MADONNA - THE VIRGIN TOUR 1985 REACTION

[@JB-pl1iu]

It still blows my mind that people say she can't sing. CLEARLY she can. Can she do vocal gymnastics like Whitney or Mariah? No. But she has a distinct voice that can still portray feeling and passion while sounding good doing it.

[@rupertfergusson]

DO YOU KNOW THAT THEY RECOD VICAL TRACKS FOR CONCERTS. It’s clear they are fading a recorded track in and out. Also, this guy’s haircut makes me want to kick people.

[@carterjae9866]

Bottom line was Madonna was THE singer on the radio that EVERYONE could sing along with and have fucking fun singing. We were in the car with the radio blaring and us singing along with and just having a fabulous time. Seriously. Her voice was hers. Ours were ours. We had fun singing together. 🎉❤🎉❤

[@maximilianovalverde6692]

Madonna indeed had a good voice, with a pretty tone, it was simply untrained at the time. She sounds tired in some parts of the show and it's understandable as she's dancing but it's also because singing is harder than it looks and straining may hurt your vocal cords. At the time of the Blond Ambition Tour, she had to cancel some shows because she was sick. Studying singing for Evita saved her career in a way because she could have developed vocal cord nodules (as many other singers) if she hadn't done it and singing lessons helps you to prevent those pathologies (I study singing, too).

[@MartinSmith156]

Now Mariah can't sing like she used too

[@blueeyes4910]

Hello In the original setlist of the tour there were also Angel, Bordeline and Buring Up which were cut in the DVD version as the entire Into Rock of Material Girl. They can only be seen from the private recordings made by the people at the concert published on KZbin

[@CarlWayne1975]

She was exactly 26 years old at the time of this performance. (May 25/26, 1985) "Gambler" and "Crazy For You" are from the Vision Quest Soundtrack

[@bennshouts]

Wow! Thought she was so much younger!!

[@santiagohardy2728]

I attended her Virgin Tour date when she played in a very conservative Costa Mesa, Ca. in 1985. The Beastie Boys opened for her. They were so drunk and over the crowd within minutes of their set. When Madonna came out to sing the first few songs, she noticed some folks in the front rows weren't dancing or having a good time. She told them "get up off your butts and dance!", which had zero effect on them. Ironically, the audience in the middle and far back were the one's who were all out of their theater seats dancing their butts off. Although she seemed to have fun during the show, It looked like she drank some alcohol towards the last part of the show. She was swearing more at the folks who refused to get up and dance with her. Playfully cursing, but irritated. As she exited the stage after the final song, She told the people who refused to dance " F**CK THIS S**T!! ", and walked towards the backstage, as soon as she almost made it out of my view, she tripped and slipped on a gathering of dirty black stage cables, she fell flat on her butt. I saw her bounce when she fell, she let out the BIGGEST and FUNNIEST laugh into the microphone. I recall seeing the dirty stage cable marks on her backside when she got back up. We laughed with her. Such a unique moment only a few of us saw.

[@JB-pl1iu]

Madonna still gets pissed at people that are not there to let loose and have a good time and I don't blame her.

[@santiagohardy2728]

Agreed. ​@JB-pl1iu A shame those seats go to people who don't like to dance or get into her groove.

[@bennshouts]

Hahahha what a cool moment to experience!!

[@santiagohardy2728]

Very!😄​@@bennshouts

[@mschirmersf]

“Everybody” is her very first single ever. It wasn’t hugely successful but after she got big it became a fan favorite. I love her voice and the dancing. The vocals are so underrated and what she was famous for. I’ve seen every tour live except for this one because i had to choose between the Purple Rain Tour and this. I don’t regret it but i wish i saw The Virgin Tour. This VHS came out Christmas 1985. We got a VCR and his tape for Xmas that year. Literally watched it over and over. It’s 15 and now at 54 i still love everything about this era. Her untrained voice is my favorite. The imperfections are everything.

[@zanyzander]

Every single song on this tour was a hit single (although some in Europe or Australia), including 3 more deleted tracks (Angel, Borderline, Burning Up). 13 hits is an astonishing body of work for only 2 years.

[@christianjohnson4097]

"Crazy For You" is my favorite recording of all-time! I am so grateful that I had the chance to hear a little bit of it live on the Celebration Tour ❤

[@daniellaplume3840]

Merry Christmas. That intro was her❤😂 The People magazine article about this tour described it as Personality as Art

[@bennshouts]

Omg whaaaat haha! She sounds SO different?!?

