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During last night's show in Chicago,Madonna performed the fan favorite "Love Spent"

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$10.9 mlm claim against Madonna gay rights promo to be heard Oct. 11

The Moskovsky District Court in St. Petersburg will hear on October 11 complaints filed against Madonna and her concert organizers for promoting homosexuality, attorney Alexander Pochuyev, who is representing the St. Petersburg activists that filed the claim, told RIA Novosti on Monday.

“According to our information, the court will hold the hearings on October 11,” he said.

The plaintiffs seek 333 million rubles ($10.87 million) in damages.

Madonna, who held a concert in St. Petersburg as part of her controversial MDNA tour, urged local residents to be friendlier to the LGBT community during her performance.

In mid-August, activists submitted to the Moskovsky District Court several lawsuits against the singer and the concert organizers. They claimed that they were offended by the statement supporting homosexuals. The court abandoned the claims, as violations had been made during their drafting and they had to be eradicated. Earlier in the week, the activists’ representatives said they managed to find the official address of the singer and the other information necessary for the court’s further consideration of the lawsuits.

Previously, St. Petersburg human rights activists said they submitted an application to investigators, asking that they bring Madonna to justice for inciting religious hatred, as she trampled on a cross during the concert.

The city prosecutor’s office earlier told RIA Novosti that all the applications concerning the alleged violations have been submitted for examination to the Interior Ministry’s regional department.

Earlier, Vitaly Milonov, a politician in St. Petersburg who drafted the city law restricting the promotion of homosexuality, said the performance was attended by NGOs that checked the concert’s compliance with morality regulations.

They recorded the event and said 12-year-old children were present, he said. Activists filed several applications with the police, seeking to declare Madonna in breach of the law. They claim that they were offended by her explicit support for homosexuality.

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United Center in Chicago...where Madonna just played two sold out shows...and Prince opens on Monday.

From the review by Greg Kot (same one who just wrote an article on Prince) in the Chicago Tribune:

It was a concert that opened with an act of contrition and closed with a robed church choir paving the road to a celebration. In between there was fake blood, pretend guns, the return of the infamous conical bra, whiffs of sadomasochism and poison-tipped political commentary, as well as allusions to the pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, movies by Oliver Stone and Stanley Kubrick, Brecht-Weil cabaret, Asian mysticism, Cirque du Soleil-style tightrope acrobatics, and Basque folk music.

Madonna was in town, and though she’s one of the most famous celebrities in the world - and also one of the priciest, as evidenced by those $355 seats - her first of two concerts Wednesday at the United Center had all the hallmarks of a cult artist indulging a serious art-pop fetish.

The easy route would’ve been a greatest hits tour, but even at 54 - something of a godmother to two generations of pop singers from Britney Spears to Lady Gaga - Madonna appears to get bored much too easily to do something that rote. She’s almost perverse in the way she tries to upend and reconfigure her songs to fit a theme, and this was no exception - a self-described two-hour, four-part “journey of a soul from darkness to light.”

Got that? Sometimes it wasn’t always easy to follow Madonna’s lead. Where’s this going, exactly? And how much of this was gratuitous shock theater rather than soul baring personal statement? But there was no denying the blend of art, artifice and sheer sensory overload. Besides the 16 dancers, four musicians and two backing singers, a stage that stretched into the middle of the arena and the sumptuous visuals made for something grandly watchable. It made every other recent arena tour that traffics in spectacle look rather puny in comparison. And somehow, a few emotional payoffs snuck through the dazzle, too.

Once regarded as a chirpy ingénue destined to burn up her 15 minutes and fade, Madonna has turned reinvention into 300 million worldwide record sales and nearly 30 years of stardom. She has taken a few knocks this year as her latest album, “MDNA” has tumbled down the charts soon after a muddled halftime performance at the Super Bowl.

