There's a site from a huge magazine here in Brazil that said "Superstar" will be the next single and the cover art will be made by a brazilian graffiti artist.
There's a site from a huge magazine here in Brazil that said "Superstar" will be the next single and the cover art will be made by a brazilian graffiti artist.
By open, do you mean post a thread?
Woot! Everyone seems to hate Superstar because of the lyrics and the production, but I love it! It's so cute and carefree, like pt. 3 of True Blue - Cherish - Superstar.
Woot! Everyone seems to hate Superstar because of the lyrics and the production, but I love it! It's so cute and carefree, like pt. 3 of True Blue - Cherish - Superstar.
Yeah, post it.
I don't like the song, I think Love Spent is way better!
i think it's cute and it will end this ridiculous stan war.
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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.
great shows and she´s telling the truth. everibody nows that the whole born this way album was "inspired" i would say some kind of "copied" from like a prayer: all the religious think and the religious imaginary was taken from the album. the main song almost copied "express yoursel" judas, electric, chapel, americano..... were inspired by like a prayer, of father, pray for spnish eyes. and the rock ambient od born this way was taken too from the introduction of like a prayer and obviosly from act of contriccion. and i´m not saying everything is copied from like a prayer but the essencial ? yessssssss and the other songs are very similar to other albums just like the magazine rollingstone said in his review of the album. and yes i like born this way buttttttt it´s obvious where "she" -i wold better say her equipe- took the inspiration.
Madonna performs in concert at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City
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Waiting somewhat impatiently for approximately an hour for Madonna to take the stage in Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the “Sold Out” concert sponsored by Caesars Atlantic City, finally got underway. The filled hall exploded at 10:30 pm when the lights dimmed and music began to play. It seems curious at best, that Madonna can seem to do no wrong to her fans even when she requests the air conditioning be turned off, or raised to a room warming temperature . The minute the Madonna stepped into the spotlight, all was forgiven and screaming, adoration and dancing began.
Madonna's fans are loyal as evidenced by the fact that this concert may be the highest grossing night for Boardwalk Hall, so far this year. Madonna has referred to her show as “part spectacle and sometimes intimate performance art,” but really it’s mostly spectacle. She can still move well and for a fifty-four year old woman, her dancing, enthusiasm and energy are only overshadowed by her on stage presence and charisma.
Every Madonna concert somehow becomes both memorable and entertaining with a mixture of production numbers, set designs, wonderful back up singers and dancers and of course the super star, Madonna herself. This 2 hour, twenty-two song evening was no different. Madonna included over the top exciting lighting, dancers, giant video screens, costume changes and cheerleaders. In addition, Madonna's antics of coming to the front stage close to her avid followers, writhing on the floor while singing, rising to her knees she revealed to the crowd a “No Fear” most likely temporary tattoo, emblazoned on her back.
The set list included a number of selections from her new album and many of the songs Madonna is known for such as, “Express Yourself,” “Holiday” and a slowed down version of “Like a Virgin.” The true crowd pleaser's were true Madonna versions of “Like a Prayer” and “Vogue” that elicited many squeals and applause. As expected, Madonna delivered once again. Her legions of loyal fans did not want the concert to end, but when it did, they were satisfied, smiling and still in love with their Madonna.
Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958. In 1981 she went solo as a pop singer and became a sensation in the male dominated 1980's music scene. By 1991, she had achieved twenty-one Top 10 hits in the United States and sold more than seventy million albums internationally. In January 2008, she was named the world's wealthiest female musician by Forbes Magazine.
Madonna today continues to be one of the best if not the best selling female recording artists ever. Her concerts for the most part, are always Sold Out and her ticket sales, album/CD sales continue after more than thirty years of performing. It does not appear that Madonna will be departing the pop music scene any time soon!
It was a concert that opened with an act of contrition and closed with a robed church choir paving the road to a celebration. In between there was fake blood, pretend guns, the return of the infamous conical bra, whiffs of sadomasochism and poison-tipped political commentary, as well as allusions to the pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, movies by Oliver Stone and Stanley Kubrick, Brecht-Weil cabaret, Asian mysticism, Cirque du Soleil-style tightrope acrobatics, and Basque folk music.
