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MDNA Tour
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She got booed in Philly - see Fans Angry At thread for that.

For tour reviews that mention she's a has been/ not relevant, please see the Has Been thread.

Madonna 'MDNA' tour spectacular but very silly
  • By Tris McCall/The Star-Ledger

    So you've got between 50 and 380(!) bucks burning a hole in your spandex tracksuit. You love pop spectacle. Should you splurge on a ticket to one of the Madonna concerts coming to the area?

    I was at the kickoff of the American leg of the Madonna's MDNA Tour at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. I'll have a review of the show in the newspaper on Thursday, but for now, I can give you a sense of what you're likely to get in the Bronx next week, and you can decide whether Madonna brand entertainment is right for you.

    Go if you like Madonna's recent material.
    The show was heavy on upbeat dance songs from the last few technophilic sets. This was no "True Blue" pop singalong; Madonna isn't too interested in that stuff anymore. She closed the show with "Like a Prayer" and made room for "Vogue," but most of the other world-famous hits from the '80s and '90s were either cut short ("Papa Don't Preach," which barely got a verse), folded into other songs ("Erotica") or radically reinterpreted ("Like a Virgin," which we'll talk about in a bit.) "Express Yourself" was used to take a cheap, mean-spirited, and wholly unnecessary shot at Lady Gaga: everybody already knows "Born This Way" is a rip-off, so why rub it in?

    Go if you don't mind church-bashing.
    Madonna hauled the crucifixes and ecclesiastical robes out of mothballs for the MDNA Tour. An imposing cathedral was constructed on the video screens, and midway through the show, Madonna smashed it with her fist. You would think that she'd have gotten iconoclasm out of her system by now, but her condition seems to be getting worse. The show opened with a giant censer swinging over the stage, a chorus of monks chanting, and Madonna doing an act of contrition in (where else?) a confession booth. Then the booth shatters, and she threatens the poor monks with a gun.

    A gun?
    Yup. This concert is rife with gratuitous representations of violence, which is a funny turn from a singer well known for gratuitous representations of sex. During the first third of the concert, Madonna stays heavily strapped. "Gang Bang," a terrible song from the "MDNA" album, was matched with a set piece in which Madonna "fired" at her dancers as fake blood splattered all over the video screens. So central is the gun to the show that Madonna felt the need to send out a press release yesterday explaining that the weapons are metaphors. Well, you'd certainly hope they are, right? Bringing the gu-, er, metaphor to church seems to have something to do with solidarity with p***y Riot, who Madonna insisted that the Russian government set free. The crowd sounded unconvinced. No word from Vladimir Putin yet. I don't think he was at the show.

    Go if you've got some time.
    This is a two-hour concert, which is probably thirty minutes longer than it should've been given the monochromatic quality of the Eurodisco the star chose to air. Some of the concert was just marking time: elaborate routines executed by dancers while Madonna changed her outfit. But some of the set pieces dragged. The worst of them was a drugged-out piano and voice rendition of "Like a Virgin" played at half time and oversold by the star, who was fitted with a tight corset as she sang (she'd executed a strip-tease before she began.) This was probably meant to be an exercise in "Cabaret"-style decadence, but in practice, it felt like an unsuccessful leap at the "Fifty Shades of Grey" bandwagon and a waste of a reliable house-rocker. Madonna started the concert quite late. Doors opened at 8, and she didn't take the stage until 10:30. She later apologized for this, telling the sold-out house that she wanted to make sure she had everything perfect. "You deserve perfection," she told the crowd. "I deserve perfection," she added, seized with a fit of honesty.

    Once the Pope-baiting segment of the show was done, Madonna rolled out a few elaborate sets, including one with glowing platforms that became a gigantic deejay booth for the star, and another that featured a levitating drumline. The floor routines were impressive, even if they did look more painful than what you'd typically get at a pop show: during one segment, the dancers twisted each others' heads and arms to the sound of breaking bones. Like the rifle assaults and the crucifix smashing, there was something artful, and maybe even thoughtful, about it. But it was mostly vacuous provocation.

    It's hard to write a set list for a show like this one. I'm going to leave off the songs that were pumped in over the P.A. while Madonna changed. Those were part of the show, I guess, in the same way that the clock doesn't stop in a soccer game when a yellow card is handed out, or when a player is down with an injury. Here's what I've got, and this is subject to revision.
Madonna expresses herself, often darkly, in powerful Philadelphia show
  • The messages hit hard and fast as tour for 'MDNA' arrives in North America; next week it's NYC
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
    Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 2:50 PM


    Forget marriage, motherhood and the kabbala. Madonna’s startling new “MDNA” tour — which made its first American drive-by at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Arena Tuesday night — finds her angrier, darker and more unhinged than on any road show of her 30- year career. It’s an idea-intensive, message-packed enigma wrapped in a “what-the?” ethic that must be seen to be believed.

    Where to begin?

    Where all things Madonna must, of course — with her original nurturing place and nemesis: the church. “MDNA” kicks off in a shrouded cathedral, exuding ritual, mystery and no end of judgement.

    That the star herself blasts into the scene miming her zippy electro-dance gem “Girl Gone Wild” may sound cheeky and even giddy, but she comes in bearing a gigantic gun — one which, before long, she points directly at the audience.

    Those who like their art confrontational may consider this a (literal) bangup start. Especially since it’s followed by Maddy mouthing “Revolver,” which treats sex as a deadly lure, animated by images of ammunition raining down from the heavens.

    From there, the star launches into “Gang Bang,” which could be history’s first disco murder ballad. Here Madonna blows away an army of intruders with enough relish to secure a starring role in the next Quentin Tarantino gorefest.

    Unsurprisingly, scenes like this caused many critics who caught the tour’s European dates to consider the show a disturbing downer. Clearly, that made Maddy self-conscious. Right before the American leg started on Tuesday, she issued a statement spelling out the breadth of her intentions. The long-winded directive stresses that she means the show to capture the “journey of a soul from darkness to light.”

    If so, that soul takes its sweet old time about getting to the light bit, and even then, it rarely stays there long. Even deep into the night, Madonna performed “Human Nature,” a song recorded during her most confrontational period, the mid- ’90s.

    She animated it with a striptease that was in no way meant to be alluring — though the star, at 54, does look smashing. Instead, the move aimed to reveal the depth of Madonna’s defiant character, a role she by now occupies with unquestioned authority.

    The late part of the night also included a willfully depressing version of “Like a Virgin,” which Madonna has rethought as a draggy ballad. Her Dietrich-esque vocal meant to make her sound like the most sullied, sex-weary woman alive.

