Now I find I've changed my mind... I never felt so happy

(Confessions Tour, part 2)

After hanging from the cross, Madonna continued to turn up the political commentary with the Sorry (Remix) interlude. In the video remix of the song, she spliced images of Condi Rice, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Bush, Nixon, Kim Jong-il, war and starving kids in Africa all the while repeating the phrase "don’t say you’re sorry." The montage ended with the phrase "The Audience is Listening.” Needless to say, this was edited out of the NBC airing.

The scrim came up and a black and white stylized cityscape was in the background. Madonna, in a tight black, glammed up and feather-collared outfit, donned an electric guitar with a strap saying I heart NY. She rocked out to I Love New York and replaced the line "If you don't like my attitude, then you can f-off// Just go to Texas, isn't that where they golf?" with "If you don’t like my attitude, then you can fuck off//Just go to Texas and suck George Bush’s cock." Not poet laureate material, but it got a big cheer from the audience. The next song was one of my eternal favorites: Ray of Light. She delivered that song home! Playing on her guitar, she and her male dancers performed some fancy moves to the song, all in front of a spiraling milky-way.

Stripping out of her glam and feathers, Madonna stand on the stage and belts out her song, Let It Will Be. She struts, parades, gyrates and throws herself all over the stage all the while captivating her audience. In a smartmove, she sits down to rest and sings Drowned World/Substitute For Love. There's nothing going on in the background -- it's just a spotlight on her, her band light up and lights from the stage shining down. This number was about her voice, the words and the song. See how good it was:


To end this set, Yitzhak Sinwani joined Madonna on the stage for Paradise (Not For Me), as linked in this blog entry of mine. Since "Music" was released, I have loved Paradise and was excited to see it being used as an interlude during the "Drowned World Tour." Now, it was spectualar to hear it live with Yemenite lyrics to replace the original French ones.