Louise Oriole
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Madonna, you silly thing. I think she misspoke in the heat of the moment given how her tone or the look on her face didn't sound or look like when she's being sarcastic, imo. If it actually was on purpose to be sarcastic, it was still not the most clever "joke" nor the best way of phrasing it. The delivery was a big fail and her message got lost. No matter how you paint it, she fucked up, she made a mistake.
She definitely opened up a can of worms and like with the Turkish tit incident, exposed the bigots and prejudiced whether intentional or not.So much for the North American love train we were all riding on
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Awww. Sweet picture. So she brought out the corset again. How many N Am shows has she worn that thing on or was it only at the DC show?
Mighty ass cheeks
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interesting.
lol @ "lets donate the money to charity" it was Madonna's show.
What a deluded bitch
It's Madonna's sold out stadium show and LG would've made a "surprise" appearance, so people wouldn't have purchased tickets because of her. Oh how charitable of her to donate someone else's millions. I too want to donate other people's millions, let's start with LG's fortune; since she hates money, then she would be cool if I donate a good chunk of it to Malawian children and the rest of it to other developing countries to build schools, pay tuitions, or give food to kids around the world. With all the furs LG's wearing, she could build a couple schools.I also found it eyeroll-inducing how they said Madonna's made derogatory remarks about LG. Hardly, she's just stated the truth and yet still managed to give her plenty of compliments. And what about LG and her people?
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From Tribe
LOVE SPENT!I could have died. She ended Like a Virgin and was lying on the floor at the foot of the triangle. I was wondering if the dancer had missed his cue and she was stranded there. And then she kicked in with Love Spent. HOLY SHIT! She sounded amazing. It worked so well with Like a Virgin. She didn't sing the entire song, but it was a good 2 minutes or longer and hit all the major sections of the song. It was BRILLIANT!
she did holiday as part of the monologue, then during the corset part, she did about 1:30 or 2:00 of love spent. there was money in her bra when she undressed so that was the tip off I guess. it was great! -
Buy more t-shirts
She should say buy more tickets since she gets 90% after costs whereas with merchandise she probably only gets like 50% at most.
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I'm sorry but calling someone a cunt when they are completely unprovoked is an asshole thing to do no matter the age or "status" of the people involved. Reading through this thread I wonder WTF is wrong with people today??? My God...lol.
I mean really, am I reading that right? It's OK to call someone cunt, fairground stripper with a career that's over because she "puts herself in that position" but calling a song that was practically stolen from you (all the while praising the artist and wishing her well in the next breath) "reductive" is bullying?? How in any way shape or form is it ok to choose people it's ok to bully? And choose people who shouldn't be bullied? What kind of fucked up mentality is that??
What some claim to be Madonna's "disses" (grow a backbone) are all done with a wink while Gaga's passive aggressive tactic of having her "people" post not so subtle and personal digs at Madonna are done with nothing but vitriol. Madonna hasn't been truly UGLY in the whole thing at all. Gaga has lied (the email). In a sense she insulted Madonna by thanking Whitney Houston for what is essentially her version of Express Yourself (the whole world noticed it....I stayed up for BTW premiere and within hours other celebs and general public were Tweeting like mad about it) and thanking WH for this while in your best Blonde Ambition gear. To me that's a big "fuck you". She then has the nerve to act like the comparisons are just totally ridiculous and "retarded" and felt incredibly HURT by them. To put the cherry on top she has her "people" post not so subtle TRULY and very personal insults about Madonna.....some of which were BEFORE Madonna ever even commented on the situation at all. If she doesn't have her people do it she certainly doesn't try to stop them. And people are saying LG is the victim here??
:clap:There's no question that Madonna is her number one influence. If you can't see that then, as I suspected for some time, you're being a troll.
Madonna only started talking about her this year and there were threads like this long before that because Gaga has been ripping her off since the beginning. If you can't accept that then, again, I think you're a troll.
It doesn't matter how many albums Gaga sells because Madonna has done everything first and better. Gaga can't ever win this battle so it's time she - and you - gave it up.
This.Ketchup, you need a reality check honestly. Gaga is just letting her people doing all the dirty job for her. She KNOW they're doing it, she's probably the one who asked them to because she's too much of a coward to do it herself. And yet she's taking "the high road"? What kind of fcked up logic is that??
