Madonna to Embark on Career-Spanning 40th Anniversary Tour

Well, should I not buy tickets for this, or not buy tickets for Janet Jackson's?

Decisions, decisions.

Will she be kicking off the tour in The Villages?

Must she?

Has she already laid down the soundtrack she'll be mouthing to and been fitted for the chairs she'll be carried around in? Or she'll just have a stand in and film herself for the close-ups on the video screens.

What could go wrong!

This will be a disaster judging by her mental state on Instagram.

Now she won't show up three hours late, she'll show up the next day.

This might be your last chance to see her sing live bitches!

The bedazzled walker she'll use on stage is pretty nice.

That's quite cool R9. It could be very tongue in cheek.

She's going to have to totally re-do herself so she no longer looks like a space alien if she's going to do this.

No one wants to see "Vogue" performed by someone who looks like Pippi Longstocking as an alien burn victim.

R9 that’s pretty sweet looking! All it needs now is a drink holder and an iPhone mount.

Won't get pissed when they get there and Billy Corgen walks out instead? Because that's who she's starting to look like.

People ^^^

"This might be your last chance to see her sing live bitches!"

That shipped sailed back in 1990.

Meh!

Lolz, 16 comments in 24 hours on a predominantly gay message board.

Madge related news really is insignificant these days.

Oh, no...shades of "This Is It."

R8 That'd be a remarkable change of pace, since ALL of her shows in the past two decades have been pre recorded

South Park did a bit with Rod Stewart being wheeled out and squawking a bit. That's how I see this going.

Isn’t every Madonna tour a career retrospective?

You know it's gonig to sell-out probably within minutes of tix being available, but it would be HILARIOUS if it not only didn't sell-out in multiple venues, but also if videos of half-empty venues started popping up on twitter.

[quote] This might be your last chance to see her sing live bitches!

Sing live? All the more reason NOT to go.

She’ll show up 3 hours late and have a section where she performs totally nude. Sorry, but Madonna’s time is beyond over. She’s a fucking trainwreck. Look at her performance here.

@r24. That is really depressing. When I was in high school that woman was the future, and it pains me that she has not had a dignified progression in her career.

Bad idea

Tours are so reductive.

she's literally terrifying to behold

R28 - She should just change her name from Madonna to Medusa.

I thought the Ringling Brothers stopped running a circus from town to town.

Jeezus...how many painkillers was she on with that Maluma peformance?

She should take a page from the Bette Midler performance of this:

R31, Madonna ripped that off for her tour.

Reminded me of THIS

So, who's playing the part of Madonna?

Oh, wait...SHE is actually going on tour?

No thanks, we can see enough of her fuckity fuck on Instagram.

Will she break another hip this time? That fake ass has caused her nothing but problems.

Good lord r24. She can't move at all anymore.

Oh, dear. Does she need money?

[quote]Tours are so reductive.

Tours are so transphobic.

Career-Spanning?

Are we to assume the third act takes place in an asylum?

[quote]This might be your last chance to see her sing live bitches!

The thing is R8 ....

She has never been a great singer. She is a fantastic entertainer though. She could always put on quite a show.

She just physically do that anymore. This why The Rolling Stones, U2, or the Eagles can tour until one of them drops (and maybe even keep going after that). They just sing.

She puts on a show, which includes singing, and she is just too old for that anymore.

Well, you knew this day was coming.

"...career retrospective", my ass.

Madonna is officially a nostalgia act.

She's resisted being branded that way, but, tough toenails, and no amount of marketing semantics can disguise this.

Seriously, it's tough to see the great ones fall.

Well, don’t ever tell me to stop!

Madonna is about to bark 40 times?

She’s reached the Cher “Farewell Tour” stage.

[quote] The 64-year-old pop icon will perform

Why start now?

She'll be dead before this sees the light of day.

Sit DOWN, hag!

It's the ONLY way and reason to tour!

Yikes.

Mama found her pills.

I’d fuck me.

This is what happens when a narcissist becomes a has-been.

I'm going to assume that this isn't about money so much as her need for the spotlight.

Is this a joke? She looks so hammered all the time now. It’s going to be like Merle Haggard. Maybe 3 songs.

She’s fooling us all. That last pic of her was with a mask. She’s gonna rip it all off onstage and look just like 2007!

No thanks. I saw Whos That Girl, Blond Ambition and Girlie Show. I choose those memories over whatever disaster this will be.

Will they be carting her around the stage on a wheelbarrow at this point?

She will lip sync her heart out

The tickets will be insanely expensive to start but prices will fall quickly

This will never happen.

All that money and she’s STILL THIRSTY AF.

She's a complete mess and I don't even know much of her music past the Music album, but I'd go.

She needs to lose 20 pounds

Is that Varla Jean Merman at R49?

She moves and dances like Mother Harper.

Madonna's Baby Jane tour - 2028

[quote] It’s going to be the biggest tour she’s ever done,” one executive familiar with her plans tells Billboard.

Bitch please. You still haven't topped The Blonde Ambition Tour and that was over 30 years and half you're current age. I guess this is madge's "This is it" Tour. Hope she lives through it.

R24 - that was horrifying and depressing. I saw the Madame X Tour and while far from perfect, and while she was obviously already slowing down (and dealing with a knee and hip injury), she still had oodles of stage presence and managed to command the stage. But... yikes. That performance with Maluma was just horrifying. Even if you give her the benefit of it being an under-rehearsed surprise appearance, it was still painful to watch.

She couldn’t even sell out the last one and that was just a theater tour.

