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I was there last night and had the best time of my life! Luv you forever Queen Madonna! ♥

THATS THE FINAL PROOF

From the Examiner:
For the past couple of days, the media has enjoyed a field day reporting on how Madonna’s career is over with since she was booed off stage at a private Paris concert. They have been doing this despite the fact that videos show the crowd having a great time and dancing. To make the story more believable, the media emphasized how after the show, “fans” threw bottles at the stage and called her a “slut.” Until now, nobody looked into the allegations.
It turns out that many fans did feel shortchanged due to lack of communication on how the show would be shorter. But the actual riots and the screaming were started by supporters of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front in Paris. Apparently, they are still upset that Madonna compares Le Pen to a Nazi in her tour. Even though Le Pen isn’t a Nazi, the National Front has been accused of having Nazi ties and until recently, denied the Holocaust existed.
The French DST (equivalent to FBI in America) reported that a disturbance was planned, whether Madonna left early or not. There were several people holding up signs that made fun of Madonna’s age, sexuality, and political affiliations. Once the show stopped, they started calling her rude names, rushed the stage with bottles, and encouraged others to boo. They took videos and uploaded them to YouTube immediately.
But Le Pen’s supporters aren’t the only ones involved. On several sites, many of Lady Gaga’s “little monsters” are asking each other to post messages everywhere to say they can confirm Madonna is a liar since they were at the show. They are even posting false pictures of themselves at concerts and saying it was Madonna’s Paris show. It’s doubtful Lady Gaga would approve of this.
One fan emailed us and explained that he and his friends had an amazing time, but were certainly disappointed about the show’s lengh. “Madonna was in top form. It’s a shame she left early, but we still had a great time. I can tell you from being there that her own ‘fans’ did not start any riots. That is just media spin. There are people negatively commenting on Twitter who claim to have been at the show, but weren’t. I can tell you 100 percent of what happened because I was there.”

Fantastic speech and attitude. Nice to see some positivity. That’s why I like this site. I find at other places, comments are negative criticisms. Not critical analysis of what she is trying to do (because constructive criticism is postive – it’s designed to help someone improve), but simply a desire to insult Madonna. I loved the Olympia concert that I watched online. As soon as she announced that performance, I realised it was going to be one of her shorter promo shows. Rumours to the contrary seemed silly – why would she give her multi-million dollar show away for free online?
I’ve been a fan since 1986. The reason I’m still a fan is that her art – both her music and her work as a performance artist – continues to change as she experiments with new sounds, finds new influences, and matures as a woman. I was disappointed when the album didn’t do as well as Confessions or Music did, but then I remembered, she is a 54 year old woman. Teenagers don’t buy music made by people older than their moms. I say good! Madonna’s audience has matured since 1986 and that is the audience she is nuturing now – adults. Lady Gaga and Britney are not contemporaries – they were in diapers at the height of Madonna’s fame. So of course they will sell more records and have the teenagers and pre-teens squealing and buying records – that’s how pop music works. Madonna’s focus has changed from ensuring popular success to ensuring a lasting legacy of quality music and quality performance. MDNA is a great album – the juxtaposition of emotional pain and disappointment (gang bang, love spent) with a hunger for happiness and joy (turn up the radio, girl gone wilde) makes for a complex listen when you play the record beginning to end. The album is a complete work of art. This may pose problems for singles but I don’t care about singles.
Please keep positive on here about her work. I want her to keep doing what she does and she is only going to do that if we continue to support her. If this is in smaller numbers then fine. I’d rather support a moderately successful artist that makes quality music than a enormously successful artist that makes mediocre music.
I really hope that Madonna continues to make music into her healthy old age. that music will mature with her and it should. When we feel a desire to be critical we should attempt to engage with her lyrics, with the symbolism in her words, her costumes, her dancing, and her videos. That is where interesting conversations can happen. That is where art has the power to change its audience.
I’ll stop lecturing now. I can’t wait to see the full concert in Toronto this September. I’ve been to the Re-Invention tour and Sticky and Sweet. Both were entertaining and though provoking going beyond album promotion, or the rattling off of old hits. She takes her past art and adapts it to a theatrical vision that speaks to where she is at as an artist and comments on where we are as a society. I cannot wait to be a part of that this fall.
All the best everyone!
Fred

I think it’s very important that when the remixes from “Turn up the radio” comes up, we all fans buy it the first week so that we can make it a top 10 all over the world. Even fans from Tina Turner made possible that one of her old singles became a top 10 in Uk. I guess that Madonna has more fans than Tina Turner, so we can make it!!! She deserves it.