Though the album was panned as a late, unsuccessful attempt to ride the coattails of the burgeoning electronic dance music movement, it was sold short. It was that rare recent Madonna album with an emotional center, with several songs zeroing in on the toll of her broken marriage, and that filtered into her performance Wednesday.

Her concert tours use music as just one of many elements in a multimedia scramble of dance, performance art, theater and video, and “MDNA” was no exception. The visually spectacular first segment was set in a Gothic cathedral with shafts of light piercing through the “windows” and hooded monks ringing a bell and burning incense, suggesting some strange hybrid of Kubrick’s ritualistic sex scenes in “Eyes Wide Shut” and a foreboding Medieval ceremony. The set morphed into a tawdry hotel straight out of Stone’s “Natural Born Killers,” with Madonna gunning down masked assailants with disturbing glee, smearing the joint with blood and curse-splattered bravado. The music rumbled with menace, Madonna’s voice Auto-tuned almost beyond recognition, the once-bouncy “Papa Don’t Preach” and the exuberant “Hung Up” slowed and twisted to a crawl.

A parade of drummers, some of them suspended from ceiling wires to make it long as though they were floating above the stage, exuberantly flushed out the bad vibes on “Give Me All Your Luvin’.” Segment 2 was more organic, and exuded a highly unusual quality for a Madonna tour: something like warmth. She still uses her guitar, which was often barely audible, as more of a prop than an instrument, and her voice remains thin. But her dancing was energetic, and at times astonishingly athletic. “Open Your Heart” inspired an ensemble performance that suggested a mating of gypsy kicks and hip-hop break dancing.

The next segment was all ice-queen Berlin cabaret, topped by an oddly moving, slowed-nearly-beyond-recognition “Like a Virgin.” Here was Madonna’s signature song (or at least one of them) sung from the perspective of a much older woman looking back on her life, trying to conjure up a feeling she could barely remember, let alone ever experience again. It concluded with a tortured, erotic ballet involving Madonna, another dancer and a corset. A vulnerable Madonna? You saw it here first.

After that, the singer sent her fans home dancing with the sound of sitars on “I’m a Sinner,” a choir on “Like a Prayer,” and an aerobics class sponsored by Kraftwerk on “Celebration.” Amid a fleet of fluorescent modules, she was briefly the dance-pop icon of the ‘80s and ‘90s again. Some of her fans would surely be glad if she stayed there for an entire concert. But for Madonna that would mean turning into a nostalgia act, and she’s not having it.

Click here to check out a picture gallery from last night's show on the Chicago Tribunewebsite.

I'm loving her crowd interaction in those Chicago clips. LOL @ her telling someone in the front, "I guess you're a bottom, right?"

[Edited 9/23/12 11:22am]

MDNA re-entered the Billboard 200 last week at #140 and this week is up at #94.

Next weekend,she plays two dates in my area I will be there

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Can someone (preferably a die hard madonna fan) explain to me why she is so mad at gaga for "stealing" her song when she herself has been accused and literally sued for so many copyright infringements, stole so many styles, and ripped off many songs from other artists. she's got a lot of mental issues mocking "born this way" on her tours when she's ripped off more than just a song.

Please keep in mind I HATE GAGA. Madonna is my favorite female artist I just think she is being pretty damn hypocritical. also if you want sources that show all the "hi-jacking" madonna's committed on others during her career i can send it to you. If you've never seen it you will be sickened by it especially if you're a madge fan.

TheEmperorofFunk said:

Can someone (preferably a die hard madonna fan) explain to me why she is so mad at gaga for "stealing" her song when she herself has been accused and literally sued for so many copyright infringements, stole so many styles, and ripped off many songs from other artists. she's got a lot of mental issues mocking "born this way" on her tours when she's ripped off more than just a song.

Please keep in mind I HATE GAGA. Madonna is my favorite female artist I just think she is being pretty damn hypocritical. also if you want sources that show all the "hi-jacking" madonna's committed on others during her career i can send it to you. If you've never seen it you will be sickened by it especially if you're a madge fan.