A little education on what a sold out show really means…

Wonder how bad Janet Jackson's "sold out" numbers are then R70.

No one wants to stand around waiting three hours for her highness to make an appearance. She really has no idea who her audience is anymore. No one can get through to her. She already said that her manager will no longer deal with her. He tells her constantly not to do shit that is going to turn into a PR disaster for her and she does it anyway. She’s a lost cause. She’ll end up dead either from drugs, an accident, or on a plastic surgeon’s table. She’s in full self-destruction mode.

"Isn’t every Madonna tour a career retrospective?"

Madonna is one of the only artists who has never had to do most of her greatest hits or every top 10 song....That's what most older acts do.

For better or worse, and mainly, worse over the past 20 years, she has always been able to sell out and make the tour feature all her new music.

In stadium tours, about half were older songs and half were from her new album. And the older songs weren't always hits or even singles that were released. On Madame X, only 6 of the full songs were greatest hits. May have been one of the reasons she had trouble selling the theater tour--fans who like her fun pop music really hated that album. And any fans had been to her last few tours knew she would be several hours late. How many 60 year olds want to pay $400 per ticket for a concert that starts at 1030pm?

r72 put it best - "She really has no idea who her audience is anymore"

Madonna has always found the best people working in music and absorbed them. But her desire to stay current leaves her totally adrift with her fanbase because there isn't much overlap with traditional American pop and the people she collaborates with. On Madame X, she had tracks with Maluma, Swae Lee, Quavvo and Anitta.

Vegas residency would be best.

I don't know who the fuck Maluma is but in that clip at R24 it looks like that guy is literally propping her up at times. She moves way to slowly too.

Will it be sponsored by AARP?

And yet, Grace Jones, who is older than she, is hula hooping on the stage at the Hollywood Bowl.

Despite not having a hit in years, this tour can be huge of done correctly. She won’t be able to do much dancing

Sex....blah....blah...sex....blah....sex.....

Never was there a more one-dimensional act in the history of music. Never. Name one act more basic than this bitch who has been flogging the same agenda for over 40 years. Fuck, she's pathetic.

Aging is hard on everybody but she makes it look like pure hell.

The way she moves is so stiff and awkward. I’m not clear if that is due to years of being too hard on her body or just having the bad luck to age prematurely. I know people in their 70’s who move with more grace and ease.

Maybe she was just having a bad day when she did that concert, r81. Maybe at other times she is graceful as a swan.

I gotta say her live shows are pretty spectacular. I saw her in 1990, 1994 and 2012. If she would just get out her own way, check her ego at the door and have some respect for the audience it would go a long way. But when in Chicago in 2012 you start your show at 11:30 on a Thursday ( I was 2 seconds from leaving when the lights went down)

Kylie Minogue on the other hand puts on an amazing show and actually respects her audience. She knows how to do it.

[quote]It’s going to be like Merle Haggard.

Definitely haggard in any case

Can’t believe she’s only 64

R81, you try walking and posing for Instagram and keeping your Majayjay in position.

I'm telling y'all, she ain't been right since that bonk on the head from that cape-pulling stunt

Oh God, please no - not OAP Madge, drunk and stoned out of her mind, with that weird face and horrible implants out terrorizing the world on tour.

Oh, the huge manatee!

The big problem she will face with this tour is that she wants to be out there dancing. On Madame X she had problems (was it knee or hip or both?). And she filmed video of her in pain back stage, pushing herself to climb a ladder and then do dance moves like she was fine. and nobody would have given a shit if she just walked out or was wheeled out on stage and performed while her 15 dancers danced around behind her. But thats not what she wants to do. She wants to dance through a 2.5 hr show. So she is likely to overextend herself and then start cancelling tour dates.

R87 I completely agree. Something happened after that fall at the O2. She went on pain medication and got hooked on Oxy or something and she still fucked up something like pain, meds or pills or something she is not in her right mind she’s addicted to pills or some thing she will never pull this off.

Madonna was always about sex and flaunting her body, and after a certain age you just can't do that anymore because it's disgusting and makes people want to throw up. Nobody wants to see granny's titties and pussy and hear her sing about how much she loves to fuck. There's such a shelf life on being sexy and provocative, and Madonna can't do it anymore.

Stevie Nicks and Cher, who are a decade older than Madonna, can still get on a stage and not embarrass themselves because they never used sex as their main selling point.

The Reinvention tour was 2004 and she looked so run out of ideas even then...

The only thing consistent is her humourless sourpuss and forcing sterile sex on her predominantly gay audience. I pity the sad saps who cheer and applaud every time she swears on stage or flashes her ass.

Fuck, how bereft of creativity is she.

I assume this will be remarkably easy to skip.

She actually has scrubbed her instagram! Lolz.

As if her dumb ass, obnoxious behaviour on there over the past number of years will be forgotten.

Like Bobby Ewing in the shower.....

Those of us who were huge fans of the Madonna of the 80s and 90s are in disbelief over what a train wreck she's become.

And those who weren't fans at all will say this was the inevitable outcome for a performer whose entire career was based on shclock tactics.

R89 the big problem she will face is her new big plastic face that makes her resemble like the monster from SAW.

No r96 we always thought she was smarter than this. She's now Baby Jane and it's so sad.

What is the logic of scrubbing her instagram because of this tour announcement?

I'm sure the tour will be making everyone lock up their phones again, lest actual footage of her flopping around gasping for air gets out.

This thread inspired me to go to youtube and re-watch her 2012 Super Bowl Performance.

It's pure, entertaining, Madonna spectacle, but, it's obvious her performing peak is behind her.

