The queen of pop did an intimate gig at the Roseland ballroom and did a handful of her new material for the first time. Check out Madonna and Justin f**king up "4 minutes" live and making the song worse than it already is.
That performance was garbage. Anybody who is about to play the "But she's almost 50 years old" card needs to sit down. Her vocals were a mess. "4 minutes" should not be a hard song for Madonna to sing because her parts are all sung in a low register. The only good aspect of the performance was the set. Everything else was rubbish. I was hoping for Madonna to come better, but I guess she saves all the amazing shit and above average performances for her world tours.
Madonna also graced her audience with performances of "Candy shop", "Miles away", "4 minutes" and "Give it 2 me", as well as her past hits "Hung up" and "Music". Her renditions of "Hung up" and "Music" were terrible. "Hung up" is as camp and as poptastic as a song can get - that's part of the songs' charm. You can't throw a rock guitar in there to make it edgy because it ruins it and that's exactly what Madonna did to the song: ruined it. As if the re-working wasn't bad enough, Madonna also f**ks up and forgets the words at one point. As for her Hard candy song performances, she didn't do the songs a great deal of justice. "Miles away" was a load of crap. Trust Madonna to take one of the most stunning and beautiful songs on her album and trash it with a crap vocal performance of it. Madonna's swagger on "Candy shop" was hot, as was it on "Give it 2 me" - but she mimed most of the song. When "Give it 2 me" broke down to the cowbells I expected Madonna to drop the Yoga shit and spin around the floor with her leg behind her head, but all she did was slide around from left to right on her crusty old knees.
Madonna can still move for a 50 year old bird. She'd certainly out pace the likes of me. But those performances were lacking. Still, Madonna is still a hot performer and she came better than Mariah has over the past month. Mariah's been stinking up the joint with her terrible, half arsed live performances lately.
That performance was garbage. Anybody who is about to play the "But she's almost 50 years old" card needs to sit down. Her vocals were a mess. "4 minutes" should not be a hard song for Madonna to sing because her parts are all sung in a low register. The only good aspect of the performance was the set. Everything else was rubbish. I was hoping for Madonna to come better, but I guess she saves all the amazing shit and above average performances for her world tours.
Madonna also graced her audience with performances of "Candy shop", "Miles away", "4 minutes" and "Give it 2 me", as well as her past hits "Hung up" and "Music". Her renditions of "Hung up" and "Music" were terrible. "Hung up" is as camp and as poptastic as a song can get - that's part of the songs' charm. You can't throw a rock guitar in there to make it edgy because it ruins it and that's exactly what Madonna did to the song: ruined it. As if the re-working wasn't bad enough, Madonna also f**ks up and forgets the words at one point. As for her Hard candy song performances, she didn't do the songs a great deal of justice. "Miles away" was a load of crap. Trust Madonna to take one of the most stunning and beautiful songs on her album and trash it with a crap vocal performance of it. Madonna's swagger on "Candy shop" was hot, as was it on "Give it 2 me" - but she mimed most of the song. When "Give it 2 me" broke down to the cowbells I expected Madonna to drop the Yoga shit and spin around the floor with her leg behind her head, but all she did was slide around from left to right on her crusty old knees.
Madonna can still move for a 50 year old bird. She'd certainly out pace the likes of me. But those performances were lacking. Still, Madonna is still a hot performer and she came better than Mariah has over the past month. Mariah's been stinking up the joint with her terrible, half arsed live performances lately.
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