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[@moodyseb]

She actually performed the song live at SNL in 1993

[@sarge9733]

And it was amazing. With a proper live band too, which wasn't even the case on the record.. Iconic performance, that I just happened to watch earlier tonight! Still love it.

[@michaelmoody2278]

Spoken like a true fan!

[@jamieconiam760]

And she struggled then

[@vistaprime]

@@jamieconiam760 I thought she was fine. but wasn't that 1992.

[@DJLORX]

​@@jamieconiam760that's the reason why she's now singing this song in a lower key

[@mlvc82]

Can we all just appreciate and LOVE her finally? After 40 years on top..after almost losing her this past year can we just LOVE HER FOR ONCE! For all the incredible work/performances/music/art she’s given us?

[@agnesm_23]

We always have

[@Lauralootoyou]

What are you talking about?! Love her for once?! Are you for real?! This amazing woman has had a hell of a lot of love & support from her subscribers on here & other platforms so please get your facts right first before you make your comments. She will always have love & support from her subscribers as well as her family & friends.

[@Lauralootoyou]

​@Strikeapose21 yes we have, thank you!

[@luispineda9255]

I totally agree with your comment. She is and will always be a trail blazer no matter what negative people say.

[@PlantioDaddio]

Madonna was, is, and always will be amazing!!! ❤

[@b.k8051]

I saw Madonna in concert during her Reinvention tour. One thing I can say about Madonna is that she's obviously a perfectionist. Her tour was like a Swiss clock. And her vocals appeared to be all live and sounded very good

[@mpinchi3433]

lucky!! ive only seen rebel heart.. it was spectacular

[@DavidTLomax]

That was back in 04 when she was on her game now she not

[@jamieconiam760]

No, it wasn’t live. She re-records the vocals for concerts so they sound different to the original recording

[@cody7378]

@@DavidTLomax but u r still here watching tho aren't cha🤔

[@jamieconiam760]

@@cody7378 Yeah, I think she’s great, but facts are important too. 😂

[@JoshPinder92]

Love the love for Madonna this tour, love the Erotica era representation too it's like THE HITS tour but with a difference , a hits your only Madonna could do , so fab hearing her do Bad Girl, Rain, In This Life from Erotica and also Bedtime Story which looks so srty , excellent stuff. So proud of her

[@arturl4019]

I think she sang mostly live, but yes, on top of the pre-recorded backing track. As I've always been saying, Madonna sings live whenever she can, and we can't be comparing her vocal skills to Mariah Carey or Celine Dion. Madonna is not just about her singing abilities, but I think she does just fine with what she has. I'll probably have more comments after I've watched the show. So excited!

[@Andrei-sg7lu]

People think the only way to be a good singer is to have some huge belting voice. That's not the only way to sing. Janet doesn't sing like that. Many artists don't sing like that.

[@ScottGuest-zb1fk]

She was amazing 2 hrs singing live ❤

[@CoryMatthew87]

Not even close to 2 hrs live lol...

[@slate49]

Definitely a light track playing in the background to help the vocals but she is singing

[@re7416]

Ur spot on. In 'Bag Girl' u can hear the switch to pre-recorded?/additional voices? aroubd the 04:47 mark. Then @ 05:48 it changes back to live.

[@zanealberto]

It’s LIVE! And that’s her daughter Mercy playing the piano!!😀💙 Love you!!! Zane

[@jimiweir923]

i went to all 4 shows & she was amazing i cant wait to go again in December

[@SS-xs1tg]

I agree with you I think there are elements where the backing track kicks in harder than other times. Either way she sounds better than she has in many years. The mixing is great.

[@st3vi3p]

It was truly amazing! Musical director Stuart Price from the Confessions tour hallmark of journey/story approach fitted well with the biopic story. Also so many sacred geometry notes, especially in Die Another Day, watch the choreography ✨💜🙏🏼

[@martinanugent5045]

Plus it's so beautiful live,Mercy is fantastic on the piano.

[@gavinballin2323]

Welcome back!🎉

[@niko81680]

The queen!!! Love her

[@Zairmus1c]

I think that she is completely live un this song for this tour

[@andrewcollis-prather9778]

She sang this song live on Saturday Night Live in the early 90’s…..

[@wbillswbills9276]

Georgina... You look so fresh and beautiful as always. Thank you for react Madonna. We still wait for Mariah's performance from you.❤

[@jair8804]

She is singing live most of the concert. Her vocals on this tour are on point. Better than ever in much time.

