Madonna, queen mother of pop, is flying again after some health setbacks with a tour called ‘The Celebration Tour’. And for some, that celebration puts them on alert in case it was, who knows, a farewell party. That question of a possible last time – although that has never been stated – is experienced with tension in the fan’s skin. Even more so if the fan is a virgin in Mrs. Ciccone’s ceremonies. You will see.
Madonna returns, at 65 years old, to pontificate in Barcelona this Wednesday, November 1, All Saints’ Day, to review four decades of pop anthems in concert. And he will repeat the ceremony a day later also at the Palau Sant Jordi. Entries, logically, flew despite the ruse of dynamic pricing. The initial scare came from Jaume Ciurana, a 51-year-old resident of Barberà del Vallès who is a fan of the American artist, when the tickets went from the announced 90 euros to 300 or so euros for the final purchase (for each seat located on the side). on the Ticketmaster page. But her “fear” – he went to see her in 1990 at the Estadi Olímpic and in 2012 at the Sant Jordi – was that it would be Madonna’s last concert. Because, furthermore, this time he felt the responsibility that his daughter, Laia, 14 years old and perhaps even a bigger fan than her father, could see it “at least once.”
“We spent the entire summer thinking that she wouldn’t come,” says Jaume, alluding to the infection that forced Madonna to enter the ICU and postpone the current tour.. “I’ve been waiting for many years for the opportunity to go to one of his concerts… And if I don’t go now, maybe I’ll never go,” exclaims Laia, who confesses that she’s been on edge since tickets went on sale. , on January 20. “She’s a very good girl and she didn’t push me too much, she didn’t say ‘get me tickets’, but I saw her… I’m more excited for her than for myself,” says Jaume, who adds that the mother – “she doesn’t have the point of madness that I and my daughter have,” he explains, “he won’t be able to go because they could only buy two seats together.
Musical heritage
Father and daughter are members of the Divina Madonna fan club, which has its driving force in Valencia and these days they are organizing parties in Barcelona to celebrate the diva’s return to the Catalan capital. Laia, in fact, is one of the youngest in the association and she has at home, in addition to vinyls and others, the club’s magazine collection. For her, of course, it all starts with her father, who “fell in love” with Madonna with ‘True Blue’, her 1986 album.
Jaume played his music and conveyed the “sociocultural impact that it had, groundbreaking, with its criticism of the Church, as a feminist icon, a sexual icon, also an LGTBI icon… It is so great that it surpasses the musical.” And, one day, Laia says, “I saw Madonna at Eurovision [2019] and I don’t know what happened that I loved.” “Imagine! She liked that terrifying performance,” Jaume replies about a day remembered for a disappointing show by the artist. “I have always wanted to instill in him to listen to ‘good’ music [Laia cita entre sus favoritos David Bowie, los Beatles o Måneskin]. Not to say that what’s happening now is bad, but I listen to them and think: ‘I feel like my father when he listened to Madonna.'”
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Laia, who says that her friends do not support her in this love for the American diva, does not find it strange to idolize a 65-year-old woman. This father-daughter couple does not meet the clichés of the singer’s fans. “I really like Madonna, but the young Madonna. The songs from when she was 25 years old… Well, there isn’t that much of an age difference!” says the 14-year-old teenager. “The years go by and she continues making new songs, of all types, they are all different… I also like her aesthetics, the way she dresses, herself…” she adds.
Even if it is the first time, there will be no surprise effect for Laia. They have not avoided the incessant ‘spoilers’ that have crossed the phones of Madonna’s fans these days once she started ‘The Celebration Tour’ in London. What’s more, they have searched to see what they found. “We watched the entire concert on TikTok,” say father and daughter. “We are one of those who can’t stand it… Last Friday we saw, in that way, the London concert all at once on TV on YouTube,” they confess.