Fans are screaming for her manager to upgrade them on Twitter. What happened? Wasn’t NYC a big venue for her? The show’s other dates are still not sold out either. Tonight’s show was the first for the U.S. leg.
| by Anonymous | reply 199 | December 21, 2023 9:25 AM |
She was late again hitting the stage.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 14, 2023 5:31 AM |
I don't know. I've seen her on three of four tours back in her heyday but have no interest in seeing her now.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 14, 2023 5:32 AM |
How late was she r1? When I saw her rebel heart tour in 2016, she was 3 hours late.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 14, 2023 5:34 AM |
The venue seats upward of 18K.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 14, 2023 5:38 AM |
Someone posted a clip of her singing "I Love New York" (from the "Confessions On A Dancefloor" album) in Brooklyn tonight. The crowd seemed dead, just standing in front of where she was performing on stage and barely moving. Phones were held up, of course, but nobody seemed to be even swaying.
This tour just seems kind of dull. I have basically watched several shows in their entirety on YouTube and it is very "Madonna lite" compared to past tours. There doesn't seem to be a theme that helps each song hang together in the overall presentation. It's just a collection of different numbers that happen, one after the other, she gets through the show and it's done, no encores, etc.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 14, 2023 5:41 AM |
2 hours late. I do think this has really hurt her reputation. I also think the tour isn’t a big de after Taylor and Beyonce and people blew their money on that. She’s supposed to film this show in NY. She’s also shooting a documentary about it. She didn’t bother putting a tour book together. Weird.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 14, 2023 5:45 AM |
Does anyone want to watch an 80 year old in spandex prance around on a stage?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 14, 2023 5:45 AM |
Reddit says that the sound is awful. This is why she should have hired a live band and backup singers.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 14, 2023 5:45 AM |
The band sounds good in that clip. But the audience didn't react when she changed to "Burning Up".
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 14, 2023 5:48 AM |
She sounds painfully bad on that NY song posted.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 14, 2023 5:48 AM |
And certainly not prancing.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 14, 2023 6:04 AM |
R3
If I said it once, I said it a million times: Spinal Tap first, Puppet Show second.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 14, 2023 6:05 AM |
They're spackling her together, R14.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 14, 2023 6:21 AM |
That clip is horrifying. I’d pay a lot of money to not have to see that shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 14, 2023 6:45 AM |
I wonder how many people just got refunds on the delayed shows instead of holding on to the tickets. Look at all of the tours she has to compete with next year. More than a few could free up that money to see a performer they haven’t seen before, or in another scenario that money buy tickets for an act that their kids or even grandkids want to see.
A 12 year old who was a Madonna fan in 1986 turns 50 next year and I don’t think she had a big fanbase of people who turn 40 next year (born in 1984).
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 14, 2023 6:51 AM |
She didn’t go on until 10:51. Here were the empty seats. The venue was warm, all cession stands closed. No water. Going to see Madonna is like attending a concentration camp.
I was going to see this show but no way now.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 14, 2023 7:05 AM |
[quote] The band sounds good in that clip.
There’s no band. It’s all playback.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 14, 2023 7:09 AM |
R18 That photo shows seats available for Saturday's show
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 14, 2023 7:36 AM |
R6 - you can't film with your phone and dance because the footage would be shaky.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 14, 2023 7:50 AM |
Tonight’s show ended at 1:05 AM. She deserves a kick in the cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 14, 2023 8:52 AM |
I figured she wouldn’t sell out & was going to grab a ticket. So thank you OP & all for saving me $. I’ll watch it on hbo or whatever later
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 14, 2023 11:03 AM |
She’s notorious for going on hours late. I saw her in Chicago in 2012 and she was 3 hours late going on stage. It’s nothing new.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 14, 2023 11:31 AM |
She should start selling tix for $10. Pat the puss baby!
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 14, 2023 11:47 AM |
I've got tickets for Monday's DC show. Glad I'm on vacation so I don't have to worry about work the next day.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 14, 2023 11:58 AM |
Why is she always 2-3 hours late? What is she doing that makes it too hard for her to start the show on time? Is it nerves? Or is it that she dreads getting out there and performing? I know the dread thing happens sometimes on tour for others. Some days the artist would rather do just about anything else but perform that night. But being hours late? That’s ridiculous.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 14, 2023 11:59 AM |
She didn't come on til 9.45 in London last week. Total disrespectful bitch.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 14, 2023 12:03 PM |
I went to see her a few years ago in Brooklyn and we waited until 11pm and she still hadn’t gone on yet so we left.