    With moves like this, Madonna certainly isn’t making it easy on herself — or her audience. For a marquee figure like her to do so deserves praise.

    The forward push extended to nearly every aspect of her music. She played no fewer than nine songs from her latest CD, and most of the hits she included could only be heard in snippets during costume changes.

    As has become common on her tours, Madonna radically rearranged much of her material. She inventively toughened up once light songs like “Candy Shop” or “Hung Up.”

    For “Open Your Heart,” she featured three Basque singer/drummers to give the song some folkier and earthier filigrees. The piece also featured her son Rocco dancing along with the 20 featured pros.

    While some segments appeared to be lip-synched, Madonna didn’t shy away from revealing her voice for more of the night, often with solid results.

    She didn’t leave the politics in her show to implication. Yet again she announced her support for the jailed Russian art group p***y Riot and used its members’ struggle as a way to warn American fans not to get “fat and lazy” about their own freedoms.

    As everyone knows, Madonna takes a shot at Lady Gaga by melding her own “Express Yourself” with a cover of the song by the younger star that sounds suspiciously like it, “Born This Way.” In case anyone missed the point, she followed it with her own “She’s Not Me.”

    At another junction, a video image of Nicki Minaj reminded us “there’s only one queen — and that’s Madonna.”

    Naturally, being queen has its privileges — including being able to stage a show larded with statements and heavy on aggression. At times, such things hampered the show’s momentum, seemingly in the service of jamming in more “messages.” If all that made the show hard to adore, it also made it easy to admire.
Madonna kicks off U.S. tour with 'bad-gal nastiness'; she'll be in Detroit on Nov. 8
  • By Eric Lacy

    The reviews are in for Madonna's first show of her U.S. tour, and the Bay City native - who lived in Metro Detroit for a while - definitely didn't appear to put on a dull one.

    The New York Times appears to have the liveliest one because it mentions that Madonna's Philadelphia show Tuesday night included "tolling church bells and chanting and a gun-toting Madonna besieged by assailants from all directions, dispatching them in self-defense as giant spatters of blood fill the video screen."

    The Time mentions Madonna's "bad-gal nastiness."

    Sound like your kind of show? Then read more about the review, which also mentions that Madge eventually "traded violent shock value for flamboyant showmanship."

    Apparently Madonna, 54, had time to get political with her fans, too.

    The Associated Press reported she told the crowd to appreciate their freedom and “never forget how lucky you are to live where you live."

    She reportedly said those words after talking about the arrest of three members of the Russian punk-rock female band p***y Riot.

    The women were sentenced to two years in prison after performing a “punk prayer” at a Moscow cathedral.

    Madonna, according to the AP, delivered a two-hour show and also reportedly gave a passionate warning: “Don’t get fat and lazy and take that freedom for granted.”

    Politics reportedly ended up taking a back seat after a while and made way for sex appeal.

    The AP's story mentions Madonna getting racy during songs "Like a Virgin" and "Human Nature."

    She reportedly took off her shirt to reveal her bra, and pulling down her pants to reveal her thong (she wore fishnet stockings).

    If you're interested, there appears to be at least a few tickets available for Madonna's Nov. 8 show at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

    But you'll likely have to break the bank for them. This reporter found single tickets Wednesday morning online at Ticketmaster for more than $350 apiece.
Madonna Explains Why She Included Swastikas And Guns In Her MDNA Tour
  • In an extended letter to Billboard, the Material Girl explains her use of controversial elements during her current concert tour. Madge chalks it up to nothing more than metaphors on a journey from dark to light.

    Read the letter to Billboard in its entirety below:
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    My show 
Is a journey

    
The journey of a soul from darkness to light

    
It is part cinematic musical theatre. 

    Part spectacle and sometimes intimate Performance art.

    But above all its [sic] a journey 

    From darkness to light 

    From anger to love 
from chaos to order.

    It's true there is a lot of violence in the beginning of the show and sometimes the use of fake guns - but they are used as metaphors. 
I do not condone violence or the use of guns. 
Rather they are symbols of wanting to appear strong and wanting to find a way to stop feelings that I find hurtful or damaging. In my case its wanting to stop the lies and hypocrisy of the church, the intolerance of many narrow minded cultures and societies I have experienced throughout my life and in some cases the pain I have felt from having my heart broken.

    Ultimately as we follow through the journey of my story, the audience can see quite clearly what I see - That the enemy is within and the only way to survive Disappointment Disapproval Judgment Heartbreak Jealousy Envy And Hatred Is with Love - not with revenge - not with guns and not with violence.

    In spite of all the chaos and darkness and intolerance we seem to be encountering more and more in the world, We cannot allow our anger or bitterness to swallow us up. 
We come to understand that 
There is an innate and pure love inside us all and we have to find a way to tap into it.

    And we can't do it by being victims or placing the blame or pointing the finger at others. 
But by recognizing that the enemy is within And when we come to terms with it And accept it And struggle to change ourselves, Then we can change the world without hurting anyone and we can inspire others to do the same.

    When you watch a film there are usually good guys and bad guys to help illustrate this point, Sometimes I play both. 
I enjoy acting out this journey. 
For none of us are perfect and we all have our own journey of growth to go on.

    I know people can relate to it. 
It's very important to me as an artist that my show not be taken out of context.

    It must be watched with an open heart from beginning to end. I am sure if it is viewed this way, the viewer will walk away feeling inspired, Invigorated and will want to make the world a better place.

    And this of course was always my intention.

    -Madonna
Madonna tardy for her own concert
  • Robert Kirchgassner
    8/31/2012

    Madonna kept fans waiting for over two hours during a concert in Philadelphia Tuesday.

    The concert was scheduled to begin at 8pm, but the singer did not show up onstage until 10:30pm, reports CBS Philly.

    Some of her fans were understandably upset with having to wait so long.

    “I don’t know who you think you are Madonna, but you stink,” concert attendee Debbie Bleznak said as she left the concert. “We left. You can pay my babysitter.”

    “Yo Madonna! It’s 10:15. Some of us have to work tomorrow while you sleep ‘til noon with cucumbers on your eyes,” Philadelphia Councilman Jim Kenney tweeted.

    Yo Madonna! Its 10:15. Some of us have to work tomorrow while you sleep til noon with cucumbers on you eyes.

    — CouncilmanJimKenney (@JimFKenney) August 29, 2012

    Madonna apologized when she finally arrived, but that apology was countered with boos from the audience.

    In addition to her tardiness, she did not have an opening act, only a DJ spinning music.

