I was talking to my friend Steve Diamond, a die-hard Madonna fan, the day I was meant to see Madonna at MSG. And he warned me well in advance. Even a diehard fan is gonna be tired by the time Madonna hits the stage . Even a diehard fan is not gonna be enjoying a show that is too long on the current album, too short on hits and starts way way way too late at a mindboggling 1045pm. Steve got home around 2 in the morning.
And, as he so accurately notes, Madonna’s fans are for the most part not 20 somethings, they are 30, 40, and 50 somethings. Pity the poor sucker with a General Admission ticket who got to MSG at 7pm on Monday evening, it would be five hours before she saw her Madge.
Why would she do this? “Because she can”, was Steve’s reply, which hits me as a a senseless slap into the face of her fanbase in her biggest market. Why would she want to do that? What would she gain?
Who knows what is on Madonna’s mind in 2012, after a flop album and a world tour mired in the worst vibes imaginable, Madonna is loosing fans faster than she will ever make them again. Is she so out of touch that she doesn’t grasp that to make friends she has to treat them well. She can’t charge huge chunks of change for tickets to her shows, put on miserable shows, and still make them wait hours to watch it.
Madonna is such a mean spirited woman, she seems like just a heartless mess. I don’t believe she know what she’s talking about on any subject, her show is dreadful and, finally, people are half asleep by the time she reaches the stage.
Who starts a concert at 1045? Why is the wait longer then the concert? People hate her so much that by the time she hits the stage they are already of the smug, silly woman.
So I skipped it. A coupla hundred bucks down the drain, but never again. I bet I’m not the only person thinking. I bet the next time she goes on stage she is gonna have a serious problem.