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Madonna paused her performance during the Stockholm leg of her European tour over the weekend, making a tearful speech in reaction to the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris, killing at least 129 people.
The singer was about to start 'Like A Prayer' when she set aside her guitar and made an impromptu, tearful statement about the attacks, which mainly targetted Eagles Of Death Metal's gig at Le Bataclan venue in the French capital.
"It's been very hard for me to get through this show up to this point," she said, "and forget about what happened last night so I need to take this moment to acknowledge the tragic killings, assassinations, and the senseless endings of precious life that occurred last night in Paris."
She continued, "It's disturbed me all day," she continued, "and it's been really hard to get through the show because in many ways I feel torn. 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. Because there is power in unity and I do believe that as much chaos, and pain, and senseless violence and terrorism that occurs around this world – not just in Paris – as much of that does occur, there is more goodness in this world. We are here to prove it."
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She added, "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."