This was on a weeknight and the crowd was all people over 30 (most looked over 50 to be honest).
Truly unhinged behavior.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 14, 2023 12:04 PM |
Her previously almost-perfect-pitch instincts have been failing for a long time.
Perhaps her choice to appear as a granny combination of Britney Spears and Jocelyn Wildenstein has ruined her for a lot of former fans.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 14, 2023 12:05 PM |
I saw Rebel Heart too. She didn’t come on til after 10:30. It was the one and only time I’ll ever see her, and at least our hotel was in walking distance, so I didn’t mind that much. But it was in Minneapolis, and there were some really drunk people by the time she got on stage, who were even drunker when the concert ended. On the way to the hotel after, we had one drunk Minnesota chick try to pick a fight with us for some unknown reason, in between propping herself up on every lamppost and stop sign. You don’t know fear until you’ve experienced a drunk Minnesota chick after midnight.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 14, 2023 12:13 PM |
I think scalpers buy all the tickets right away and then try to resell at insane prices (“verified reseller”) and people aren’t going for it. Not worth it.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 14, 2023 12:18 PM |
While Madonna couldn’t be bothered to be on-time, Taylor Swift largely started her shows on time. Only a few delays which can be contributed to typical tour delays. But never hours outside of weather issues.
I went to Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour twice. She was late to the first night due to heavy rain. But the final show of the tour she was about 2 maybe 3 hours late. Sucked the energy out of the crowd a bit because this was also on a Sunday so we had shit to do the next day.
Artist, get your shit together and be on time.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 14, 2023 12:50 PM |
I hate entertainers who show up hours late to their own shows. Fuck that. I don't show up hours late to MY job, why the fuck can't Madonna do the same? Oh, that's right, she's Madonna, the most significunt person on earth.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 14, 2023 12:55 PM |
All of this drama over an oldies act.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 14, 2023 12:57 PM |
Why do I love eating old people’s excrement?
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 14, 2023 1:35 PM |
People that wait for 2-3 hours for any concert are idiots. Let them play to an empty house. Dizzy old cow thinks she is cool.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 14, 2023 1:58 PM |
Some performers just don't know when to quit. Madonna is one of them.
[quote]This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 14, 2023 2:02 PM |
Judy Garland walked so Madonna could run.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 14, 2023 2:14 PM |
R34 nailed it. There are TONS of nosebleed seats available for both nights Bad Bunny is in my city (Yes, I like Bad Bunny).
But they’re all resale tickets at $525+. No one is paying that.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 14, 2023 2:34 PM |
[quote]She’s notorious for going on hours late. I saw her in Chicago in 2012 and she was 3 hours late going on stage. It’s nothing new.
So you just sit there for three hours? Do they give ticket refunds?
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 14, 2023 2:39 PM |
I had tix to a Madonna concert in the early 2000s arguably her peak. I paid $300+ for those tix back then.
I came back from a vacation specifically to go to the show. She cancelled for no apparent reason. It took over a year before the tix were refunded because she kept claiming she'd reschedule.
I've hated her since.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 14, 2023 2:41 PM |
R44, that's messed up. She truly doesn't give a shit about her fans. I still love her classic songs but she has not grown with age.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 14, 2023 2:55 PM |
R43, no, they only refund if the singer cancels. At least, that's my understanding of it. I would never attend the show of an entertainer known for being hours later. Nobody, not even The Beatles, is worth that kind of trouble.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 14, 2023 2:56 PM |
Starting that late, on a weekday especially, is just disrespectful. And the truth is a lot of her fanbase is older and don't want to be out that late.
Plus many people in NY need to catch their trains home. NJ transit and Metronorth stop running around 1am.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 14, 2023 2:57 PM |
Just give me a faaan! 3000 of them!
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 14, 2023 2:58 PM |
[quote] And certainly not prancing.
Far too much dancing, not enough prancing!
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 14, 2023 3:25 PM |
[quote] Why do you care?
Because this is a gossip forum.
It's not a gossip forum that for some reason avoids discussing the failures of people you think are somehow off-limits.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 14, 2023 3:29 PM |
CUNT OP/R51 posts as if this Unforgivable Sin Madonna has caused committed directly affects him.
