Favorite Madonna performances?

[Ladle Ghoulash 41,149]

I recently rewatched the Confessions Tour and I legit can’t stop thinking about this performance. Amazing arrangement, phenomenal staging, powerful message. Definitely one of my all-time faves from her. 

Drop your favorites below!

Edited 9 hours ago by Ladle Ghoulash

[rvfzme 885]

I don't have a favorite performance of hers.

Sorry, gomenasai, psheprashum 

[MAC 1,957]

I have a lot but every opening performance of her tours are great.

[Blackout19 14,736]

 

[lance13 1,218]

Express Yourself (Blonde Ambition)

[Bronco 20,116]

Erotica (Confessions tour)

Frozen/Open Your Heart Remix (Sticky & Sweet 2009) - its criminal we don't have a pro shot of this. 

I'm Addicted (MDNA Tour) - The editing for this film was atrocious but I loved this performance. 

Deeper & Deeper (Rebel Heart Tour) - One of my personal fave Madonna tracks. 

Sky Fits Heaven - Drowned World Tour

 

[bxr 1,392]

The surgical precision on this visual sonicscape … just feels paradigmatic pop encapsulation

 

[Bronco 20,116]

24 minutes ago, bxr said:

The surgical precision on this visual sonicscape … just feels paradigmatic pop encapsulation

 

This song, the entire section & the tour demonstrate the one thing I wish we got more of from Gaga.
Re-invention of classics in tour setlists. 
It's the only critique I ever have of Gaga live tours, she doesn't play around with the older hits she puts in the setlist enough. LoveGame is like the only hit she religiously performs every tour but also the only hit that she regularly has fun with the tour edit for. 

[meltedplastic 776]

Erotica at Confessions tour is NUMBER ONE.
Music at Drowned World Tour
American Life at Reinvention Tour...
Human Nature at Drowned World Tour
 

 

[Lucas 29,916]

She is my favorite artist but honestly there are no performances from her that I'm truly obsessed with.

At the top of my head I can think of Vogue and Open Your Heart at the Blond Ambition tour, Sky Fits Heaven at the Drowned World Tour, LAV/Hollywood at the VMAs, and Girl Gone Wild + Gang Bang at the MDNA tour.

[Ladle Ghoulash 41,149]

1 hour ago, Bronco said:

This song, the entire section & the tour demonstrate the one thing I wish we got more of from Gaga.
Re-invention of classics in tour setlists. 
It's the only critique I ever have of Gaga live tours, she doesn't play around with the older hits she puts in the setlist enough. LoveGame is like the only hit she religiously performs every tour but also the only hit that she regularly has fun with the tour edit for. 

Agreed. I was so excited that she embraced rearrangements and mashups on the MBT tour. If you had told me, prior to the show debuting, that she did a medley of Bloody Mary/Abracadabra/Judas/Aura/Scheisse, I would’ve thought it was fan fiction, but instead, it became what I think is the greatest opener she’s done for any show of her career thus far.

[Bling 31,642]

1 hour ago, bxr said:

The surgical precision on this visual sonicscape … just feels paradigmatic pop encapsulation

 

 

1 hour ago, Bronco said:

This song, the entire section & the tour demonstrate the one thing I wish we got more of from Gaga.
Re-invention of classics in tour setlists. 
It's the only critique I ever have of Gaga live tours, she doesn't play around with the older hits she puts in the setlist enough. LoveGame is like the only hit she religiously performs every tour but also the only hit that she regularly has fun with the tour edit for. 

This and this! I wish Gaga would play around more with her older songs we've heard a million times. If I hear the same arrangement of PF or JD one more time 

[Bronco 20,116]

18 minutes ago, Bling said:

 

This and this! I wish Gaga would play around more with her older songs we've heard a million times. If I hear the same arrangement of PF or JD one more time 

I know PF/JD are massive hits. 
But it's getting to the point she needs to fully embrace medleys & mashups (which TAOPC shows some progress towards). 
She has a new creative zeal post Chromatica though, and I think she may finally start throwing off the shackles of "I must perform this because it's big". 

[Murakami27 7,548]

[Sugar Baby 976]

Express yourself at the blonde ambición tour will always be my fav

 Every thing about it is so ICONIC