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I just watched the whole show again and i said it before and i say it again, The Celebration Tour is definitely one of her best... Im so proud of her...

IT'S OFFICIAL GUYS!!!! THE CELEBRATION TOUR IN MEXICO CITY WILL BE FILMED FOR A FUTURE RELEASE!!!!!!!!! 👸🏼🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

Mercy is definitely playing live. Those supposedly "unplayed" notes are actually percussion sounds from the backing track she's playing to. The five or six piano notes heard in the studio recording before the first verse begins are omitted in every single performance on this tour. However, she's not playing an actual acoustic instrument. It's an average-sounding keyboard built into a mock-up of a grand piano body. If you look closely, there's no functioning pedals but simply a standard keyboard pedal hooked to the built-in keyboard she's playing. There's also no hammer and damper movement whatsoever during her performance. To properly mic an actual piano for one single performance would be a nightmare scenario for any sound engineer. In order for an acoustic piano to pick up as little surrounding noise as possible (sound disturbance being immense given the position of the B-stage and the nearly 360 degrees placement of the sound system), the lid would need to be closed at all times. There are specific piano microphones that perform miraculously under such circumstances and are able to bypass a lot of distracting resonance from drums on stage and audience noise, but obviously the lid is wide open for most of the performance. Settling for a MIDI-controlled mock-up makes sense since wheeling around an actual grand piano from underneath the stage wouldn't be economical due to its weight, transport needs and tuning delicacy. In an unstable A/C (or lack thereof ) environment, a grand piano would detune within minutes and sound off very quickly after being tuned. That said, Mercy certainly is a very good and notably skilled player. She's very consistent in her interpretation of Mayer's "Le regret" but she does add a little extra nice grace note here and there from time to time. She also plays with a sense of urgency and fervour that would be nice to hear on a future studio album of the Madonna family band...

The more we approach May 4th, the more excited I get. Can't wait to finally see momma live for the very first time

No Mexicans suing her

Makes total sense to film it here - so exciting!

Mexico being filmed as well

You can bet your bottom dollar that M will have given the broadcast crew a list of strict instructions / edits / camerashots etc that they must stick to. Including times of how long to linger on any one shot. I’m hoping for a natural ‘live’ feel to the edit, but M will put her DNA even into the editing of the live broadcast. Then she will amp it up for the official release.

Hoe exciting that we get a proper concert filmed too - finally!!

Thanks for this. To me it's really her weirdest and weakest first single. I never got what they intended with this song : the Maluma duet could have been something meaningful but it works better on Bitch I'm Loca in comparison, the video that introduced the Madam X visuals and features soooooooooo much and especially the worst wigs she ever wore, the lyrics being absurdly personal and subversive and an acknowledgement of her age but in the end it's just "stupid poetry" as she likes to do sometimes, the holograms wtf was this idea that didn't bring anything to the performance, the storyline behind all this except she seemed to have an infinite budget for the promo. My guess is Mirwais had to squeeze Maluma in at the last minute so the chorus featured him a lot when it doesn't make sense at all (lyrically, vocally), the chacha gimmick almost disappeared while it was the most original element of the song (it was probably the thread that held the song together in demo stage), and the song structure lost purpose and direction. The track ended up being to convoluted for a first single. Mirwais intro is very seductive though and stands up immediately as bold take on reggaeton. The instrumental is great. The vocal take isn't, the "ven conmigo / si me enamoras" parts uses the same ugly notes as the "up up up" in Living For Love that she isn't able to sing in a pleasing way anymore. Sonically messy, symbolically vain. Interesting yet lost plot.

People in Brazil getting ready for M. 😁😆😂✨ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3WGvdvxa0y/?igsh=MXZrNXN1NGFyaWo1dw==

To me definitely yes

same here. easily her best tour since confessions

Jonas has been spotted in Mexico

Yes this is sooo exciting!! WOW

it's the standard notice that by attending the shows you agree that your image, likeness, voice etc will be used in the recording

I love the idea of her being able to create an album without having to worry about touring it. My fantasy is that she'd be able to pour all of her energy, creativity, and time into it. Pipe dream, but yeah lol.

