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She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there's more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna. The pop superstar arrived in this northern Michigan resort town Saturday to introduce her documentary, "I Am Because We Are," a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The event was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore.

Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre. She hugged a waiting Moore, who sported an orange baseball cap, and posed for photos with him.
Madonna and Moore shared the stage at the theater before a screening of the movie, which deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.

"It's great bringing my movie to a place that I feel familiar," Madonna told the audience. "Not like the Cannes Film Festival, where nobody's speaking English, or the Tribeca Film Festival, where no one sits down.

"There's something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays - camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family," said the 49-year-old singer, born to the southeast in Bay City and raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

A string of superstars have been enlisted to collaborate with super-producer Timbaland on his forthcoming album ‘Shock Value 2’. Madonna, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and T-Pain will all collaborate with Timba on the release, which he likens to a ‘Now [That's What I Call Music!]’ compilation. According to MTV.com, Timbaland said "That's my goal for this-- not [to showcase] me as an artist. Of course I'll do my little part, introduce some people. It gives me room to go tour across the world. People request me. I put on a show. I put on a musical show." Timbaland worked with Madonna on her current ‘Hard Candy’ album and according to Pitchfork, the sought-after producer is set to produce Chris Cornell’s new solo album, and is lined-up to work on Jay-Z’s new record.

IT SEEMS to be happening to everyone at the moment: Prince, Michael Jackson, Sharon Stone and Paddington Bear are all turning 50 this year, with Madonna also blowing out her birthday cake candles next month. Indeed, the Material Girl appears to be making the most of breaching that not so fashionable threshold of 50 by kicking off a world tour.  But then, the birthday celebrations already appear to have been under way for the Michigan-born Queen of Pop, who started out life as Louise Veronica Ciccone with early ambitions to be a dancer and to find the fastest exit out of smalltown America. This year she parted company with her record company, Warner Brothers, to sign a ground-breaking deal with concert promoters Live Nation, her latest album, Hard Candy, hit the number one spot in 37 countries and she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"Miles Away" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her eleventh studio album Hard Candy. The song peaked in Canada on #90 position due to high digital download but it has not been officially released as a single. It also went number one on the Japanese iTunes Store chart, also from high digital download, which made it rise to number 7 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart. The song became popular in Japan after it was chosen for the ending theme of a drama TV show called "Change".

"Give It 2 Me" is the second single by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her eleventh studio album Hard Candy. It was co-written and co-produced by American producer Pharrell Williams.

"Give It 2 Me" received positive critical reception. USA Today's Elysa Gardner called the song "thumping" and "breathless," naming it one of the standout tracks of the album. Rolling Stone described Give It 2 Me as a "thumpy self-empowerment anthem."

The Confessions Tour was the sixth world concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna to support her album Confessions on a Dance Floor. According to Billboard Madonna's tour grossed $260.1 million^[1] with a total of 60 shows and 1.2 million people in paid attendance through North America, Europe, and Japan, making it highest grossing tour ever for a female artist.

Madonna mentioned in an interview UK newspaper The Guardian on November 20, 2005 that she may tour the following year; she was going to call it the Confessions Tour or Confess Your Sins Tour. A further rumoured name for the tour was the Dance and Sing World Tour although Madonna soon denied this.

Madonna described the tour as "turning the world into a giant dancefloor." The show is divided into four separate acts with different themes: equestrian, urban bedouin, glam punk and disco fever. Each show in each city is almost the same except some very few differences.