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    NYC NYE PERFORMANCE STONEWALL INN!

    in ARCHIVE - The MADAME X Forum

    Posted

    JAN 01 2019

    https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2019/01/madonna-stonewall-inn-surprise-gay.html
     

    Madonna Surprises Stonewall With Acoustic Set, Warm Speech: WE COME TOGETHER TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF REVOLUTION

     

    Tonight, I received a text from a music-industry pal who said people overseas were chattering about a surprise Madonna appearance tonight in NYC. I immediately envisioned a pop-in at the iconic Stonewall Inn, perhaps a speech and champagne toast. Nobody would talk, not even my friends with connections there. I moved on.

    Then, a second friend, this one in NYC, said he'd heard something, too, and we thought it had to be Stonewall. Finally, he heard she would announce at 10 p.m., meaning people would be in a mad dash to get over there, so I had to decide if I should just go and hope for the best, or stay at home.

    I grabbed my little camera and dashed over in the crazy traffic.

     

    Downstairs, the club was filled with a young, very diverse (gender, race) crowd. It was only a $5 cover, so that checked out. Nobody seemed to be looking around for Madonna. I figured she'd appear upstairs, so proceeded to the back, only to be told the coat check was optional. I began to worry I'd miss out, thinking they'd have to seal the upstairs off soon, but I made it in and saw a very select number of Madonna fanatics who seemed to have heard what I'd heard — and a bit more!

     

    In the crowd, I ran into a super sweet EM20 reader whose friends (all hot, all tall, all equally firm on the idea that we needed to hold our ground at the front of the audience pit), but everyone else looked like general bar-goers. As time went by so slowly (I arrived by 9:25 p.m. or so), the place got jam-packed. We had lovely and fragile girls and drag queens nearby, but big and aggressive guys on the other sides, so I spent at least half the time just leaning my full weight back to try to keep some breathing room. People were objecting, politely, to be jostled, but everyone kept it fairly light. No NYE fistfights.

     

    Finally, when it was about to hit midnight, Ryan Jamaal Swain of Pose and another cutie whose name I did not get took to the stage and yelled (no mic!) speeches about how 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. They also led the countdown to 12, which was when everyone lost their shit because moments later, Madonna unceremoniously appeared from behind a red curtain.

    I loved her festive look — all-black, bejeweled and wearing a whimsical bow that reminded me of Liz Rosenberg's deely-bobber headgear at events. I thought she looked lovely. Some wags later pointed out her mysteriously Minajian backside, but she chose to have more junk in the trunk a few years back, so I'm surprised why it's still such a surprise, and I wondered if someone would do a, “Why'd you come around me with an ass like that?” meme later. Whatever. We're the LGBTQ community, people, a lot of us have ... enhancements!

    Madonna was beaming and in great spirits, saying she is “desperately seeking” Stonewall and a good time, a rare reference to her best movie (don't try me) before pulling out some adorable Eileen Brennan-in-Clue reading glasses and noting that 2019 was the year she was giving in and wearing them. (Meanwhile, my eyes went at 40.)

    She launched into one of her trademark serious-issue speeches, but I think anyone would agree this one was one of her best in that it had some rousing oratorical heights about fighting for ourselves, each other and for love, and was delivered warmly and wittily. (The card she was reading from was rainbow-colored.)

     

    Favorite chunk:

    I see you! I stand here, proudly, at the place where Pride began — the legendary Stonewall Inn — and the birth of a new year. We come together tonight to celebrate 50 years of revolution. Fifty years of freedom-fighting. Fifty years of blood, sweat and tears — can I get an amen?! Fifty years of sacrifice. Fifty years of standing up to discrimination, hatred and — worst of all — indifference. And it all started here, at Stonewall. Let us never forget the Stonewall Riots and those who bravely stood up and said, Enough. Enough brutality, enough violence inflicted on this community, enough stigmatism, enough oppression, enough pain and suffering ... We must never forget where we came from.

     

    Of course she threw in a, “Fuck, yeah!” and raved about New York City as the place where her artistic journey began.

    I have heard that Madonna — who was recently announced as a Stonewall ambassador, so is guar-own-teed to be a huge part of World Pride this summer —was enthusiastic about this appearance with the Stonewall Gives Back people, and did it for free, something that you may not realize is very uncommon. Many, many chartable events, even HIV/AIDS events, feature supportive stars who are actually taking huge appearance fees. Madonna was there on her dime, and the way she speaks about queer people is clearly from the heart.

