As Madame X, Madonna Is Her Most Authentic Onstage Self In Years
(WorldNews Music)

The joy of being a Madonna fan is that she’s a true artist, an incisive creative eye who embeds meaning and shades of emotional grey into her work; the other great thing about being a Madonna fan is that she’s an artist who also happens to be a pop star. So when she has something to say, it’s in the details, yes -- but wait long enough and it’ll also be bludgeoned over your head. “Freedom is the theme of this show,” Madonna told an enthralled, intimate crowd at the Thursday (Sept. 19) night show of her Madame X Tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “And the theme of my life, for that matter.” She might have explicitly spelled out her mission...