While working on my story, fond memories of Madonna’s Confessions On A Dance Floor era popped into my head completely out of nowhere. That album was released on November 9, 2005. I was living in Portland, Oregon, and it was a year after I began writing Madonna and Chris.
It had never dawned on me before, but Madonna must have begun working on that album when I presented the first rough draft to one of her fansites in the UK in 2004. Because the first chapter started in the early 1980s and talked about how her music and the dance floor had saved my life, I could have very easily titled my story Confessions On A Dance Floor.
The Confessions Tour kicked off in Inglewood, California, on May 21, 2006, and I saw the show in Fresno, California, on June 5 and 6, 2006. I decided to revisit the show on June 5.
On December 29, 2020, I entered the following words into YouTube’s search engine: “Madonna Confessions Fresno.” What happened next was very strange, to say the very least. A video titled CT FRESNO appeared at the top of the page. The thumbnail used for that video showed Madonna looking directly at me and the guy I went to her show with. Stranger still was that the length of the video was 1:52:34. (My numbers!)
What blew my mind the most was the author’s decision to use that image as the thumbnail. It was so strange! (Click on the following image to watch the video.)
Once I got over the fact that I appeared in the thumbnail, I went through the entire video to capture screenshots of other instances where we appeared with Madonna. Our encounter of the first kind took place at the 7:16 mark during the song Future Lovers – I Feel Love. Madonna passed right by us.
Our encounter of the second kind took place at 7:16 and I remember this moment like it was yesterday, Madonna looked directly at me as she sang the lyrics “If it’s bitter at the start, it’s sweeter in the end!” from her performance of Get Together.
Our encounter of a third kind took place at 39:24 during the song Isaac, which didn’t have much of an impact on me back in 2006 but had a completely different meaning by 2020. (Was I Isaac?)
Our encounter of the fourth kind occurred at 1:09:18 during the song Let It Will Be, which the author used for the video’s thumbnail.
Our most special encounter of the night happened at the end of the show, at the 1:51:32 (my numbers) mark, during the song “Hung Up,” which blew us both away on that summer night back in 2006.
I’m hung up
I’m hung up on you
Waiting for your call, Madonna.
Night and day
I’m fed up
I’m tired of waiting on you