DavidEye said:

I'm pretty sure. I'm looking for a ticket I can afford, but I can't imagine missing it. The last show was the cause of my "conversion".

heartbeatocean said:

I think Isel means (I could be wrong) that Madonna is full of contradictions in her image and what she preaches. Like "don't be materialistic"...but here I am charging 350 a pop for concert tix so I can spend 100 grand a year on Pilates sessions. She also claims to be always having a message...yet with her "AL" video she pulled it at the last minute when her message was the strongest and most relevant it's probably ever been. She also used to profess safe sex and AIDS awareness...but then was so sexually promiscuous in her image with the "Sex" book. There are a ton of paradoxical and contradicting images/messages in her career history and it can be interpreted that she is a hypocrite in that sense.

heartbeatocean said:

Didn't you say it was your husband that got you to go?
Speaking of straight Madge fans people..... okay i'll stop.

Hey dudes and dudettes!!

I forgot to quote, but heartbeatocean asked for some examples.


Earlier in this thread I cited three:

1. Madonna's comment in London about the stupidest Brits being smarter than any American. Well, I just found that a little hypocritical since she just finished the American leg of her Re-invention tour. I wouldn't think that she would make that statement to an American audience who just paid big bucks to see her perform. I would also say then that it's an example of her being a little opportunistic because if she really feels that, well she just sold a bill of goods to her American audience, and because she happened to be in London made that statement to endear her to the audience or something??

2. Madonna's statements concerning her opinion that television is not worth watching. Well, I find that a little hypocritical since her claim to fame is really more of a music-video artist. MTV was a huge tool in creating Madonna.
Sooooo I also find that a bit opportunistic and additionally hypocritical because even though she doesn't respect it, she used television to promote herself.

3. Also in a recent article she said she stayed on the thin side because Guy preferred carve-out women. Well, I thought that was a little hypocritical because I read an article in which Madonna said that Americans, in particular, are afraid of strong women, and she is regard as a strong woman, so Americans are afraid of her? I mean, she doesn't really sound very strong to me if she is allowing Guy to dictate how she looks?? So it seems to me that she does her share of placating.

4. Opportunistic: other than the previous example above, Madonna seems to take advantage of trends rather than really creating her own. She also seems to have taken advantage of some of her friends then dropped them at her convenience. I don't if that's true, but that's just the way it appears. I have another more concrete example, but I KNOW for a fact that posting it would cause a major war, so I'm gonna refrain.

Now let's talk about the real news: I just read on AOL that Britney Spears confirmed that she was pregnant again! I don't know what to say about that.

I'm just playin'.
[Edited 5/9/06 18:20pm]