Concert Tour

JENNIFER LOPEZ IS NOT THE DIVA YOU THOUGHT SHE WAS

As we previously reported, Jennifer Lopez chose saving her marriage to Ben Affleck over her concert tour, but she didn’t want to leave her backup dancers high and dry. According to our source, J.Lo is paying her dancers out of her pocket as if they were employed for the duration of the tour. Since it’s likely too late for the dancers to book other tours, Jennifer didn’t want them to take a financial hit based on her choice to cancel her concerts. We don’t have an exact number, but it’s estimated to cost her well over a million dollars to cover the salaries. Despite her song, Love Don’t Cost A Thing, in this case it most certainly DOES.

 

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA  J.Lo and daughter Emme at flea market

NSYNC IS INSPIRED BY TAYLOR SWIFT AND BEYONCE

NSYNC wants IN on the action, now that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have made concert movies all the rage. Nearly two decades after they split up, the former boy band of now grown men has reunited and have been appearing together – which sparked rumors of a reunion tour. According to a source, they haven’t agreed to a grueling worldwide tour (breakout star Justin Timberlake is the holdout of course) but they are close to signing a deal for limited reunion engagement show in Las Vegas. Impressed by the success of Beyoncé and Taylor’s recent concert movies, they plan to film their concerts and turn it into a full length movie. Wonder if they’ll make as much money as the women did…

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HEY – WHAT’S UP WITH MADONNA?

 

Madonna turned up at JFK airport looking like THIS. Flaunting nothing. No sense of style whatsoever- completely buried in baggy attire. Expensive, but baggy. She’s with her bodyguard and on her way to England to prepare for her first sold out concert in 10 days at AO Arena in Manchester.  Listen to this- she rented out the entire arena for several days in order to rehearse and PERFECT her show.  Maybe she’s acutely aware of how successful Taylor Swift and Beyonce’s concert tours have been, and she feels competitive pressure . Her last tour was devastated by her own injuries and Covid. All we know is she doesn’t look as confident as she usually does – but she might surprise us…

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HANG ON BRITNEY – IT’S MADONNA TO THE RESCUE!

Madonna has just rescheduled her worldwide tour and she wants to bring Britney Spears along for the ride! The women both made headlines recently: Madonna had an infection which landed her in the ICU and forced her to postpone her tour, and Britney because her husband Sam Asghari just surprised everyone by filing for divorce! The two singers have been close for years and Madonna was one of the few celebrity guests at Britney’s wedding to Sam last year. An insider says that Madonna wants to cheer Britney up and thinks she would be the PERFECT surprise guest for her concerts where they’ll reenact their infamous KISS from the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Sounds like a fun way for Britney to forget her troubles…

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA It’s OVER for Britney and Sam

MADONNA: CONCERT OR FASHION SHOW?

Madonna just announced her upcoming world tour celebrating 40 plus years as a musical icon and the show will be a fashionista’s dream. Prepare to get an eyeful of Madonna. On past tours Madonna would rely on one designer to create costumes – this time she’s spreading the love and plans on using as many designers as she can get. Her longtime collaborator, Jean Paul Gaultier is just one of many she’s leaning on to create some showstoppers. Also on the list – Donatella Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Stella McCartney -just to name a few. She’s also planning to hire up-and-coming designers to create some original looks so fans can expect PLENTY of costume changes. Her iconic Gaultier cone bra is already getting revamped for the tour. If her bleached eyebrows and gold teeth (above) are any indication- her costumes will be outrageous…

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PARIS JACKSON: BEING BLACK IS AN ASSET

Paris Jackson, 24, appears to have a lot of choices for her life- she aspires to be a singer, model and actress. For the past month she’s been touring in Europe as a solo act and ironically AEG is promoting her tour. You might remember her family sued AEG after the death of her father Michael Jackson and lost. No hard feelings. Paris still considers herself to be Black, but she hasn’t acquired a large Black fan base yet. When she’s not singing, she IS landing lots of modeling jobs and has already appeared on four international Vogue covers. And expensive designers fight to dress her for red carpet events, so life is good…

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KID ROCK AND HIS MISPLACED MACHISMO

It will be interesting to see how Kid Rock’s Bad Reputation tour 2022 pans out since he announced that he won’t perform at any venues that require vaccinations or masks. His tour starts April 6 and runs to June 15. He assured fans that they will get refunds if the venues still have Covid mandates by the dates of his scheduled concerts. He’s making a big deal out of his macho anti-vax posturing, but if the rest of us are careful, Covid might have subsided and mandates be dropped by his start date- or he will lose a lot of money. Uncooperative Buffalo and Toronto already backed OFF the tour list and most of Rock’s concerts are in small towns in the South and Midwest, so he might get lucky. But he’s still obnoxious.

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ROD STEWART: THIS PICTURE TELLS A STORY

Rod Stewart, 74, looks irresistibly happy as he leaves the BBC studios in London and he DOES have a lot to be happy about. In September he revealed that he successfully battled prostate cancer for two years – “I’m in the clear now – I caught it early!” The “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” crooner has been doing a series of concerts in the UK, still appears regularly in Las Vegas, and is about to start a tour of Australia, so he has a busy and financially satisfying year ahead of him.

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CHER DOESN’T NEED TO TURN BACK TIME

The movie Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again came out at exactly the right time for Cher. Her Dancing Queen album followed, and this Spring, her concert tour, appropriately titled “Here We Go Again,” was a big hit in Australia and New Zealand with multiple performances added. She just started the North American leg of the tour in Florida and her opening act is the disco group Chic (Le Freak) with memories of Studio 54. When we saw Cher during her last tour, The Village People opened for her. By all accounts, Cher’s costume changes are numerous and outrageous – Las Vegas glitz all the way…

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KISS “END OF THE ROAD” TOUR: NO PLASTIC SURGERY NECESSARY!

KISS is promoting their End of the Road farewell tour but they admit “It might last three years.” And why not? No matter how old they get, KISS has no expiration date. Gene Simmons is 69, Paul Stanley is 66, Eric Singer is 60, and Tommy Thayer is 57, and it doesn’t matter. If a hairline recedes, wrinkles appear, or a tummy gets big, the band’s fantastical costumes, makeup, and wigs will totally cover or distract from all undesirable features. When this band performs, they look pretty much the same as when they first started, decades ago. Lucky guys.

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