When I saw pictures from her show I thought "eh, maybe next time." It was sad to me that designers of the ranks of Givenchy, Stella McCartney, YSL, Dior, and Jean-Paul Gautier all contributed their ideals to her "collection" and yet that collection included pink gym shorts and a sleeveless hoodie. Really? Sleeveless AND short-shorts for a 50-year old woman?
Whatever happened to aging gracefully?
If you only took a look at this one individual concert you might say that I was being a hater. But hate not. Want not. I am no one to throw haterade around. Hell, I don't even drink it, I'm on a cottage cheese diet for God's sake! But if you had been to her Confessions tour you would...or moreover, SHOULD understand where I am coming from.
Madonna's Confessions tour was Chic, to say the least. The very least, for that matter, because I am absolutely repulsed by the usage of the word chic. It serves as the only word that nails it on the head of what the costuming for her Confessions show entailed. It was amazing. It was dark, sexy, and mature. As it should be for a woman, who at the time was APPROACHING 50.
Cut to her concert - @ 50 - in scantily clad get ups popping her white girl ass out while chanting "see my booty get down like..." The line goes great in the song. But it would have been more impressive had she let big booty black girls shake their asses while she made it rain on them. Madonna as the pimp matriarch is more enticing than Madonna the desperate divorcee.
It was just a thought.
My opinion would mean nothing to her. Chump change. But to me this show was an exit. It was the end of an era. I have long had a fascination with her that has yet to be understood by the common man. She has always amazed me and been a pillar of strength and encouragement. At this show she flushed it down the drain.
Her entire career has been a tour de force, knocking down one new venture after the other. I stuck by her when she kept acting, even though she was awful. I say "Next Best Thing" the day it came out. Even if my face did have a look of distain during the entire movie.
But the Sticky and Sweet show was a big let down for me. Only when you compare it to Confessions. Seriously. If you have not already done so, Go buy Confessions on DVD. Make sure you watch it on a big screen with great picture and surround sound. But it is absolutely astonishing.
I took a friend with me to this show and it was really great. I was really glad she got to see how over the top a Madonna concert can be. But it is weird to know that it was only halfway over in my opinion. Confessions left me jaw-dropped for the entire show. It was shocking, it was passionate, it was high-fashion.
If I had to rank in order of greatness the Madonna Shows I have seen it would be in this order...
Confessions
Reinvention Tour
and THEN....
Sticky and Sweet
The theatrics and pull of the Sticky and Sweet show was mainly that a fifty year old was brazen enough to bare most of her body parts that she shouldn't have (that underarm area, thighs, and loose neck skin area - plus close ups that ((if i was her)) would have strictly outlined in my contract NOT TO DO! that showed up on the big screen) but also the fact that a 50 year old could be that energetic for an entire hour and a half. You walk away thinking "Man, she is really fit" or "Damn she's got some good Coke!"
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