"Material Girl"
"La Vie en Rose"
"Unapologetic Bitch"
Madonna at Madison Square Garden review – 'There is no other performer like her'
Madison Square Garden, New York
In the first of two Rebel Heart tour shows at the historic venue, the pop queen brings out Amy Schumer, Game of Thrones, transgender nuns, a ukulele … and her greatest hits
Madonna kicked off her two-night stand at MSG with her Rebel Heart tour.
Photograph: Splash News/Corbis
Madonna’s album Rebel Heart was bedevilled by leaks; she fell flat on her backside at the Brit awards; and her Instagram gaffes have made Jeremy Corbyn look like a Rupert Murdoch-style media mastermind. As she arrives in Madison Square Garden on the fourth date of her 10th tour – the last under her 10-year, $120m contract with Live Nation – she should be up against it. Yet Madonna is always at her best with her back to the wall, when the killer instinct that has sustained her through over 30 years in pop rears to the surface, a visceral refusal to be beaten.
Her choice of support act on this homecoming gig – since New York is the place she remade herself – is very Madonna, all wrong on paper but in practice, right on the money. Amy Schumer takes the stage in front of a massive backdrop of Madonna’s face staring at the heavens and clutching a sword to her breast, the massive machinery of pop music concealed behind it. Swigging from a bottle of champagne, and with nothing but a microphone and a stool, the comic of the moment says that she was asked: “‘Who better than you to open up for Madonna?’” “Uh,” she rhetorically answers. “Any band?”
Amy Schumer
Photograph: Splash News/Corbis
Yet Schumer’s perfect reading of the audience, in which straight men are such a minority as to be non-existent, (“It’s like taking a warm bath in a ton of dick that doesn’t want you”) weapons-grade filth (“We’re here to rethink cum”) and description of the Kardashians as a family who “take the faces they were born with as a light suggestion” reduce the crowd to marshmallow before Madonna has even made an appearance.
Twenty-five years from her apotheosis, 1990’s Blond Ambition tour, Madonna’s vision of the pop concert – in which music is combined with dance, video and costume, in order to reconceptualise familiar hits into an overwhelming sensory bombardment – has now been copied by generations of pop stars. She’s also notorious for stuffing the setlist with new material, thwarting those who would love an oldies show. At first the signs aren’t promising: the show starts with film of Madonna writhing in a sequinned dress in a cage, while her voiceover chunters that creativity is being threatened by corporations (ironic, given that Madonna is a formidable corporation in her own right).
She then descends from the ceiling similarly banged up, while knights in armour march down the stage, which juts almost the length of the arena. It’s Madonna does Game of Thrones. The first song is Iconic, one of the dimmer bulbs from Rebel Heart, followed by Bitch I’m Madonna, a great title in search of a decent song. But when the dancers depart, and Madonna struts down the runway to strap on a flying V, the show has lift-off with Burning Up. One of her earliest records, it amounts to a manifesto (“I’ll do anything, I’m not the same, I have no shame”) and all these years later it still grabs you by the throat. Aged 57, Madonna is still palpably hungry, and her performance has an enduring rawness and truth. Unmediated and undiluted, she’s the ringmaster of her own circus, connecting with her hardcore in a totally instinctive way, regardless of the choreography, pyrotechnics and fancy costumes (created by a battery of top fashion designers – but really, who cares?).
Madonna’s striking ability to imbue songs that might seem throwaway with significance and depth is illustrated four songs in. On record, Holy Water is a mortifying extended metaphor for her, ahem, vaginal secretions. But on stage, it’s a Ken Russell fantasia in which a scene of transgender naughty nuns poledancing (including Madonna climbing some 12 feet into the air to stand on a revolving naked man, one of several moments which involve genuine physical peril) morphs into a genuinely unnerving demonic parody of the Last Supper in which Madonna ends up tied up on the table, legs akimbo.
Madonna performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 16, 2015.
