Het grote Madonna Re-Invention Tour spoiler topic

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Op dinsdag 25 mei 2004 16:40 schreef Disorder het volgende:
Dus ze hebben Madonna's zangkwaliteiten opnieuw op de achtergrond geschoven, zo te zien.

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Op dinsdag 25 mei 2004 21:13 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Wie wil er een stukje Burning Up horen?

_{En kan iemand me leren mooiere hyperlinks te maken...?}

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Op dinsdag 25 mei 2004 21:28 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
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Is dat zo? Oh jeempie.

Geldt dat ook voor live concerten? En verwijzingen?

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Op dinsdag 25 mei 2004 21:39 schreef static het volgende:
Sneller gevonden dan ik dacht.

Drowned World Tour

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Rolling Stone Review - Madonna Reinvents Herself

Amid images of war and peace, pop star shows she can sing - By Barry Walters

After twenty years in the limelight, Madonna is expected to cause controversy and reinvent herself for every new tour. So for the May 24th Los Angeles opening of her Re-Invention world trek, Madonna did the most unexpected thing she could: She came back as a great concert singer.
Even the most diehard Madonna fan will concede that her live performances have almost without exception been plagued by a multitude of missed notes, breathy passages, and, as of late, fake British accents. But while Mariah and Whitney have of been losing the acrobatic vocal dexterity and lung power on which their reputations rest, forty-five-year-old Madonna, whom few have ever taken seriously as a musician, has never sounded better than she did during the first of several gigs in her adopted West Coast home.
Whether rocking out with classic black Les Paul in hand during a metallic rendition of her early club hit 'Burning Up,' or performing 'Like a Prayer' behind a screen-projected gospel choir, Madonna belted, and did not once seemed strained. In the midst of a $1 million production festooned with a walkway that jutted out from the stage and over the audience, massive moving video screens, a dozen dancers, a bagpipe player, a stunt skateboarder and a whole lot of emotionally charged anti-war imagery, the focus was nevertheless on Madonna, and how she's matured into a truly great pop singer.
Opening with a yoga-trained twist on her famous Louis XIV-inspired MTV Video Music Awards rendition of 'Vogue' and ending on a kilt-wearing finale of 'Holiday' against a video backdrop of national flags that eventually morphed into one, the show was thematically simpler and more focused than her last several productions.
The barbarism of war and the necessity of love were at the heart of the entire show, and both played off each other, sometimes for ironic and decidedly uneasy effect. The original military-themed video footage of 'American Life' that the singer withheld at the start of the Iraq war was finally unveiled, and then expanded upon during 'Express Yourself,' where Madonna sang her anthem of unbridled, intimate communication in front of dancers dressed as soldiers and goose-stepping with twirling rifles.
By contrast, Madonna closed an extended acoustic section of the show with a straightforward and thoroughly committed rendition of John Lennon's 'Imagine' as images of war and poverty-ravaged children eventually gave way to footage of a Muslim boy and his Israeli counterpart smiling as they walked with their arms wrapped around each other.
The heaviness of much of the imagery was balanced by Madonna's own presence, which seemed remarkably fun-loving and self-assured for the opening night of her most technically complex production. Only when she strapped on an acoustic or electric guitar during several songs and repeatedly glanced at her left hand to make sure it was playing the proper chords did she seem at all nervous. "How many people out there really think that I am the Material Girl?" she asked during a break in her most iconic early smash as she strummed with much deliberation.
For the last several songs, Madonna and her dancers donned black and white kilts, an apparent nod to husband Guy Ritchie's Scottish heritage, and black T-shirts that read 'Kabbalists Do It Better,' a cheeky reference to both her religious studies and the 'Italians Do It Better' T-shirt she wore during her video for 'Papa Don't Preach,' a song that was performed without the 'near-naked pregnant women' described in pre-tour reports of the show.
In a number dedicated for the 'fans that've stood by me for the last twenty years,' she sang her earliest hit ballad, 'Crazy For You,' earnestly and without contrivance.
Madonna's continued relevance was impressive, but it was even more striking that she's putting more love and genuine passion into her spectacle than ever.

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MOVE over BRITNEY and BEYONCE – there’s only one Queen of Pop and she’s back to reclaim her crown.

MADONNA defied her critics to prove she’s still No1 when she kicked off her Re-Invention Tour in LA.

She may be 45 but she’s sassier, sexier and more supple than the current crop of young pretenders — as my pictures prove.

Madonna gave the fans exactly what they wanted — her biggest hits reworked with a modern twist.

The show opened with Vogue — and the track sounded as fresh now as it did all those years ago.

Dressed in a diamond-studded silver bodice, black hotpants and knee-high boots, Madonna looked 20 years younger than the woman we’ve seen in recent months — and devastatingly sexy.

The theme was boudoir chic and she proved that all those yoga classes were worthwhile.

She put SPORTY SPICE to shame with her back flips and flawless dance performance.

Anyone who thought she was past it was proved wrong on Monday night — and I’m one of them.

After her disappointing American Life album I doubted whether Madonna still had the X-factor that made her the leading star of her generation.

But I was forced to eat humble pie as she raged through a series of hits that mesmerised the audience

Madge was accompanied by a stunning video display.

She was shown on video screens dressed in the regalia of Kaballah — she’s a leading follower of the Jewish faith.

An anti-war section of the show kicked off with American Life.

Wearing combat gear and a black beret, she strutted her stuff on the dance floor and showed a video of child war victims.

And during her performance of Frozen she showed she still has the power to shock and be controversial with a homo-erotic video backdrop of naked men seemingly having sex.

One of the highlights of the show for me was a reworked version of Material Girl during which Madge asked the crowd: “How many people really think that I’m a Material Girl?”

