It seems Israelis have dusted off the Turkish opening of the Eurovision final as Dana International will arrive "by plane" to the stage flown by Netta singing Tel Aviv ya habibi/Diva during the flag parade with all the finalists. Remember Istanbul when Sertab Erener arrived by helicopter to the stage singing amazing Leave (Aşk) after with her winning entry Everyway that I can?
It seems it has also been confirmed Madonna will perform Like A Prayer (read more) and a new yet unnamed song, but most likely I rise, not Medellin as speculated at first. However it seems she has watched Eurovision lately and got some hologram ideas, as apparently for the American audience they are something new and exciting while for us Eurovision viewers nothing new anymore :-)
Medellin gets its spotlight in Billboard Music awards on May 1, 2019 with a huge show featuring holograms and virtual reality so Eurovision is a good chance to premiere a new song with equally spectacular show and who knows what tricks she's got in her sleeve for that?
Previous Eurovision winners and runner ups Måns Zelmerlöw, Conchita Wurst, Eleni Foureira and Verka Serduchka will cover each others songs: Måns will do Fuego, Conchita Heroes, Eleni Dancing Lasha tumbai and but Verka will do Toy (instead of Rise like a Phoenix)
Now this makes me wonder what happened to Izhar Cohen? Why is he forgotten, or is it enough A-ba-ni-bi might be the postcard soundtrack? Eh no, he will be Israel's spokesperson this year :-)
And fans of course lament of the possible lack of Nadav Guedj's Let me show you Tel Aviv... for a reason. But then again they aren't surely telling us everything beforehand, are they?
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