Glindathegood
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Another factor is this is a repeat or continuation of the same tour she just did. People who can afford to pay these high prices and are big Madonna fans, probably could afford to travel to see one of the prior dates in Europe on the first leg. Even the biggest Madonna fans don't feel compelled to see the same thing over and over.
It would be different if this was a brand new show, but it isn't. So the audience for this tour continuation is people who have less money and/or who are just casual fans.
She never did a tour continuation before. Maybe that was for a good reason from a business point of view.
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So now they're even saying that Guy got money to say nice things about Madonna! LIKE COME ON! (and as if he didnt get any cash from the divorce settlement)...
http://www.theinsider.com/news/1955336_Guy...s_About_Madonna
Guy Ritchie Paid To Say Nice Things About Madonna?
By Roberta | April 3, 2009
Just curious, because of the fact that Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s multi-million dollar divorce wasn’t exactly the epitome of amicable.
Madonna’s plans to adopt three-year-old Mercy James went south, but she plans on appealing. And as if it would matter, Guy has offered up his opinion of Madge as a mother.
In a statement, Ritchie says: “Madonna is a fantastic and loving mother who cares deeply about her own children, and children who may need additional help and support. I fully supported Madonna in her decision to apply for this adoption, and I am saddened that her application has been rejected.”
Adding, “She is motivated only by being a caring parent who seeks to share some of the advantages and opportunities that her life has given her. This time it did not work out, but there will be other opportunities and I wish her well in them. She is a great mum.”
Those are a lot of kind words to say about your ex, don’t you think? I wouldn’t put it past Madonna to have given him a statement to release along with a nice little bundle. Do you?
A very stupid article. Most people would say nice things about their ex when their ex is in a crisis or something negative happens in their life, and they aren't paid. You may have fights with your partner when you are together, but most normal people wish their ex's the best and are supportive when something bad happens. Just because you are together doesn't mean you stop caring about the other person.
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I'm not sure this is Madonna'a fault. But I think Live Nation isn't handling this too well. Didn't they come up with the idea of this tour extension in Europe? They seemed focused only on touring and not on her albums. I do worry how this will alll work when she releases her first album with them. I don't believe they have really released records with a major artist before but just did tours. So this is all new territory for them.
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Here's the decision.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/341026...274166efa_o.jpg
It doesn't say one word about any residency requirement. It says international adoptions aren't allowed if there is a suitable place for the child to live in and that the orphanage is a suitable place.
Is this woman insane? Anyone can see that an orphanage is no place for a child!
She says that did not apply with David because there the orphange was only temporary since the father agreed to take him back, but he couldn't because he couldn't take care of him.
But didn't the grandmother have the same agreement in Mercy's case? There's no mention of that in this decision.
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Maybe some compromise could be reached where she could live in Malawi for a few months to show her sincerity. 18 to 24 months sounds unreasonable to me. Why do you need that long to deterimine if someone is a good parent and not a trafficer who flies in and out.
Also why is the time period 18 to 24? Usually with time period requirements like that, it's always a definite time period. That shows to me the residency requirement was meant to be flexible.
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I'm not sure if the reason was low ticket sales or the lack of time to set up the stage.
I have heard that sometimes artists cancel a show for low ticket sales well in advance to avoid certain costs and penalties you have to pay the venue or the promoter if you cancel at the last minute.
Artists hardly ever admit a show is cancelled for low ticket sales even when that's the truth, but make up some other excuse.
I do have mixed feelings about this tour extension. It seemed like a good idea at first, but now with the recession and the fact that most people in Europe who wanted to see it already saw it on the first leg. Air travel isn't that expensive in Europe so people can travel fairly easily to see stuff.
I do sort of feel she should have moved on from the tour since HC wasn't one of her best received albums. Or if she did continue it, going to Australia or Asia might have been a better choice.
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A friend of mine from Brazil just sent me an article done by the African Press Agency which says divorce was the reason, not the residency thing. So I'm confused as to what the actual reason was.
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Key word used was *maybe*. Either way you look at it - she failed in the adoption process. Better luck next time Madge.
You could be right. Maybe they are just using the residency thing as an excuse and the real reason is because she was divorced. They didn't enforce it last time because she was married, and now they are because she is single. But if they don't allow divorced people to adopt, they should have made that clear before they made her go through all this mess.
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Maybe it's because Madonna is no longer married, has relocated, works excessive hours, tours, etc and therefore *appears* to not be able to give a child from another country a stable family life.
From what I read the decision seems to have nothing to do with Madonna'a lifestyle, her being divorced or her work hours or her ability to take care of Mercy.
It is based on that she hasn't been a resident of Malawi and hasn't been living there.
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The judge said, "According to information from global media the petitioner jetted into the country just days after making the application.
"I take judicial notice of the reports in the media that the last time that the Petitioner was in the country was in 2008 at the time of the final adoption order for David Banda.
"In my considered opinion this would completely remove the Petitioner from the definition of a resident as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary."