    It don't matter if you're in black-and-white. (Image by Matthew Rettenmund — do not publish anywhere without permission)

    When that wrapped, she had her teen son David Banda accompany her on an acoustic version of “Like a Prayer.” She sounded great, leading me to think her next tour really could be a stand-there-and-sing affair.

    In-between songs, Madonna was teasing the audience about not singing along or emoting, so everyone lost their shit and howled for her, which she appreciated. She joked about leaving for a toast, and with a fan about taking them home, noting she often takes homeless people in. When someone shouted to David that his mom is a legend, she said that legends to him were Aquaman, “Which is normal,” but he was shaking his head no.

    Madonna's affection for her kid was so touching. 

     

    They did a sweet duet of the Elvis hit “Can't Help Falling in Love,” on which David actually sang. Madonna's voice was spectacular on that one, especially the closing high note.

    With that, she was off, wishing us well and leaving the room electrified.

    Afterward, it was interesting hearing the many younger LGBTQ people gushing about how cool her appearance was, how appreciated her words were, in light of her kooky Instagram. The youngsters were won over, and the oldsters had already killed to be there.

    It took me over an hour to get my damn coat back, but it was worth it. Now, I just have to figure out someone to shower with a random act of kindness.

    Mexico City, January 7 2016 // 2' Date

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted

    Okay, okay, I'm at work. Sorry I didn't talk about the first night, I was ashamed because I basically had nose bleed seats and was way off to the side so I missed a good chunk of the concert (didn't even see the screens :lmao:) but I think people have covered that magical night already. It was AMAZING.

    Now off to the second night when I actually saw everything. I didn't have amazing floor seats, but I had a full view of the stage and didn't miss a thing. First of all, as people have already said, the crowd was SPECTACULAR. It felt absolutely AMAZING being surrounded by people who LOVE Madonna, and not just gays (my boyfriend said he thought it was just going to be a bunch of us queens screaming). It was moms, older women, older couples, some random group of Russian women, young little twinks, these butch bull dykes who had the TIME OF THEIR LIVES, EVERYONE was screaming the words to every single song, including the new ones and even La Vie en Rose (the guy next to me hummed the shit out of the song) and they were all up and dancing from the first song all the way through Holiday. A lot of people even stood up and clapped and screamed during the interludes :lol: It was like 2 hours of pure ecstasy.

    The dialogues were to die for. Here are some of the highlights (I'm totally paraphrasing here):

    Are you guys having a good time? Yes? Mucho? Mucho Mucho? MUCHO MUCHO MUCHO? MUCHO MUCHO MUCHO MUCHO?

    (In her silly, cute, girly voice) Do you guys have a present for me? What's that? A cigarette? I don't smoke. How do you say ass in Spanish? Culo? Put that in your cuuuuuuulo. Yes. In your cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulo :lmao:

    During the Spanish / Frida Kahlo inspired section of the concert, she put on a hat, then took it off and asked the audience if it looked better on or off? and she kept asking on or off? And then she said random Spanish words because it didn't seem like the people in front of her understood what she was saying but when she put the hat on the last time she poked her eye with it and she said "oh I poked my eye, I can't see. that's okay, I'll sing things song with my eyes closed". She went on to sing Who's That Girl (which was spectacular and a highlight for me) and after she finished she kind of struggled for a few moments and went silent and the entire stadium started singing Cielito Lindo (very typical Mexican song) in unison and she looked confused and said "That's lovely but I don't know the words to this song, I do know the words to this one though." Then after all of that she said "oh my, I'm crying, but not out of sorrow like last night, I just poked my eye with my hat." :lol: It was too cute.

    During Music in the little break in the middle of the song where the pianist and her do their playful little act and she touches herself, he played the Mexican hat dance as she touched her tits and pussy and we were all DYING. It was so cute and hilarious.