Is she going to sit and play the guitar?

This tour is as good an idea as Michael Jackson 's last tour!

There should be some kind of pool to bet on how many shows she cancels.

I'm shet to open for her in Losh Angelesh!

You know what, I'll probably snag a couple of tickets to one of the dates for old time's sake. Will go in with low expectations of what she's capable of at this stage and (hopefully) be pleasantly surprised. Honestly, if it's going to be wall-to-wall Madonna hits/classics, I think the energy that kind of setlist will foster will help mitigate the bad knees and hips, the dreadful plastic surgery and the general lack of self-awareness. She needs to fire whomever is doing her styling now (no more corsets that make her look like an overstuffed ragdoll, no more military boots. Get clothes and costumes that you can feel and look confident in, woman. And, no more improvising. You need a taskmaster of a director and choreographer because winging it is not your strength at this stage. Someone who knows how to frame you and make you channel the energy of the on stage dancers (without having to exert yourself too much.) Bring back Nikki and Donna for a couple of numbers and we're off to the races.

I bet that bitch will play Candy Shop again, no matter how many other hit songs they'll have to try to fit into a one night setlist.

Concertgoers should buy-up all the tickets- then show-up 2 hrs. late.

[quote]She needs to fire whomever is doing her styling now (no more corsets that make her look like an overstuffed ragdoll, no more military boots. Get clothes and costumes that you can feel and look confident in, woman.

Is there any way she can get some of the fillers in her face dissolved? To me that's the one thing that makes her look truly awful.

“This needs to stop, you look like Rocky Fucking Dennis!”

Superbowl 2012 was entertaining in terms of her entrance, it quickly became VERY annoying when she was trying to keep up with the guys from LMFAO.

" I'll probably snag a couple of tickets to one of the dates for old time's sake."

It's 'fans' like R106 who have Madge acting as deluded as she is. She's been a legacy act for nigh on 30 years but this is the moment she's finally accepted it and it sticks in her craw.

Madge and her 40 year career retrospective.....cause we know the show will end with the usual Holiday encore- like she's done so many times before.

R111 - huh? I think I'm pretty pragmatic about Madonna and what she's capable in her seventh decade. To me, the signs of aging were already very apparent in the MDNA tour in which she could appear stiff and arthritic at times. I think that's about the time she truly became a legacy act, too.

Here’s her promo picture for the tour, called hellraiser fakebutt

It only took 40 years to morph into an over sexualized alien. That’s an impressive body of work.

which face will she be using?

Good Lord. Did anyone see her Instagram reel announcing this? It's a who's who of TikTok, poor comedians and drag queens. And Lil Wayne lol

Bob the Drag Queen is touring with the show, I shit you not. This entire thing is cringe as fucking hell. Does she need the money? She put out a video for it with Amy plagiarizer Schumer and Lil Wayne. The Celebration Tour? Wasn’t that the name of her greatest hits in 2009? Even the posters and tour font are awful. Cheap as hell.

"Bob the Drag Queen (a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicue) will be the special guest on all dates of the tour."

She'll break her hip after the first night

I'd hate to be whoever is insuring this tour.

Bob the Drag Queen is listed on the tour poster. WTF?!

I think I saw Melissa Miller in the tiktok clip, as she's answering Amy's question. Proof that Madge reads Datalounge.

Bob as an opening act?

The tour schedule looks designed to defeat her by September.

The Celebration Tour will offer a one-of-a-kind experience emceed by Bob the Drag Queen a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicu across all dates on the global tour.

She should do some classy numbers, like Take A Bow in a beautiful full-length gown, with the platinum Marilyn wiglet, and just her singing in front of a mic with a spotlight.

Though I think she’ll just flop around like a dying fish to Like a Prayer while flicking her clit.

Who the fuck did those graphics?

Does anyone have the Fan Club presale code?

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nope

God that Instagram video. She can't even sing Isla Bonita she has that much plasticine on her face and those grillz. Train meet wreck.

Lipsync

40 year retrospective? She can forget the last 15 years as they were pretty mediocre. Oh well. That retirement home won't pay for itself.

Why are her teeth so fucked up?

It will be nothing without me

Anyone who waited 3 hours at BAM and then had to sit through that dreadful middle section (FADA?) will probably realize the love affair is over.

[quote] It will be nothing without me

—Christopher Ciccone

Or us

So the images she uses are all taken from within a three year period? Express Yourself to Erotica? Her peak years and she has to rely on those to flog tickets.

I hope this flops BIG.

Here is the announcement video that is like a total parody of Truth or Dare. Lil Wayne is smoking reefer looking gross, Jack Black is being funny as is Amy Schumer who is basically boss bitch in the video. Diplo plays it cool. And Bob the Drag Queen will be the opening act on her tour simulates oral sex on a glass Evian water bottle. Stay classy! Madonna doesn’t seem detached from reality but her ugly AF hair, grill and extreme plastic surgery betrays her.

The image quality on her insta is absolutely shit. All pixellated and bad photoshop cut out around each of the images of her. Wow!

R140 “being funny as is Amy Schumer”

Paula Poundstone is funnier than Amy Schumer, and Paula Poundstone isn’t even funny.

R140 is the saddest shit I've ever seen. For once the people surrounding her are only one generation younger. She is one deluded bitch.

R142 is you didn’t view the video you lost the context of my statement about Schumer.

R142 the major difference between Amy Schumer and Paula Poundstone is nobody has said “Paula Poundstone” in decades.

Plus Schumer simulates eating her husband’s asshole. Which is funny.

