The Eurovision Song Contest...
Come to the circus, come to the circus!
We have everything. Men looking like women, women looking like men and people who fall in between. We have individual whores, groups of whores, whores in cages. We have whores as background vocals and whores as performers. The contest is combined with a brilliant light show, which may cause epilepsy and it is voiced over by a monkey who turned into a musical expert after hearing Abba on the radio. It may talk through the songs, but this is not about music anyhow.
Welcome to Helsinki, where the zombies of Lordi have ritually buried the corpse of Eurovision.
Next year we may have a three legged man, a pink elephant and a two headed ape...
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Written by Lizzy (790 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
Do i take from this that you are not a fan and will not watch , with bated breath, on the edge of your seat. to see who has won?
A good fun piece, and no doubt very true!
Lizzy |
Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
Hi Lizzy,
It used to be nice, not brilliant, but still enjoyable, until the weirdos hijacked it... Who is going to win? Some eastern European who can afford to bribe a lot of people with brandnew mobile phones  |
HI Fledermaus
Written by jean.day (2266 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
| It is a bit on the mean side, I think. Not that I intend to watch, and I certainly would not vote for the British entry anyway. But I do remember a long ago year when I really did enjoy watching it. |
Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
Thanks Jean.
It used to be fun, and for some reason our family still watches it every year, but after seeing the semi-final yesterday, I'm afraid it's even worse than last year.
As for it being a freakshow:
Dana International (199 won because of her performance, not because she was born as a man. But for some reason there's now seems to be at least one travestite every year and some countries are turning it into a show for exhibitionists.
Somehow I think that last year's Lordi was one big joke, and Europe took the bait...
There are still some nice singers, but they're unfortunately a minority...
As for the light. I don't know if they're going to do the same think saturday, but it was horrible. |
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3331 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
A well aimed attack on something that has degenerated into a cheesy freakshow.I think you covered most of the awful things about it apart from the blatantly policitally biased voting which totally ignores the singing. That is what has destroyed any credibility it might have had
cheers
Jane |
Written by Phil (6681 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
Isn't the whole thing based on the fact it has no credibility: musically or politically. The whole cheese thing just makes it more attractive for a certain type.
I'll put my hand up. I'm a certain type. I hardly watch any TV, but I will have a look at Eurovision tomorrow. Not the whole thing, just dip in and out. Maybe I'm an odd-bod!?
Saddo Phil. |
Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 11th May 2007 |
Sorry Phil,
This is just what I thought about it. Tastes differ  |
Written by Livinginanattic (456 comments posted) 12th May 2007 |
I think I tuned in to last year's contest for all of 15 seconds. Might have another look tonight if I'm home, but not for long. Life's too short.
Cheers. |
Written by Witzl (1585 comments posted) 12th May 2007 |
| I saw a bit of this by accident once when we were staying at the house of some friends, and it was practically surreal in its awfulness; I was just bowled over. Plenty of glitzy, tawdry ticky-tack, mediocrity in job lots, and hardly an ounce of talent in sight. What a vision. I've got to agree with Livinginanattic: life is too short. |
Written by Clifftown (619 comments posted) 13th May 2007 |
| Enjoyed this, Fledermaus! I have to say though, agt the risk of seriously reducing any credibility I may ever have had - that I love Eurovision. I agree with Phil - it has no credibility, and for the most part it's complete and utter rubbish, which is the beauty of it and why I love it so much! |
A job for the Bhoyo .......
Written by Bagheera (680 comments posted) 13th May 2007 |
.......... Eurovision will falter on until its inevitable demise, which will coincide with the year when Terry Wogan can no longer be propelled forwards on his electrically powered Zimmerframe to give us the benefit [???????????????} of his cynical, man-of-the-world running commentary.
My 13-y-o daughter is the only one in this house who shows any interest, and she's a better singer than ANY of them!
The fact that the UK and Ireland were almost the sole representatives of Mainstream European music this year confirms in my eyes (and ears!!) that this once entertaining international competition has degenerated into a cheap, tawdry sniping contest with no vestige of musical excellence left to defend its existence  |
Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 14th May 2007 |
Thanks everyone.
I did watch it, inspite of my dislike of it. At least the worst things were filtered out in the semi-finals.
As for political voting: That's the only fun part of it I think, to guess which country is going to give points to which one: Balkan to Balkan, CIS to CIS, Scandinavia to Scandinavia, and western Europe to Turkey... Sometimes also Spain to Germany or the UK, depending on wether it's a holiday or not.
If you want to win Eurovision, send your countrymen abroad (either as foreign workers or as tourists), put a Scandinavian cross in your flag and sing in a Slavic language.
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Siddie loved it.
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 14th May 2007 |
My Budgie chirped along to every song and desperately wanted Turkey to win (Avian Solidarity.)
I must confess that I never watched it and never have.
Brian |
Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 14th May 2007 |
Hi Brian.
You didn't miss much |
Written by woody44 (774 comments posted) 15th May 2007 |
I love shows like this..Big Brother..Jerymy Kyle..Dancing on Ice...anything with Ant and Dec....most of channel 5..They (and many, many more!) allow me to retire to my garret and write my own little bits of rubbish.
Nicely observed piece Fled. Now, where did I put my tv licence reminder... |
Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 15th May 2007 |
| Thanks Woody. |
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