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Please don't forget to check out the Ticket Thread occasionally for any stories about the MDNA shows not selling out, even though they were originally advertised as being sold out (there are already two or three such stories in that thread). ----------------------------------------------------------
If the tour turns out to have another name, I'll change the heading from MDNA Tour to whatever the name is.
Exclusive First Look at Madonna's Costumes
A Joan of Arc-inspired look fashioned from metal mesh and Swarovski crystals.
View Joan of Arc costume Photo
View Marjorette Costume photo
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Sneak a Peek at Madonna’s Sexy Summer Tour Costumes
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The AP has already published photos from Man-donna's MDNA tour. The fan sites probably have lots more (I haven't checked).
Madonna kicks off world tour in Israel (with photos)
In the "Ticket" thread, I quoted from this article (some of the people in Israel turned down free tickets to see her tour): Israeli left-wing NGOs split on accepting Madonna's invite to Tel Aviv show - Madonna donated 580 tickets to her show in Tel Aviv to members of the Israeli and Palestinian peace camps; not all of them accepted her invitation.
Madonna kicks off 'MDNA' world tour in Israel to raucous fans- Madonna emerged on stage in a confessional, breaking through its glass window using a rifle, which she then aimed at the audience. She wore a skin-tight black outfit to sing her first song, “Girl Gone Wild,” accompanied by dancers dressed as monks.
She went on to sing “Give Me All Your Luvin’” and a mash-up of the classic “Express Yourself” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” dressed as a marching band conductor.
...While some artists have opted to boycott Israel because of its policies toward Palestinians, the 53-year-old Madonna’s ties to the Jewish state have only strengthened in the last few years.
...During that show, she wrapped herself in an Israeli flag and called Israel the “energy center of the world.”
Madonna, who is not Jewish, has been dabbling in Kabbalah for more than a decade and has taken on a Hebrew name, Esther. On previous trips to Israel she went to the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, the holiest site where Jews can pray, and visited the grave of a revered Jewish sage. According to some of these articles, Madonna 'urged Israelis to embrace peace'- on one of her last tours, she sang on stage that she was going to 'kick Sarah Palin's ass.'
Blood, guts and guns as Madonna kicks off world tour- Dark Catholic imagery was spliced with blood, guts and guns as Madonna burst onto the stage at Tel Aviv's Ramat Gan stadium late on Thursday to kick off her hotly-anticipated MDNA world tour of some 30 countries.
The portentous tolling of a church bell opens the first set with bare-chested monks in burgundy robes swinging a giant golden censer in front of a giant red cross.
A plainchant melody turns into a Hebrew prayer as monks rise out of the floor, mixing Jewish and Catholic imagery as the Material Girl rises in silhoutte, shattering the backscreen as she launches into "Girl Gone Wild."
Guns feature heavily in the next two numbers, "Revolver" and "Gang Bang" with the Queen of Pop and her dangers repeatedly 'firing' into the audience with a variety of guns, as huge images of empty bullet casings fall to the ground.
"Bang bang, shot you dead, shot my lover in the head," she sings as brains splat onto the back screen behind her in a number which ends with her shooting down one of the dangers and flinging the gun onto the floor.
Several songs later, the tone changes as Madge transforms into a red-and-white clad majorette, with her signature conical bra making an appearance in "Vogue," a monochrome number which blurs the gender lines.
This time, it appears as a cage-like bustier over a white shirt complete with black tie and trousers: office-wear -- Madonna style.
In between sets, she addresses the audience, urging Israelis to end the conflict and seek peace.
"I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason," she said, to wild applause and cheering.
"You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world," she said. "We all bleed the same colour."
"If we can all rise above our egos and our titles and the names of our countries and our religions, and treat everyone around us with dignity and respect, then we are on the road to peace.
"If there is peace here in the Middle East, there can be peace in the whole world."
Excited fans were already pouring through the gates when they opened some four hours before the 9:45 pm (1845 GMT) start, with all 32,000 tickets sold out.
Turning heads at one of the main entrances was 41-year-old Cocoa Chandelier. Six-feet tall -- "without the heels" -- and with a boufant easily adding another foot, she said she had never missed a single of Madonna's concerts.
"It's quite appropriate that it's starting here in Israel. She has adopted this culture and religion," Chandelier told AFP, dressed in copious quantities of fluorescent plastic beads and earrings to match.