Photograph: Shaun Tandon/AFP/Getty Images
Two more album tracks follow – the dodgy Devil Pray and the lovely Messiah – before the show hits its second section, set in a 50s garage where Madonna and the dancers prance to Body Shop (another number DOA on record) before gathering on a pile of tyres for a ukulele singalong to True Blue. From then on, it’s clear that the Rebel Heart tour connects today’s Madonna with the energy and boldness of her early days – there’s precious little from the many eras in between. HeartBreakCity, performed atop a spiral staircase, morphs into her mid-80s, yearning cover of Rose Royce’s Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, before she tears into Like a Virgin, given a 21st-century update, but performed solo, with all the allure and aggression with which she infused it when it was first released.
The following section has a Mexican theme, Madonna in full Day of the Dead finery, and of course performing La Isla Bonita, the only song from her past she revisits on almost every tour, along with Dress You Up, Into the Groove and Who’s That Girl? – a song, she says, about “not knowing who the fuck you are”. It’s a moving affirmation of her ongoing, instinctive relationship with her Latino audience.
The title track of Rebel Heart is performed against a morphing backdrop of fan art depicting her many image changes, though the show actually reveals how consistent she has been underneath it all, endowed with an unswerving belief in the transformative power of pop. The final straight is pure pleasure, Madonna in a flapper’s outfit, performing a jazz-era take on Music (in visuals alone – musically it still packs the robotic punch that made it irresistible 15 years ago), then going into a showstopping Material Girl, performed on an upended video screen titled 45 degrees, in which Madonna pushes the top-hatted dancers down the slope, one by one, in a reboot of the famous video.
Amy Schumer and Madonna together on stage
Photograph: Splash News/Corbis
And then there’s a moment of intimacy, Madonna perching at the end of the circular hydraulic platform with her ukulele, announcing that she is going to perform one of her favourite songs. What ensues is an unaccompanied version of Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose, suddenly revealing that after all these years of being dismissed as a singer, Madonna has the pipes. Her rendition bites through the inherent campness of the concept to locate something unarguably moving. Finally, Madonna brings Schumer out again during Unapologetic Bitch, spanking her and then giving her a banana as a reward. Rising to the challenge, Schumer pretends to stick it up her backside, to the delight of the audience.
Holiday, performed with the stars and stripes rampant, is a victory lap. Madonna had said: “I’m feeling pretty nostalgic tonight … I performed here 30 years ago.” Her Madison Square Garden concert seems simultaneously like the latest stage of a 32-year durational performance art piece about stardom and an affirmation that there is simply no other performer like her. Tonight, Madonna kills it.
For an artist who rarely looks back creatively, Madonna was in a particularly wistful mood during her Madison Square Garden concert on Wednesday (Sept. 16) night, the first of three NYC dates on her Rebel Heart Tour.
"I'm feeling very nostalgic tonight," Madonna said (twice, actually). "I played Madison Square Garden 30 years ago. That's crazy." When she trailed off for a moment, you almost thought she was lost in sentimental reverie. But as always, Madonna was laser-focused on the present, even while reminiscing. "You were there?" she asked a fan in the front row who had been talking to her. "Then I gotta give you a kiss." For the record, a Madonna-on-fan kiss is a controlled affair: She kissed her fingers and touched the fan's forehead, like a messiah gracing her faithful follower with one touch.
Nostalgia aside, Madonna's restless creative spirit is on full display on the Rebel Heart Tour. Refusing to coast by playing faithful, familiar live renditions of her hits, Madge recast a number of her classics in different musical molds, with mostly positive results.
Strapping on a guitar, she skuzzed up "Burning Up" to hard rock heights and turned "True Blue" into a ukulele sing-along. For "Like a Virgin," she lost the original instrumentation, her backup dancers and most of her clothes while turning her breakthrough hit into a sparse, Pharrell-esque jam.
In a lengthy nod to her Spanish-speaking audience, Madonna delivered a Latin-tinged medley of "Dress You Up," "Into the Groove" and "Lucky Star." The maracas might have been a little much, but the crisp Spanish guitar successfully made the songs sound newly organic. And while there weren't as many French speakers in attendance at MSG, Madonna nodded to her Gallic fans with a surprisingly full-voiced version of Edith Piaf's "La Vie En Rose." (Was it as good as Lady Gaga's recent live "La Vie en Rose" cover? That's a topic for opposing fan groups to viciously discuss in the comments section.)
