T-shirt with the image of her favorite singer, voluminous hairstyle, lace gloves reminiscent of the era Like a Virgin and VIP ticket in hand: Marie-Claude Di Lillo is ready for Madonna's “High Mass,” which will take place this Thursday at the Bell Center.
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“Tomorrow is high mass, tomorrow the earth will stop turning for Madonna. I say goodbye, get ready, go to a restaurant with friends and wait for Madonna,” says Marie-Claude Di Lillo, an early admirer of Madonna.
For her there is no question that she missed the Celebration Tour, the anniversary of the inauguration of Madonna's career.
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“It will be an extraordinary show with the costumes, the staging and the choreography. “It's Madonna: she's generous to her admirers and she's the picture of perfection,” she continues.
Marie-Claude Di Lillo, a big Madonna fan, at the Rebel Heart Tour show in Chicago
lightning
His crush on Madonna arose at the time of the songs Like a Virgin, True Blue and Holiday. Since then, Marie-Claude Di lillo, 50, has seen her idol more than ten times at concerts in various cities in North America: Montreal, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Miami and Salt Lake City.
“When I first saw him in the music video for Like a Virgin, I was blown away. Her unusual looks, her way of being provocative without being naked and sexy without being vulgar, and her overall feminist attitude as well as her impressive and provocative name immediately gave me the impression that she was here to stay,” she says Comparative This “encounter” resulted in an electric shock.
She explains that as a girl and later as a woman, she immediately felt challenged by the attitude and female freedom that the diva represented.
Marie-Claude Di Lillo and her friend Hanh Nguyen, two big Madonna fans, at the MDNA tour show at the Bell Center in 2012
Invest in your idol
Marie-Claude paid $600 to receive an Immaculate VIP package ticket, offered in advance by Ticketmaster. She also has a budget to buy at least one t-shirt locally.
“I invested in Madonna this year by coming to terms with myself. With this tour celebrating Madonna's 40 year career, I never would have been able to go to bed the night of the show knowing I would have missed it! It's something you only see once in a lifetime, it's an item on every fan's bucket list to check off,” she continues enthusiastically.
Marie-Claude Di Lillo and her friend Hanh Nguyen, two friends who are big Madonna fans, at the Rebel Heart Tour show in Chicago, courtesy of Marie-Claude Di Lillo
When she thinks of Madonna, does she have a favorite song or era? “That doesn't exist, because that's Madonna's strength: she constantly reinvents herself and creates fashion, every time with hits. “Still, I loved Vogue, Like a Prayer and Hung Up, and if I had one costume to choose, it would be her '80s look,” says the woman, who took inspiration from the “Like a Virgin” video for her look tomorrow . She knows that several spectators will also be dressed up, including many drag queens, for whom Madonna is a true icon.
If the early riser in her fears the concert will end early in the morning (Madonna was late to several shows on this tour), she expects her idol to arrive on stage at least an hour late. “There’s this expression that says: fashionably late. Madonna doesn't do anything that's formatted, we embrace her diva whims because if it were otherwise, she wouldn't be our Madonna.
Marie-Claude Di Lillo, big Madonna fan, and friends met at Madonna's Rebel Heart tour concert in Chicago