Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour - DVD coming soon!

[Duella Dvil 10,623]

I'm in LOVE with that performance of Ghosttown 

WHAAAAAT!!!!

[Nullvoid 71]

I'm obsessed with the Salsa 80's melodyi can't help but shake my hips wildly... 

[andy232000 12,582]

Oh and here is videos from The screens (first ones?) IF someone is interested. :) not a very good quality unfortunately and missing a lot of The beautiful backdrops. But yeah 

is it me or is she lip syncing at 4:10?

[Snow 1,582]

WHAAAAAT!!!!

yeah she added GT :) https://youtu.be/DEMF3mvYPUM

[Snow 1,582]

is it me or is she lip syncing at 4:10?

naah, autotune for sure but Iconic like ALL The other songs are live (for The first time in ages :D ) She just sang it abit better so less "correction" sounds I suppose

[andy232000 12,582]

naah, autotune for sure but Iconic like ALL The other songs are live (for The first time in ages :D ) She just sang it abit better so less "correction" sounds I suppose

no i dont mean it because of that. its that her voice starts at 4:09 and the mic is not even on her lips. yes i know mics have frequencies and can pick up voices from afar but if that were the case then we would be able to hear a growing voice, whereas hers stays the same volume. just asking 

[jojuun 4,159]

For first paragraph, I personally don't want to see solo Madonna. Why? Because I am a fan of Madonna's creativity. She is not an unbelievably talented musician, she's a good dancer, but not enough to dance on a huge stage alone, and be impressive. 

 When I go to a Madonna show, I expect over the top stage tech, amazing backdrops, lots of dancers, a very creatively detailed, full, crowded performances. 

People write these comments for many tours from Katy Perry tours to Britney Spears residency. 

You got me wrong at one point, this show is one of the bests of this year, of course it will get raving reviews. It is still a very good show. I am very disappointed in this show, because I expected something like 3 previous tours. Compared to my perception of what Madonna's standard is, this show sucks. If performed on this tour, Performances that is considered as lows of MDNA Tour like I'm a Sinner, Human Nature etc. would be highs of this tour. 

I am sure that for this tour Madonna did not spend as much as time she spent on MDNA tour, I am also sure that budget for this tour was lower than MDNA Tour.

I couldn't disagree more.

Seeing Madonna solo is a dream come true for me and loads of other fans. It's how she got so massively famous to begin with. Her appeal and solo star power is unmatched. Sure, her brother and friend were her background dancers in the beginning but her iconic early performances (Holiday at American Bandstand, Like A Virgin at the first MTV VMA's etc.)  were all solo performances. There's few artists that can entertain such a huge crowd all by themselves. For me, it's down to Madonna, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Beyonce and occasionally (aka The Fame), Gaga. 

I find your second comment plain offensive. Madonna IS an unbelievably talented musician, she has written (or co-written) most of her catalogue and has always been in control of her artistic direction, both music and visuals. You should do research and look into her career. One of her earliest collaborators, Mark Kamins, who did production on her first single, gave an interview once saying how she came into the studio and everyone just expected her to sing the demo they'd given to her. She was a new artist and people expected her to just listen to the producers, who had the experience she lacked. She didn't. She had written the song, they produced it without her being there and she didn't like it upon return. Madonna took over production, got rid of Kamins and brought in Steven Bray, who freshened up the production uncredited. She told her record company "I have ideas, I have concepts. Just listen to me." They did, and look where it got her. The most successful pop career ever. All of her collaborators say Madonna is the most hands-on pop artist they've ever worked with, why do you think a producer like let's say Diplo, who previously openly criticised Madonna, is now a Madonna fan (and collaborator)? She's always 100% in control, writes her music and co-produces all of her songs. How is she not a talented musician? Sure she's a mediocre guitar player and has had pitchy vocal performances here and there but performances like Sooner or Later at the Oscars, her entire Evita and Ray Of Light era's prove that she has always been a wonderful vocalist. Joan Lader, her voice teacher, has worked with everyone in the industry (literally everyone, Google her) and says no one works harder and as focused during their sessions as Madonna. She is 100% dedicated to her career and has unbelievable self-discipline. That's not my opinion, it's a proven fact, pick up any unauthorised biography on her. Even her brother's hateful, trashy book states that she's the hardest working artist then and now. 

