Madonna is even more
washed-up now in 2008 than in 2003 than when this was written.
Madonna's newer songs - from American Life (2003), Confessions
on a Dance Floor (2005), and Hard Candy
(2007/2008) - receive no air play on American radio stations because
Americans are no longer interested in Madonna or her music. Read
details of that here: Lame
Fan Petition
Madonna's first 2008 Sticky and Sweet Tour performance
in Cardiff, Wales, did not sell out, either; for proof of that,
please visit the Ticket
Related thread.
(After show dates in the last several years for various, earlier
Madonna tours, have been intitially billed as "sold out"
in the media, they actually turn out to have empty seats, and
in other cases, tickets for those same so-called "sold old"
concerts can be found on e-bay, or they are being sold by scalpers
dirt cheap at the venues.)
Although Madonna still gets paid the occasional fee for appearing
in a TV commercial or for loaning her image to a product, do not
mistake continued income for popularity or cultural relevance,
because they're not the same thing.
That some corporations continue to hire Madonna as a spokesperson
in the face of her waning career says more about their stupidity
than it does actual public interest in her.
Companies who have used her image or music in their commercials
or product pitches have not always seen profits increase from
it, either. For evidence of that, as well as for more information
on that, please see the Corporate
Whore thread and the Savvy
Business Woman thread, and these threads:
Madonna's
Versace Campaign 'Failure'
Failure
to Make it in Musical Charts / Polls
Beaten
in Polls / Charts
- (Re: Acting / Fashion / Icon Status, etc.)
Has-Been,
No Longer Popular / Relevant
Madonna
Named Worst Whatever (Actress, Singer, Author etc)..
- and other negative awards, polls, etc
Madonna
No Longer Popular in the U.S.A.
Article from PARADE magazine about Madonna's
shrinking fan base: |
