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Reply #60 posted 08/19/15 6:41am

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TheGoldStandard said:

214 said:

Why a straight guy couldn't be a Madonna fan}'

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So bull. Even today there is a TMZ article about her birthday party with multiple comments like "I'd hit" and "still hit it" amongst the usual refuse.

Don't get it, could you explain yourself in a more axplicit way please

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Reply #61 posted 08/19/15 6:55am

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214 said:

TheGoldStandard said:

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So bull. Even today there is a TMZ article about her birthday party with multiple comments like "I'd hit" and "still hit it" amongst the usual refuse.

Don't get it, could you explain yourself in a more axplicit way please

Oh maybe I misunderstood ya? The grammar in the question(?) "Why a straight guy couldn't be a madonna fan" is a bit wonky, I was just noting that she does have a straight male audience that are very vocal about her fuckability.

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Reply #62 posted 08/19/15 6:43pm

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Ah, look how Midnightshitter gleefully crawls out of his hole, when there are bad news about artists he deems unworthy. Pathetic.

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Reply #63 posted 08/21/15 3:32pm

lowkey

PatrickS77 said:

Ah, look how Midnightshitter gleefully crawls out of his hole, when there are bad news about artists he deems unworthy. Pathetic.

true, he only comes out to trash certain artists.

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Reply #64 posted 08/21/15 3:47pm

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Sounds about right nuts

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Reply #65 posted 08/21/15 3:49pm

purplepolitici
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TheGoldStandard said:

214 said:

Don't get it, could you explain yourself in a more axplicit way please

Oh maybe I misunderstood ya? The grammar in the question(?) "Why a straight guy couldn't be a madonna fan" is a bit wonky, I was just noting that she does have a straight male audience that are very vocal about her fuckability.

One such right here biggrin. Very fuckable nod ky.

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Reply #66 posted 08/21/15 9:37pm

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VelvetKittyKat said:

Funny how people always point out the bad behavior of other artists to somehow justify the behavior of whatever artist they are a fan of.


Bad behavior is bad behavior, no matter how many famous people demonstrate it.




Well...that's said with the assumption that the behavior is bad, which behavior is being assumed upon and isolating different behaviors. Bad from what perspective? If you're running a tour, having less than energetic people around isn't generally conducive to good results. So the behavior was that she terminated someone who's less bountiful energy levels was affecting her income. That's a sound business decision from that perspective. It's less than tactful to say u don't want any fat lazy cunts around, but that a communication or PR issue.

It bad to punch someone in the nose.

Not so simple. Say this person has been legally invading your privacy for years. Digging through your trash. Snapping pics of your kids. Once, walking to your car, said person trips and falls towards. You're aware said person is there but not aware he tripped. All you see is him lunging for you. You punch him in the nose in the middle of him doing nothing illegal. Is that bad? Many would argue no. Let's say he never tripped or lungex for you in any way....its just after a decade of this fool being in you and your child's face legally with a camera you've 'quickly shifted attitudes'. That's shift in attitudes is approved and applauded despite it having had u punching a man in the nose. Many would argue someone saying that behavior is bad.

It cracks me up and someone makes some über black & white statement about something as subjective asthe word 'bad' or 'good' would infer.
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Reply #67 posted 08/21/15 11:47pm

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Madonna is a Diva and at times a bitch, and yes it is all about her. That comes with her job as boss and entertainer. She like Prince work hard at being the best they can be and expect the same for those they employ.

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Reply #68 posted 08/22/15 2:04am

midnightmover

Jesus, some of you guys would've fit in great during slavery days. All this talk of dancers as "investments" and cheering on their being underpaid. Sorry, but when you've got $800 million you should be using it to help other people, not just scheming to get even more of it. What's the point of being the richest person in the cemetery? And that's not just a comment about Madonna by the way. I say the same thing about all people who see money as an end in itself. They're all missing something in my view.

I think the attittude you guys are showing is a product of our materialist, narrow culture. It seems normal to you to think that way because that attitude is ever-present in our society. It's like a teenage boy who never leaves his room and never washes. His room stinks but he doesn't know it because he's used to it. He's gone nose-blind.

Similarly, you guys cheer on your idols' money-hoarding without ever noticing how empty, pointless and ultimately destructive it is. It's nothing to be celebrated guys. It's something to be pitied and condemned.

By the way, I don't know how much of that article is true. I just posted it on a whim, but I think we all know that those are indeed character traits of Madonna.

One more thing. Has anyone ever noticed how guarded Madonna is on the subject of money? In Truth Or Dare the cameras follow her everywhere. We see her backstage, in her hotel room, even at her mother's grave, but never in her business meetings. She has spent much of her life sitting at desks talking with accountants, but it's remarkable how reluctant she is to talk about it. It sits uncomfortably with her delusions about being a "revolutionary".

