That moment ...
#MadonnaInRio
↪️Holiday merges into Live To Tell to show the chilling and unexpected transition from the gay club scene in the 1970s into the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s.
Madonna spoke up then when the world was quiet.
Silence=Death
The final
#MadonnaCelebrationTour
performance of Live to Tell. Madonna performs her
#1
ballad as a heartbreaking and heartwarming tribute to those who have passed from HIV/AIDS.
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Bad Girl was Madonna’s third single from her Erotica album. It peaked at
#36
in the Billboard Hot 100, ending her string of 27 consecutive Top 20 singles from 1983-1992. Directed by David Finche, its video is a masterpiece.
Madonna put on one of her most iconic shows ever for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show in 2012. It was so iconic that she had more viewers than the
@NFL
game itself!
THE GREATEST COMEBACK
Madonna is now the first female singer over 60 to have a tour gross more than $200 million. She also now holds the record for the largest audience for ANY single concert by ANY artist in history.
Less than one year ago today...
The Girlie Show began in London and ended in Tokyo. Madonna's 1993 world tour was divided into different thematic sections: Dominatrix, Studio 54, Weimar Cabaret, and an encore. Like all Madonna tours, it was a theatrical production and not just a concert.
On this day in 1992, Madonna's bustier from her Open Your Heart video was stolen from Frederick’s Of Hollywood’s lingerie museum during 3-day riots in Los Angeles. It was never returned. She would provide another in exchange for a donation to a charity providing free mammograms.
Madonna opened the 1989 MTV VMAs
with her iconic performance of Express Yourself. She does the Roger Rabbit and the Running Man, and she Vogued in public for the first time. Its Shep Pettibone remix previewed their collaboration on Vogue in 1990.
Anyone who doubts the brilliance of Madonna’s Ray of Light album should listen to it as a whole. From start to finish, it is a creative and poetic masterpiece. Songs that were unreleased as singles often rival the hits. Sky Fits Heaven is but one example.
Love Profusion was the fourth single from Madonna's American Life album. Released in December of 2003, the song remains under my skin 20 years later and is one of her most under-rated gems in her entire catalogue.
The second sequence in Madonna's 1990 Blond Ambition Tour is called Religious. The Vatican called Madonna blasphemous for using religious iconography with sexual content, while the Toronto police threatened her with arrest. She refused to alter her show.
The Mother and Father performance from The Celebration Tour is one of its most intimate moments. Madonna and her adopted son David sing in front of enlarged photos of their deceased mothers, then meet in the middle of the stage as Madonna sings about finding someone to love.
Nothing Fails was an underrated single from Madonna’s American Life album in 2003. It was her first single with a gospel choir since Rescue Me in 1991.
Madonna released Live To Tell 38 years ago. In this timeless performance from The Confessions Tour, Madonna draws attention to orphans in Africa whose parents died from AIDS. She calls upon all of us to act like God on earth and take care of each other.
Ghosttown was the second single from Madonna's Rebel Heart album in 2015. It is among her most under-rated songs, with a great pop hook, beautiful vocals and harmony. It also has Madonna's eternal message of love surviving all, even the end of the world.
Madonna's most famous performance of Hollywood was when she kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 MTV Video Award Show. But she looks stunning as a brunette performing the song on Top of The Pops. It feels reminiscent of her early days.
Madonna shows her training as a dancer and her stage presence in her Girlie Show performance of La Isla Bonita. You can tell she immerses herself in this production with unmatched charisma.
Don't Tell Me was the second single from Madonna's Music album. It peaked at
#4
in the Billboard Hot 100 and hit
#1
on the dance charts. It is about Madonna’s refusal to give up her belief in love, no matter what others say.
Live To Tell was Madonna's lead single for her True Blue album in 1986. It also was included in At Close Range, a film starring her then-husband Sean Penn. It would become her third
#1
single.
In the evidence of its brilliance: witness Madonna’s Future Lovers.
The song samples I Feel Love by Donna Summer. It was the opening track from her 2005 Confessions On A Dance Floor album and the opening song for her Confessions Tour.
Madonna’s Make A Wish commercial aired only once, but reached 250 million viewers without social media. Pepsi pulled it due to controversy surrounding the Like A Prayer video.
Like a Prayer still climbed to
#1
in the Billboard Hot 100 on this day in 1989.
Sanctuary is from Madonna’s Bedtime Stories album in 1994. It contains a sample of Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock. It also used lines from the poem Leaves Of Grass, a Walt Whitman poem.
Thirty years ago, Madonna's I'll Remember started a four-week run at
#2
on the Billboard Hot 100 for the USA. It was one of six songs she had peak at
#2
.
Forbidden Love is from Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor album in 2005. She performed it in her 2006 Confessions Tour. It dares us to question what is wrong about love between two men or love between people from two different cultures or religions.
In 2006,
#Madonna
celebrated her birthday in The Confessions Tour at Wembley Stadium in London, and gave a heartfelt message to her fans of all ages and backgrounds.
One year ago, The Weeknd debuted Popular, featuring Playboi Carti and Madonna. The video wasn’t released until February of 2024. The song made Madonna one of a few select artists to have a single chart in the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive decades.
Nothing Really Matters was Madonna's final single from her Ray of Light album. While it only hit
#93
in the Billboard Hot 100, it reached
#1
on the Dance Club chart. It's included in her 2022 compilation album, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones.
Madonna: The Virgin Tour (1985)
💫On this day in 1985, it became the first of her twelve tours to establish
#Madonna
as the top-selling female touring artist of all time.
Madonna closed Eurovision on this day in 2019 with a live performance of Like a Prayer, Dark Ballet and Future (with Quavo). She reminded us of the power of music to bring people together.
Open Your Heart was the opening performance for Madonna's Who’s That Girl World Tour. It was her second tour and first world tour, which began on this day in 1987.
Madonna reinvented herself in 1986. It became a blueprint for the remainder of her career.
#Madonna
would constantly explore new looks and sounds, breaking new ground with iconic music and videos, and making social/political statements along the way.
The
#MadonnaCelebrationTour
has left the United States and is entering its last stop before a dramatic conclusion in Brazil.
Something is ending, and something begins...