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| | Madonna is struggling to sell out her smaller-venue 'Madame X' tour | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve never been a lowkey or highkey Madonna stan. I like her sometimes, and I don?t care for her sometimes. I like some of her music, and I dislike some of her music. But I have to admit, I?ve enjoyed her promotion for her latest album, Madame X, and I actually half-way like the singles I?ve heard. Is Madame X her best sh-t? Not really, but it?s not terrible. Plus, it feels like like Madonna finally has some sh-t to say after all of her years of just being a provocateur for the hell of it, a rebel without a cause, a person screaming ?look at me!? without having anything to say once she got our attention. Madonna has found some kind of groove at the age of 60, talking about ageism and sexism in her industry and a lot more. Is she saying everything perfectly? Of course not. Chica?s still problematic at times. But I guess my point is that I sort of like Madonna-at-60. She?s interesting. Most people don?t feel the same way though. Madge is struggling to sell concert tickets and there are big concerns:
Four years ago, Madonna was selling out shows at Madison Square Garden. Now, she?s struggling to sell out the BAM opera house in Brooklyn. The ?Material Girl? singer?s ?Madame X? tour that kicks off in New York City on Sept. 12 is off to a surprisingly sluggish start, with hundreds of seats still available for most gigs after more than a month on the block, The Post has learned. That?s despite the fact that the 60-year-old pop star?s upcoming tour will focus on small, theater-type venues that typically only have a few thousand seats each.
After initial reports that the first shows sold out, an interactive seat map that went live on Ticketmaster?s website this week shows that hundreds of seats are still available for each gig. For an Oct. 7 concert at the 2,100-seat BAM Howard Gilman Opera House ? the last night of a 17-night stand that?s slated for Brooklyn ? more than half of its $357 mezzanine seats were unsold as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Ticketmaster?s map.
That shows a ?shocking? lack of interest in Madonna, according to one insider. Her 2015-2016 ?Rebel Heart Tour? grossed $170 million at venues that often drew more than 30,000 fans for a single performance. On that tour, she reportedly sold out Madison Square Garden twice. In 2012, she was said to sell out Yankee Stadium in 20 minutes.
Madonna?s ?Madame X? tour is being promoted by Live Nation, which insisted in a statement that a huge number of seats are now available because it has ?increased the number of shows exponentially due to overwhelming demand.?
?It?s very telling these shows didn?t sell out as quickly as ?Springsteen on Broadway? did a couple of years ago,? an insider said. ?This clearly isn?t the home run Team Madonna was hoping for.?
Her ?Madame X? album, due out on June 14, could add to the momentum, although early signs aren?t encouraging. None of the five songs released before the record itself drops has debuted on the Billboard Hot 100.
[From Page Six]
I find it difficult to follow all of the insidery music industry stuff, because half of it is hype and half of it is bitchy gossip. We heard similar things about Taylor Swift when Swift?s Reputation tour tickets went on sale, and I still don?t completely understand what happened there it seemed like there were real concerns about sales, but the Snake Fam bought into all of these special deals and promotions and suddenly Taylor had sold-out concerts, as if by magic. My point is? yeah, Madonna?s probably not selling out concerts at the same rate she used to, but I?m sure her concerts will sell well (if not sell out) in the next few months because of some weird quirk of promotion or deals or whatever.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red and Backgrid.
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| | Madonna's NYT profile is amazing: 'We are a marginalized group, women' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna turned 60 years old last year. She turns 61 in a few months. I guess she didn?t have much to promote last August, so we?re getting some ?Madonna at 60? articles now, because she has a new album (Madame X). I?ve read a lot of Madonna interviews over the years, and maybe three or four years ago, there was definitely a shift. Madonna was no longer a shock-artist, but what changed is that she didn?t seem to WANT to shock us anymore. Her interviews were, at times, surprisingly substantive, as she came to grips with ageing within the music industry and daring to still make art in her late 50s and all of that. The New York Times has a lengthy new article/interview with Madonna this week, and it?s best to just set some time aside to let the piece wash over you. It?s not a straight interview, and Madonna doesn?t always give straight answers. But it?s a good read. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
When songs from Rebel Heart leaked: ?There are no words to describe how devastated I was. It took me a while to recover, and put such a bad taste in my mouth I wasn?t really interested in making music.? She added, ?I felt raped.?
