It’s a show unlike any other I’ve seen: a spectacle so wild and zany that I can’t quite believe it actually happened
Madonna performs during the opening night of The Celebration Tour at the O2 Arena has been having to prove herself: from hustling around New York’s nightclubs as a teenager to defending herself against a sexist, ageist society, her career has been one long middle finger to the word ‘No’.tour kicked off in London after being delayed by a serious health scare, she roamed the stage with the same brassy attitude that has got her to where she is, proving over and over that she deserves it all.
It is a dazzlingly chaotic show. Feverish and sultry, theatrical and considered, shambolic and pristine all at once. Condensing forty years of wildly disparate hits into a two-hour performance complete with skits makes the whole thing a bit less ‘greatest hits’ and a bit more ‘Madonna:’, referencing iconic Madonna moments and outfits, and contextualising her older songs back into the times they came from.Take the transition from the frothy pop nothingness of “Holiday” into “Live To Tell”: she disappeared behind a huge mirrorball as the dying strains of “Holiday” echoed away like a flashback in a movie.
This dichotomy between the serious and the silly was pure Madonna and it worked over and over again throughout the performance. It was littered by chatty speeches, stories from her life and comments on, for example, theThe threat of mortality hung over the show which seemed, in hindsight, to be such a celebration of life it was basically flipping off death. Madonna almost didn’t make it to these shows at all – she was found unresponsive over the summer and spent weeks in hospital.
Was there any need to cut Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s thumping megasmash “Unholy” into the perfect song? No. But Madonna is going to do what Madonna is going to do: nothing is off-limits. She will throw gasoline on a bonfire of her best music in pursuit of the perfect moment: she will wring every possible moment of drama from every song.As the show wore on, its own chaos threatened to overwhelm it.
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