Starting today, yay! :cheer:

 

Four Tour Sections:

 

Joan Of Arc/Samurai; 1 Arianne Phillips took the reins of the first act — a Joan of Arc-inspired section similar to the Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott-lensed cover art of the “Rebel Heart” album — and devised a series of costumes referencing liturgical fabrics and a recent exhibition of samurai armor at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Dancing nuns on stripper poles also make an appearance during this act. It wouldn’t be a Madonna show otherwise.

 

Rockabilly Meets Tokyo; 2 Miuccia Prada, who created original Prada and Miu Miu footwear for previous tours, was asked to design costumes as well this time around for the show’s second section. Her response? Rockabilly meets Tokyo.

 

Latin/Gypsy; 3 It’s in the third act, the Latin quarter if you will, that things get really twisted. Fausto Puglisi, Gucci‘s Alessandro Michele and the Lebanese designer Nicolas Jebran created more of the same matador-inspired looks that appeared in the music video and live performances of single “Living for Love.” Michele imagines Madonna in full-blown “La Isla Bonita” mode, a mysterious gypsy wrapped in her fringed manila shawl, hiding behind her flamenco hat, lace and jacquard bodysuit and multicolor skirt.

 

Party; 4 To end things with a bang, Madonna enlisted Moschino‘s Jeremy Scott, fashion’s resident club kid, for the party section. She has worked with Scott intermittently since the early Aughts, but perhaps picking up on his ascendance in the public eye since his appointment at Moschino — not to mention his relationship with Miley Cyrus, et al — she brought him back into her orbit to work recently on several high-profile looks, including ones for her “Bitch I’m Madonna” music video.

 

Scott’s mandate was to come up with an homage to Harlem-flapper-meets-Paris-in-the-Twenties and several weeks after their joint appearance at the Costume Institute gala, he had the look: a blinding finale dress employing thousands of Swarovski crystals because, Scott says, “no showgirl would be complete without crystals.”

 

http://wwd.com/fashion-news/designer-luxur...-tour-10211945/

Apparent tracking list which matches what someone apparently heard at the final rehearsal:

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/2ex7q87.jpg

 

Personally hoping it is a fake given there's no 'Joan of Arc', 'Inside Out' or 'Wash All Over Me'. Plus 'True Blue' doesn't sound likely. 'Deeper and Deeper' is a big yay though.

 

Also, costume designs:

 

http://imgur.com/5SNtcvw.jpg

 

Second to last is pretty *.* don't you think?

Love Don't Live Here Anymore? :o *.* please be true.

Love Don't Live Here Anymore? :o *.* please be true.

:o Oh yes! I missed that one, will be interesting to see whether she can hit that grittiness of the original still.

The setlist is bad :( meh it'll be enough just to be in the same room as her I suppose but I'd still want a few alterations come December..

The setlist is a JOKE. To have a Joan of Arc section AND NOT DO THE SONG. To drop the incredible Ghosttown yet have Holy Water, Bitch, Illuminati (even if it is just an interlude) and Unapologetic Bitch. f*** OFF MADGE.

 

Even worse is finishing on Holiday? I guess I can get home nice and early. Yes I am VERY VERY happy at Deeper and Deeper and True Blue and Love Don't Live Here and the medley, but I really hope between now and December she adds in at least Ghosttown. She doesn't often change though, so ugh.

Wheres JOA? Lol.

^As if she's dropped 'Ghosttown'! :o Silly decision given its been the most successful song overall in the campaign. So much for it being one of her favourites too. I suppose the set-list may feel better when we see the performances but there's only a few "yay" song choices and I'm bitterly disappointed at three of the best Rebel Heart tracks (Joan of Arc', 'Inside Out' or 'Wash All Over Me') being ignored.

 

Full set-list from last night's show:

1. 'Iconic'

2. 'Bitch I'm Madonna '

3. 'Burning Up '

4. 'Holy Water / Vogue'

5. 'Devil Pray'

6. 'Messiah'

7. 'Body Shop '

8. 'True Blue' (Acoustic)

9. 'Deeper and Deeper '

10. 'HeartBreakCity' / 'Love Don't Live Here Anymore'

11. 'Like a Virgin'

12. 'S.E.X. (Justify My Love insert)'

13. 'Living for Love' (Offer Nissim Living For Drums Remix)

14. 'La Isla Bonita'

15. 'Dress You Up' / 'Into The Groove' / 'Everybody' / 'Lucky Star'

16. 'Who's That Girl' (Acoustic)

17. 'Rebel Heart'

18. 'Illuminati'

19. 'Music'

20. 'Candy Shop'

21. 'Material Girl'

22. 'La Vie En Rose' (Édith Piaf cover)

23. 'Unapologetic Bitch'

24. 'Holiday'

Plenty of tour pictures here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...ate-Canada.html Looking fantastic in some of them!

