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Madonna's Celebration Tour showcases a restless reinvention machine and we love her for it

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After all Madonna's decades of swallowing and spitting out every other cultural taboo for a woman in music, the age barrier is her last hill to climb. And she's doing it in a crotchless corset and heels, writes Virginia Trioli.

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Madonna, the original music revolutionary, the biggest selling female recording artist of all time, has started on her Celebration Tour -- her first since 2019 and the first time she's ever performed a show of all her hits from her 40 years in music. After all her decades of swallowing and spitting out every other cultural taboo for a woman in music, the age barrier is her last hill to climb. And she's doing it in a crotchless corset and heels.I've found all the fury incredible. Mick Jagger, 80, gets hilarious memes of his limber self being compared to the decrepit Joe Biden who shares his years; Madonna gets headlines scolding, "

She made possible almost everything that women recording artists enjoy today by being almost intolerably herself. Maybe her approach to ageing is another prescient moment for her. Madonna has never sought to be considered "classy" -- wearing the expected long sleeves of a woman of a certain age as the world refuses to gaze upon an ageing woman's arms.

 

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