Madonna’s career-spanning “Celebrations” tour is much more than just a prayer
Madonna just announced she'll be taking audiences there on a global, 35-city run honoring her four-decade musical career
Music News Madonna
Only seventeen days in, 2023 has already proven itself to be a remarkable year for mothering of the pop star variety. In the same year that Rihanna tackles the Super Bowl, Janet Jackson returns to the stage, Taylor Swift brings about a congressional investigation into Ticketmaster, and Beyoncé (hopefully) tours for Renaissance, Madonna has announced her “Celebrations” greatest hits tour, honoring the 40th anniversary of her debut album.
“I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for,” Madonna shares in a statement with Page Six.
The global, 35-city tour kicks off on July 15 in Vancouver, British Columbia— Madonna will then journey around the U.S. before jetting off to Europe for fall dates. Public sale for the first round of dates (including shows in Chicago, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles) kicks off January 20th at 10 A.M. local time, followed by another sale on January 27.
In a star-studded tour announcement video featuring Jack Black, Lil Wayne, Eric Andre, Judd Apatow, Larry Owens, and more, Madonna plays a raucous game of truth or dare over dinner. Diplo takes his penis out while Meg Stalter looks on in shock. Kate Berlant reveals she’d like to have 16 hours of sex with Madonna followed by a spaghetti dinner. Bob the Drag Queen demonstrates fellatio on a bottle.
Finally, the most audacious dare of all arrives: Schumer dares Madonna to go on a four-decade greatest hits tour. She has no choice but to agree (and kick off a group dance to “Vogue” in the process). In her own words: “Welcome to the party, bitches.”
Madonna hasn’t toured since 2019, when she traveled in support of her most recent studio album, Madame X. Like her enduring hits, Madonna’s live shows have eked out a well-deserved place in history—her 2008-2009 “Sticky & Sweet Tour” still stands as the highest-grossing tour by a female artist, ever.
Although the announcement of “Celebrations” doesn’t arrive with guaranteed new music, Madonna’s management Warner Music Group has promised to release several projects over the next few years that will “revisit the groundbreaking music that made her an international icon.” In August 2022, they kicked off the slate with the remix album Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones.
22 Comments
That woman is 64 years old… What the hell happened?I mean, is it just me, or does she more so look like a 34 year old Rap/R&B starlet on the verge of dropping a new single featuring Ashnikko?Plastic surgery is a hell of a drug, my dudes.
This is just cringe.
You literally had the press release and the youtube video title RIGHT THERE. And you still managed to add a letter to the name of the tour.
I don’t know why, but Madonna makes me sad. I think it’s because she’s a symbol of what’s wrong with our society in terms of allowing women to age and the pressure that they feel to… not. She doesn’t necessarily looks bad, but she looks like young Madonna’s old gritty aunt that has Seen A Lot of Things. Hope the tour is a success. Would go if received a free ticket. But otherwise this is something I would have rather seen in 1992.
Does anyone on any of these miming-to-auto-tuned-tracks “music tours” actually play or sing a note?
Yeah, I’d be more interested in “best of” hologram recreations from other tours. We gotta be getting to the point in 10-20 years where they’ll be able to take concert footage and recreate it in 3D.
I rather go see a band play.
There are plenty of acts who I’ll never get to see live but would still enjoy some kind of in-person viewing for. Basically taking Laser Floyd to the next level.
Please no guitar segment. And for the love of God, can we even call it a Madonna tour when she disappears for huge chunks of the show while her dancers flair their arms and run around stage for half the time? Just call if a Cher tour and be done with it.
Did she get hit in the face with a bat when they took that picture?
For the love of all that’s holy, don’t go to her Instagram page if you think this one is bad. This is a perfect 10 compared to some of the things she’s posted lately – so much Botox she looks like shrink-wrapped cheesecake.
Fortunately I do not do the Instagram. But yeah, Madonna is really not embracing “grow old gracefully”.
Finally, the most audacious dare of all arrives: Schumer dares Madonna to go on a four-decade greatest hits tour.I must be hopelessly un-hip, as I have never heard of this single-name celebrity “Schumer” before.Or did you mean Amy? Or Chuck?
This clip would have been 100x better if it was Chuck.
C’mon now. Just say you hate her. I don’t think anyone here will mind :/
Hate who, Madonna, Amy Schumer, or Hattie Lindert?
You could have just rewritten “did you mean Amy? Or Chuck?” I guess, lol.I’m just playin’ with ya.
wtf this video? This is the most childish shit. After the pandemic I’m still not ready to see famous, obscenely rich and privileged people carry on like this. Madonna has turned into an extraordinarily creepy caricature of herself. Her brand of feminism was always a little on the sadistic side. She seems to be caught up in an existential spiral – going up or down I can’t tell.
She is really starting to look like Marlene Dietrich’s corpse
There is no way you can convince me that Hattie Lindert is real and not a pseudonym they give to articles they had chatgpt write.
Is it actually her going on tour or are they just throwing an animatronic Madam Tussauds waxwork on stage?
Is it actually her going on tour or are they just throwing an animatronic Madam Tussauds waxwork on stage?