There is less than a month left until Madonna’s current tour, Celebration Tour, ends with a gigantic free concert on Copacabana beach (in Rio de Janeiro) that promises to be one of the events of the decade in Brazil. The show has garnered almost unanimously enthusiastic reviews, which celebrate the energy of the singer at 65 years old, the irresistible catalog of songs that fill the concert (all pop classics from the last four decades) and the millimeter staging. As has happened with all of Madonna’s tours, the anecdotes and controversies that appear along the way at each concert also provide food for the cultural and social press, which almost every week has published articles about what was happening on the stage of Madonna. the stadiums that Madonna has filled since last October.
Special appearances by famous faces are especially celebrated during the moment of the concert when Madonna sings her classic. Vogue. To do this, he stages a show of ball in charge of her dancers in which she is the judge. And to help her in that task and to rate her dancers, she is usually accompanied by some recognizable figure at each stop on her tour. Among them, Spaniards like Úrsula Corberó (in Barcelona) or Jon Kortajarena (in Lisbon).
Other nights they accompanied the singer Jean Paul Gaultier, Donatella Versace, Pamela Anderson, Stella McCartney, Julia Garner, Amy Schumer, Cardi B, Jeremy Scott or David Harbour. In Los Angeles, Kylie Minogue appeared on stage, with whom she sang, creating one of those historic moments for pop fans. Ricky Martin was the guest last night, at the Kaseya Center in Miami, and according to social networks and some international portals, he showed off a generous erection, the result (probably) of the erotic dances that the singer’s collaborators gave him.
It is obvious from the images that this supposed reaction that has turned the singer into a trending topic on social network Madonna’s tours, so many times accused of being irrelevant by the music press, and the infallibility of a formula that, because it is older than fame itself, does not prevent us from stopping looking: instead of putting one famous person, put two .
Celebration, but with unforeseen events
The tour caused a stir before it began. Although in January 2023 fans around the world were overwhelming the tickets and the Celebration Tour became the fastest-selling tour in history (the singer would later add additional dates due to the exceptional reception), the scare came on June 28, 2023. Two weeks before the initially planned opening date in Vancouver, Madonna was admitted to the ICU due to a serious infection and had to suspend the tour. For two weeks it seemed that the most anticipated tour of the year was not going to happen. Less than two weeks later, the singer announced that the suspension would not be such: she would simply alter the dates of the tour to start a little later in Europe, to be able to recover and extend it until the spring of 2024. “I didn’t want to disappoint anyone who had Bought tickets to my concerts. Nor to those who had worked tirelessly with me over the past few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone,” she wrote on her Instagram account.
But he would soon disappoint someone. Although in the first concert of the tour, on October 14 in London, there was a half-hour delay due to technical difficulties for which the artist apologized (“This is exactly what you don’t want to happen to you on your opening night ” he complained to the public), delays of up to two hours became the norm. In one that, in fact, Madonna carries over from previous tours: her tours Rebel Heart (2015) and Madame X (2019-2020) saw delays of up to two and a half hours that led her fans to complain on social media, boo her in the stadiums themselves, and, in some cases, sue the artist. Something that was repeated last January, when two fans from New York sued her for misleading her audience about the start time of the show and leaving her fans, according to the lawsuit, “stranded in the middle of the night” and “faced with the limitations of public transportation and the higher costs of private transportation,” in addition to highlighting that since concerts are held during the week, the delays especially affect those who must get up early to work the next day. The response from the artist’s lawyers came just hours ago: according to them, having to “get up early to go to work” is not a legal “damage” for which a person can be sued.
Madonna leaves late at all her concerts Celebration, that’s true, sometimes annoyingly late. But when she comes out she gives the audience, for the first time in her career, exactly what the audience has come looking for: all of her hits, one after the other, with dozens of dancers walking around a gigantic stage. Furthermore, on this tour he has been closer than ever to his audience, dedicating several moments in each concert to reviewing moments of his career and his life, beer in hand, and personalizing each stop on his tour with a song or a wink. to the place where it is. But in Los Angeles he may have regretted that closeness. At the Kia Forum in Los Angeles he looked at a woman who was sitting in the front row and blurted out: “What are you doing sitting there?” He soon realized that the admirer was in a wheelchair. “Oh, okay, okay. That has been politically incorrect. I’m sorry. I’m glad you have come”.
Madonna questions fan for sitting down during her show then finds out they’re on a wheelchair:
“Oh okay, politically incorrect, sorry about that. I’m glad you’re here.” pic.twitter.com/oezHxfjrFn
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 9, 2024
The quick and heartfelt apology did not prevent the anecdote from filling the news of the sensational media the next day. TMZ even carried a strange exclusive on its cover: talking to the supposedly outraged fan, named Vanessa Gorman. She closed the controversy with a very clear: “I was not offended.”
The tour will come to an end with a gigantic concert on Copacabana beach, in Brazil, which will also be free (a bank finances and sponsors it). It is expected to become the live show with the most viewers of his career. Up to two million people could attend. There are no tickets, there are no turns, whoever comes first, goes first. The security measures will be monumental and according to the city’s hotel sectors, reservations for that weekend increased by 30% just with the rumors of the concert, before official confirmation in March. Surely we will read about the anecdotes that occur on and off stage for days.
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