So, have you recovered yet?

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Now that Finland has won with that exhibit, we can safely say the Eurovision
song contest isn't about the music any more.

The votes appear to go for:

1. the spectacle
2. nationalist politics
3. the music in a poor third place.

There were actually a few good songs, but they didn't come that high in the
voting. Ireland and Greece were my favorites, although I would have give "un
vote de coq" for the FYROM entry.

Anybody else wanna comment the event?

[brookie]

I'm just watching the contest and I like Finnish song best. Totally different
comparing to other boring ones.

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brookie napisała:

> I'm just watching the contest and I like Finnish song best. Totally different
> comparing to other boring ones.

There was nothing in the song that was worthy of merit. It was only the
performance that they had. How many different chords do you think are in the
entire song? Four or five? Could you even work out what they were singing about?

[bartis_ervin]

Hard and gothic rock are not my thing so definitely I cannot be objective.
If I would have a kid, definitely he/she wouldn't watch Eurovision. It's not
enough that most songs are cheap and primitive but now the kids can even have
nightmares.

Ervin

Thebartiski.blogspot.com

[ianek70]

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> Now that Finland has won with that exhibit, we can safely say the Eurovision
> song contest isn't about the music any more.

Didn't see it.
So did the other artists present a bewildering array of radically original
musical ideas, thought-provoking lyrics and charismatic stage presence?
Or was it just the same old puerile MOR bollocks they've had for decades,
changing only slightly year by year in step with fashion?
And does anybody outside Eastern Europe still take this festival of blandness
seriously?

[russh]

Not if they have any sense!

Red Square

[ianek70]

russh napisał:

> Not if they have any sense!

So do you reckon Belarus's tracksuit-wearing neo-soviet dictator Lukashenko is
some kind of "square", with his insistence that their official state diva lost
the contest for political reasons?

[varsovian]

Can't we move onto a weightier subject, like Miss World?

[ianek70]

varsovian napisał:

> Can't we move onto a weightier subject, like Miss World?

Weightier?
So Ms World is fat now, is she?
O tempora! O mores!

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ianek70 napisał:

> russh napisał:
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> > Not if they have any sense!
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> So do you reckon Belarus's tracksuit-wearing neo-soviet dictator Lukashenko
is
> some kind of "square", with his insistence that their official state diva
lost
> the contest for political reasons?


You left the k out. It was supposed to "official state divka".

Hth.

Uncle Davey

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ianek70 napisał:

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> > Now that Finland has won with that exhibit, we can safely say the Eurovis
> ion
> > song contest isn't about the music any more.
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> Didn't see it.
> So did the other artists present a bewildering array of radically original
> musical ideas, thought-provoking lyrics

I thought the Irish one did. And Greece. Actually to be fair each year there
are two or three songs that make a decent effort.

> and charismatic stage presence?
> Or was it just the same old puerile MOR bollocks they've had for decades,
> changing only slightly year by year in step with fashion?
> And does anybody outside Eastern Europe still take this festival of blandness
> seriously?

Malta does. Terry Wogan said he knew that.

[ianek70]

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> > Didn't see it.
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> > musical ideas, thought-provoking lyrics
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> I thought the Irish one did. And Greece. Actually to be fair each year there
> are two or three songs that make a decent effort.

2 or 3 out of a couple of dozen's not too bad, I suppose, but do they ever win?

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>>Actually to be fair each year th
> ere
> > are two or three songs that make a decent effort.
>
> 2 or 3 out of a couple of dozen's not too bad, I suppose, but do they ever
win?

In the days when Johnny Logan won with "What's another year?" or Norway won
with "Nocturne", I used to think so.

Even Ruslana from the Ukraine deserved to be highly pointed, and so did Turkey
with "Every way that I can", and I couldn't quibble about those two occasions,
even though I had a different favorite each of those times. But when I went to
the Eurovision Song Contest live in Birmingham about 8 years ago (yeah, sad,
but you know) it was won by a tone deaf transvestite from Israel called Dana
International almost certainly just on the shock value. The Israeli flags were
waving near the front of the hall like crazy and I felt happy for them, but at
the same time I was, like, WTF?