{"id":26309,"date":"2014-07-08T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=26309"},"modified":"2014-07-07T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:53:10","slug":"madonna-10-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/madonna-10-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna, 10 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago today, I was going to Madonna&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Re-Invention_World_Tour\" target=\"_blank\">Re-Invention tour<\/a> at Continental Arena in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26310\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/throwback-1.jpeg\" alt=\"throwback 1\" width=\"498\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/throwback-1.jpeg 552w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/throwback-1-300x105.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><br \/>\nContinental Arena is now called the Izod Center. But, to me, it will always be the Brendan Byrne Arena, where <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/throwback-thursday-program-from-82-dress-from-89\/\" target=\"_blank\">I went to my first concert (Journey!) in 1982<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had already seen Madonna at Madison Square Garden during this tour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26311\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/throwbackcont.jpeg\" alt=\"throwbackcont\" width=\"498\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/throwbackcont.jpeg 545w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/throwbackcont-300x100.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a long time, I&#8217;ve gone to see <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/what-wendy-wore-madonna-at-madison-square-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\">two shows<\/a> whenever Madonna is on the road. I might have started that habit during the Re-Invention tour; I have a vague memory of that, but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged a lot about <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/madonna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>. My favorite posts are about the impact she had on me in the 1980s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/happy-birthday-madonna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vinyl and prom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/lace-up-like-vintage-madonna-and-wendyb\/\" target=\"_blank\">The lace-up shoes we loved<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/dick-clark-madonna-and-my-1980s-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna-worthy earrings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/throwback-thursday-madonna-almost-26-years-ago-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna as AIDS activist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/throwback-thursday-madonna-and-her-keith-haring-denim-jacket\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna and Keith Haring (I still want that skirt)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/new-york-style-icon-nightclub-legend-haoui-montaug\/\" target=\"_blank\">Found an amazing 1982 video of Madonna performing &#8220;Everybody&#8221; at a New York City cabaret<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, Madonna&#8217;s 1984 performance on the MTV Video Music Awards came up when I was writing for the Huffington Post about Miley Cyrus&#8217;s VMA performance last year. That appearance is now considered iconic, but it was thought to be a disaster at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wendy-brandes\/fading-affect-bias_b_3857096.html\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT MADONNA AND FADING AFFECT BIAS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some more great &#8217;80s quotes about Madonna <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/i-had-to-call-a-psychologist-and-its-miley-cyruss-fault\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago today, I was going to Madonna&#8217;s Re-Invention tour at Continental Arena in New Jersey. Continental Arena is now called the Izod Center. But, to me, it will always be the Brendan Byrne Arena, where I went to my first concert (Journey!) in 1982. I had already seen Madonna at Madison Square Garden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/madonna-10-years-ago-today\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642,581,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-80s-style","8":"category-concerts","9":"category-madonna","10":"category-music","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26313,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions\/26313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}