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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Reply #69 posted 08/22/15 2:07am

midnightmover

lowkey said:

PatrickS77 said:

Ah, look how Midnightshitter gleefully crawls out of his hole, when there are bad news about artists he deems unworthy. Pathetic.

true, he only comes out to trash certain artists.

I would gladly talk about the artists I like, but my tastes are very different to people on this forum so it's impossible to get those discussions going.

Merry Christmas to both of you. cool

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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Reply #70 posted 08/22/15 2:32am

midnightmover

TheGoldStandard said:

214 said:

Why a straight guy couldn't be a Madonna fan}'

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So bull. Even today there is a TMZ article about her birthday party with multiple comments like "I'd hit" and "still hit it" amongst the usual refuse.

You don't have to be a fan to find someone fuckable.

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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Reply #71 posted 08/22/15 4:31am

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midnightmover said:

Just saw this on Yahoo. Her dancers are apparently being treated like shit by her and not paid well either. I expect the Madonna Mafia to run to her defence as usual, but she seems like a warped egotist to me. Like Donald Trump with a record contract. Plus, I find the money-hoarding ways of these superstars to be pretty foolish spiritually and morally, but anyway....



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It’s hardly news to be accusing Madonna of being a diva – didn’t she basically invent the idea? However there are fresh claims being made today that her behavior during rehearsals for her upcoming tour has been so bad that people are walking out.


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The 56-year-old’s Rebel Heart tour kicks off September 9 and it would seem the pressure is getting to Madge who has reportedly been working her dancers to the point where they have basically gone on strike.


“On Monday night, the dancers declared mutiny on Madonna because she is working them way too hard,” a ‘source’ told Radaronline.


Gawd – it’s all very London Underground, isn’t it?


“One dancer even went so far as to take off his credentials, throw it in her face and say, ‘F*ck you. I quit!’ She had to call security to protect her and escort her remaining dancers out.”


image


“On another occasion, one of her dancers broke her arm during rehearsals and instead of showing concern, Madonna had a nuclear meltdown,” the insider claimed.


What’s more, “Everyone is required to wear black head-to-toe at all times and she has said, in her own words, that there are ‘no fat c*nts allowed in her presence.‘”


Luckily, black is very slimming.


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“Madonna seems to expect everyone to drop every other project that they are working on to cater to her and make her tour their only priority in life,” the source went on (and on).


Tbf, dancing for Madonna is surely one of the best gigs so we were suitably shocked to hear that it’s apparently pretty horribly paid:


“The problem is that she does not pay very well, but she knows that people that she hires will work countless hours at less than premium wage because she is Madonna.”


The source added, “Her ego is so over-inflated and she thinks that her staff are lucky to be in her presence.”


So by the sounds of things she’s not the type of celeb you would call particularly ‘down to earth’.



Lol! I am not surprised at all. I've always heard she wasn't the nicest person, but damn! Meanwhile Janet Jackson is spoiling the hell out of her dancers with Hermes watches and bracelets, J.Cole concert tickets, and The new Mac book Air. I only bring this up because over on Instagram a former dancer of both Janet and Madonna replied "one is so sweet and the other so miserable". Anybody wanna guess who he was talking about?
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Reply #72 posted 08/22/15 5:30am

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popped up in my recommendations, a real gem

"It feels... 'reductive' "

"Is that good?"

"Look it up."

eek OMG ROFLMAO lol

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Reply #73 posted 08/23/15 10:39am

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If its true, there's no excuse for it. I'm a big fan, but she's got more money than she could ever spend n a lifetime, so why pay your staff poorly? She needs a visit from the ghosts of Xmas past, present and future...

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Reply #74 posted 08/24/15 2:54am

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And at the end of the day anyway, her dancers, her tour, her business and Bitch! she is MADONNA!

Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name
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Reply #75 posted 08/24/15 5:23am

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If she were that bad a boss, half the people wouldn't return to work with her, tour after tour. Many of the dancers on this tour work on her previous tour.

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Reply #76 posted 08/24/15 11:31am

lowkey

midnightmover said:

lowkey said:

true, he only comes out to trash certain artists.

I would gladly talk about the artists I like, but my tastes are very different to people on this forum so it's impossible to get those discussions going.

Merry Christmas to both of you. cool

i would gladly have an unbias conversation with you about the artists you like,if im not familiar with them i will even give them a listen.

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Reply #77 posted 08/24/15 4:51pm

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BlackCat1985 said:

midnightmover said:

Just saw this on Yahoo. Her dancers are apparently being treated like shit by her and not paid well either. I expect the Madonna Mafia to run to her defence as usual, but she seems like a warped egotist to me. Like Donald Trump with a record contract. Plus, I find the money-hoarding ways of these superstars to be pretty foolish spiritually and morally, but anyway....