She?s lonely in Portugal: ?It?s quite medieval and feels like a place where time stopped in a way, and it feels very closedThere?s a cool vibe there, but where I was living with my kids, I felt very cut off from a lot. It was FIFA and my kids? school and that?s it. I?m fighting with the plumber?. I really wanted to make friends.?
What she hopes she represented in her early days: ?A woman fearlessly expressing herself and saying, ?I?m encouraging all of you to be independent, to speak your mind, to express your sexuality freely without shame, to not allow men to objectify you, to objectify yourself? ? I don?t know. All of those things seemed like the natural way of where we should be going. And strangely, a lot of feminists criticized me for it, and I got no support from that group. They thought, Well, you can?t use your sexuality to empower yourself as a female, which I think is rubbish, because that?s part of who I am and part of me as a female and a human being, my sexuality. That?s not the only thing, that wasn?t my only weapon and that wasn?t the only thing I was talking about.?
On Harvey Weinstein: ?Harvey crossed lines and boundaries and was incredibly sexually flirtatious and forward with me when we were working together; he was married at the time, and I certainly wasn?t interestedI was aware that he did the same with a lot of other women that I knew in the business. And we were all, ?Harvey gets to do that because he?s got so much power and he?s so successful and his movies do so well and everybody wants to work with him, so you have to put up with it.? So that was it. So when it [his downfall] happened, I was really like, ?Finally.? I wasn?t cheering from the rafters because I?m never going to cheer for someone?s demise. I don?t think that?s good karma anyway. But it was good that somebody who had been abusing his power for so many years was called out and held accountable.?
Trump has a weak character, typical of alpha males: ?They?re overcompensating for how insecure they feel ? a man who is secure with himself, a human who is secure with themselves, doesn?t have to go around bullying people all the time.?
Marriage didn?t agree with her: ?I found myself as a wife, in both of my marriages, being as I think everybody is: You try to please another person, and sometimes you find you are not being who you really are. That?s the struggle, I suppose, of being in a marriage or a relationship, especially as a woman. We often think we have to play down our accomplishments or make ourselves smaller, so we don?t make other people feel intimidated or less than.?
On ageing: ?Stop thinking, just live your life and don?t be influenced by society trying to make you feel some type of way about your age or what it is you?re supposed to be doing. We are a marginalized group, women. And just because it?s hard doesn?t mean you stop fighting against it or defying it or refusing to be pigeonholed or put in a box or labeled or told you can and can?t do things. What is the truth? Your truth when you?re 18 is not going to be your truth when you?re 28 or when you?re 38. Life is not black and white. It?s gray, and one minute you?re going to feel so strongly and believe in something so strongly, and then maybe you won?t in five years.?
[From The New York Times]
I found this article to be both overwrought, overwritten and yet? this is the most interesting I?ve found Madonna in a long time. Think of how bold it is to be where she is now and just like ?marriage doesn?t agree with me? or ?stop thinking about ageing and just live? and ?objectify yourself, it?s empowering.? I used to think Madonna was a rebel without a cause, that there was nothing really behind her pop songs and ever-changing image. But the message was always there, wasn?t it? Just do whatever the fk you want to do, just like any man would. Be a boss, be a sexual being, be a nutcase, be old, be tired and be an artist, all at once, just like a 60 year old man would be.
Madame ?. Is the Captain..?????. of Her Destiny.. . @AppleMusic #madamex #applemusic pic.twitter.com/bUeu5G2fvF
Madonna (@Madonna) June 1, 2019
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| | Madonna suddenly has a Khloe Kardashian-esque Pinocchio Butt | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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#Madonna shows off curvy backside at Stone Wall Inn where she delivered a surprise performance of ?Like A Prayer? during New Year?s Eve. ?
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| | Madonna claims she 'did not intend to do a tribute' to Aretha Franklin at the VMAs | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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| | Madonna wore Gaultier to the Met Gala: disappointing or just right? | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Everybody was primed and excited to see what Madonna was going to do for THIS Met Gala. Madonna has always used Catholic imagery in her fashion and her art. This Met Gala theme was tailor-made for her! So the anticipation was off the charts. And then she came in this gothic Jean Paul Gaultier look and? it was just a disappointment, right? I mean, it?s on-theme and she looks good-for-Madonna. But I was expecting her to do THE MOST. We expected too much from her.
