Madonna dedicates Intervention, from American Life Album, to her son Rocco. Live performance act at Forum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on March 10th, 2016: Tears of a Clown
I dont know why people are asking why she's dressed like a clown? The show was called "Tears of a Clown" and she said herself that Clowns are very heartbroken people because they try so hard to make you laugh and they want you to be happy but on the inside they could be sad and broken. I think what she's wearing goes perfectly well with the whole theme of the show and especially here where she starts to cry about Rocco. She must be very heart broken yet she goes on stage every other night to perform for her fans with a smile on her face...
Rocco just has a Rebel Heart, like Madonna. He's young and 15. His Rebel Heart will bring him back. He needs some space. Some room to move and breathe, just like a normal teenager.
+Kevin Lee Burns Underrated thanks to George War Bush putting a ban on her on US radios, but great. At least she's stuck to her principles, which means a lot, especially nowadays when so many people have been lobotomised by the media...
How many of you have left your mother feeling like this? Yet you were probably singing along to this and not giving the woman that brought you up any thought at all.
Hermosa canción olvidada en el album American Life!. Nunca voy a entender por qué Madonna siendo la GRAN ARTISTA que es, deja que la gente conozca su lado controversial, su parte mas comercial, y deja de lado estas PRECIOSAS PIEZAS que son OBRAS DE ARTE!...
+Gisela Goñi me hago las misma pregunta :( algun dia cantara this used to be my playground o love tried to welcome me, to have and not hold y la lista sigue
+Gisela Goñi Siempre ha sido ante todo una rebelde, y seguirá siéndolo mientras la gente le diga que no deba hacer tal o cual cosa por controversial, por provocador, o como ahora porque ya no tiene edad. Muy aparte de ellos los que la hemos seguido sabemos que es una artista capaz de producir muy buena musica pop.
People can say whatever they want about Madonna. They can criticize her, they can say she can't sing or doesn't have a good voice, but they can't say Madonna isn't a real artist. The voice or the technique was never Madonna's strongest point - although it's still pretty good and decent, but there's this thing that most of the singers from singing competitions or many singers now-a-days doesn't have: artistic expression. That's what makes her different from most of the current artists who are on the mainstream media, her voice and feelings can touch us and makes us believe her. For me she's one of the greatest artists who have ever existed on the popular culture.
+Josef Nizri yes that's the only thing that annoys me. theres one fan that is there to party and doesn't get that this is an emotional performance for M. and also the people who don't get this beautiful performance (and who are probably dailymail & thesun readers) shouldn't even visit this youtube, they're too stupid to get it.
I think this is one of her most beautiful and perfect songs, she should've released as single in American life era :( this is such a masterpiece and unfortunately so underrated
why do the haters watch her performances lol ....i dont understand them ..bitch they fans..i guess it must make them pressed that madonna is the biggest selling female ever ...etc etc
I think this moment is referenced, vaguely and indirectly, in her Celebration Tour. She always desider her mother, and when she was a mother herself to give her best to her children. Then, with Rocco in this moment, she tought she failed. All her perfectionism came from her sadness, and all those tears she had to liberate in form of this show, Tears of a Clown. The Erotica segment in her Celebration ends with Bad Girl, giving, as always, new meaning to that song. Instead of failing to a lover, she sang about failing to her children, her most deared, the ones that were with her in another crucial moment for her in 2023 when she dared another of her most fears: Death. For me, the Celebration Tour is a encouragement of her artistic decisions in her work, more than a only chronological order of her history. Moments of her past are still a topic of her contemporary interest of work (the death of her mother, surfacing in the "2000" segment, which references for me her most spiritual side). The same as her Bad Girl at the end of the "90s". Her defiantly decisions about sex, actually made a "punish" for her, for what im understandig, from her child Rocco around the Tears of a Clown time. Thats how she ends that segment in her show, not only 90s, but these themes in her life.
she looks more and more like bette davis and joan crawford in this film"whatever happened to baby jane"..... .poor rocco.....hes happy to be with his dad i reckon...
+bmcart1 so you think he should stay with that alcoholic and model and not with his mother who is an artist. the iq of the dailymail & thesun' readers doesn't go over 85 i guess
+Ann Liguända So you prefer to insult than ask a question? If she's an artist than her ex-husband is not an alcoholic he's an artist as well. Is there anything in her life that has ever been personal? You are a moron and you can't get mad at me because I'm just a comedian.