Idiot OP/R51.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 14, 2023 3:37 PM |
Grandma takes her nap at 5pm and doesn't wake up til 8 that's why she's always late
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 14, 2023 4:03 PM |
[quote]Some performers just don't know when to quit. Madonna is one of them.
I wouldn't pay $10 to see her but not everyone agrees with you:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 14, 2023 4:09 PM |
Went last night to the Barclay show. The place holds almost 20,000 people, and it was pretty full, so if you're saying 3,000 empty seats, you're talking about the seats behind the stage. There were a few open spots here and there. Doors opened 7:30, show at 8:30 (yeah, right). The DJ didn't even go on until 9. She went on at 10:50. To be fair, she looked great, seemed to have naturalized her face, and her figure was in great shape. Her voice started out strong, but got less so as the show went on. A lot of irritated Long Island folks who were fretting about missing their train. Very boozy/high crowd, which was fun until the fat girl in the Marilyn wig went plunging down 3 rows of people landing flat on her face. The show - B - the people watching - A+. Highlight for me was Live to Tell, with Madge flying over the crowd in some contraption while they projected visuals of her friends/fans who died from AIDS.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 14, 2023 4:15 PM |
I dug up my grandfather, raped his corpse and now used his leg as a dilator.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 14, 2023 4:34 PM |
Why is she always so late? Is her confidence an act and she’s a weeping heap on the floor afraid to go on?
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 14, 2023 4:43 PM |
I really thought she'd pull herself together and at least be on time. She used to appear to be such a professional control freak.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 14, 2023 4:45 PM |
Whereas Mariah's Christmas tour is getting rave reviews and her voice is sounding better than it has in ages, hitting the notes live.
The difference between the two is Mariah constantly giving credit for her success to her fans and wanting them to enjoy her music. Madonna acts like it's a privilege for her fans to pay $$ just to get to see her, whatever time she deigns to appear.
You didn't get where you are all by yourself, Madge.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 14, 2023 4:51 PM |
She is regularly hours late to demonstrate her contempt for her fans. I don’t know why they don’t turn on her.
I was miffed that Elton John didn’t have a horn section in his band. No band at all? Fuck you, Madonna.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 14, 2023 4:56 PM |
Madge also probably has a love/hate relationship with doing shows in the first place.
On the one hand, she's a narcissist so loves having adoring fans screaming her name and being the center of attention. On the other hand, she disdains her lowly fans and can't stand having to perform for them.
It also doesn't help that she's probably extremely jealous of both Taylor Swift and Beyonce who have both done extremely successful tours. You know she's going to try to put out a concert movies just like they did. She probably also can't stand that both Swift and Beyonce are substantially wealthier than she is (granted Beyonce on her own is probably equal, but when you add Jay-Z, Madge is downright poor by comparison).
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 14, 2023 4:59 PM |
She was about 3 hours late the one and only time I saw her and won’t bother again. I liked her but that’s just insulting to your fans.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 14, 2023 5:03 PM |
r52 is also:
*Im returning my large dildo*
[quote]It doesn't hurt and it feels amazing but I've came to a realization that if I get used to large dildos, a real dick might not do it for me.
*Just fucked a guy*
[quote]with my musky, cummy undies wrapped around his face and head. I love being gay.
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 14, 2023 5:07 PM |
[quote] She probably also can't stand that both Swift and Beyonce are substantially wealthier than she is (granted Beyonce on her own is probably equal, but when you add Jay-Z, Madge is downright poor by comparison
I’ll need to see the receipts on that one.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 14, 2023 5:08 PM |
I have to say, the staging was weird. There was a small stage and several runways that led to even smaller stages in the middle of the arena. I had a hard time keeping track of where she was. They had several large screens that kept changing position, so the larger screens blocked the actual live performers. As for the dancers, they had zero presence. The best parts where when she stood still and sang.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 14, 2023 5:18 PM |
R63 That poster is a complete nutter and druggy, he just spews out crap that makes no sense. I suspect he is living alone on the streets and a meth user, and occasionally manages to get WiFi, hence his posts. I doubt other homeless people want anything to do with him, which is probably the story of his life. I doubt he will survive the winter.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 14, 2023 5:41 PM |
I think Madonna toured almost too much after Drowned World. Every album pretty much had a tour, and all of her shows started to seem very similar to me. When she toured Madame X it felt like Rebel Heart had just happened. So I wouldn't be surprised if even longtime fans have some fatigue in terms of seeing her at this point. It doesn't feel special and there isn't a new album to support, offer anything new to perform. Vogue is a classic but she does it every tour, along with quite a few of the other songs on Celebration. I have a hard time getting excited about this show, especially given the music is on tape and there is no live band.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 14, 2023 5:43 PM |
Most of the NYC audience has fucked her.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 14, 2023 5:52 PM |
"... large screens that kept changing position, so the larger screens blocked the actual live performers."