You're really a delusional freak. And you're also saying that celebrities insulting Madonna is perfectly ok but Madonna's words on Gaga are SO awful?
You're finally showing your true colors, it won't be long at this point until you finally admit you're not really a Madonna fan.
Seriously!
Also, it's complete and utter BS that Laurieann made the comment about LG and her ripping off Madonna on purpose and that Madonna should be bitter about it AFTER she left The Haus. It was DAYS after the Grammys (you know, the ones where LG sang the Express Yourself cover, in a BAT ponytail, doing BAT moves, yet thanked Whitney). Laurieann was her creative director, she was part of the creation of this "Gaga" character and the image they had worked on. She knew what she was talking about, she was just "stupid" or "ballsy" enough to admit it. Gaga ripped off Madonna on purpose and she's been avoiding admitting it over and over. Like when asked about why she gets compared to Madonna (think it was pre-BTW), she said she couldn't help that she looked like Madonna (this was after she DELIBERATELY hired Mama Makeup to make her look like Madonna TOD/BAT era). She's a lying, manipulate, obsessed stalker.
This tomato sauce splatter all over MN is kind of nauseating.
The delusion of the comments he utters. Reducing Madonna to a joke parody Vegas act (isn't that what Gaga is?) seems very TOSish and former fan now turned hater.And Gaga has never said anything mean toward Madonna?
When did Madonna ever joke about murdering Gaga?
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Out of all songs... this one? It's kind of dreadful.
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My friend loved the show. She said it was a show fit for a legend. She said she managed to sneak away with a few things from backstage for me. I hope its one of Madonna's guns!
Yeah right.
Keep us updated. Was she venue staff?I had the honor of meeting her in person. Not only that, we stood right next to each other.I thought you were talking about Madonna!
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The crowd was great, so loving and into her!
Love it.I really don't want Madonna to collaborate with Lady Bifida. I wouldn't trust her on stage. She'd probably try to pull off something completely different than planned just to bring attention back to her and get back at M.
She seems way too emotionally invested to be in on some sort of collaborative joke between her and M (if this "feud" was all staged). -
How would they be on stage together soon, when Stefani Gaga is touring internationally?
Not sure if this was posted:
Madonna tops her own theatrics again with creative show at Boardwalk Hall
Major headliners coming to Atlantic City is certainly commonplace. Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Aerosmith, KISS, Phish, the Dave Matthews Band and Metallica — just to name a few — have all thrilled fans with their over-the-top live shows here.
But there’s something special — an increase in energy, excitement and overall buzz — when Madonna comes to town.
Some of it is respect. She’s the world’s best-selling female recording artist and most successful solo artist in history and constantly reinvents herself to remain relevant in the ever-changing, always challenging pop music industry.
Some of it is curiosity. What will Madonna do this time around?
But mostly, it’s because Madonna never, ever disappoints with her theatrical live shows. And Saturday’s latest offering — “The MDNA Tour,” named after her latest release — proved Madonna, at 54 years old, remains the greatest pop touring act in the world. And frankly, no one is even close.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s creativity was once again running rampant this time around as she did everything from staging a bloody shootout to being hogtied and abducted by masked dancers to offering a striptease, all while surrounding herself with stellar dancers, amazing production and even an entire drum corps suspended in midair.
A sold-out Boardwalk Hall was treated to what Madonna describes as a “journey of a soul from darkness to light,” but the bottom line is that Madonna is the ultimate show woman, the P.T. Barnum of pop theatrics who isn’t afraid to cross any line if it means entertaining the masses.
With numerous costume changes that had the remarkably fit and still-gorgeous star in costumes that included a badass gunslinger and baton twirler, Madonna’s energy is nothing short of impressive. Most 20-year-olds can’t perform for two hours like Madonna does.
But no matter how great Madonna’s showmanship is, no one would be there if her songs weren’t any good. And those not fond of “MDNA” might have been slightly disappointed with the night’s selections since about 10 songs from the new album were either performed, sampled or featured in an interlude, comprising about half of the night’s material.