"That's why we've come all the way from Hawaii -- to support her."
...Officials said her two older children -- 15-year-old Lourdes, and 12-year-old Rocco -- would also take part in the show.
"This show is epic and bigger than anything she’s done before. There are many more costume changes. We’re taking 700 shoes on the road," her costume designer and stylist Arianne Phillips told the WWD website.
"Madonna changes outfits seven or eight times and the dancers change 10 to 15 times, depending on the dancer," she said. Kicking off tour, Madonna shows she's no lady (Gaga) - TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Pop superstar Madonna kicked off a new world tour on Thursday wishing peace on the Middle East even as she showcased grim dance routines depicting violence and bloody gunmen among her more colorful numbers.
Madonna, 53, mixed hit songs over three decades in music with tunes from her recent album, "MDNA," before a packed audience, and she took a sly dig at younger diva, Lady Gaga.
"She's not me!" Madonna sang at the end of "Express Yourself," which she had reworked to include a sampling of Lady Gaga's recent "Born This Way."
That song from Lady Gaga, who emerged on the pop music scene about four years ago and has enjoyed a huge following in recent years, has been cited by many music fans and critics as being very similar to Madonna's late 1980s dance club smash.
Since Lady Gaga, 26, released "Born This Way," fans and music lovers have speculated that a generational challenge was in the works between the two women and comedians have poked fun at any imagined rivalry between the two.
Despite occasional lighthearted touches such as a baton-twirling routine in cheerleader formation and a psychedelic homage to Indian philosophy, the dominant mood at Thursday's concert in Tel Aviv seemed more grim with a stage shrouded in black and red and costumes that often appeared ominous.
VIRGIN SACRIFICE
"Like a Virgin," a dance tune that helped propel Madonna to stardom as risqué pop ingénue in the 1980s, was performed as a mournful cabaret with violin accompaniment. At one point, the singer was trussed up and hoisted into the air by four male dancers, then lowered onto a platform as though into a volcano - a virgin sacrifice.
For "Gang Bang," Madonna wrestled with armed intruders whom she then dispatched with a pistol - their "blood" spattering across an enormous video backdrop. In a routine for "Revolver", she wielded a Kalashnikov rifle, used by many modern-day insurgents, while one of her dancers favored an Israeli Uzi.
The exertions never sapped her confident singing, though she did become somewhat breathless during remarks to the audience at Ramat Gan stadium on Tel Aviv's outskirts.
"I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that have been occurring here for thousands of years - they have to stop," she said to cheers.
A devotee of Jewish mysticism, Madonna had dubbed the first leg of her 28-country "MDNA" tour the "Peace Concert" and distributed free tickets to some of the Palestinians who attended from the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Among them was a woman named Yasmine, who declined to give her last name in light of Palestinian calls to boycott the Madonna concert and other cultural events in Israel. She offered a mixed assessment of the show.
"I wasn't a fan of the intro. It was too aggressive and massacre-like," Yasmine said. "Her (Madonna's) speech about peace and the mention of Palestine was heartfelt, though."
Avihay Asseraf, an Israeli who dedicated a Facebook page to Madonna's visit, was more sanguine about the darker displays.
"That's how she chose to express herself this time," he said. "Ultimately this is a show, a spectacle, and it's all for fun."
(Reporting by Dan Williams; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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I saw the tour costumes link in my Facebook feed and had to come here to see if it were posted. I like the "Joan of Arc" costume. I also kind of like the one Gaultier designed for "Vogue". I do think these costumes are better than Lady GaGa's costumes.
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"If we can all rise above our egos and our titles and the names of our countries and our religions, and treat everyone around us with dignity and respect, then we are on the road to peace.
Really, Madonna? Does that extend to Lady GaGa? Does that extend to Sarah Palin, whom you threatened at your concert four years ago? Does that extend to the people you constantly trash and/or criticize, such as Republicans, conservatives, members of the Catholic church? Does this extend to those fat fans you despise? She talks about being respectful and whatnot, but we all know that she definitely does not practice what she preaches.