+BARTHOLOMEW ARMBRÜSTER Not gonna happen. I'm sure you would enjoy it, but Madonna is a strong MF and will be able to function where Brit Brit could not.
Pls focus on the pain she tries to express 😑 I know u r all excited to be fans and doing or saying fan things. but, very rarely, right there, she needs other kind of support. 🚲 🔑 🔗
it's shame she didn't keep her private life....private. how embarrassing parading picture of her son. I think Rocco was fed up with his controlling mother and his dad is more laid back and letting Rocco be himself.
hahahah thats funny im sure he does not bother with all the money she give to him. what a non sense coment, you dont know what is really happening there. she is a mom, different job but mom as all the others. everybody experience a time of rebel against our own mom. after we realize they always wants our best. it will be the same with him. I hope he does not make any shit with his life while he is with his dad... she was just dedicating a song to the son she love and the lyric is just beautiful. how to keep anything private if any journal and facebook user talks about and like to put the nose in this story? she just "spoke" about this now with the song, after lot of bullship on midia...
She looks like Squidward from Sponge Bob Square Pants. And if she thinks that that is entertainment, yeah, it might be, but only if you're a child. And even they aren't that stupid. I know I'm not.
just because you live your life in the public eye, dosent mean you dont hurt as much as everyone else, what a beautiful emotional performance, i dont know madonna but im sure her heart is breaking like any other parents would
Interesting that this song is probably written with Guy in mind, now applies to the son. American Life is one of those albums that wasn't fairly appreciated at the time, but really has turned out to be one of her best, most artistic albums.
+Howard Flogel I've always said that American Life is a stunning work of art, intensely personal, and so relatable. It's easily in my top 3 of album favorites.
On a personal level, things aren't going well to our Diva, but it's more than evident all the love that millions of devoted fans have for M in the last 34 years. More recently, each Rebel Heart Tour show around the world, plus this extra show, are a clear proof of that deeply love & admiration. Just look at the fans faces & their love messages to the Queen.
what a delicious gift to long time fans! it make us enjoy of such beautifull and loved songs allmost never heard on stage like those from the excellent and underated american life album. thanx for recovering them, they are gold and show the best of you as honest song writer
Sometimes when I'm sad or I need something to lean on, I come to this incredible masterpiece. It's amazing how she does to make you feel her pian through her lyrics. I will never get tired of this underrated song. Ever.
Madonna can make you explore such an array of different emotions through a performance.... she really IS that ultimate entertainer that will make laugh, cry, think, get angry, rebel, hope.... I predict that the world will appreciate what an incredible entertainer she is when she's dead. Just like with MJ.
L'Artiste et interprète en apothéose. Magnifique, généreuse et sensible aux cause de l'humanité. Une vrais étoile de la pop qui brille depuis les années 80 et qui illuminera l'Univers pendant et après son existence. Indétrônable, intemporelle, messagère de l'Amour, la Paix et la Tolérance. Madonna est la seul Icon de la musique. Devenue Muse et Déesse de ces créateurs les Dieux. Et ce pour des siècles et des siècles. Amen. Quoi qu'on dise, elle est la Femme de tout les temps.
who are the people that dislike such a beautiful song, performance, and voice? i want to know them, so I can tell them to fuck off and get some musical taste and stop reading tabloids. I really don't get how anyone can dislike this. the world is strange
Great clip! I'm a producer for Entertainment Tonight -- could we use a part of this performance in a story, with proper credit to you on screen? Let me know here or at brice.sander@cbs.com. Thanks!
I dont know why people are asking why she's dressed like a clown? The show was called "Tears of a Clown" and she said herself that Clowns are very heartbroken people because they try so hard to make you laugh and they want you to be happy but on the inside they could be sad and broken. I think what she's wearing goes perfectly well with the whole theme of the show and especially here where she starts to cry about Rocco. She must be very heart broken yet she goes on stage every other night to perform for her fans with a smile on her face...
Wow her voice has really improved over the years. Beautiful performance
This Song is a masterpiece. She have to do an acoustic album.
She might actually.
I have waited so long to hear her perform this incredible song! So underrated! So unappreciated!
Totally agree
Rocco just has a Rebel Heart, like Madonna. He's young and 15. His Rebel Heart will bring him back. He needs some space. Some room to move and breathe, just like a normal teenager.
+Curtis Frank and remember madonna was also a rebel against her father so, so rocco is just like his mother
That's exactly what I said above...