    “I want to apologize for being late. We had many changes to make from Europe to America, and I wanted the show to be perfect for you because my fans deserve it and quite frankly I deserve it,” was the explanation she offered.
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If you're interested, there appears to be at least a few tickets available for Madonna's Nov. 8 show at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit


It will be interesting to see if Madonna performs a "cleaned up" version of her MDNA show in Detroit. Her father is usually present at her Detroit shows. I know for her last tour, she dropped the foul language and toned down the smut for Detroit. Madonna's father must be in his 80s by now. Even if Madonna tones down her shows where he is present, he must still be hearing all the stuff about her MDNA tour in the news. I feel bad for him. Imagine the embarrassment of having your fiftysomething year old daughter act like such a sleazeball before the entire world? He seems like a pretty decent guy...faithful hardworking Catholic man. He must torture himself wondering where he went wrong with Madonna...
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Material girl gone wild: Madonna at the TD Garden
  • By Jed Gottlieb
    Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - Updated 1 day ago

    Madonna is the mother of reinvention.

    But she is also a literal mother -- a pop star with four kids, two ex-husbands and 54 years under her “Boy Toy” belt.

    Last night at her sold-out TD Garden show, Madonna did her best to hide her matronly, twice-as-old-as-Lady-Gaga side. Any undesirable lumps on her still-stunning body were mostly squeezed inside corset-tight costumes. Her never-that-good-to-begin-with voice boosted by a bank of computers. The songs from average new album “MDNA” chased European dance fads that aren’t that interesting.

    Madonna should be a little less fearful of getting old, or being perceived as getting old. After all, it’s experience that makes a spectacle like last night’s show so dazzling at times -- Gaga and Katy Perry try, but Madonna still tops them. As songs, the “MDNA” material isn’t up to “Like a Prayer,” or even “Ray of Light.” But with videos walls, rising and falling columns pulsing with light, half a dozen costume changes and two dozen dancers, the average can be made momentarily awesome.

    After some creepy, cool religious mumbo jumbo, chanting and smoke, the music gathered into the thump of “Girl Gone Wild.” This track can get skipped on the iPod, but last night the opening energy of the song and the glowing, whirling circus around it made the crowd of diehards feel like Madonna virgins.

    Not every song can be transformed by million-dollar production -- “Gang Bang” was twice as lousy filled with Robert Rodriguez-style grotesque-yet-boring violence. But most of new songs got some extra special attention that elevated them. Maybe too much attention.

    A few songs from her first decade often seemed like afterthoughts. “Papa Don’t Preach” never bloomed. The sound on “Express Yourself” managed to be both muddy and thin (although the addition of a few bars of “Born This Way” was clever). “Open Your Heart” had an intimate arrangement but Madonna’s voice struggled without big pop framing.

    During two moments, it all came together. The relatively stripped-down, straight-forward choreography of “Vogue” -- thankfully no tinkering with the melody -- was classy, classic and totally rad. “Like a Prayer” was as it needed to be: winding down the two-hour show with the army of dancers in church robes pushing the joyous singalong.

    Madonna desperately doesn’t want to be perceived as a nostalgia act. But it’s her impressive back catalog, iconic images, and three-decade history with fans that makes her so amazing. At the end of her career, maybe she should do a little less reinventing and a little more rehashing.
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Madonna had Obama's name printed on her back, and gave some lame speech about freedom and how she's soooooo thankful to live in America. :rolleyes2: A lot of people in the audience were pissed.

Madonna Backs Into Obama Endorsement

Madonna has Obama's back. And he's got his name on hers. We'll explain.

Last night, while Madonna sang and performed her "MDNA" show for 40,000 fans at New York's Yankee Stadium, President Obama delivered his DNC speech more than 600 miles away in Charlotte, N.C.

But Madonna revealed her support for the Democratic incumbent during a pared down, slow waltz of her 1984 song, "Like a Virgin." She had just finished singing "Human Nature," and with her back to the audience, she nearly bared her bottom in a black thong. Despite cheers from the crowd, the 54-year-old singer said, "Tonight, I'm not going to show you my a-. I'm going to show you my feelings." She removed a black fishnet around her torso to show the word, "OBAMA," written in large letters across her back.

During the international MDNA tour, Madonna has used her back to display other words or phrases, such as "NO FEAR," and has expressed her support for local issues such as free speech rights for Russian band p***y Riot, and gay rights. (In the latter instance, Russian activists filed a lawsuit against the singer, claiming they were offended by her comments.)

Midway through her set, Madonna told the crowd, "New York, you are one hot audience. It's an honor to play in Yankee Stadium, to play here in New York City first and to reach so many of my fans who have been so supportive of me throughout the years."

She then said that while on tour for the last four months, she's seen "amazing things" but also "scary things," mentioning the p***y Riot conviction as well as lack of gay rights and religious freedoms. "It made me realize how lucky I am to be living in America. Thank God for Michelle Obama and her good-looking husband too. We are free. Do not, do not, do not take this freedom for granted because if you do for one second, you will lose it."

Her comments drew mostly cheers from the stadium, but some weren't amused. "Stop talking, keep singing," one woman yelled, and when Madonna said she wouldn't show her naked bottom and instead revealed "OBAMA" on her back, another fan cried out, "I'd rather see your a-."

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littleleers wrote:
.Madonna joins the other clueless singers/actors who pull for Obama. They have no clue what it is like down here in "Middle Earth". Madonna, though I cannot stand her, is an American success story. Would she say that her achievements and wealth were not part of the "you did not build this" theme? Madonna…you did not build your career, your success was due to the bridges and roads you traveled and to your teachers as well. This is the garbage we have to swallow for "The One" you endorse for a second term

Saywhat wrote:
.When they are on the bread lines...we will see how Madonna is going to feed them with her millions...lol

madonnaoutoftouch wrote:
.I was at the concert last night as a guest. The ticket was in the B section on the floor and it cost $600. I say that's a primo shaft to fans. Also, she had a DJ open for her - say what?? I was the one who shouted shut up and sing. She should stick to entertaining and leave US politics to people who live in this country FT. Also, all the guns on stage and violent video seem counter to her liberal dem message. Show us your a** and sing, but please don't insult our intelligence. Also thought she was late b/c nowhere on my ticket did it say that she would be on at 10 and stadium emp had no idea what time she would start.
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Madonna had Obama's name printed on her back, and gave some lame speech about freedom and how she's soooooo thankful to live in America. :rolleyes2: A lot of people in the audience were pissed.

Madonna Backs Into Obama Endorsement

Madonna has Obama's back. And he's got his name on hers. We'll explain.

Last night, while Madonna sang and performed her "MDNA" show for 40,000 fans at New York's Yankee Stadium, President Obama delivered his DNC speech more than 600 miles away in Charlotte, N.C.