As for the guns and stuff in her concert...this isn't new. She brandished a rifle on her 2001 Drowned World tour (that tour also featured fake martial arts moves aided by harnesses and some samurai sword play, plus a graphic anime interlude), then played soldier in the 2004 ReInvention Tour complete with her being "executed" in a (fake) electric chair. But I cannot help but notice that Madonna chose to resurrect the gun imagery (complete with blood and gore) for two reasons: one, Lady GaGa brandished guns in her "Alejandro" video and on her Born This Way tour; two - Madonna's too old to generate controversy using sex, so now she's resorting to violence and gore. Oh, and still sticking with her usual insults to Catholicism. Speaking of which, the description of the dancers dressed as monks and whatnot reminded me of Nicki Minaj's performance of "Roman Holiday" at this year's Grammy awards.
The majorette section really reminded me of Kylie Minogue's cheerleading section from her 2007 X tour. It's Madonna's typical method of stealing from someone - change it up just a little bit so that it isn't obvious, especially given the cheerleading theme from MDNA's first single.
I really hope she's not going to call for more gun control after brandishing guns in her show (and for the third time, too). That will really piss me off.
I do have to give her kudos for kicking her tour off in Israel when so many artists not only boycott the country, but openly insult it too. Of course, she's only doing it because of her Kabbalah, but still.
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Madonna Opens $240 Million Tour With Peace Plea, Dancing Monks
Quote from one guy who attended the show:- By Calev Ben-David on June 01, 2012
“The show was provocative, sexy and I had a blast,” said Noa Brumer, a 22-year Israeli army officer and Madonna fan. “Musically a little disappointing: The songs didn’t really build up as they should have. But you can see that she has special feelings for Israel.”
....With extensive use of audio playback, including whole songs when Madonna disappeared from stage for costume changes, it wasn’t easy to know when one is actually hearing her live voice.
...The peace message seemed incongruous coming in a concert in which Madonna acted out the scenario of shooting a lover to death during “Revolver” and “Gang Bang” before turning her pistol on the audience to the sound of gunshots against a projected backdrop of gushing blood. Such glaring contradictions have been the meat-and-potatoes of her career. Parts of this was cross posted to the "hypocrisy" thread.
A couple of parts of this review were positive, but I'm concentrating on the negative parts. If you want to read the entire review, please click the link.
The pop queen kicks off her world tour with excessive gun-toting, a new cone bra and a dig at Lady Gaga
Excerpt:- 8:16 AM PDT 6/1/2012
by Shirley Halperin
For a show that was originally billed as a “Concert for Peace,” the opening night of Madonna’s world tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, featured a disproportionate amount of violence.
Wielding a (presumably) fake AK-47 followed by a revolver, the pop superstar sang of shooting her lover dead in the show’s first act, in between acrobatic moves that had her disarming masked bandits and killing them at close range.
One might be tempted to think that the location -- Ramat Gan Stadium, mere miles from any number of religious landmarks and hotly contested territories that have embroiled the region in war and struggle for thousands of years -- was appropriate.
But by the same token, you could just as easily label the theatrics, which included blood splattered on a giant video screen and a gun pointing in the direction of the audience, as being in poor taste.
Such was the constant contradiction of Madonna’s MDNA tour kickoff, which was originally slated for two nights at the 41,000-capacity stadium (the first was canceled so the singer could fit in another day of rehearsal) where her previous international trek, Sticky & Sweet, ended in 2009. “I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a special and important reason,” the singer told the sold-out crowd. “You can’t be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world. People of all walks of life, we’re all sons and daughters of the universe and human beings. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved. It’s easy to say, ‘I want peace,’ it’s another thing to do it. … No conflict can ever be resolved by causing pain to another human being.”
....And therein lies the problem with the MDNA tour, which relies heavily on songs from Madonna’s new album and features mostly snippets of her biggest hits. On the set list, only “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Vogue,” “Open Your Heart,” “Hung Up” and the aforementioned “Express Yourself” got a nearly complete performance, while “Like a Prayer” was a nearly spot-on reprise of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show performance from earlier this year. “Holiday,” “Ray of Light,” “Music,” and “Into the Groove,” meanwhile, were relegated to mere seconds on the scratchy turn of the radio dial, a fitting intro to “Turn Up the Radio,” one of eight songs from MDNA, including “I’m Addicted,” “I’m a Sinner” and “Masterpiece,” the latter from her 2011 film, W.E.
....So it should come as no surprise, even in the Holy Land, that her show would open with a giant cross, the clang of a church bell and cloaked clergymen. After all, this is a woman who, in 2004, adopted the Hebrew name Esther as a show of her faith to the mystic practices of Kabbalah. But how all that religious iconography ties into numbers like “Girl Gone Wild” and “Gang Bang,” both off her latest album MDNA, is less clear.