Later in the show, Madonna began "Music" as a Jazz Age ballad before kicking the No. 1 hit into banger mode. The presence of "Music" was an effective reminder that while some compulsive naysayers tsk the Queen of Pop for trend chasing with Diplo, she brought techno to the pop mainstream years before EDM was a ubiquitous term.
As always, Madonna will never be everything to everyone. Some were undoubtedly let down to see her make it through the "Vogue" spoken word section during "Holy Water" without segueing into the full song -- and to see the lights come up without any "Like a Prayer."
But the classic tracks Madonna did pull out were judiciously selected, with attention paid to material rarely performed on her live tours. An acoustic "Who's That Girl?" (not seen on a Madonna tour in nearly 30 years), a pumping "Deeper and Deeper" (absent from her setlist for 11 years) and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (which segued out of new song "HeartBreak City") were all resurrected to huge applause.
Speaking of resurrection, Catholic themes occupied a sizable portion of her stage show, as you would expect -- but always with the Ciccone wink. There was a bacchanalian Last Supper, nuns gyrating on stripper polls and famous faces from Renaissance religious paintings projected onscreen during the aforementioned "Vogue" roll call.
Aside from the stunning Minotaur-filled "Living for Love," the most effective new song in her Rebel Heart Tour arsenal was "Body Shop." While the song was light to the point of forgettable on the album, its low-key, affable sound worked to the choreography's advantage as Madonna teased and flirted her way through a stage filled with tires, muscle cars and muscle men.
"My grandma always said, 'If it's got tits or tires, it's going to give you trouble,'" Madonna said in a faux Southern accent after the song. "Sorry, I know I'm not as funny as Amy Schumer, but I'm trying."
Schumer, incidentally, killed her opening set (last night was her first of three opening slots for Madonna in NYC). Repeatedly mocking the flowering falsehood that it's a new Golden Era for women in Hollywood while still making jokes about the First Lady taking a hot load, Schumer's ability to pivot between the bawdy and the incisive proved the perfect fit for a Madonna opener.
"I thought I was gonna bomb so hard for months," Schumer said when her set was over. "This is the best feeling ever."
That feeling might've been one-upped (or quashed?) later on in the evening when Madonna brought Amy out during "Unapologetic Bitch," bent her over and literally kicked her ass (in addition to pretending to penetrate it). Schumer was ecstatic and surprisingly rhythmic while dancing with Madonna onstage, but the Queen couldn't let her go without some hazing.
Before Schumer left the stage, Madonna put a sock puppet on Amy's hand and made it tell her, "Hi Amy -- I'm a sock, bitch!" Waiting a few beats for an actual joke to follow, Schumer exploded into confused laughter when it became clear that was pretty much all Madge had to offer with the skit. Madonna might be good at changing creative lanes, but her attempt at improv was like switching lanes by means of rolling out of a moving car.
When the show came to a triumphant close with "Holiday," New York's favorite adopted daughter marched around in an American flag cape while her dancers -- dressed for a Gatsby-style rager at this point -- paraded about with jubilant relief. It was clear they felt the rush of owning Madison Square Garden and relished it. Madonna, on the other hand, kept her composure. Clearly, failure to dominate MSG on Wednesday night was never an option for her -- just like failure to dominate New York City was never an option for Madonna more than 30 years ago.
Madonna takes to the stage on her "Rebel Heart" tour at Montreal's Bell Centre Wednesday night.
The most shocking thing about Madonna's "Rebel Heart" tour, which opened at Montreal's Bell Centre Wednesday, had nothing to do with sex. (How could it at this late date?)
And it had nothing to do with religion (though she did offer such token Madonna-esque stunts as nuns on stripper poles and dancers gyrating on holy crosses).
Instead the surprise of the show came in smiles.
Throughout nearly the entire two hour event, Madonna could barely stop grinning. For anyone who has followed Madonna tours from the start, the sight of it couldn't help but startle. Never a warm live performer, Madonna tends to grimace through her concerts, stressing athleticism and discipline over all. This time, she seemed to having a blast. It made for an infectious night that brought the Canadian crowd to a series of spontaneous, and escalating, standing ovations. It didn't hurt that she sang "La Vie En Rose," both in French and in bold voice.
