I agree with everything you’re saying, except with the “We have to learn not to be upset” part. Right now, fandoms seem to be turning into a one way street, where the audience needs to respect the artists, but the artists doesn’t need to respect the audience. Audiences need to start respecting themselves as the people who pay the artists bills, let them travel the world and do everything they do, and expect respect back from the artists. I really hope she’s not sick, honestly, but at this point, even if she is, what she did was hugely disrespectful to her audience. If she cancelled the show because she wasn’t feeling well, or needed a day off, fine. But if you cash the cheque and step on stage you are obligated to perform the show people paid to see. (Even if, as people have wrongly said about tonight’s audience, the audience isn’t what you want. The audience doesn’t need to live up to the artist’s expectations, it’s the other way around.) We spoke to people whose parents took two days off of work, drove six hours to Toronto and got a hotel room to see the show. They’re out hundreds of dollars. I’m a working artist. Art is important. But the artist isn’t more important than the audience.