Like the Material Girl’s most recent efforts, “MDNA” heavily taps into electronic dance music nicely melded with Madonna’s pop sensibilities. While not her finest effort, “MDNA” has some standouts, particularly the catchy opener “Girl Gone Wild” and “Turn on the Radio.” But “I Don’t Give A,” where Madonna unnecessarily trotted out an electric guitar, and “I’m Addicted” will be quickly forgotten for good reason: they are unmemorable ditties that barely work better live than the album tracks.
Of course any superstar who has been performing for more than 30 years is going to have a catalog so vast that fans will be unhappy with was left off the setlist. And on the “MDNA” tour, in particular, Madonna made it pretty clear that this was not a greatest hits tour.
The songs she didn’t play — including “Music”, “Ray of Light”, “La Isla Bonita”, “Frozen”, “Material Girl”, “Lucky Star” and others — are testament to the amazing career Madonna possesses.
And even though Saturday night seemed a little lighter than past tours when it came to delivering hits, there were still plenty. She offered crowd-pleasers such as “Papa Don’t Preach”, “Holiday”, Vogue”, “Express Yourself” and “Like a Prayer,” but some of the other hits were re-tooled to give fans something a little different.
For example, “Express Yourself” was mixed with excerpts from Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” — perhaps to show the audience how similar they are — along with “She’s Not Me” from Madonna’s “Hard Candy” album. And “Like a Virgin” contained samples from Abel Korzeniowski’s “Evgeni’s Waltz.”
The most impressive reinvention was “Open Your Heart,” which she performed with the Basque group Kalakan that included excerpts from Kalakan’s “Sagarra jo!” The Spanish band also made other contributions throughout the show, including “Masterpiece” and “I’m a Sinner,” both from “MDNA.”
Although not the greatest singer, Madonna has personality in her vocals that definitely make up for any deficiencies. And she remains a great dancer with a keen sense of quirky choreography that works for her and her dancers.
The production was better than any Broadway show you will see. With a crisp video screen that stretched wide across the stage and tall above the performers, the multimedia experience made the show seem more like a live movie than a concert.
The dancers were worth the price of admission themselves. Early on, the male dancers showed off remarkable moves in high heels and later bounced on and jumped off stretchy ropes and freaked people out when by contorting their bodies.
The only gripes about Madonna were things not related to her show. In typical Madonna fashion, she had Boardwalk Hall management keep the temperature of the hall pretty toasty — about 80 degrees — which is really annoying when she made the crowd wait until about 10:30 p.m. to take the stage, leaving the crowd waiting well over an hour after opener DJ Paul Oakenfold left the stage.
The MDNA Tour is poised to become one of the top-grossing tours of all time. And with good reason. Madonna remains not only on top of her game but makes everyone else try to raise theirs. One of her most creative and artistic tours ever, she will have a hard time topping this. But don’t ever bet against her.
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How was the crowd? Since the AC and LV crowds are usually kind of dead
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she's already getting shit for commenting on Gaga again. saying Madonna is obsessed with Gaga and so on
They always say that, but it's not Madonna who is constantly referencing (aside from the tongue-in-cheek mashup) and trying to be LG. I wonder if she talked to Steven Klein.
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She should stop giving her the attention she wants. The press kisses Lady Bifida's ass anyway, so it won't help M out as far as critics go.
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Can you only enter the Icon contest 1 time per whole tour or 1 time per city?
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Tommy Lee and Jared Leto at Thursday's Toronto show.
Look who replied
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Rave review
Madonna wows crowd at Scotiabank Place
5.5 stars out of 6
The fans who shelled out upwards of $300 for the hottest ticket in town know that Madonna puts on less of a concert than an all-out event.
None went home disappointed from the sold-out Scotiabank Place show that stretched well into the midnight hour.
Of course, with all the international headlines left in the wake of her MDNA tour — with the swastikas superimposed over political faces, the flaming crucifixes, the boob flashes, feigned violence and calls for revolution — it seemed like everyone was waiting to see which pot Madonna would stir next.
Truly, it just doesn’t qualify as a cause celebre anymore until Madonna’s scrawled in lipstick across her backside.
But other than a “No Fear” tattoo on her exposed back, there was little in the way of political furor, and except for a few cheeky exchanges with fans, Madonna mostly let her music do the talking.
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Not that a Madonna concert is ever just about the music.
