Madonna and Who Gets To Stick Around
The example of Madonna: old popstars and old gossips
Dear Squawkers,
Writing this on an overnight flight from New York to London where I’ll be until Wednesday for a junket, my first overseas junket in over ten years. Am thinking that I might make the whole junket experience the subject of next week’s newsletter, but we’ll see how this trip goes first.
Today the main character is Madonna because I was at the first of two Toronto shows on her Celebration World Tour a couple of weeks ago and can’t stop thinking about what she said during the concert.
The concert itself is SO MUCH FUN, I seriously considered going back a second night and probably would have if a winter storm didn’t blow through the city. If you have tickets for any of her upcoming dates, I would recommend the double and I’ve heard the last-minute ticket prices aren’t horrifying. Several of my friends bought same day tickets in Toronto for the Friday show for between $200-$300 in the 100 level. I’m not saying that’s cheap, but it’s definitely less expensive than the price people (me!) were paying when tickets first went on sale.
And the merch is pretty good too; I got the black hoodie with the big “M” tricked out on the back and the Blonde Ambition Tour vintage tee which I was too young and poor to buy the first time around, when she referred to us as the “fascist state of Toronto”, hitting the hard “Ts”. TUH-ron-TOH. I wanted so badly to hear her say that again, but we’ve probably assigned more significance to that moment in her history than she ever did after she exploited it for maximum entertainment value in Truth or Dare.
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