Madonna Concert

Concert poster

Sugar Bear and I went to a Madonna Concert this last Thursday. I haven’t been to a concert that big since…well EVER. The concert was being held at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, which is capable of seating 56,000 people. Although the not every seat was filled, there were more than enough people there.

There were rumors that Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were going to make their cameos that night and sure enough they did. Britney Spears come on stage with Madonna to do about a 20 second duet of “human Nature” Britney looked very hot but uninterested in being there. Justin Timberlake did come on stage to perform “4 minutes to save the world”. I really like JT. I think he is a talented young man but he did look pretty tore up at the concert. ( I have provided youtube footage, check it out).

Other celebrities were rumored to be in the crowd. I didn’t personally see anyone “famous” the crowd would go wild and stand on their chairs and flash their cameras and when all the ado was over and the crowd settled, we’d ask “what just happend” and we’d get ” J-LO” or “Heidi Klum“.  By all means, JLO and Klum are celebrities and deserve the fuss but I drew the line when the crowd started going crazy and again we asked “what just happend” and we got the answer “Ryan Seacrest“……ARE YOU KIDDING ME PEOPLE….so from then on when ever the crowd would go crazy over a celebrity I’d act all excited and then get dissappointed and go “Oh it just Carrot top” or “Oh it’s just Jared the Subway guy” because well….I put Ryan Seacrest in the same celebrity ranking as those two. And I just wanted to add that Ryan Seacrust is lucky I put a link to his site cause lord knows none of you would have looked up his site on your own. Look I’m entitled to simply dislike any celebrity for no appearant reason and I just don’t like seacrust. If you like him that’s great but for some reason, unknown even to me, I just don’t like that guy.

Back to Madonna and how awesome she is (regardless of getting on stage nearly 3 hours late…that’s right, the concert was suppose to start at 7:30pm she had no opening act, she did have Paul Oakenfold spinning for a little bit but after he finished there was nothing for 2 hours and she finally started her show at 10:15m). That women is in her 50s and she come out on stage and was freakn’ everyone, jumping off platforms dancing dancing dancing, then she comes out with some jump rope and double dutches for a good 3 minutes, that women is in incredible shape. Say what you want to, I know some people think she looks gross but I think she’s fucking amazing. Her Biceps are bigger than my head and you could see how lean and vascular she was when she strapped on a guitar and rocked out with it. Her legs are strong and probably 0% fat. She’s a performer, first and formost and she performed well. The dancers were amazing, some were more talented than others and it was obvious but nontheless it was a great show. The costumes were really horrible but what do you expect. I wasn’t a big fan of her “remixes” of any of her songs. I was a little girl when songs like “Borderline” and “la Isla Bonita” came out and I have very fond memories of them. The remixes she made reminded me of some really bad broadway play remake of them. They just weren’t the same. Nonetheless it was very nice to hear her hits. She performed almost every one of my favorit songs. At the very end of the show she invited everyone to cram as close to the stage as possible and she took requests. She joked about how she couldn’t remember some of the lyrics and that she was butchering her own songs.

Madonna set list:

“Candy Shop”
“Beat Goes On”
“Human Nature”
“Vogue”
“Die Another Day” (Remix) (Video Interlude)
“Into the Groove”
“Heartbeat”
“Borderline”
“She’s Not Me”
“Music”
“Rain” (Remix) (Video Interlude)
“Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You”
“Spanish Lesson”
“Miles Away”
“La Isla Bonita”
“Doli Doli” (Dance Interlude)
“You Must Love Me”
“Get Stupid” (Video Interlude)
“4 Minutes”
“Like a Prayer”
“Ray of Light”
“Hung Up”
“Give It 2 Me”

 The show was extravegant.  This site has the credits of all the performers and people who worked on the show. It also has stats for how much money her Eurpean shows made, check this out:

EUROPE
1. Cardiff, UK: $5,279,107 – 1 show – 33,460 attendance
2. Nice, France: $4,381,242 – 1 show – 41,483 attendance
3. Berlin, Germany: $6,048,086 – 1 show – 47,368 attendance
4. Zurich, Switzerland: $11,093,631 – 1 show – 70,314 attendance
5. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: $6,717,734 – 1 show – 50,588 attendance
6. Dusseldorf, Germany: $4,650,327 – 1 show – 35,014 attendance
7. Rome, Italy: $5,713,196 – 1 show – 57,690 attendance
8. Frankfurt, Germany: $6,020,706 – 1 show – 39,543 attendance
9. London, UK: $11,796,540 – 1 show – 73,349 attendance
10. Lisbon, Portugal: $6,295,068 – 1 show – 75,000 attendance
11. Seville, Spain: $4,874,380 – 1 show – 47,712 attendance (non-sellout)
12. Valencia, Spain: $4,941,980 – 1 show – 50,143 attendance
13. Paris, France: $17,583,211 – 2 shows – 138,163 attendance
14. Vienna, Austria: $8,140,858 – 1 show – 57,002 attendance
15. Budva, Montenegro: $3,463,063 – 1 show – 47,524 attendance
16. Athens, Greece: $9,030,440 – 1 show – 75,637 attendance
Totals for European leg: 17 shows reported to Billboard – $116,030,000 – 939,990 tickets