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MDNA Tour
Topic Started: May 30 2012, 06:19 PM (6,255 Views)
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Love the Vigilant Citizen!

I don't know if I should talk about conspiracy theories on this board, but I agree absolutely 100% of what he says. Which proves that the skank is evil and a master of deception.... "You can't be a fan of mine, unless you want world peace". Then why glamourize Violence in the first part of your show? What a hypocritical b***h. Just goes to show she's a double speaker and has no morals. I hope her tour gets an awful reception here in the states!
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Heh, I was going to post the link to Vigilant Citizen, but ocean beat me to the punch!

I also agree with what he says regarding Madonna's tour. It's contradictory and hypocritical and I wouldn't be surprised if Madonna or someone using Madonna were pushing an agenda through her tour.

As for Madonna watching someone else perform her role during rehearsals, I can kind of understand why she'd do that. I think she wants to see what her backup dancers are doing, and how the video on the screens look from the audience's perception, probably to make sure everything goes according to plan.

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Madonna flashes naked boob during MDNA tour at audience - click here to see more links about it (Desperate To Remain Raunchy thread)
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I was poking around the Vigilant Citizen message boards and saw an interesting thread regarding Madonna's MDNA tour. The original poster claims that Madonna continues to perform against her will, and that if she retires, she'll meet the same fate as Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. You have to understand that the posters here are very paranoid and think that the whole world is run by this shadowy Illuminati cabal or whatever. They're 9/11 truthers and the original poster says that Madonna was bravely trying to speak out against imperialistic warmongering America with her stupid "American Life" album and that after that album tanked, she lost her passion for performing...or something.

Madonna would be sacrificed if she decided to stop

I only agree with a couple of points - I do think that Madonna decided to tone down her political rantings after "American Life" tanked, but what this person did not point out was that Madonna still went after Bush in 2008 during her Sticky & Sweet Tour. She also had some stupid political-montage in her 2006 Confessions Tour (it was the Sorry montage), and in 2008 her "Get Stupid" montage compared John McCain to Hitler, and during that same tour she threatened to kick Sarah Palin's ass. And now fast-forward to this year, with her taking on Marine Le Pen and including yet another whiny, liberal agitprop of a montage in her tour. She hasn't really stopped speaking out on political matters, she's just relegated it to her tours.

On page 4 of the thread, I saw this tidbit about the song "Sorry":

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The funny thing about confession though is that the song 'Sorry' in it's original composition had a political undertone against Bush, yet it was reworked to sound as if she was directing it to a lover.


Not surprising. ^o) Wonder if the original is floating around somewhere...
Edited by Mihoshi Marie, Jun 11 2012, 10:50 AM.
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Jun 11 2012, 10:31 AM
I was poking around the Vigilant Citizen message boards and saw an interesting thread regarding Madonna's MDNA tour. The original poster claims that Madonna continues to perform against her will, and that if she retires, she'll meet the same fate as Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. You have to understand that the posters here are very paranoid and think that the whole world is run by this shadowy Illuminati cabal or whatever. They're 9/11 truthers and the original poster says that Madonna was bravely trying to speak out against imperialistic warmongering America with her stupid "American Life" album and that after that album tanked, she lost her passion for performing...or something.

Madonna would be sacrificed if she decided to stop

I only agree with a couple of points - I do think that Madonna decided to tone down her political rantings after "American Life" tanked, but what this person did not point out was that Madonna still went after Bush in 2008 during her Sticky & Sweet Tour. She also had some stupid political-montage in her 2006 Confessions Tour (it was the Sorry montage), and in 2008 her "Get Stupid" montage compared John McCain to Hitler, and during that same tour she threatened to kick Sarah Palin's ass. And now fast-forward to this year, with her taking on Marine Le Pen and including yet another whiny, liberal agitprop of a montage in her tour. She hasn't really stopped speaking out on political matters, she's just relegated it to her tours.