But Madonna revealed her support for the Democratic incumbent during a pared down, slow waltz of her 1984 song, "Like a Virgin." She had just finished singing "Human Nature," and with her back to the audience, she nearly bared her bottom in a black thong. Despite cheers from the crowd, the 54-year-old singer said, "Tonight, I'm not going to show you my a-. I'm going to show you my feelings." She removed a black fishnet around her torso to show the word, "OBAMA," written in large letters across her back.

During the international MDNA tour, Madonna has used her back to display other words or phrases, such as "NO FEAR," and has expressed her support for local issues such as free speech rights for Russian band p***y Riot, and gay rights. (In the latter instance, Russian activists filed a lawsuit against the singer, claiming they were offended by her comments.)

Midway through her set, Madonna told the crowd, "New York, you are one hot audience. It's an honor to play in Yankee Stadium, to play here in New York City first and to reach so many of my fans who have been so supportive of me throughout the years."

She then said that while on tour for the last four months, she's seen "amazing things" but also "scary things," mentioning the p***y Riot conviction as well as lack of gay rights and religious freedoms. "It made me realize how lucky I am to be living in America. Thank God for Michelle Obama and her good-looking husband too. We are free. Do not, do not, do not take this freedom for granted because if you do for one second, you will lose it."

Her comments drew mostly cheers from the stadium, but some weren't amused. "Stop talking, keep singing," one woman yelled, and when Madonna said she wouldn't show her naked bottom and instead revealed "OBAMA" on her back, another fan cried out, "I'd rather see your a-."

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littleleers wrote:
.Madonna joins the other clueless singers/actors who pull for Obama. They have no clue what it is like down here in "Middle Earth". Madonna, though I cannot stand her, is an American success story. Would she say that her achievements and wealth were not part of the "you did not build this" theme? Madonna…you did not build your career, your success was due to the bridges and roads you traveled and to your teachers as well. This is the garbage we have to swallow for "The One" you endorse for a second term

Saywhat wrote:
.When they are on the bread lines...we will see how Madonna is going to feed them with her millions...lol

madonnaoutoftouch wrote:
.I was at the concert last night as a guest. The ticket was in the B section on the floor and it cost $600. I say that's a primo shaft to fans. Also, she had a DJ open for her - say what?? I was the one who shouted shut up and sing. She should stick to entertaining and leave US politics to people who live in this country FT. Also, all the guns on stage and violent video seem counter to her liberal dem message. Show us your a** and sing, but please don't insult our intelligence. Also thought she was late b/c nowhere on my ticket did it say that she would be on at 10 and stadium emp had no idea what time she would start.
That would work in our "Politics" thread and "Fans angry at" thread, too.
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Finally, a recent MDNA tour review that isn't kissing her manly behind:

Madonna’s Toronto concert favoured new songs over old hits: Review

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  • By Ben Rayner Pop Music Critic

    Somehow all that action-movie violence gave way to “Papa Don’t Preach” and the equally unanticipated — not to mention equally fictitious — sight of Madonna hoisting a guitar around her neck for MDNA’s feisty “I Don’t Give A…” At that point, you were faced with a choice: either suffocate yourself with disgust at the sheer, pretentious, egotistical nonsense wasting untold millions of dollars in front of you or simply sit back and marvel at how seamlessly and spectacularly the modular, LED-lit stage kept rearranging itself into dozens of ever-shifting Q-Bert landscapes while an entire pep-rally drum squad levitated into view.

    ...The torchy piano-and-voice version of “Like a Virgin” that followed was much less fun and entirely patience-testing in its self-indulgence — you could understand why the top-hatted piano player might want to strangle himself at the end of it, not why Madonna might want to strangle him
Most of this review (Madonna expresses herself at the ACC) was positive, but here's the negative part:
  • At other times, the reinventions fell flat. "Like A Virgin" was wasted as a dirge-like waltz, while the sample of ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" - i.e. the best part - was practically obliterated from "Hung Up."

    More hits on the setlist would've been appreciated. This message could not have been clearer when the entire ACC jumped to their feet, dancing and singing along to the night's penultimate number, "Like A Prayer."
Rather mixed, some positive and negative:

Concert Review: Madonna gets such high marks for style, substance barely matters
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Madonna at the United Center | Photos and Review
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    To paraphrase, "I'm going to need your help on this one!" Madonna shouted at the top of this number. Translation: I don't have the vocal talent to handle this one on my own so you're going to have to do the heavy lifting. The problem is her latest single (a lovely, summertime anthem) isn't iconic enough for even a rabid fan base to have already memorized. Instead, we had Madonna screeching her way though this number while standing at the mic and strumming her guitar. Visually disappointing and vocally annoying. If I wanted to hear the sound of a chicken being strangled, I would've spent the night at a slaughterhouse.
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Concert review: Madonna disappoints with uneven show at Chicago's United Center
  • September 21, 2012
    By: Scott Shetler

    Madonna's Thursday night (Sept. 20) concert at Chicago's United Center, her second there in as many nights, was a surprisingly hit-and-miss affair that placed way too much emphasis on material from her latest subpar album, "MDNA."

    It's hard to begrudge an artist the opportunity to play songs from her most recent album in concert. After all, that's the record she just spent the last few years putting together.

    But in Madonna's case, opening the show with "Girl Gone Wild," perhaps the single worst song of her entire career, was not the way to get things off to a flying start. Nor was following with "Revolver," which featured an absurd amount of Auto-Tune and a Lil Wayne video screen cameo, or the third track, "Gang Bang," which found Madge ripping off Slim Shady-era Eminem as she ran around the stage with a gun, screaming, "Die b----, die!"

    Though the first 30 minutes were entirely worthless, things finally warmed up about six songs in when Madge and her dancers put on the marching band uniforms and performed the classic "Express Yourself." But she ruined it near the end when she sang part of "Born This Way" and then said four times, "She's Not Me."

    The obvious Lady Gaga diss was unwise for two reasons: First, by and large, Madonna's fans are Gaga's fans, so she's not going to get a ton of support for ripping the "Born This Way" singer.

    Second, bringing up Gaga at all just reminds everybody how Gaga has blown past Madonna in terms of relevance and current chart success. When Madonna sang, "She's not me," the proper response was, "No, she's not. She's better."

    There were a few highlights, including an exotic, mystical-sounding version of "Open Your Heart," a fantastic vocal performance on the ballad "Masterpiece," and a nifty medley of two of her most underrated tracks, "Erotica" and "Human Nature."

