Photo: Neil PrestonHurry up, I just can't wait
I gotta do it now I can't be late
I know I'm not afraid I gotta get out the door
If I don't do it now I won't get anymore
You try to criticize my drive
If I lose I don't feel paralyzed
It's not the game it's how you play
And if I fall, I get up again now.
Over and Over - one of the greatest Madonna songs, sung live below in Dallas on her Virgin Tour on May 03, 1985. The complete live performance is so wonderful and a quarter of a century later, I'm so impressed on a completely different level than I was at 14 years old with Her Raw Talent. A fantastic live singer (credit she rarely - if ever, receives), she hits each mark (that she's designated), shes in perpetual motion (like a hummingbird) - the woman doesn't stop. And the song. A brilliant songwriter (were we the only ones that saw it earlier?). After all she has done, there are still cynics. Yes, you heard it correctly. However, a few years later - "Madonna stakes her claim as the pop poet of lower-middle-class America." (David Sigerson, July 7, 1986, Madonna: Her Aim is True, Rolling Stone).
Eat cock, Dylan.
Over and Over. So honest, so great, so inspirational, so Madonna. I scanned my insane brain to think of another woman in the entertainment business that had done what Madonna did in The Virgin Tour prior - and really I can say nobody. She set a new standard and expectation of what performing is. From the beginning of this show - with Dress You Up until she runs back to fetch her fur after Material Girl - every smile, every wink, every kick is choreographed and here with Over and Over - she is, once again, perfection.
13 years later, she would receive her first 'real' Grammy Award.
I know I'm not afraid I gotta get out the door
If I don't do it now I won't get anymore
You try to criticize my drive
If I lose I don't feel paralyzed
It's not the game it's how you play
And if I fall, I get up again now.
Over and Over - one of the greatest Madonna songs, sung live below in Dallas on her Virgin Tour on May 03, 1985. The complete live performance is so wonderful and a quarter of a century later, I'm so impressed on a completely different level than I was at 14 years old with Her Raw Talent. A fantastic live singer (credit she rarely - if ever, receives), she hits each mark (that she's designated), shes in perpetual motion (like a hummingbird) - the woman doesn't stop. And the song. A brilliant songwriter (were we the only ones that saw it earlier?). After all she has done, there are still cynics. Yes, you heard it correctly. However, a few years later - "Madonna stakes her claim as the pop poet of lower-middle-class America." (David Sigerson, July 7, 1986, Madonna: Her Aim is True, Rolling Stone).
Eat cock, Dylan. Over and Over. So honest, so great, so inspirational, so Madonna. I scanned my insane brain to think of another woman in the entertainment business that had done what Madonna did in The Virgin Tour prior - and really I can say nobody. She set a new standard and expectation of what performing is. From the beginning of this show - with Dress You Up until she runs back to fetch her fur after Material Girl - every smile, every wink, every kick is choreographed and here with Over and Over - she is, once again, perfection.
13 years later, she would receive her first 'real' Grammy Award.