This isnt a flip-flops and shorts show!
yelledMadonnaon Monday night, marking her Celebration Tours arrival in Los Angeles.
The last time she played this L.A. haunt was October 2015 with her Rebel Tour.
“Like a Prayer” during Madonna’s Celebration Tour.Getty
Its like reading from my personal diary through music, through dance, through art, through videos.
I hope you might handle it, she exclaimed to the 17,500-filled venue, aged teen to 70-something.
Read: Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande.
Behold and pay respect, kids: Give unto Madonnas what is Madonnas.
Look no further than the rotating wedding cake centerpiece stage which goes aflame during a Beast Within/Justify Your Love.
Freddie Mercury) on myriad retractable screens.
On the trifecta of screens, we see images of her in Indian garb.
Jaw-dropping, political stuff, leaving the Forum to interpret.
All this against monk-chanting.
Madonna concert in LA from Monday.
However, at any concert, shes always been about the hits.
She refuses to simply sing the songs and move on.
Rather, each moment is wonderfully melodramatica (i.e.
I went to this party, met this guy who told me he was in a band.
It was like Bing.
I asked him if he would teach me how to play guitar.
What kind of exchange?
What are you going to give to me?
So, I was thinking about it…I went I dont know.
Some things came to mind, and a couple of things came to mind, and it worked.
So, thats how I learned how to play guitar, says theLike a Virgin crooner.
This summer I had a surprise.
Its called… um… a near-death experience.
Yes, and Im not kidding.
It was pretty scary.
Obviously, I didnt know for four days, because I was in an induced coma.
But when I woke up, the first word I said was No.
Anyway, thats what my assistant tells me.
And Im pretty sure that God was saying to me, Do you wanna come with us?
You wanna come with me?
You wanna go this way?
And I said, No.
Madonna said that Agus, put up with so many entertaining phone calls from me.
When, when, when, when, when, when, when?
And all he would say was, Go outside in the sun.
Madonna continued Have you seen my skin?
His response: Go outside in the sun.
You need Vitamin D so your kidneys will keep working.
I couldnt put those two together.
It was a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control.
And that was my lesson to let go.
She then turned to talking about the three-month postponement of her concert.
Theyre planning… they have a new plot to almost kill me again.
I swear to God, I just said it.
And sometimes you just gotta say shit, put that out in the universe, and it happens.
Are you with me, Los Angeles?
Other eye-brow raising moments included her choosing not to sing Material Girl.
Those two soundtrack songs were unexpected.
Other celebs have appeared on stage in previous shows, i.e.
Hopefully, dear God, never.