This doesn't seem right to me. I"m a lawyer and judges in their decisons are not supposed to rely on reports in the media. They are supposed to decide the case on the testimony of witnesses and evidence submitted to them by attorneys.
And wasn't the application to adopt Mercy an ongoing thing that had been in the works for months. So how can the judge say Madonna jetted into the country just days after making the application to adopt Mercy?
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How can people say she jumped the queue? From what I can see, there aren't really very many if any other U.S. or UK citizens who are going to Malawi and trying to adopt children. Now if there were people who tried to adopt Malawian children and they were denied the opportunity to do so, then the critics would have a point.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fulle...a_b_181297.html
When Little Orphan Annie is adopted by Daddy Warbucks in the Broadway show "Annie," does anyone in the audience think, "This is an outrage"? Daddy Warbucks lives in a huge, fabulous mansion on Fifth Avenue, is friends with President Roosevelt and when he first brings Annie home for a tryout visit, he assigns his assistant to take charge of her — yet no one in the audience gasps. I don't recall theatergoers telling their children that poor little Annie should have stayed in the orphanage because Daddy Warbucks is too rich, too single, and possibly in too much of a midlife crisis to adopt her.
And remember, it's not ascertained until the end of the show that Annie is in fact a true orphan — her parents could still be alive.
Well if it's OK for richie rich Daddy Warbucks to become an "adoptive" dad, then why are media and other Big Mouths in a fury that megarich Madonna is about to "steal" another African child from an orphanage? So what that she's rich and is touring the Malawian orphanage in a $2,800 Chanel sweatsuit? At least she's there and she's spent a portion of her fortune making improvements to that orphanage. Are her critics raising money to improve the lives of the one million Malawian orphans or lining up to adopt them themselves? There's certainly plenty of children desperate for parents in the small African country — one in five of its children are, in fact, orphans.
If Madonna can give an opportunity to even one of these poverty-stricken children, why should her wardrobe matter? Has anyone priced out Angelina Jolie's outfits when she went to Vietnam, Ethiopia or Cambodia - the home countries of HER three adopted children? When Angelina dresses for red carpet events, she routinely wears Ralph Lauren, Versace and Max Azria. Should this disqualify her from adopting in the future? Should all wealthy people with designer-laden wardrobes be excluded from adopting? Should Oprah forget her dream of educating poor South African girls because she likes to carry an Hermes purse?
The child that Madonna is adopting is reportedly named Mercy and she is 4 years old. I remember hearing that when Madonna adopted David Banda as an infant — he's now a healthy-looking 3-year-old — she had also wanted to adopt a little girl named Mercy. So she's had Mercy in her sight for two years, and never forgot about her. She's hardly returned to Malwai to "shop" for a child. If anything, she's refused to forget about an orphan that, like Annie, desperately needed a home to call her own.
According to press reports, Mercy's 18-year old mother died when she was just five days old, her dad is MIA and she has a 61 year-old grandmother Lucy Chekechiwa who has accused Madonna of stealing her granddaughter. Mind you: Mercy lives in the same orphanage where Madonna discovered David Banda. She does not live with her grandmother.
Now, I am sympathetic to the feelings of Mercy's grandmother who doesn't want to lose all ties with her granddaughter. But put this in an American perspective. There are hundreds of thousands of children in this country who are ineligible for adoption because a parent or grandparent who can't care for them has refused to release them for adoption. Instead, these children and teenagers are caught in the foster care system for years, and can be shuttled from foster home to foster home to group home, until they are 18.
The result: They never have the opportunity to have their own loving, stable home with an adoptive family of their own. Instead, when they are 18 they are thrown out like unwanted animals to fend for themselves in the streets. Rosie O'Donnell just filmed a movie called "America" for Lifetime about this harsh reality.
Now imagine being Mercy. She has a chance to escape a place where one in five children doesn't live past the age of five, the average life expectancy is 48, and the average household income is $160 a year. How powerless would you feel if a bunch of muckety mucks that you've never met are trying to ruin your chance for a better life?
Wouldn't you want to be special to someone? Have a mom? Have someone to kiss your boo boos? Have a big sister and two brothers? Have a cozy bed? Go to school? Be able to see a doctor when you're sick? Have enough to eat? Go to college? Be able to have a profession that you love when you grow up?
Would you really want to be denied these things because your potential mom was rich and wore a $2,800 Chanel sweatsuit? Madonna with her Kabbalah and fitness obsession may not be everyone's cup of tea but by all reports she is a loving mother. Lourdes and Rocco have been photographed playing happily with local kids in Central Park numerous times. They look like completely normal, happy children. Pictures of David Banda show that he's grown into a healthy, smiling three year-old. There's no evidence that the children of rock stars grow up any more or less dysfunctional than other children, at least as long as they aren't featured in a reality show, Ozzy Osbourne- style.