[@daniellaplume3840]

@@bennshouts ha, yeah, she is being silly

[@Ivashaaa]

You are my favourite person on KZbin atm. Your vibe is just immaculate sending good vibes from the uk :)

[@bennshouts]

Omg thank you so much!!!

[@JamesKiss]

You can just tell she’s living her dream here. It’s what she was BORN to do. A young and determined Madonna giving it her all for her hometown. I love how much you enjoyed this. You’re such a sweet soul, bb. Cheers 🍻

[@stevenalexander403]

G'day it's Steven from Sydney again Thank you for taking me down memory lane. I was just 16 years old at this time, I had my first girlfriend and she too was a fan of Madonna, we must've watched my VHS copy of this US concert dozens of times and I do in fact still own this VHS tape. Watching this footage you can see a youthful, ambitious, determined, and very talented woman with aspirations to conquer the world of pop...and she did. ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF POP!

[@Michael-oy2qz]

Oh wow is this your first tour reaction? The evolution in her tours is crazy and she very quickly sets the blueprint for all pop tours to come. I love the live performance of Gambler in this show, it's more rock driven then the studio performance

[@bennshouts]

Not my first, maybe the third?? Seeing her original before Drowned Tour!!! Obsessed with Gambler!!!

[@santiagohardy2728]

​@bennshouts I wonder what you will think and feel when you watch her Confessions Live Tour, if you haven't already? For myself, her Confessions Tour has yet to be bested.

[@JB-pl1iu]

MDNA is my absolute favorite.

[@Michael-oy2qz]

@@bennshouts Drowned World Tour is one of the best. It was the first one of hers I saw when it was shown on channel 9 in Australia (I think) back in the day

[@luizribeirooo]

Merry Christmas friend. Well, in Everybody I have an idea that, if we take into account the type of sound that was going on at the end of the 70s and putting Everybody side by side must have been something very crazy for them, very fresh

[@bennshouts]

Thats a good point!

[@Matuteilcapo]

Amazing seeing how she started, her confidence, her stage presence, her stamina, her voice and her dancing are insane!! Merry Christmas!! Pd; Here Borderline, Burning up & Angel are missing, I guess it was because of the length of the concert and the space in the VHS.

[@bennshouts]

Oh wow haha, wild that songs were missed cause of the technology 😂 Merry Christmas!! ❤️

[@steven-yu3tu]

Gambler and Crazy for You are both from the movie Vision Quest. Although my mother wouldn’t let me go to this concert, I believe Angel, Burning Up and Borderline were part of the setlist but cut from the VHS recording. I didn’t realize you skipped this tour and you’re going to kick yourself but Like a Prayer is from the Like a Prayer album which is 4 years and 2 albums later (True Blue)

[@bennshouts]

HAHA yes I realise this after (Like a Prayer) 😂😭 I get confused easily with the eras hahaha

[@nafannodaM]

Merry Christmas and thank you for another MADONNA reaction video.

[@bennshouts]

Hehe you’re welcome! 🎄✨

[@madonnamatt73mlvc16]

So excited for this. Thank you Ryan the Majourney Whisperer 🥰🥰🥰

[@WolfkingSybren]

Madonna was a force of nature, and now she's a living legend. I really consider her as the Queen of Pop. And I'm glad I had the privilege to at least visit her tour twice.

[@karimbenmahmoud1197]

Cool Christmas gift!!! Thank you from Belgium❤❤❤

[@bennshouts]

Hehe you’re welcome!!!

[@JB-pl1iu]

Her evolution as a performer from The Virgin Tour to a mere two years later with the Who's That Girl Tour is staggering to me. From the highly intense WAY more polished choreo, to her body transformation into a legit athlete to keep up with it, to her new look, to now being able to play stadiums around the world. To me with Virgin, she was a cool chick with catchy songs bopping around like a pop tart. Cut to two years later when she was a legitimate GLOBAL ICON already, dancing like a BEAST as she by and large sang songs that fell into the category of pop art.

[@heyoletsgo9]

It's a pity you can't just appreciate the Who's That Girl Tour without diminishing the merits of Madonna's early catalog and undermining her first tour. ...

[@JB-pl1iu]

Whats a pity is that you can't accept someone APPRECIATING someone's massive evolution as an artist in a mere 2 years which was my point. Did I say The Virgin Tour was terrible? Absolutely not. It's still a better show than 99% of other pop girls could dream of putting on, but to not see how much she grew as a performer and an artist in two years time is a pity.