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
The 57-year-old's show used elaborate props ...
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... but wasn't afraid to go it alone.
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
The show used imagery from a variety of cultures.
The bright tone of the show made for a striking contrast to the star's last tour, "MDNA," a dark and violent affair that often ended up puzzling to boot. "Rebel Heart" had no such pretense. In fact, it may be Madonna's lightest roadshow to date.
That's not at all to say it's unsubstantial. On the contrary, the triumph of the "Rebel Heart" tour is how it finds Madonna taking ownership of her legacy with an unprecedented maturity.
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The "Vogue" singer returned to the religious imagery she has used in the past.
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Madonna was joined by costumed dancers for much of her setlist.
She began that approach on her like-named album, which found her in a newly self-referential mode.
Madonna mirrored that here by featuring no fewer than nine of its tracks, including the show's opener, "Iconic." For this initial section of the show, Madonna drew on her time-honored mingle of the erotic and the reverent. Her twenty dancers, dolled up as medieval warriors, bore cross-topped weapons. In a more slow and graceful take on "Vogue" Renaissance images of religious figures replaced movie stars while Madonna and her dancers posed at The Last Supper table.
While the star used to position such displays as pointed social commentary, here they seemed to have more to do with simply reasserting her own long history with them.
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Madonna appears to surf board a half naked nun during her concert Wednesday night.
Madonna delved deeper into her personal story in the second act, which found her on the hood of a '60s Chevy in an auto repair shop, a clear reference to her Detroit roots. She emphasized a rare sincerity here by singing the unashamedly romantic "True Blue," while accompanying herself on, of all things, a ukulele.
Madonna came the closest she's ever going to get to a "greatest hits" display in the third act, where she offered touchstones from "Lucky Star" to "Everybody." The latter she hasn't performed live since the early '90s.
Even so, none of the older songs sounded anything like they had on album. To suit the matador-theme'd theatrical accompanyment, Madonna reimagined them as Spanish-tinged ballads.
Madonna included in her run of oldies "Who's That Girl," which she delivered as a solo acoustic ballad. After singing it, she admitted that it took her a hell of a long time to answer just who this particular girl may be. Then, she went into "Rebel Heart," a song about the joy of self-discovery. That theme allowed Madonna to run through a wide range of characters in the show - including a '20 French cabaret star - while maintaining a solid through-line.
It also helped her pull off what may have been the show's most stunning move. When performing "Like a Virgin," she appeared on the gaping stage entirely alone, dancing with a freedom and even an innocence, that made her, at 57, seem once again new.
Set List:
Iconic
Bitch I'm Madonna
Burning Up
Holy Water
Devil Pray
Messiah
Body Shop
True Blue
Deeper and Deeper
Heartbreak City
S.E.X.
Living For Love
La Isla Bonita
Dress You Up
Who's That Girl
Rebel Heart
Illuminati
Music/Candy Shop
Material Girl
La Vie En Rose
Unapologetic Bitch
Holiday
This is the awesome third video by Madonna. From the new and 13th studio album "Rebel Heart".
Featuring guest stars: Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Diplo, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Rita Ora, Chris Rock and Kanye West along with fashion designer Alexander Wang and Madonna’s sons Rocco and David, the “Bitch I’m Madonna” video was shot on the 17th floor at Andre Balasz’s Standard Highline hotel and in its clubs the Boom Boom Room and Le Bain.
Madonna - Bitch I'm Madonna ft. Nicki Minaj
Hope you will love this awesome lyric.
Madonna (Ft. Nicki Minaj) - Bitch I'm Madonna
[Hook 1: Madonna]
Ooooooooooh
Ooooooooooh
(You're gonna love this)
Ooooooooooh
(You can't touch this)
Ooooooooooh
(Cuz I'm a bad bitch)
[Verse 1: Madonna]
We hit the elevator right up to the rooftop
The bass is pumping make me wanna screw the top off
Yeah, we'll be drinking and nobody's gonna stop us
And we'll be kissing anybody that's around us
[Pre-Chorus 1: Madonna]
I just wanna have fun tonight (blow up this shit tonight)
Put me under the flashing light
Ohhhhh, let me blow up this house tonight
(Gonna blow up!)
