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Madonna plans to hit the clubs for her upcoming summer tour, because according to her tour director, it wouldn’t be the disco queen’s kind of dance floor if it wasn’t a bit confessional too.
“A typical Madonna show is quite produced,” said Jamie King, who has been the creative director who has been the creative director for Madonna’s last two tours. “She. “She likes things large, she likes things theatrical, but this time, being that [Confessions on a Dance Floor] is an intimate album, we want to try to make people have an intimate experience as well as a big produced theatrical experience. So look for us doing some small venues, some smaller venues.”
To achieve that intimacy, Madonna will have to be able to get close to everyone, so the tour is also going to be more interactive. “I would like to put her as close to her people her fans, her dancers, her fellow supporters as possible,” King said.
While that effect was achieved via the pit and the catwalk on her Reinvention Tour, don’t expect Madonna to merely reinvent that tour and trot out all the hits. The set list has been confirmed, King said, and it’s definitely Confessions-heavy, with “some familiar faces” popping up from the past two dance-themed videos, “Hung Up” and “Sorry.” That said, there will be a few yet-to-be-revealed fan favorites on the set list as well.
“Listen, I love old Madonna songs I don’t know one person who doesn’t,” King said. “But we want to focus mainly on this album. I think people love it and they want to hear it, so expect a lot of the songs from Confessions on a Dance Floor.”
Tour dates have yet to be announced, but rehearsals begin March 1.
source : mtv.com

Everyone knows that Madonna has beautiful skin! Lately our favorite fair skinned diva has been letting the public in on one of her beauty secrets! Madonna has become so fond of her Oxygen Treatments that she keeps an oxygen machine in each of her homes, she told Harpar’s Bazaar Magazine. Madonna.com sat down with Madonna’s personal Oxygen Treatment Facialist to find out more about this fountain of youth!

Madonna.com: What is an O2 Intraceutical Oxygen Treatment?

Michelle Peck: The 02 Intraceutical Treatment is what I give to Madonna when I give her what is commonly known as an oxygen facial. The treatment reduces the appearance of fine lines, improves skin tone and provides an instant firming and lift by using hyperbaric technology to saturate the skin with oxygen and infuse a rejuvenating hyaluronic acid serum.

Madonna.com: How does a Intraceutical Oxygen Treatment work and what does it accomplish.

Michelle Peck: I begin each treatment with a product from our line called Atoxlene, it is our natural solution to fine lines, made of hexapeptides and amino acids, I infuse it into Madonna’s skin using hyperbaric technology which is simply oxygen applied under pressure. I concentrate the treatment around the eyes, the nasal labial fold and between the eyebrows. Then I move on to our infamous rejuvenating treatment which leaves the skin completely hydrated, plumped, glowing, tightened and lifted ready for the application of make-up. While Madonna takes exceptional care of her porcelain skin, I always recommend this treatment before & after air travel as it can be so dehydrating.

Madonna.com: How did you and the oxygen system come to work with Madonna?

Gina Brooke is Madonna’s make-up artist and is known to use the best and most innovative products on the market. Gina discovered, after intensive research, O2 Intraceuticals is unlike any other oxygen skin treatment existing today. Gina believes taking care of one’s skin is the foundation to beautiful make-up. Gina introduced me and the Hyperbaric Oxygen Technology to Madonna, who has been a devoted fan of the treatment ever since!
For more information on O2 Intraceuticals Oxygen Treatments go to www.intraceuticals.com

source : madonna.com

“Sorry” went up from #6 to #3 on TRL today.
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British rockers the Kaiser Chiefs were more overwhelmed by their fellow celebrities than by their three wins at last week’s Brit Awards.
The I Predict A Riot newcomers, who beat off competition from Coldplay and Oasis to be crowned British Rock Act, are still struggling to come to terms with the extent of their fame and fortune.
And they were stunned to find their success attracting the attention of hotel heiress Paris Hilton.
He says, “We actually felt quite out of place at the ceremony because we were sort of like the underdogs.
“It was weird to win so many awards and very bizarre to have people like Madonna and Paris Hilton wanting to talk to us. People like that seem totally out of our league.”
source : contactmusic