On page 4 of the thread, I saw this tidbit about the song "Sorry":

The funny thing about confession though is that the song 'Sorry' in it's original composition had a political undertone against Bush, yet it was reworked to sound as if she was directing it to a lover.

Not surprising. ^o) Wonder if the original is floating around somewhere...
Are these same conspiracy people you saw just as critical of Dems like Obama?

Not only at this board, but at other sites I've been to by truthers, etc., they generally claim they distrust ALL political parties, but I notice that 99% of the time, they reserve all criticism for Republicans and right wingers.

I hardly ever see them bad mouthing Democrats, liberals, progressives, and left wingers which makes me wonder (suspicious) how sincere they are when they say they distrust all political parties / ideologies.
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These conspiracy people only offer tepid criticism of Democrats like Obama. Most of their ire is reserved for Republicans as you said. They are constantly going on and on and on about Bush, yet this same person who talked about how Madonna couldn't speak out against the war in Iraq did not mention that she continued her criticism via the Confessions Tour and the Sticky & Sweet tour.

I was going through all the stuff in my Google Reader feed and saw an article on Twitchy about Madonna flashing her sagging boob. OK Magazine helpfully pointed out the following:

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During a concert in Istanbul, Madonna reportedly intentionally had a nip slip during her 1995 hit, “Human Nature.” Dance moves to the number involved a striptease and then apparently she pulled her bra down to expose her right breast.

According to Fox News, before her Super Bowl half-time show in February, Madonna said there wouldn’t be any wardrobe malfunctions, referencing of course Janet Jackson’s showcase during the 2004 Super Bowl.

The Material Girl explained, “You don’t have to show your nipples to be interesting, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re cutting edge if you do.”


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She said this back in January!!! She is SUCH a hypocrite! Now she's shamelessly doing the same thing, probably to have something else controversial to do by the time she arrives in France (since I am sure Le Pen still intends to sue her if she continues with the whole swastika thing).

Not only did Janet Jackson do the Super Bowl first, she even did the boob-flashing thing first. Madonna is one of the most unoriginal people on earth.

Here is the article I was talking about: Madonna's Wardrobe Malfunction: Christina Applegate says "what's a little nip slip?"; Santorum calls it sign of cultural decline
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These conspiracy people only offer tepid criticism of Democrats like Obama. Most of their ire is reserved for Republicans as you said. They are constantly going on and on and on about Bush, yet this same person who talked about how Madonna couldn't speak out against the war in Iraq did not mention that she continued her criticism via the Confessions Tour and the Sticky & Sweet tour.

I was going through all the stuff in my Google Reader feed and saw an article on Twitchy about Madonna flashing her sagging boob. OK Magazine helpfully pointed out the following:


Quoting limited to 1 levels deepThe Material Girl explained, “You don’t have to show your nipples to be interesting, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re cutting edge if you do.”Source

She said this back in January!!! She is SUCH a hypocrite! Now she's shamelessly doing the same thing, probably to have something else controversial to do by the time she arrives in France (since I am sure Le Pen still intends to sue her if she continues with the whole swastika thing).

Not only did Janet Jackson do the Super Bowl first, she even did the boob-flashing thing first. Madonna is one of the most unoriginal people on earth.

Here is the article I was talking about: Madonna's Wardrobe Malfunction: Christina Applegate says "what's a little nip slip?"; Santorum calls it sign of cultural decline
That is excellent info. I'd like to cross post it to the Hypocrite thread.
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Wanted to show photos were her face looks messed up. God its Bad!

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Lol I love these embarassing Tour photos. I wonder if her fans secretly laugh at these pics even if they themselves shot them.
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Madonna's tour rider revealed
  • Madonna reportedly requests 20 international phone lines and a dry cleaner when she is on tour.

    The superstar singer is currently performing her MDNA series of shows, which kicked off at the end of May and continue until December.

    In Touch apparently got hold of the Material Girl's backstage rider which states that she is travelling with a 200-person entourage.

