"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."

Madonna on Lady Gaga, ‘W.E.,’ Her New Album

It’s not the eighties anymore.

But don’t tell that to an ultra-rich woman living in a London inhabited by wealthy oil sheiks that appears to be oblivious to the recession, never mind the plight of those in the Midlands or the United States.

This is how we know Madonna is toast. Ahmet always kept up with the trends, that’s how he stayed relevant. And Madonna tried, albeit a beat behind the hipsters, distilling their fads for the masses, but now she’s lost her way.

You’re supposed to be in bed with your fans. Or at least give that illusion. She’s supposed to say she wants to charge less, but the scalpers won’t let her, she wants to make sure fans get the tickets. Or, if she really cared about the fans getting tickets, she’d lower the price and go paperless.

But Madonna never cared about her fans. Certainly not after she got rich and started living a better life hanging with the upper class.

And this worked in the go-go eighties, even the dot com nineties, when seemingly everybody had money and was living the high life.

But now, when those same fans who lined up as teenagers are mothers balancing the books to put food on the table, Madonna insults them?

As for the comment re handbags, isn’t this what’s wrong with America? Empty, soulless gratification, like too much of Madonna’s recent music? People are hungering for truth. Sure, they want to party, but not at these prices.

Not that I believe Madonna will do poor business. But I’d be stunned if her album’s a success in America. She’s too old, too unhip, and without Top Forty success, you’re done.

It’s a brand new music business and Madonna’s not part of it.

The saturation marketing of yore, where we had to endure her, is gone. We can ignore Madonna pretty easily these days. And that’s what she hates most. She wants that attention. But rather than remake herself for a modern era, she’s gonna go on the road and sing those old hits.

She’s incredibly smart. If only she let her face fall and sang about the travails of the middle age woman, then she could truly be a leader, an icon, she’d have a chance of regaining her previous status.

But she blinked. She spends more time in the gym than on charitable issues and has had fat injected in her cheeks when her fan base is riddled with cellulite. Once upon a time she was a chubby everywoman, now she’s a Terminator, a veritable computer, made of metal and plastic as opposed to flesh and blood.

But she mirrors society quite well. The rich and famous have lost touch with the hoi polloi. Not realizing, that without them they’re nothing. She can take her money and go home, like David Bowie, but if she goes on the road who does she think is paying for all those tickets? Certainly not Citibank or Goldman Sachs.

Watch this Elizabeth Warren video, it gets the essence straight:

Elizabeth Warren on Fair Taxation

So Madonna is just like Mitt Romney. Living off the grid for so long that she’s lost touch with it. Mitt thinks a casual bet is 10k and says he doesn’t worry about the poor, that the safety net will take care of them at the same time wanting to get rid of national health and continue to cut welfare payments.

Madonna, wanna make a difference? Stand up for the little people!

But she’s not from the sixties or seventies, she never learned that lesson.

She screwed everybody known to man. Where was her outrage when the Susan G. Komen foundation took away funding from Planned Parenthood? Madonna moved to NYC broke, I’d be stunned if she didn’t use Planned Parenthood for birth control. Furthermore, isn’t birth control all about empowering women?

But Madonna doesn’t care about you, only herself.

And since she got away being sassy in the Reagan eighties, she thinks the same behavior works today.

If she thinks she’s worth $300 a ticket, she’s dreaming. Nobody’s worth that. And if they can get it, it doesn’t last forever, nothing does.

Speaking of which, do you think we’ll be hearing "Like A Virgin" next to "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on oldies radio fifty years from now?

Don’t make me laugh.

I know Madonna’s answer. It’s everybody’s answer today. I sold out, so shut up. Money trumps everything, ends every conversation. Like we should revere these bankers just because they’re rich.

Well, the rich and powerful media companies got trumped by the online masses on SOPA.

And the blowback caused the Susan G. Komen foundation to reverse course.

That’s the power of the people. You want to be on their side if you want to win.

Madonna is not.