Madonna’s Message Lost In Transformation

Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune reviewed Madonna’s concert at the United Center on Sunday (July 11), the first of four shows in Chicago. Kot writes that “the current Reinvention Tour, spread over 21 songs and 105 minutes, is a mess, a hodgepodge of ideas that never quite establishes its tenuous theme: personal reinvention as the key to world peace.” Kot added, “Madonna was never a particularly personable performer; she always kept the audience on a short leash with her dominatrix demeanor. But the singer more than compensated with a subversive sense of humor that, when conspiring with the best of her melodic dance-pop, put a wicked twist on the notion of a ‘guilty pleasure’.”