New Material, Same Madonna

Mattew Hays of The Globe and Mail reviewed Madonna’s concert on Wednesday night (June 21) at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Hays writes, “Madonna seemed intent on proving something with her Confessions tour: that she’s still beholden to her worshipping fans (Montreal’s two nights sold out in under two hours — a record), that she still knows how to have fun (despite parenthood and the religious conversion) and that she remains culturally germane. To accomplish that, she needed to captivate, to provide exhilaration, to nod to her past while maintaining the aura of an artist whose best is before her. She delivered.”