Anyway, the show...Eric was totally not on board for Madonna and he's been a good sport about going to lots of stuff with me, so I didn't push it. Instead, I got to go with my longtime friend and fellow '80's music lover, Lorraine Garrison. The tickets said the show started at 8 pm, but the concerts I've been to in the past year or so have reminded me that 1) there is always an opening act, and 2) concerts never start on time. I knew it was going to be a late night and that we could be fashionably late, but man! Did she even stop to consider the fact that it was a Sunday night and people had places to be the next day? Her show didn't start until almost 11 pm! We arrived around 9 pm and there was some lame deejay spinning records for the crowd. Okay, considering he was opening for Madonna, he probably wasn't lame, but I just don't get deejays. He seemed mighty proud of his ability to push a button and make someone else's music play. And I totally don't fit in with the ecstasy and glow stick crowd, so I felt like a total stick in the mud during all that.
Finally, finally, as my eyelids were drooping, Madonna came on stage. As you may have heard, she spent the first three or more songs shooting all her dancers with graphic blood splatter in the background. From the rafters, we couldn't really even hear the music, so I have no clue how that was relevant. I imagine plenty of people were offended by it, but it's Madonna. She's provocative and she's not going to back down. The first several songs sounded highly autotuned, which is understandable considering she cancelled the previous night's show due to laryngitis, but I think she did sing much of the music herself. When she sang the songs I knew, it was awesome, but there just wasn't enough of it and those songs were often shortened or remixed to the point that you couldn't really sing along. Thankfully she had the most amazing dancers ever, so even when I didn't know the song, I could totally enjoy watching the dancers.
The best part of the whole concert, for me, was the middle set where everyone was dressed in band/majorette uniforms. She sang more of her hits during that time and it was all capped off by the drum corps that was suspended from the rafters. It. Was. Amazing. With one exception: a 50-year-old woman should never march around with pom poms. Here is a crappy iPhone picture of the scene:
Here is a picture of the whole concert scene:
I'm not going to go through a play-by-play of every song that she sang, but my favorites were "Express Yourself" (with a little "Born This Way" mixed in), "Open Your Heart," and "Like a Prayer." Oh, and I'd be remiss not to mention that over the course of four or five songs, Madonna stripped down from a business suit-type outfit to a bra, thong and fishnets. Oh, and the cameras were zoomed in on her ass...several times throughout the show, actually. It's okay, she has a good ass.
Overall, I'm glad I went because it was Madonna, but I'll admit, I was disappointed. I wanted more old stuff, but thinking back, I may have to go download some of her new stuff. It wasn't bad. As a performer, she's pretty awesome, though I'll admit we'd never get along as BFFs. The crowd was really fun to watch because there were a ton of Madonna lookalikes. It made me wish I had come up with a tulle skirt and lace gloves of my own. Missed opportunity. I should have seen Madonna in concert 15 years ago, but the opportunity wasn't there. So, in closing this rambling post...yay for bucket lists and yay for seeing Madonna in concert!
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