I don't think she's actually that mad at Gaga. I don't see the mash up as mocking BTW. It's done as a funny tongue in cheek thing. It's just her cheeky ironic sense of humor. Some people don't get Madonna's sense of humor and take everything she says and does so seriously. I would think if she were your favorite artist you would realize how she is and her sense of humor by now. I'm a little puzzled that you say in one breath though Madonna is your favorite artist and in the next breath you say that you want show how she has hi-jacked other artists and want to expose that and sicken her fans and how she supposedly has mental issues. Doesn't sound like you are really a fan.

Madonna has taken things here and there from various artists but I don't think she has outright copied any one artist. I don't have an issue with Gaga. But a lot of Madonna fans do feel like she tends to copy almost everything Madonna does. Gaga doesn't take influences from numerous artists like Madonna has done, but tends to just take from Madonna which is where some people's issue with her arises.

I'm not sure which songs Madonna has actually ripped from other artists? She has been sued as all famous rich people are, but I'm not sure it has ever been proven she stole from people. A lot of the so-called stealing people talk about with Madonna is generated by the crazy lady Aisha or whatever her name is.

It's pop music. I think you are taking all this way too seriously. I don't see how you can hate Gaga whom you don't even know. Seems a little bit extreme. Madonna has a sense of fun and I don't think she takes all this as seriously as some of her fans.

Glindathegood said:

TheEmperorofFunk said:

Can someone (preferably a die hard madonna fan) explain to me why she is so mad at gaga for "stealing" her song when she herself has been accused and literally sued for so many copyright infringements, stole so many styles, and ripped off many songs from other artists. she's got a lot of mental issues mocking "born this way" on her tours when she's ripped off more than just a song.

Please keep in mind I HATE GAGA. Madonna is my favorite female artist I just think she is being pretty damn hypocritical. also if you want sources that show all the "hi-jacking" madonna's committed on others during her career i can send it to you. If you've never seen it you will be sickened by it especially if you're a madge fan.

I don't think she's actually that mad at Gaga. I don't see the mash up as mocking BTW. It's done as a funny tongue in cheek thing. It's just her cheeky ironic sense of humor. Some people don't get Madonna's sense of humor and take everything she says and does so seriously. I would think if she were your favorite artist you would realize how she is and her sense of humor by now. I'm a little puzzled that you say in one breath though Madonna is your favorite artist and in the next breath you say that you want show how she has hi-jacked other artists and want to expose that and sicken her fans and how she supposedly has mental issues. Doesn't sound like you are really a fan.

Madonna has taken things here and there from various artists but I don't think she has outright copied any one artist. I don't have an issue with Gaga. But a lot of Madonna fans do feel like she tends to copy almost everything Madonna does. Gaga doesn't take influences from numerous artists like Madonna has done, but tends to just take from Madonna which is where some people's issue with her arises.

I'm not sure which songs Madonna has actually ripped from other artists? She has been sued as all famous rich people are, but I'm not sure it has ever been proven she stole from people. A lot of the so-called stealing people talk about with Madonna is generated by the crazy lady Aisha or whatever her name is.

It's pop music. I think you are taking all this way too seriously. I don't see how you can hate Gaga whom you don't even know. Seems a little bit extreme. Madonna has a sense of fun and I don't think she takes all this as seriously as some of her fans.

I really think you have some type of reading comprehension issue. For starters I never said she was my favorite artist. I said she is my favorite FEMALE artist. but that's not even bad compared to what you say I said next!

And I quote: "I'm a little puzzled that you say in one breath though Madonna is your favorite artist and in the next breath you say that you want show how she has hi-jacked other artists and want to expose that and sicken her fans and how she supposedly has mental issues. Doesn't sound like you are really a fan." End quote... WOW, Where to begin on your lack of comprehension of 5 sentences. when did I say I want to "expose that she hi-jacked other artists and sicken her fans"? I clearly said and I quote: "also if you want sources that show all the "hi-jacking" madonna's committed on others during her career i can send it to you. If you've never seen it you will be sickened by it especially if you're a madge fan." End quote.

