It’s been 20 years Since the “Blond Ambition Tour”! Can you believe it??
Controversy, theatricality, sex and religion. A cocktail served in a Jean Paul Gaultier cone than twenty years ago forged crown as queen of pop Madonna on a tour that shook the world: the “Blond Ambition Tour.”
The “blond ambition” landing in the U.S. on May 4, 1990 in Houston (Texas), after a step in the middle of rainy season in Japan and ready to whip the audience: The epiphany of a new Madonna, even more provocative and extravagant, was to come.
Completing “Like a Virgin” with an orgasm, shouting “God!” giving rise to redemption in a cathedral with “Like a Prayer”, or require a muscular power workers into a corset and pink cones singing “Express Yourself” were some of the provocations launched by the artist with treachery.
But her greatest transgression was to stand as the biggest star of the music with a live voice at times ruborizante. Behind the blow, nobody could deny him a spectacular technical expertise.
These were and are the real keys to its success, and music, a simple plot for the construction of her icon. But the “Blond Ambition Tour
After seven-year career, Madonna had accumulated experience, reputation and repertoire to dazzle. She had squeezed the infant still video clip, was at number one in the world with “Vogue” had the respect of an album Like a Prayer and was preparing to storm the box office with “Dick Tracy.”
This film also had sentimentally attached to Warren Beatty, Madonna as the summer of 1990 was simply the most famous woman in the world. A goddess ubiquitous and unorthodox than 32 years.
“My show is not a conventional rock concert, but a play of my music. And as the drama raises questions, provokes thoughts and takes the audience on an emotional journey that portrays good and evil, light and darkness , pleasure and pain, redemption and salvation, “she said.
However, after challenging the police in Toronto (Canada) on charges of public scandal, finally was able to Catholic Church with her and had to cancel two concerts in Rome.
Italian blood and Catholic education, the singer shot back: “If the Pope wants to see one of my concerts, you pay like everyone else.”
The show itself was impeccable: With artistic direction of his brother Christopher Ciccone, who later wrote a biography of Madonna’s little sibling, “the singer went over the great successes of his career while his physical showed almost superhuman in heavy numbers Dance and countless costume changes.
And still had time to break taboos as masturbation, homosexuality, contraception and pregnancy. Dancing with some “mermaids” which mesmerized fiddling on “Cherish” to playback along with Dick Tracy or sit in the confessional to sing “Oh Father.”
From the factory-inspired “Metropolis” which opened the concert to the defense of the family with clear references to “Cabaret” and Bob Fosse, Madonna was moving their different skins: feminist, religious, to “femme fatale”, the neighborhood girl or contortionist queen of “vogueing” the dance that was stolen from the underground gay circles of New York.
All with one common element: the costumes for Jean Paul Gaultier, who acknowledged having a bottle of aspirin needed to dress up to since then would be one of his muses reference.
The “Blond Ambition Tour” arrived in Europe on June 30, starting in Gothenburg (Sweden), and stayed in three Spanish cities-Madrid, Barcelona and Vigo, before closing in Nice (France).
When the tour ended, Madonna confessed she felt, rightly, a great void. Even within its fireproof smell to stay on top, the feat would be difficult to replicate.
Find more about the “Blond Ambition Tour” in here.
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