    The team of staff includes 30 bodyguards, personal chefs, an acupuncturist, a yoga instructor and an on-site dry cleaner.

    She also is said to expect her dressing room to have 20 international phone lines and only vegan snacks.

    The room where the singer prepares herself before getting on stage has to be draped in a particular fabric and filled with white and light pink roses and lilies. The stems have to be trimmed to exactly six inches.

    When the 53-year-old gets back to her hotel room in which ever city she is in, she apparently expects her space to be like a home away home.

    "Madonna requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in," a source revealed.
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...yoy...after paying for a 200-person entourage and all the other items of indulgence, Live Nation won't be left with much of a profit I would surmise...especially given the less than sellout ticket sales and outright cancellations of many shows that were on the original roster...

...oh well, you get what you pay for...perhaps Live Nation should been a little more discriminating in its choice of artists and terms of engagement...
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...yoy...after paying for a 200-person entourage and all the other items of indulgence, Live Nation won't be left with much of a profit I would surmise...especially given the less than sellout ticket sales and outright cancellations of many shows that were on the original roster...

...oh well, you get what you pay for...perhaps Live Nation should been a little more discriminating in its choice of artists and terms of engagement...
Totally true. How selfish can this woman get?
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Another site said this is a very, very negative review of the MDNA tour. I've not yet read the whole thing myself (but will in a moment):

Italian Vogue review: Madonna has left the building - Italian Vogue
  • Madonna, the Queen of Pop, delivers a well-crafted but cold performance at Stadio Olimpico in Rome
That's been a complaint about her that's been around for a long time. Her reviewers have often said she is not spontaneous on stage during tours, she sticks to the same routine/ script, usually doesn't talk to or with the audience that much, and she comes across like a robot.

Their review (Vogue magazine):
  • The Queen of Pop, Madonna, has left the building. Seconds after the last echoes of the closing number, Celebration (which saw Rocco Ritchie dancing with his mother and sister Lourdes) faded out, a couple of luxury cars were seen speeding out of the back of the stage. There would be no encores, no coming back for more, no extra songs to make up for a very late start: Madonna's show leaves nothing to chance or spontaneity.

    Everything is meticulously calculated and bears little resemblance to what we would normally call a "concert", including some suspiciously pristine vocals in the middle of very choreography-heavy songs.

    The MDNA Tour, like all other Madonna tours, is more akin to musical theatre than music gig. Huge, spectacular, often slightly tacky, obvously expensive, it feels like a very long Glee fantasy sequence crossed with a particularly lavish Eurovision Song Contest performance, with better songs and a lot less humour.

    The tracks from her latest album, MDNA, struggle to keep up not only with her earlier material, but also with some of her more recent output: Human Nature and Hung Up seemed to get a far better reception than any of the newer songs, with the possible exception of Girl Gone Wild and Give Me All Your Luvin'. A slowed-down, BDSM-themed re-reading of Like a Virgin drew quite a few hisses and boos from the crowd; elsewhere, honesty paid off, as in the case of a rousing, relatively simple performance of Like a Prayer that had everyone on their feet.

    The blame may in fact lay in the poor quality of the sound for anyone not standing directly in front of the stage. The overall feeling was that some of the audience were quite simply left out of the show, which lost most of its punch when viewed from a distance.

    And, of course, the controversy, this time in the form of chaste mooning. All somewhat expected from the woman who has been courting controversy for over thirty years, to the point that we have become desensitized to it; and even her tongue-in-cheek, passive-aggressive insertion of Born this Way into Express Yourself only served to remind us of how Lady Gaga's affectionate, generous approach to live performance is her most valuable asset.

    Madonna deserves credit for her longevity and staying power, but there is little she can do to tweak her stage persona without losing status. Gaga gets smacked upside the head by a giant bar and soldiers on through the rest of the gig; Madonna sees a flag land on the stage at her feet and kicks it back down. And there, children, lies all the difference in the world.

