I was wrong! MADONNA -GIRLIE SHOW - DEEPER AND DEEPER/ WHY'S IT SO HARD (from full concert reaction)
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2023
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I am posting one full length Madonna album or concert reaction / review per month + three Madonna single song reactions on Patreon. All picks will be chosen via polls and I will go where you lead me!
Currently posted:
THE GIRLIE SHOW - full concert reaction
BLOND AMBITION TOUR - JAPAN - Full Concert Reaction
BLOND AMBITION TOUR - NICE - Full Concert Reaction
I'M BREATHLESS Full Album Reaction
LIKE A PRAYER Full Album Reaction
YOU CAN DANCE Full Album Reaction
WHOS THAT GIRL TOUR PARTS 1 & 2
WHOS THAT GIRL - 28 Min Album tracks and music video reaction
TRUE BLUE - Full Album Reaction
THE VIRGIN TOUR
LIKE A VIRGIN (full album reaction)
MADONNA 1983 debut album reaction
BEDTIME STORIES (full album)
CONFESSIONS TOUR PT 1 + 2
CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR (full album)
EROTICA (full album)
Plus: Has To Be, Love Tried To Welcome Me, Falling Free, Impressive Instant, Intervention, Sanctuary / Bedtime Story, Vogue (MTV VMAs), Bad Girl (David Fincher music video), Bedtime Story BRITS 95, Bedtime Story Official Video, Express Yourself (MTV VMAs), Rain, I'll Remember, 2016 Woman Of The Year Speech and many more!
Girlie Show and the Erotica era is so underrated because of the controversy but artistically, creatively, and politically, this was a new peak for Madonna. Coming off the sweetness of True Blue and the maturity of Like a Prayer, Erotica was a middle finger to late 80s right wing conservatism at a time when our community really needed a champion and a voice to stick up for us. This arc of the 70s to 90s within the tour was so brilliant creatively. I can’t watch In This Life to this day without crying. Flash forward to 2023 and she’s still including these themes in her most recent tour. She hasn’t given up on us and she hasn’t forgotten us. Check out the Holiday to Live to Tell part of the Celebration Tour. People are applauding her for her memorial to those we’ve lost to AIDS. It’s so beautifully done.
#JusticeForErotica stream!
It’s my favorite album and Madonna era
No doubt her best tour and show ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out Justify my love from the Girlie Show. It's magic !!!!!!!!
God, watching this again, I about cry at how impactful it was then and sadly still today. That performance was so beautiful and as a gay may, it just hits the emotions.❤❤❤
Also, it’s such a joy to follow you on this Madonna journey, I really appreciate how intelligent and insightful your reactions are.
This performance freed my mind from all kinds of prejudices, made me a better person and made me enjoy every moment of my life to the fullest ❤❤ that’s why I understand you 💯%
this song is more true today than ever! with all the political and social turmoil...
Madonna always choose not only dancers....she choose actors
This Why’s it So Hard performance has been my favourite live performance of hers for years 💚
Everyone who told me on the album reaction that it was much better live: you were right!
Her performance level is like No other
G'day it's Steven from down under again
I recall we attended two of the Sydney concerts in December 1993, Australia went wild for Madonna at the time.
Thank you for taking me down memory lane.
All hail the Queen of Pop!
Madonna belives in what she sings and it comes across live & touches everyone pure magic
Every time I see this performance it brings tears to my eyes. She does an amazing job of transmitting her messages. They were having fun, dancing away..having sex with multiple people...and then the AIDS Epidemic hit. Many people died. The world was against us all. Same sex love. Interracial love. Why is it so hard to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Why is it so hard to LOVE ❤️
Two of my favorite performances of hers. I was always impressed with how she was so into conveying the lyrics of 'Why It's So Hard'. As a viewer, you get her message.
Absolutely! I mean, in a year and a half of doing this, that is one of a handful of songs that I actually didn't think was great, or even just good. But that performance was just pure energy and passion and emotion. Impossible to not be moved by it.
@@bridgethegapreactions Whys It So Hard is almost like a Marvin Gaye song. It’s deliberately simple I think. She had many songs she could have included instead but I think she was always thinking in themes and arcs.
Jonny clutching on those pearls at the beginning of the orgy is such a mood. 😂
This performance along with express yourself and in this life is perfection. No one comes close to the brilliance that is Madonna. Not before not then and not now. She is the best ❤
The fist in the air at the end is a call to the NYC pride parade (and others) where marchers do a moment of silence and raise their fists in the air.
Yep❣️ I was waiting for this one, ever since I suggested it for a reaction under your Easy Ride video.
It's truly shocking how devastatingly impactful and timeless this Tour has transpired to be.
People say Blond Ambition is the one - well yeah, it broke the mold and pushed HER over the top, but The Girlie Show is the pinnacle where the talents are fully displayed. It's insane to think one person can at a single point in their career manifest this much ability.