Because it's all about the inevitable concert film.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 14, 2023 5:57 PM |
[quote]nutter
R66=fucking incel Brit poofter
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 14, 2023 6:04 PM |
R44, they probably waited until your money got interest in their bank account and then gave you the refund.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 14, 2023 6:06 PM |
I would love to go to this show due to the setlist but I just can’t bring myself to pay the ridiculous ticket price as well as the abuse I’d be paying to stand there sweating waiting for her majesty to finally hit the stage for hours on end.
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 14, 2023 6:08 PM |
[quote] I’ll watch it on hbo or whatever later
Probably Paramount + again.
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 14, 2023 6:08 PM |
R54, that review is bought and paid for. No review for any artist should be taken seriously anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 14, 2023 6:13 PM |
Reddit is giving a breakdown of all the problems. This includes the show’s sound being horrible and screens blocking the performers.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 14, 2023 6:14 PM |
What the Reddit link r76?
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 14, 2023 6:20 PM |
Setlist.com is amusing because it lists what time each show started . Who does this wench think she is keeping people waiting like this?
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 14, 2023 6:25 PM |
Does she still get to be "a New Yorker"? In recent decades hasn't Madge spent years living in LA, London, and Sintra?
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 14, 2023 6:29 PM |
2 hours late! Wow. Ppl have things to do.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 14, 2023 6:34 PM |
I think people have seen on Tik Tok how subpar her show is compared to her previous shows and stayed away.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 14, 2023 6:36 PM |
[quote] Does anyone want to watch an 80 year old in spandex prance around on a stage?
By Senior Citizens for Senior Citizens. Just film one of the shows and make it into a concert movie and then call it a day. Nobody is really into it like in the old days.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 14, 2023 6:44 PM |
I wouldn't stay for any artist/band if they were more than an hour late. It speaks of a complete lack of respect for their audience.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 14, 2023 6:50 PM |
I’d rather watch Madonna propped up half dead lipsynching to her worst songs than ever see Taylor Swift. Ugly mean girl lesbo with no fucking eyes or talent.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 14, 2023 6:55 PM |
I've seen her 4 times though not the past several tours. She was 3-4 hrs late each time. (The 4 hrs was in the pouring rain, everyone was demanding refunds. She starts the show with how she loves her fans and those who couldn't wait for her were MFs. Any positivity I still had for her died then.) If the show is 8 pm, go on StubHub or scalpers site at 9 or 10, they are desperate to get rid of seats. I've gotten $500 seats for $30. You can leisurely get to the venue and not have missed a thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 14, 2023 7:01 PM |
This is why I will never attend one of her concerts ever again.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 14, 2023 7:24 PM |
R85, FOUR FUCKING HOURS IN THE RAIN!! She needs someone to physically beat her ass ala Sean Penn.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 14, 2023 7:36 PM |
Is there an option for refund if the act is significantly late starting? Or have they been smart and removed that?
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 14, 2023 7:37 PM |
Sorry, no. I have to wash my hair.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 14, 2023 8:21 PM |
I might hang in there at 1 hour- certainly not two or three and I would ask for a refund (although I’m aware it probably would never come). I’ve seen Streisand twice- show starts on time and she’s a class act on the stage- quite funny and self deprecating although her voice kind of says it all wink, wind. She knows it’s power. Saw her at a Hillary fund raiser in 2016 in a small venue. On time, funny, in great voice and clearly knew why she was there (help HRC). Class!
Madonna is simply not a nice person- love her music over the years but I would decline to go to her shows even if someone took me.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 14, 2023 9:11 PM |
And yet she fines her dancers €100 a minute for being late.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 14, 2023 9:13 PM |
She was probably getting railed by her latest brown skinned toy boy. She brought him out for Vogue and there's a whole video section of him in the concert.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 14, 2023 9:27 PM |
Again, are we sure that's not Amanda Lepore?
