My sister and I attended Madonna's concert.
The concert was superb, energetic and full of life! It was broken down into 4 different performing styles:
Pimping, Old School, Gypsy and Rave.
This past August The Material Girl turned 50.
She flexed her body. She wiggled. She swung around a dance poll. She slithered and crawled across the floor and cursed a couple of times here and there.
The show lasted a little over 2 hours. Every person was up on their feet dancing and singing with her.
My feet are sore, my ears are still ringing and my voice is hoarse. It was sooooo worth it!
CONCERT DAY
Concert souvenirs I bought inside the Galleria:
Talking on the phone outside the Gallleria.
Before the show 'A' and I had dinner in The Platinum Room inside The Air Canada Center. An elegant and my kind of restaurant to dine in. My sister the alcohol pusher, insisted I join her in having a glass of wine. After taking two teeny sips I ordered a Coke.
SWEET AND STICKY SET LIST
Intro/Candy Shop
Beat Goes On
Human Nature
Vogue
Video Interlude - Die Another Day
Into The Groove
Heartbeat
Borderline
She's Not Me
Musical interlude of Music
Here Comes The Rain Again/Rain
Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Spanish Lesson
Miles Away
La Isla Bonita/Lela Pala Tute
Doli Doli (Live interlude - Romanian folk song)
You Must Love Me
Video Interlude - Get Stupid (About saving the planet)
Hung Up
Like A Prayer
4 Minutes
Ray Of Light
Give It 2 Me (Finale)
Madonna opened the show 1 hour and 17 minutes late. An enormous candy box
appeared on stage. The box flaps collapsed and what was inside?
Her Madge-jesty on her throne! She opened the show with
Candy Shop.
"CANDY SHOP
Come into my store, I've got candy galore
Don't pretend you're not hungry, I've seen it
before
I'll be your one stop
Candy Shop...
My sugar is raw, sticky and sweet
"BEAT GOES ON"
Featuring Kanye West & Pharell Williams.
Don’t sit there like some silly girl
I’m not telling you something newThere ain’t no time to lose
So get down, beep, beep, gotta get up outtayour seat
Get up little girl
It's time for you to celebrate 
"HUMAN NATURE"
This next number was the much talked about video taped cameo of Britney Spears. She appeared on a huge screen with Madonna. The images kept flashing quickly so I couldn't get them all. There was one scene where both Madonna and Britney are being unwrapped like mummies revealing their tiny leather outfits underneath.
Britney, partially disguised by a gray hoodie, walks into the elevator. As she starts traveling upward, she seems particularly nervous and anxious. The popster starts pacing back and forth. Then she progresses to kicking and smacking the walls, all frantic-like. She screams into one of the cameras. Then she starts climbing the wall, pulls down her hood and, into another camera, says:
It's Britney bitch!
Madonna begins to sing "Human Nature"Did I say nothing wrong?
Oops, I didn't know I couldn't
talk about sex
I'm not apologizingWould it sound better if I were a man?
You're the one with the problem
Why don't you just deal with it
"VOGUE"
Look around everywhere you turn is heartache
It's everywhere that you go [look around]You try everything you can to escape
Vogue! Vogue! Vogue!
"DIE ANOTHER DAY"
Madonna didn't appear on stage for this number.
Instead two fighters (dancers) in a ring boxed it out
while the song played in the background and images of
Madonna flashed.
I'm gonna wake up
Yes and no
I'm gonna kiss some part of
I'm gonna keep this secret
I'm gonna close my body now
"INTO THE GROOVE"-During this number Madonna swung around a dance poll.
Get into the groove
Boy you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah
Get up on your feet, yeah
Step to the beat
Boy what will it be
"HEARTBEAT"
You know I feel it in my heartbeat
It may feel old to you, but to me it feels new
You know I feel it in my heartbeat
Don’t you know? Can’t you see?
When I dance, I feel free
"BORDERLINE"
-Madonna performed this song in a way she never did before,
on a guitar.