    Giulia Blasi

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    06/13/2012
Madonna's MDNA tour slammed by Italian Vogue
  • Shows hailed as 'tacky' as fashion bible compare show to Lady Gaga gigs

    Pop superstar Madonna has been heavily criticised by fashion bible Vogue for her 'tacky' MDNA performance in Rome recently.

    The magazine reports 'hisses and boos' from the audience during a slowed-down version of her trademark eighties hit 'Like A Virgin' as the review compares her show to 'a very long Glee fantasy sequence'.

    Further criticism was levelled at her live vocals - with the magazine highlighting her seemingly pitch-perfect performance during 'choreography-heavy' tracks. The magazine also takes aim at her mash-up of 'Express Yourself' with Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' hit, calling Gaga 'affectionate' where Madonna is not. Click here to read the full review.

    Madonna has been drawing attention recently by first baring her breast and then her bum during a stage strip-tease on stage. She brings her tour to the UK in July. For more information visit Gigwise Gig Tickets.
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I'm starting to believe that there are more people starting to dislike her than actually care about her. :ask:
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...I agree...but she's committed to at least 2 (TWO) more albums tours with Live Nation, so she's going to be in our faces a while more unfortunately me fears....

...unless this tour performs so poorly below expectations that Live Nation decides to just cut their losses...

...here's hopin'...
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Those were some excellent links. I'm surprised there wasn't more reaction to them.
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A magazine translated New in English talking about an old bag like Madonna's looks? :-/
From Madonnalicious.

Mexican Magazines: Nueva
Mexican magazine 'Nueva' dedicated four pages to Madonna's MDNA tour looks at the opening night in Tel Aviv.

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What happened to our "singing" thread??

I used to have a thread about her singing and how terrible it was.

Madonna concert receives mixed reviews
  • by Carrie-Marie Bratley, in General · 28-06-2012 11:25:00 · 1 Comments

    Otherwise good reviews for what should have been one of, if not the concert of the year in Portugal have been overshadowed by claims of off-key singing, under-par ticket sales and eccentric demands; the media scrutinised Madonna’s visit to Coimbra last Sunday night and were quick to provide detailed accounts of the Queen of Pop’s performance during her MDNA 2012 World Tour.

    Lusa News Agency described the largely anticipated evening as "more than a musical concert, a spectacle of entertainment with lots of dancing and various performances, sound and visual effects."

    This was a view backed by newspaper Público, which said: "It is a much more theatrical Madonna, at least during the first half hour [of the concert], that we see in Coimbra in comparison with the concert in Lisbon two years ago."

    Notwithstanding the effort put into making the show look good, Lusa went on to report how, at certain points during the concert, the artist was somewhat off-form vocally.

    "Madonna showed some vocal difficulties throughout the show, which started at 10pm, noticeable, for example, when she started off-key in ‘Papa Don’t Preach’, the fourth song of the night, which didn’t last longer than the first couple of verses and one chorus."

    Contrarily, Publico claims ‘Papa don’t Preach’ and the song ‘Hung Up’ were cut short "to respect the very elaborate stage moments."

    During her one hour and 46 minute performance Madonna changed outfits "at least five times", her absence between sets being filled with the screening of videos and dance routines by her 22-member troupe, Lusa noted.

    Reports vary as to how long it took the iconic artist to address the Portuguese crowd, placing her first moment of interaction with the audience at somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes in.

    The concert’s attendance has also been brought to the fore for being "far from being sold out"; "the announced ticket sale of 45,000 places was far from being sold out, with the grass area and all sections of the stand showing patches of empty seats", Lusa said.

    National newspaper Correio da Manhã estimated around 35,000 people had attended the concert.

    Coimbra’s City Stadium has a capacity of 30,210 for football games and up to 50,000 for concerts. Previous concerts held at that stadium, including U2 and the Rolling Stones, were both sell-outs and used as measuring sticks for Madonna’s poorer turnout.