Solange crowdsourced her Met Gala look, and she ended up in this Iris van Herpen. Her inspiration was ?the black Madonna.? Solange usually has a lot of fun with the themes and you can tell that she enjoys fashion? more than Beyonce, really. (Beyonce did not attend!)
Princess Beatrice is the first British royal woman to attend the Met Gala since Princess Diana attended in the 1990s. Beatrice didn?t cause much of a commotion though. She wore this vivid purple Alberta Ferretti gown with a small gold headpiece. Chic, simple.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Backgrid, WENN.
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| | Madonna promotes her MDNA skincare line, looks utterly ridiculous in NYC | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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True story: Madonna has launched a new skincare line called MDNA Skin. These are photos from one of the launch events at Barneys in New York. Just know that I feel like a complete bitch as I write this, but OMG HER FACE. I respect Madonna. I respect the work that she?s done in this world and I respect her as an artist. I just wish she would respect herself, because this is the face of a woman with a massive amount of insecurity about aging. It?s not even about aging though, is it? It?s about something else entirely – she?s 59 years old and this is how she WANTS to look. So no, I?m not really interested in buying skincare stuff from Madonna. But in case you are into it, here are some highlights from an interview she did with People Mag to promote the line:
Her style evolution: ?There were many years where I wasn?t interested in having eyebrows. There were many years where I wasn?t interested in wearing bows. But my skin was always exposed so even in my sex book, I didn?t have a real tan ? I had Franois Nars painting on a tan everywhere.?
She always cared about skincare, even when she was broke: ?I remember when I lived on the Lower East Side and I really didn?t have much cash and there was a salon on 7th street between first and second avenue and there was a girl in the back ? and I know this is weird ? but she was a heroin addict, and she gave amazing facials and I would go to her and we would somehow do trades. Skin was very important to me, and I always took care of my skin even at a young age.?
Why she started this line: ?I got really tired and fed up of years and years of performing, being onstage, being filmed, being photographed and always having to grab one product and then another one, and then another one. And as soon as I liked a product it was discontinued. It always happens to me. When I liked a product they stopped making it. So that was really the germ of what started this whole process of why I wanted to create skin care.?
You can use the mask on your butt: ?I have used the clay mask on my butt. Don?t you want soft skin on your butt? I mean don?t a lot of people look at your butt? Your butt has an audience. At least one! Maybe you can ask your significant other to remove it for you. What do you think??
[From People]
Sure, Madge. I always wonder about these celebrity skincare/beauty lines? do you really think the celebrities use their own lines? I think Rihanna uses Fenty Beauty. I don?t think Gwyneth uses her Goop makeup line. I don?t think Victoria Beckham uses her skincare line either. And no, I don?t believe Madonna uses MDNA Skin. I think she pays people thousands of dollars a month to have craziness injected into her face and onto her skin.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Madonna in camo Jeremy Scott at the Met Gala: sad, interesting or cheap? | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna keeps showing up at the Met Gala, even if she is no longer friends with the coolest girls in the room. Like, I don?t expect Madonna to arrive at the gala looking like Jennifer Lopez-Jackie Kennedy, but does she have to be so? youth-obsessed? This camouflage gown by Jeremy Scott is awful, and it belongs somewhere far, far away.
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Claire Danes wore Monse. Shockingly, this was one of my favorite looks of the night. I was expecting more of this at the Met Gala – deconstructed menswear, crazy arrays of sleeves and ruffles. I was expecting to see more pants too. So? I don?t know, I think Claire nailed it. She looks great. And it?s always nice to see Hugh Dancy.
The point of La La Anthony?s look was that she was and is feeling herself after Carmelo Anthony probably cheated on her a lot. This Thai Nguyen Atelier gown is supposed to be ?I?m mysterious and sexy and single!? But I?m not feeling it at all.
Mindy Kaling in Prabal Gurung. It?s a pretty color on Mindy but that?s about the only nice thing I have to say. This is a dress for an awards show, not the Met Gala. This would have looked completely fine at the Oscars. But I honestly expect more from her because I know she loves clothes and fashion. Why, Mindy, why??
