#4: Music Inferno from Confessions 2006

This mashup of Madonna’s Music and Where’s The Party with The Trammps Disco Inferno is just one of the (many) highlights of this Disco-tastic performance. It starts with the sound of a faux radio station that plays “all Madonna all the time.”  The pounding bass line of Disco Inferno is quickly mixed in with Music lyrics. And no good nod to the ‘70s should be void of roller skaters. Note the dancer “Cloud” Campos, wearing the grey pants with the white arrow on his backside. He moves as if he’s made of rubber and is always a joy to watch.

After this roller-skating introduction, Madonna, along with the dancers Tamara Levinson and Addie Yungmee, suddenly appear as if out of nowhere. Donning Saturday Night Fever-inspired white suits, they strut and point like their queens of the dance floor. It’s when Madonna breaks free of her cohorts and heads down the ramp to the end of the runway that garners this performance top-five status. Madonna’s dance talent once again shines here—no doubt an homage to Travolta’s Tony Manero in the scene from the classic film where he clears the floor as he dances to The Bee-Gees’ You Should Be Dancing.

Later, Madonna leaves her skaters behind and heads back up the runway full of confidence, wiping her eyebrows with her thumbs and keeping everything in check. This time she strolls to snippets of her 1986 song, Where’s The Party. "Where's the party?/I want to free my soul/Where's the party?/I want to lose control." This remarkable 7-minute strut down memory lane ends with huge mirror balls being lowered down and Madonna striking one of the most famous poses, you guessed it, the iconic Travolta pose from the Saturday Night Fever poster. BSo

Saturday Night Fever. The clip doesn't start for a few seconds.