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photography by Samir huSSein/redfernS via getty imageS Rebelling AlwAys Madonna continues her reign as the Queen of PoP with a blockbuster concert at boston's tD garDen. by jared bowen "Bitch I'm Madonna." Could there be three words that better nail the essence of Madonna? That proclamation comes six songs into her latest album, Rebel Heart. The one with the cover featuring the singer's ever-more-porcelain face tightly wrapped in crisscrossing wire—as if Madonna could possibly be constrained. Now in the third decade of her career, she continues to romp with gleeful abandon. "I just wanna have fun tonight/ Pull me under the f lashing light/ Let me blow up this house tonight," Madonna insists in "Bitch I'm Madonna." In the music video she released for the song in June, she bounds, climbs, and prowls her way through a parade of partiers high above New York City—the metropolis that nearly swallowed her in the early '80s, before she climbed out of its maw and hit it big in the club scene and beyond with her self-titled (of course) debut album. In the video, she's dressed like she did in those days, too: hot-pink jacket, leopard-print dress, and big shiny earrings. The cavalcade of cameos includes Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry—in other words, the fully packaged pop princesses who can trace their lineage to the Queen of Pop. But heavy is the head that wears the crown. Madonna brings her Rebel Heart Tour to the TD Garden on September 26 for what's likely to be a vintage show. Call She has seen her share of adversity lately, but for her new tour, Madonna is again taking the bull by the horns—perhaps literally. 58 bostoncommon-magazine.com Culture Hottest ticket