January 19, 20232 yr I've re-ordered my original post (which was originally just in the order of likelihood of being included)... something like this would really work I think: Celebration Music Into the Groove Everybody or Lucky Star Dress You Up Like a Virgin Open Your Heart Live to Tell Justify My Love 4 Minutes Vogue Ray of Light La Isla Bonita Don’t Tell Me Frozen (this segues brilliantly between these two because of the strings) Papa Don’t Preach Material Girl Express Yourself Holiday Crazy For You Hung Up Like a Prayer I would love the following in particular but I'm not convinced she'll do them: Borderline Power of Goodbye Ghosttown Secret Deeper and Deeper Girl Gone Wild Rescue Me
January 19, 20232 yr 1. Holiday 2. Borderline 3. Like a virgin 4. Material girl 5. Into the groove 6. Papa don't preach 7. True blue (never going to happen I know) / La isla bonita (much more likely) 8. Like a prayer 9. Express yourself 10. Vogue 11. Erotica 12. Deeper and deeper 13. Secret 14. Human nature / Take a bow (UK / USA) 15. Frozen 16. Ray of light 17. Music 18. Beautiful stranger 19. Hollywood 20. Hung up 21. Give it 2 me 22. Girl gone wild 23. Living for love 24. Bitch I'm Madonna (I hate this but I have the feeling I'd LOVE it in a show lol) Not sure what order, I would have said chronological but the end part would be a bite muted compared to the earlier huge classics so think it would need mixing up. It would be nice to have at least one song from each studio album, but she should definitely have the bigger hits more heavy in the setlist. Edited January 19, 20232 yr by spiceboy
January 19, 20232 yr I've re-ordered my original post (which was originally just in the order of likelihood of being included)... something like this would really work I think: Celebration Music Into the Groove Everybody or Lucky Star Dress You Up Like a Virgin Open Your Heart Live to Tell Justify My Love 4 Minutes Vogue Ray of Light La Isla Bonita Don’t Tell Me Frozen (this segues brilliantly between these two because of the strings) Papa Don’t Preach Material Girl Express Yourself Holiday Crazy For You Hung Up Like a Prayer I would love the following in particular but I'm not convinced she'll do them: Borderline Power of Goodbye Ghosttown Secret Deeper and Deeper Girl Gone Wild Rescue Me I like this setlist a good order... except for Lucky star I hope she doesn't touch that it's so so bad lol. Also not keen on her doing Everybody I mean I get it is her first single but it wasn't ever a hit Holiday is her first single in the general public's eye.
January 19, 20232 yr My main thing is that I really want this tour to be a success, both for fans and critics so that she regains some of the goodwill that she's lost over the years... and I think she needs to avoid later material in order to make that happen. I'm assuming that she and her team will use the single disc Celebration album as a template as they obviously felt that was her best material. Tellingly they were happy to omit songs from Erotica, Bedtime Stories and American Life as well as omitting all the stand alone and soundtrack singles so I'd expect the same here. I like this setlist a good order... except for Lucky star I hope she doesn't touch that it's so so bad lol. Also not keen on her doing Everybody I mean I get it is her first single but it wasn't ever a hit Holiday is her first single in the general public's eye. I too would happily have neither of those... however she put Lucky Star on the single disc version of Celebration so it wouldn't surprise me :(
January 19, 20232 yr I love these setlists coming in. I think Celebration itself should (and will) be included given the name of the tour and the fact it's probably one of her last big hits. I'd love it to open the show with a bang!
January 19, 20232 yr My main thing is that I really want this tour to be a success, both for fans and critics so that she regains some of the goodwill that she's lost over the years... and I think she needs to avoid later material in order to make that happen. I'm assuming that she and her team will use the single disc Celebration album as a template as they obviously felt that was her best material. Tellingly they were happy to omit songs from Erotica, Bedtime Stories and American Life as well as omitting all the stand alone and soundtrack singles so I'd expect the same here. I too would happily have neither of those... however she put Lucky Star on the single disc version of Celebration so it wouldn't surprise me :( I can totally see your logic re the Celebration disc 1!