Something in the way you love me won't let me be
I don't want to be your prisoner so baby won't you set me free
Stop playing with my heart
Finish what you start
"SHE'S NOT ME"
I should have seen the sign way back then
When she told me that you were her best friend
And now she’s rolling, rolling, rolling
And you were stolen, stolen, stolen
She's not me
She doesn't have my name
She'll never have what I have
It won't be the same
She's not me
She's not me, and she never will be
Never will be
Never will be!!
"JUMP"
Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump
Don’t ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I’m ready to jump
Just take my hands
RAIN REMIX
A musical interlude of
Eurythmics Here Comes The Rain Again
-A circular wall of lights and images of raindrops
swirled around as Here Comes The Rain Again plays.
A figure in a black cloak on top of the piano can be seen.
It's Madonna who emerges out and sings "Rain."
"Rain"
Feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down
like Rain
"DEVIL WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU"
It’s like over and over you’re pushing me right down to the floor
I should just walk away.
Over and over I keep on coming back for more
I play into your fantasy
Now that it’s over you can lie to me right through your smile
Now I'm sober, no more intoxicating my mind
Even the devil wouldn’t recognize you, I do
This part of the show was absolutely entertaining. Joining her on stage
are Gypsy musicians who created a sensation with their
performance!"SPANISH LESSON"
Yo te quiero means I love you
Mucho gusto means I’m welcome to you
Señorita, I just wanna fall in love
Callate means close your mouth
Besame means give me love
Señorita, she just wanna fall in love
"MILES AWAY"
-This WAS my 2nd favorite song off her new CD.
It has a fantastic flamenco-like beat to it.
Madonna dedicated the song to the 'emotionally retarded.' Fans
began chanting GUY! GUY! GUY! Madonna laughed. Although she did
a great job singing the song and playing the guitar, the song
will never be the same again for me.
...I'm alright, don't be sorry, but it's true
When I'm gone you'll realize
That I'm the best thing that happened to you
You always love me more, miles away
I hear it in your voice, we're miles away
"LA ISLA BONITA"
Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be La Isla Bonita
"LELA PALA TUTE"
"DOLI-DOLI (Romanian folk song)
-Doing shots.
"YOU MUST LOVE ME"
If I had to pick a favorite moment it would be this particular
performance.
Madonna's vocals for this ballad was simply stunning .
There was not a dry eye in the house.
There was not a dry eye in the house.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing
Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm
feeling
Frightened you'll slip away
-Madonna prolonged the ending: YOU MUST LOVE....while
waiting for the crowd to roar before singing ME!!
-Madonna prolonged the ending: YOU MUST LOVE....while
waiting for the crowd to roar before singing ME!!
"GET STUPID"
-Video interlude about saving the planet
with various images appearing on stage.
"HUNG UP"
Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
Every little thing that you say
or do
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
"LIKE A PRAYER"
When you call me name it's like a little
prayer
I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you
there
"4 MINUTES"
Featuring Timbaland and J.Timberlake
If you want it, you already got it
If you thought it
It better be what you want
Time is wasting
We only got 4 minutes to save
the world
"RAY OF LIGHT"
...She's got herself a little piece of heaven
Waiting for the time when earth shall be as one
Quicker than a Ray Of Light
"GIVE IT 2 ME"
(Final Song)
-As soon as the background image appeared and before the
music started Madonna yelled the following words:
I AM THE QUEEN WHO WILL TOPPLE THE
KING!!
They say that a good thing never lasts
And then it has to fall
Those are the people that did not
Amount to much at all
When the lights go down and there's no
one left
I can go on and on and on
Give It 2 Me!
The next morning 'A' and I had breakfast at the hotel breakie bar. I excused myself from the table to tend to something and told 'A' to order me a plate of fresh fruit. Upon my return this is what I found waiting for me:
She ordered me a breakfast full of fat and sugar while ordering a bagel for herself.
Waiting for the valet.....time to go home.
XOXOXOXO,
Cocaine Princess