I was at this gig. So good to see a mega star so "raw". Once in a lifetime experience.
Madonna is so amazing and talented that it is unbelievable.
what an amazing woman THIS IS INCREDIBLE
One of my all time favorites and this is the first "full" performance I've seen of this amazing song. Thank you for posting this.
I love American Life. It's so full of emotions. Great album.
+Adriano Bulla Yes it's great!
+Kevin Lee Burns Underrated thanks to George War Bush putting a ban on her on US radios, but great. At least she's stuck to her principles, which means a lot, especially nowadays when so many people have been lobotomised by the media...
+Adriano Bulla what the hell are you talking about? If you think George Bush controls American radio you're a nutbar...
+Kevin Lee Burns shes never performed it ever
How many of you have left your mother feeling like this? Yet you were probably singing along to this and not giving the woman that brought you up any thought at all.
One of my favorite songs from Madonna, from the ahead of its time and underrated American Life. So good to hear it live at last!
I hardly ever cry but this performance got me. So beautiful and heartfelt, I truly hope her and Rocco can resolve their issues.
I've been waiting for this for 13 years.
thank you I love this song, I'll keep waiting for Love Profussion
A Mom's broken heart on display.
Emotional, beautiful and heartbreaking... A song definitely worth revisiting. Thank you for sharing this with all of us who couldn't be there. :)
Hermosa canción olvidada en el album American Life!. Nunca voy a entender por qué Madonna siendo la GRAN ARTISTA que es, deja que la gente conozca su lado controversial, su parte mas comercial, y deja de lado estas PRECIOSAS PIEZAS que son OBRAS DE ARTE!...
+Gisela Goñi me hago las misma pregunta :( algun dia cantara this used to be my playground o love tried to welcome me, to have and not hold y la lista sigue
lo mismo digo hermosa canción, american life es un álbum perfecto, espero y tears of clown tenga dvd, blu-ray ❤🙏❤🙏❤
+Gisela Goñi Siempre ha sido ante todo una rebelde, y seguirá siéndolo mientras la gente le diga que no deba hacer tal o cual cosa por controversial, por provocador, o como ahora porque ya no tiene edad. Muy aparte de ellos los que la hemos seguido sabemos que es una artista capaz de producir muy buena musica pop.
Thank u so much for posting this!! American life has always been my no.1Madonna album!
Very sad performance, pure fellings- I love it. Thank you for share it.
Finally a live version of this song. One of my favorites. From one of my favorites album
Perfection!
+IoM Right & without a single scream or battle range
People can say whatever they want about Madonna. They can criticize her, they can say she can't sing or doesn't have a good voice, but they can't say Madonna isn't a real artist. The voice or the technique was never Madonna's strongest point - although it's still pretty good and decent, but there's this thing that most of the singers from singing competitions or many singers now-a-days doesn't have: artistic expression. That's what makes her different from most of the current artists who are on the mainstream media, her voice and feelings can touch us and makes us believe her. For me she's one of the greatest artists who have ever existed on the popular culture.
We all Love u Madonna
THANK YOU! THIS IS AMAZING! If you have more like this, please post!!
thank you sooooo much for this video!
Madonna-Sad, tragic and brilliant!
I'm surprised of the insensitive attitude of those, who kept screaming and bawling while Madonna was telling her sorrowful story!
+Josef Nizri yes that's the only thing that annoys me. theres one fan that is there to party and doesn't get that this is an emotional performance for M.
and also the people who don't get this beautiful performance (and who are probably dailymail & thesun readers) shouldn't even visit this youtube, they're too stupid to get it.
Love this song!
I'll be waiting for this on a better quality (official quality).
I think this is one of her most beautiful and perfect songs, she should've released as single in American life era :( this is such a masterpiece and unfortunately so underrated
One of my all time fav from the Queen!
why do the haters watch her performances lol ....i dont understand them ..bitch they fans..i guess it must make them pressed that madonna is the biggest selling female ever ...etc etc
That's exactly it they secretly like her just have to spit hate to throw u off lol
Looks like a solid mom...
This is GREAT footage
This is a beautiful performance.
