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Madonna’s Confessions Tour at the Bercy Stadium kicked off its 4-night run in Paris last night. I bought my tickets tres early, at exactly 9AM the day they went on sale and had been looking forward to the concert since April.As usual the press has been rife with reports of Madonna’s blasphemy against the Catholic Church and other outrageous behavior committed in the Confessions Tour that made me even more eager to see the concert.
The Bercy in the 13 Arr., is a large, characterless stadium much like Madison Square Garden in New York. I got many a stare from wearing my red Madonna Girlie Show T-shirt from about 10 years ago. The 30’s to 40’s crowd were tarted up gay men and their faghags, straight festively dressed women and slick Euro-Trash couples speaking mostly French and English. Although it was a cool 60 degrees outside, the airless stadium was hotter than July (literally and figuratively) and even Madonna later in the concert complained about the heat.
The 8:30PM scheduled concert started exactly on Diva time at 9:15PM.
The stage went dark, the crowd screamed and Madonna/Esther/Madge-MEM stepped out of the world’s largest disco ball that had been suspended from midair and brought down to the floor. This set the tone for a non-stop, unpredictable, exciting and thrilling joy ride of a concert. MEM looked fabulous, dressed in black Equestrian garb and she disciplined her sexy bare chested male dancers with her riding crop while riding them like horses. She mostly sang songs from the Confessions on a Dance Floor CD but threw in some fun surprises like Lucky Star, La Isla Bonita, and one of my favorites, Like a Virgin. She totally reinvented the old songs with new musical arrangements, which made them fresh and sometimes almost unrecognizable. She shaked shimmied and rolled on the floor for almost two hours and she did more acrobatics than dancing to show off her flexible Pilates perfect body.
Madonna used themes of war, violence, religion, politics, hunger, child abuse, and Aids but sometimes the message heavy themes diluted the entertainment factor of the show. Ironically, the so-called controversial
moment where she comes out impaled on the giant cross singing “Live to Tell” came across flat and heavy-handed.
Some of the best parts of the concert were at the end when MEM came out in a white cape that had Dancing Queen written on the back of it which also lit up when she opened it. The finale was a rousing, disco pumped version of “Hung Up” with MEM showing off her amazing body wearing a pink leotard that revealed half her very firm naked buttocks.
Leaving the concert dazzled, exhausted and invigorated, MEM had more than showed this die-hard fan a good time.
whatever, she totally scammed the crucifixion bit from rufus wainwright:
http://maitresse.blogspot.com/2005/11/night-at-casino.html#comments
sounds like a fun show though.
isn't the bercy in the 12th? (across the river from my bien-aimé 13e)
Posted by: maitresse | August 30, 2006 at 12:52 PM