[@ninoslavpejcev5913]

There were a lot of recordings where you can hear a lot about what you're saying and I was convinced of the same if I'm not an expert, listening to older concepts this now sounds better than ever, and we all know it can fake and how we love it,) it's definitely a mix of live singing and what's high and can't pull out are playing playback

[@thanasis2245]

She actually did sing it live on SNL in 1993 the video is available on youtube! About the vocals I went yesterday to see her live and it was obvious that most singing was either on top of prerecorded vocals or total lip syncing (for example in Holiday and Everybody her voice sounded so high pitched as if they have been playing the old 80s vocals from the album. Same thing with Bitch I'm Madonna and Die Another Day). There are videos on tik tok were she coughs and we hear the back up vocals! The only part were I could swear is live is the acoustic cover of I Will Survive.

[@Chelaxim]

Yeah due to her vocal training Madonna is one of the few singers who can't get away with lip syncing because there is a line of demarcation in her catalog. It's like those Elton John remixes where you can clearly tell what is and isn't new vocals.

[@graphiquejack]

most artists layer their vocals on recordings and on tour. Take ABBA for example, when the girls sing, it's not just two voices, it's actually many layers of both of them singing, with slight adjustments to each track so it sounds fuller and more lush. Benny and Björn have discussed this many times when they talk about how they arranged the songs. On tour, they had female backing singers to do the same thing, but of course Frida and Agnetha's microphones were set louder than the others. On this tour, Madonna has no band and no backing vocalists... everything else you hear is a recorded backing. OF COURSE there will be backing vocals recorded in advance to make her voice sound fuller and stronger. You can't fault Madonna for something all artists do. She's still singing live and from most people who have seen her live, they say she sounds amazing.

[@AlexeBriand2002]

during Everybody, she only sings the verses. she doesn’t even lipsync to the chorus

[@rickchelico7967]

actually in the tik tok video you hear her coughing but no vocals while she coughed. look again.

[@michaelmoody2278]

She sounds sooo good during the I Will Survive cover.

[@geoffparks7577]

The Confessions Tour was her last best one to me. Shes still an ICON regardless if she had some help or not. ❤️

[@aliki1974]

You can comment on Madonna when you are standing in a stadium in front of 20 thousand people singing , until then stick to your crystals.

[@HonestVocalCoach]

😂

[@NeilChase-r1z]

Interesting. Have you compared other nights performance of Bad girl? Or read what Stuart Price has said about the show being sung live? As a fan of 40 years I thought it was better than the single version. Madonna is not Adel or Whitney but she is also not Sam Fox either. Good luck with your shop.

[@jamieconiam760]

Stuart Price is chatting nonsense.

[@NeilChase-r1z]

Now 400 million record sales according to the new up dated world records. @@jamieconiam760

[@niklasmanthey6942]

Cher has a new album

[@rafaelli5852]

She’s singing live more than in other tours, that’s perfectly enough for me. She’s singing Bad Girl and Rain!!! That makes it for me, don’t care if she does it all live or not.❤

[@trevorbayers2175]

No shes not

[@FelipeGarciaQuintino]

​@@trevorbayers2175yes she is, like It or not

[@kumada84]

​@@FelipeGarciaQuintino No, he's right, but not for the reason he thinks - she isn't singing live "more" than she has in other concerts because she's rarely ever not sung live in any of her shows. (I think I can count on one hand the number of times she's lip synced songs in her shows.)

[@lauras3612]

It's all pretaped and lip-synched

[@framch30]

@@lauras3612did you attend any of these concerts? I attended 4 and multiple times I heard her voice go, get a bit hoarse, not sound the best at certain moments etc it was live with pre recorded live vocals

[@johnramirez2917]

Whether she's singing completly live or not I'm quite sure fans don't really care. She's fabulous, her show is to die for and she's doing the best that she can. Let's do not forget she's 65 and she's been sick so we only should have respect for this incredible living legend.

[@kbhprinsesse]

"She's doing the best she can"? Ok. So people should just fork out very high prices for her tickets without any demands?

[@brcorreia77]

Easy ...dont see or listen. The fans will appretiate

[@banbbc2921]

@@kbhprinsesseyou definitely don’t buy her tickets;) people who bought tickets expected half live half lip syn for this concert, at least I did , and also go to watch the performance and Madonna . If you watch Britney spear , you expected full lips sync . Since you don’t even buy the tickets why do you say a thing on that ;) Many concerts are half live half lips sync , it’s super normal

[@aidenplaysyt2613]

You inhumane HUMAN! WTF @@kbhprinsesse

[@blakey2408]

I went to opening night and was pretty close. I would say that this video wasn’t the best quality to be able to truly hear her vocals… you could even hear people having a convo 😂 But what I can tell you is that it was absolutely phenomenal 🤩 Vocally she was better than she has been in a long time, which I was worried about following her illness. There was an issue with the sound during “Burning Up” and you could hear the track was faster than her live vocals, so 100% she’s singing live. They had to restart the sound and she spoke about her days struggling in her band for 10 mins! It was fab!! ❤ No live band, apart from the odd guitar and the piano during Bad Girl played by her daughter Mercy. All tracks from original recordings, but do include the backing vocals. Which there’s always been. She sounded awesome. Long live the queen👑

[@skygazer6898]

She had a bacterial infection, I can almost guarantee it was a UTI and they can be a killer when it gets into the bloodstream

[@kriswintle9453]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@richardhutchings4324]

This song live and her unfiltered look is a real highlight of the show!

