Madonna’s “Sticky and Sweet” tour continued unhindered last night, on the heels of the Madonna/Guy Ritchie divorce announcement. Concert goers at the Boston venue said Madonna was on her game and gave the performance of her life – but it wasn’t without a few subtle hits at soon-to-be ex, Guy Ritchie.
And the defiant Queen of Pop’s first words to 20,000 cheering fans in Boston as she introduced an early song were: “That’s right – I’m not sorry.”
Madonna, 50, told cheering fans: “This song is for the emotionally retarded. “You might know a few people who fall into that category – god knows I do.”
She then launched into the song Miles Away – about a couple who grow apart – with lyrics that could have been written about her relationship with Ritchie, 40.
The pair announced they were divorcing after nearly eight years on Wednesday – just hours before Madonna went onstage in Boston. The Sun revealed their marriage was torn apart by a string of rows and by Madonna’s desire to live in the US while Guy has been filming in the UK.
Lyrics to the song include: “I’m alright, don’t be sorry, but it’s true/When I’m gone, you realise/That I’m the best thing to happen to you.”
And: “I guess we’re at our best when we’re miles away/So far away, so far away.”
Of course, her Madgesty had her own set of demands, both at the hotel and at the TD Banknorth Garden, where she played to a sold out crowd:
After the gig, Madonna returned to Boston’s Ritz Carlton Hotel, where she has booked an entire floor.
Sources say hotel staff were ordered to place gym equipment in Madonna’s hotel suite so she could work out in private.
And the star continued her usual practice of having a hermetically sealed toilet installed in her dressing room at the Boston arena before her arrival.
Her spokeswoman confirmed the clean new loo is her standard requirement on each concert date – along with 25 cases of Kabbalah water.
Just how does one bring a hermetically sealed toilet on a concert tour – and who gets the fun job of installing said toilet for Queen Madge?
I wouldn’t have expected Madonna to sit home crying and eating a pint of ice cream to drown her sorrows. But it would be nice if she could show a little restraint and not take an opportunity to knock the father of her children in such a public way, just hours after announcing their split. Madonna’s image is so carefully created, there’s no way that was an offhand comment. She knew exactly what she was doing.
Photo of Madonna performing a number from her “Sticky and Sweet” tour in Paris on Sept. 20, 2008. Photo credit: Bauergriffin.
Interesting. The more she tries to make it look like she’s the one calling the shots, the more it looks like she’s NOT the one calling the shots. Guy’s silence speaks volumes.
Poor Madonna. What a rough life you lead. Does she really expect anyone to feel sorry for her? And what in the hell is kabbalah water?
You might know a few people who fall into that category – god knows I do.”
Nice to see she can recognize herself.
“I wouldn’t have expected Madonna to sit home crying and eating a pint of ice cream to drown her sorrows.”
I believe she drowns her sorrows in her man arms? Or crying into her new cheek implants?
love this juicy break-up
people magazine is calling her relationship with a-rod “strange”.
and us weekly is saying she and guy have been communicating through personal assistants for awhile. madge gave him an ultimatum to move to n.y. on friday and he said no.
sounds like they can’t stand one another.
CB- please keep posting about them
can’t wait for guy to start spilling the beans
That is so passive-aggressive. Can’t stand people like that: either say what you have to say or shut up, digs are cowardly. And it really makes it seem like Guy did the dumping.
Guy has always acted aloof and a bit of a bore in most situations, so maybe he is an emotionless twig. Who knows, but the speculation is just beginning…woohoo!
Geronimo…….I believe very much that you’re on to something. If she indeed was the one to call it off, she wouldn’t need to make catty remarks.
Good call.
I can only imagine that Guy is somewhere having a beer with a big smile on his face. Is it wrong of me to be happy for him??
Ritchie went through marriage boot camp and survived. God he’s hot, some woman is going to be very happy.
Kabbalah Water – The sweat squeezed out of all those little red string wristbands that these sanctimonious wankers wear.
Madge is still the vadge. I pity the fool that winds up with her. She’s not getting better with age. I just hope her kids don’t use wire coat hangers.
shut up about guy, madonna. he happens to be the father of your children. don’t sink any lower than you already have —
you break up alex rodriguez’s marriage and trash your husband’s good name on stage for all the world to hear. you give new meaning to the word lowlife.
I completely agree with Geronimo. Guy’s silence does indeed speak volumes and shows what a classy guy he is. Isn’t it funny how the very moment they split up, he has a film coming out which is likely to be good and which seems to really be a Guy Ritchie film, like in the pre-Madonna olden days? Goes to show how much she smothered him and his career and how she probably can’t stomach someone being talented and successful at her side (let’s not forget Lourdes’ father who is just a fitness trainer) for long.
Team Ritchie!
I don’t like her, never did like her, but breaking up is always a bitch. I’m sure it’s harder than she’s letting on.
All that money and she still can’t fix her gap-tooth.
Is her super-sanitized toilet a port-a-potty? I don’t care how “sanitized” it is, it doesn’t flush! yuk.
And p.s. do you drink Kabbalah water or bathe in it?
Lola, she probably douches with it 🙄
so what she made comments about him…what is wrong w/that?
so why are people assuming it’s all her fault? nobody knows what is really going on in their relationship…
I’m sure she made him make “Swept Away” (was the name of that horrid film with her on the boat?) He’d probably been trying to get free ever since.
The new New Yorker has a great review by my fave film critic Anthony Lane of BOTH their new movies. Not only is it hilarious it gives one real insight into both of their wannabe natures.
Watching her try and do the casual patter with her audience is nothing short of painfully embarrassing.
Madge doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.
Sounds to me like somebody’s bbbiiiitttteeeerrrr!!
@Lanette: What’s wrong with taking public digs at your husband in front of 20K fans while in the same breath asking the “public” to keep matters private? Hum..that’s a hard one.
If she cared an ounce for her children she would keep her cheek implanted fact shut. My mother went through a scandalous public divorce, but it wasn’t until we siblings were teenagers that we learned that my father was a real douche(we came upon old newspaper counts of the divorce). My mother never uttered a negative about him, she only alluded to the fact that he had a hard time keeping a job, ONCE. I thank her for being an adult about the situation because it allowed us to grow up without the constraints and burden of feeling that our father was a bad guy or that men in general were bad. What Madonna is doing right now can only be categorized as infantile and evil. It can only do harm to her children and for that I say, “What A Complete Bitch!”
She’s a real piece of work, this one. Does she forget that Lourdes can read? I look back on the time that Lourdes was in New York this summer palling around with her father a lot because “she was upset after reading tabloid stories about her mother”. Hah, this was probably the time that Madonna told her about the impending divorce. Madonna tried to blame the press as to why her daughter appeared unhappy. Intelligent people will understand that it was the fact that Mommy was breaking up the family by divorcing Guy that Lourdes was turning to her real father as a source of comfort and distraction. Shame on Madonna for trying to spin the situation. Is she also going to say that she was misquoted when she basically eviserated her husband in her recent performance? It would be her M.O. wouldn’t it? Go peddle your smut somewhere else Madonna. How about a very, very extended stay in Malawi? You are one of the weakest women I know if you can’t even keep your vindictiveness to yourself for your children’s sake.
that must be nice for her children to hear.
She’s talentless, gross and probably smells awful.