The first indication that Madonna had the skill and the will to generate imagery that would rank with the most durable pop art came at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. Dressed up in a variation of the ensemble she dons on the cover of Like a Virginthe tawdry gown of pure white, the belt buckle reading “boy toy”she descended a gargantuan wedding cake to sing that album’s title track. Her every move a pose, she brought the performance to its peak by getting down, stretching out, and humping the stage. Of the many persons and things Madonna has humped for the sake of her art in the 21 years sincethe mind first flashes to a big bed in Truth or Dare, Austin Powers in the “Beautiful Stranger” video, Big Daddy Kane and Naomi Campbell simultaneously in the book Sex, backup dancers by the scorenone has more charm than the boom box that receives her attention in the recent video advertising “Hung Up” and that reappears in its new sequel, the video for “Sorry.”

The “Hung Up” video begins as a small woman in a blue tracksuit clacks into a bare dance studio carting this slab of ghetto blasteran appliance from a Bronx block party of a quarter-century ago. She slips the sweats offleotard, tights, peep-toe pumps. You know her. The hot-rolled, Farrah-feathered hair is a shade that falls between Rita Hayworth and Julianne Moore. The leotard is a color that American Apparel would call fuchsia, but she wears it in a way that suggests hot pink. The studio is clean but seamy. Which is all by way of saying that the style of the moment is a kind of a minimal, sleekly sleazy, hipster chic.

When she presses play, the boom box starts pulsing with its electro-retro-disco and blipping with dots of hot light, transmitting the music from the dance studio to the singer’s idealized constituency. From the dining room of a restaurant to a baking curbside in southern California, the same model of stereo picks up the signal. Packs of cool kids get an aggressive groove on and find themselves urged in the direction of a nightclub. Through the first half of the clip, Madonna stretches at the barre and dances in the mirror, practicing moves that she then takes out to the club, which, as an archetypal music-video nightclub, delivers to all entrants the perfect ecstasy of release.

In the main narrative of “Sorry,” Madonna and these new friends pile into a party van with a neon-trimmed interior and a platform for that boom box. Because they’re headed to the after-party, everyone slips into something less comfortable, with the star going for a Marvel Comics get-up of silver boots and yet another take on what I guess you would still call workout wear even though it’s something like lamA

Madonna was “shocked” and “devastated” yesterday by Lowdown’s exclusive about the vicious ­attack on her children’s book illustrator Jeffrey Fulvimari which left the artist in the hospital with multiple skull fractures, including a broken eye socket.
“She was very devastated at the news,” Madge’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, told me yesterday after speaking with the 47-year-old pop diva. “It was shocking news. She’s very fond of Jeffrey “

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An illustrator who did the artwork for one of Madonna’s children’s books has been beaten up in New York, it was reported today.

Jeffrey Fulvimari, 43, suffered a fractured skull when he was attacked by three thugs after leaving a trendy nightclub early on Sunday morning, according to the New York Daily News.
The artist, who worked on Madonna’s The English Roses, is being treated in hospital and is said to need reconstructive surgery on his left eye socket after being beaten and kicked.
He told the newspaper he did not even remember anyone attacking him in the Chelsea area of Manhattan.
“All of the sudden I was down, then people were asking me questions and I was being put in an ambulance,”? Fulvimari said.
He added: “I’m lucky I don’t have brain damage or hearing damage.”?
The friend he was with, Ricardo Paredes, said he believed the attackers might have thought the pair were jumping the queue.
“I went to get in the car, and when I turned around I saw three big guys beating Jeffrey up really bad,”? he told the newspaper.
“I went and said “~Stop! Stop!’ and they just took me over right away and they beat me up. It happened so fast.”?
source : eveningecho.ie

Madonna is heading to the top of the UK chart with the second single from ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’, ‘Sorry’, outselling Westlife and Corinne Bailey Rae – who are vying for a top five entry.
Elsewhere there are new entries from The Darkness and Michael Jackson and the first of his single releases.
In the album chart nine of the top 10 are likely to be Brit Award winners, with the Kaiser Chiefs having a chance of rising to number one – the first time the album, released a year ago, will have done so.
source : chartsingles.net