Did the song selection disappoint fans? With the exception of her hardcore followers, the hundreds of thousands who bought MDNA during week one and helped it secure the coveted top spot on the Billboard album chart, it’s likely that it did, but that’s not to say that they weren’t all entertained.
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MDNA Tour Review: Introducing Jihad Madonna- By NIV ELIS
06/01/2012 20:41 The Queen of Pop is on a holy war in her visually stunning MDNA tour, but it’s not clear exactly against what.
In the opening minutes of her MDNA tour, a confessing Madonna, shrouded in an Islamic-style veil and clutching an assault rifle emerges from the steeple of a church tower to the sound of gongs, Hebrew-chanting monks and the smoke of a giant, swinging thurible. Her latest incarnation, Jihad Madonna, is on a holy war, although it’s not clear against what. In the 20-song set that follows, the 53-year old subversively mainstream pop icon takes aim at everything from the church to ex-husbands to pop throne heir apparent Lady Gaga. The result lacks rhyme or reason, but makes up for it with its indisputably delectable assault on the senses.
Religious imagery recurs throughout the show. In the ultra-violent first sequence, bad girl Madonna finds herself breaking all the rules. “I feel like sinning,” she slyly sings, but soon proves that her sins against God go beyond the mere sexual promiscuity of her past work. Comparing her love to a “Revolver,” Madonna goes on a shooting rampage in the song “Gang Bang” from her new album, which sees her shooting an onslaught of male attackers/former lovers whose blood splatters over the enormous video backdrop. Arriving at the inevitable destination of hell (where she promises to shoot her betrayer “over and over and over and over”), she transitions into her 80’s abortion-themed classic “Papa Don’t Preach,” and then finds herself “Hung Up” by a group of tribal warriors, intent on sacrificing her for her sins. Finally, bathed in white light, Madonna triumphs by crushing the enormous cross in the background to smithereens.
If that sounds muddled, it is. Unsurprisingly, songs about disco dancing, bloody revenge, teenage pregnancy and sexual liberation set to the dark imagery of a shooting spree in hell don’t combine quite coherently. The fact that Thursday’s tour-opening show in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan Stadium was dubbed a “Concert for Peace” and featured a speech on how Middle East peace could be achieved if people here merely rose above their egos and respected one another didn’t quite jive with shouted lyrics such as, “If you’re gonna act like a b***h, then you’re gonna die like a b***h.” The remainder of the show, which departed from the heavy-handed portrayals of death and murder, proved far more enjoyable.
Madonna succeeds most when focusing her energies on the aesthetic experience, for which the show uses cutting edge technology to great effect. Employing the largest video screen ever built as a backdrop and a series of rising and falling platforms encased in video screens, the stage is able to transform between any imaginable set within milliseconds. Three platforms, for example, become trains racing through the streets of India as slumdog dancers jump between them in the performance of “I’m a Sinner.”
A 1920’s portion, featuring gorgeous black and white outfits for “Vogue,” shifting mirrors for “Human Nature” and a delightfully naughty visit to a burlesque bordello for a mash up between “Erotica” and “Candy Shop,” showcases Madonna at her visual best. The audience audibly gasps as a man pulls a corset tight around her waist during her Marlene Dietrich-esque, waltzified performance of “Like a Virgin,” and then gasps again as she continues singing, undeterred by the constricting bodice.
Madonna already made headlines for cleverly mixing “Express Yourself” with Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” which was widely accused of copying the former, during her cheerleader marching band segment. The dig would have been more satisfying as a clever wink, but Madonna instead threw in an unnecessary jab by singing “She’s Not Me” at the end. What ever happened to rising above ego to respect everyone, Madonna? Clearly that rule does not apply when a rival threatens your pop throne. The rendition of lukewarm single “Give Me All Your Loving” that follows offers up one of the show’s “wow” moments, as an entire troupe of marching band drummers hovers above the stage while singers Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. flash on the video screen.
As the show nears its end, a disco-glam Joan D’Arc-inspired Madonna – once again a holy warrior! – comes to terms with the upside of religion singing “Like a Prayer,” from which she has long omitted the sexual imagery that once made the song controversial enough for Pepsi to drop its sponsorship. Placed back-to-back with the Hindu themes of “Cyberraga,” the song has become Madonna’s most honest expression of religious ecstasy, a far cry from the violence of the show’s opening.