Now I gotta take you back to school and unravel this simple quote for you b/c you've made a hell of a mess trying to do it on your own. in this quote I am simply implying for the people who want proof of what I am saying about madonna that I have evidence to support what I am saying and that I am not making shit up and so if they do not believe me I can send it to them. I am warning them however, that if they don't know anything about what I am saying and moreso if they love madge then they may be sickened by what they are about to see. Very simple.

Lastly you say "it doesn't sound like I am really a fan" haha why B/c I'm not dellusional and want to keep my head in the sand when it comes to hearing about all the negative things about an artist? If you can see all shit about anyone, music artist or otherwise and still love them, that is LOVE. Even though truthfully Madonna is pretty talentless in the category of musicianship, even though she probably is a successful fraud, even though I hate that phoney british accent she tries to pull off, even though she slept her way to the top, She STILL IS MY FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST now what does that TELL YOU?? that I am not "really a Fan"? hahaha HARDLY! Unlike you, I take the good with the bad and I am real about all the artists I love not dellusional like you seem to be.

I really think you have some type of reading comprehension issue. For starters I never said she was my favorite artist. I said she is my favorite FEMALE artist. but that's not even bad compared to what you say I said next!

And I quote: "I'm a little puzzled that you say in one breath though Madonna is your favorite artist and in the next breath you say that you want show how she has hi-jacked other artists and want to expose that and sicken her fans and how she supposedly has mental issues. Doesn't sound like you are really a fan." End quote... WOW, Where to begin on your lack of comprehension of 5 sentences. when did I say I want to "expose that she hi-jacked other artists and sicken her fans"? I clearly said and I quote: "also if you want sources that show all the "hi-jacking" madonna's committed on others during her career i can send it to you. If you've never seen it you will be sickened by it especially if you're a madge fan." End quote.

Now I gotta take you back to school and unravel this simple quote for you b/c you've made a hell of a mess trying to do it on your own. in this quote I am simply implying for the people who want proof of what I am saying about madonna that I have evidence to support what I am saying and that I am not making shit up and so if they do not believe me I can send it to them. I am warning them however, that if they don't know anything about what I am saying and moreso if they love madge then they may be sickened by what they are about to see. Very simple.

Lastly you say "it doesn't sound like I am really a fan" haha why B/c I'm not dellusional and want to keep my head in the sand when it comes to hearing about all the negative things about an artist? If you can see all shit about anyone, music artist or otherwise and still love them, that is LOVE. Even though truthfully Madonna is pretty talentless in the category of musicianship, even though she probably is a successful fraud, even though I hate that phoney british accent she tries to pull off, even though she slept her way to the top, She STILL IS MY FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST now what does that TELL YOU?? that I am not "really a Fan"? hahaha HARDLY! Unlike you, I take the good with the bad and I am real about all the artists I love not dellusional like you seem to be.

You need to seriously take a chill pill. People were sharing wonderful news about her tour which is very successful and was one of the best nights of my life. You came here with a hostile post, I tried to answer in a reasonably nice way and all you can is attack me and say I can't read. I really don't know what is wrong with people today. But you clearly came here just to rile people up. You make zero sense when you say she is your favorite female artist when you say she has no talent, is a fraud and just slept her way to the top. You really cant find any female artist that you think has musical talent and didn't sleep her way to the top? You are talking a whole load of crap. Or maybe you are just a sexist person who thinks no woman can have musical talent and we all sleep our way to the top of whatever profession? Why divide artists into female and male? Madonna is my favorite artist, regardless of gender. I don't see people talking about who is their favorite white or black artist, or their favorite straight or gay artist, so why talk about your favorite female v. male artist.

