Madonna's Last Concert

Madonna had her final concert Friday, July 23rd, at the Madison Square Gardens in New York City. She performed to a sold out audience of 50,000 gradually showing more enthusiasm with every song.

This last show of Madonna’s Platinum tour opened with Lady Gaga singing her hit song, “Alejandro”. The audience sang along as Lady Gaga crowd surfed her way off stage in an astronaut suit. The crowd later grew impatient as the crew took over 45 minutes to set up for Madonna.

Madonna came onto stage singing “Material Girl” from her 1985 album, Like a Virgin. Madge and her back up singers began dancing dressed in robes wearing hair curlers in front of a hair dryer. The audience clapped along confused as she began singing in a mixture of accents. Her performance of “Material Girl” could not compare to Lady Gaga’s opening act. The loss of energy from opening act to Madge showed obvious lack of energy on Madonna’s behalf. Even her change from a robe into a pink dress as she went down the stairs was not enough to change the audience’s enthusiasm.

“I was so excited to come see Madonna but I am now so disappointed. That was not the Queen of Pop on stage. Who has taken my Madonna’s voice?” said Melissa Curt, a longtime fan.

Madonna switched things up when she changed into a lacy black leotard with knee high boots beginning to sing, “Vogue”. “Vogue” from her I’m Breathless album used in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy engaged the audience. The dancers danced around her in similar outfits as a portion of the stage began to rotate. Madge then walked onto a runway still dancing as smoke surrounded her while clips of the original music video appeared on the television behind her. The audience could be heard from the stage showing their love for the Material Girl.

Madonna’s last song was “Music” off her triple platinum 2000 album, Music. The song began with flashing lights as dancers dressed in all black wearing silver studded earphones made slow movements across stage. By this time, the crowd was wildly screaming, as Madonna appeared onstage with a black tank top and jeans. The Queen of Pop pranced across the stage showing the most energy of the night. She went near the end of the stage to pump up the audience ending the song with better vocals than “Material Girl”.

“Madonna was nothing short of amazing. Wow, I am still in shock that she even touched my hand. I will not wash it. It was touched by a legend.” said Carla Jones, a fan who sat in the front row.


-Courtney Thornton