Last Sunday I went to Stade de France to see my first Madonna concert. I had researched thoroughly before I left and found that the stadium had a roof. Hence I made a decision to leave the big sweater at home and wear a summer trench coat. Big mistake. The roof was nowhere to be seen. While most people were very entertained by the opening act, which was Bob Sinclair, I was busy freezing to death! I thought it was an extremely boring DJ set, but apparently it counted for a lot that he is french. He had a huge black guy from New York singing (didn’t catch his name). I spent most of the time wondering why people would get sick if they saw a women that obese bouncing her body up and down on the stage, while it is perfectly alright and cool to be obese when you are a gangster-looking hardass guy from New York. Hypocrisy. When was the last time I heard a guy (my boyfriend) say that women are forcing the beauty ideal on themselves and that that they’re skinny mainly to compete with other women. Not true. Don’t tell me the guys would have thought it was cool if they had placed a giant mama on the stage instead of this guy.
Luckily my misery ended as soon as Madonna began her show. And it really was a show just as much as it was a concert. Though I was prepared for that I was still surprised at how much of a show it was. And the surprise was a pleasant one. Her body and her endurance is unbelivable. I want that kind of physique as well! Though I practice yoga I guess I would have to radically increase the time I spend on it to look like that. As well as doing other sorts of exercise, not to mention never eat potato chips again. Then again it’s not just about looks and I guess I must qualify as a good yogi being allmost-vegan. I just want to be fitter, happier, more productive, like everyone else, especially Radiohead in the nineties ;-) That will do for me. But still it’s hard not to get impressed by her looks, she is afterall almost twice my age!
She began the concert with the track Candy Shop. Also in the beginning part of the show she did a ropeskipping act which was just amazing. I really liked that part. My one objection to the show is the video material she has made where she likens McCain to Hitler and Obama to Martin Luther King, Ghandi and Mother Theresa. A coworker of mine expressed it very well when she said that it is taking the audience hostage; you force your own political persuasion on them. And I was there for the music not participate in a political rally. But I’ll live with it since it was, in my opinion, the only flaw in the show. Apart from the lousy opening act, which I had fortunately forgotten as soon as the real show began. Another very impressive thing were the costume changes and how she managed to do a lot of them while on stage. All in all, she is definetely a VIP – a very impressive person. The show ended with my favorite from the new album: Give it 2 me. I had timed it perfectly, moving towards the exit and being able to see the completion of the show from above the stairs, not missing anything and still able to get ahead of all the other people instead of having to compete to much for a place on the train back to the city.
My conclusion: a great show. I would definetely want to go and see another one as soon as I get the chance!
Luckily my misery ended as soon as Madonna began her show. And it really was a show just as much as it was a concert. Though I was prepared for that I was still surprised at how much of a show it was. And the surprise was a pleasant one. Her body and her endurance is unbelivable. I want that kind of physique as well! Though I practice yoga I guess I would have to radically increase the time I spend on it to look like that. As well as doing other sorts of exercise, not to mention never eat potato chips again. Then again it’s not just about looks and I guess I must qualify as a good yogi being allmost-vegan. I just want to be fitter, happier, more productive, like everyone else, especially Radiohead in the nineties ;-) That will do for me. But still it’s hard not to get impressed by her looks, she is afterall almost twice my age!
She began the concert with the track Candy Shop. Also in the beginning part of the show she did a ropeskipping act which was just amazing. I really liked that part. My one objection to the show is the video material she has made where she likens McCain to Hitler and Obama to Martin Luther King, Ghandi and Mother Theresa. A coworker of mine expressed it very well when she said that it is taking the audience hostage; you force your own political persuasion on them. And I was there for the music not participate in a political rally. But I’ll live with it since it was, in my opinion, the only flaw in the show. Apart from the lousy opening act, which I had fortunately forgotten as soon as the real show began. Another very impressive thing were the costume changes and how she managed to do a lot of them while on stage. All in all, she is definetely a VIP – a very impressive person. The show ended with my favorite from the new album: Give it 2 me. I had timed it perfectly, moving towards the exit and being able to see the completion of the show from above the stairs, not missing anything and still able to get ahead of all the other people instead of having to compete to much for a place on the train back to the city.
My conclusion: a great show. I would definetely want to go and see another one as soon as I get the chance!