[@maximilianovalverde6692]

@@heyoletsgo9 I actually like the Virgin Tour more than the Who's That Girl Tour.

[@duke56299]

Good morning Ben merry Christmas and thank you for this awesome gift!

[@bennshouts]

Merry Christmas!!! ❤️✨✨

[@acnyc12NYC]

I Love This!!! I didn't expect all the feels but she always manages to move me. Love you covering this 😅😢❤

[@bennshouts]

❤️❤️❤️

[@teralmiles]

Happy Christmas Benny baby. Hope you’re having the best time. Love and peace to you and your loved ones. ❤

[@bennshouts]

Merry Christmas beby!!! ✨🎄 Same to you xxx

[@SuperQueenMadonna]

Not one current or ever Pop gal performs like this from start to finish full vocal full dance

[@jgadadi]

YAAAAAAS 😭 BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER

[@daniellaplume3840]

They didn't edit it down for KZbin which didn't exist then, but it was edited down for the VHS tape that you could buy, or could rent, to view on a VCR.

[@karlajimenez5320]

Uno de mis tours favoritos de Madonna,en donde ella nos demostró que su destino era ser una superestrella mundial y la reinvención ❤ Las cosas en común que tienen esta gira y Drowned World Tour es que en ambas la grabación tuvo lugar en su ciudad de origen,Detroit Benn,en realidad te sorprenderás de la innovación que tiene en Drowned World Tour y en verdad espero que te diviertas mucho 😊

[@bennshouts]

Hehe I can’t wait!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@albertoolarte206]

She’s the best! ❤❤❤

[@scottsaunders5087]

Everybody was her first single in 1982 42 years ago! Time sure flies flies flies

[@bennshouts]

CRAZY!!!

[@wagnercorrea_]

Amazing era!

[@TheGamerClubber]

She is so free on stage and happy Incredible artist since the begining ❤

[@JB-pl1iu]

You might just fall in love with Everybody after watching The Girlie Show performance. It's fantastic. Bookmark this!

[@bennshouts]

HAHA, holding you to this!

[@themindfulwitch996]

@@bennshoutsyou already saw it and still didn’t like it. The Girlie Show was the Erotica era tour. 😉

[@themindfulwitch996]

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[@pauljacques3804]

Great reaction. Both Gambler and Crazy For You were from the film Vision Quest.

[@bennshouts]

Thank you!!

[@duke56299]

Donna and Nicki will be in the next tour

[@bennshouts]

Yay!!

[@daniellaplume3840]

You should absolutely see the Confessions Tour next,

[@rode8927]

Angel, Borderline and Burning Up were part of the set list. The pink balloons that you see dropped at the end were actually dropped during the Angel performance which came right after Everybody. However, the three songs were cut from the whole video because, according to the director who filmed the tour, he didn't consider these to be her best performances. One of the biggest things from this tour was that some of the reviews (by men) made some comments about her body, calling her fat, and this had a huge effect on her. Right after this, she started training hard and basically became a health nut, which was part of her re-invention. When she released True Blue, she had a new look and a newly toned body which also shaped her into the super star performer today. Crazy!

[@ianm.7712]

Merry Christmas and keep up the great reactions

[@bennshouts]

Merry Christmas! ✨🎄

[@scottsaunders5087]

Her Dad at the end I’m dying 😂❤

[@bennshouts]

Hahah so cute!!!

[@SuperQueenMadonna]

Fact without her song Everybody’s success as demo to charted single and dance which you hate, we wouldn’t have had a full record deal❤

[@bennshouts]

Haha shows that I know nothing 😛

[@blueeyes4910]

Merry Christmas! The songs Gambler and Crazy per te were written for the film Vision Queest

[@jukeboxjoyce7359]

Great reaction and merry Christmas! It would be amazing if the full show was finally released. This video footage was heavily edited - mainly as there was a restriction on the running time of music videos that were to be released on VHS in the mid-80s. It also meant that her record company could cut Madonna's more suggestive speeches and routines, to guarantee an 'E' (exemption) rating for the release. The full show had an extended intro before Dress You Up. A saucy speech where Madonna introduced the audience to her "box", which she told them that they had to "turn on", as she grinded on a boom box (she later paid homage to on her Confessions Tour, with Hung Up), and musical interludes from the band as she changed costumes. Angel was performed after Everybody, Borderline came after Gambler, and the main part of the show (before LAV) ended with a performance of Burning Up which would have definitely altered the rating.

