Our reader Jorgito sent us his review of last night show in New York. Here’s his tale:

“I’m gonna try and not bore with you too many details from the show. But, to say the show was outstanding is truly an understatement. The concert was magic. Madonna brings back a lot of her oldies on this tour (e.g. Like A Prayer, Material Girl, Vogue to mention a few), and does about 6 tracks from her last, mediocre album (I didn’t care too much for the songs she picked from the last album, I feel there are better songs on there that for some reason or another, she decided not to do).

But…being so close to Madonna, you realize that she’s a human being, and at the same time, she’s not. She’s superwoman in a way. She’s this tiny little thing (5’4″), with a body sculpted beyond belief through years of yoga, an incredibly healthy diet, and general exercise. She also looks much younger up close. The camera, although it has captured her beautifully at times, doesn’t really give her face justice. Her face is something you can look at forever. When you see Madonna perform, from that close up, when her eyes meet yours…you realize that Madonna has become what many of us only dream of: a fully realized person. But the wonderful, exhausting, difficult, and overwhelming thing about her is that you get the sense that it’s an everyday struggle on her part to be fully realized. Everyday it’s something new she has to reach for, whether it be personal, career-wise, parent-wise, whatever. She continues to reach. Many of us tend to stay where we are, and only push forward if we really have the heart to do it. She does the same, but more so then anyone can fathom.

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“I was in the pit for the show. Madonna had two pits on the side of the stage. I was closer then even front row. During “Don’t Tell Me” Madonna was dancing one foot away from me. I had been screaming “You’re the best Madonna!” at the top of my lungs from the very beginning of the show, along with singing the lyrics to her songs (I knew every single one of them, every line, every note) and twice Madonna had acknowledged me. The first time was right after she had sung “Frozen” where I screamed it at the top of my lungs and she nodded (her face heading in my direction). At another point, right before she began singing “American Life” I yelled it again, and she smiled in my direction. But during “Don’t Tell Me” was the moment that I had been dreaming of since I was 10 years old. She saw me singing, screaming, and jumping my heart out right beneath her, and for three seconds her and I were one: she looked directly at me for a couple of seconds, and then she smiled at me, and went along her way. I began crying after this, my x boyfriend whom I brought along as a guest with me for this experience had to calm me down. I remember I felt like I was about to faint, but I held tight, ’cause I didn’t want to miss one single second of her.

Another amazing, wonderful thing about the show was that for the first time in a long time Madonna seemed to be enjoying singing her old tracks. No longer was she annoyed by the fact that she was bringing them back. Instead, she was celebrating them with thousands of people at Madison Square Garden. Unlike her last tour where Madonna was incredibly cold and distant, Madonna had heart, and warmth, and acknowledged the people who had stuck by her for the past 20 years plus. People were on their feet the entire time (again, unlike her last tour where she only played new tracks to practically everyone’s disappointment), and I only saw some people sitting down for a couple of tracks this time around (those being off her last album of course).

Watching Madonna is exhausting. You think, how much longer can she keep this up? How much longer can she look so amazing, and put her body through the rigorous routines she’s doing. She’s 45 years old now, turning 46. How the fuck does she do it? She is her own work of art. She is her own overrated, self indulgent, selfish, vulnerable, powerful, preachy, warm, loving person who truly feels in her heart that she’s gotta keep going because every day is a new day to learn something new. Everyday is a new day to be a fully realized person. Everyday is a new day to be who she is. Everyday is another day to celebrate life.

When she looked at me, and smiled, I got it. I got her.

At the end of the show, the screens closed behind her with big huge letters stating: “Re-invent Yourself.” I know for sure she’s doing it. And now I see that we are all capable of it as well. We just gotta believe it the way she does and all of us are capable of anything and everything.

Love
Jorgito/Cristian“