First Time Hearing Madonna - Express Yourself (Blond Ambition Tour) 

This was the tour that changed rock and roll concerts forever. Nobody had done sets, fashion/costumes, themes, etc. before. And after Blond Ambition, nobody ever went back to just singing at a microphone. The headset she wears was known for a decade afterwards as a "Madonna mic". Pioneering groundbreaking tour. This was 35 years ago nearly. Like A Prayer from this tour is outstanding. Holiday from this tour and Keep It Together. Wont' go wrong with any of those.

The blond ambition tour was the tour that changed the game forever!

“The Blond Ambition” tour was hailed by world critics as one of the best concert tour ever if not the best , together with the production, choreography and performance. It gave her her first Grammy Award for Best Long Formed Video and Best Documentary (in another award giving body). The stage itself was designed by her brother Christopher Ciccone and the concert became the top grosser tour that year of 1990. She even surpassed the popularity of MJ and hailed as the top artist of the decade, top earner, highest paid, most successful and became the first and only female artist among the top concert artists generally ruled by men as the greatest amongst the best. Her history in the music world is phenomenal, a record and testament which no one can deny or even to be compared especially with any female artist. The artistry she brought to the entertainment industry is incredibly wonderful and marvelously amazing, she accomplished things which are not normally done by any female artist ever before or even after her . She’s the greatest mother of all artists in general paving ways for them to be known and be successful to express their talents and artistic freedom. The one and only MADONNA, she’s the “GOAT”!!! ❤️❤️❤️🇵🇭

Madonna during her heyday in the 90s was such a force of nature. This was only one performance of a 2 hour concert, full on energy everyday. It's the blueprint for Pop concerts ever since. I'm glad you react to her live performances as well as her songs and videos. It truly shows her whole artistry, you dont get it if you only listen to the songs or only watch the videos but you need to see her in every aspect and you get why she is as big as she is.

You said it before , in your last video. There will not be another artist like Madonna, never.

you have to understand. This tour was pop culture defined on a whole 'nother level in '90! that crowd reaction was real... us fans were living for the controversy she was serving us at this time. by time this era rolled around we _loved_ the 'fuck you' attitude she gave to the patriarchy, & we were part of it! every grunt & grind, every curse & whine... we soaked up every freakin bit of it!! it was exhilarating & in your face & confrontational & a blast! Youre seeing Madonna here at the height of her fame... & during the run she just got bigger & bigger. Now she was arguably the most famous (& infamous) woman in the world. EVERYTHING was Madonna. *Cuz She's The Mothafuckin Queen!* 👑⭐👑 (you guys _MUST_ watch Truth or Dare!!! do a multi-part reaction to it... you really need to witness the hold Madonna had on the world. it was unheard of. She redefined concerts, fame & what a celebrity could be, and she lays it all out there for you to see. i know you will like & appreciate it!)

You cannot understand the importance of this tour. It redefined live tours forever! And it is STILL incredible! And by the way, the crowd goes EXTRA crazy when she does anything extra. I know, I was at this tour 3 nights.

This show set a new standard. Back then it was fresh & new. Nowadays it's the norm. Please check KEEP IT TOGETHER from the same tour. You'll love it even more❤

The cultural impact she had during that period was something that is very hard to understand nowadays. This was the time when there was no one who did shows or anything like her. This was before Beyonce, Taylor, Britney, Christina, Jennifer, Rihanna, Gaga - you name it. She had the whole world around her fingers, almost that is. And the rest were just shocked and blaming her to be a satan’s incarnation or something. She was so huge, it was covered not only by entertainment news and tabloids, but normal news as well. I was 13 years old when Blond Ambition was going on during the summer of 1990, and the whole world knew she was on the road. Seing her emerging on that stage made me crazy. Just crazy. This gives me shivers even today, and if I really try I can almost feel what it was like back then 😂 So glad you are watching everything she has done. She is such a monster size icon, and these live performances show what kind of charisma she has.

So many FANTASTIC Live performances from Madonna you need to see: "Sooner of Later" - her live performance at the Oscars that blew everyone's mind in the audience "Vogue" from Blonde Ambition "Fever" from the Girlie Show - there's been nothing like it since "Like a Virgin" from Blonde Ambition - the controversial performance that kept the Blonde Ambition Tour in the headlines "Vogue" from Sticky & Sweet Tour - great choreography mixed with her Justin Timberlake collab If you notice - Madonna just had performance to rely on - No 50 foot video screens or Pyrotechnics - just her dancing and creative choreo with great production value

The most amazing performance I've seen!!! When we see this performance we understand why we call her the queen of pop

Madonna one of the best live acts out ,she is the artist with the record for most gross of tours by a female artist and in the Guinness book of records 17 times

You guys are very cute! The crowd was actually screaming louder during her more sexual choreography. For the time, Madonna was a first for women to express sexuality in an overt way, and hadn't been seen or heard in that way before. It was loudly applauded, and protested, outside her concerts protests from conservative and religious groups happened at every show. This concert I saw at Madison Square Garden and was a game changer for concerts of all genres to follow. Keep the great reactions coming.