When was op’s pic taken? Was it 2019 on Madame X tour? She looks soooooo much better in the pic than she does, perhaps 3-4 years later. Sad.

R145 to who? Troglodytes?

[quote] the major difference between Amy Schumer and Paula Poundstone is nobody has said “Paula Poundstone” in decades.

Any has stolen every joke she’s ever told. Watch.

[quote] the major difference between Amy Schumer and Paula Poundstone is nobody has said “Paula Poundstone” in decades.

Amy has stolen every joke she’s ever told. Watch.

How much do you wanna bet she’s nude for this show? Like, forget even a costume.

R140 Stopped watching a minute in. Its sad how desperate she is.

Oh good lord. R140, a few has beens and on their way to has-beens there. Surprised DL Fave, the ravishingly beautiful Jeremy O Harris isn't there.

Madonna's having 41 year-old Amy Schumer join her on the tour because she knows "the kids" just love Amy. Madonna is so hip to what's happening!

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No Asia dates...

I'd feel like I did when we bought tickets for Carol Channing's last Dolly tour.

Just to confirm, and feel rather sad doing it.

But, then, Madge is so fucking irritating I'd take a sack of old tomatoes with me, anyway.

As a former fan, I had to turn the video off at the one minute mark. I just can’t, she’s about to die on the toilet.

That video is so sad. Her face is unrecognizable. And the celebrity "friends" are pathetic.

Is this the real setlist posted on Live Nation?

If so, she's fucking nuts!

[quote] No Asia dates...

Weird, considering she is Asian now.

We all know she will be lip syncing every song. Who wants to actually hear her gasp and wheeze all night as she struggles across the stage? The only reason anyone is buying a ticket is so they can brag to their friends “I was there the night Madonna dropped dead on stage! And I thought it was part of her act”

I just watched the Instagram clip where the tour gets "announced." Featuring Amy Schumer, no less. As if that is any kind of good omen.

I cannot get over how bad she looks in that clip. Her strategy seems to be to make herself seem ugly "on purpose" to distract from the fact that her face has truly become disturbing and warped by bad surgery. She resembles a toothless old gypsy crossed with Gollum from Lord Of The Rings.

Definitely slurring her words, too. If you look back at pictures of her from 2015 or 2016, she still looks okay. Aging, and there was definitely surgery happening, but she resembles herself still. What happened in the last 5 years?! I agree now that the steep decline in behavior and appearance started after hitting her head. And, like others have suggested, there is alcohol and opioid abuse.

I am guessing the inevitable home video release of this tour will have enormous amounts of filtering applied.

Career spanning or career ending?

Is this Sad Last Days? She appears to be completely insane now.

Completely nuts. Will die on stage. Cardiac arrest. During Open Your Heart.

I made it 30 seconds into that video. She is a craven asshole and is surrounded by craven assholes. At least we'll have endless entertainment this summer hearing about this train wreck tour, if it indeed happens.

Good God.

If she was lucent and sober, she'd call it a farewell tour- in tandem with the release of a new album. This would drum-up interest. Every fag from here to Bangkok would buy a ticket for their last chance to see Madonna.

*attempts legacy act*

I think we are supposed to read "farewell tour" in between the lines, r168. IF this tour happens, there is no way she is every going to do this again.

I can never unsee Amy Shumer miming giving a rimjob on Madonna's tour announcement video.

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Tickets on sale in October!

I’d love to see her do the old hits, but will they even be recognizable? She will probably rearrange and remix the fuck out of them.

I hope this finishes her. Cannot abide what she's become.

[quote]I’d love to see her do the old hits, but will they even be recognizable? She will probably rearrange and remix the fuck out of them.

I hate it when singers do that in concert. They sing the old hits, but totally rearranged both musically and vocally so it's like they're singing a completely different song. People want to hear the original arrangement dammit!

Madonna can’t sing her old hits. She better mime the entire thing.

Her tour look for Vogue is amazing

She just released a photo spread with herself dressed as Jesus Christ at the last supper. She’s truly run out of ideas. Still wearing the grillz too.

How original R178 she must've forgot she already did that trick.

She's on the cover of VF too. The 'Icon' issue

R178 who are all those fraus? Her apostles?

Virgin Mary. How ridic. She's been cocked more times than John Wayne's gun.

Wow Madonna working the Catholic thang.

Her fans are outting her as photoshopped her old face onto these photos. She even used a 1991 shot of herself. Jesus Christ. What a lunatic.

*photoshoping

That isn’t the photo, btw. Click the link to see.

She did this before, but it fell flat. At least the new promo pays homage to "Truth Or Dare".

R186 - gosh, that wasn't THAT long ago and she looked SO MUCH better. She really should have stopped anymore work on her face at that point. Foolish woman.

R187,, the entire thing is filtered.

Shockingly MANY of my gay friends on Instagram are excitedly and unironically buying tickets and acting like it is going to be a great concert!

It's not even going to be like "Judy at the Palace" in the summer of 1967, which in retrospect was a pretty decent show.

You’re going to have to hear hours of Bob the Drag Queen on stage because Madonna won’t be ready or turn up for hours. This is going to be a disaster. Bob will start getting bottles thrown at him.

Bob seems like kind of a lame choice to open for her. She can't find some up and coming band or solo music artist to feature instead?

Having a drag queen open for her is very on brand for Madge R191

Saucy Santana probably wanted too much money too open for her.

^Word cannot express how much I loathe that beast R193. I hope Madonna stays far away she's already a freakshow on her own.