[@Neonlike0]

Except it wasn't live.

[@jamieconiam760]

No, it’s partly live, partly mimed

[@robinshaul4069]

😂😂😂

[@AlexeBriand2002]

@@jamieconiam760she sings over her own vocal guide

[@FelipeGarciaQuintino]

​@@Neonlike0except u wish that

[@shockalockabocka]

I noticed she sings most of the ballads live bc her, naturally deepened from age, voice still works with them. I even synced them up w the original recordings to double check. It’s so moving, bc I love and I know she loves her ballads. Live to Tell and Rain got me emotional! They’re some of my faves.

[@LENCARTER2003]

I love those two and they get me chocked up as well!

[@deantailor357]

I think people get really hung up (see what I did there?) on comparing the tour version with the single/album "recording". It's not about that. Once Madonna decides what songs she wants to perform, and the order and interludes she wants to perform, they go to a sound stage or aircraft hanger and literally put the show together, including "live" recording all of the tracks. It's these that are then blended with her on the night mic vocal so what you hear coming out of the speakers is sometimes what she puts in on the night, and sometimes what she puts in on the night mixed with the pre-recorded tour vocal. Also, what you hear as an audience member is significantly different to what you would hear in these videos because those are recorded from the crowd, so you pick up all the reverb and ambient noise. This is just the way it's done now, but nobody talks about it. The last truly "live" show she did was Blond Ambition. Most of Drowned World was too, but by then you had the technology to do so much more and she used it. Ultimately, it doesn't matter as you go for the performance and not the vocal. This isn't an operatic recital nor does it claim to be. Yes, I was there, yes it sounded live, but with everyone singing (badly), it's very hard to hear.

[@ej1797]

I love when she goes into her lower octave! Always did!

[@mpinchi3433]

The was her daughter playing piano too. Madonna is the Queen!!

[@anonymouslee8287]

That word "Queen" is overrated!!!….

[@martinanugent5045]

Not when you're talking about Madonna,she's known at Queen of Pop. Beyonce calls her Queenother.

[@marion6319]

@@martinanugent5045 Queen Mother

[@marion6319]

@@anonymouslee8287 She's the queen of popular music, first than all those young women that are out nowadays.

[@scarahjolielaide]

Lourdes was playing piano?? Nooooo

[@lespaulx]

I was there front row and it was definitely live vocals during the whole Bad Girl performance, her lips, breath and moves matched perfectly the vocals, regardless if it was the bridge or other parts of the song

[@RDrRD1989]

Madonna is amazing!❤ And she is singing live!

[@michaelmcdonald2326]

I've always thought she lip-synced the rap/spoken part in Vogue but the other night in Antwerp she was having audio issues and during that part she says "I can't hear myself" to her team instead of singing the lyrics. I was actually shocked that it was live. Anyway, I've seen the Celebration Tour three times now and it's just so good. She's coming back to London in December for two shows, you should try and get a ticket!

[@AKAWhatsinaname]

The spoken word part in Vogue where she names all the Icons has been live this tour which I was surprised as I think this is the first tour where that has happened.

[@gpvelev]

I believe this is the first time she doesn't lip-sync the spoken part in Vogue. Even on Sticky & Sweet it was pre-recorded

[@Mark-zb3ow]

Surprised me too I’ve never heard her sing that part live either

[@Chelaxim]

Both Bad Girl and Bedtime Stories are two songs she only sang once on TV and never in a set list until now.

[@chocolatnoir1108]

correctly. I think we should add Nothing Really Matters -never been in a tour.

[@Aleksandr017]

@@chocolatnoir1108I haven’t fact-checked it but wasn’t Nothing Really Matters on the Drowned Tour?

[@riyad8862]

@@Aleksandr017Nope, she only did it once at the Grammy’s. And btw Drowned World was my first ever Madonna’s tour.

[@cizar2000]

The vocals are so incredible for Madonna.

[@AppleCinnamon1]

To me being a best singer means being in touch with the strength of one's voice qualities. She is a great storytelling performance singer. She has her own rules and doesn't follow other's choir school rules.