Rumors say that Jonas Åkerlund was seen in the Palacio de los Deportes today, so I guess the Mexican dates will be filmed and I think the future concert film of this tour will be a mix between LA and Mexico City just like Madame X Tour concert film that was filmed between Lisbon and Paris back in 2020.

I imagine the walking on the bigger catwalks having to be something like this:

I need you to randomly insert this whenever you feel the need..no matter what the topic.

I LOVE this pic of a video I took at the first Vegas concert, where she stared right at me!

I think the X in Madame X refers to Portugal being at the center of the world in the past, it was central to triangular trade and when Colombus went to colonize the world and boats went to asia, south & north america....Madonna's concepts are always confused but this may explain why we go from Portugal to south America to Asia and Africa...and the covers are her mothers : her real mother and her art mothers : frida Kahlo and Martha Graham...another concept within the concept. It's like she can't focus anymore since Rebel Heart, it's like she wants to put too much in one project. It's something i've also witnessed on the Celebration tour. She needs a better editor.

Really? It’s exactly like i expected. Nothing Really Matters and Live to Tell are the best... Definitely to me...

I just hope ricardo isn't involved. Last time, We saw Jonas and it turned out ricardo was the director. I don't like his involvement in big projects

One of the best moment in this tour!

Totally agree with everything!!

Don‘t forget: London was also filmed professionally. At least partly.

Ok wow, so we're gonna have two professional recordings of the show! This is amazing and makes still more sense the rumour M was rehearsing Music in Austin, she could really make some small chenges or additions. Well, this means that wigs, skirts and especially setlists are gonna be essential these days ... And it MUST be Rain!!

Whattt I love Spanish Lesson! All the Spanish I know, I learned from that song

The piano on Bad Girl sounds identical and perfect on every clip on you tube

There’s something to be said for quality over quantity.

not a billion?

Interesting that they say "much larger dimensions". I wonder what they realistically can change without significant rehearsal time needed.

by VEJA RIO In the report, VEJA RIO spoke with people involved in this venture, and in this circle the estimate of the pop star's fee is around 16.5 million dollars (more than 90 million reais). Madonna is lifted in a large metal elevator 9 meters above the ground. Fans who have already watched the show in another country wonder if this could be repeated here, as everything will naturally have to be adjusted to the magnitude of Copacabana. “We will follow the original project, with large screens and catwalks on which the artist advances among the public, but with much larger dimensions”, says Luiz Oscar Niemeyer, partner at Bonus Track, heading a production team made up of 4,000 professionals.

THIS!!! 💔💔💔 I can't believe it's almost 5 YEARS since her last studio album... 🥹🥹🥹

This Used to Be My Playground according to my personal singles forecast.

Looking at the live stream it looks like they are building a roof of some sort

Once again, no

Here, she played live!

I like the lyrics of the verse and the crystal quality of the voice in them. The chorus "ven conmigo" is very weak instead. The postchorus "si te enamoro" is much better but comes in too late. I wonder if it's always been coinceved as a duet. What I don't like is that a Portuguese-inspired album ends up confusing so many different Latin cultures. Medellin has nothing to do with Lisbon. The video has good ideas (cha cha lesson for instance) but then goes off the rails with too many elements (the initial prayer, the horses, that horrible grotesque marriage scene).

I was referring to duets and features, not producers.

Actually all those examples prove the point of @androiduser (exept for Nile Rodgers but honestly you cannot take any exemple of the 80's cause she was the young new worldwide sensation and she could have worked with anyone it would have been a success). Bedtime stories, Me against the music and Hard Candy are not as succesfull as Ray of Light, Music, Confessions etc.. when she worked with less maintstream producers.

You could play this song at a wedding and every single person would get up and dance. All age groups. It's sophisticated, celebratory, and has just enough cool to make you feel like you just got some Maluma dick. Mission accomplished.

Setlist: 2 minute medley of Holiday and Everybody Instrumental interlude with Itau bank footage 2 minute medley of Celebration and Bitch I’m Madonna End

She hadn't have a solid lead since Hung Up anyway. Some were nice (Living for Love, 4 minutes...) but nowhere near as strong as a lead should be. Like a Prayer, Frozen, Music, Hung up, this is what i'm talking about.

I remember disliking it when it came out lol. It's a cute fresh Summer Song but as a lead single it sucks Sorry. Even Gimme All Your Luving was a better lead