BILLBOARD PRODUCER DEFENDS CHOOSING MADONNA FOR PRINCE TRIBUTE

If you didn't know some people launched a petition on Change.org to get Madonna off the Prince tribute and get other performers to do the tribute.  Well The BillBoard producer Mark Bracco said that it picked Madonna after some search and it clicked when Madonna's people reached out to him and they spent some time doing over what she would do.  Here is what Bracco had to say:

“Listen, I think everybody is entitled to their opinion and everyone can have their own opinion, but I will say that we are honored and could not be more excited for Madonna to be on the show and to pay tribute to someone that was her friend and her peer and her colleague,”  “I think it’s going to be fantastic.”
“It’s going to be very, very intimate and very respectful, and I think it’s something that is really going to pay tribute to Prince as the incredible, groundbreaking artist that he was and the influence that he had on music.
“Honestly her team gave a call and inquired about what we might be thinking about and it led to many conversations about what would she want to do and how would we want to shape it creatively, and after everyone got comfortable with exactly what the direction was, we all collectively wanted to go into Madonna, that she would do this and she has been very, very involved in how this will all unfold creatively.”

Well there you have it Madonna stays.