[@robertfraser9873]

Stuart Price has confirmed that M is singing live throughout the show. There is a vocal recording for the spoken word parts of Erotica (she sings the chorus live) and Justify my Love is pre recorded. He said that people have come up to him after the show at the mixing desk and said "come on she's mining" and he said I swear every part is live (with the exception of the previous mentioned). He confirmed that she has 🐝 working with her vocal coach again for this tour. For the first time since 2004's Re-Invention Tour. ❤️❤️ It would be great to get your perspective of the Live to Tell performance. She sounds great and the staging is just heartbreaking. ❤️❤️

[@CarlosAcosta-tk4vh]

I agree! Her ballads are completely underrated. She has morphed her voice in so many ways to show vulnerability and have a distinct conviction, it’s really telling of her workmanship, vision and beautiful voice. Maybe not the strongest voice, but we have opera singers for that! Madonna goes above and beyond just a voice. She’s an artist of magnificent multitudes! Also, you can still go see her! Where do you live? Isn’t she going back to London?

[@cookiedais]

I was there & it was a real fun show , u could definitely tell that she was lip syncing at parts & when she was REALLY singing over a backing track . I also think as long as people don’t expect Blonde ambition levels of high energy dancing for hours like young Madonna then they will enjoy it . I had a great time .P.S. I wasn’t going to go as I had become less of a fan over the last few years , however my ticket was gifted to me & I’m so glad I went as it takes u back to your childhood listening to the old hits & it is much better in person than when u see phone clips . If u get the chance to go please do as it was just so much fun , the mixes were fab , she sang well for the most part & of course her dancers are the best in the business as usual x

[@michaelmoody2278]

She was 34 during Blond Ambition! She's such an amazing human being.

[@vistaprime]

@@michaelmoody2278 it was 1990 she was 32 and was 31 when it kicked off. She was 34 during the Girlie Show.

[@skygazer6898]

perfectly summed up.

[@Miguel-dy4if]

She is killing it on this tour . Thanks a lot for reacting to this.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

I saw the third London show and the first in Copenhagen. Her voice has never sounded so good - I guess it's because she's now letting her dancers do the heavy-lifting ❤️

[@arthurdaniels3559]

I think Madonna has shown from this tour that she doesn't have to sing all upbeat songs full of dancing...I always wondered how enjoyable a slowed down show with more slower songs would go with Madonna - but very happily I can say that she really impressed me when I was at the o2 watching her live. Great stage presence. I saw Rebel Heart tour live and also madam x tour live too. Im a huge fan and loved all the ballads in Celebration tour ... loved the whole show 🎉❤🎉

[@johnpaulward8749]

I love when you review Madonna! You’re always fair and honest even if it slightly dents the pride of us Madonna lovers. I’d love to see more of your reactions from her past eras. She had such an interesting vocal range and style trajectory from the 80s to the late 90s. You’re correct, it’s an intricate mix of live vocal and backtrack/ lip sync that’s tailored to her current abilities. She’s given us years and years of amazing and inspirational dance music and live performances. At this point in her career I just want her to have fun and enjoy herself on the stage. If momma wants to catch her breath and lip sync a number, GO FOR IT!

[@rtncg]

Such a powerful song. I don't know if it's full live or not but it feels amazing. She sounds more exciting than her last 4 tours. I'm very happy not to hear any autotune in this tour yet.

[@lamusiclover2264]

Ive watched various tapes of this tour. I can tell you that she is not lip syncing. She cant move or dance much due to her knee, so she is singing live, but there is an optional backing track that occasionally accompanies her, but to me this is mostly live. There is no live band, Stuart Price said he created the prerecorded entire concert track, with occasionally has some background vocals recorded as well. I think she gave the best live vocals since " Blind Ambition". Yes, she lio synced plenty in the past, but I think she's using her inability to move as much as an opportunity to do more good live vocals. There are so many concert videos posted. Watch the Ines that are from up close where you can see her lips. This is cell phone sound. Now I'm sure they'll mess with and re-do her vocals in the studio for the concert video or film, and it will not sound as life because they always make it sound too perfect.

[@monikel]

When it's not lipsinked, it's autotuned.

[@georgegeorgiev3946]

Mate, most of the songs are lipsynched on her tour. I've been a musician for years...the vocal coach is a true professional. We can pick up these things. She was flat when she sang live. She only sang a few phrases live.

