Increasingly vicious tweets bound to cost Madonna at least 0.00000013% of her $800 million fortune.
A business manager’s worst nightmare
The world is incensed by the poor choice of words that the queen of pop used to commemorate the legendary Aretha Franklin. Those of you who don’t know the latter, will probably recognize her as ‘the queen of soul’.
As for those who don’t know what Madonna said exactly, I’m afraid I can’t help you. I did not listen to it. However, this much I can tell you: it has been stated that the speech in question was at least 6 minutes long and was overwhelmingly about the speaker rather than Ms Franklin.
Now, to be entirely fair to Madonna, she did wear a tribal dress which in and of itself is a brave gesture to heal the deep wounds this great country has suffered of late.
Despite what many plebeians think, such public figures as Madonna don’t go about handling their own finances. They have business managers who are as equally adept at reconciling balance sheets, as their wealthy clients are at singing, chucking footballs and acting.
If you put yourself in the boots of such financial gurus, you have to consider what public perception will do to injure your precious golden goose. Your mind has to be racing like mad.
In this particular case, Madonna’s vineyard chateau in southern France is for all intents and purposes, entirely safe. A grasp of the English language in that country is veritably absent. This naturally translates to the fact that none of the native inhabitants have ever heard of Aretha or Madonna. So the home value won’t be affected at all.
As for the eponymous colognes and lotions, the damage has to be tragic in the very least. No sane woman will want to be seen plucking a bottle from a CVS shelf which bears such a reprehensible name as ‘Madonna’.
Corresponding merchandise is not likely to dodge the bullet either. As a result, you’d have to cancel any orders to supply retailers nationwide. What if some t-shirts or jeans have already been shipped out? Calling the trucking companies and warehouses with instructions on how to quickly burn their valueless linens would be the only way.
There’s a high chance your has-been client is banned permanently from Detroit. The motor city is Aretha’s hometown and they won’t be taking any prisoners. Whatever concerts you had been arranging in the Pistons’ Little Caesar’s arena are dead on arrival. Other venues in Michigan are safe..for now. Madonna is after all a Michiganian.
