Sticky & Sweet Tour

If you’re going to wait so long to come home, you might as well do it up right. Dropping into her old stomping grounds Tuesday night for her first show here in seven years, Madonna wowed a crowd of about 30,000 at Ford Field, serving up the sort of oversized oomph to match her stature as pop queen.

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This is the beginning of a whole new world!” an ecstatic Madonna declared last night, shortly before the conclusion of her nearly two-hour-long concert at Petco Park.

There are certain things you expect, no demand, from a Madonna concert: You want lots of bare flesh, hot girl-on-girl action and a hefty dollop of swearing. The 50-year-old pop icon delivered on all counts Saturday at the first of two sold-out “Sticky and Sweet” tour stops at Oracle Arena. Plus, she offered fans that paid upwards of $400 for floor seats a chance to get a closer look at the world’s most famous red-string kabbalah bracelet.

The singer brought her ‘Sticky & Sweet’ tour to Oracle Arena for fun-filled concert Saturday.

A mega-show experience is completely different from a mere concert.