IN BED WITH MADONNA \ BLONDE AMBITION TOUR

by Darya Baitsim (c)

I haven’t written here for quite a while, but that is not because I felt lazy or anything like that. Rather, I did not feel inspired enough to write about anything. None of the shows and films I saw excited my imagination and fueled my feelings. But recently this changed. Madonna changed it. Madonna has always been changing things, breaking taboos, making people talk about her.A lot of other celebrities are busy doing the same things, but She’s different. She’s remarkably strong and she’s a survivor. That’s why she deserves admiration, even just as a person.

I’ve been meaning to get around to watching In Bed with Madonna for  long time. And now I have.

Having read several reviews of the film afterwards, I learnt that this was one of the first “live” celebrities films ever to appear on the screen. Madonna started the trend and a long procession of other celebrities followed.

I cannot say that In Bed with Madonna was particularly revealing, it had almost no stories to tell ( well, apart from Madonna meeting her father and brother and talk about her relatives). Mostly it was made of scenes from her life on the road. And that’s what I liked, although I have to say it, she was acting for the camera all the time, I never saw any real emotions or heard any real words our of her mouth. But then, isn’t it what could be expected from a megastar like Madonna, who always has to keep her persona for the audience?

In Bed With Madonna was made not quite in the height of Madonna’s career, rather, it caught her  during her first famous Blond Ambition Tour in 1989- and the name of the show speaks for itself.

It was the third concert tour of Madonna, and the first world-wide notorious one. Notorious for its juxtaposition of Catholic iconography and sexuality- and excellently choreographed. It received glowing reviews from major magazines of the world and various rewards for its expressiveness. The Blond Ambition Tour excited a lot of controversy at the time, and in Canada the singer was arrested for a masturbation scene in her concert show ( but was released shortly afterwards).The show was received with tension in Italy, a Catholic country, and in some other places as well. But this did not stop Madonna.She went right on with her show, proclaiming artistic freedom of expression. As we can see in Truth or Dare\In Bed With Madonna, the singer herself states , "I know that I'm not the best singer and I know that I'm not the best dancer. But, I can fucking push people's buttons ...” 

And so she does. Bravo.

If you still haven’t seen Truth or dare\In Bed With Madonna- you’ll be in for some revelations of who Madonna really is.