Madonna’s Tour Stops For No Man
Yesterday morning we awoke to the news that Madonna and hubby Guy Ritchie have decided to divorce after 7 1/2 years of marriage but that doesn’t mean that Madonna was going to put the brakes on her Sticky & Sweet World Tour. Maddy was scheduled to perform in Boston, MA last night — the same day she confirmed the divorce news — and some people thought she might postpone or otherwise take some time away from the public spotlight, if for just a moment. No such thing happened. Madonna took to the stage as scheduled and by all accounts rocked it out as if nothing were amiss in her life … tho, a curious comment ahead of her song Miles Away (which was reportedly inspired by Guy Ritchie) seemed, at least to some concert goers, to be a tiny dig at soon-to-be ex-hubby Guy:
Madonna took to the stage in Boston Wednesday – the same day she announced the demise of her seven-and-a-half year marriage – but kept mum on her marital woes. The 50-year-old singer tore through her athletic, two-hour set with her usual enthusiasm, as 30,000 fans at the TD Bank North Garden cheered her on. The closest Madonna came to mentioning her soon-to-be-ex, Guy Ritchie, or her marriage came while introducing the song, “Miles Away.” As she has in previous shows on her Sticky and Sweet Tour, she dedicated the song to the “emotionally retarded.” “You may know a few people like that,” she said. “God knows I do” … as the mother-of-three copes with her very public split, Madonna’s fans are rallying around her. “On the day she announces her divorce from a guy she really did love, all the die-hard fans are here to support her,” said Boston concert-goer Peggy Rose. “[We] love her no matter what.”
Yeah, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Madonna will be absolutely fine in the wake of her split from hubby Guy. Pretty much everything in Madonna’s life seems to operate on her schedule to her satisfaction. I don’t really think that she is the type of person to allow things to happen in her life without her approval. Madonna is made of the sort of stern stuff of legend, not to get too hyperbolic here, and it seems to me that she will have no problem carrying on successfully no matter what major changes come her way. I suspect that Maddy and Guy will end up working thru the legalities of their divorce without much nastiness. As for the kids, well, they seem pretty used to spending their time with one parent or the other already so, sad to say, the physicality of their parents’ divorce might not affect them too much. I can see how Madge and Guy may stay friendly even after the split. I still think the break-up is very sad overall but my guess is that both parties will move forward cordially and expeditiously, wrapping up the whole matter sooner prolly than most people think. That just seems the way that Madonna operates.
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Tags: 'Miles Away', 'Sticky & Sweet' World Tour, Madonna
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October 16th, 2008 at 8:23 am
It is sad news whenever people who had love, lost it.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Your description of ‘Madge’ is likely the precise reason that their marriage is over. You actually even like her and that description does not paint a picture of someone anyone would actually want to stay with for any period of time. Ick.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:26 am
It just seems so disrespectful..Guy is the biological father of one of her kids and stepped in as Dad to Lourdes and David..I wonder what the adoption people think of her home being broken up so soon after she adopted David..He’s still way better off now than before, but still..I don’t know..It seems really tacky to bash the guy on the day that the divorce was announced..AND, really tacky to use the word retarded..That doesn’t seem like a word that should be thrown around like that..Then again, she bothers me so pretty much everything she does is lame in my eyes.. :)
October 16th, 2008 at 9:47 am
It takes a strong person to do what she did. Giving it all for her fans when her personal life is in the dumps shows what love she has to her fans. She could have postponed it but no she went on stage and give it 110%. She’s a strong woman. I say, who cares if she made some comments about Guy, like we, us ‘normal’ haven’t said negative things about an ex? Kendra calls it ‘tacky’ I call it being normal.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Once a whore always a whore! who was she kidding!? Poor Guy, how did he put up with such a bitch like her! She is disgusting! so full of hate! How can she claim she is so into her religion by doing what she did in her concert? Two faced hypocritical Madonna… what else can we expect from her. Poor kids, I hope that the two boys go to their dad and Lourdes also stays with her dad.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Stay friends???? Are you kidding? Have a look at this
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1817393.ece
October 16th, 2008 at 10:46 am
What Jon calls “strong,” I call “fembot.” She is a force to be reckoned with, and I’m not so sure that’s a good thing.
October 16th, 2008 at 11:24 am
What Jon calls giving love to the fans I call sucking up attention to feed an ego.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Why would she show any sign that things are ‘amiss’ in her life? Clearly this is what she wanted! You obviously don’t want to be married if you are ’seeing’ someone else. As a fan of Madonna’s, one thing I know is that she ‘live’s through people’ (she said that herself). Her life can be broken into phases – (all revolving around a significant person). The ‘Penn’ phase, the Sandra Bernhard phase, the ‘Ingrid Casares’ phase, the Warren Beatty phase, the Jenny Shimizu phase, the Carlos Leon ‘earth mother’ phase – the list is endless … She is now finishing the Guy Ritchie ‘proper English wife’ phase. She will no doubt reject anything to do with England – that’s what she does. I guess I’ll keep loving her though!
October 16th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I believe that the one thing Madge is really married to is her pop career. Going on to perform as scheduled with her “usual enthusiasm” proves it. The possible thing with A-Rod aside, being married to your work 24/7 is never the way to go if you want a healthy family life. So her marriage is now sacrificed, but she reaps bucket loads of adoration from her fans. It may not make sense normal folk like us – we react with sadness at the divorce, wonder about her kids, etc. – but it seems the way to go for Madge, who isn’t a normal person by any stretch of the imagination.