Madonna questions Unions: "Who works 9 to 5?"

[Rebel 5,221]

 

JOH: Whenever I’ve been asked to teach, they tell me, “How do you write a good play or a play that people care about?” I say, “I can’t tell you how to do that.” All I can do is tell you to write toward failure. To write off the cliff. So that maybe it won’t work. Because the chance to get burned is the reason to do the thing. Do you feel like that’s what Madame X was for you?

M: Well, first of all, everyone told me not to do it because it was too ambitious. Because there were too many people on the stage. I was trying to tell too many stories. I was trying to share too much of the things that I love in one space and time. Because the overhead was going to be so big and, in a theater that only holds 1500- 2000 people every night, I was gonna barely make any money at the end of the day, especially with union rules. If I was half an hour late, or even when we were in pre-production rehearsals. I didn’t know this, but the union rules in theaters are so crazy and their hours are nine-to-five. And I’m like, “Who works those hours?” And I said, “Can’t they just shift the hours from four to midnight?” That’s so much more conducive to our mentality—when we work, when we’re alive. And they refused. And so anything after five is overtime. So you can imagine the bills I incurred just in rehearsals because we rehearsed every night till three in the morning. We had to and we still weren’t ready when we were open. I started off with 16 people, and then I decided to bring in 36! “I can’t just have eight Batukadeiras!”

 

She wants to debate the vaccine:

 

JOH: One of my first questions I wanted to ask you is about one of the quotes that opens Madame X which is “Artist’s are here to disturb the peace.” I wanted to know for you, where is peace right now? There’s a global pandemic, there’s billionaires wrecking the economy and every sector of our world. Where do you think there’s peace to disturb?

M: It’s interesting because peace is subjective. The way people think about the pandemic, for instance, that the vaccination is the only answer or the polarization of thinking you’re either on this side or the other. There’s no debate, there’s no discussion. That’s something I want to disturb. I want to disturb the fact that we’re not encouraged to discuss it. I believe that our job is to disturb the status quo. The censoring that’s going on in the world right now, that’s pretty frightening. No one’s allowed to speak their mind right now. No one’s allowed to say what they really think about things for fear of being canceled, cancel culture. In cancel culture, disturbing the peace is probably an act of treason. We could start right there, and then we can just talk about our work as artists. The work that you do is very disturbing, but not in a bad way. When I watched Slave Play my mind was so ****ing blown for so many reasons. You talk about things that aren’t encouraged to be spoken about. You deal with topics that are not discussed in everyday society, even though we’re supposed to be so woke. That, to me, and what you do is exactly what James Baldwin is talking about. Have you heard his speech about an artist’s integrity? It’s so awe-inspiring.

 

https://vmagazine.com/article/v133-madonna-forever/

[Serial Chiller 8,044]

Celebrities fantasizing about 'disturbing the peace' and 'shaking up the status quo' when they get dragged for brainless word vomit is truly a moment. 

[HausOfAntonio 8,021]

The good sis done lost it for good now I fear 

[LeJudas 6,490]

So she's antivaxx for the lols? 

 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Give me a break. 

It's Theatre. Who works 9 to 5 in a theatre venue?  Stop cherry picking crap. 

She wanted the same 8 hours but from 4 to midnight. She wasn't questioning the existence of unions. 

 

 

[Ladle Ghoulash 26,767]

Madonna basically said that because the rules set by the theater union weren't convenient for her that they should break them or change them for her lol. Not to mention her pseudo-intellectual devil's advocate commentary  about vaccines is just 🥴

[Chromatography 10,186]

deciding not to get vaccinated is not “disturbing the status quo.” she sounds really fvcking stupid and entitled. 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Just now, Chromatography said:

deciding not to get vaccinated is not “disturbing the status quo.” she sounds really fvcking stupid and entitled. 

She didn't say that. She said having a debate with someone about it, who doesn't have the same views as you, is disturbing the status quo.

 

 

[vixdean 1,061]

The cherry picking from Madonna haters in this forum is truly one of a kind.

There’s nothing barely problematic about what she’s saying, neither with relation to unions or vaccines.

Her mentioning unions has to do with her work ethic, and how theatre venues operate differently fom other venues. And the vacinne comment is simply supporting free speech without fear of being cancelled. 

This is actually a really rich and interesting interview, but people only what they want to see.

[vixdean 1,061]

10 minutes ago, Chromatography said:

deciding not to get vaccinated is not “disturbing the status quo.” she sounds really fvcking stupid and entitled. 

Not what she said at all. And she had the vaccine, if that’s of any relevance.

[RichAssPiss 4,956]

Unpopular opinion: She was never very smart. She's just good at getting attention. 

[gothicdream 39,613]

[HuffsAhoy 7,433]

Click bait title, as usual, to make Madonna look like a senile crazy woman  Nothing she said here is controversial or out of line. 

[HuffsAhoy 7,433]

3 minutes ago, RichAssPiss said:

Unpopular opinion: She was never very smart

Imagine thinking a woman that literally birth pop culture as we know it and has been in the industry for 40 years isn't smart

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

The delusion of some Madonna haters thinking that they can spew this hate on Madonna about the 9-5 hrs when she at least paid all the workers.

At least Madonna wasn't taken to court by the employees. I mean even Bernie Sanders had to negotiate with a labor union because of his lack of payment to union employees of his campaign and Lady Gaga have been taken to court by an employee who wasn't paid their overtime by FLSA standards. Gaga even had to settle because she wasn't going to win. 

 

In a deposition, Gaga unleashed her anger on her ex-assistant. O’Neill was a “f—ing hood rat who is suing me for money that she didn’t earn,” said Gaga, adding that O’Neill “deserves every dollar of her $75,000 that we agreed to. But she does not deserve a penny more.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/lady-gaga-settles-personal-assistants-649853/amp/