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 14, 2023 9:31 PM |
I told you all she’s a cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 14, 2023 9:31 PM |
I kinda want to see the concert, but the initial tickets were insanely priced. I don't know what the actual price is, but as of now on stubhub you can get a decent ticket for the show tonight for between $100-$200.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 14, 2023 9:33 PM |
[quote] She didn’t come on til after 10:30. It was the one and only time I’ll ever see her, and at least our hotel was in walking distance, so I didn’t mind that much. But it was in Minneapolis, and there were some really drunk people by the time she got on stage, who were even drunker when the concert ended.
Are people drunker in Minneapolis than elsewhere?
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 14, 2023 9:41 PM |
What time did those suburbanites have to leave to get their last trains? Wouldn't they have to return to Manhattan to catch one?
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 14, 2023 9:43 PM |
I think I am done with concerts, including hers, if the venue is beyond a certain size. I saw her at Madame X and was not far from the stage, maybe halfway back in Orchestra at BAM. It wasn't ridiculously expensive if I recall correctly, but it was certainly more worthwhile for being that close to the stage than it was when I saw her at MSG for the Confessions tour. Being in the audience without a great view seems like a waste of time when you know the show will be filmed anyway, especially when sitting close enough to have a great view is a financial ass-raping. But maybe it's just me.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 14, 2023 9:43 PM |
Where does Madonna go from here?
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 14, 2023 9:44 PM |
The new boy toy looks positively cro-magnon!
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 14, 2023 9:49 PM |
I saw Confessions and Re-Invention and IIRC it was pretty commonly known that if a Madonna concert said 8PM on the ticket that she'd start at 9PM. Or am I misremembering? It seems like a poor choice given her aging audience to expect them to wait till10:50PM on a Wednesday in Brooklyn.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 14, 2023 10:02 PM |
I saw Dietrich at 71 in '72. She did far more with far less.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 14, 2023 10:02 PM |
Imagine being that boy and having to fuck that sandpaper pussy?
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 14, 2023 10:04 PM |
Has tonight's show began yet?
It is 10pm.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 15, 2023 2:04 AM |
It's 10:30 PM. Do you know where your Madonna is?
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 15, 2023 2:27 AM |
I’ve gone to concerts where the headlining band comes out an hour and a half or two hours after the opening act. Nobody really minds because the venue plays videos and things like that to distract the crowd. I remember thinking, the last time this happened, my God, they threw things at Judy Garland because she was an hour late.
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 15, 2023 2:51 AM |
Fake news: Oprah just started doing stairs.
| by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 15, 2023 2:55 AM |
I think it's time for grammy to switch to dinner theaters and supper clubs.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 15, 2023 2:57 AM |
She sounds horrific in the clip by R6. A bizarre performance to say the least. Courtney Love at her most manic and drug-addled puts on an exponentially better show.
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 15, 2023 3:57 AM |
“3000 empty seats and 2 hours late… We review Madonna’s latest tour so you don’t have to!”
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 15, 2023 4:15 AM |
R110 Are you kidding? The oldsters have dinner at 5 and are in bed at 8. If anything, Madonna thinks her audience is still young and doesn't mind staying out until the wee smalls.
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 15, 2023 12:23 PM |
So what time did she hit the stage last night?
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 15, 2023 2:47 PM |
What would Helen Lawson say about this over-aged Neely O'Hara?
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | December 15, 2023 2:49 PM |
[quote] I’d rather watch Madonna propped up half dead lipsynching to her worst songs than ever see Taylor Swift.
Those are life's only alternatives?
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 15, 2023 2:50 PM |
She sounds rough like an old football coach. Also she has never been able to play the guitar, she's out of breath just holding it up. She should be like the old Mexican singers and just sit on a giant throne now ("Madonna la del barrio"). I'd understand.
| by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 15, 2023 2:57 PM |
I wonder how many of the arenas she playing at have to abide by city curfew sound laws? I think she she’s been shut down a few times for going past the time. Lauryn Hill another chronically late performer has had her sound cut off a number of times.
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 15, 2023 3:58 PM |
[quote]She should be like the old Mexican singers and just sit on a giant throne now ("Madonna la del barrio"). I'd understand.
She should take a cue from Mariah Carey, who has been paying people to carry her big ass around the stage for years now.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 15, 2023 6:14 PM |
It's great that of all the many many songs of hers she could have chosen to sing she sings the one with some of the best known lyrics known to man
"other cities make me feel like a dork I love New York"
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 15, 2023 6:17 PM |
"Just go to Texas; isn't that where they golf."
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 15, 2023 6:49 PM |
Last night's show started at 10:20pm.