Ok, it LOOKS good and she looks good too, so that's a little better and I kind of managed to miss her doing Who's That Girl before (even if Causing A Commotion would be much better). I guess I always knew it was going to be a bit more MISS regarding the Rebel Heart tracks anyway, we just happened to have it lucky with the last 3 tours really.

Good reviews so far: http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/m...the-bell-centre http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/m...ticle-1.2354738

 

Been noted that Madonna was noticeably smiley in this tour which is really great to hear. Her smiling her way through the Grammy performance of 'Living for Love' really put the song on a different level. Need to hear the jazz version of 'Music', acoustic version of 'Who's That Girl?' and 'Rebel Heart'!

Very disappointed that Ghosttown isn't on there, it's one of my very favourites from her and considering it's a single from the current era...

 

Wish there was at least one of Hung Up/Sorry/Jump/Like a Prayer on there too or something (this will be my first Madonna tour so no idea what she's normally like when it comes to including the classics / hits). Oh well, La Isla Bonita and Material Girl should cover me fine in that regard.

She's abysmal at including classics and or hits. Music has been wheeled out without fail though, which is an even bigger insult. Generally IF she does include it (at least on the last 3 tours) it's in such a bast*rdised format it's basically a totally new song or mashed up with something truly awful. OR BOTH.

Where the f*** is Ghosttown ? The best and most liked song on the album !

I'm hearing rumours that it will replace the French song outside of Canada and France ?

 

Joan of arc not in the Joan of arc section

Candy shop again .....

Burning up not needed

 

I love the inclusion of holiday, WTG and True Blue tho

She's abysmal at including classics and or hits. Music has been wheeled out without fail though, which is an even bigger insult. Generally IF she does include it (at least on the last 3 tours) it's in such a bast*rdised format it's basically a totally new song or mashed up with something truly awful. OR BOTH.

I love the variations of 'Music' - the Disco Inferno mix on the Confessions Tour and 'Put Your Hands Up For Detroit' mash-up on S&S Tour do both make the song totally brand new but in a truly fantastic way.

 

Who's going to see her on one of the UK dates? I'm actually considering it after my mum kind of casually suggested it in the car tonight.

I am NOT KEEN on the track at all anyway (I may have mentioned...) but the version of S&S was pretty good yeah. The Disco Inferno mix is just way too long, I have a fanmade edit somewhere which is like 3 minutes and it's great.

Yeah, I was going to say, it's not a good start when you don't really like it in the first place! :P 'Music/Disco Inferno' is pretty lengthy but every second just, to use your favourite phrase, EXUDES JOY. The sample particularly so, and it sounds so much grander than it does in the original recording (obviously due to technology improving but still). I love the naff disco-fever dancing she does around the 4:30 mark too. Less "strike a pose" and more "get off my street".

Liam you must get tickets! :o

 

I'm not upset at the tour missing out a lot of my fave songs/the classics i'm most upset at how little it seems to represent 'Rebel Heart' as an era which is all about her journey til now.

 

Granted it opens with that message loud and clear and I suppose the (frankly ODD) closing harks back to her initial stamp on the scene, but where is the pain from the LAP era, the ectasy from Confessions, the lessons she learnt during ROL and so on? The songs she's chosen from this album don't even sing and convey the album's message too well either.

 

Still 'Iconic' opening the show will be a MOMENT. What a song <3

To be fair she's got that many great songs in her catalogue that the set list is never going to contain all the classics people want. I'm as disappointed as everyone else at the exclusion of Ghosttown though.

 

Also, didn't she recently say she hates True Blue and she hasn't performed it on tour for over 20 years or something?

Edited September 11, 20159 yr by Mango

I'm not sure if she's said anything recently, but as True Blue was about her relationship with Sean and that ended...badly, she hasn't sang it since the WTG tour, no.

I am surprised Like a Prayer/Hung Up are not on there - I'd say those are two she HAS to do on every tour, especially since the latter connects with her younger fan-base a lot more. She does have so many iconic songs, she needs to mix it up every time she tours because she has near enough 20 big classics so it's sad but fair that my fav Papa Don't Preach only makes it sometimes.

 

The omission of Ghosttown is baffling and unforgivable though! And I like Holiday, and I know it was her first ever megahit but I don't think it's a closer, I feel like she's made a good dozen more closing-worthy songs since Holiday.