I am far from delusional and I don't think Madonna is perfect at all. I really didn't enjoy her last album Hard Candy or the accompanying tour Sticky and Sweet. I was starting to lose faith in her. But the MDNA tour totally blew me away and was a great night in my life and I am not going to let losers like you bring me down. You obviously don't like Madonna and you are trying to start something with her fans. You are just an arrogant bully and I'm sick of the likes of you attacking Madonna and all women. Get a life and go back to the Prince section.

SoulAlive said:

Next weekend,she plays two dates in my area I will be there

Dang, I would be sick a week before the concerts. But, I just had my doctor call in some antibiotics and I will be there--sick or not!

purplethunder3121 said:

SoulAlive said:

Next weekend,she plays two dates in my area I will be there

Dang, I would be sick a week before the concerts. But, I just had my doctor call in some antibiotics and I will be there--sick or not!

Nothing would stop me from going to a Madonna concert,lol

Glindathegood said:

I really think you have some type of reading comprehension issue. For starters I never said she was my favorite artist. I said she is my favorite FEMALE artist. but that's not even bad compared to what you say I said next!

And I quote: "I'm a little puzzled that you say in one breath though Madonna is your favorite artist and in the next breath you say that you want show how she has hi-jacked other artists and want to expose that and sicken her fans and how she supposedly has mental issues. Doesn't sound like you are really a fan." End quote... WOW, Where to begin on your lack of comprehension of 5 sentences. when did I say I want to "expose that she hi-jacked other artists and sicken her fans"? I clearly said and I quote: "also if you want sources that show all the "hi-jacking" madonna's committed on others during her career i can send it to you. If you've never seen it you will be sickened by it especially if you're a madge fan." End quote.

Now I gotta take you back to school and unravel this simple quote for you b/c you've made a hell of a mess trying to do it on your own. in this quote I am simply implying for the people who want proof of what I am saying about madonna that I have evidence to support what I am saying and that I am not making shit up and so if they do not believe me I can send it to them. I am warning them however, that if they don't know anything about what I am saying and moreso if they love madge then they may be sickened by what they are about to see. Very simple.

Lastly you say "it doesn't sound like I am really a fan" haha why B/c I'm not dellusional and want to keep my head in the sand when it comes to hearing about all the negative things about an artist? If you can see all shit about anyone, music artist or otherwise and still love them, that is LOVE. Even though truthfully Madonna is pretty talentless in the category of musicianship, even though she probably is a successful fraud, even though I hate that phoney british accent she tries to pull off, even though she slept her way to the top, She STILL IS MY FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST now what does that TELL YOU?? that I am not "really a Fan"? hahaha HARDLY! Unlike you, I take the good with the bad and I am real about all the artists I love not dellusional like you seem to be.

You need to seriously take a chill pill. People were sharing wonderful news about her tour which is very successful and was one of the best nights of my life. You came here with a hostile post, I tried to answer in a reasonably nice way and all you can is attack me and say I can't read. I really don't know what is wrong with people today. But you clearly came here just to rile people up. You make zero sense when you say she is your favorite female artist when you say she has no talent, is a fraud and just slept her way to the top. You really cant find any female artist that you think has musical talent and didn't sleep her way to the top? You are talking a whole load of crap. Or maybe you are just a sexist person who thinks no woman can have musical talent and we all sleep our way to the top of whatever profession? Why divide artists into female and male? Madonna is my favorite artist, regardless of gender. I don't see people talking about who is their favorite white or black artist, or their favorite straight or gay artist, so why talk about your favorite female v. male artist.