    Madonna's dancing was stunning throughout the set, and her excellent closing pairing of "Like a Prayer" and "Celebration" was exactly the kind of moment everyone showed up for. But then she disappeared without an encore, leaving fans to head home feeling unfulfilled, having only heard a tiny portion of the singer's many hits.
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Review: Madonna style over substance in Vancouver
  • By Francois Marchand, Vancouver Sun September 30, 2012 9:01 AM

    In a nutshell: Madonna celebrates Madonna, with all the latest technological trimmings and choreographed/cinematic tips of the hat to everyone and everything from Quentin Tarantino to CSI and the Super Bowl.

    The concept didn't always work and the first segment was so dance- and Auto-Tune-driven that the Queen of Pop's microphone sometimes seemed superfluous (though to her credit, Madonna seemed to sing a good chunk of her material live), but what the ears sometimes failed to get in the form of classic songs, the eyes got in spades in terms of presentation.

    ....For all the controversy Madonna has generated on this tour so far -- the concert's violent imagery offending in the Middle East, the swastika overlayed atop politician Marine Le Pen's photo irking many in France, sarcastically calling Barack Obama a "Black Muslim" in the U.S., drawing the ire of the Russian church for promoting gay rights and backing punk rock band p***y Riot -- the most shocking thing for many may have simply been the price of admission (up to $375 per ticket), which bordered on the sacrilegious.


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Madonna review: Deep gloom, weak tunes
  • Aidin Vaziri
    Published 4:48 p.m., Sunday, October 7, 2012

    Madonna's "MDNA" world tour touched down for a two-night run at San Jose's HP Pavilion on Saturday. Before reaching the Bay Area, the road show grabbed sensational headlines: In Washington D.C., Madonna called President Obama a "black Muslim"; in Paris, the 54-year-old material mom flipped everyone's baguettes by baring her left nipple; in Moscow, she voiced her support of President Vladimir Putin's instigators, p***y Riot. So what did Madge have in store for the Shark Tank?

    -- Madonna arrived onstage all guns blazing. Literally. For the first four numbers she worked her way through a small arsenal of handguns and semiautomatic weapons as she shot up a virtual church, took aim at audience members and, in a scene surely inspired by Quentin Tarantino, bloodied a stream of masked men as she sang "Gang Bang" while perched on a motel room crucifix.

    -- The gunplay was supplemented by heavy bondage. Madonna was strung up and suspended upside down by guerrilla fighters during "Hung Up," which was stripped of its fizzy Abba sample. During a playback of "Heartbeat," high-contrast images from a funeral played on the video screens while shirtless dancers in gas masks forcefully tangled their bodies. "Love Spent," meanwhile, saw another dancer firmly tightening a corset around Madonna's waist as her voice trembled with tears. It felt authentic and totally alarming.

    -- The spectacle was great, but the set list was terrible. Pulling heavily from Madonna's latest (and, frankly, worst) album, "MDNA," resulted in a two-hour show stuffed with ominous beats and few memorable choruses. The classics she bothered with were altered so much they were almost unrecognizable. "Like a Virgin," the biggest culprit, was reworked as a tuneless piano bar dirge delivered with the singer writhing on the floor with dollar bills sticking out of her bra.

    -- There was one notable exception. While twirling a baton and leading a troupe of majorettes, Madonna delivered a rather straightforward version of "Express Yourself," which she then seamlessly worked into Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." Just to make the point clear, she also threw in the chorus from her song "She's Not Me." Was it a moment of tongue-in-cheek nostalgia or just a mean-spirited dig at a clear subordinate? It was hard to tell.

    -- And then there was blood. At some point, Madonna accidentally whacked herself with her guitar. The small pool of blood that gathered in the middle of her forehead looked like one of Gwen Stefani's bindis. Oh, the irony.

    -- Make that two notable exceptions: "Today is a very special day for me," Madonna said, briefly taking a break from the gore and high-wire antics. "It is the 30th anniversary of the release of my first-ever single." As her band of androgynous backup dancers and musicians gathered around her to mark the occasion by reviving the 1982 club classic "Everybody," Madonna continued: "I remember the amazing feeling I had when I heard the song on the radio the first time." Three decades later, the simple synth-pop lift and naive R&B melody still felt amazing. It was an off-script moment that inadvertently became the highlight of the show.

    -- Because, otherwise, the concert was kind of a bummer. In the arena's 18,000-or-so seats, many fans - mostly in their 40s and 50s - looked exhausted but ready to party before Madonna finally took the stage at 10:30 p.m. Once she arrived, however, the mood turned decidedly dark. Yes, "MDNA" is her big breakup record. But the doom and gloom were really notched up live, and many of her longtime followers weren't quite ready to spend Saturday night going there. Instead, many of them simply went home early.

    -- To be clear: It was a masterfully produced and all-around beautiful concert. She could have played better songs - she has so many - but as an artist Madonna clearly needed to process her feelings of heartache and betrayal. And, as an audience member, you can't really beat having the opportunity to make eye contact with Madonna's bare bottom. But still, it was kind of a bummer.


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Is he sure she is selling "tons of tickets?" According to some news stories (see the Ticket Thread), the only people buying her tickets on some dates are scaplers who cannot re-sell them.

Review: Madonna disappoints in San Jose
  • By Jim Harrington
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    Posted: 10/08/2012 04:44:10 AM PDT
    Updated: 10/08/2012 05:04:18 AM PDT

    Madonna still loves to shock.

    She's doing it on her current MDNA Tour in ways both familiar (bulldozing through religious and sexual themes) and new (introducing gunplay and violent content). And the result is the same as ever: Madonna is generating plenty of controversy and headlines while selling tons of tickets.

    It's all very well calculated, thought-out and effective.

    Yet, the most shocking thing about this tour -- Madonna's ninth to date -- is clearly unintentional:

    It's pretty bad.

    The star's packed show on Sunday in San Jose, which was the second half of a two-night stand at HP Pavilion, was a resounding disappointment. The set list was weak. The new songs were forgettable. The old favorites were dressed up in different arrangements, most of which were awful. And the theatrics -- such a big part of a Madonna concert -- ranged from dreadful to dull.

    To top it all off, the 54-year-old star didn't take the stage for the 8 p.m. show until 10:30 p.m., which gave the 13,000-or-so fans plenty of extra time to buy $90 Madonna watches at the merchandise booths, but also surely zapped the crowd of much of its energy. There was more sitting than dancing, more polite applause than crazed screaming, than what we've come to expect from a Madonna concert.

    It just goes to show that fans, even passionate ones, can tell an inferior product when they see and hear it. And this one was definitely inferior when it comes to
    Madonna. I've seen each of the Material Girl's last five tours, stretching back to 2001's Drowned World Tour, and MDNA was by far the least entertaining.