[@TheMadonnasummer]

The Energy and Power she has given since day one on her live performances have put a standard in live concert shows. She is one and only !!! Loooove Madonna ✨✨✨👑🪩💜👑💜🪩💜✨✨✨

[@yorimtl]

The tours should be watched chronologically so you can really appreciate the evolution #justsayin Happy Christmas

[@zanyzander]

I also love Madonna's rasp too, which was all through the 80s, and ended after her 1990's I'm Breathless album. With 1990's Immaculate Collection, Rescue Me was her last rasp, before she transitioned to spoken word with Justify My Love, then 92's Erotica spoken vocals. Mid 90's was soft ballads etc and by Evita the rasp was well and truly gone. I never liked Like A Virgin until the Confessions Tour version.

[@bennshouts]

Such a shame she got rid of it completely 😭😭😭

[@robertshepherd7855]

I have this original VHS. Memorized the whole thing.

[@bennshouts]

Aww! Love!!!

[@abbyyoung9678]

She used to accentuate the beauty mark in her early career. Then less so as decades rolled on

[@StarshaLaLuna]

I made the laughing at the end of the tour my parents phone message bank when I was a kid 😂

[@bennshouts]

Omg you’re evil hahahaha

[@TheGamerClubber]

Damn....I love EVERYBODY till today 😂❤

[@bennshouts]

LMAO!

[@marcusbrown465]

Love this tour. It is so raw, and I love her live vocals, which are sadly lacking from the Blond Ambition onwards. Visually, her tours are always a treat.

[@franciscolaprida2133]

What do u mean by “live vocals lacking from BAT onwards”? Blond ambition had only 4 lipsynced songs, Girlie Show just 3, Drowned World 1, Reinvention 3 and i could go on...what’s the problem with miming 2 o 3 songs when she’s singing live for 95% of the show?

[@Lo_l99bl]

You NEED to react to Some People Have Real Problems album by Sia, you definitely like it

[@abbyyoung9678]

Woo hoo 🎉

[@MirageCA818]

Hello bennshouts Madonna re-recorded the majority of these live vocals after the tour was over for the video release. If you listen to other bootlegs from the tour you can hear the difference. Thats why she sounds good. The editors also speeded up the video of some of her dancing like the twirling during the bridge of Dress You Up. Theres news footage out there of the 1st two songs and she was not twirling that fast.

[@SomeGuy-mg5jy]

False information.

[@MirageCA818]

Sure Jan 🤣! It’s actually my fave tour of hers, and I play the bootlegs often.

[@felixmeow660]

that was really her dad taking her offstage..

[@ktbfidzxus]

you NEED to react to Into the Groove studio version and music video. It’s one of the best songs from the 80s. The instrumental goes hard too

[@timothyfifield8369]

Aww the virgin tour , we kiddie pops at 13 had the virgin tour video cassette tape stat! It was played so much that virgin tape was fckd , still the best, I mean Gambler , never performed live again , a dirty shame ❤

[@cats011]

Gambler live >

[@bennshouts]

LITERALLY

[@rwrocksteady]

I know it's par for the course to compare all new popstars to Madonna, but I think Chappelle Roan reminds me so much of Early Madonna than any other popstar. Chappelle is feisty and emotional, determined and totally in control like Madonna at this early stage of her career. Chapelle is her own artist of course but in the best way possible I see such strong similarities

[@QuelquefoisFois]

Madonna was nearly 27 by May '85.😊

[@anthonmessing3353]

Is this a remastered version of the tour? I had this concert on tape back in the 80’s and remember her vocals sounding eager, raw and great but not as polished and smooth as this audio🧐

[@bennshouts]

Yeah I think it’s been remastered!

[@heyoletsgo9]

@@bennshoutspeople really work hard to discredit madonna....the vocals are exactly the same...

[@Carpinteria8]

react to mara v's debut album "spycho" please

[@ianhaddock6057]

Tbh, I wasn’t impressed with your first few reactions lol. I was like, he just isn’t “getting it”. I must say now I’m loving that you fell in love with her! Her personality and character comes through in everything she does and it’s just so damn intriguing !

[@bennshouts]

HAHA, well I’m glad you stuck around 😛 And yes, love love love her sm!!!

[@JG-sd9zd]

Who to you think you are to judge this??

[@bennshouts]

Someone with an opinion x