i’m not sure terms like “amazing” or phrases like “she puts on an awesome show” would suffice.\u00a0 nor am i sure that that i can even begin to express them here for there was so much to process.\u00a0 we were 20 rows up from floor on extreme stage-right.\u00a0 so extreme that we could at times clearly see thru the stage into the direction & wardrobe changes.\u00a0 but the stage\/set itself wasnt so large as it was tall.\u00a0 odd platforms here, solitary handles way up there.\u00a0 soon, all surfaces of the set would be crawling with these cut, lanky, androgenous beauties.\u00a0 those handles, once far out of the reach of any platform *we* could see, were now being used as purchase for creatures part Wild Boys (duran duran), part Fame, & part Sid Vicious.\u00a0 The british\/scottish punk element permeated quite literally only 1 song off anything *other* then either Ray of Light or Music, and that was Holiday.\u00a0 some would say she was obligated to play that one given the town we live in, to say nothing of the 100’s of queens packing the front of the stage 12 deep.\u00a0 so the songs were all late-model, fully exercising the William Orbit vein.\u00a0 video screens like nothing i have ever seen.\u00a0 they were not “monitors” in the projection or tube-screen sense of the word.\u00a0 rather – and kevin you may have seen these – they were blocks of what looked like 1000’s of tightly packed lightbulbs, giving any image shown on them a clarity out of this world.\u00a0 smaller 2ft x 2ft blocks of these, spread all across the rigging & musician “pods”, displayed random sqaures of what the larger monitors displayed rather then miniature versions of the same.\u00a0 these massive monitors, in true madonna-style, would raise up to become the elevated dancefloor lit-from below.\u00a0 every other performer was either hanging from wires or flying around the set swinging from them.\u00a0 with mic in-hand, madonna too would be flying 30 miles per hours, 50 feet up, only to land squarely in mid-verse.\u00a0 she never let up.\u00a0 songs blended together as they spanned a heavily intricate & dramatic stage-show.\u00a0 and thats just it: last night was only *part* rock concert.\u00a0 it was dozens of runway models sprinting around a fashion shoot, meets the matrix, meets a country-western ho-down.\u00a0 but *all* gautier.this was the first show i’ve ever really been to where i didnt have that life-force longing to be behind either soundboard.\u00a0 and it *wasnt* my proximity away from them.\u00a0 it was my proximity *to* other elements.\u00a0 i was thouroughly entertained.\u00a0 i should have expected this.\u00a0 the people-watching was tops, better then a tombstone saloon yet costumes just as familiar.\u00a0 I saw the thing on HBO and that simply didn\u2019t touch this.\u00a0 It only hinted at themes & perhaps a setlist.\u00a0 Nothing but being there could approach it.<\/p>\n
Perhaps maybe, the unashamed fantasies of being one of her dancers on the stage with her.\u00a0 THAT\u2019S what it meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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