[@MartinSmith156]

​@@monikelhuh? You can't autotune live vocals . Also autotune didn't come out until 1998, it didn't start to be widely used until the mid 2000s

[@MartinSmith156]

​@@georgegeorgiev3946so you saw this concert which only did about 5 performances so far live? Madonna only lips on occasion, I've seen plenty of live vocals from her towards the end of her tours and she sounds bad but it's still LIVE

[@NeilChase-r1z]

Has the vocal coach sold over 300 million albums? @@georgegeorgiev3946

[@tiyu656]

You are not right, she sings live, who would do one frase live, one playback(lip sync), it's not logical, and it will be notice as she moves the lips. I've been many times on her concerts, always in front row, and she sang live, I am also a professional musician and I hear very well. One thing, you always explain yourself that you are a Madonna fan, and than say what you don't like about her and her singing, if you are complitely honest you don't need to explane, just say the facts. What I really like about Madonna is the colour of her voice and emotions, I agree that her ballads are epic, and people has to know that she composed many of her music and esecially wrote the lyrics, which is a complicated job, and her diction is almost perfect, many singers don't pay attention to those details...

[@lb340]

Hiii, great video, she did actually do a live performance of Bad Girl on SNL in 1993, which is in the original key, seemingly 100% live and I think is very good :) even if some parts are a bit strained

[@chocolatnoir1108]

yep that was GREAT and once in a lifetime, I just love how she sounded during pre-Evita training, as you said, a bit strained but to me it sounds sexier ʜᴇ ₕₑ ʰᵉ ᕼE😁

[@luizribeirooo]

Madonna has always sung with a musical base underneath. This leaves her freer to perform.

[@marklola12]

yet she is not preforming other than walking...very slow

[@dan_leo]

Not always. The Who’s that girl tour was totally live, with no musical base at all. She started using it and lipsync from the Blond Ambition tour onwards.

[@skygazer6898]

A lot of the time she sings to a backing track and she does lipsynch. Elton John has called her out on this

[@skygazer6898]

@@marklola12 I was surprised she was moving so slowly, I am a year older than her and I can still move faster around a dance floor. As for the knee brace she been wearing one of those for a long time, its possible the wear and tear has taken its toil, after all she is now a fabulous 65

[@pappin1961]

Have your seen a musical at all, live orchestra and the cast singing life and dancing, no tracks ever.

[@RussellHarrison0975]

I'm 48 and I would hate to know I had to sing about 40 songs in two hours. LOL. Ugh!! Bravo to Madonna!!!

[@BB-qm1iw]

She hasnt done 40 songs on this tour yet. First 3 shows she had a curfew. Not sure if it was the same reason in Belgium.

[@MartinSmith156]

And dance and play instruments

[@jamieconiam760]

Playing a prerecorded few strings from the opening of Papa Don’t Preach is considered 1 of the 40 songs. 😂

[@Jogokio]

She doesnt sing 40 songs. Just like 20songs and not one of them in its full version

[@Mariejjjj]

I love her voice no matter what. Madonna is the best. Queen forever! ♥️👑

[@KatieFlaxbeard]

Georgina always lovely to see you. Madonna has been my favorite artist since I was 6! I’ve seen her 3 times live and will be seeing her this tour in February. Even my sister was made a Madonna fan seeing by her live. In her sticky and sweet tour Madonna had her female dancers dress up in different styles of her when she performed She’s Not Me it was great. And I’m with you Breathless Madonna is my favorite and her ballads: crazy for you, lice to tell, you’ll see. I would love to see you react to some of her older stuff like the blonde ambition tour when she was in her prime. I’ve always thought she’s been underrated as a singer. I think she has a phenomenal voice. This tour will be the celebration of her career and I love seeing her sit down some and wearing a knee brace. It’s reality and I don’t want to see her hurt herself for us. ❤ I’m always excited when you react to her! Best with your new shop you are a go getter!

[@divatalk9011]

She looks a little frail, but I’ve read harrowing rumours about her health scare earlier this year

[@grazmsp2473]

Even though I’m a huge Madonna fan, I can admit Madonna isn’t the strongest singer, she’s no Whitney Houston. However, what surprised me is that she still sings live, atleast 90% of the time. And the fact that she’s still dancing and singing at 65. Best concert I’ve ever went too!

[@RebelHe4rt]

This show was everything live. I seen 2 nights at the o2 and then 1 last weekend in Antwerp. There is definitely backing vocals (I don’t think there are any backup singers) I think they have used vocal stems as back up. She sang along with herself I think. Not so much lipsync but a mix of her own vocal stems with live vocal. Regardless, the show was EPIC

[@Longislandteaboy]

Not everything. The everybody vocal was mixed. And if you were at opening night youd know the backing track was there during burning up.

[@bmw3842]

Just back from the Antwerp show. Majority of the vocals were absolutely live, with some pretty subtle backing track support. The spoken word parts in Justify My Love and Erotica were lipsynced, and in absolutely fine with that.

[@susanreid9857]

papa dont preach open your heart to name a few were not live

[@josephprovencher6345]

​@susanreid9857 I've seen a couple clips from Open Your Heart and it WAS live.

