During her concert in Stockholme, singer and pop sensation Madonna became visibly upset and broke down during her performance.
Madonna talked to her audience about the Paris attacks on Friday, the day before the concert and said felt ”torn” and she was only continuing as an act of defiance.
One of the attack sites was a concert in Paris, and Madonna dedicated her concert to the Parisian victims.
“Obviously, this whole show is about celebrating life and standing up for your rights, fighting for what you believe in. It’s been very hard for me to get through the show up to this point, and not forget about what happened last night.”
“In many ways I feel torn, because it’s like, why am I up here dancing and having fun when people are crying over the loss of their loved ones? However, that is exactly what these people want to do. They want to shut us up. They want to silence us, and we won’t let them. We will never let them,” she continued.
Like other artists, Madonna considered cancelling her concert due to her concerns.
“I was gonna cancel my show tonight but then I thought to myself, ‘Why should I give that to them? Why should I allow them to stop me and to stop us from enjoying freedom?'”
“All of the places where people were killed were places where people were having fun, people were enjoying themselves, eating in restaurants, dancing, singing, watching a soccer match. These are freedoms that we take for granted of course and we must not but they’re freedoms that we deserve, we work hard and we deserve to have fun and there is no one in this world that should have the right to stop us from doing what we love!”
She began the concert by singing her 1989 hit Like a Prayer, dedicating it to all those who suffered in the attacks, dubbed as the worst in Paris since World War II.
