Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Material Girl
Madonna has announced that she's going to be doing a world tour later this year. We, as we've said before, don't rate Madonna much - particularly as she's now in her "Granny trying to be down with the kids" phase, desperately reaching out and trying to claw back as many cool points that she possibly can - but we felt that this was worthy of a mention because of the prices she's charging. She seems to believe that £50 for the cheap seats is a good price. Now, here at TiaPL we're no strangers to paying ridiculous amounts of money for pop related experiences - our collection of Lush memorabilia and trips to London to see one-off gigs atest to that - but even we'd draw the line at paying that for crap seats at the back of the arena, no matter who we were going to see, even a solo Nicola performance involving items of clothing being removed. Well, that's probably a lie, we'd sell our own kidneys to see Nicola remove items of clothing, but for that sort of price we'd expect to be front row centre and be allowed to take a video camera in with us.
The most worrying thing about this whole thing is not the prices she's charging, but the fact that people will pay it. Especially as rumours are already flying around that this will be a greatest hits show, although similar rumours abounded about the Drowned World tour and in the end all that involved was a piss-poor version of Holiday and Madonna arseing around on a pneumatic bull. Given that all the set-list rumours we've heard have yet to involve the words "Dear" and "Jessie", we can safely say that the show will be something less than essential.
If you do, however, decide to go, then we wish you luck and hope you feel that your money is well spent. We'd also like to suggest that you buy a copy of Atomic Kitten's Greatest Hits, as you clearly have more money than sense.
The most worrying thing about this whole thing is not the prices she's charging, but the fact that people will pay it. Especially as rumours are already flying around that this will be a greatest hits show, although similar rumours abounded about the Drowned World tour and in the end all that involved was a piss-poor version of Holiday and Madonna arseing around on a pneumatic bull. Given that all the set-list rumours we've heard have yet to involve the words "Dear" and "Jessie", we can safely say that the show will be something less than essential.
If you do, however, decide to go, then we wish you luck and hope you feel that your money is well spent. We'd also like to suggest that you buy a copy of Atomic Kitten's Greatest Hits, as you clearly have more money than sense.