The concert will span her entire career: From the dance clubs of New York, to the absolute gutter.

"What have you done for me lately?"

She'll showcase her talents from A to B

Madonna in 2023, still doing Catholic iconography.....

How reductive

The Vanity Fair article is her most basic ideas yet, rehashed yet again. Frida Kahlo, religion, matador outfits.

Christ, she is one unoriginal bitch.

The person clutching Madonna’s leg resembles Courtney Love. Coincidence?

Will a sound board recording of her live microphone get leaked? All that wheezing and pitch problems, not to mention the wrong lyrics throughout.

r178, how ridiculous! I was there, and believe me, Madonna was not at that dinner!

R199 at this point in her career of being a shock artist for publicity, she stinks.

Lady Bunny shared this today. Pretty accurate I think

One of my favorites:

OOP, this one is slightly better resolution.

I feel like a bit of a sucker, but my friend and I were two of those gays who got tickets for one of the LA shows today. She hasn't officially branded this a farewell tour, but I think it all but certainly is. Hopefully her new knees and hips hold up!

Apparently, the tour sold well today. Greatest hits + the likelihood of this being her last tour no doubt contributed.

I can't wait until Janet Jackson has to cancel her upcoming concert series because of poor ticket sales and fan disinterest. Just like she did last time which has been heavily and factually documented here on DL. What was the excuse she used? Throat cancer? Then she refused to refund the ticket money to her fans. Remember that?

I just can't wait.

Well and truly run out of ideas. Although that rot set in with Confessions.

It's kind of sad we thought Madonna was a freak in her Madame X tour years but only 3 years later she looks and acts far more bizarre.

Madonna’s manager, agent, and publicist should be prosecuted for elder abuse.

I’ve talked my fair share of shit about Madonna in recent years but I have always loved her and nothing she does will change that. I’m going to this show. One of my great regrets in life is missing the Blond Ambition tour.

[quote] One of my great regrets in life is missing the Blond Ambition tour.

Mine too, r212, if that's the tour documented in "Truth or Dare".

Regrets. I've had a few, and one of them was not making sure I bought a ticket to see Madonna in her young prime, and, to me anyway, that was the Madonna I saw in "Truth or Dare".

I've written this before, but, I'll do it again.

Back in the early 90s, I had a job at one of the newest, glitziest tribal casinos to open in the mid-west.

The newly hired Director of Entertainment, who came from Las Vegas, and I were talking one day.

I asked him who he would recommend I see performing on tour.

"Madonna", he said.

I must've looked surprised at his response because he was much older than what would have been her audience.

He caught that right away, laughed, and said, "I've attended a performance of her current tour. It's not my kind of music, but, I guarantee you will leave her show thoroughly entertained. She works her ass off for her audience and she's widely respected in the industry for her work ethic."

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Madonna’s “This Is It Tour”. Sad.

I have no dog in this fight. I hope she puts on a good show and all the people who go have a great time.

My own feelings about it are summed up by Abraham Lincoln (in response to an author who was fishing for a compliment about their book): [italic]"For people who like that sort of thing, that is about the sort of a thing they would like."[/italic]

For the person who said they look forward to Janet cancelling dates due to sales.....Weird to be rooting against an artist like that.

I looked into getting tickets for her LA show. Absurdly expensive resale tickets only. She sold out the Hollywood bowl which is 18k seats. Not hard to do considering Cyndi Lauper and Weird Al can fill the place up as well.

In other cities she is playing modest smaller places with 5k seats and those seats are also wildly expensive.

I do not think Lincoln said that, r216. Link?

I wasn't sure who gave that quote, R218 so I Googled it. This webpage credited Lincoln, which sounded right to me, from memory.

This book about Lincoln also mentions it as one of his notable quotes (quote # 421).

Well the older gays 65+ on my FB feed are all agog about her tour- all I see is MADONNA!

So the concerts are sell outs R221?

R222 - reportedly, some of them are, yes.

Madonna sold $70-100+ million in tickets last week. No number released, just number of tickets sold.

Madonna's Rebel Heart tour (last arena tour) had a worldwide average of $116 per sale. Elton John saw his average ticket price rise from $130 to $180 from 2018 to 2023. And large amounts of Madonna tickets are now being sold at over $1000--not just a few premium seats--entire giant sections on floor and in 100 level. Fans are buying them.

Hard to call shows "sold out" because we don't know the process of releasing tickets for sale--They release in batches sometimes and change pricing based on demand. Some U.S. shows with tickets on the market are not occurring for 10 months. They also are not sending people digital tickets until 2 days before the concert, which is a new method of attacking the scalping market. It means fans are the ones buying tickets.

There may also be a lot more tour dates to be added. Never knew how this worked but looks like they guarantee 1-4 nights in some cities and have option to extend another night or two if ticket sales warrant additional shows. So there could be many more shows added.

Interesting info about the ticket sales thanks R224. Fairly normal to sell concert tickets so far ahead now. The $1000 tickets doesn't sound good though. But if they're already planning more dates then it sounds like they expect everything to be sold out based on sales so far.

Which is weird because everyone above said that there would be zero fan interest in Madonna's 2023 tour.

Very few people snark on Madonna IN REAL LIFE.

Amen R226.

We already explained that sold out doesn’t mean all tickets have been sold. They set a threshold. The word is this is going to be her final big tour. Judging by her mental and physical state, she’ll probably be dead soon. This is reminding me of the This Is It tour. There is no way she’s going to be able to do all these days. It’s impossible. Expect cancellations. I don’t know who is advising or what drugs she’s currently on.

r228 Michael Jackson was a 100 lb junkie with a doctor shooting him up with medications to make him wake and sleep. There is no indication Madonna has issues like this. Wouldnt surprise me if she had some pill dependency or drank too much but thats a lot of 60 somethings today.

