Madonna's bathtub message was meant to evoke unity, but dramatized for many the unequal responses to the coronavirus outbreak between health care resources available to the rich and the poor.
"That's the thing about COVID-19, it doesn't care about how rich you are, how famous you are, how funny you are, how smart you are, where you live, how old you are, what amazing stories you can tell. It's the great equalizer," the singer said in the video, which was posted to her social media accounts on Sunday."And what's terrible about it is what's great about it. What's terrible about it is it's made us all equal in many ways.
Earlier in March, Madonna ended her"Madame X" tour, cancelling her final two shows in Paris due to the spread of COVID-19. Meant to promote her June 2019 album of the same name, the"Madame X" tour was beset by other delays and cancellations.
"We all know that you are in your own rich confinement," one popular comment on her Instagram post said."You live in other reality Madge. Stop it. With petals on your rich bath, oh m god. COVID-19 makes distinctions because you can afford your own respiratory machine." The backlash was similarly intense on the Twitter version of her post, with one replier comparing her to a ghost girl in a Japanese horror movie:
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