    There were three or four real highlights out of the 25-song set. You do the math.

    Overall, the show was filled with decent choreography, convoluted imagery, underdeveloped themes and mediocre music -- kind of like your standard Broadway musical. There was lots of eye candy, but very little substance.

    The first part is the most controversial -- and also the worst. It's the highly publicized part where Madonna enters a church setting, through the center of a cross, to join a group of guys wearing robes and chanting like Gregorian Monks. The star pops out of a confession booth, gun in hand, and starts grooving with the disrobed dancers, who hoof about the stage in tremendously high heels. There's gunfire and blood splattered, while characters both boogie and battle.

    It's a mess. Yet it's not the violence or the way Madonna deals with the religious motifs that bothers me -- musicians, after all, shouldn't be judged any more stringently than authors or directors who handle the same type of material. It's really just that the song selections -- such new songs as "Girl Gone Wild" and "Gang Bang" -- were so decidedly commonplace.

    Amazingly, it would get worse as Madonna headed to more familiar territory.

    This isn't a greatest-hits tour by any means. Madonna is full-on hawking her latest album, "MDNA," and also dead set on underscoring her electronic dance music (EDM) credentials. I get that. What's highly perplexing, however, is how she handled the few longtime fan favorites in the set list.

    Instead of rewarding the crowd for waiting through all the faceless electro-pop of her recent efforts with some faithful renditions of the hits, Madonna went the complete opposite direction and dramatically rearranged most of the well-known tunes played. The worst of all was the new version of "Like a Virgin," which was done up as a slinky nightclub number that moved at a numbingly glacial pace.

    The whole deal, combined with the late start time, wore the crowd down over time, as Madonna kept offering up forgettable new songs and weak versions of old cuts over one goofy stage set after another. The audience was amazingly sedate as the show neared the finish line — some two hours after it began.

    It wasn't until the last two songs -- "Like a Prayer" and "Celebration" -- that the whole deal finally clicked. Yet, even that was disappointing in a way, since it clearly underscored how great Madonna could've been all night long.
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At this point Madonna is trying too hard to be "edgy" and "controversial." And everyone is noticing how dull her tour is with and without her shenanigans. Lol... Too bad for her that the media rarely talks about the FLOPDNA Tour.

Especially after the first few weeks when she took her clothes off, the Swatsika on the politician, etc.
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The FLOPDNA Tour came to my city last night. And it was fun to read some of the articles posted by local news. And if you remember, the Aurora Theater Shooting happened here, so people were even more upset by FLOPDONNA.

(Sorry if I post the links wrong. I'm still learning ^^^).

Fans: Madonna over 2 hours late to Denver show, pretends to shoot audience

Posted on: 6:13 am, October 19, 2012, by Will C. Holden, updated on: 09:26am, October 19, 2012

DENVER — Twitter was abuzz Friday morning with disappointed Madonna fans after they say Madonna showed up to her Denver concert Thursday night over two hours late and opened with a song about murder.

As if that weren’t enough, fans say she came on stage in a crowded Pepsi Center with fake guns and pretended to shoot the audience in a city where many wounds are still fresh following the Aurora theater tragedy in late July.

Denver radio personality Peter Burns was at the show and first to break the news that the pop signer was over an hour late on his Twitter account.

Peter Burns @PeterBurnsRadio :Major booing here at Madonna. She's over an hour late...typical woman. #TryingToKeepManCard

Once she showed up, Madonna did manage to please some fans. Twitter user Katie Kristine appeared to be in that group.

Katie Jewett@katiekristine :Madonna is singing "Open Your Heart" and I feel like she's apologizing for being two hours and 45 minutes late. #iloveher #Madge.

Other fans like Hollie Houghtaling, who went so far as to call the show “Satanic,” were less than impressed.

Hollie Houghtaling@h23t :Walked out of @Madonna! Too Satanic for me and opening song in Denver about murder ! Really! Go away @Madonna

Even a professed “superfan” took to Twitter to express her disappointment.

Heather R Swanson@heatherswan :Madonna you're bumming me out right now #superfan #Denver

Heather R Swanson@heatherswan :as a huge #Madonna fan, words can't express how disappointed I am in the "performance" tonight. #denver

An update from Twitter user “Lilith” seem to encapsulate the general sentiment of the dozens of Tweets from the evening’s performance.

Lilith@GrimalkinRN :So Madonna came to Denver and pretended to shoot off a bunch of guns at the people at the concert. Wise move in Colorado.
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Colo. fans upset after Madonna uses guns in show
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Posted: 10/19/2012 10:18:37 AM EDT

DENVER—Some Colorado fans are upset after music superstar Madonna used guns during a performance.
Madonna started her show Thursday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver with a gun scene, which she has used in previous performances.

According to KUSA-TV, the station received several calls Friday from concert-goers saying they were offended she used guns and violence as part of her show in light of recent events in the state that included a mass shooting at a theater during a Batman movie on July 20 that left 12 people dead.

In a statement before beginning the tour, Madonna said she does not condone the use of guns. She said she is using the guns as symbols of intolerance and "the pain I have felt from having my heart broken."
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Poorly Madonna CANCELS show due to 'severe laryngitis'... after causing outrage with on-stage gun display in Colorado
  • She is known for causing controversy with her on-stage antics.

    But it seems that Madonna's latest drama has taken its toll on the singer, who announced that she has cancelled her Dallas show, scheduled for Saturday night.

    The decision not to go ahead with the show comes after the pop superstar hit the headlines for using a fake gun during her Thursday night show in Denver, Colorado - a display deemed tasteless after the community was left devastated by a mass shooting in July.

    However, a statement on Madonna's website said that the singer had been advised by a medical team not to perform because she has contracted 'severe laryngitis'.

    The statement read: 'Under doctor’s orders, the Material Girl has been put on 'complete vocal rest' for the next 36 hours.

    'All tickets for the October 20th show to be refunded at the point of purchase. Tickets purchased online will refunded directly. Madonna regrets any inconvenience to her fans.'

    On Thursday, Madonna caused controversy with her display on stage.
    In addition to the gun, Madonna was seen standing in front of a large screen on the stage, on which images of a masked gunman and splattering blood could be seen by the audience.

    She used the set for her performances in other cities for the song Gang Bang, which includes the lyrics 'shot my lover in the head.'

    'We're dancing and all of a sudden people started realizing what the song was,' said concert-goer Aaron Fransua, 25, who was in section 120. 'We all just stood there. Everybody who was around me all had shock on their face. I heard a lot of `wows,'' Fransua said.

