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Absolutely foolish The secondhand embarrassment is real

https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/22/taylor-swift-beyonce-post-malone-fans-debate-fortnight-tribute/

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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. 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." https://www.billboard.com/pro/madonna-sued-again-late-concerts-washington-dc-fans/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Hayley you best be careful, Taylor might pull y'all from opening the European Eras Tour shows for this

do you think it will be more successful than her music career?

The next Running Up That Hill?

Not her dissing her best bop anthem and the definition of flawless pop perfection

another day, another fume from miss azealia banks Screenshots:

.......to a Fenty Beauty product. Thoughts?

Girl...

Im crying

Let's add Kacey Musgraves to the list of artists Avril influenced and shaped including Olivia, Billie, Willow and now Kacey.

Hilary Swank says all actors are pretending ... so, she's for non-trans actors playing trans characters and vice versa -- at least, it seems that's what she's saying. The two-time Oscar winner famously won her first back in 2000 after playing trans man Brandon Teena in the biopic "Boys Don't Cry" and reflected on the role in an interview with The Times of London. While breaking down her part in the film, Swank acknowledges she wouldn't take the role today, saying her part in it was a sign of the times and adding a trans actor could really sink their teeth into the Brandon role today. But, HS doesn't leave her thoughts on the part there ... and, her added statement makes it sound like she's totally fine with cisgender actors taking on transgender parts. Swank says, "I also feel like actors are actors. We are supposed to play different people and I would like to hope trans people are getting the opportunity to play non-trans people as well" ... so, it seems she's hoping for a two-way street sorta approach -- gender identity shouldn't keep an actor from getting a job. Hilary's stance isn't common in Hollywood ... back in 2021, Eddie Redmayne -- who played a transwoman in "The Danish Girl" -- said he regretted starring in the film despite earning an Oscar nod for it. And, Scarlett Johansson dropped out of "Rub & Tug" after receiving criticism for agreeing to take a transgender role. But, Hilary's firm on this ... it's about the quality of the acting rather than the correct identity. Only one way to settle this -- vote below! https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/20/hilary-swank-cisgender-actors-play-trans-roles-boys-dont-cry/?adid=social-fb

Hmmm Oop:

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Season 16

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