MADONNA REWATCH PARTY #1: Blond Ambition Tour & Truth or Dare - 10th April (19:00 BST)

[straightorbroken]

I love how Madonna used her voice on Live to Tell even if notes are missing here all over the joint.

 

[Beverley]

This one-two of LAP to LTT is FUCKING EPIC

Live To Tell does things to me.

 

[Sheena]

I was never THAT bothered by Live To Tell. I LIKE it, I don't LOVE it.

 

[Lucille]

Ooooh this bit is magical!

 

[Sheena]

The extra long bit into "If I ran away" is an absolute MOMENT though.

 

[Beverley]

HA!

I was at Wembley. The middle show I seem to recall.

How old were you?

 

[lolly]

Where did our MATURE QUEENS see this live? Wembley? @lolly I presume was at Colston Hall

Wembley

 

[Penelope]

I've always loved how STATELY it is (while remaining ENTIRELY melodramatic )

LOVELY HARMONIES TOO

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Since usurped by the disco cross version but I still find a lot to like here

It helps that the song is an absolute STUNNER

I still prefer this version. Confessions was amazing and the vocals were great etc. but this ...

 

[Cerro de Casa]

How will they KNOW.....

Oh FATHER...


I can't.

 

[straightorbroken]

I fucking love Oh Father.

 

[Sheena]

How old were you?

12. It was already my second Madonna concert- I'd been to Who's That Girl as well, which was the first concert I ever went to.

 

[Beverley]

OMG that was the biggest tease ever

 

[Beverley]

12. It was already my second Madonna concert- I'd been to Who's That Girl as well, which was the first concert I ever went to.

SO ENVIOUS!

 

[Christian]

Wembley

Same here. 20 July 1990 for me - I think she might have done 3 nights in total.

 

[Alla]

Alla's fact: I also saw her live in Wembley ( much later).

 

[Sheena]

SO ENVIOUS!

WTG was great, but this was a whole other level.

The Girlie Show was probably my best experience, though- somehow managed to blag getting right up the front, which for a 16 year old homosexual was a PROPER EYE OPENER

 

[straightorbroken]

I wonder if she was inspired by Running Up That Hill / A Deal with God with this lustrous choreo.

 

[Beverley]

I still prefer this version. Confessions was amazing and the vocals were great etc. but this ...

I needed more from the Middle 8 here

Still, *sobs* at Oh Father

 

[GNL]

She loved a bit of Pope-baiting, didn't she?

 

[lolly]

to think, when I was 12 my mother was taking me to see Bucks Fizz

(yes @Penelope, Colston Hall)

and they were transcendent

 

[Penelope]

I'd not even been CONCEIVED yet, FACT FANS

 

[Beverley]

OMG I wince on behalf of the Catholic Church at all the sexualisation of their imagery

 

[Cerro de Casa]

@Beverley I used to 'perform' Papa Don't Preach as well

(to my parents & older sister.)

 

[Alla]

Papa don't preach!! yaaaas mama!!

 

[lolly]

Same here. 20 July 1990 for me - I think she might have done 3 nights in total.

So I was 19 then. Still hadn't discovered the joy of cock, though.

 

[straightorbroken]

Papa Don't Preach has just never been a favourite. Maybe I just can't relate to the hetero exclusive concern.

 

[Sheena]

I was wincing at the vocals at the start but she is actually a lot better overall here than later shows where she was having the proper voice problems.

And at that point, she went PROPERLY SHIT

 

[Beverley]

It's easy to forget how incredible the lyrics of Oh Father are. Especially for the time. We sort of expect all of our singers to be so confessional nowadays.

 

[Penelope]

Oh my LORD the opening of Papa Don't Preach

And she looks the SPIT of a YOUNG GWEN STEFANI!

 

[straightorbroken]

If she danced like this now the internet would be ... less than nice.

 

[Lucille]

Oh I LOVE Papa Don’t Preach.

 

[Beverley]

So I was 19 then. Still hadn't discovered the joy of cock, though.

Did you know Miss Epponnee yet?

 

[lolly]

the joy in Papa Don't Preach was always in recording the video on TOTP and getting the exact right moment on freeze frame for the NIP SLIP

 

[Cerro de Casa]

She loved a bit of Pope-baiting, didn't she?

Quite a few of the Italian shows on this tour were cancelled. Watch Truth or Dare and you'll get the idea! They called it the 'most satanic show on earth' or something

 

[Beverley]

@Beverley I used to 'perform' Papa Don't Preach as well

(to my parents & older sister.)

What did your parents make of it?

 

[Penelope]

If she danced like this now the internet would be ... less than nice.

I was ABOUT TO SAY

All the grace of a CAMPER VAN

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I was wincing at the vocals at the start but she is actually a lot better overall here than later shows where she was having the proper voice problems.

And at that point, she went PROPERLY SHIT

Yep the BF just looked up at me and said "She sounds DREADFUL"

 

[lolly]

Did you know Miss Epponnee yet?

Yes, we were at secondary school together.

 

[Penelope]

Quite a few of the Italian shows on this tour were cancelled. Watch Truth or Dare and you'll get the idea! They called it the 'most satanic show on earth' or something