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Simon Price from The Independent said that the tour "is a triumph of hydraulics, bungee rope acrobatics and cutting edge choreography." However, he felt that the setlist consisting of mainly current songs implied that Madonna was doing "a paranoid attempt to frame herself as part of the present and not the past? The irony here is that, given the ever decreasing spirals of pop revivalism, in order to be truly contemporary, rather than eschewing her past, Madonna would need to be ripping herself off circa 1984."[26] John McAlley from Entertainment Weekly commented that the music was "loud, energetic, well sung, and perhaps a little too often beside the point" and that "[it] struggle[d] to rise above its [the show's] theatrics." He added that one will be "awed by Madonna's palpable life force and intelligence. [.] There are plenty of reasons to bow at this artist's feat."[22] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that "th...