A whopping 30 minutes earlier.
| by Anonymous | reply 122 | December 15, 2023 8:13 PM |
R118, that’s in the UK, not the US.
| by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 15, 2023 9:03 PM |
[quote] Does she still get to be "a New Yorker"? In recent decades hasn't Madge spent years living in LA, London, and Sintra?
No. She’s lived in NYC full time since 2009 except for one year when she was living in Portugal getting fat and looking for dick.
| by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 15, 2023 9:08 PM |
She seemed to be in LA a lot having parties with 20 year olds.
| by Anonymous | reply 125 | December 15, 2023 9:23 PM |
I believe she did spend most of Covid in LA, not NY.
Many rich people are of course bicoastal as is she, but I think overall NY has been more of her home base.
| by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 15, 2023 9:24 PM |
Last night's show started at 10:20pm.
| by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 17, 2023 2:33 PM |
I wonder how much Madonna pays in New York State income taxes.
| by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 17, 2023 8:33 PM |
According to some comments on Reddit, tonight's show (Dec 18) has a lot of unsold seats. Given the terrible weather in NYC today, I can't imagine that boding well for sales. Wonder if she will cancel.
| by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 18, 2023 4:39 PM |
She better not cancel. I'm going to tonight's show!
| by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 18, 2023 5:02 PM |
R131, are you going to show up three hours late? You won't miss a thing!
| by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 18, 2023 5:46 PM |
You can get tickets at the door the day of. The show hasn’t been doing well and it’s her own damn fault. I was talked out of going once the 3 hours later shit started again. I’m not putting up with that nonsense.
| by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 18, 2023 5:56 PM |
R130, the hilarious thing is Live Nation will continue fudging the numbers for her. She probably has so many psychopaths around her that they put bright lights in her eyes so that she can’t see empty seats. I hope she writes her memoir after this and changes the course of her career. She’s become pathetic. She can barely walk on stage. At least it’s forced her to bring out the ballads so she can sit. The entire drag judging bit is so she doesn’t have to move. There’s one performance, Die Another Day, where she just waves her hands while the dancers do all the leg work. It’s actually quite funny.
She went off on Andy Cohen last night for talking shit about her on his show. She seemed quite annoyed that he was even there.
| by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 18, 2023 6:00 PM |
Someone tell her to lose the grillz. She sounds like her dentures are slipping.
| by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 18, 2023 6:00 PM |
A fan on ATRL:
seeing her tonight.
im gonna wait until around 3 or 4pm to buy my ticket :p
| by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 18, 2023 6:02 PM |
Glastonbury seems like a no go.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 18, 2023 6:03 PM |
Too costly?! BS. If they can afford Beyonce, they can afford Madge. And Beyonce would have been a bigger draw.
| by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 18, 2023 6:06 PM |
Madge should have done Glastonbury, she'd have been guaranteed a crowd. Granted, they'd all have been there to see the previous acts but out of curiosity would have stayed on to watch a relic from the same era as Back to the Future and Running Up That Hill.
| by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 18, 2023 6:12 PM |
Didn't she do Glastonbury back in 2005? Regardless, I don't think she should do it now. She doesn't have any big singles or albums out, why would anyone care? Sure, her back catalogue is classic but the younger generation isn't really listening to it on Spotify, Tidal, etc.
| by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 18, 2023 6:28 PM |
If she was going to cancel she would have announced already, no?
I don't want to drive 2 hrs to DC only to have to turn around and come back home.
| by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 18, 2023 6:54 PM |
"Madonna had 3000 empty seats at her show tonight"
And 6000 empty tomorrow night!
| by Anonymous | reply 143 | December 18, 2023 7:09 PM |
Why cancel when she doesn’t have to do anything on stage, not even turn up until she feels like it?
| by Anonymous | reply 144 | December 18, 2023 7:27 PM |
Wow. The seats available tonight.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 18, 2023 10:24 PM |
r145: Are the grey seats the available ones?!
| by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 18, 2023 10:40 PM |
As a fan of Madonna's music, I think the fans who actually wait a whole 2 to 3 hours--the ones who know she's been doing this shit for years--are some of the dumbest people out there. Seriously, you think Madonna is so great that you're willing to waste a few hours of your life just standing around and waiting for her? How pathetic is that!?
| by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 19, 2023 1:36 AM |
She’s running some contest now. You have to answer five questions correctly through text message and they’ll bump you up seat wise.
| by Anonymous | reply 150 | December 19, 2023 1:43 AM |
No r146 the blue ones are the available ones being sold by Ticketmaster and the greyed out ones are the ones that are sold. The reddish dots are resale tickets.