Kind of a gross thing to speculate about someone too.

R228 is Janbot R229 - the Janet Jackson stan troll. Janbot posted this thread and posts all the other hate threads on DL about Madonna. Janbot is like a Modonna-hate factory.

He is obsessed with Madonna which has progressed to a deeply emotional, obsessive and unhinged level. Janbot would personally kill Madonna if given half the chance. He's [bold]that[/bold] unhinged. Half the posts in this thread are from Janbot's various accounts.

Does that help explain the situation?

R230 is mentally ill freak. Say something unflattering about his drugged up Queen and this methed-out queen will go batshit crazy.

[quote] Kind of a gross thing to speculate about someone too.

Get going, frau cunt.

R229/R230 are the same person per troll-dar. It’s talking to itself.

Horseshit R223. I'm R230. Why don't you post a screenshot of my posting history and show that R230 and R229 came from the same account cunt.

You can't can you because it's not true. But go right ahead and try and prove it.

I'm waiting...

The fact is that you are gnashing you teeth in fury because every single word I posted at R230 is 100% factual - including you want to kill Madonna. You should be on a watchlist.

Also I'm not a Madonna stan - I don't care WHAT you say about her. 99% of the childish idiocy you post on DL about Madonna makes you look like a complete moron.

How about you R229. Care to chime in? Are we the same poster?

*Horseshit R233 that should have read.

Ha ha, R233. You just got deaded.

[quote] Michael Jackson was a 100 lb junkie with a doctor shooting him up with medications to make him wake and sleep. There is no indication Madonna has issues like this.

Really??! NO INDICATION? You cant look at the face of bride of Frankenstein and tell me this bitch aint a pill popping plastic surgery addict. You're dumber than she is if you can't see it. Her behavior the past 7 or 8 years has been appalling and like Jackson she destroyed her face with plastic surgery. I mean really look at this womanif you can stand it. My face hurts just looking at her 😩

229 ^R237 is for you.

[quote][R229]/[R230] are the same person per troll-dar. It’s talking to itself.

I'm still waiting for you to post those screenshots Janbot/R233 which prove that R230 and R229 are the same person. If what you claim is true it should be really easy to do and take you 30 seconds. We all know you know how to post an image or link.

What's that? [bold]You can't?[/bold] Oh dear. That's because you lied again didn't you cunt.

She’s a goner. See her before she’s dead. She won’t even be able to finish this tour.

Still waiting for that screenshot Janbot.

The poor old girl.

[quote]See her before she’s dead.

The Material Ghoul Tour.

She just posted a new video on social media. She is so out of it it’s frightening.

I don't think she's out of it R244. She seems quite upset and confirms this will be the end. She has obviously been crying.

i must say, the tour of her with horses and dresssed like a horse trainer was fab, but she looks so horrid now and acts so immature , no thx.

Yea see her quick, she wont last past 2 or 3 citys.

Very possible she is indeed strung out on pain killers like Jacko.....somthin not right with her.

R246 - that was the Confessions tour. Agreed, it was her high point as a performer.

Nah, the Blond Ambition Tour and The Girlie Show were her at her peak.

Scrapped!

Stop lying R251. According to the link [bold]you[/bold] posted - the film isn't scrapped. It will be put on hold while she concentrates on the tour... That seems fair enough.

Also from the link you posted:

"Speculation over the fate of the movie began instantly after Madonna announced a career-spanning world tour last week — [bold]one that sold out shows in New York, London, Paris and other cities in minutes[/bold]".

Which is very surprising because everybody in this thread said no-one would want to go to the concerts and they would be cancelled due to lack of interest because she's too old.

Dataloungers bitch and tear down every sacred cow. The public isn't so negative.

r251 - that's good news. A Madonna biopic COULD be good if it has a talented screenwriter and director behind it. Were Milos Forman still around, I bet he would have made a really interesting film. I loved his biopics because they weren't traditional this happened, then this happened, then this happened slogs. The People Vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon were great. How about a reunion with David Fincher, her greatest music video director?

A Madonna bio-pic would be a bore (reductive!)

There's no there [italic]there[/italic].

Honestly, Ken Russell would have been ideal… imagine a Madonna biopic ala TOMMY (especially given her current state).

I'll admit I like the second Frida'esque look. She actually looks nice AND editorial in that segment. But, gosh, she ran out of new ideas a LONG time ago. Always the Catholicism, the matadors, the Frida.

That crap is too fucking funny, r257. She’s so fucking delusional and narcissistic. This is the bitch that sang Like a Virgin. Get a grip, hon. She takes herself waaaaay too seriously.

her shows are amazing, but see her quick, her joints are shot and she needs a walker....she wont make it past el paso..

Her last two shows were dreadful.

R221 'Well the older gays 65+ on my FB feed are all agog about her tour"

And it kills her to see rows of people who remind her of her own age. In her head, she's still pulling the teenyboppers.

I think she'll actually be quite emotional seeing all that grey hair in the audience -- seeing folks who've been following her over the course of five decades and knowing this is all but certainly her last tour.

[quote] In her head, she's still pulling the teenyboppers.

My Gen Z relatives and co-workers know who Madonna is, but don't listen to her music and don't care about her at all. It's amazing how fleeting fame can be. You can be the biggest star in the world and a couple generations later people are just not interested. Of course the current generation has no interest in Madonna, she's ancient history to them.