    Mile High Sports Radio Denver personality Peter Burns, who was in another section, said the people around him began murmuring when the song came on.

    'You could see people kinda looking at each other,' Burns said. 'I heard the word `Colorado,' you know, `Aurora,' `shooting.' You could hear people talking about it and it was little bit unsettling. I saw two or three people get up and grab their stuff and actually leave their seats.'

    The scene reminded some concert-goers of the July 20 shooting at an Aurora theater where a gunman dressed in black and wearing a helmet, body armor and a gas mask stepped through a side door and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle and pistols, killing 12 people and injuring at least another 58, some of whom may be disabled for life.

    Burns was friends with Jessica Ghawi, 24, who died in the shooting.

    'It sort of hits closer to home for me,' he said.

    Denver television stations said they received a number of complaints Friday from concert-goers saying they were offended she used guns and violence as part of her show in light of the recent shootings.

    Her press agent, Liz Rosenberg, said Friday that there was no way to eliminate the scene, because it is a core part of the show. 'It's like taking out the third act of Hamlet,' she said, adding: 'Madonna does not make things pretty and tie them up with a bow,' she said.

    In a statement before beginning the tour, Madonna said she does not condone the use of guns.

    'Rather they are symbols of wanting to appear strong and wanting to find a way to stop feelings that I find hurtful or damaging,' she said.

    She said she is using the guns as symbols of intolerance and 'the pain I have felt from having my heart broken.'

    Both Burns and Fransua said they took the act as just part of the show, though both felt uneasy about it.

    'It would have highly upset me if I felt this was something that she added,' for the Denver show, Burns said. 'But you know this, that song, that production will be played in 50 other cities and Denver would be the only city that would have some major issues.'
There are several other links about this story below.

I don't like Madonna (der!), and this is not an attempt to defend her, but why did people get up and walk out on her (as this article says)? :confused:

If you have read ANY reviews of her tour before this week, it's apparent she uses violent gun imagery in her show, as this is mentioned in about every review written about the MDNA tour before now. Everyone has known for months now that she opens her show by flashing guns and pretending to shoot people. So why does this come as a surprise to people who went to her Colorado show?

Madonna Colorado show draws 'at least 20' complaints for gun use
  • By Matt Donnelly
    October 19, 2012, 1:58 p.m.

    Another stop on Madonna's "MDNA" tour has resulted in headlines, as the singer's use of prop guns in her act reportedly has some Colorado fans upset.

    One of Madonna's opening songs, "Gang Bang," features elaborate choreography with a faux revolver, and a local news station claims to have received angry phone calls regarding such imagery — so soon after the "Dark Knight Rises" shooting tragedy in Aurora.

    "We received probably at least 20 calls" critical of Madonna's Thursday performance, a reporter from NBC's 9News told the Ministry in an email.

    The broadcast segment also alleged walk-outs, though the station said it couldn't clarify if the gun play or Madonna's start time was to blame. (That was another contention made in the report: that the singer came on three hours late)

    The "MDNA" tour kicked off in Tel Aviv in May, and the routine has played since: a deconstructed hotel suite with a dancing Madonna moving across the stage on a track as video monitors show images of blood spatter and ballet-like fighting.

    Team Madge finds no correlation to the Aurora tragedy in July.

    "I do not see any connection. This is just the media trying to make a story when there isn’t," longtime Madonna rep Liz Rosenberg emailed the Ministry.

    "There are always issues that people want to blame Madonna about."

    Madonna touched on her use of the "weapons" before the Colorado show, saying, "I do not condone violence or the use of guns ... rather they are symbols of wanting to appear strong and wanting to find a way to stop feelings that I find hurtful or damaging."

    And as far as the lateness goes, while Madonna doesn't count any official opening act, she has two DJs — including "MDNA" album producer Martin Solveig — as warm-ups. They factor into the show length.
Madonna & Guns: Denver Concert Begins With Fake Gunplay, Angering Fans (Huff Post)

Madonna Pisses Off Fans Bringing a Gun on Stage in Colorado
  • Madonna, Madonna, Madonna. The Material Girl became the target of some serious backlash — again — on Thursday night (Oct. 18) at her concert in Colorado when she brandished a gun onstage.

    Fans were outraged when Madge busted out a fake firearm in Denver at the Pepsi Center, feeling it was especially insensitive given the Aurora shootings three months ago. In case any of you somehow forgot the horrific tragedy: A lone attacker, James Holmes, launched a massive shooting in a midnight movie screening of ‘The Dark Knight,’ killing 12 and injuring 58 people.

    Madonna’s come under criticism for her politically charged, often violent imagery on her MDNA, but as a staunch advocate against censorship, she hasn’t let that stop her. She whipped out a gun on all of her other stops on the tour and refused to change her set up for her Colorado date. WENN reports that members of the audience were so upset over her use of the prop that many of them actually called their local news outlets to complain about the stunt.
Madonna 'MDNA' Tour show in Denver featuring fake guns triggers anger in community still mourning Aurora massacre deaths

Madonna Offends Audiences With Fake Guns in Colorado Show

Grapevine: Madonna gun scene riles fans in Colorado

Madonna angers fans with gun stunt in Colorado

Fans outraged by Madonna's gun stunt at Denver gig
  • Punters criticise singer's insensitivity for flaunting fake firearms in light of Colorado shootings
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Sadly, Madonna's tours will continue to sell. Although I don't know if it will sell the same again after this tour. She turned off so many people, she probably lost hundreds of fans. Plus, showing up at least 2 hours late to every show the past few months, some people are bound to stop being fans!

Her albums sales? I'm guessing her next one will sell about 300,000 copies. Another flop, but it will add to her sales, unfortunately for us Madonna dislikers.
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For links about Madonna tripping and falling on stage during her MDNA tour, please see the "Accident Prone" thread (formerly the Horse Fall thread, located currently under H > Horse Fall on the board's Index page)

Madonna Falls, Stumbles on Stage during MDNA tour (board's Accident Prone thread)
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Madonna Hardly Worth The Wait
  • By Preston Jones

    Was it so long ago Madonna's talents for music and provocation were hand in glove?

    Judging from Sunday's grinding, dull and overblown performance at the American Airlines Center (her first North Texas appearance in more than 20 years), that time has long since passed. The 54-year-old pop superstar, bouncing back after a surprise cancellation Saturday, fought valiantly to remind a nearly full arena of her cultural influence and ability to blend scintillating imagery with irresistible melody.

    The only hitch in the battle plan was that Madonna is touring in support of a thoroughly mediocre new album, MDNA, a dud-filled effort underscoring how long it has truly been since the Material Girl had a monster smash (2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor).

