Madonna’s next concert is in Nice, on the Riviera.
Nice also happens to be in the heart of Marine Le Pen territory. If Madonna pulls that swastika stuff on MLP in Nice, it will create huge problems.
By coincidence, I recently saw a video of a 1990 concert Madonna gave in Nice. She was doing the shock and offend stuff back then, and had quite the potty mouth in her stage banter between sets. She even told a fairly naughty joke (the one that ends, “Oh no! Now the fish are going to smell like that!”) Thing was... this was Nice, France. She told the joke in English. Came to the punchline. Absolute silence. The thousands upon thousands of people in the crowd hadn’t understood a word of it. She recovered by saying “I knew you’d like that,” probably in the script anyway, and went on to the next song. The audience liked her songs well enough (music the universal language and all that), but only when she tossed out a few words in French now and then between sets did the audience respond to her stage gab. Didn’t somebody on staff wonder why they were leaving in the English bits in the script when they were doing a concert in France?