@zinniabooklover
Yes the blonde ambition tour a concer popped up on my youtube. Tons of concerts do, I watch a lot of artists. The picture quality was very fine
I've noticed her shows do seem to be pretty good quality. I haven't seen any film footage from her shows that was crap. Her fans are luckier than Michael's in that regard, it would seem.
The dancing is all choreography
I'm fine with that. She's a trained dancer so she's gonna use choreography rather than improvising. She's on record as saying she knows she's not the best dancer around - she isn't, lol - but, like I said, she is trained. She seems to be good at picking good people to work with.
I agree. I don't like her shows but I can see what people get out of it if they do like her work.
she is clearly a hard worker and she gives 100%.
Her work ethic is fierce. It shows in the high production values and presentation of her shows, I think.
I also think vocals were pre recorded because she never seems to go out of breath but then sometimes I hear a crack in her voice.
Exactly. This is what I've noticed and I haven't watched tons of footage bc she bores the pants off me. But her vocals do fluctuate. Not in a way that suggests she's crap. I just mean, is this bit live, is this bit miming? I can't always tell bc I only really know the 80's records and I'm not familiar with her performance style. Also, I find her boring so my mind wanders, lol.
It is hard to determine if you are not a die hard follower.
Exactly so.
I also enjoy that some of her songs were put in a new jacket with a different beat
She does seem to mix things up a bit, as far as I can tell, which is great.
but then she decided to sing material girl in a totally different accent which I found irritating.
I saw a fragment of that. I closed that down PDQ, lol.
But you know she tries different things. The sets change every 4 songs it kept things interesting.
She works hard at that, it seems. Credit where it's due.
I read a bit about her liveshows and the blonde ambition tour was her big breakthrough apparently
Mm, interesting. I thought it was the Like A Virgin tour although that was just America, not global. Blonde Ambition did make a huge splash at the time, I do remember that.
and there are conflicting reports about her singing live or not.
Yeah, I cannot get a straight story on this.
It was her 3rd tour, according to what I read her first 2 tours were completely life so I already have them lined up next.
I can't stand the Like A Virgin fragments that I've seen but I'm not a fan. She doesn't really do it for me. There are things she does well and I admire the way she approaches certain aspects of her work, especially the live shows. But she's not my artist. She just does not interest me enough. I do admire her LAV achievement, though. She was taking charge even at that early stage.
I don’t think I will bother with her tours after blonde ambition as I saw some setlists and I knew almost no songs. I applaud though that each tour had a vastly different setlist.
I do think that's cool.
But just in terms of stage design It is better than anything MJ has done imo. “This is it“ though looked interesting in that regard.
That's the impression I get although I haven't watched enough of her or Michael to say confidently. I watch random songs of Michael, I never watch an entire show - apart from Live In Mexico - and I watch the same songs over and over bc I'm not ready yet to move on. I'm not mad keen on what I've seen of HWT.
Madonna's stuff sometimes seems *too* over the top, imo. The staging, I mean. But she tries to mix it up and bring in variety.
TII looked amazing, imo. Higher production values and the whole thing just looked fabulous. The smaller venue was a big, BIG help, I'm convinced of that. I know now that a lot of what Michael would have done, he'd been doing for years already. I didn't know that at the time. But I still think the show would have looked brilliant.
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