Confessions Tour - Setlist

The setlist of the Confessions Tour promoted her Confessions On A Dance Floor album.

Equestrian Segment

Future Lovers / I Feel Love
Get Together
Like A Virgin
Jump

In a true collaboration between Madonna and Gaultier, the Equestrian costume mixes elements of horseback riding gear with S&M bondage. Inspired by Romy Schneider in Ludwig, Madonna appears in top hat, knee-high boots, a see-through blouse underneath an asymmetric jacket, a pair of jodhpurs and finished off with a riding crop. Although she sports a long black pony tail at the back of her hat, she's clearly the one riding the male-dancers-turned-horses. As the second song kicks in, she takes off the jacket and hat, revealing her blond hair, tied in a bun.

Bedouin Segment

Live To Tell (with dancer confessions intro)
Forbidden Love
Isaac
Sorry
Like It Or Not

Gaultier continues with a 'Biblical Chic' look, consisting of a transparent mousseline blouse over red lycra body, burgundy velvet trousers and matching boots. To complete her image of a martyr, she wears a crown of thorns on her shoulder-long wavy hair. For the Sorry performance, Madonna exchanges the blouse for a brown leather jacket. As the segment comes to an end, she loses the jacket and shows off her assets.

Never Mind The Bollocks Segment

Don't Talk, Don't Speak (video interlude)
I Love New York
Ray Of Light
Let It Will Be
Drowned World/Substitute For Love
Paradise (Not For Me)

Influenced by the looks of 70s icons Lou Reed, Bowie & T-Rex, Madonna sports a glam punk outfit, consisting of tight black jeans and black leather jacket, finished with feathers in the collar. For the rock tracks, she plays the electric guitar, with a shoulder strap that reads "I (heart) NY". For Let It Will Be, the jacket comes off, and as she dances and spasms on stage, her hair becomes wild and messy.

Disco Segment

Music Inferno
Erotica / You Thrill Me
Lucky Star
Hung Up

For the final part of the show, Madonna pays tribute to several disco stars. In the backdrop video for Music Inferno, she doesn't only reflect back on her own disco hits, but also appears as an acid queen with red Tina Turner dress. Madonna appears on stage in a classy white suit, dancing like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. On the tones of Erotica, she strips off the suit, revealing an asymmetric lycra outfit, once worn by Agnetha and Frida. ABBA gets another wink, when Nicki and Donna cover Madonna with a cape that reads 'Dancing Queen'. As M opens the cape, it shows twinkling disco balls on the inside. The show finale is performed in the infamous purple leotard, topped off with glittery jacket and sun glasses.

Remarks:

Everybody and Deeper And Deeper were considered for the setlist but they got replaced by La Isla Bonita and Erotica / You Thrill Me. Madonna sang a few lines of Nothing Fails at the end of Drowned World during rehearsals.

The setlist was the same on every single show. Only some minor details were changed: the dancers during Forbidden Love got the Jewish and Muslim symbols after the first date in London; Madonna started wearing a cowboy hat for Let It Will Be and the Hung Up leotard became glittery from late US shows; in Japan she wore a "Japanese Do It Better" T-shirt and in Tokyo, she wore a platinum blonde bob wig during the second half of the show. In Moscow, Russia, Madonna performed the John Lennon classic 'Give Peace A Chance' during her usual speech halfway through the show.

Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier said he wasn't too fond of Madonna's idea to use the white and violet ABBA leotard, because he rather wanted to dress her in Las Vegas style. However, they did immediately agree on the John Travolta suit. Gaultier suggested dressing the backup singers and the band as Donna Summer, Cher and The Village People, but Madonna disapproved.