Her best express yourself live performance is in the Girlie Show

This clip is actually a short edited version of EY from the documentary Truth or Dare. The original number is much longer. The documentary only features smaller clips of the on stage performances of the tour cut in-between backstage footage, which is its primary focus. The director Alec Keshishian took many cinematic liberties in editing the film to create a better movie going experience for all. She isn't even in America in this clip. Lol. She's in Europe. She wore the iconic ponytail for the US leg of the tour. When she says "Alright, AMERICA..." it's dubbed in. The movie was also released in Dolby surround sound ( or THX, maybe?), which may explain the fluctuation in the audience's volume at key points in the choreography, but if you have ever been to a live Madonna show, it's not a huge exaggeration. It DOES sound that loud; the floor actually shakes and the energy is INSANE. I'm certain the sound editor did have fun using the newest technology at that time, though. It is most definitely worth a watch. The full performance is available from the HBO concert special aired LIVE from Nice, France- the final show of the tour. ❤ Keep up the good work. Cheers!!

Another great reaction, you guys are funny! Next, please Future Lovers and Live to Tell, both live from The Confessions Tour :)

This was my first Madonna concert, May 24, 1990! Traveled 8 hrs to Chicago, IL . She had the ponytail, but later changed because it was giving her headaches. The May 25 date was canceled due to her laryngitis. We were lucky!

Love it! And this was actually the edited performance of this song where they cut out the big dance break. Such a history-making tour.

I remember this so well..and how it began with an empty blank stage with just a drum kit which began to part as the construction built with the backdrop, columns and stairs etc. I'd never seen anything like it at that time...and was like an Andrew Lloyd Webber show with moving parts. It really was visually amazing and unseen before then.

I still think this is her best tour opener, even with the backing track and album vocals turned up. It just sets the scene brilliantly for the full show. If you look at this entire performance, you see a strong woman towering over men - she's physically 'higher' than them all at the start, they are working FOR her; she even humps them from behind and just generally dominates them and the stage/set! It takes the 'powerful woman' metaphor to a whole new level. Express Yourself indeed!

Madonna - what is great: most powerfull phisicaly performer.

I saw this iconic concert in The Netherlands. This performance was recorded in Paris. the fact that she says 'hello America" was taped over. This concert was out of this world!

Blond Ambition was way ahead of it’s time! And became the blueprint for today’s biggest artist. Male and female! There would be no Renaissance or Eras tours without Madonna laying down the standard and the high level performance demanded to be considered the best of the best! Not mention , for women to be taken seriously in the music industry! Additionally, the technology needed to put on such shows is arenas built for sporting events. She’s contributed to that industry as well.

Loooooove this performance ❤

You guys might actually prefer the VMA performance of this song. It was the previous year and little more stripped down (and with live vocals - they're overdubbed here for some reason). Also, you must react to "Frozen" from the Drowned World Tour! It's simply the greatest and I think you'll love it.

Certainly one of the many high points of her amazing career. The stripped down version of this performance of Express yourself on the MTV Music Awards, which probably happened a year before is certainly worth a look. Love your stuff!

This was the opening set for the Blonde Ambition Tour...This was way before video screens. This set the mood for the entire concert. All the songs performed were themed well and performed with perfection, as she always does

y'all really should check out "Fever", the video and the live performance from the Girlie Show Tour as well! The video is super ground breaking and awesome!

Lol. The comment about satin sheets is "Satin sheets are very romantic, What happens when you're not in bed?" which is a comment that while satin sheets are nice, what good are they when you are not in bed? How can he show his love and devotion with satin sheets if you only enjoy them while in bed? So it was not a checklist, but a comment on the meaninglessness of material things when defining love.

I really do like your reactions! Let me just say though that I was 15 years old when this tour was broadcast live from Paris on HBO, and watching her shock people was exactly why I was watching! Madonna is the Queen!

I remember when I saw her live for the first time in Brazil (1993), on the Girlie Show singing for almost 110,000 people, crazy and unforgettable, in that decade she was the queen of everything!

This tour is the best and most revolutionary in the world. She "did it" on staged and showed the world to express and show respect ❤

First time?!!!!!!! My god I feel ANCIENT! I’m 47 this song was EVERYTHING in 1989-2000!!!! It played non stop

React to Sooner Or Later at this Oscars 1991 :) Madonna was nervous there but she pulled it off.

