Madonna Says You Should "Work All Year" To Buy A Ticket To Her Show

Madonna is expected to hit the road on a tour later this year—following her Super Bowl stint—in support of her upcoming release, titled MDNA (and yes, she knows that title sound an awful lot like a popular drug). Warming up the press machine, the performer told Newsweek in a recent interview that she's well worth the hundreds of dollars her fans will shell out to see her. Specifically, the 53-year-old star told her fans, "Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together and come to my show. I'm worth it."

On her 2009 tour, seats to her MSG show were actually over $300, with ticket prices going up to at least $350. And that's face value, not scalper pricing. But can you blame her? She has to buy so many gloves to cover her scary hands up with. We'll find out how much she'll be selling these for shortly after the Super Bowl, when tickets are rumored to be going on sale.

Needless to say, the Madonna who once slept on cushions she found in the trash in the East Village (yes, really) is either shaking her head, or quite pleased.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on February 2, 2012 5:50 PM

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Discounted Madonna Tickets

I am a big Fan of Madonna and i can do anything to see her live in concerts :)

CurmudgeonNYC

A better use of $300: Buy $100 worth of high quality bud, put $200 into a ROTH IRA and watch her concert videos on YouTube.

santijose

She was, once upon a time. Time to give it a rest, for good. Her 15 min are done.

Kevin

Idiotic comments as always. If the tickets were $50 would you go? If you're not a fan, shut your flapping mouth. You have no point.

peakofelephants

I dunno, I imagine the point is that people find her pricing obscene and her arrogance in regard to it repulsive. Fairly unambiguous, it seems.

Kevin

Her sold out shows seem to paint a different picture.

pendejito

Uuuuugh, shut up, you has been.

No matter how much you work out, your wrinkles will always show.

whodiditandran

If she jumped down off the stage and gave me a handjob with those gloved claws of hers, she still wouldn't be worth it.

PicoPhreako69

Ahhh, Madge, Madge, Madge....

I know we're not supposed to go gentle into that good night, but puh-LEEZ.
You're getting only more annoying as you age, not less.

TheOtherBob

Ok, so let me see if I understand this. So I'm supposed to work all year to save up the money to buy a time machine to go back to 1985 when this bitch was relevant?

BrassMonkeyBallz

Go fuck your material self.

RobertMosesSupposesErroneously

Work all year to make $300? Why under that plan, even a Foxconn employee could see the show!

theevilerone

Smug bitch.

tim_f

Larry David said it best.

LtWorf

Sorry, but if I want to see a wrinkled raisin perform, I'd buy a VHS of the California Raisins greatest hits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...