Despite the confused ideas underlying the performance, it’s difficult to imagine somebody not enjoying a Madonna concert. Say what you will about the Kabbalah-studying, gun-toting, fashionista of pop music – and everyone has something to say – but the woman knows how to put on a good show. Leaving aside the irony of someone who has built an empire around her own image decrying the evils of ego and the mess of contradictions in its underlying themes and messages, the MDNA Tour employs enough stunning visual effects, acrobatics, choreography, costume, and cutting edge visual technology to pull in even the most casual pop consumer. Fortunately, it is easy enough to dismiss the shortcomings of Madonna’s attempts to imbue deeper meaning into the entertainment, and just enjoy the show.
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There are a few photos they are not showing over there that are sad like the ones with the Katy Perry wannabee bra and she looks like she's 90. Actually even the Daily Schmail was kind enough not to run them. Sad,pitiful whatever happened to Baby Jane concert pics that actually evoke pity for a few seconds until you consider the fact she's an international kidnapper. Sad, apolitical and ugly:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4350526/Madonna-gets-her-guns-out-in-Israel.html
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Please don't forget to check out the Ticket Thread occasionally for any stories about the MDNA shows not selling out, even though they were originally advertised as being sold out (there are already two or three such stories in that thread). ----------------------------------------------------------
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- Jun 2 2012, 03:43 AM
I think she looks "meh" or okay in one or two photos on that page, but a couple of them are horrid!
I thought these two in particular were gross/ unflattering:


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This is why I hate her (well, among other things):
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and then finds herself “Hung Up” by a group of tribal warriors, intent on sacrificing her for her sins. Finally, bathed in white light, Madonna triumphs by crushing the enormous cross in the background to smithereens.
Tribal warriors are not Christian, so why is this b***h smashing the cross? Okay, I've watched the part where she's smashing the cross, and it's in the opening. She's in this small prayer room, at an altar, and in order to get out of it and go onstage, she "smashes" the glass and the cross (of which was split in half prior to her little altar room appearing on the stage) along with it.
She's been pissed off at the church for almost thirty years (spanning her career) simply because the Catholic church thinks her being a whore is a sin. She needs to get over it. The church hasn't forced her to do anything. If you don't like the church, then don't be a member. It's that simple.
I love how the press is pointing out her hypocrisy. Bleating about how we should all respect each other, and there she is, pretending to shoot her back up dancers, smashing the cross, insulting Lady GaGa (who does deserve it, in my opinion).
Speaking of her, if you want to watch the jab Madonna made at Lady GaGa, you can view it here. I'd love it more if it weren't coming from a raging hypocrite like Madonna, who has done the very thing she is accusing Lady GaGa of. Of course, the moron Madonna fans who hate Lady GaGa are just eating this up, going on about how "brilliant" she is and whatnot.
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Please don't forget to check out the Ticket Thread occasionally for any stories about the MDNA shows not selling out, even though they were originally advertised as being sold out (there are already two or three such stories in that thread). ----------------------------------------------------------
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This is why I hate her (well, among other things): Quoting limited to 1 levels deep Tribal warriors are not Christian, so why is this b***h smashing the cross? Okay, I've watched the part where she's smashing the cross, and it's in the opening. She's in this small prayer room, at an altar, and in order to get out of it and go onstage, she "smashes" the glass and the cross (of which was split in half prior to her little altar room appearing on the stage) along with it. She's been pissed off at the church for almost thirty years (spanning her career) simply because the Catholic church thinks her being a whore is a sin. She needs to get over it. The church hasn't forced her to do anything. If you don't like the church, then don't be a member. It's that simple. I love how the press is pointing out her hypocrisy. Bleating about how we should all respect each other, and there she is, pretending to shoot her back up dancers, smashing the cross, insulting Lady GaGa (who does deserve it, in my opinion). Speaking of her, if you want to watch the jab Madonna made at Lady GaGa, you can view it here. I'd love it more if it weren't coming from a raging hypocrite like Madonna, who has done the very thing she is accusing Lady GaGa of. Of course, the moron Madonna fans who hate Lady GaGa are just eating this up, going on about how "brilliant" she is and whatnot. I watched the video you linked to.