January 19, 20232 yr Music to me feels like an opener. “Music makes the people come together” :heart: It’s a statement and it’s also a big hit too. I can see it opening for sure. (But Celebration with the “come join the party” line also feels like an opener as well. I wonder if the setlist my change depending on the venue too? Like for example certain hits were huge in the UK and not US and then in some instances some big US hits like Take A Bow weren’t really big hits in the UK. There’ll be some staples that’ll be on every show for sure but I can see some slight re arrangements as some countries may have taken to some tracks more than others.
January 19, 20232 yr My main thing is that I really want this tour to be a success, both for fans and critics so that she regains some of the goodwill that she's lost over the years... and I think she needs to avoid later material in order to make that happen. If the point is to regain goodwill, then she needs to be careful what she performs - not just from a hit perspective, but also from a perspective of what she can perform these days vocally; her voice has detoriated really badly in the last decade unfortunately (part down to quite honestly not taking care of it, and for all her work ethic she's never seemingly bothered with proper vocal coaching since Evita). I actually think the single disc edition of Celebration is a decent template to be honest; the one that sticks out there is Ray of Light (Frozen also has a bit of a hard notes for her to hit) which she barely could perform post-Evita when her voice was arguably at its strongest, so she has no hope for that now. I guess she could mime though, I'd expect a fair amount of that happening tbh. Edited January 19, 20232 yr by tommie
January 19, 20232 yr Author I love these setlists coming in. I think Celebration itself should (and will) be included given the name of the tour and the fact it's probably one of her last big hits. I'd love it to open the show with a bang! I think so too, especially after performing it at Pride (I reckon it’ll get similar choreography too). I imagine the versions of the songs performed will resemble closely to the originals but I could see some of the Finally Enough Love remixes being incorporated into them too.
January 19, 20232 yr I've started a prayer circle for Angel, Gambler, Causing A Cmmotion, Rescue Me and Rain to appear in some form....
January 19, 20232 yr If she included 'Celebration', should it be the original version or the Benny Benassi remix? That feels just as well-known (if not moreso)
January 19, 20232 yr Author If she included 'Celebration', should it be the original version or the Benny Benassi remix? That feels just as well-known (if not moreso) I’d say the Benny Benassi version was much more known due to it being the version used on the video and it was also used on the MDNA Tour. I’ve always been a big champion of the album version but ever since the Pride performance I’ve been preferring the remix.
January 19, 20232 yr I can’t stand the remix personally so hoping for the original, I think it’d be a great opener!
January 20, 20232 yr Benny Remix For SURE !!! Tried for Sunday London, was 55,000 in one queue and 180,000 in another !
January 20, 20232 yr My set list 1 Celebration The religious section 2 Like A Prayer 3 Papa Don’t Preach 4 Live To Tell The Studio 54 section 5 Hung Up 6 Deeper and Deeper 7 Express Yourself 8 Music The Dark Room section 9 Erotica 10 Justify My Love 11 Human Nature The ArtPop section 12 Beautiful Stranger 13 American Life 14 Ray of Light 15 Frozen The Legacy section 16 Like A Virgin 17 Lucky Star 18 Material Girl The encores 19 Vogue 20 Into The Groove 21 Bitch I’m Madonna 22 Holiday
January 20, 20232 yr THE CELEBRATION TOUR 1. Music 2. Celebration 3. Everybody 4. Get Together / Into The Groove 5. Interlude - Living For Love 6. Keep It Together 7. Dont Tell Me (Guitar) 8. Rain (Guitar) 9. Interlude Dont Cry For Me Miami Mix 10. La Isla Bonita 11. Medellin 12. Holiday 13. Express Yourself 14. Take A Bow 15. Dance Interlude Megamix (Jump/causing a commotion/deeper and deeper/4 minutes/girl gone wild/bitch im madonna) 16. Papa Dont Preach 17. Material Girl 18. Like A Virgin 19. Vogue 20. Ray Of Light 21. Hung Up 22. The Power Of Goodbye 23. Like A Prayer
January 20, 20232 yr Wouldn't it be good if Madonna revisited the original Vogue dance routine for the tour... even if it was just her backing dancers who actually did the moves. I've seen it recreated so many times over the years that it remains iconic, so would be something to see it given a nod. The original Holiday dance was be a serve as well. Edited January 20, 20232 yr by CJK
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