Madonna’s hubby GUY RITCHIE watched in awe from the VIP seats, surrounded by Kaballah devotees.

As she went past him on a bridge, he blew her a kiss and whistled.

Madonna was determined to lay to rest a ghost which has haunted her for years — after she was turned down for a part in hit movie Chicago.

She devoted a section of the show to a Chicago/Cabaret theme and proved she could have put Oscar-winner CATHERINE ZETA JONES to shame with an all-singing, all-dancing performance of hits such as Hollywood, Hanky Panky and Deeper And Deeper.

No Madonna show would be complete without controversy.

During her performance of Bond theme Die Another Day, she was strapped and chained to an electric chair.

She later dressed in a pinstripe suit and top hat and sat down with a guitar to perform an emotional version of Nothing Fails and Don’t Tell Me.

Other highlights were Like A Prayer, Into The Groove and Papa Don’t Preach.

She covered JOHN LENNON’s Imagine, accompanied by footage of war victims, and drew a huge cheer when an image of the late Beatle flashed on to the screens.

The show closed with a medley of some of her biggest hits — Crazy For You, Music and Holiday.

Into The Groove featured an appearance by rapper MISSY ELLIOTT and kilt-clad bagpipers, with Madge leaping on stage in her own kilt and tartan knickers.

I’ve seen three previous Madonna world tours and I’ve always been impressed with her ability to surprise and amaze.

But she has saved the best for her Re-Invention tour. And I don’t use those words lightly.

It was the best pop show I have ever seen — and I’ve seen many over the years.

What Madonna seemed determined to prove was that she is still at the top of her game — the likes of KYLIE, Britney and Beyonce don’t even come close.

Every dance move, every note and every image was timed and executed to perfection — as only Madonna can do.

Today’s generation of Pop Idol wannabes should listen, learn and take note from a woman who has no intention of handing over her crown for a good few years yet.

Madge — I salute you.

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The mother of Reinvention gets Four Stars

She's in vogue. She's in the groove. She's expressing herself.

Who else but Madonna, reinventing her past in a splashy and stylish retro-fitted show (**** stars out of four).
She's dubbed it the Reinvention tour, an unnecessary reminder considering she has been reinventing herself since 1983.
Two decades after threatening to rule the world, pop's unstoppable dominatrix stepped on stage Monday night at the Great Western Forum to flaunt her considerable powers in a lavish and strenuous spectacle of song and dance.

It's one of several tours this year by veteran acts, Prince and David Bowie among them, reassessing and reclaiming their hits.

The two-hour career overview arrives amid cynical buzz about ploys to shore up sagging album sales with a quick-buck oldies tour featuring a Kabbalah pulpit.

Nonsense. Aside from Papa Don't Preach, rendered as a saucy romp, and a gorgeous version of Like a Prayer, religious references scattered through the non-stop dance party are arty and mildly provocative. She briefly dons a "Kabbalists do it better" T-shirt and wears the mystic sect's Red String around her left wrist, but otherwise avoids sermonizing, except to wholeheartedly fulfill Kabbalah's mandate to promote a positive flow of energy.

"I'm giving my all," she told the audience.

Now there's something you can believe in. The concert is a rigorous, fast-paced escapade with bold sets, brazen choreography and sexy but age-appropriate costumes, plus a bagpiper, a skateboarder, a fire handler and acrobats on swings.

It's cheeky and challenging theater, from the naughty Victorian caper of Vogue and the harrowing drama of Frozen to the breezy Express Yourself, rocking Burning Up and mock combat of American Life, played out on a suspended V-shaped catwalk. And that's only in the first of four elaborate acts.

A carnival section boasts a waggish Hanky Panky from Dick Tracy and the lovely Lament from Evita.

Deeper and Deeper, the only track from Erotica, gets an upbeat treatment before the mood downshifts for Die Another Day, when Madonna is strapped into an electric chair that rises on a platform. (Contrary to rumor, the switch isn't thrown.)

An acoustic set follows, with heartfelt renditions of Don't Tell Me, Like a Prayer and the show's two low points: a momentum-killing rap in Mother And Father and a cover of John Lennon's Imagine, competent but pointless considering the countless gems that could have been culled from her own catalog (Live to Tell, Oh Father, This Used to Be My Playground, Take a Bow).

The show wraps up with a kilt section that retools Into the Groove, Papa Don't Preach, Crazy for You, Music and her time-honored finale, Holiday.

At 45, Madonna is in fine voice, especially on the vintage tunes, where her silky tone may come as a surprise to fans familiar with the early chirp. She dances energetically with grace and funk, plays guitar and, naturally, has the shape and muscle density of a Barbie doll. Madonna's mini-me's (listening, Britney? J-Lo?) have a long way to go before they match her in vocal prowess or multitasking abilities.

Most notably, Madonna seems to be having a jolly good time. Whereas her last outing had technical strengths but lacked warmth, Reinvention finds Madonna reinvested emotionally. The show doesn't have the degree of flesh, carnal content or shock value that past outings delivered, but this time Madonna is opting for more heart than cleavage and more personality than profanity. And she dances with the bagpiper. You won't get that at a Kabbalah class.

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Op zaterdag 29 mei 2004 16:30 schreef Moonah het volgende:
Whow!
Ik doe nu al een poos fanatiek aan poweryoga, maar dát (van het een na onderste plaatje) kan ik nog niet...

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Op zaterdag 29 mei 2004 16:40 schreef Moonah het volgende:
Oh, maar díe zijn juist heel makkelijk!

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Op zaterdag 29 mei 2004 16:51 schreef Moonah het volgende:
Nee joh, die kan ik ook niet hoor..
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