    The song ‘Sagaro Jo’ proved to be one of the evening’s musical highlights, during which the singer defended the freedom of speech and encouraged everyone to respect themselves as well as respecting others, a conditioning factor for there to be no more war, she said.

    Towards the end of the concert, Lusa reported, the singer once again started to show signs of vocal troubles when during the song ‘Erotic Candy Shop’ she was "out of tune on the low notes, unable to hold the notes and didn’t even attempt to sing the high notes, making it noticeable that that part of the performance was mimed."

    It wasn’t until the artist sang one of her older and more controversial songs, ‘Like a Prayer’, the penultimate song on the tour’s repertoire, "that the show started to feel like a real concert." Backed by a gospel group it was during this song that the public began to sing along with and applaud Madonna, especially when she emerged with a Portuguese flag, Lusa reported.

    During a press conference last week Álvaro Ramos, of concert promoters Ritmos & Blues, revealed a few of the star’s demands ahead of her performance in Coimbra.

    He confirmed rumours that her dressing room would be sterilised by a specialised team after her departure, so no hair, spot of salvia or other trace of DNA belonging to the star remained.

    Other demands included Portuguese wine, that all dressing rooms had only one key to them, that her dressing room was completely re-covered and redecorated with false walls and ceilings to prevent hidden cameras, and that the Portuguese promoters had no access to the dressing rooms at all during the show.

    He said: "We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist. We cannot even look at the dressing room, after it is ready, or even open the door."

    He revealed that the Portuguese staff would only be allowed to re-enter the dressing room "after her sterilisation team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna’s DNA, any hair, or anything.

    "They will clean up everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable.

    "I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes."

    Madonna’s MDNA tour kicked off on 31 May and before reaching Portugal had already passed through the UAE, Turkey, Italy and Spain. Coimbra was the singer’s third concert in Portugal.

    See page 51 of the printed edition for an interview with Madonna’s guitarist Monte Pittman.
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Madonna's smash hit as tour truck flips

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Madonna Tour Truck Overturns

Madonna's Tour Truck Overturns In Sweden: Singer's Equipment May Have Been Damaged

Madonna's tour truck overturns in Sweden

Madonna truck overturns on Swedish highway
  • A truck carrying the giant sound system for Madonna's 2012 World Tour has flipped on its side outside the Swedish city of Gothenburg, blocking rush-hour traffic in both directions.

    By by Richard Orange

    11:35AM BST 03 Jul 2012

    The American singer is scheduled to perform at the city's Ullevi stadium on Wednesday night, in her first concert in the country in three years.

    Christopher Akesson, a spokesman for Live Nation, the tour's organiser, said that the concert was expected to go on as planned.

    "We are working to prepare for the concert," he said. "I suspect that if there was anything serious, we would have had information about it by this time."

    According to Swedish police, the truck skidded over the railing separating the south and northbound lanes of the E6 motorway at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning.

    It had travelled from Copenhagen, where the 53-year-old singer on Monday performed a typically raunchy set in a push-up leopard-skin bra and an all-black 'assassin' outfit.

    Three passenger cars collided as they steered away to avoid the truck, damaging the cars but leaving their drivers unhurt.

    The driver of the truck has been taken to hospital in Gothenburg, although police said his injuries are not serious.

    The truck's diesel tanks were damaged in the accident, so emergency crews have only been able to open one lane, while the while police assess the risk of moving the vehicle.

    Mr Akesson said the tour organisers had yet to find out the cause of the accident. "It's too early to say anything about it," he said.

    The World Tour follows the release of the singer's latest studio album, "MDNA", which was released on March 26th.

