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Whether it an hour, hour and a half or two hours being chronically late like that for all her concerts shows little or no regard for her fans. She needs more time to get ready? Then she should show up an hour, hour and a half or two hours earlier.

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It's all about her huge ego.

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From what I read, the tickets said the concert began at 8 and she didn't take the stage until 11:30. It was more like 3.5 hours, DJ or not. No one buys Madonna tickets to hear a DJ. And you mean to tell me that those folks filming don't have modern editing equipment that can edit out her mentioning the delay? They couldn't have made a general announcement leading up to it? The bottom line is that Madonna thinks her $hit no longer stinks. She thinks she's royalty and on a different plain than the rest of the peons of the world. Are there others who feel similar? Sure. They just don't seem to have the number of apologists that defend their every move.

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If they knew it was going to be delayed that long they had an obligation to inform the crowd, offer a refund or open the bar for complimentary beverages. Especially since this was being filmed for a DVD which would reap them what, HUNDREDS of dollars.

How much did she donate to Sandy relief?

The excuse that she could not mention anything because it is being filmed is a crock of ****. Was every second of that concert on the DVD? Was every little lip-syncing moment that was flubbed allowed to remain on the final cut?

This shows a total disregard for her fans and she deserves to slink away to her palace across the pond and live a life of solitude...free of anything that might irritate her.

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In Philly, there was no announced opening act, on the tickets, on the website, anywhere. (I remember because I was trying to figure out whether there was one, and I couldn't find any mention of one.) There was a DJ playing but as far as I know, this was not a DJ for whom one would buy tickets. It felt like a filler. So it felt like she was 2.5 hours late.

But she apologized, which did help.

But then she did the same thing everywhere else. That tells me it is either disorganized or intentional.

I have been to my share of concerts in my life, including Springsteen, Janet Jackson, Rolling Stones, U2, etc. I have NEVER been to a concert where the main act did not take the stage until 10:30. It is NOT the norm in the US. (I am not including concerts with many acts, just the ones where there is one main act and an opener.)

And having a DJ play for an hour as an opening act is unnecessary. I saw Muse open for U2 on the recent tour, and they only got half an hour.

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Updated On: 12/22/12 at 12:15 PM

Well, it can't be disorganization since her whole thing is what a hyper-organized person she is, right? And, according to song, she was so busy preparing every single second of this artistically triumphant tour that she simply had NO time to promote the album she had just released. Terribly too busy, no time darling.

Here's the major thing that I think song overlooks when he leaps to make excuses for the late starts: if there isn't an official late start time of 10:30 or whatever, if no announcement goes out to ticket holders telling them of this, than to expect as he does that concert goers should "know" about the late starts (and come later if they don't want to stand around for three hours getting exasperated?) is crazy. With no official announcement, even people who DO know about her sadistic history of late starts on this tour are still going to show up just in case this is the one place or the one venue that demands she actually start within an hour or so of what the ticket says and they don't want to miss anything.

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Updated On: 12/22/12 at 12:39 PM

And *I* am the one not listening?

Jerseygirl its like you are not listening, thats just what i said about people talking and not actually listening to response.
The company filming the DVD help up the Miami show not Madonna.

I don't give a $hit if she was held up at gun point, causing her to be late, her fans were owed an explanation. It was HER they paid hundreds to see. She owed them an explanation. If it was the DVD company, so be it. An announcement could have been made. NONE was made that night. No apology was given. And she has been late EVERY night. Why on earth would someone expect to have to wait 3.5 hours? I saw P!nk in Gothenburg. The tickets said the concert started at 7. She didn't take the stage until 9:30, as it was an outdoor venue and summer in Scandinavia and her staging required SOME darkness. She had THREE opening acts to fill that time. It still sucked.

You act as though because YOU saw this addressed "weeks ago" that I should know and "move on". We're having a discussion. Not everyone is sitting home wanking off to every possible explanation of what her royal highness had for breakfast.

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Updated On: 12/22/12 at 12:57 PM

Jane I agree with that to a point absaloutely. And Jersey yes she or someone should have said something at the show I agree but her and her manager did address it straight after

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Hahahaha Namo you really are a tit. Yes that's exactly why she does not have support acts at her critically acclaimed shows called the tour of the year. Sometimes your desperation terrifies me.

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I'm not desperate, and if you're terrified then the franticness that comes across in your posts is what's really scary.

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"The late thing is annoying but hardly the big deal you and so many others make it out to be."

I think what people are trying to say is that it IS the big deal the people are making it out to be. It may not be a big deal to you, but it's a big deal to the ticketgoers who paid a lot of money for their ticket and have to leave early because she hit the stage so late.

And your comparisons aren't very good ones. There is a huge difference between starting an hour late and starting 2+ hours late. One allows people to stay until the end and still get to work the next day, and one doesn't. I can promise you that Springsteen isn't hitting American stages at 10pm.

Jane, I think you're right that starting late is supposed to build anticipation, but I think it's too long a wait and it's backfiring. It starts to feel disrespectful and a waste of time. I talked to people afterwards who stayed for the whole thing, and the response was, "You know, it really wasn't worth it."

I think Madonna has been a master of career management for many years, but with this tour and the marketing of the album, it feels like she doesn't know who her audience is. The album photos look like she still wants to be the sexy ingenue. Her concert audience isn't kids who are going to a rave. It's adults who have jobs. She's had 3 Top 40 hits in the past 9 years. The kids are not her fanbase anymore.

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I wonder how Madonna would react if she made an appointment with someone and she had to sit and wait for 2 1/2 hours? Smoking in front of her is an insult? What would she view that as? But then her fans who paid top dollar to see her aren't really worth her concern.

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