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It’s hardly news to be accusing Madonna of being a diva – didn’t she basically invent the idea? However there are fresh claims being made today that her behavior during rehearsals for her upcoming tour has been so bad that people are walking out.

image

The 56-year-old’s Rebel Heart tour kicks off September 9 and it would seem the pressure is getting to Madge who has reportedly been working her dancers to the point where they have basically gone on strike.

“On Monday night, the dancers declared mutiny on Madonna because she is working them way too hard,” a ‘source’ told Radaronline.

Gawd – it’s all very London Underground, isn’t it?

“One dancer even went so far as to take off his credentials, throw it in her face and say, ‘F*ck you. I quit!’ She had to call security to protect her and escort her remaining dancers out.”

image

“On another occasion, one of her dancers broke her arm during rehearsals and instead of showing concern, Madonna had a nuclear meltdown,” the insider claimed.

What’s more, “Everyone is required to wear black head-to-toe at all times and she has said, in her own words, that there are ‘no fat c*nts allowed in her presence.‘”

Luckily, black is very slimming.

image

“Madonna seems to expect everyone to drop every other project that they are working on to cater to her and make her tour their only priority in life,” the source went on (and on).

Tbf, dancing for Madonna is surely one of the best gigs so we were suitably shocked to hear that it’s apparently pretty horribly paid:

“The problem is that she does not pay very well, but she knows that people that she hires will work countless hours at less than premium wage because she is Madonna.”

The source added, “Her ego is so over-inflated and she thinks that her staff are lucky to be in her presence.”

So by the sounds of things she’s not the type of celeb you would call particularly ‘down to earth’.

Lol! I am not surprised at all. I've always heard she wasn't the nicest person, but damn! Meanwhile Janet Jackson is spoiling the hell out of her dancers with Hermes watches and bracelets, J.Cole concert tickets, and The new Mac book Air. I only bring this up because over on Instagram a former dancer of both Janet and Madonna replied "one is so sweet and the other so miserable". Anybody wanna guess who he was talking about?

Puh lease. She's just as narcissistic in her own way.

I love them both, almost equally, whatevs.

I'll leave it alone babe...just be me
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Reply #78 posted 08/24/15 8:13pm

Superfan1984

What happened to her "all is love and I am love and send you peace and love...." when she got into Kabbalah? I knew that wouldn't last.....
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Reply #79 posted 08/25/15 4:36am

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BlackCat1985 said:

midnightmover said:

Just saw this on Yahoo. Her dancers are apparently being treated like shit by her and not paid well either. I expect the Madonna Mafia to run to her defence as usual, but she seems like a warped egotist to me. Like Donald Trump with a record contract. Plus, I find the money-hoarding ways of these superstars to be pretty foolish spiritually and morally, but anyway....

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It’s hardly news to be accusing Madonna of being a diva – didn’t she basically invent the idea? However there are fresh claims being made today that her behavior during rehearsals for her upcoming tour has been so bad that people are walking out.

image

The 56-year-old’s Rebel Heart tour kicks off September 9 and it would seem the pressure is getting to Madge who has reportedly been working her dancers to the point where they have basically gone on strike.

“On Monday night, the dancers declared mutiny on Madonna because she is working them way too hard,” a ‘source’ told Radaronline.

Gawd – it’s all very London Underground, isn’t it?

“One dancer even went so far as to take off his credentials, throw it in her face and say, ‘F*ck you. I quit!’ She had to call security to protect her and escort her remaining dancers out.”

image

“On another occasion, one of her dancers broke her arm during rehearsals and instead of showing concern, Madonna had a nuclear meltdown,” the insider claimed.

What’s more, “Everyone is required to wear black head-to-toe at all times and she has said, in her own words, that there are ‘no fat c*nts allowed in her presence.‘”

Luckily, black is very slimming.

image

“Madonna seems to expect everyone to drop every other project that they are working on to cater to her and make her tour their only priority in life,” the source went on (and on).

Tbf, dancing for Madonna is surely one of the best gigs so we were suitably shocked to hear that it’s apparently pretty horribly paid:

“The problem is that she does not pay very well, but she knows that people that she hires will work countless hours at less than premium wage because she is Madonna.”

The source added, “Her ego is so over-inflated and she thinks that her staff are lucky to be in her presence.”

So by the sounds of things she’s not the type of celeb you would call particularly ‘down to earth’.

Lol! I am not surprised at all. I've always heard she wasn't the nicest person, but damn! Meanwhile Janet Jackson is spoiling the hell out of her dancers with Hermes watches and bracelets, J.Cole concert tickets, and The new Mac book Air. I only bring this up because over on Instagram a former dancer of both Janet and Madonna replied "one is so sweet and the other so miserable". Anybody wanna guess who he was talking about?

more interested in the dancer's name...

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