Not sure how many come up for sale on StubHub or SeatGeek though.
| by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 19, 2023 1:43 AM |
Some gross queen is running around wearing a silver glitter jacket with no shirt underneath.
He is all pudgy and hairy acting like the belle of the ball.
| by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 19, 2023 2:14 AM |
That has GOT to be a DLer.
| by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 19, 2023 2:21 AM |
[quote] Whereas Mariah's Christmas tour is getting rave reviews and her voice is sounding better than it has in ages, hitting the notes live.
Gurl, Mariah ain't sang live in 25 years. What you hear when you see her is backing tracks with AI vocal audio-processing in real-time. With that special high-tech microphone anyone can sound like 1990 Mariah.
| by Anonymous | reply 157 | December 19, 2023 2:34 AM |
10:35 and still no start of the show.
| by Anonymous | reply 158 | December 19, 2023 2:34 AM |
Didn't Billboard report that the average age of a Madonna concert goer was 56. Not saying that 56 is ancient, but they're not the start a show at 10:30 demographic.
| by Anonymous | reply 159 | December 19, 2023 2:47 AM |
10:30pm is 30 mins past my bedtime...and hers.
| by Anonymous | reply 160 | December 19, 2023 2:59 AM |
The show has no buzz.
I have seen her over a dozen times in 8 countries since Drowned World.
This concert sucks. She’s boring. The set design is cheap. No live band (I miss “Rock God” and his guitar) and she looks like she is trying to hard.
Retire.
| by Anonymous | reply 162 | December 19, 2023 9:24 AM |
R162, I remember thinking that the concert seemed overhyped based on all the videos going around. She looks just plain stupid in a lot of those costumes she wears. And again, I'm not paying that much of money for someone who shows up hours late and can't be bothered to treat their fans well.
| by Anonymous | reply 163 | December 19, 2023 12:42 PM |
[quote] This concert sucks. She’s boring. The set design is cheap. No live band (I miss “Rock God” and his guitar) and she looks like she is trying to hard.
She knows she can't compete with Beyonce. She could even be initimidated by Taylor. This show has been a shock to her system. She is no longer the Queen.
| by Anonymous | reply 165 | December 19, 2023 1:09 PM |
It’s nearly 10AM and we’re STILL waiting.
| by Anonymous | reply 166 | December 19, 2023 1:51 PM |
I hope she starts falling off her tricycle and crying again. Those were the days.
| by Anonymous | reply 167 | December 19, 2023 3:40 PM |
This'll give DL a chuckle, I know I started laughing...
After Crazy For You she lights a flip-top lighter and throws it into a pit which sets off this huge pyro effect. Flames just shot up out of the stage.
Anyway, by this point I was drenched in sweat as were those around me. Well when that pit lit up this wall of heat just hit us all and this older lady standing next to me, her knees just buckled and I thought she was going down.
I just couldn't stop laughing at the ridiculousness of it...even compared to the silver jacketed queen entertaining the fat frauen with his Galilean binoculars.
| by Anonymous | reply 168 | December 19, 2023 3:44 PM |
I saw the show at Barclay's last Wednesday, and can barely remember it.
| by Anonymous | reply 169 | December 19, 2023 4:14 PM |
[quote] "Does anyone want to watch an 80 year old in spandex prance around on a stage?"
I do, R8. But her name is Cher. Even if all of her music isn't live, she's still someone I deeply admire. I can't say the same for Madonna.
| by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 19, 2023 4:51 PM |
Fucking ridiculous. WTF is she doing backstage that she thinks it's ok to keep people waiting that long and then not finish a show til 1am? She deserves a fucking slap.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 171 | December 19, 2023 4:58 PM |
R168 that pit of fire and the pseudospiritual bullshit that went with it while she did a costume change was one of the lowest points of the show for me. What was the fucking point?
| by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 19, 2023 4:59 PM |
"I have seen her over a dozen times in 8 countries since Drowned World."
