Madonna Booed, Called 'Slut' in France

After performing for only 45 minutes, the pop
star incurred the wrath of concertgoers who
gathered in front of the Paris concert venue
to demand their money back.
French fans took Madonna’s “Express Yourself”
lyrics seriously on Thursday night when they booed
and expressed anger at the singer for cutting her
show at famed Paris concert hall l’Olympia short
after around just 45 minutes.
After Madonna left the stage, fans remained in their
seats booing and yelling insults like “salope,” the
French word for “slut.”
Madonna took the stage around 10:15 p.m. and
finished around 11 p.m.
The concert venue was filled mostly with big
Madonna fans since the tickets for the show were
available only to members of her official fan club
before being released for sale to the general public.
The concert was broadcast live via YouTube.
The supplementary concert was added to the
singer’s tour just last week and was sold out after
just a few hours, with Material Girl devotees paying
from 80 to more than 280 euros for the limited
seats. Hundreds of fans gathered outside several
hours before the show to fill the Olympia’s 2,700
seats and many slept on the streets overnight from
Wednesday to Thursday. After the show, many of
them gathered in the streets in front of the theater
and yelled “remboursez! remboursez!” which
means “give us our money back!” in French.
Several fans expressed their discontentment on
Twitter late into the night. One fan wrote in French
“280€ for a seat + 10 minutes of a speech + 40
minutes of a show + 2 days of camping in front of
the #Olympa = #Madonna #MDNA #Paris
#thatsucks” and another wrote also in French
“#Madonna 45min/250€ vs @springsteen
3h40/65€ ... what’s the better deal, there’s nothing
left to say! #MDNAOlympia.” Another wrote: “How
much does it cost to see Madonna at l’Olympia? It’s
6.3 euros per minute!”
Her loyal fans aren't the only ones angry at the pop
star. A July 14 concert at the Stade de France
incurred the wrath of French right-wing politician
Marine Le Pen, who is pressing charges after
Madonna screened a video featuring a photo of Le
Pen’s face with a swastika superimposed on it.

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Madonna also took a moment during the show to
respond to Le Pen. “I know that I made a certain
Marine Le Pen very angry with me. And it’s not my
intention to make enemies,” Madonna told the
crowd before adding: “It’s my intention to promote
tolerance. And when we start saying that we have
to get rid of this person or we have to get rid of that
person, because then we’ll have a better place, it
starts to sound like something else, it starts to
sound like something scary. So the next time you
want to point the finger at somebody and blame
them for a problem in your life, take that finger and
point it back at you.”
The singer will next perform in France on Aug. 21, in
Nice.