Madonna was in town, and though she’s one of the most famous celebrities in the world – and also one of the priciest, as evidenced by those $355 seats – her first of two concerts Wednesday at the United Center had all the hallmarks of a cult artist indulging a serious art-pop fetish.
The easy route would’ve been a greatest hits tour, but even at 54 – something of a godmother to two generations of pop singers from Britney Spears to Lady Gaga – Madonna appears to get bored much too easily to do something that rote. She’s almost perverse in the way she tries to upend and reconfigure her songs to fit a theme, and this was no exception – a self-described two-hour, four-part “journey of a soul from darkness to light.”
Got that? Sometimes it wasn’t always easy to follow Madonna’s lead. Where’s this going, exactly? And how much of this was gratuitous shock theater rather than soul baring personal statement? But there was no denying the blend of art, artifice and sheer sensory overload. Besides the 16 dancers, four musicians and two backing singers, a stage that stretched into the middle of the arena and the sumptuous visuals made for something grandly watchable. It made every other recent arena tour that traffics in spectacle look rather puny in comparison. And somehow, a few emotional payoffs snuck through the dazzle, too.
Once regarded as a chirpy ingénue destined to burn up her 15 minutes and fade, Madonna has turned reinvention into 300 million worldwide record sales and nearly 30 years of stardom. She has taken a few knocks this year as her latest album, “MDNA” has tumbled down the charts soon after a muddled halftime performance at the Super Bowl.
Though the album was panned as a late, unsuccessful attempt to ride the coattails of the burgeoning electronic dance music movement, it was sold short. It was that rare recent Madonna album with an emotional center, with several songs zeroing in on the toll of her broken marriage, and that filtered into her performance Wednesday.
Her concert tours use music as just one of many elements in a multimedia scramble of dance, performance art, theater and video, and “MDNA” was no exception. The visually spectacular first segment was set in a Gothic cathedral with shafts of light piercing through the “windows” and hooded monks ringing a bell and burning incense, suggesting some strange hybrid of Kubrick’s ritualistic sex scenes in “Eyes Wide Shut” and a foreboding Medieval ceremony. The set morphed into a tawdry hotel straight out of Stone’s “Natural Born Killers,” with Madonna gunning down masked assailants with disturbing glee, smearing the joint with blood and curse-splattered bravado. The music rumbled with menace, Madonna’s voice Auto-tuned almost beyond recognition, the once-bouncy “Papa Don’t Preach” and the exuberant “Hung Up” slowed and twisted to a crawl.
A parade of drummers, some of them suspended from ceiling wires to make it long as though they were floating above the stage, exuberantly flushed out the bad vibes on “Give Me All Your Luvin’.” Segment 2 was more organic, and exuded a highly unusual quality for a Madonna tour: something like warmth. She still uses her guitar, which was often barely audible, as more of a prop than an instrument, and her voice remains thin. But her dancing was energetic, and at times astonishingly athletic. “Open Your Heart” inspired an ensemble performance that suggested a mating of gypsy kicks and hip-hop break dancing.
The next segment was all ice-queen Berlin cabaret, topped by an oddly moving, slowed-nearly-beyond-recognition “Like a Virgin.” Here was Madonna’s signature song (or at least one of them) sung from the perspective of a much older woman looking back on her life, trying to conjure up a feeling she could barely remember, let alone ever experience again. It concluded with a tortured, erotic ballet involving Madonna, another dancer and a corset. A vulnerable Madonna? You saw it here first.
After that, the singer sent her fans home dancing with the sound of sitars on “I’m a Sinner,” a choir on “Like a Prayer,” and an aerobics class sponsored by Kraftwerk on “Celebration.” Amid a fleet of fluorescent modules, she was briefly the dance-pop icon of the ‘80s and ‘90s again. Some of her fans would surely be glad if she stayed there for an entire concert. But for Madonna that would mean turning into a nostalgia act, and she’s not having it.
Jared Leto at Thursday's Toronto show