This performance was iconic and describes for sure what she can do and who she is. Please review "Open your Heart", only 2 people on stage, but simply awesome

The audio was definitely enhanced (to make clearer) so you, the viewer, could hear the crowd better, but because this tour was also part of a much bigger project, which included her documentary "Truth or Dare," they intentionally placed mics around the stadium so that the people in theatres and at home with their new surround sound systems could be more engrossed in the performances. 👑👍 "Like a Prayer" Sticky and Sweet Tour!

This tour gave birth to the modern pop concert. Iconic. I watched it in London.

Blonde Ambition was an amazing show/tour... it was my 1st Madonna Concert!...

Yes please watch and review this full concert which every song was sung live which is not done often by artists. I had the privilege of seeing this concert live 3 times. Thank you for your appreciation of Madonna!!

One of my favorites ❤

I went to this concert in Detroit michigan in 1990. It was beyond amazing in person. Best concert ever for me. You should watch the movie " Truthe or Dare" it's a movie of this tour. It's so good.

The video clip of "Like A Prayer" from the Blond Ambition tour is sick! You will both love the Documentary film "Truth or Dare" a behind the scenes film of the Blond Ambition tour, it is incredible!

I just love how into it he is, while she's just taking it all in.

The crowd reaction was real, this was live on HBO, i know i subscribed just to watch the concert when it aired!! I also was at the concert when it was in Los Angeles and the crowd definitely was crazy during those moments.

❤ this !

Best express yourself live version

Thanks, Marissa! Thanks, Tyler! 💛 #TylerCreatesContent #TCCReacts #Madonna #MadonnaLive #ExpressYourself #BlondAmbitionWorldTour

Oh Hell Yeah, it’s my all time Favorite song and performance…❤️❤️❤️ #MegaMichiganMadonnaFan84

what an amazing thing to experience this for the first time. imagine what you were missing all of these years. I´m jealous i cant have that feeling

This set the standard for modern day shows .

This tour set the bar for every other tour to come!!!

Live vocal performance, high energy choreography, and no auto tune. If you like this performance, look up Tina Turner "Proud Mary" at Wembley Stadium. Tina was 63 when this concert was recorded.

This oppening is perfect! Epic! So iconic, the Bra is iconic outfit. Is like the videoclipe vibes. Great reaction also!

most favorite and most iconic moment in music and fashion

All her opening numbers were awesome! Check out the opening number for Confessions Tour where she 'hatched' out of a disco ball if you haven't already, Vogue from The Revinvention Tour and Girl Gone Wild on MDNA Tour was awesome too!

I remember when this tour aired live HBO from France. It was a huge event. Madonna in her prime.

The tour that changed the concert perferomance forever. Remember that was in 1990.

I saw the Blonde Ambition tour in Madonna’s hometown of at the Palace at Auburn Hills Michigan ❤ and it was the bomb 💣

ICONIC ICONIC ICONIC

Next reaction: *Madonna's* *I'll Remember* Music critics praised the song, hailing it as one of her best works. It was nominated for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television at the 37th Grammy Awards and Best Original Song at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards. "I'll Remember" was also a commercial success, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming her fourth number-one hit on the Adult Contemporary chart.

My favourite Madonnas perfomance

Lo que tiene de bueno este escenario es que cambia en cada segmento del espectáculo. Es un diseño brillante.

Back then they didn’t have the ginormous screens that are now expected at large-venue events. I enjoyed this particular tour when I watched it on HBO than I did seeing it live a few months earlier.

This is DEFINITELY one of my favorites!! I’m scared to say anything of Madonna’s is my absolute favorite!! Lol cuz I know I’ll regret it, and say it ten times later abound other things 🙄🙄😂😂 You guys are awesome Thank you!! Zane 👍🩵👊

Way beyond legendary and so awesome

I think there's a misunderstanding going on in this discussion. It was INDUSTRY EXPERTS at the time who said the BLONDE AMBITION TOUR had introduced "THEATRICS" in a way that had never been done before. However, the word "THEATRICS" in here, is not used to refer to "Choreography or Acting", but mostly to the high tech S C E N O G R A P H Y used on this tour, that mimicked that used in THEATER. We are talking about the capacity to craft on stage environments and atmospheres, that can be TRANSFORMED multiple times during the concert. The video chosen to make this reaction, does not start from the very beginning of the show. This stage started out as a completely EMPTY PLATFORM, that in a matter of seconds TRANSFORMED into what you see here, with props emerging from the floor and coming down from the ceiling. I have massive respect for David Bowie, and MADONNA herself acknowledges him as her main inspiration, but this tour was definitely GROUND BRAKING and a GAME CHANGER, not to mention ONE OF A KIND.

Iconic

Born this way

was at that concert, no one, even up to today, can do what Madonna does, and still turning it out at 64 years old on her Celebration tour....

