I promised myself I wouldn’t read any spoilers about Madonna’s
No Name World Tour, and of course, I failed abysmally. I know what all her
outfits are going to look like and one reason why this tour will be talked about for years. I have gleaned about 90 per cent of this tour so far, and when
(if) she finally comes to Australia, I will sell my right arm, grandmother and
a kidney for front row seats to her gig.
On the evening Madge stopped in Istanbul for this year’s
tour, she decided to give the h8rz something to really to talk about. She
flashes her tit.
The way some people are carrying on about this, you’d think
the end of the world came about six months early.
The vitriol spewed out is falling into one of two camps:
ageist and sexist.
What critics are failing to remember is that being a
provocateur is what Madonna does best. She throws out the rule book titled How
Respectable Women Are Meant To Behave and proves just how obsessed people are
with taboos because they talk about them incessantly. This is a woman who sings
Like A Virgin, Justify My Love, faux-masturbates on stage during the Blond
Ambition tour, has a massive orgy on stage and played a misogynistic, abusive
man that both took place in the Girlie Show, makes love to a black Jesus Christ
in the video for Like A Prayer and then releases the Sex book. Critics’ venom said
much more about them than it did about her.
“Oops, I didn’t know we couldn’t talk about sex!” Madonna
exclaimed in Human Nature. “I’m not sorry.”
Nor should she ever apologise. Her best work has come when
she has been at her sexual and controversial best. She has said she loved the
Erotica album, but it was overshadowed because people were too busy burning her
at the stake due to her Sex book. Glimpses of this era have flashed here and
there, and die-hard fans know she was quite fond of this period and never
really left it behind. She performed Deeper and Deeper in 2004’s Reinvention
Tour and got 2006’s Confessions Tour off to a cracking start in a
couture-themed opening, where her dancers were decked out as high-fashion
horses and she rode those bastards like her life depended on it.
I cannot wait to hear what her next album is going to sound
like. Love live the queen.
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