I guess the equivalent would've been if me and my Gen X peers were going crazy over Peggy Lee back in the 80s and 90s. It would've been pretty ridiculous.

[quote]Stop lying [R251]. According to the link you posted - the film isn't scrapped. It will be put on hold while she concentrates on the tour... That seems fair enough.

Happy Birthday!

That’s what Madonna likes about backup dancers. She gets older and they stay the same age.

R186, I remember seeing that video when it first came out and thought "wow, Madonna really looks bad, she needds to stop doing this to herself". But now, compared to what she looks like today, I'll take that Madonna.

R213, I remember reading what you posted before! It's so pathetic, depressing and laughable to see how far she has fallen.

Gold standard Madonna performance:

R254 You make a really good point. I wonder why Fincher never asked Madonna to be in one of his films?

For all her business acumen, she doesn't understand the basics of pop music- it's a youth market. Once your fans get older they don't want to see you apeing the twentysomethings.

LOL @ R270!

Apparently, Madonna (who is the best selling female artist of all time) doesn't understand the basics of pop music.

tickets are not selling briskly, way too xpensive and she lost her fans with the last few years of shitty music and narcissistic songs/attitudes/interviews/face.

[quote] Gold standard Madonna performance

Hardly.

Just got two tickets to the Where's The Potty? Tour and I cannot wait.

[quote]I wonder why Fincher never asked Madonna to be in one of his films?

He probably saw her other movies?

[quote]tickets are not selling briskly, way too xpensive

What are the original ticket prices, not the resell? Is she selling "meet & greets"?

[quote] tickets are not selling briskly, way too xpensive and she lost her fans with the last few years of shitty music and narcissistic songs/attitudes/interviews/fac - e.

And I've heard you're sleeping with the Japanese guy who blows the leaves out of your driveway!

She has been adding dates and not cancelling any as far as I’m aware so it does seem tickets are selling well.

Her tours used to sell out in 24 hours. The Ticketmaster scandal exposed how fraudulent all of this is. Someone is taking advantage of her. She’s not in shape, not in her right mind, to be touring. This is MJ all over again with the This Is It Tour. Even her fans are concerned. She literally has one day off between shows, sometimes two. How the hell is she going to do that? She won’t be home for at least a year.

She barely made it through the Madame X tour, how will she have the stamina for this world tour schedule?

It is worrying. Where will she get the time for her bizarre bathroom selfies?

[quote]She barely made it through the Madame X tour, how will she have the stamina for this world tour schedule?

She had the hip replacement.

There's a whole lot of lying and made up stories going on in this thread.

Off Datalounge and in the real world - according to the press this tour is a sell-out and more shows are being constantly added.

More:

New York, London, Paris sell out in minutes.

Record ticket sales as shows sell out so more added:

Tickets very hard to get excited fans say:

Madonna asks fans what they want the setlist to be:

Rolling Stones dream setlist:

New dates announced due to overwhelming demand:

36 new dates announced due to demand:

Who says fans are getting these tickets in minutes and not resellers and scalpers working to make a killing?

Fans ‘so confused’ by Madonna’s ‘new face’ at Grammys 2023

Apparently the wonky O in her name in the tour logo is to celebrate her melting face.

Like management is going to come out and tell the public the show isn’t selling. We can see the numbers ourselves. Live Nation is under federal investigation for fraud. The tickets are never sold out. It’s a scam.

MadTV roasted Madge when she did a dreadful collaboration with Britney 20 years ago.

Setlist announced:

Candy Shop

Human Nature

Music

Encore:

Candy Shop (Remix)

Just Announced: 1980s Celebrity "Madonna," Now Appearing as Opening Act for Headliner Mimi Imfurst at the [bold]Cherokee-Adjacent Bingo Den & Craps Palace[/bold] in Tumblecur, Oklahoma.

It will be a miracle if she gets through this tour.

After using all those shape-shifting filters on her TikTok videos for yeas it's no wonder the younger fans are shocked by her "new" face. She had to come out of her digital dungeon and face the cold light of day sometime.

*years*

The vast majority of people do NOT know how to read digital imagery. They have zero information literacy. They think whatever they see on their computers and cell phones is closet to reality. Of course they are shocked by Madonna's appearance.

Tour book cover photo has been released.

[quote] After using all those shape-shifting filters on her TikTok videos for yeas it's no wonder the younger fans are shocked by her "new" face.

It's cute that you think Madonna has younger fans.

r297 HILARIOUS

Of course her movie project was cancelled. She could have self financed it without blinking or kicked in financing but she wants the $$ from a studio. If you've ever worked with talent like this, they "work hard" when they feel like it but it's sporadic. You can get away with recording like this. Or maybe shooting a music video. You can't on a feature. and the more involved they get, the worse things tend to go especially when it involves the script. And she was insisting on directing. Was it William Orbit who stopped working with her because she'd leave him sitting around a studio for days or weeks until she felt like showing up? Guarantee she rescheduled her Universal studios meetings 4 times, left execs waiting for hours, etc. Superstars will do that. But here she wanted something from them and didn't get it. Still dont get why she didn't self finance. Any studio would have guaranteed distribution. She could have done it secretly as well. If she had failed, what would it cost her--a single painting? She's sitting on a half billion dollar art collection.

Ticket sales are great. Dont let anyone tell you differently. There is some serious anti-scalping built in to online ticket sales for this tour. One day scalpers will figure a way around it. For now, they aren't going to buy a ticket, sit on that investment for 7-9 months and then hope to sell it at 40% or more above face value , which is already super inflated.