[Drop]
[Chorus: Madonna]
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Na nana na na na
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Bitch, I'm Madonna
(Bitch bitch, I'm Madonna)
(Bitch bitch, I'm Madonna)
[Verse 2: Madonna]
We're jumping in the pool and swimmin' with our clothes on
I poured a beer into my shoe and got my freak on
The neighbor's pissed and says he's gonna call the Five-O
If they show up then we are gonna give a good show
[Pre-Chorus 2: Madonna]
I just wanna go out tonight
Put me under the flashing light
Ohhhhh, let me blow up this house tonight
(Gonna blow up!)
[Drop: Nicki Minaj]
(B-b-bitch move)
[Chorus: Madonna]
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Na nana na na na
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Bitch, I'm Madonna
(Bitch, I'm Madonna)
(Bitch bitch, I'm Madonna)
(Bitch, I'm Madonna [repeat])
[Bridge: Madonna]
Who do you think you are?
You can't mess with this lucky star
Ohhhhh, who do you think you are?
[Verse 3: Nicki Minaj]
Uh!
Poured up with my nose up
And that rosé up in that thinga
I'm froze up with my stove up
Cuz he eatin' like it's his dinner
I run shit, I don't fall back
Cuz I'm on track, I'm a sprinter
I'm bossed up, I got 'em awestruck
It's not a toss up, I'm the winner
Be-b-b-beep-beep, bitch, move
Before I bang-bang with that uzz
That's Miu Miu on my shoes
Ain't got a thing left for me to prove
It's that bottle service all night
It's that pop and urban just right
It's that "go hard or go home" zone
Bitch, I'm Madonna, these hoes know
[Chorus: Madonna]
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Na nana na na na
We go hard or we go home
We gon do this all night long
We get freaky if you want
Bitch, I'm Madonna
[Hook 2: Madonna]
Ooooooooooh
(We do it like this)
Ooooooooooh
(You're gonna love this)
Ooooooooooh
(You can't touch this)
Ooooooooooh
(Cuz I'm a bad bitch)
[Bridge 4: Madonna]
Who do you think you are?
(Cuz I'm a bad bitch)
Who do you think you are?
(Cuz I'm a bad bitch)
Who do you think you are?
(Cuz I'm a bad bitch)
Who do you think you are?!
[Outro: Nicki Minaj]
"Go hard or go home" zone, bitch
I'm Madonna, these hoes know
"Go hard or go home" zone, bitch
I'm Madonna, these hoes know
This is the awesome second video by Madonna.
From the new album "Rebel Heart".
Madonna - Ghosttown
Hope you will love this awesome lyric.
Madonna - Ghosttown
Maybe it was all too much
Too much for a man to take
Everything's bound to break
Sooner or later, sooner or later
You're all that I can trust
Facing the darkest days
Everyone ran away
We're gonna stay here, we're gonna stay here
Ah, ah
I know you're scared tonight
Ah, ah
I'll never leave your side
When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
When the world gets cold, I'll be your cover
Let's just hold onto each other
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
Tell me how we got this far
Every man for himself
Everything's gone to hell
We gotta stay strong, we're gonna hold on
This world has turned to dust
All we've got left is love
Might as well start with us
Singing a new song, something to build on
Ah, ah
I know you're scared tonight
Ah, ah
I'll never leave your side
When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
When the world gets cold, I'll be your cover
Let's just hold onto each other
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
I know we're alright
'Cause we'll never be alone in this mad mad, in this mad mad world
Even with no light
We're gonna shine like gold in this mad mad, in this mad mad world
When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
When it all falls, when it all falls down
I'll be your fire when the lights go out
When there's no one, no one else around
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
When the world gets cold, I'll be your cover
Let's just hold onto each other
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
When it all falls, when it all falls down
We'll be two souls in a ghosttown
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