This video is from her documentary Truth or Dare so the audio is very edited

worked at dukin donutus, slept in abandoned churches and other bad things happened to her at this time until she became the most successful artist of all time, she has a lot to teach us in her spectacular trajectory

I seen this show at Wembley stadium London.......this version was recorded in Paris bercy arena and was edited shorter and dubbed over when she says alright America at the beginning

Because of this concert tour we all see these artists nowadays delivering as they do: big productions, choreo, different costume changes, dancers, acting, you name it...All in one. Yep, the first one doing it, the OG guess who? The GOAT, MADONNA.

Madonna is simply amazing, she is my favorite artist by far!!!!! Could you react "Live To Tell" from the "Confessions Tour"? Greetings from Chile 😊

the lyric is "Satin sheets are very romantic BUT what happens when you're NOT in bed" She literally saying otherwise lol

This isn't even the full performance of this song - its the edited Truth or Dare version. In the original, the entire "Metropolis" (factory) set rises from the stage floor before the music starts. Then mid-way through the song, there's an entire dance interlude where she does the most insane set of moves (Roger Rabbit into Running Man, into a backwards knee thrust then into a running high kick.) I've never seen any performance choreography come even close to it. Its a shame it got cut for the movie edit, she was at her all-time best... absolutely incredible song and performance.

She's not giving a checklist 'Satin sheets are very romantic - what happens when you're not in bed?' is critiquing guys who have satin sheets.

Actually they did cheer that loud for the sexual stuff. No one else was doing, or had ever done it before. She was the first to bring this level of sexuality to the mainstream. Her fans loved it, everyone else hated it. She had a tough ol time because of it. The one's who accepted her the most were her gay fans, so she decided to embrace us and supports us so much as a result.

You must react to Why is so hard - Madonna live at Girlie show (shocking)!

Great reactions guys !!! So cool !!! The thing with the rise of the volume level of the audience has to do with moments that has never happened before !!! It´s an artistical and for sure political decission !!! This tour changed everything that came after that. This one for me is the most powerful performance ever !!! Take a look at Vogue in Buenos Aires DVD circa 2008 !!! Love !!!

This is the edited version for Truth or Dare. Wish you would’ve watched the full version maybe from Barcelona. Cause believe me, that crowd were wild and not edited in for the movie. However, we did genuinely go crazy for the sexual moves, as this was 33 years ago, and was very controversial. In fact it’s exactly 33 years ago tonight that I saw this show in London at Wembley Stadium. Where it went out live on BBC Radio 1. And Madonna swore countless times, between Causing a Commotion and Where’s the Party, now that particular night is known as the “F### Fest” take a listen if you can, it’s on RU-vid on Roberto G’s channel. The best part is at the 15 minute mark. Then you’ll hear the crowd and know that it’s a genuine reaction to how much power she had in 1990. Best summer of my life!!!

The story goes that Madonna wrote this song for Jennifer Grey who had just broken up with her boyfriend at the time (Mathew Broderick).

Taking a break from prog rock and whatnot this is always an amazing song for me ❤

Her Blonde Ambition concert was incredible- A few thousand of your closest gay friends bumping and grinding together.. hot, sweaty.. It Was Amazing!

legendary

'Express Yourself' is prob my fav Madonna official production video (not concert). Check out early-era Madonna 'Dress You Up' (1984)...the official vid is a concert performance, which is 🔥. 😎

I watched a live stream of this concert on HBO in 1990, and they actually did get louder when she did erotic dance moves. Back then we didn't have streaming services with thousands of choices. Everybody watched MTV and whatever was popular on MTV is what most people listened to. Madonna, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Paula Abdul were the biggest around this time and everyone knew their songs. Girls dressed up like Madonna like crazy. Big hair, tight clothes and dark eye makeup was the trend back then and oh yea, lot's of Aqua net hairspray for that hold a tornado couldn't damage.....LOL

React to Like a Virgin, from the same tour, and Express Yourself from MDNA Tour; the first one is one of her best performances ever and the second has a surprise.

Must watch: EVERYBODY live from the Girlie Show.

Yeah… The set and costumes for this number were intended to remind the audience of the song they love. (Both the sets and the costumes changed a few songs later.).

ANNNNNDDD !!! PLEASE REVIEW MADONNA'S SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCE !!! XOXO

Please react to her Super Bowl performance!!!

I believe you are correct Tyler, they did increase the volume when Madonna did anything slightly sexual. I was at the show… And I remember the loudest cheers that came, came when she was coming up that elevator!

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KEEP IT TOGETHER from the same show : a masterpiece

Ok, 2 weeks is a long time without your perspective on a Madonna video lol. Check out the Superbowl halftime show and Sooner or Later at the Oscars 🙌🏻

You’re right about the crowd audio being doctored.

I like this guy ❤

Please React to MADONNA at the Superbowl 🤩😃👏👏👏 that'll impress you, I feel. It's Amazing.

The mic she's wearing is called a Madonna mic named after her....eventually