She IS an incredible dancer, if you (again) would know more about her, you'd know she was a straight A dance student and was in legendary modern dance companies before entering the music industry. Now, her choreography is still intricate here and there, but it's mostly for self-entertainment. Every recent tour, she tries "something new". For Confessions it was Krumping, for S&S double dutch jump rope, for MDNA slacklining and now for RH it's pole dancing. She ALWAYS tries something new, no one can accuse Madonna of standing still, her entire success is based upon the fact she evolves so much and never looks backwards. Madonna hates repetition, yet I see how you could miss that with Candy Shop being performed for the third time despite not being a single or a fan favourite. It's simply because she likes it and the beat lends itself to be reworked time after time. It's still a complete different performance and version to the S&S and MDNA one. It's there purely for Madonna's own fun and at this point in her career, who's going to deny her that? If she wants to do just songs from HC, MDNA and RH, she can. It's her show, her artistry. She's included loads of oldies and goodies this time around and fans are delighted with the setlist except for the occasional complaint about the lack of COADF tracks. But that's just because COADF is a fan favourite.

Madonna has spent 4 months working on the show, almost daily. 8 if you take the original guidelines into consideration because the heart-shaped stage was rumoured in February and confirmed in August. So that early part of production happened a long time ago. Still, four months of rehearsing the show is a lot. Especially if you know that Confessions for instance was only rehearsed for 2,5 months. A very intense 2,5 months, but still not a lot of time. She went to LA in March 2006 and the show was on the road at the end of May. So no, she hasn't spent less time on this tour, in fact she spent more. MDNA is an exception because the stage was the first of it's kind and it was so difficult that they had to rehearse with the many hydraulic lifts. The entire stage was basically a hydraulic lift, it had never been done before.

The way you describe what you expect out of a pop show, I think it IS better for you to go see a Katy Perry show. Or let's say a Kylie show. Full of wonderful production, not a lot of solo-time and a complete extravaganza. Madonna does all of that too, yes, but it's always 100% about HER. If you missed that during the previous two tours, that's on you, not on her. Because for every longtime Madonna fan, this tour is a return to form. A lot of that mega production we loved from the previous recent tours, mixed with solo Madonna, shining bright all by herself, just as we got to know her. The critics, the box office and the fan reaction proves that your opinion is an unpopular one. It is still your opinion however so you can have it. But putting things out there like "Madonna is not a talented musician" and "She hasn't rehearsed this show as much as the other ones" is simply untrue. Your opinion and the reasoning behind it is very poorly researched and therefore to me, invalid. 

Go see the show, read a book about Madonna and take a look at Prismatic, then come back into this thread.

[jojuun 4,159]

no i dont mean it because of that. its that her voice starts at 4:09 and the mic is not even on her lips. yes i know mics have frequencies and can pick up voices from afar but if that were the case then we would be able to hear a growing voice, whereas hers stays the same volume. just asking 

The Iconic performance relies heavily on backing track, she's coming down the ceiling so just for technical audio reasons that's enough. But she is singing on top of the back track and her back-up singers are closely with her (vocally speaking) throughout the song. Kiley Dean was hired as a replacement for Donna Delory aka a singer who's able to mimic Madonna's voice completely. Kiley has said during one of her Periscope live streams last week that she was hired purely for that reason. Donna Delory was hired for the same job. Madonna actually got mad at Donna during auditions for the Who's That Girl tour in 1987 because she thought Donna wasn't singing along with her. Until they turned down Madonna's mic and Donna sounded exactly like her. It's a classic backing duo. One stronger vocalist for ad-libs and solo's, which is Nicki Richards and one purely to make Madonna's vocals stronger, which would be Kiley Dean.

