Windex, anyone? Your filters are dirty!

C'mon! Vogue!

This thread was posted on Madonna's FB page:

Troy Compas :

I had tickets and the heifer cancelled! Waited seven months for that!!! So not forgiving her as of now!!

Stephanie Gordon Feekes:

If you can't say anything nice/positive keep it to yourself!

Michael J Keller:I have been a big fan of Madonna's music since she first hit the stage over 30 years ago. But being a big fan of her behavior towards her fans: Not so much!

What about ACTING nice. Does that count, too?

Making your fans wait 2 - 21/2 hours past a concert's start time is just plain rude, disrespectful, and arrogant, and that is the same everywhere and for everybody. I don't care what part of the woods you just stumbled out of, or which turnip truck you just fell off.

The next time she is late taking the stage, I wish EVERY paying customer would walk back out the door, and en masse, demand their money back. With a 100% guarantee, I assure you that she would take the stage precisely on time at the next concert!

Ya think?

Tina Prince:
Geez people- she has an opening act and when it is over it takes 45 minutes to set the stage for her concert. It's gonna start 1030ish- it is known and should be expected.

Michael J Keller:

There is a **HUGE** difference between:

1) a 45 minute set-up time, where SOMETHING active is happening on stage, and her paying customers can see that progress - in one form or another - is being made...

and

2) Being late, rude and arrogant because one thinks they own the damned world.

Never forget: The paying customers that are waiting on her put her where she is. If it wasn't for THOSE PEOPLE, she would be as much of a 'nobody' as the next person. Those paying customers also have normal lives that take place on the weekdays that she schedules shows. They have paid and promised a baby sitter that they would be back home at a certain time. They have to work a normal job early the next morning. Time is a very non-renewable resource. Once your time is gone - IT'S GONE! I firmly believe that there is a special place in Hell for those who have no regard for wasting another person's time.

A good example of being grateful and courteous to your fans is Barry Manilow. He was asked during an interview if he ever gets tired of singing ""Copacabana". He quickly answered, "No! Why should I?" (be tired of singing 'Copacabana'). He follows that with:
"I will gladly sing that song - and happily sing it loudly at every concert. Why? Because the people that paid for that song is the reason that I live in a $5 million home!"

Barry Manilow is a great example of a performer who exhibits good qualities, which include gratitude and gratefulness.

Previous to this last flurry of ill behavior, I had no beef with Madonna. She was the reigning Queen. Both my mind AND my eyes are always wide open. Once I learn a fact that puts a person in an entirely different light, I am capable of 'doing a 180'.

Rude and insensitive is still rude and insensitive, I don't care what color your filters are. She's not doing it to 'be controversial'. Take off your blinders and take another gander in her general direction.
Rude, disrespectful and ungrateful is is still rude, disrespectful and ungrateful. Period.

My message to Madonna would be:

Of ALL people, I would think that you would know better than to resort to such bad behavior and atrocious maneuvers to remain in the limelight. If you can't 'hold court' like any good queen should, while upholding and maintaining good standards and ethics, then perhaps it is time to step aside, and join the other court jesters (Charlie Sheen, etc.)

REMEMBER:
We are not in England, and you are not a real queen.  We do not have 'heir apparents'.  Indeed, you earned your honorary title, and in this realm, once you assume the throne, it is not guaranteed for life.
That crown must also be maintained.

- Michael