[@susanreid9857]

@@josephprovencher6345 grow up

[@michellepearsonW3]

I’ve been to every show since 2004 including The Celebration Tour. Bad girl was a really stunning part of the show. She most definitely sang live on this and throughout the show. There is bound to be a lot of production, it’s a massive show. Bad girl was a stripped back part & for me was beautiful. It’s a live show as far as I’m concerned. If she was to have assistance in places I really couldn’t care or feel cheated ect.. Shes Madonna! Forever in awe!

[@escapingboredom6958]

I cant wait to see her

[@jordike98]

I saw her this Saturday in Antwerp and it was an incredible night. I had such a blast. This was actually my favourite bit. The piano, the way it was set up, the lighting, her daughter playing the piano and the fact that she played this song. I love love lovee the Erotica album and this was such a surprise to hear her play. It was all so beautiful. I did think she sounded really good, but after your analysis Im starting to think that she might have mixed it up with syncs. Great night regardless. Love your videos, much love 💛💛💛

[@IpodAdvance]

What does her daughter think of listening to a song she made when she didn’t have kids. Is she saying I’m not happy about her lonely life like it’s really true.

[@scarahjolielaide]

Which daughter is playing?

[@thejordyjoansofficial]

I saw this live and it was unbelievably good, raw and one of my faves. I was so surprised she did it, the proper die hard Madge fans were singing along. 😍I think it was also beautiful she had one of her kids playing the piano!

[@ns9352]

I adore this song - always been one of my faves. So nice to see her singing it live after so long!

[@Ruszsa]

I was at London's opening night. A surreal experience. It was a stunning spectacle and tour de force of hit after hit. Plenty of emotion too. There was an issue with her vocals all the way through, not just on Burning Up. In my opinion the system was a little too bassy and her vocal channel wasn't quite loud enough for the cavernous arena. She was singing live in most part, but with technical wizardry from StuartPrice 'as and when' live. Perhaps also live autotune via Price , because when she was singing live, it sounded kind of snatched like the heavy live autotune during her Madame X tour, which I also saw at The Palladium. I'm not aven criticising it, it worked for the staging and the sheer scale/acoustics of the arena. Her voice isn't known for being the strongest and she has always interwoven a reworked vocal sound from the analogue days to the digital era. The original Like a Virgin vocals were transposed artificially. I feel that it's her thing. She knows what she is and what she isn't. She's shrewd. She was never gonna stand there in a bin bag without the smoke and mirrors. Lol. I'm gonna try and go again in December.

[@jurgenparys8209]

I absolutely love this song and her performance. The concert was phenomenal. Loved every second of it. Madonna is a legend

[@frankub]

I went night #2. I've been saying this to my friends and I'll say it to you... if you've ever even kind of wanted to see her live this is the show to see. It's not just a great show at 65. It's just a flipping great show period. And it's all hits. You should go when she rolls back around. That's why God made credit cards 😜

[@bryanpwo3085]

I just watched a better quality video of this song in th O2 in London and she sings live of course with a backing track. In that video you can even see the "famous" Madonna throat and neck muscle strain whilst she is singing. I am a Madonna fan since '84 and I also passed on buying a ticket for this tour. (I have to pay my energy bill..)😉 But seeing footage from the concert my heart is crying a bit for not going. I think this concert tour is her best vocal, and we all know she isn't a pure vocalist, performance since the Girlie show where the emphasis also was on her vocal performance. Finally a real live singing Madonna show and I certainly don't mind she is holding back on the dancing. As I said, she isn't a pure vocalist but she sure puts emotion in her singing and I love that. For that reason my fave performances are The look of love from the Who's that girl tour and Rain from the Girlie show. Technically not the best vocal performance but it makes it up with her presence and the emotions she poors in. Also, I still think she needs at least Donna De Lory as her backing vocalist during live performances. Donna's voice helps to boost Madonna's voice, which completes the sound.

[@RDrRD1989]

Rain from The Girlie Show❤❤❤❤

[@bryanpwo3085]

@@RDrRD1989 Indeed!!!!

[@gabrielroque6664]

At 10:03 there are two voices you can hear when she does the vocals (when she says "this waaaay...."). I think she is not 100% lipsyncing during the chorus, but a base voice comes louder than the microphone to support her. Just a guess.

[@thelanguageworker1616]

For 36 years I have been living and breathing this woman's work. Thank you so much for this - it's so refreshing to hear people who know what they are talking about. It's not 100% live, but going to a Madonna show is a full-circle experience, being a Madonna fan is a full-circle experience - Thank you so much for looking at what is relevant, interesting and real. RESPECT

[@MisterCiccone]

I was there and she sings live, although there are moments where the backing track is blending in more. It's very well done in my opinion. And I don't care because Madonna is more than a singer, I'm not there for a singing contest, at least she sounds better than ever and you mostly hear her live. Her show is amazing and she is telling her story with her songs. She is meeting her incarnations and younger selves on stage, talks to them, kisses and embraces them. At the end all dancers are dressed Madonna in one of her iconic looks. The show is unique and sometimes emotional. Bad girl is actually a highlight for me.