    Her new songs, which comprised a good quarter of the two-hour set list, reliably sucked the air out of the room, leaving those around me, at least, fidgeting, making beer runs or chatting loudly until a Papa Don't Preach, Like a Prayer or Open Your Heart rolled out around and re-energized the crowd.

    Leave aside Madonna's peculiar choice to not begin the show until 10:45 p.m. (extremely late for an arena performance), or the fact that, out of roughly 23 songs, Madonna sang perhaps four of them live (the rest were all, rather unconvincingly, lip-synched).

    You can even look past the inchoate jumble of imagery -- ranging from genuinely grotesque (during Revolver and Gang Bang) to tired (Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj made visual cameos) -- flung across the towering video screens behind and placed onstage alongside Madonna and her four-piece band. That said, no one expected a quiet, demure evening of pop standards tastefully sung.

    Yet the grand, overworked set design -- the night began with some mystifying Catholic imagery, complete with an over-sized censer and contortionists; slacklining also made repeated appearances -- only compounded the flop-sweatiness of the whole evening. Little of what was on display made any sense, no matter how hard Madonna strained to create the illusion of a coherent through-line. It was, quite literally, sound and fury signifying nothing.

    And while the generation that's followed (and filched) much of what she wrought in her glory days is no stranger to concerts heavy on style and light on substance, it's shocking to see Madonna essentially throwing in the towel. (She couldn't resist an easy jab at disciple Lady Gaga, however, mashing up her own Express Yourself with Gaga's Born This Way.) It was, put simply, a disappointing, disjointed evening, nowhere near worth the wait or the price tag (my floor seat was a staggering $355).

    Take her troubling set piece, early on, with a black-clad Madonna crouched in a dingy hotel room, armed with a gun. As she brutally slays an attacker (dressed, randomly, in the attire of a priest), lurid visuals of splattered blood and raw, pulverized meat played out on a loop behind her. Never mind the fact that Madonna is fetishizing violence in a country already overstimulated by blood lust -- what, exactly, is she driving at?

    What is Madonna, who, in her prime, could easily dovetail, say, the concept of feminine empowerment with an in-your-face project like Erotica, trying to say to a fan-base now encompassing multiple generations? Sometimes, when you love someone, you have to kill them? Who knows?

    Who cares?

    Madonna took a stab at endorsing President Barack Obama Sunday -- "If [Obama] is re-elected, I'll take all my clothes off," she purred towards show's end -- and profanely encouraged her audience to get out and vote.

    But apart from that soliloquy, and an apology for the previous night's cancellation ("I'm a soldier ... but I don't want to mess up my vocal cords for the rest of my tour," she said), Madonna kept the focus on the erratically paced show, which was hamstrung by her occasional, genuinely live vocal turns, notable because they were nearly an octave and a half lower than her lip-synched work. (I'm sure she was pumped full of primo remedies, but no one bounces back from "severe laryngitis" that quickly.)

    For those who walked away dazzled, sated and singing Madonna's praises, I wish I'd seen the same show. From where I sat, it was way too much and not nearly enough, a spendy monstrosity indicative of the music industry's dying gasps. Most acutely, the concert was undone by the slipping away of years, eradicating Madonna's iron grip on pop music. But she is admirably defiant in the face of time's relentless march.

    Early in the set, there was a pointed attempt to bridge the gap between the influence and the influenced: "There's only one queen, and that's Madonna," intoned Nicki Minaj's enormous video visage from the stage.

    Only Lady Gaga's digital presence could've made the subtext more clear: The queen is dead -- long live the queen.
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In reading through this thread on her craptastic tour, I noticed two contradictions regarding her use of guns as a prop:

This quote is from the article entitled "Colorado fans upset after Madonna uses guns in show":

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In a statement before beginning the tour, Madonna said she does not condone the use of guns. She said she is using the guns as symbols of intolerance and "the pain I have felt from having my heart broken."


From the article entitled "Poorly Madonna CANCELS show due to 'severe laryngitis'....after causing outrage with on-stage gun display in Colorado" she states the following:

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"'Rather they are symbols of wanting to appear strong and wanting to find a way to stop feelings that I find hurtful or damaging,' she said."


And the very next line in that article she says the following:

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"She said she is using the guns as symbols of intolerance and 'the pain I have felt from having my heart broken.'"


Okay, so which is it? Are they metaphors for "intolerance" or are they metaphors for wanting to appear strong? They cannot be both.

Madonna is either a complete idiot or she's lying about the guns being used as metaphors. I think the guns appear in her concert for two reasons: one, she needs something else to generate controversy - sex alone isn't going to cut it anymore because she's middle aged, and despite all her exercising and plastic surgery, she still looks middle aged; two, she has no problems expressing violence towards Christians, especially Catholics, because she think these people have broken her heart with the alleged "intolerance" she mentioned in her insipid public letter published in Billboard magazine.

Madonna has a history of being violent towards people. I also think it's so cute how she whines about the church's hypocrisy (in her letter, she specifically mentioned the church's hypocrisy, but as usual says absolutely nothing about the mosque's hypocrisy) whilst ignoring her own. She's lying when she says her concert eventually shows that using guns and violence is not the answer. The whole concert is about committing violence against those she feels "broke" her heart. I've seen clips of the concert and I've also seen the "narrative" of the concert and it it not what she says it is.

If you are against violence and the use of guns, then why use them in a concert for any reason at all? This whole "metaphor" crap is just a convenient excuse to explain away her own hypocrisy. This woman would be first in line to repeal the 2nd Amendment, yet it's okay for her to wave around a bunch of toy guns at a concert, but god forbid us unwashed commoners keep a gun in our home for our own protection.




In other news, Madonna's fans are becoming increasingly annoyed at her endless Obama endorsements.

When you've lost Madonna concert-goers...

Here is what she said at her latest concert - this got her boos and people started walking out:

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“Who’s registered to vote?” she said, adding, “I don’t care who you vote for as long as you vote for Obama.”


Once again, she's an idiot. If she doesn't care who anyone votes for, then why the condition "as long as you vote for Obama"? It's yet another contradiction. What if I wanted to vote for Virgil Goode - is that okay, Madonna? WTH?

For the record, I've already voted and it wasn't for Virgil Goode. I don't think he was even on my ballot, for some reason.

As for her fans booing her, I don't think this will translate into a bunch of votes for Romney, but I think it is indicative of the fact that people are sick of politics and possibly the rampant liberal bias in the entertainment industry. People don't go to Madonna concerts for political reasons. They go to escape all of that.
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