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This beautiful moment during La Isla Bonita when David mouths "I love you" to her
 
 

Madonna Sued Again Over Delayed Concerts: ‘Total Disrespect For Her Fans’
Months after she was sued by angry New Yorkers, a group of D.C. fans say Madonna made them wait hours in a "hot, uncomfortable arena" before lip syncing her performance.
BY BILL DONAHUE
https://www.billboard.com/pro/madonna-sued-again-late-concerts-washington-dc-fans

 
Madonna is facing another federal class action lawsuit over late starts to her concerts, this time filed by spurned Washington D.C. ticket buyers who are accusing her of showing “total disrespect for her fans.”
In a complaint filed Friday in D.C. federal court, three fans claim that the Queen of Pop broke the law by taking the stage two hours late at a pair of December concerts at the city’s Capital One Arena.
The lawsuit, which also named concert giant Live Nation as a defendant, says that the late starts amount to “a wanton exercise in false advertising.”
“Forcing consumers to wait hours for her performance in a hot, uncomfortable arena is demonstrative of Madonna’s arrogant and total disrespect for her fans,” lawyers for the fans wrote. “In essence, Madonna and Live Nation are a consumer’s worst nightmare.”
The new case comes three months after Madonna was hit with a similar lawsuit over delayed starts to December shows in New York City. That case made headlines because it claimed the fans “had to get up early to go to work” the next day – a claim Madonna’s lawyers have since argued is not the kind of “cognizable injury” that can form the basis for a lawsuit.
In Friday’s complaint, which was filed by the same lawyers as the New York case, the fans seemed intent on heading off that same kind of backlash. “This complaint is not about unhappy fans who don’t want to stay up late, but instead, reasonable, responsible people who had commitments to babysitters, work, getting their vehicles out of parking lots that closed at 12:00 midnight, and realizing that public transportation would no longer be operating.”
Like the previous case, the lawsuit is a proposed class action that aims to represent all fans who experienced similar problems from the late start. A rep for Madonna and Live Nation did not immediately return a request for comment on Monday.
Filed by fans Elizabeth Halper-Asefi, Mary Conoboy, and Nestor Monte, Jr., the new case claims that Dec. 18 and Dec. 19 tour dates on Madonna’s Celebration Tour listed an 8:30 p.m. start time, but that the shows did not start until 10:40. When the star finally did take the stage, they say she offered no apologies: “I am sorry I am late… no, I am not sorry, it’s who I am… I’m always late.”
In the earlier New York case, Madonna and Live Nation’s lawyers have argued that “no reasonable concertgoer—and certainly no Madonna fan—would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time” and that fans cannot sue over something they knew about when they bought their tickets.
But in Friday’s complaint, lawyers for the D.C. fans called that argument “absurd.”
“In fact, reasonable consumers have seen that concerts featuring Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen, whose tours are also promoted by Live Nation, do start on the time indicated on the ticket and have similar experiences attending Broadway theater, NFL football and Major League baseball games,” the lawyers write.
The new case includes notable new allegations beyond the delayed start. For instance, the D.C. fans also claim the venue was “uncomfortably hot” and that Madonna herself had insisted on the temperature. When fans allegedly chanted “A.C.” at her, they say she responded “f**k you! I’m cold!… If you’re hot, take your f**king clothes off!”
The new case also claims that Madonna lip synched portions of the D.C. shows – another bit of alleged false advertising to fans who expected that she would “perform her music live” from the stage. “Had plaintiffs and other class members known that … the performer would be lip synching, they would not have purchased their tickets.”

See those happy faces?

The Madonna effect 

Thank God "Rain" is back. Keep it, mum!
 

After 29 shows returns Rain! Last time was February 8 at Cleveland!

After watching this I think this tour is going to end up being my favorite recording of all her tours

I need you to randomly insert this whenever you feel the need..no matter what the topic. 

I just watched the whole show again and i said it before and i say it again, The Celebration Tour is definitely one of her best... Im so proud of her... 

The one thing that really grates on me when listening to Hard Candy is the incessant and frequent grunting and groaning of Justin Timberlake. Such a grandstander. If I could take his voice off the record (4 Minutes aside), I would like the album a heck of a lot more. The pure definition of over-staying one’s welcome.  

People still living in 1995.
While Madonna's living in 2050.

the screens have a bit of a delay...

I agree. Miami should have been the end and Austin after Houston and Dallas. Not sure if touring 3 cities in Texas was really necessary. I'm pretty sure there are stops she won't be making ever again.

Not at all. They can serve as the opening or closing of a section or just mere interludes between them.
As you said, interludes in this tour can work as opening or closing for both sections they're attached to, meaning they're just that, interludes between them.

They're interludes, they don't open or close acts, they just serve as... well, interludes between them.

Sometimes I wonder how dramatic people would get if we had social media back in 1990 and people recording every show from every angle.

"OMG SHE'S OVER SHE LOST HER VOICE AGAIN"

"THIS TOUR IS A MESS, EVERY SHOW HAS A DIFFERENT TECH ISSUE"

"SHE WAS RUDE TO A FAN"

"WTF DID SHE DO WITH HER HAIR, EUROPE'S GOING TO BE A FLOP WITHOUT THE PONYTAIL"

"WHERE'S BORDERLINE AND LUCKY STAR, THE SETLIST IS TERRIBLE"

HQ cover from Apple Music, I've always loved this photoshoot on the black sandy beach in Hawaii

Cool! Let's check the audio previous in an hour on Apple Music NZ :-)
"Angel (Extended Dance Mix Edit) - 2022 Remaster"... makes me thing it was actually considered and remastered for "Finally Enough Love" but left out in the end!

It’s a previously unreleased version so can be considered new/unreleased.

Sitting studying videos of her shows and worrying about her "reactions" each night really is not healthy.

Never 

Yeah, I suspect this is probably the case here.   It's interesting though how we all individually access something like Spotify.  I never even pay attention to "what's new".  I usually do a direct search of an artist/band I want to hear and go from there. 

It’s a previously unreleased version so can be considered new/unreleased.

It’s a previously unreleased version so can be considered new/unreleased.