Madonna used the baton to hike up her skirt and she rubbed her crotch with the baton a couple of times, and she later shook her ass at the crowd.
I've never found that sort of tawdry behavior brave, cool, or edgy. It's just trashy and now, after so many years of her doing it, very old hat.
Madonna's baton twirling was not that great.
When I was a little girl, I used to have a teen neighbor down the street who was in a marching band at her school.
Every day for weeks, I'd watch her practice down the street. It was so fun to watch her practice catching the baton and twirl it around. She would twirl, twirl, twirl that baton and sometimes toss it way up in the sky and catch it perfectly.
That 15 year old girl is more awesome than Madonna can ever hope to be - at twirling batons and probably everything else.
I don't know why, but Gaga does not get under my skin. I don't agree with a few of her vulgar photo shoots/ song lyrics, but she doesn't set me off like Madonna, maybe because 99% of her career is weirdness as opposed to nudity/ blatant or obvious sex/ religious offense.
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I love how the press is pointing out her hypocrisy. Bleating about how we should all respect each other, and there she is, pretending to shoot her back up dancers, smashing the cross, insulting Lady GaGa (who does deserve it, in my opinion). If you check out the "Hypocrite" thread, you will find more examples of that, about her MDNA tour.
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...yeesh...yet another abomination of a road show from this shamless old harlot...and now she's bringing guns and 'world peace' into the mess...reckless, pretentious yutz...
...she really, really looks dreadful this time out...there's a plastic brittleness to her face now that is kind of odd considering how puffy all those procedures have made her...
...even more atrocious than the visuals though is her insistence at dragging her children into this tawdry mess from a young age...we will each have to answer for our lives before our Maker one day, but better to have a millstone 'round your neck and be thrown to the bottom of the ocean than to be found corrupting the innocent...
...on the bright side, almost every reader comment I've seen online so far is telling m to just put it away already...
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I would be pissed if I saw my mother in a cheerleader/marching band type outfit. On stage. In front of hundreds. And if she dragged me up there with her.
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Please don't forget to check out the Ticket Thread occasionally for any stories about the MDNA shows not selling out, even though they were originally advertised as being sold out (there are already two or three such stories in that thread). ----------------------------------------------------------
For news stories about fans not liking her MDNA tour, leaving it early, or complaining about it, please see the Fans Angry At Madonna thread
(That link is to page 1 of that thread, but you'll find MDNA specific information on page 4 or 5.)
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I have a few more comments to make about one article below in the Madonna Related, Outlook Forum thread
Most of this coverage is negative:
Smoke, mirrors and Madonna- Kicking off her world tour in Tel Aviv, the queen of pop delivered plenty of spectacle, but little emotion.
by Moshe Kutner Jun.04, 2012
For the first part of Madonna's concert last week, it seemed as if her main inspiration was the netherworld. The opening segment featured a frightening cross, a mix of Hebrew cantorial and Christian music, and satanic creatures.
The video clips on the screens showed gothic images from cemeteries, setting a mood you would expect from Ozzy Osbourne.
After the warm-up by DJs Offer Nissim and Martin Solveig, Madonna burst forth from a booth on the stage and opened with a fast-paced dance to "Girls Gone Wild" from her new album, "MDNA."
Images of destruction and violence filled the screens and there were even more during "Revolver" and "Gang Bang." In a black jacket and Chanel gloves, shooting at her dancers with pistols and a Kalashnikov rifle, Madonna did some acrobatics with her dance troupe, making it feel like the set of a Quentin Tarantino movie.
......Madonna ended the medley with lines from another of her songs that summarized the Gaga issue as "She's not me." It was an edgy form of payback accompanied by a mischievous lifting of her skirt, but you couldn't help wonder about the world's top-grossing artist capitulating to an ego battle with her younger successor.
....The screen clips turned to heated social protests and banners from the Occupy Wall Street protests such as "We are the 99%" and "Eat the Rich," then, as Madonna sang "Nobody Knows Me," to photos of teens who committed suicide in recent years because of homophobic harassment. [Note from Flea: I have some comments to make about this in this thread Madonna Related, Outlook Forum thread]
...These were a rare few moments of blunt and well-executed political pop, but they immediately became lost in the relentless succession of darting backdrops in addition to all the other stimulation. Religious symbols and sex, shots fired and blood flowing, and policemen chasing protesters were all mixed together, and the effect was a visual version of electric shock.