I think this moment is referenced, vaguely and indirectly, in her Celebration Tour. She always desider her mother, and when she was a mother herself to give her best to her children. Then, with Rocco in this moment, she tought she failed. All her perfectionism came from her sadness, and all those tears she had to liberate in form of this show, Tears of a Clown. The Erotica segment in her Celebration ends with Bad Girl, giving, as always, new meaning to that song. Instead of failing to a lover, she sang about failing to her children, her most deared, the ones that were with her in another crucial moment for her in 2023 when she dared another of her most fears: Death. For me, the Celebration Tour is a encouragement of her artistic decisions in her work, more than a only chronological order of her history. Moments of her past are still a topic of her contemporary interest of work (the death of her mother, surfacing in the "2000" segment, which references for me her most spiritual side). The same as her Bad Girl at the end of the "90s". Her defiantly decisions about sex, actually made a "punish" for her, for what im understandig, from her child Rocco around the Tears of a Clown time. Thats how she ends that segment in her show, not only 90s, but these themes in her life.
Guapa!!! Eres lo más!!! Grande.
Eu amo essa música, parece que foi ontem esse álbum "American Life" linda, linda, I love Intervention... nostalgia deliciosa.
She was!
SOME REST AND RELAXATION,,,,MY DEAR....You Deserve It! Much LOVE, artist instinct
I need a bag of tissue please 😭
💜
Madonna Raw and revealing more than ever in her 30+ year career
Australia does that to yo
she looks more and more like bette davis and joan crawford in this film"whatever happened to baby jane".....
.poor rocco.....hes happy to be with his dad i reckon...
+acapulco ramon whatever
+acapulco ramon I noticed that too . She must stop with the plastic surgery already.
+Dora Jackson go and FYS
semplicemente divina!
Oh my god
give it up!
Could you please upload the complete show in good quality? PLEASE!!!!
TAKE A VACATION!!!
This makes me feel bad for her kid. I hope he stays with his father.....
+bmcart1 so you think he should stay with that alcoholic and model and not with his mother who is an artist. the iq of the dailymail & thesun' readers doesn't go over 85 i guess
+Ann Liguända So you prefer to insult than ask a question? If she's an artist than her ex-husband is not an alcoholic he's an artist as well. Is there anything in her life that has ever been personal? You are a moron and you can't get mad at me because I'm just a comedian.
*X3 :-( XO 100%!!!!
I thought it was Melanie Martinez.I didn't read title.😀😂😀
she isn't wearing clown close i call that modern fashion.
She's about to have a Britney style breakdown!!
+BARTHOLOMEW ARMBRÜSTER Not gonna happen. I'm sure you would enjoy it, but Madonna is a strong MF and will be able to function where Brit Brit could not.
+Trey Cauley Would it matter if she breaks down.... that would revive her career so much!!! Britney kept us entertain in 2007. Madonna is too boring.
that is a ridiculous thing to wish on anyone. And Brit Brit is exciting now? lester monee
BARTHOLOMEW ARMBRÜSTER she's just a sensitive person not a deranged psycho bitch
Pls focus on the pain she tries to express 😑 I know u r all excited to be fans and doing or saying fan things. but, very rarely, right there, she needs other kind of support. 🚲 🔑 🔗
He dodged a bullet didn't he?
mess..poor rocco does not deserve this.
her real personality just came out! what a clown! oh what a circus oh what a clown! what a madonna-Evita died at 32!
;(
I hope this does not end like Michael jackson?. She"s at least dressed appropriate.
it's shame she didn't keep her private life....private. how embarrassing parading picture of her son. I think Rocco was fed up with his controlling mother and his dad is more laid back and letting Rocco be himself.
hahahah thats funny im sure he does not bother with all the money she give to him. what a non sense coment, you dont know what is really happening there. she is a mom, different job but mom as all the others. everybody experience a time of rebel against our own mom. after we realize they always wants our best. it will be the same with him. I hope he does not make any shit with his life while he is with his dad... she was just dedicating a song to the son she love and the lyric is just beautiful. how to keep anything private if any journal and facebook user talks about and like to put the nose in this story? she just "spoke" about this now with the song, after lot of bullship on midia...
+Marcela Ribeiro Because YOU KNOW what's happening ? Your COMMENT is NONSENSE too.
+tarak martinez i dont know thats why i dont judge. ppl like to comment life of somebody else clearly is unhappy or has nothing to do
+Marcela RibeiroYou say you don't judge but you do judge.
+tarak martinez ok, keep on hating. i hope good things to you. much love.
Is she drunk?
She looks like Squidward from Sponge Bob Square Pants. And if she thinks that that is entertainment, yeah, it might be, but only if you're a child. And even they aren't that stupid. I know I'm not.
Fans suck.
How?
she has no voice anymore.