[@GLopezMad]

Please…

[@wkwtse]

It's autotune - yes, it is a "live" performance, but the technology changes the keys that she's singing in to the keys as written in the song before the voice goes out of the speakers (and yes, it happens in nanoseconds during the concert). Plenty of videos on KZbin about how this is done in live performances. They were autotuning her vocals in the choruses, hence the detectable variances between her vocals in the verses and the choruses. Yes, I've seen her live. Yes, I'm a big fan.

[@JohnnyKristian]

Do you have any links? I'm sure this is made that way.

[@sheisveryfamous]

She was BRILLIANT ❤❤

[@alberto_bifulco]

as william orbit said, one of the greatest producers to date, nobody can sing ballads the way madonna does. it doesn’t mean her voice sounds the best, of course, but she always puts so much emotion her songs simply sound alive, all the time. i think she was live here… why making some parts live and some other lip synced? it sounds just so much harder than actually singing the whole song, to me

[@123razdaz]

I’ve watched lots of Honest Vocal Coach vids and I love the commentary but……. Tickets weren’t that expensive lol and it would be a hot mess if Madonna sang one verse then mimed the next then back to live. Maybe the obvious is the answer she’s signing live- and there’s naturally going to be variability

[@drew0909]

On madonna website , you can see which European cities have some tickets left. the UK is all sold out , even for december 5th & 6th.

[@tomhart-evija9201]

Did you mention how amazing her daughter on piano?

[@capboy2104]

I went to this tour in Copenhagen few weeks ago and she was actually singing LIVE in most of her songs, and in this song in particular, she was LIVE.

[@martink...]

Her musical director Stuart Price said in an interview, I have read today, that she is doing all live. He is lying. I have not a trained ear like you. But, as a fan of hers since 35 years, I can clearly hear when the sound changes. She is using prerecorded vocals. Which is absolutely ok for me. Whenever I see her in concert, the moments she is really live are my favorites. Even when she is off key.

[@agnesm_23]

I listened to this closely using earphones and at a first listen one would think it is really live. But then I heard it again and she is definetely singing over a pre-recorded voice. But I don't mind either.

[@TheDudeOfSteel87]

she's singing using a backtrack, she's not lipsyncing most songs (except Erotica)

[@zarajenkins6948]

​@@TheDudeOfSteel87💯

[@zarajenkins6948]

​​@@agnesm_23this is live over a low backing track for 65 she is doing amazing

[@tonysamsung2220]

I went to see her show on Sunday. The entire show is pre-rec ( on "nothing really matter" by mistake she didn't put the mic close to her and the voice was still going).the pre rec was there but less when she did swallow the saliva in open your heart. I mean, there were people going crazy with that computers during the show... u can imagine the reasons... Especially the high-pitched vocals, was all from the previous live !!! To be honest, yongers do the same , so I don't expect anybody being really "live" anymore...

[@thedeetzes]

Do glad you mentioned the Dick Tracy album “I’m Breathless” because it soooo underrated and so damn good.

[@tld7195]

I went last Sunday- loved it! Madonna deserves credit. I think a mix of live and pre record. There was no live band..

[@ДенисКоролев-е3т]

her daughter played piano

[@AppleCinnamon1]

I find the choir school voices boring. Madonna is versatile. Before I had even seen her videos, I fell in love with her voice first and foremost. It is beautiful melodious, storytelling, campy, deep, energetic, everything good. I take Madonna over Adele and other choir school trained singers anytime.

[@cool3041]

Well, let’s be honest, Madonna never has been a good singer 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@vekkstar]

The vocals are much better than in past shows

[@susancox6597]

If I'd paid that much to see her I'd expect live singing not lip syncing!

[@kolapso3687]

Why would she sing 30 seconds live?

[@materialboy86]

I think she sang this live on SNL in the 90s. Pretty sure there’s a youtube video of it somewhere. It was not long after the Sinead O’Connor backlash and she tore up a picture of Joey Budofuoco.

[@devlinarten]

I love Madonna, so much! ❤ but we need to admit that at this point, we must get used to seeing her lipsynking the songs... and the obsessed fans get extremely mad when we say that, but it's a fact! I got disappointed when I realized there's no live band and a lot of pre-recorded vocals, but it is what it is, and it's Madonna, the only and forever Queen! I'm happy to see her on tour again, we love you!