Whenever I wanna "show people" who&what Madonna, The-Performance-Artist, is and what makes her legacy musically and culturally transcendent - I play them this show.
It just shatters all the prejudice and destroys any preconceived notions and narratives.
Everything from the conceptual presentation, to historical references and mind boggling performance briliance of everyone involved is just on another level.
Erotica the album was intentionally too raw & cold in sound design which left some songs lacking but boy did they come alive when performed. Why's It So Hard is just a perfect blend of styles with some of her best lyrics and all it needed was this powerful live vocal to push it over the edge. Still get goosebumps listening to it to this day. That baritone-range homage to Marlene Dietrich done in 3/4 time while she's waltzing... then jumping a couple of octaves to the squicky mockery of I'm Going Bananas? Just to finish it off with the best live version of La Isla Bonita where she wiped the floor with her dancers outperforming every single one of them... Just insane.
It all just came perfectly together and yeah like you said - it's like she was possessed or something lol
Keep at it, love 💪🥰
These performances, (the entire “show”) changed my life! It freed me from any kinds of prejudices, made me a better person (someone who enquirers further, respectful, empathetic, proud to be rare, unique and FEARLESS) Madonna saved my life! That’s why I agree with you and I understand 100% what you’re saying!! ❤❤👏👏👏👏👏
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She’s the only one in this world 🌍 ❤❤❤❤❤
The Girlie show showcased Madonna at the height of her artistic prowess, with her influential album "Erotica" debuting at second position on the charts. Despite the lackluster performance of her "Bad Girl" song which failed to break into the top 40, critics prematurely pronounced her career over and done with. However, it is precisely during such challenging times that Madonna tends to deliver her most exceptional and impactful creations.
I remember the Girlie Show, opening night at the old Wembley Stadium. She came out to Erotica and winked at me. By the end of the concert I was walking around in that gap between the stage and the audience, which is a really weird place to be as you can't really see the show from there, but it did make it a lot easier to get out before the crowd did. Wink aside, my best memory was the incredible performance of Rain with Niki and Donna on the turntable. Definitely one to react to (if you haven't already).
She was there exactly 30 years ago today for the Girlie Show
Girlie Show was and is amazing ❤ Deeper and deeper, Why’s it so hard and then straight after she sings In this life. Amazing trio of songs 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
This is the greatest live performance, show in the entire pop and rock'n roll history by the queen of pop, rock'n roll herself. Once more again a great, touching reaction as always big brother. I was in The UK two months ago for a visit but couldn't make it to go to her current tour. However, I, actually we did in 2012 when she also visited our city, it was amazing, her son was also on stage he was 12 back then, she is, and has always been great, one of a kind. Hope you are going to her tour in London in December? Hope you will have a great time.
I slept out 3 nights on the streets of Sydney to get my tickets. Well worth it as I was 3 rows dead centre in front of the catwalk.
Best live band she has ever assembled. Strong elements of disco and funk, and especially sly and the family stone during everybody. Great concert.
The live band is so great on this
Yes! This performance of Why's It So Hard is hands down one of my fave live performances of hers ever. And I was at this exact show they recorded :) Hey from Sydney
not saying this to brag, rather to illustrate M's emotional impact. I grew up - almost literally- on Erotica. a gay guy, ex-communist block, M was escapism, inspiration, happiness.. I've just seen her in Paris for two nights, having already seen the show at the O2 three times. I've seen all her tours since Reinvention, but the journey she is taking you on this time around is on a whole new level.
every single night I cried. not once, not twice. (especially when she reacted to what I'd said. on both occasions I died...)
watching your reaction, especially how you commented on 'Why's it so hard' dwelled me up again. thank you-and keep them reactions coming. M is definitely being rediscovered not only by 12-year-olds (which I fekkkin LOVE), but by people who didn't pay that much attention to her 10-20-30 years ago (which I fekkkin LOVE EVEN MORE SO!!)
I don't want to say 'we told you so', but we DID! we told y'all and finally you are paying attention!... 😂
get crackin', people, you've got loads to catch up on 🤗🤗🤗
thank you for your reaction! This performance freed my mind from all kinds of prejudices, made me a better person and made me enjoy every moment of my life to the fullest. Madonna saved my life!! ❤❤
I love your reaction Jonny 🤗 ❤. Your faces were stunning 😍
Simplemente la reina del pop Queendonna 🎉🎉🎉❤
I'm crying. Fantastic performance.
Great review! This was one of my fav moments of the show. I had great seats for this, and when that orgy broke out… I was gagged! Go figure this song, that I also paid very little attention to from the album, ended up having the most powerful impact from the whole show! Justify My Love is a must see.
Finale was Everybody 😅
Because of the intensity and message, "Why's It So Hard" always brings Marvin Gaye ("What's Going On") to mind. It has that same vibe for me.
