The Sticky & Sweet Tour
Live CD:
Candy Shop Medley
Beat Goes On Medley
Human Nature
Vogue 2008
She’s Not Me
Music 2008
Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You
Spanish Lesson
La Isla Bonita 2008
You Must Love Me
Get Stupid Medley
Like A Prayer 2008
Give It 2 Me
Live DVD:
The Sweet Machine
Candy Shop Medley
Beat Goes On Medley feat. Kanye West
Human Nature
Vogue 2008
Die Another Day 2008
Into The Groove 2008
Heartbeat
Borderline
She’s Not Me
Music 2008
Rain/Here Comes The Rain Again
Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You
Spanish Lesson
Miles Away
La Isla Bonita Medley
Me Darava/Doli Doli
You Must Love Me
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
Get Stupid Medley
4 Minutes feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
Like A Prayer 2008
Ray Of Light
Like A Virgin 2008
Hung Up Medley
Give It 2 Me
Credits
Behind the Scenes Bonus Footage
Released: April 6, 2010 (North America), March 30 (Europe), March 29 (UK, France, Portugal, Brazil, Poland), March 26 (Germany, Australia, Italy, Ireland, Mexico)
The ‘Sticky & Sweet’ tour was the most successful tour by a solo artist in history and was seen by over 3.5 million fans in 32 countries around the world. The DVD was filmed in Buenos Aires, over four days to a crowd exceeding 256,000 fans, and also includes 30 minutes of exclusive footage filmed behind the scenes during the course of the tour. The CD contains the audio version of the show.
Available Formats:
- DVD & CD – Digipak case edition containing two discs: DVD of the concert and a CD containing 13 live tracks
- Blu-ray & CD (Europe) – Blu-ray case edition containing: High Definition version of the concert on Blu-ray and a CD containing 13 live tracks
- Blu-ray (North America) – Blu-ray case edition containing: High Definition version of the concert on Blu-ray
- iTunes Digital version 1 – contains the 13 tracks from the CD release with four bonus tracks “Heartbeat”, “Borderline”, “4 Minutes”, “Ray of Light” and a digital booklet
- iTunes Digital version 2 – contains the 13 tracks from the CD release with three bonus tracks “Borderline”, “4 Minutes” and “Ray of Light” (this version does not have a digital booklet)
- Amazon Digital version – contains the 13 tracks from the CD release with four bonus tracks “Borderline”, “Miles Away”, “4 Minutes” and “Ray of Light”
Blu-Ray Artwork:
Blu-Ray
Review:
Madonna doesn’t speak with a British accent on her new live CD and DVD. Instead, the 52-year-old pop music icon from Michigan wields a guitar on nearly half of the 26 records and turns songs like Borderline and Ray of Light into singles which could’ve been cut by Joan Jett. The effect, like nearly everything else gathered on this scrapbook from the highest-grossing concert tour ever performed by a solo artist, is electric and winning, a rockstar’s return to grace. There’s no Lady Gaga without Madonna and, for that matter, considering her prominence during the MTV-era, no worldwide devotion to Michael Jackson, George Michael or U2. But hitting the road in support of Hard Candy, Madonna’s eleventh solo album, the performer’s not resting on her laurels, she’s celebrating them – and the result is a blast.
Of course, anything Madonna does is as much a visual production as anything audio and there’s as many costume changes as musicians onstage. Designers from Karl Lagerfeld to Kangol are referenced, but the music never takes a backseat. Hot stepping with plenty of attitude and rarely covering up very much thigh, Madonna’s yogacized, political and auto-tuned on this record, whether striking a pose in a white top hat or flashing her name on the inside of a vest.
Many songs, like Die Another Day, 4 Minutes and La Isla Bonita, are re-imagined as parts of larger medleys, with Madonna giving shout-outs to her influences. The set’s highlight is Into the Groove 2008, which features the singer playing double-dutch jump rope before a series of Keith Haring paintings and referencing classic hip-hop records like Jam On It, Apache and It’s Like That by Run-DMC. The record was recorded in December 2008 in Buenos Aires and thus the Andrew Lloyd-Webber songs from Evita receive cut-away shots of people crying in the stands. (Madonna hadn’t performed in Argentina in 13 years and, as the making-of DVD helpfully explains, people slept outside the venue to buy seats).
Guests pop up on the record, including Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, and one quibble with the DVD is that they only appear on the video screens. Since the stars all took the stage at various points of the tour (which was seen live by more than 3-million people and reached over US$400-million in sales), why not include those performances here? Certainly, Madonna wasn’t afraid of being upstaged. Whether she’s performing the techno version of Like a Prayer or referencing Abba at the show’s climax in Hung Up, the singer looks and sounds as good as she did when Live a Virgin first made her a star.
OK: there are some bits which are a little embarrassing. It’s like watching your mom make a porno when she’s overly sexual during the film’s opening and it’s a little cringe-inducing hearing her drop f-bombs. But Sticky & Sweet is a document of a woman in her 50s who only started peaking after most people thought she was through. Madonna doesn’t speak with a British accent on her new record. But even if she did, it wouldn’t really have mattered: most of the time, the stage banter is drowned out by the crowd’s roar.
The National Post: http://network.nationalpost.com
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