[andy232000 12,582]

The Iconic performance relies heavily on backing track, she's coming down the ceiling so just for technical audio reasons that's enough. But she is singing on top of the back track and her back-up singers are closely with her (vocally speaking) throughout the song. Kiley Dean was hired as a replacement for Donna Delory aka a singer who's able to mimic Madonna's voice completely. Kiley has said during one of her Periscope live streams last week that she was hired purely for that reason. Donna Delory was hired for the same job. Madonna actually got mad at Donna during auditions for the Who's That Girl tour in 1987 because she thought Donna wasn't singing along with her. Until they turned down Madonna's mic and Donna sounded exactly like her. It's a classic backing duo. One stronger vocalist for ad-libs and solo's, which is Nicki Richards and one purely to make Madonna's vocals stronger, which would be Kiley Dean.

did not know that...i find it very underwhelming that she has to hire vocal imitators...

its clever but...dont know, weird to me 

[Duella Dvil 10,623]

I'm in LOVE with that performance of Ghosttown 

HAS SHE STARTED DOING GHOSTTOWN

[jojuun 4,159]

did not know that...i find it very underwhelming that she has to hire vocal imitators...

It's not complete imitation, it's mostly to make her vocal "thicker" and it's heavier in certain songs than others. During the acoustic parts, they do second vocal lines, but in numbers where she's dancing or in this case, coming down from the ceiling, they are very "close" to her vocally speaking. You can see below, at 2:50, how it works. It's only a couple of seconds long so just see for yourself how it works. Gaga does it too when she's dancing. Ameera Perkins and Jasmine Morrow were hired for the Monster Ball as the "stronger" vocalists for solo's, second lines, ad-libs and Chevonne Ianuzzi to make Gaga's vocal thicker. Gaga, like Madonna, went solo during the piano parts of the show.

 

[AJH219 4,448]

HAS SHE STARTED DOING GHOSTTOWN

Yes!! At least she did Saturday night 

[andy232000 12,582]

It's not complete imitation, it's mostly to make her vocal "thicker" and it's heavier in certain songs than others. During the acoustic parts, they do second vocal lines, but in numbers where she's dancing or in this case, coming down from the ceiling, they are very "close" to her vocally speaking. You can see below, at 2:50, how it works. It's only a couple of seconds long so just see for yourself how it works. Gaga does it too when she's dancing. Ameera Perkins and Jasmine Morrow were hired for the Monster Ball as the "stronger" vocalists for solo's, second lines, ad-libs and Chevonne Ianuzzi to make Gaga's vocal thicker. Gaga, like Madonna, went solo during the piano parts of the show.

 

gaga doesnt use vocal imitators. she just uses the studio vocal track. she barely uses live backup singers

[jojuun 4,159]

gaga doesnt use vocal imitators. she just uses the studio vocal track. she barely uses live backup singers

Have you missed the names I mentioned in my previous post? Google the names. They're not imitators in the pure form of the word, they're just hired to make the lead vocalists vocals stronger in places where he/she might need it. Gaga HAS used backing vocalists and Chevonne Ianuzzi WAS hired to make Gaga's pop vocal stronger during dance numbers. It's NORMAL, every dancing popstar does it. Even Beyoncé, who's known for her vocals during dance numbers, does it. They hire one, two or three vocalists and one or two of them are purely there to "blend" in with the lead vocalist (aka the star) so that the lead vocal sounds stronger. Do you know how big an arena can be? And how much stamina one person must have in order to deliver perfect smooth pop vocals while moving? Gaga is an incredible vocalist but she DOES need the support like everyone else. 

[andy232000 12,582]

Have you missed the names I mentioned in my previous post? Google the names. They're not imitators in the pure form of the word, they're just hired to make the lead vocalists vocals stronger in places where he/she might need it. Gaga HAS used backing vocalists and Chevonne Ianuzzi WAS hired to make Gaga's pop vocal stronger during dance numbers. It's NORMAL, every dancing popstar does it. Even Beyoncé, who's known for her vocals during dance numbers, does it. They hire one, two or three vocalists and one or two of them are purely there to "blend" in with the lead vocalist (aka the star) so that the lead vocal sounds stronger. Do you know how big an arena can be? And how much stamina one person must have in order to deliver perfect smooth pop vocals while moving? Gaga is an incredible vocalist but she DOES need the support like everyone else. 

i never said she didnt, i said she barley uses them. she only used them on the monster ball and at the last show of the artrave. and i though they where immitators because you said they try to replicate their voices. like that girl who apparently sings exactly like her