I am far from delusional and I don't think Madonna is perfect at all. I really didn't enjoy her last album Hard Candy or the accompanying tour Sticky and Sweet. I was starting to lose faith in her. But the MDNA tour totally blew me away and was a great night in my life and I am not going to let losers like you bring me down. You obviously don't like Madonna and you are trying to start something with her fans. You are just an arrogant bully and I'm sick of the likes of you attacking Madonna and all women. Get a life and go back to the Prince section.

hahaha now i'm a sexist for having a favorite female artist, wow you are too much. My question to you is this, you say that it makes "zero sense" to say "madonna is my favorite female artist" and then come out and say all these negative things.. So what you're insinuating is that a fan that likes an artist's music, cannot say the artist is NOT talented? So for instance, If I like Rihanna's music I should lie and say "she is soooo talented!", just b/c I like her music more than anyone elses? I should pretend she got where she was all because of talent? c'mon you can't honestly beleive that! Listen, people are going to love music an artist produces but not neccessarily agree that the artist is Talented or what not. In my opinion liking the artists music is what makes them my favorite, not how talented they are or untalented. If that was so, Stevie Wonder would be my favorite of all time. so actually it is what you're saying that makes "zero sense"

Then you say shame on me for stating the TRUTH (something you obviously hate to hear) by saying Madonna slept her way to the top. once again your reading comprehension fails you because I never said ALL female artists sleep their way to the top I just said Madonna. And that is a fact. whether you want to believe it or not is none of my concern, but back in the 80's she did what she had to do to get her music played. Just b/c I pointed the truth out doesn't make me bad or a hater or a "loser thats trying to bring you down." (btw, if YOU are a real fan it shouldn't take some known facts about madonna to "bring you down" )

if you're a "real fan" you know there are things about Madonna's (personally or otherwise) that suck and there are things that are great. and that goes for all artists by the way. but my point in my initial post was clearly not to talk about how great she was, it was just to ask why she is mocking or teasing gaga for something that she herself has been doing forever. However, Does that change the way her music sounds? no! Does that change the fact that she is my favorite FEMALE artist? no! it just means that I'm not a dellusional fan, I know her negatives and I know her positives, I'm real about it and would never argue to put Madonna in the class of Aretha, Whitney, Mariah, etc; but I know one thing...I like madonna's music alot better than all of them...

Funny how I listened to Madonna's music, like Prince (although they are on two different playing fields, granted) until the mid-90s and then I fell out of touch with both. In the last few years, I have gotten back in touch with both of these 80's icons and I appreciate their music for different reasons. Prince, was and always will be, a stellar musician, singer, and every kudo he deserves... But, Madonna, has been a major presence in music whether anyone wants to accept it or not--she has used whatever talent she has (and she never ever claimed to be someone of Prince's caliber) but she has put out some solid pop albums and great shows over thirty years and people still want to see them. When I started listening to Madonna again after many years of not listening--this became my new favorite, and still is (although I love many songs off MDNA)--Confessions On The Dance Floor. Looking forward to the concert!

some girls have an attitude.....fake tits and a nasty mood

SoulAlive said:

Next weekend,she plays two dates in my area I will be there

I'm really poor right now and haven't gotten a ticket. Maybe I could splurge and get a nosebleed seat? I also don't know how I'd get out to San Jose without a car. Better get on it, I suppose. I'm not as enthuised as I was in the past but how can I miss?

heartbeatocean said:

SoulAlive said:

Next weekend,she plays two dates in my area I will be there

I'm really poor right now and haven't gotten a ticket. Maybe I could splurge and get a nosebleed seat? I also don't know how I'd get out to San Jose without a car. Better get on it, I suppose. I'm not as enthuised as I was in the past but how can I miss?

where there's a will,there's a way

SoulAlive said:

heartbeatocean said:

I'm really poor right now and haven't gotten a ticket. Maybe I could splurge and get a nosebleed seat? I also don't know how I'd get out to San Jose without a car. Better get on it, I suppose. I'm not as enthuised as I was in the past but how can I miss?

where there's a will,there's a way

I just remember how I dragged myself there through the heavy rain last time with an insane head cold and pounding headache. Should have been tucked in bed. I'm surprised I could even hear!