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| | Madonna really did adopt 4-year-old twin girls from Malawi after all | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Two weeks ago, the Daily Mail and a few other British media outlets broke the story that Madonna was in Malawi and trying to adopt two more children. Madonna has already adopted two kids from Malawi – David Banda and Mercy. The news that she wanted to adopt two more kids was unsurprising, and yet some people didn?t believe it. Madonna?s team quickly worked to deny the story to various outlets but there was, in my mind, still a question mark. Turns out, Madonna really did make an application to the Malawi courts to adopt two kids. She has just adopted twin sisters.
Madonna has adopted twin girls from Malawi, according to government officials. The singer, who had previously denied she was visiting the country with a view to adopting more children, was given permission by the Malawian high court on Tuesday to adopt the four-year-olds Stella and Esther. Mlenga Mvula, a judicial spokesman, said: ?I can confirm that Madonna has been granted an adoption order for two children.?
Madonna has previously adopted two children from Malawi, David Banda in 2006 and Mercy James in 2009. The twins are being adopted from the Home of Hope orphanage in Mchinji, near the western border with Zambia, where David Banda once lived. But many in Malawi have accused the government of giving the singer a special exception to laws that prevent non-residents from adopting children to take abroad. With Madonna and the girls? birth father present in the courtroom in Lilongwe, a judge ruled in her favour. But the adoption is conditional on Madonna proving she will provide a suitable home.
Dominic Misomale, a government-appointed guardian, will travel with Madonna, Stella and Esther to the US and observe how she looks after them, before reporting back to the government.
Titus Mvalo, a lawyer for Madonna in Malawi, told Reuters: ?Madonna has demonstrated over the years that she has passion for Malawi and her children, and therefore the court was satisfied and could not stop the adoption of the twins.?
[From The Guardian]
Isn?t ?Esther? Madonna?s own Hebrew/Kabbalah name? Yes, it is. More than a decade ago, Madonna announced that her new Hebrew name was Esther and she had converted to Judaism/Kabbalah, sort of. Incidentally, Madonna reportedly chose the name Esther because it?s the Hebrew word for star? You know what other name means star? Stella. So many coincidences! Anyway, 59-year-old Madonna is now mother to two four-year-old girls. Lord help us, lord help them and lord help Madonna. And lord help Lourdes too, because I suspect Lourdes is going to be called in help with the new kids, Duggar-sibling-style.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Madonna, 58, has applied to adopt two more children from Malawi | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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According to various reports, it looks like Madonna is trying to adopt two more children from Malawi. Two of her children ? David Banda and Mercy ? were adopted from Malawi years ago. Those adoptions were actually pretty controversial, because at the time, Malawi didn?t have a foreign adoption system in place. Madonna basically had to go through a lengthy court battle to adopt those kids, and many people (myself included) believed that Madonna basically bought her way into the Malawi legal system. She seemed to spread around a lot of money and then BOOM, she was allowed to adopt those kids. Well, now she?s planning on adopting two more children.
Pop superstar Madonna has filed for the adoption of two more children from Malawi, it has emerged. The 58-year-old singer appeared before a High Court judge in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday to make the application. It is now up to the court to decide whether to grant the adoption order, Malawi government spokesman Mlenga Mvula said.
Madonna appeared before Justice Fiona Mwale amid tight security, accompanied by two unidentified children and several other people, before being driven away in an SUV vehicle, according to local reports.
Madonna’s trip to Malawi last year was the first time in nearly two years that she visited the country, where she has at times been embroiled in controversy after her earlier adoptions. She was stripped of her VIP status by former president Joyce Banda’s government in 2013 and accused of being ‘uncouth’ and wanting eternal gratitude from the impoverished country for adopting the two children.
[From The Daily Mail]
It?s true that Madonna is not anyone?s favorite person in Malawi ? she was personally put on blast by the country?s president several years ago, and Madonna?s charity, Raising Malawi, has been mired in fraud, sketchiness and grifting since its inception. While I hate to put it in these terms? Madonna is actually guilty of all of the things people accuse Angelina Jolie of. Madonna flies into Malawi in her private jet, spreads some money around so she can adopt a child and then flies back to her penthouse and hopes that everyone will praise her for being such a humanitarian. All that being said? Mercy and David seem very happy. Say what you will about her, but Madonna loves her children. But does she still have the energy at the age of 58 to raise young kids?
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| | Madonna did 'Carpool Karaoke' with James Corden: boring or amazing' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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