Tour kicks off tonight in Tel Aviv, Thursday, May 30, 2012…

Entire rehearsal audio, May 29, 2012:

Candy Shop/Erotica/Human Nature (let’s see how long this stays on Youtube):

Sum randomness:

- Madonna makes her initial entrance through broken glass.

-The MDNA Tour dancers will be wearing Material Girl (Lola and Madonna’s fashion line) Intimates. 

- Rocco and Lola make numerous appearances throughout the show (apparently).

Costumes:

“We played with the ideas of a suit and a corset. But the corset is now like a cage,” explained Gaultier. “What I have done this time is a nod to the conical bra corset of the Blond Ambition tour but reinterpreted in 3-D, in patent leather on the outside with metallic leather on the inside. It’s all about masculine and feminine, Madonna and Jean Paul Gaultier classics reinterpreted for 2012.”

Tour book (front and back):

Along with the added lines, “She’s not me!”  Really Madge?  Really?  

See and hear Madonna rehearsing the set here.

In response, Lady Gaga will be performing 1971’s “Respect Yourself” by The Staple Singers, during her performance of “Born This Way” in her current Born This Way Ball Tour.  

I really detest women pitted against women, especially women choosing to pit themselves against one another.  I also detest a 54 year old going after someone who is young enough to be her own daughter.  Madonna is rubbing me the wrong way with this, and I can take someone being a bit cheeky.  The “she’s not me” bit is what really irritates me, and I’ve found that the majority of interwebbers have felt exactly the same thing.  That’s where it goes from being tongue-in-cheek to total and complete bitterness.  It’s over the line.

People were over the whole Madonna-Gaga thing earlier this year, and here’s Madonna dredging it up all over again for media attention.  It’s stupid, and actually makes her look bad.  I wish Madonna would take the highroad.  Couldn’t she just praise Gaga for her efforts to stamp out bullying, and trying to help gays and lesbians?  I mean, really.  Why not just say nothing?  Madonna should be above this.  I’m sure Gaga won’t respond, and that’s just going to make Madonna look worse.

The people who are actually all into this stupid passive-aggressive spat, as well as instigating a great deal of it, are the vicious stereotypical portion of the gay community, the true embarrassments to all of us. 

Lady Gaga will see Madonna’s money going into her bank account each time she performs this, so I doubt she really cares.  Also, Madonna and Gaga are now on the same record label, and are essentially promoting each other.  Perhaps they’re both in on it.  Gaga is supposedly about to announce her next album, and upcoming new single in a week or so.  It would be awesome if Gaga joined Madonna on tour and performed the mashup with her sometime this year.  The media would have mass cum explosion over it!  They’re both going to be on tour for the duration of this year. 

The Staple Singers never received a single credit in the liners for “Express Yourself” on 1989’s “Like A Prayer”.  

What gives, Madge?  Seems both Madonna and Gaga have been reductive!