...The visuals were very creative - video screenings, constantly shifting stages and drummers who hovered in the air - but the music did not live up to the many references to the exalted empire of Madonna.
Many of the songs were just off the mark; hits the audience was waiting for were not done interactively enough; lesser songs were giving too much time and space. The concert was faithful to her last album: In both, it was apparent that the effort of maintaining her status, staying relevant and recreating the outrageousness she was associated with in the 1980s and 1990s was weighing on her. Madonna did all the wrong things in Abu Dhabi - ...Madonna did all the wrong things in Abu Dhabi, but proved that the title “Queen of Pop” deservedly belongs to her.
... Together with nearly 22,000 fans, we lined up to see Madonna in the humid and hot evening, when temperatures were between 32 and 35 Celsius. Standing for three and half hours in one place before the show even started and sweating from head to toe is not enjoyable.
Flash Entertainment sold concert tickets even on the door, although a few media announcements from the past months stated that tickets were sold out in twenty minutes or a day. However, the company kept releasing and selling more and more tickets.
Madonna’s fans were so tightly squeezed during the show that few fought for space between each other, a couple fainted, and some even left early. Even the golden circle crowd that paid AED1,095 (US $300) per ticket was not spared or provided with more comforts.
The material girl either didn’t care much about the peaceful Middle Eastern mentality, or there was no time to change her show’s choreography. Maybe, she simply wanted to chalenge our minds and provoke controversial thoughts. Her show featured a vide range of religious and aggressive scenes, sexual gestures, and even a striptease like performance. She played mostly a bad girl with a sexual power.
The show opened with Madonna in a prayer scene, with a cross stretched across the background screens. She was fully dressed in a tight black outfit holding a machine gun. Later, the character she played turned aggressive and killed few on stage, with blood spilling over the background screens. The second act’s theme was a breathing relief, with Madonna and her superb backup dancers dressed as cheer leaders.
During the first four or five performances Madonna was remarkably energetic and looked fresh, but from a close distance during the later songs, one could note some signs of tiredness, although she is in an immaculate physical condition.
Performing in a hot and humid weather, on an open arena in the middle of a sandy area, surely is not the dream of any artist. But Madonna is a world class performer. She stuck up to her reputation and carried out with her show with an exceptional professionalism. She greeted fans several times mentioning Abu Dhabi and pronouncing it with the right accent, unlike some international superstars in the past. The singer spoke to us and and also noted that “it is hot here”.
.... There was too much of aggression and sexuality in Madonna’s acts. Maybe in other parts of the world this could attract the crowds, but yesterday some younger fans wondered why she stripteases to show off her laced bra, while one screamed “crazy”. Well, this is Madonna’s signature style that made her “Queen of Pop” worldwide.
Everyone who knows Madonna is well aware that her performances are not “child-friendly”. On the website of Flash Entertainment is written that you have to be 21+ to attend the concert. On the tickets is written the same and even that you need an ID to prove your age. However, when we called the company and inquired if kids are allowed, they said “yes, but you have to buy a ticket.” Madonna’s concert is definitely not a child-friendly one and the few minors in the public looked exhausted after the first few songs. Madonna - amazing musical theatre but not a great concert- Monday, June 04, 2012
by Claire Sharrock [paper]: 7DAYS Abu Dhabi
Visually stunning and technically striking, Madonna’s opening night in Abu Dhabi was an amazing piece of musical theatre – so why are there so many disappointed fans around this morning?
Disappointed and very tired…
The Material Girl kept us waiting more than an hour and a half after Benny Benassi finished his pumping set and I don’t think the crowd ever recovered.
We did gasp in delight when the performance finally got under way with the catchy ‘Girl Gone Wild’ – the stage effects and dancing really were sensational.
We gasped again - some in horror - as Madge shot several men ‘dead’ in ‘Gang Bang’. (Personally I thought this was one of the best bits of the show, but I love a bit of controversy).
And her contortionist dance troop really was something to behold - as was the lady herself as she sang ‘Hung Up’ while dancing on a tightrope.
But we weren’t singing along.
And that was the problem with the whole concert really.
Madonna just didn’t engage the audience at all. Maybe it was because she had irritated us all with the long wait - we’re not a patient lot here in the UAE.
But it was also to do with the type of performance she has put together for this MDNA tour.
