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    Mexico City, January 7 2016 // 2' Date

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    I've been avoiding the entire Madonna section since the tour kicked off. It's been horrible. Absolutely horrible. But thanks to my willpower I basically don't have a clue what's going to happen, besides the costumes and a few songs (like True Blue).

    I'm so excited.

    Your mind is going to be BLOWN. Can't wait to hear what you think!

    Madonna covers Elle France

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    Virginie Despentes is feminist, punk and hard-hitting. When she sees herself in the most iconic pop star we do too.

    The most provocative pop star portraited by the most punk french author, the most incisive and carnal portrait we've read. In the middle of her "Rebel heart tour", the sexy almost 60 something gets her groove back.

    I drifted away from Madonna a long time ago. The last time i lived with one of her records was "Confessions on a dancefloor", in november of 2005. 10 years ago. The winter french suburbs were rioting. At the time we were not talking about Islam, they were burning cars, it was neverending. Madonna was 47. She was singing "Hung up" while performing impressive cardio squats. She was inventing a body : one of an almost 50 something in a leotard in full control of herself; she was inventing an in your face energy, effective and calculated. Madonna does not push borderlines : she invents new countries.

    Then it wasn't so much Lady Gaga - her direct wannabe heir- that made her less relevant, neither Rihanna or Beyoncé not even Beth Ditto, all of them straight out of the Madonna factory in their own ways. No, it was Amy Winehouse. The first pin-up that wasn't getting her inspiration from her. Then came Adele. New models of singers. Around 2010, it seemed possible for the first time in 3 decades to think about pop feminism without talking about Madonna...But last summer, i saw her video "Bitch i'm Madonnae and i thought to myself : No one can take her throne. This almost 60 y/o woman down on all fours in the corridors of a crazy party, jumping on the back of young girls, slapping the butts of boys and rolling on the floor, kinky and laughing hile claimind "Bitch i'm Madonna". It should be pathetic. It's sublime. It's not her body that is fascinating - you can always think she had work done-, it's her attitude. You can't photoshop attitude. Madonna is at the age she should hide. We hear people saying with a sorry tone one use to say some unpleasant truth after witnessing something you can't fight : "She does not want to age, it's sad, you should know when to give up". Something you never hear about George Clooney, Clint Eastwood or Harrison Ford, we demand it from Madonna.

    A mature woman should be sobbing in nostalgia of the time of the sex appeal she lost, regretting men don't check her like they used to and let younger girls take front stage. In lieu of all that the queen of pop say : "I'm the queen pimp, this is my stage, my sidewalk, i'm gonna dance in undies, french the new girls and jump on the back of young studs with my 12 inch heels".

    If heterosexual men are put off by what she embodies, maybe it's because they fear she's can still arouse them. She's breaking a taboo : you can be touched by a creature of her age but you can't get a hard on. She's still on the opposite side of convinience. She does what she always did : what should not be done. Bitch, she's Madonna...

    Night of the show, i get inside Bercy, people are taking their seats

    There's a lot of 30 somethings, not many very young ones came to see Madonna. We all have an age to have spent our lives with Madonna. The speakers are playing "Wanna be startin'" by Michael Jackson. The curtain hiding the stage is being removed and we discover a giant screen showing a glamourous battered and bruised Madonna, chatting with Mike Tyson. Everything is oversized, it's the show of a giant. Then we see the words "I want to start a revolution" and the first act starts, an epic battle between Tsui hark (a Hongkongese director) and an episode of "games of thrones". When she gets on stage her body is very small, a little blonde creature but she dominates the show.

    [i must go to my NYE party. I wish you all a Happy new year and i promise to translate the rest of this great piece on Madonna as soon as i can (there's a lot more. She talks about past incarnations and writes like a certified loon). Bonne année à toutes et à tous ]

    This is glorious. Thank you so much!! I can't wait to read the rest. :)

    Happy new year!!!

    Spotlight on Dance Party USA 1988

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    I found this going through my old Betamax tapes and posted it on FB and Vimeo but Wanted to share here just for fun...For those who were too young to remember here is a snapshot of teen fashion etc. in 1988. Can anyone spot Kelly Ripa? Enjoy :)

    https://vimeo.com/149930589

    OH MY GOD.

    I had totally forgotten about this show!!! There was a dancer on there that my friend and I used to write to (fuck, I forget her name), but she is in that video you posted!! lol

    I need to show this to my friend, she will die. The dancer was a HUGE Madonna fan and we were pen pals and we used to write to her all the time and talk about Madonna. hahahahaha

    She's the one with the short blonde hair in the "You Can Dance" outfit.

    Anyway, this is golden. Thank you for posting it! Wow, what a trip down memory lane.

    Your fav moments from the whole SHOW !!!

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    When she hangs from the staff by her knees in "Iconic."

    The guitar solo in "Burning Up"

    "Holy Water":

    - the opening strut down the catwalk

    - when she climbs the pole and does THIS:

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    - the "don't it taste like 'Holy Water,' sacred and immaculate" part right before the alter scene and she's walking on her knees and whipping her head around and her hair is flying everywhere (i die)

    The whole "Messiah" interlude

    The speech before "True Blue" (I LOVE ANY AND ALL TIMES SHE TALKS TO THE AUDIENCE)

    All of "Deeper and Deeper"

    "LIKE A VIRGIN" (besides making me die a million deaths, here's my favorite parts):

    - The beginning when she takes her coat off

    - The "been saving it all for you, 'cause only love can last" part -- that thing she does with her hands and she points to her shoulders and then the TWO HAIR FLIPS right afterwards

    - when she rips open her shirt :D

    - the "see my booty get down like oh" part and then the 4 super awesome squats she does!

    All of "LFL"

    The maracas toss!

    All of the acoustic set (+ more audience interaction!!!)

    "Illuminati" interlude!! WOW!!!!

    All of "Music/Candy Shop" (dat beat doe)

    The wedding!!!

    "UB"

    - This:

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    - This:

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    - The UBs!!!!!

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