Over Saturday night, the European Song Contest aired (live) out of Israel. It's typically a three to four hour contest, with a winner announced at the end. Ten to twenty years ago.....you got mostly all two-star songs and acts....but I would say over the past five years...it's improved a lot. You get the best song of the year from twenty to thirty-five countries. It used to be solely European, and lately....they've added Australia and Russia.....and Israel.
So toward the very end of this (around 11:30/11:45), came Madonna. It was a 9-minute piece. I think most fans were sitting there in anticipation of some magnificent five-star concert act (perhaps going a bit longer than 9 minutes). It became something like you'd expect in Vegas for some Brittney Spears-type act, and less than a five-star moment.
Complaints? A number of Germans whined about the act. Some complaints were over the political slant in the act (a Palestinian flag being shown). The network folks claim this was not supposed to be part of the act.
The cost of her being there? Roughly a million dollars.
I think part of the problem is that Madonna's 'hay-day' was the 1980s/1990s, and most watching the ESC....just weren't from that generation.
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