The day after the Eurovision Song Contest: Michael Ben David He managed to fulfill the dream of almost every singer, and represented Israel at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest held in Turin, Italy. Although he did not make it to the finals of the competition, Ben-David brought great honor and managed to bounce the enthusiastic audience with his song “IM”. At the same time, the criticisms of his appearance and manner of behavior were not long in coming. In conversation with Judy Shalom Nir MozesIn her program on 103fm, Ben-David summed up the exciting experience, despite the brawl, and brought his personal truth.
At the beginning of the conversation, the presenter asked to address the curses and criticisms and even claimed that it was sublime to understand why people attack a singer like that. “You have to be a good person, everything else is nonsense,” Ben-David emphasized.
Ben-David later described his new song, “Not Being Me”, which came out a moment after the Eurovision show: “I came back from the Eurovision and this song came out, it’s an amazing gift. It’s so exciting, I sat down and wrote it with Talisman who is my soulmate. I shot the clip “Singing the day before I flew to the Eurovision Song Contest, it all happened very quickly. It was an amazing experience, I’m so lucky I got to have that experience.”
He added that “I had a really amazing experience, no one will take it. I also got a lot of hatred for what happened, a lot of swearing and threats. I get anonymous calls from people. It’s less critical, you know how many good things tell me? How happy I am? “Didn’t I cry for the country with my show? I did everything I could for it to come out well and that’s what’s most important to me – to deal with it, to do it and with the single that came out. A lot of people react like you and it excites me.”
“There can be no consensus all the time”
“What is there to curse a singer?” Judy wondered, and a cousin replied, “Missing my mother? Great question. The very fact that I’m gay, that I’m extroverted … it happens and it’s life, you can not be a consensus all the time but you can always create “And do. I do and it excites me and I’m really lucky.”
On crying behind the scenes and during rehearsals and the conditions he received as a representative in the big music competition, he said: “Many times I also cried with joy, it is very important to say this. It is things not mentioned. I cried with excitement, joy. It is not an easy experience but I thank it I enjoyed it madly. Vance you release and say ‘it will be good’, you can also not take control of everything. I flew reconciled, I flew with the aim of enjoying in the first place. In the article of course as it is written it does not sound, audible”.
“The question is what are the difficult conditions, I am a child who grew up in a boarding school,” he shared, “For me to sleep in a hostel or on a mattress, I am such a person. It is simply implied that when it is written and said it sounds different. , But the team that was with me we enjoyed, it was important for us to enjoy these two weeks. “It’s super important and the Eurovision is an experience I would do every year, just like it was. Every year.”
“I’m at the beginning of the profession and this is the profession – everyone is going through difficulties”
At the end of the conversation, the legendary troupe and media woman Amira Buzaglo joined in, asking the Israeli representative not to reduce his status simply because he was ‘elected’. Ben David clarified that “everyone tells me ‘you had conditions not conditions’, I am not a singer who works for decades. In everything there is a problematic thing. For my mind to stay clean and happy, I am only at the beginning of the profession and that is the profession – everyone goes through difficulties. It is to admit, Find what is good, otherwise if you do not enjoy why do it? “.