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That negative review from Italian Vogue was good. Last month I watched some fan footage of both the MDNA tour and the Born This Way tour. Madonna's stage setup was better (I liked the large video screens) than GaGa's massive castle, but GaGa is indeed more inclined to actually interact with her audience. I think she talks too much in between songs and stuff - she acts like a preacher, sometimes, going on and on about how she came from nothing, how she was such a dork and is now a superstar, etc. Just imagine how insufferable Madonna's speeches would be if she did the same thing between songs.
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--EDIT. New (highly negative) review below---

Her MDNA tour is not selling out in Britain - many seats still available, please see Tickets thread for links to news stories on that.

See "Fans Angry At Madonna" thread for links to stories about how lots of fans left her MDNA show in Britain early because they thought it was boring.

Highlights of a review in the Telegraph

Madonna, Hyde Park, review
  • Neil McCormick reviews US pop star Madonna's concert at Hyde Park, part of her MDNA Tour.
    4/5 stars

    Her latest album, MDNA, has been a bit of a flop, in large part I suspect because she's trying too hard to keep up with the kids. Live she plays to different strengths, emphasising her showomanship with enough drama and spectacle to cover up the gap in class between her classic hits and rather more feeble recent stabs at electropop. The opening section is actually quite unpleasantly aggressive, particularly the blood spatter and multiple murders set piece for Gang Bang, although its hard to deny that aggression suits her. Madonna stomps around the set in black leather like an aging dominatrix, which is hard to equate with the love in at the end, with monks, Bhuddists and gospel singers joining in a happy clappy version of Like A Prayer.

Madonna at Hyde Park: star out of the groove as she ignores her hits
  • Not Crazy For You Madonna! Hyde Park crowds confused and bored by dreary set and low volume
    18 July 2012
    by John Aizlewood

    These are far from the best of times for Madonna. Her current album MDNA topped the British charts, but it's her poorest seller here.

    Meanwhile, the MDNA tour has been successful outside Britain, but not only did last night's first London date since 2009 fail to sell out, but seats remain for tomorrow's arena show in Birmingham and Saturday's performance at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium.

    Much to the confusion of a drizzled-upon audience including George Michael, Kylie Minogue, Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, U2's Adam Clayton, Valentino and, surprisingly, the most recent Mr Madonna, Guy Ritchie, Madonna took a step sideways. And not only because it was one of the quietest major shows I've experienced.

    There were cheeky flourishes, such as a snippet of Madonna wannabe Lady Gaga's Born This Way during Express Yourself and the appearance of her son Rocco, but, disappointingly, she dipped into one of popular music's great back catalogues occasionally and begrudgingly.

    She brilliantly re-invented Like A Virgin as an anguished snail's paced piano ballad and, less successfully, added chanting to Open Your Heart, while removing its soaring tune. To the crowd's audible displeasure, Holiday, Lucky Star, 4 Minutes and Ray Of Light existed only as five-second teasers, while Papa Don't Preach was reduced to a two-minute excerpt and the Abba sample was almost extinguished from a truncated Hung Up.

    Instead, she offered the number 130 hit Revolver, the dreary filler Candy Shop and a whopping eight MDNA tracks.

    The splatter and gore of MDNA's Gang Bang and the swashbuckling choreography of I'm A Sinner were inspired, but, surely, even Madonna herself doesn't believe that Girl Gone Wild, Turn Up The Radio and the incorrectly titled Masterpiece enhanced the evening more than Music, La Isla Bonita or Who's That Girl.

    No wonder then, that Express Yourself, where a platoon of drummers were hoisted high above the stage, and joyous, gospel-choir enhanced Like A Prayer reminded us of Madonna's undoubted genius. After a finish perfectly timed for the 10.30 curfew, the cruel PA played Into The Groove. Perhaps next time Madonna might consider performing it during the show.
This says "mixed" but 99% of the comments this page cites are negative. Not very mixed - more like a clear avalanche of negative.

"Mixed" to me implies roughly 50% positive, 50% negative, (or even a 60/40 split, I'd maybe even consider 70/30), but 99% vs. 1%?

Madonna Draws Celebrity Audience, Mixed Reviews with London Concert

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