[@sarge9733]

I agree that I'm Breathless is one her best albums. Especially now retrospectively. She was still collaborating with Patrick Leonard who is a musical genius and wrote and played on most of her very best work. Her vocals on that album was her at her absolute peak.

[@francesopintore2073]

Who is the best singer in the world? Janet Jackson? Norah Jones? Taylor Swift? I don't like people ALWAYS saying: She"s not the best singer. I rather listen to Madonna than Mariah Carey. And why men dont get the same? Is Mick Jagger good singer? Is Phil Collins a good singer? Is Micheal Bubble a good singer? Do they have a high vocal range? No. But still, after 40 years in the business people ALWAYS saying, well Madonna is not the best singer....

[@PhillipPresswood]

She's being live autotuned and singing on top of a backing track. When she needs to stop singing there's a compressor/limiter that is automatically kicking in to increase the volume of the backing vocal track.

[@FreakFranOliveira]

I've been to two shows of this tour and, honestly, there are a lot of moments in which we can't tell if it's live or playback...

[@laurentcompere1718]

There are backing vocals! I have seen it in a concert in Cologne when the vocals started before she started singing. She reacted by making a "oops" face (but not mean or whatever). Some parts a are completely live though. But anyway, who cares ? Madonna is a great artist !!!! I will always love her. She has done so much for the gay community and she is just agreat performer. She is simply great..Than God for Madonna !

[@robotphobia]

I haven’t watched your video yet but I PREDICT you are going to love her vocals.

[@robotphobia]

We all know that she’s going to mix in prerecorded vocals and I imagine she has a button on her mic when she can put in her full vocal if she wants. I suspect that even if she wants there will still be an underlying vocal track. She’s 65 and had a life threatening medical emergency this year. I didn’t want her to do this tour but I’m going to buy a ticket to it and may even splurge so she spits her beer on me during “Buring Up” or I get to be a foot from her when she starts “Live to Tell”.

[@michaelmoody2278]

@@robotphobiaDid you notice her "beer" is akin to a Budweiser bottle? Such a subtle "Fuck You!" to cancel culture.

[@rol_rob2603]

Okay, my opinion is... Michael Jackson did lip sync during all the shows of the Dangerous Tour and nobody said anything about and it was Michael Jackson who is supposed to sing 10 times better than Madonna. Britney Spears used playback all the time and people always support her. But, when Madonna sing using a precorded vocals then all the complains goes to her because Madonna deserves it. Give a break!!!!

[@nicolemonrue]

I've watched the tour 3 times now, and a lot of the tour she's literally just singing over the recorded version of the songs. There's no band or background singers. It's like they basically pushed play on a CD player, and she walked out on stage singing to it. I noticed a lot of her 80s songs were a couple of octaves lower than the original versions. She'd often mixed up lyrics or got them wrong at times. You can hear the backing vocal sing something completely different. She went in and out vocally, some times you could hear her clearly, and then she lipped certain parts. Like Erotica was completely lipsynched. Bad Girl, she actually sang most of it live. I'm glad she did it. It's been since 1993 the last time she did it live.

[@pablors3415]

I saw her in Copenhagen a couple of days ago. I'm pretty sure she does a mix of lip-sync and/or autotune but also some live singing as well. In "I will survive" for instance, which she sang with a guitar, it was 100% live, but when she did La Isla Bonita, at some point she messed up and the singing track was on while her microphone was pretty far from her mouth.

[@davidm823]

I attended the show last night in Montreal. It was a show-stopping spectacle! ❤🎉 very story telling, she never fails to amaze me with her creativity and energy on stage. Definitely worth every penny 💰

[@rafouel2]

I don’t know if it’s the case on this video, but some of the songs are clearly auto tuned live. Sometimes when she spoke to the public « hello London » or other stuffs, they forgot to cut it off and the speech was tuned 😄. No offence, I really love Madonna with or without auto tune

[@petradevries8839]

i saw more video's from you. madonna is horrible rude etc.but also 40 years a career. etc. but ill her age. i dont no if everything is live. but she sings not bad. eurovision oh boy. but more artist sing not also verry good. i have the feeling she sings not eveything live. but also some things are life. i can not do it.

[@sandrodilucia9358]

Hi , in my opinion some part of the songs are pre - recorded and some other aren´t. I love Madonna,always have and always will, but she sounds too clean and too perfect for her singing skills. Sorry to say.

[@HOGARTHSGLOBALASTROLOGY]

She's clearly singing it all live. She's just in great voice. Her voice is much deeper and richer. The fact there were changes just shows it was live. She did a great job.

[@dubmoyet]

😂

[@CoryMatthew87]

Nah, it was definitely NOT all live, I'd say 40% live at best... for the reasons Georgina gave. Very obvious to anyone who knows music.

[@dutchbondskanselier]

Let's agree she is a great performer...and the song suits october