Just got back from Madonna's concert. I have a sore throat because some girl in the row ahead of me was wearing a bottle of perfume. D told me his mother has some clipping where it says "unattractive women" were split into 2 groups and 1 group wore perfume and the other didn't. The perfume wearers were found to be 20% more attractive by men. I wish they wouldn't do studies like that, encouraging people to wear it, because so many people are allergic. Aargh!
Other than that, it was a good time, although I was bummed she didn't do an encore. The finale was "Hung Up" -- she sang "Lucky Star" to the tune of "Hung Up," then launched into "Hung Up" and had the audience sing, "Time goes by, so slowly." The male couple next to us had been to her concert the night before and warned us that the champagne cost $7.50 and the A/C would be turned off. "She says it interferes with her voice," one of them told me. She's not a diva, no ;)
For the first number, a disco ball opened up and she came out in a leather horse-riding outfit with a riding crop and beat one of her dancers with it and rode his back like he was a horse. It was, um, interesting. She looked great in the horse-riding outfit and I couldn't believe she was a 48-year-old mother of two. Then she wore a navy leotard during "Hung Up" and that was not as flattering. Still, she's in great shape. Her dancers are also awesome, the best that money can buy. All of them were doing handsprings and one girl did a full wheel, flipped into the air and landed in upward-facing dog. (I used a picture of cobra because I couldn't find a picture of upward-facing dog, but they're similar enough.)
D and I decided that "Hung Up" is her best song, and "Like a Prayer" is #2.
You can definitely tell she's a diva. "Stand up to show your gratitude!" she yelled at one point. "Stand up to celebrate this mother#@% city!" Later, she said, "Do you mind if I sit and rest a bit? Some of you have been sitting and resting the whole time. My front-row #@%*&^ are not happy about that."
She did hang on a disco-lit cross for "Live to Tell", while numbers flashed above her head to show how many people have died of AIDS in Africa. Then the URLs "clintonfoundation.org" and "raisemalawi.org" flashed on the screen. While she did costume changes backstage, there were video images of her singing; once she was singing "Don't tell me your stories, your lies" as images of Bush, Nixon and Osama bin Laden flashed by.
She revamped a lot of her old numbers, staging "Erotica" almost like a ballet, and there was another number where all her dancers roller-skated together (and did some handstands, all in a day's work). "Jump" was great as dancers climbed and jumped down from jungle-gym constructions. Every number was lavish and theater-like.
Another of the best numbers was "Music," laid over a "Disco Inferno" track. She came out with two of her female dancers and they were all decked out in John Travolta-style white gabardine suits. Madonna knows her disco moves.
On the way out, we saw Chelsea Clinton. D didn't recognize her, not having seen any of her recent pictures, but I'm sure it was her.
Other than that, it was a good time, although I was bummed she didn't do an encore. The finale was "Hung Up" -- she sang "Lucky Star" to the tune of "Hung Up," then launched into "Hung Up" and had the audience sing, "Time goes by, so slowly." The male couple next to us had been to her concert the night before and warned us that the champagne cost $7.50 and the A/C would be turned off. "She says it interferes with her voice," one of them told me. She's not a diva, no ;)
For the first number, a disco ball opened up and she came out in a leather horse-riding outfit with a riding crop and beat one of her dancers with it and rode his back like he was a horse. It was, um, interesting. She looked great in the horse-riding outfit and I couldn't believe she was a 48-year-old mother of two. Then she wore a navy leotard during "Hung Up" and that was not as flattering. Still, she's in great shape. Her dancers are also awesome, the best that money can buy. All of them were doing handsprings and one girl did a full wheel, flipped into the air and landed in upward-facing dog. (I used a picture of cobra because I couldn't find a picture of upward-facing dog, but they're similar enough.)
D and I decided that "Hung Up" is her best song, and "Like a Prayer" is #2.
You can definitely tell she's a diva. "Stand up to show your gratitude!" she yelled at one point. "Stand up to celebrate this mother#@% city!" Later, she said, "Do you mind if I sit and rest a bit? Some of you have been sitting and resting the whole time. My front-row #@%*&^ are not happy about that."
She did hang on a disco-lit cross for "Live to Tell", while numbers flashed above her head to show how many people have died of AIDS in Africa. Then the URLs "clintonfoundation.org" and "raisemalawi.org" flashed on the screen. While she did costume changes backstage, there were video images of her singing; once she was singing "Don't tell me your stories, your lies" as images of Bush, Nixon and Osama bin Laden flashed by.
She revamped a lot of her old numbers, staging "Erotica" almost like a ballet, and there was another number where all her dancers roller-skated together (and did some handstands, all in a day's work). "Jump" was great as dancers climbed and jumped down from jungle-gym constructions. Every number was lavish and theater-like.
Another of the best numbers was "Music," laid over a "Disco Inferno" track. She came out with two of her female dancers and they were all decked out in John Travolta-style white gabardine suits. Madonna knows her disco moves.
On the way out, we saw Chelsea Clinton. D didn't recognize her, not having seen any of her recent pictures, but I'm sure it was her.
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Happy 4th!!!!
I hope I'm that energetic when I'm 48 :) Though I don't think I'll be donning any leotards!
carpe - i think it might have been that too ;)
vk - you should definitely see it! we got good tix for $150 b/c we bought them right away. i guess people later paid $350 to sit in our section.
I remeber growing up with her songs - Lucky Star, Like a Virgin - I loved them all!
Sorry about perfume girl.
c- thanks :)
Glad you had a great show!
I wouldn't say that I'm a huge Madonna fan, but my husband and I agreed that we would like to see her live. The spectacle of her show sounds pretty amazing.
I remember when I was little and "Material Girl" came out. I used to sing it all the time. My mother HATED the sentiment. lol.
anyway, i remembver that night i wore a headband! and an anhk!!
i was soooooooooooo cool!
madonna peaked with that tour, i believe.