Get retired. It's going to get ridiculous.
when will she retire?So awful!
+GARETH DAVIES if you don't get that this is artistic, watch katy perry or gaga videos. its more to your.. level
why is she dressed like a clown? Is'nt she like 60?
+Jose Gonzalez why are you breathing
People still pay good money to watch this clown perform??? What a waste!
It was a free concert, you idiot
+Joshy LeGrand still way way way overpriced snowflake joshy boy
Why the fuck would you watch and comment her videos of you don't like her
+Glenn Daly Just like you who came to Madonna's video leave your bullshit.
Like Joshy LeGrand already said this extra show was free.
+Glenn Daly
You are the one wasting your time watching artists you don't like.
just because you live your life in the public eye, dosent mean you dont hurt as much as everyone else, what a beautiful emotional performance, i dont know madonna but im sure her heart is breaking like any other parents would
It's so beautiful. So emotional.
this song is so beautiful; i love Madonna's voice on this :)
This is one of the top songs from American Life.
American life is so underrated. probably her best album because it was more intimate and honest just like ray of light
Interesting that this song is probably written with Guy in mind, now applies to the son. American Life is one of those albums that wasn't fairly appreciated at the time, but really has turned out to be one of her best, most artistic albums.
+Howard Flogel I've always said that American Life is a stunning work of art, intensely personal, and so relatable. It's easily in my top 3 of album favorites.
Actually, she has always claimed that this song was inspired by Rocco. Even in 2003. I agree that AL is one of her absolute best!
Just WOW. WOW. WOW
American Life, the most underated album, it gave everyone Noboby Know's Me.
she sounds like a queen
+mv r M IS a Queen... queen of my heart fro the last 32 years
American Life is such a great album! I love this song and Nothing Fails.. So happy she is performing "forgotten" songs like this one
On a personal level, things aren't going well to our Diva, but it's more than evident all the love that millions of devoted fans have for M in the last 34 years.
More recently, each Rebel Heart Tour show around the world, plus this extra show, are a clear proof of that deeply love & admiration.
Just look at the fans faces & their love messages to the Queen.
So beautiful. He'll come back, Madonna! We love you!
excellently filmed. highlight of show.
One of the best songs on American Life, love it and great performance! Looking forward to the DVD
beautiful song... queen of pop...
what a delicious gift to long time fans! it make us enjoy of such beautifull and loved songs allmost never heard on stage like those from the excellent and underated american life album. thanx for recovering them, they are gold and show the best of you as honest song writer
that was AMAZING! thanks for uploading. xo
Sometimes when I'm sad or I need something to lean on, I come to this incredible masterpiece. It's amazing how she does to make you feel her pian through her lyrics. I will never get tired of this underrated song. Ever.
Such a Beautiful song! I listen to it almost everyday... Thank you for a little peace amongst all the chaos!
Very, very beautiful song! Love you, Madonna!
Madonna can make you explore such an array of different emotions through a performance.... she really IS that ultimate entertainer that will make laugh, cry, think, get angry, rebel, hope.... I predict that the world will appreciate what an incredible entertainer she is when she's dead. Just like with MJ.
great job madonna. keep your head up 💋💞
She's such an artist in the most classic meaning of the word.
love it
She is an artist, she is a queen and she is a mother, I send all good vibes to Madonna so she will be reunited and happy again with Rocco...
I really love the American life album
L'Artiste et interprète en apothéose. Magnifique, généreuse et sensible aux cause de l'humanité. Une vrais étoile de la pop qui brille depuis les années 80 et qui illuminera l'Univers pendant et après son existence. Indétrônable, intemporelle, messagère de l'Amour, la Paix et la Tolérance. Madonna est la seul Icon de la musique. Devenue Muse et Déesse de ces créateurs les Dieux. Et ce pour des siècles et des siècles. Amen. Quoi qu'on dise, elle est la Femme de tout les temps.
LOVE YOU M>>>>>THANKS
who are the people that dislike such a beautiful song, performance, and voice? i want to know them, so I can tell them to fuck off and get some musical taste and stop reading tabloids. I really don't get how anyone can dislike this. the world is strange
Great clip! I'm a producer for Entertainment Tonight -- could we use a part of this performance in a story, with proper credit to you on screen? Let me know here or at brice.sander@cbs.com. Thanks!
+Brice Sander hello Brice, just sent you an email, happy to contribute to your story
💜
Next!
beautiful performance .
that "fan" in the background is so annoying.