The extra tour dates were always built in as part of initial bookings, but it helped drive ticket sales for a few days to create fake scarcity.

Now she knows her time has run out. She will score a few more times, and then, like that, she will stay at home with her monkey.

The pointy chin is quite creepy.

I'm torn.

I've never seen Madonna and this is obviously the last and best time to see her...but I don't see myself coughing up hundreds to get nose-bleed seats, and frankly, her face, fake ass and general attitude have turned me off completely these last few years. I love so much of her classic music, and I know she can put on a good show, but she seems unwilling to change with age, and I feel like this will be cringe-worthy at best.

And yet - maybe I should go anyway? Bucket list type thing? I dunno.

R308, if you have the slightest curiosity and can afford it, I think you should go. It could well be her last major tour, and it seems likely to be the kind of event people talk about for a long time...for good or ill. Being in nosebleed seats might actually be better on this occasion. You won't have a close-up view of her cosmetic misadventures.

Don't bother R308. Saw her on the Drowned World tour. While it might have been entertaining in places, ultimately it akin to a McDonald's meal, an instant fix and quickly forgotten.

All those bleating on about her Confessions Tours etc, the only difference in any of these is her change of costumes. Everything else remains the same; forced, unspontaneous, pseudo-defiant, basic.

SHE wont make it thru half the tours, she may be strung out on pain killers after the hip etc replacement, explaining her mental lapse and excessive face lifts etc.....very sad......our evita could have had a gr8 golden years full of classy stuff....but no...she a disco girlie and Y'O'U'N'G.......SAD

Why won't she make it through the tours R311? She has never cancelled any of her tours before. You're full of shit.

She canceled a night on the Drowned World Tour, R312.

Of course, it was the day the planes flew into the WTC and all...

She cancelled before.

She cancelled a bunch of shows on the MadameX tour.

Link please R315.

After an underwhelming performance from Rhianna, I decided to watch Madonna's from 2012. This was the best halftime performance in my opinion and am not a stan.. She danced her ass off for 12 minutes straight in her early 50s. I watched Gaga's as well. It was good, but she was getting winded with her dancing (she was probably doing more live singing). Madonna's stamina was remarkable for her age back then.. A reminder that even 10 years ago Madonna still looked good and was a fantastic performer. She went over to the dark side after MDMA. That was the transitional album to her illuminati-esque meets S&M phase she has been at since Rebel Heart.

If I were going (and I am not) these are the songs I'd want to hear:

Holiday

Lucky Star

Human Nature

Music

Physical Attraction

Like A Virgin

Angel

Dress You Up

Secret

Vogue

Take A Bow

Live To Tell

What It Feels Like For A Girl

Erotica

Bad Girl

Bitch I'm Madonna

Dance 2night

Nothing Really Matters

Bedtime Story

The Beat Goes On

Something To Remember

Love Tried to Welcome Me

Like A Prayer

Keep It Together

Hung up

Borderline

Express Yourself

Into The Groove

Get Together

Papa Don't Preach

If only there were a way to find this out R316

“Overall, 14 shows were canceled in the US, UK, Portugal, and France.”

Whatevs R317, stans gonna stan.

she is fat and her hips are arthritic, doubt she will do more than a few shows, if that, she is clearly on oxycontin.

My Dream Set List:

Borderline

Like A Virgin

Material Girl

Into The Groove

Live To Tell

Papa Don't Preach

Open Your Heart

True Blue

La Isla Bonita

Where's The Party?

Who's That Girl?

Like A Prayer

Express Yourself

Cherish

Vogue

Justify My Love

This Used To Be My Playground

Erotica

Rain

Thief of Hearts

I'll Remember

Take A Bow

The Power of Goodbye

What It Feels Like For A Girl

In your dreams, R322!

I know, Madge. Can't wait for Music, Human Nature and Candy Shop.

I will never understood why she insists on always doing Human Nature and especially Candy Shop. They are not catalog highlights.

Probably more like "Career-Spinning."

Papa Don't Need to Preach, R325. We are all confused.

I think she likes Human Nature because it was her fuck you to critics and fans who blasted her during her Erotica period. Candy Shop is a real headscratcher.

[quote] This was the best halftime performance in my opinion and am not a stan..

Nice try, Madge. You fell off the bleachers and need ten million guest performers. Your shitty performance is long forgotten.

[quote]Candy Shop is a real headscratcher.

I think she just can't wait to get to the "My sugar is RAW! My sugar is RAW!" part.

She could only wait two albums before trying the shop-as-sexual-metaphor conceit again with auto repair ("Body Shop").

Her fascination with Candy Shop is quite bizarre as no other non-single album track from her back catalog has gotten this type of treatment. Honestly, I wish more pop stars would play some non-singles from their back catalogues, but that's not why the average concert-goer is there, I know.

All that said, Candy Shop kinda goes off live. It was actually a lot of fun on the Rebel Heart tour in that flapper section. She even had a great costume for that number (which she often doesn't)

Candy Shop is, in fact, her 12th-most-performed song.

I have to hand it to her, the shows are selling well but I don't think she will be able to pull this off, and I have been a fan since the beginning. She is a mess now, mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Yeah, if I’d spend a lot of money on a ticket I’d be nervous. Even artists a fraction of her age can’t seem to hack the rigours of touring, and M is not exactly in good shape physically, mentally or psychologically. But, as someone who used to be a fan and who still appreciates her extraordinary back catalogue, I hope she pulls it together and surprises everyone.