So have mercy on Madonna Bigbucks and Mercy. If you're not prepared to go to Africa and adopt a needy child, then don't diss someone who is, even if she is a material girl.
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I really love GITM as the last song. I know I'm in the minority, but I like all the guitar playing and the rock version of Hung Up. The version she did at the promo concerts was bad, but the version in the tour itself was very enjoyable.
As I said before, I'm not into the request section. I think it sounded silly and a little unprofessional to sing a song acapella without the band playing the music. I would replace that with one of the most requested songs as Express Yourself or Dress You Up.
It would be nice to do one of the new songs from the GH album, but the problem is the record comes out in September and the tour is before then so people haven't really had a chance to hear the new songs and get into them. So for that reason I don't think it would be a great idea to do one of the new songs.
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I don't think it should be a new single. Some people were complaining there were too many new songs already. I think it definitely needs to be an oldie. Perhaps Like A Virgin, Dress You Up or Express Yourself.
I'll probably be slammed for this, but I wasn't that crazy about the request section. I thought it was kind of silly and chaotic to do an acapella version of a song. I wouldn't mind if the request section was eliminated and a full band rehearsed version was done of an old song instead.
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Secret should definitely be on the GH. Personally, it's not one of my all time favorite songs by her as I'm not that into Bedtime Stories. But I know several casual fans of Madonna and they love it. It is a song that casual fans definitely remember and would be looking for on a GH album.
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No TIMBO please.
+1. And I hope they aren't in a style similiar to HC, either. Do you think she will do any of these songs on the Sticky and Sweet extension?
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hard to belive! this is a Warner thing isnt it? why she would bother to record more songs for them?
Because most people who like Madonna already have her other greatest hits albums with the songs that they like. Why would they buy the same thing they already have? I think to get a lot of people to buy it, they would have to put something new on it.
Don't most greatest hits albums always have a few new songs? GHV2 was quite unusual in that it didn't.
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She needs to work with Pharrell on the next album!
No!!!!! I don't want her to work with anyone associated with R&B and hip hop. Move on to a different sound.
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I kind of go back and forth on Hard Candy. When I first got it, I really liked it but then after awhile I disliked it. But I listened to it recently and I really liked it again.
It's the type of album that you can listen to every now and then and enjoy it. But it's not something that you can enjoy listening to a lot because it's all surface, and doesn't have that many levels to it.
Also on some of the songs, for me her voice is not as good as her past albums. It seemed like they didn't take enough time with the vocals, particularly on a song like Incredible.
A lot of it is probably my personal taste since I really don't like R&B or hip hop. I'm into electronica and rock.
My favorite songs are 4 minutes, Candy Shop, Give it to Me, Miles Away, Devil and Voices. The rest of the songs I skip over most of the time.
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Madonna is crazy. Sure, she'll always be the most successful in the entertainment industry (I can totally see her at 82 gyrating her pussy), but I can't see her EVER getting along with a man
With that said, I can just imagine how bitchy and controlling she was in the relationship in order to get Guy calling her "it," if that's in fact true.
It takes two people to create a bad relationship. I'm not saying Madonna is perfect, but she doesn't always chose the most loving emotionally open men who are capable of giving her what she needs. She has terrible taste in men, in my opinion. It seems to me she chooses men who are sort of like her father, distant and not really appreciative of her talent and supportive, who she has to work hard to impress. A lot of women chose men who are like their fathers, which is not always the best choice. For some reason, some women try to recreate the father/daughter relationship trying to get the love of their father which they could never get, instead of chosing a different kind of man who would be healthier for them.
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^She's responsible for the Old School & Futuristic Rave outfits, I guess those are gonna receive some changes. Old School most likely, because remember Madonna used an alternate costume on a few shows.
Madonna's not as skinny now as she was last summer so they definitely would have to alter some of the costumes to make them fit her.
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Arthur Fogel has yet to say that an Australian leg isn't happening. All he's said is that there is no "validity" to the dates that the Australian media are listing as confirmed dates. There are still people in the know who are saying that it's happening in September. We'll just have to wait and see....
I read the press release the same way as you did. Fogel said there was "no chance" of it coming back to North America, but his sentence about Australia is phrased differently. It seems to me if they weren't considering Australia they would have said there's no chance it's coming to Australia too. The way they connected the statement about Australia to the four rumored dates seems to indicate they are considering Australia, but they haven't finalized the exact dates yet.
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Drop La Isla Bonita. I'm so tired of that song. How about Who's that Girl instead.
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I'm going to go with my current fav.. which is DEVIL WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU
But honestly, there are so many others I enjoy just as well. LIVE TO TELL still captivates me.
Those are my two choices, too. Great minds think alike!
Madonna's Malawian Adoption: Appeal to The Supreme Court
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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I don't see anything wrong with what Guy said. The court didn't question her fitness as a mother, but lots of people in the British media were. That's was what he was responding to when he said she was a great mom.
Also, he probably wasn't aware she was appealing or an appeal was possible.