It seems so meticulous in its creation that there’s no room for movement - or fun, banter and interaction with the crowd.
We got a ‘hello Abu Dhabi’ - and a ‘Jeez it’s hot here’, but otherwise there was little clue to where she was performing - bar the sweat running off her.
All in all, there was something very mechanical about Madonna’s whole set.
Highlights: ‘Express Yourself’ mashed up with Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way’ - complete with a dig at the younger star as Madonna repeated the line ‘She’s not me!’
‘Like a Prayer’ - the only song where everyone was truly singing along, hands in the air – if you’re going tonight, look out for Madge’s son Rocco in the choir.
‘Give me all your Luvin’ - brilliant dance routine including drummer boys suspended mid-air.
Lowlights: ‘Like a Virgin’ sung like a funeral dirge – what was that about?! Madonna booed after late show start
Madonna fans vent fury on social media after gig
Madonna points AK-47 on stage- Published: Monday, Jun 4, 2012, 19:19 IST
Agency: ANI
Madonna’s fans were in for a shock when the provocatively dressed singer pointed an AK-47 rifle at her dancers on the stage in the troubled state of Israel on the first night of her new world tour. The gig has sparked outrage in the troubled Jewish state, where terror attacks and violent clashes with Palestinians are a constant reality.
The 53-year-old singer pointed the assault rifle and a pistol at her half-naked dancers in a boob-flashing top at the 35,000-seat gig in Tel Aviv. The Ramat Gan Stadium show on Thursday was the first of her new MDNA tour. Madonna, who is a follower of Jewish-sect Kabbalah, began the gig in a glass confessional, as a Hebrew prayer was read and then shot her way out with a rifle and burst into her hit Girl Gone Wild.
Later, during Revolver, she brandished the Kalashnikov AK47 automatic rifle, used by modern-day insurgents, while a dancer held an Israeli-manufactured Uzi. Other outfits comprised of a reprise of her infamous cone bra and a lacy top. Her 11-year-old son Rocco also joined the singer on the stage. ----------------------
Please don't forget to check out the Ticket Thread occasionally for any stories about the MDNA shows not selling out, even though they were originally advertised as being sold out (there are already two or three such stories in that thread). ----------------------------------------------------------
For news stories about fans not liking her MDNA tour, leaving it early, or complaining about it, please see the Fans Angry At Madonna thread
(That link is to page 1 of that thread, but you'll find MDNA specific information on page 4 or 5.)
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Jun 4 2012, 06:22 PM
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Pitiful old lady trying to be young again.
     
This one in particular caught my attention. Is she holding a cane?

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Jun 5 2012, 01:53 PM
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I think she looks cute and presentable in the majorette costume (maybe it's because the manly arms are totally covered), but in some of the others, no.
Fan Pictures: Abu Dhabi (Part 2) (hosted on fan site Madonnalicious)
Her face looked bad in this photo:

Next link: From fan site DM.
I thought this was a little strange - she sat and watched while someone else played her role for the tour:
Madonna watched the full rehersals tonight with Tiffany Olson performing instead of her
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Jun 5 2012, 08:10 PM
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Yeah, she looks full on Whatever Happened to Baby Jane in that photo.
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She needs to stop! She's humiliating herself by looking like a plastic wooden dummy in well dressed clothes. I can't believe people are wasting nearly $400, for the good seats, to see this woman perform; When I heard that some reviews that said the musical direction is horrible, yet the only things that stood out were the stage production & design, video backdrops, lighting, her dancers, and costumes. Her fans are dumb to pay hundreds of dollars to see their queen humiliate herself by looking like a total wannabe who thinks she's down with todays music trends.
I love the tour pics on this thread. It always puts a smile on my face, that I know I wouldnt humiliate or degrade myself like that ever in my life.
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Jun 8 2012, 08:42 AM
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Checked out some of the tour clips on Youtube. Looks totally repetitive ....just the same old, same old from every other past tour Madonna has done.
She looks so self conscious of every step as if she's going to fall and break a hip.
My sister saw her a few years back and was completely unimpressed. Said Madonna's back up dancers did all the work. She also said that she looks older in person and has a very flat A**.
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Jun 8 2012, 08:59 AM
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oops - should have posted this here instead of under the MDNA album thread:
From the vigilantcitizen.com:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/madonnas-mdna-tour-replete-with-illuminati-agenda/
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