    When she said she was looking for a new husband or wife she talked about how there're a lot of perks that go along with marrying her. She went up to some one guy and asked him why she should marry him and he just kept screaming BECAUSE I LOVE YOU and she kept saying um, everyone loves me here, you have to do better than that :lmao: Then some guy, who's name was Marco, caught the bouquet and she started asking him questions but he CLEARLY didn't speak English. She asked him "Do you have a job? Why do you keep looking at the guy next to you? Is he your boyfriend? Do you not like girls? So you don't have a job? You don't have a job Marco? You're not doing very well here, Marco. No, seriously, why do you keep looking at the guy next to you? Oh Marco, when you get a little more creative please talk to my security and then we can talk about this. You're going to have to do better then that." I was dyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyying

    Then... the unapologetic bitch. I have NO idea who chose him, but he got one stage, took his shirt off to show off his steroid body, had NO rhythm and a huge smirk on his face and kept shaking his ass like a old white man from Alabama. They danced on to the main part of the stage and he was throwing his hands up in the air like those guys from the Jersey shore, flexing his muscles, then he would go up to Madonna, put his arms around her and start grinding up on her and her dancers at first giggled and pulled him back, but he kept going and going and the dancers started to look really annoyed and everyone around me went from WOOOO to um... Then I don't remember exactly what she said (something about Mexico and loving Mexico) and he runs up to her mic and starts screaming WOOOOO YESSSSSSSSSSSSS BRAZIIIIILLLLLLLL and Madonna was like, oh, wait, you're not Mexican? Um, please tell me you're Mexican. So he runs up back to the mic and starts screaming YESSSSSS I AM. BRAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL :rolleyes: eveyone was clearly annoyed and uncomfortable, including Madonna, and I don't know what the people in the front row were screaming, but she said, oh my, I have a feeling these people don't like you. They're yelling things at you. I think they have a personal vendetta against you... Then she said something like, you're hot, but you didn't drop it like it's hot. No, no, I mean, DROP your pants like it's hot. No? Oh, I knew you had nothing to show off. Oh well. Everyone who comes up here gets a present. Does he deserve a present? No? Well, everyone gets one. So here's your present, a banana! Then she put the banana in his crotch and said, look, now things will go a lot better for you in life :lmao: Then she said no no, tonight is about love, it takes a lot of courage to come up here on stage with me, let's give it up for (I forgot his name).

    thank you :)

    Rebel Heart Year End Mentions!

    in ARCHIVE - The REBEL HEART Forum

    Posted

    Madonna's #RebelHeartTour received the Music Nation Award as the best concert of the 2015!

    Grammy performance was most watched moment of the show.

    #LivingForLove won as best dance song, best pop performance song & song of the year at The Music Nation Awards 2015!

    French website mcm.fr named Madonna's "Rebel Heart" as the 7th best album of 2015. #RebelHeart

    #RebelHeart managed to be the #4 best-selling international female album of 2015 in Brazil, even though it leaked.

    Attitude's top 2015 albums - #6!

    I know the album isn't #32 WW anymore...#36..?

    If you have anymore add them here! :)

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    thank you for sharing. Love it!

    The BOXSCORE thread [part 1]

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted

    Technically its a mixed venue tour despite the majority of the 60 shows being held in an arena 12 of the shows were held in stadiums and the Denmark show had over 80,000 in attendance for 1 show. So these 12 dates brought in big dollars $11m for the Denmark show so her average gross was boosted up higher.

    Her last only arena tour was reinvention howver there was 1 date at slane castle with 60,000 in attendance so if we do count her last arena tour as reinvention its gross was $125m which she will beat but that was 11 years ago and the average ticket price were cheaper i believe so its really hard to compare.

    thank you :) :) :)

    The BOXSCORE thread [part 1]

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted

    Very nice! The final number will be around 160-180 I think. It ALL depends on Asia. But very good!

    this looks like this should be on par with the Confession Tour total which was also arenas. Didn't confessions earn close to 190. Not sure how many dates it had. Also factor in the economy. :)

    Glasgow - The Hydro - 20th Dec - last show before Xmas

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted

    Most UK cities have late licencing restrictions for entertainment. You can apply for a late licence, a venue can impose their own curfew or "closing time" or penalty for going over that. It's just the way it is until such times as it...isn't. In the case of the Hydro/SECC, I've never heard of then pulling the plug ever. The artist either pays the fine or they come on on time. It works both ways.

    A train service might put on extra trains on the day or night of an event but why should they run late so that people with their cheap return ticket can get home? How are they meant to know wether a show will end at 10:30pm or 1am? Not their problem. If they don't see the economic reason for doing it, then they wont.

    Anyway. It was an amazing show, and despite everything, she was so damn funny and good-natured all night. Moreover, unlike that Edinburgh MDNA debacle, which put so many people off buying tix for this show, I haven't heard or read ONE bad thing about last nights concert anywhere.

    thank you
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