Wow, and it's taken until this tour to realise she's shit?!
| by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 19, 2023 8:18 PM |
So, what's the verdict? Utterly forgettable? Or just a waste of money?
| by Anonymous | reply 174 | December 19, 2023 8:36 PM |
R173, not that poster but I think the big difference between then and now is at least back then Madonna was still popular and releasing hit songs/albums. She has 0 reason to act that way now, when she is just an aging legacy act. But she stil acts like it's 1990.
| by Anonymous | reply 175 | December 19, 2023 9:36 PM |
I would compare her to Norma Desmond, but Norma was only 50 and living 25 years in the past, compared to 65-year-old Madonna stuck 35 years in the past.
| by Anonymous | reply 176 | December 19, 2023 11:45 PM |
R175, Madonna of 1990 was interesting. Now she’s a perpetual victim.
| by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 20, 2023 12:45 AM |
r154 What the absolute fuck is that? Yikes.
| by Anonymous | reply 179 | December 20, 2023 12:50 AM |
R179, he was spectator who was acting silly taking photos of fat chicks rubbing his gut and pretending to lick his nipples.
I had just drank a $45 rum and pineapple so it completely fascinated me.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 180 | December 20, 2023 1:25 AM |
And let's not even discuss poor Debra Wilson who has hit the skids and must work crowd control now.
| by Anonymous | reply 181 | December 20, 2023 1:26 AM |
Omg, I totally know the sequin jacket guy.
| by Anonymous | reply 182 | December 20, 2023 1:30 AM |
r182 you totally know him? Ok. Omg like literally totally?
| by Anonymous | reply 184 | December 20, 2023 1:35 AM |
r180 That thing is what ruins concerts for others
| by Anonymous | reply 186 | December 20, 2023 1:39 AM |
[quote]She fell. 3:40
That’s why they shouldn’t let Grandma on stage when she’s drunk.
| by Anonymous | reply 187 | December 20, 2023 9:55 AM |
r162 here. Madonna was Madonna.
Her shows were LEGENDARY.
MDNA was incredible. Incredible. Incredible.
Confessions.
Sticky and Sweet.
These were SPECTACLES.
This one? It’s like Tiffany or Debbie Gibson.
| by Anonymous | reply 188 | December 20, 2023 1:51 PM |
How late was she to the DC shows
| by Anonymous | reply 189 | December 20, 2023 2:00 PM |
R188, that seems to be the way things have been going since that Madame X tour (which sounded like a bad idea from the beginning).
| by Anonymous | reply 190 | December 20, 2023 2:27 PM |
I saw the show a week ago, and really don't remember much about it - only Live to Tell left any impact.
| by Anonymous | reply 191 | December 20, 2023 7:08 PM |
The show is totally unremarkable. Her career is in total shambles. The only thing she could do is make a great album and grow the fuck up. I’m sure she’ll instead decide to keep saying children and make music no one wants to hear.
| by Anonymous | reply 192 | December 20, 2023 11:39 PM |
It's actually a really fun show.
The highlights (for me) were Open Your Heart, Erotica, Bad Girl, Vogue, Like A Prayer (a song I was over years ago but she mixed it perfectly) and Rain.
I wish I had went last night and saw Santa as the guest judge. So much more fun than tired old Kevin Aviance!
The poor guy looks traumatized after being made to rub a topless black man (at least he wasn't bare-assed this go around) then falling off his chair onto some chick cowgirl riding him. Then Estere comes down the aisle like some crazy crackhead falling over the place then you can see him stumbling trying to exit the stage.
This is the weird Madonna I have always loved!
Starts at 03:00
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 193 | December 21, 2023 1:05 AM |
Since when is Kevin Aviance in this show?
| by Anonymous | reply 195 | December 21, 2023 1:11 AM |
Looks like Santa enjoyed himself!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 196 | December 21, 2023 2:28 AM |
R195 he was in Vogue at the Dc show a few nights ago.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 197 | December 21, 2023 6:13 AM |
Thanks R197. Kevin looks reasonably fit. Any other oldsters appearing? How kind of Madge.
| by Anonymous | reply 198 | December 21, 2023 6:18 AM |
"The only thing she could do is make a great album and grow the fuck up"
1) Her last great album was Ray of Light. The countless duds she's released since should tell you there's no more fuel in the tank.
2) Grow the fuck up? This woman has arrested development. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING she has ever done is a cry for attention. She will always be the petulant 1st Grader who can't believe her daddy remarried, thereby shifting his devoted attention from her to others.
If Madonna wasn't so rich from all these antics, she'd be the boozy broad living in a trailer in Hicksville. Letting the local youths lose their virginity to her for shots or dollars.
| by Anonymous | reply 199 | December 21, 2023 9:25 AM |