The accompanying imagery, dripping with metaphor, was just as much a part of the spectacle as the music, and, as expected from someone with Madonna’s knack for provocation, the images pulled no punches.
The show’s overture began with a dozen cloaked figures swinging a giant smoking urn over the crowd as Madonna descended from the rafters in a gilded confessional, launching her MDNA tour as she does the album with Girl Gone Wild.
Images of Renaissance-styled angels descended into a hellfire backdrop as the beat slipped into Revolver, but the opening credits to The Exorcist soon dissolved into something more closely resembling a Tarantino film.
Under the throbbing beat of Gang Bang, Madge and her femmes fatale wielded pistols and assault rifles and randomly picked off imaginary assailants in the crowd as all sorts of blood spatter and viscera splashed across the screen.
Numerous video interludes showcased her entourage of toned dancers, and allowed for the customary costume changes as the set unfolded in five distinct acts: Transgression, Prophecy, Turning Up the Hits, Masculine/Feminine and Celebration.
After such a foreboding opening, resonating with Gothic subtext, Madonna emerged from the first costume change as a caricature of her old, bubbly bleached blonde persona, dressed as a marching bandleader complete with twirling baton for Express Yourself.
And if there’s anything to the rumours of a feud between Madonna and her prime progeny Lady Gaga, the Queen still wears the crown, as she interpolated the carbon copy Born This Way, singing (somewhat cattily) “She’s not me” before busting back into Express Yourself.
And the fans — the show was, as expected, a complete sellout with more than 15,000 packing Scotiabank Place, many likely rueing Tuesday morning as the show didn’t get underway until almost 10:30 — gleefully played the part, with many dressed up and putting on their favourite era Material Girl face.
All of those faces were present on stage, too.
Madonna emerged in tight black leather slinging a matching six string for Turn Up the Radio, she was her bad Catholic girl prototype on all fours in Papa Don’t Preach, Masterpiece ushered in a cadre of Golden Age Hollywood romantics in flickering monochrome, the sex-charged groove of Human Nature featured her Erotica imagery, and she was barely recognizable as a grown-up crooning the once-bubbly Like a Virgin.
Yet, for all of her longevity, the 54-year-old Queen of Reinvention rarely showed her age, her trademark lithe moves front and centre on every song.
The only time she even hinted at her years was when she informed the audience her son, who usually dances in the show, had to miss Monday’s gig “because he had to go to school.”
Only fitting, because “back to school” is exactly where Madonna sent a new generation of impersonators.
aedan.helmer@sunmedia.ca
Twitter: @OttSunHelmer
MADONNA SETLIST:
Girl Gone Wild
Revolver
Gang Bang
Papa Don’t Preach
Hung Up
I Don’t Give A
Express Yourself (with Born This Way)
Give Me All Your Luvin’
Turn Up the Radio
Open Your Heart
Masterpiece
Vogue
Candy Shop
Human Nature
Like A Virgin
Nobody Knows Me
I’m Addicted
I’m A Sinner
Like a Prayer
Celebration
http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/09/11/madonna-wows-crowd-at-scotiabank-place
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I can't see the picture
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It looks like she's wearing an exclusive NY-only shirt too.
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They should've added a second show there considering she sold out the show so quickly. That venue is bigger than Toronto's too.
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That virginity wasn't about using her vagina for the first time. It was about preserving her soul...something like that. It WAS a great speech. All vulgar and then sexy and then a little spiritual. Everything we love about Madonna in 4-6 sentences before LAV.
This is part of it. It starts off as her saying she had a problem with the traditional defition of the word "VIRGIN." She said "it has nothing to do with my pussy or how many times I've had sex with it."
Followed by this:
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[/media]Thank you. Aww. She looks very emotional, especially when she talks about forgiving/forgiving herself.
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Beautiful work by David Kawena.
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- Her vulnerable, beautiful speech a about virginity the beginning of Like A Virgin on 9/8. I can't believe no one has commented on that yet.
What did she say???
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I wonder if anyone confused him with Mayor Corey Booker.
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The MDNA Tour pictures thread
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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GORGEOUS.
These kind of shots should be included in the book about the tour. Guy should include fan pics. I bet a lot of fans would be happy to get a free personalized autographed book in exchange for including a shot or two.