Yeah, it's totally in that vein, a plea for acceptance, equality.. Great comparison!
Part 2 is up on Patreon now!
Express Yourself is right before this and the trifecta is sensational!
THE BEST TO EVER DO IT 😭💣🔥
I recorded the show on vhs at the time and use to play it over and over in my teens , thank you Madonna for making me see like with a wider range of consciousness
Be sure to review Rain…so incredibly beautiful
Love your MADONNA reactions! ❤
Queen ❤
Best Madonna show ever! Yeah, even better than blond ambition. Much better in My opinion.
Brilliant tour..my tour ever by anyone..peak madonna is the blue print
Part 1 (the first hour) is on Patreon now, part 2 Monday or Tuesday!
I had the same reaction to the album version - it feels kind of corny to me, and kind of a nothing song that I always skipped when I first got the album. But this performance of the song is incredible, and one of her best. Her vocals, physicality, and theatricality are amazing and elevate what could feel like a trite, filler album song.
This live version of the song was included on the cd that came with a giant book about the girlie show, in a cd envelope that said “Accept No Imitations. Accept No Limitations” on it. I’m not proud to say that I couldn’t afford the $80 book, so I ripped the cd out of a display one at B Dalton booksellers and stole it. 😂 That book also had a great quote about the show: “It’ll bring a lump to your throat. And your pants.” 😅
That book has been kept intact in my shelf 😊
@@chawinomfs haha that’s awesome! I still have that envelope. It’s in my car right now and holds a couple Madonna mix cds I made in the mid-2000s 😆
Another great reaction Jonny. Brings back the emotions from being there at Wembley Stadium on opening night over 30 years ago!!!
Erotica era was so underrated just because the hypocrisy of the society ❤
Madonna may have loved that song that time:... it takes two to make a thing go right....
Johnny, Why It So Hard, is an amazing track. I’m glad you changed your mind. It’s hope.
Excellent reaction. ❤️
Pasaron 30 años de esto, y parece grabado ayer. Gran recuerdo!
Great reaction Jonny! I think fans love this tour so much because Madonna used remixed versions of the Erotica album tracks… and/or her voice or the live band gave the songs some much needed warmth. I love the Erotica album, but those original versions remain brittle and 🥶 to this day.
Great reaction! Thanks for posting!
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This is what I loved most about Madonna. Musically, lyrically, and artistically, she pushed the boundaries. She expressed what she was feeling. She stopped worrying about making hits or #1 songs after The Immaculate Collection yet she continued to reign supreme. Sure, Mariah and Celine came along and took the spotlight but Madonna stayed the course of pushing her artistic expression and maintains the crown of biggest selling female.
I went to her concert in Paris last month. It was spectacular.. enjoy 🎉🎉
React to fever live from this tour ❤❤
This suite of songs/choreography is one of the best of Madonna’s career. Truthfully, it starts with Express Yourself. But you ended it one song too soon. It must include “In This Life” to get the full picture of how she portrayed the sexual revolution, associated judgments, and then the rise of AIDS and how we lost so many people. It is such a powerful, devastating moment. The Girlie Show was peak Madonna and one of my favorite shows.
Oh yeah, it felt wrong to break up that 4 song run, but it's all on Patreon!
hi Try Mylene Farmer ''Desenchantee'' live 2009 or 2013 (there are many more songs) she is the queen of French electro pop Madonna is a fan herself!and she would nt miss one of Mylene concert Epic shows!!
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REACTIONS
----> MADONNA - Erotica (music video) (this will blow your mind and it will be your favorite video)
---> PORTISHEAD - Roads (Roseland New York live)
PORTISHEAD - Mysterons (Roseland New York live)
amazing, right?:
Both songs were about her bisexuality. The fun about it and the overcoming oppression about it. (She had a GF at the the time for a lot of this period). I know its plainly put across but for those that dont. Of course In this life is more blatantly about HIV.
Can you do more Britney reactions
I wasn't really a big fan of Why's It So Hard. I do think it's a bit better here, LIVE. But it's still not a great song for me. I mean, the lyrics seem well done, but the melody of the song isn't catching me. Glad you are continuing the Madonna journey. I'm waiting for more George Michael!! And Kelly Clarkson!!
Still waiting on those beyonce reactions
Coming very soon!
Sinister undercurrent is right. Gilded Age decadence of the 20s undone by the Great Depression of the 30s. Sexual decadence & party culture of the 70s undone by conservative politics & AIDS crisis of the 80s. Economic prosperity & playful, Postmodern optimism of the 90s undone by the Columbine shooting, high profile LGBT deaths, & 9/11. Now, global terrorism, the Great Recession, & the Covid pandemic has wrought a perfect storm of 70s political distrust, 80s conservatism, & 90s apathy all at once.
More Aaliyah, bro!!!