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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2010 0:03:21 GMT
Yee gads, y'all! No offense, but this stuff made me proud to be an American. The old ladies are cool, though. Never could get the clip to play, but found this one where they make a song I never liked sound really good:
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Post by happytraveller on May 30, 2010 8:46:06 GMT
My personal top 3 were: 1 Ukraine (amazing voice) 2 Turkey 3 Germany
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2010 9:39:16 GMT
Bixa, those Russian women did not qualify to represent Russia. The real Russian entry was this atrocity.
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Post by auntieannie on May 30, 2010 11:49:36 GMT
I have to admit to having listened to it on the radio whilst making jam last night and the commentator for the UK (like his predecessor originally an Irish man) Graham Norton did an okay job. I am sure in a few years he will be relaxed and joke like Sir Terry Wogan.
I wouldn't be able to comment on the songs, though...
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Post by rikita on May 30, 2010 23:52:23 GMT
well i only watched the voting. i am not very interested in the songs, but i enjoy watching votings for some reason. like, to see the different countries go up and down.
my mom liked the german singer though (was at her place) and was re-ordering her list of countries to visit according to which countries voted well for germany and which didn't.
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Post by hwinpp on May 31, 2010 4:41:46 GMT
I'm flabbergasted!
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2010 11:18:31 GMT
I was imagining how different things would be if there were an 'Amervision' contest with the same popularity as Eurovision (the 3rd most watched television event in the world after the World Cup and the Olympic Games).
-- Americans and Canadians would actually have some idea of the music of places such as Guatemala or Paraguay. -- the voting would be just as skewed, with the US giving its top points automatically to Mexico due to the large Mexican community in the US, and Argentina and Uruguay trading top points as well. -- to have any chance of winning, even the non-Hispanic countries would have to choose to sing in Spanish. -- the rest of the world would make fun of them.
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Post by happytraveller on May 31, 2010 11:44:23 GMT
You are probably right Kerouac !
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Post by onlymark on Mar 2, 2012 9:02:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 9:31:23 GMT
Looks like the historic Eurovision countries have decided that they might as well turn the whole event into even more of a circus since it has become impossible for them to win.
France is being represented by the Indonesian singer Anggun.
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Post by bjd on Mar 2, 2012 12:59:39 GMT
Don't those who represent the various countries have to have anything to do with the country they are representing?
I enjoyed reading the comments about Engelbert Humperdink -- I too would have assumed he was long dead. Is he really popular in Europe?
I think France should choose Johnny Halliday -- let him and Engelbert try for the senior citizen vote.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 11, 2012 18:30:08 GMT
Nope. In its early days, it was regularly noted, with a certain sourness outre-Manche, that the French record companies could get their singers representing not only France but also Monaco, Luxembourg, Belgium every other year and Switzerland more often than not. Céline Dion and Esther Ofarim have both represented Switzerland, and wasn't there a Russian who won for Norway not so long ago (or was that a Norwegian winning for Russia?)
It's the song that's supposed to represent each country (actually, each participating broadcasting organisation).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 18:37:01 GMT
That "Norwegian" was from Belarus, so he was able to draw in vast numbers of the former USSR votes after appearing on all of the local programmes and speaking Russian. He did have excellent stage presence even if the song was shit.
France tried to cheat that year as well by using Patricia Kaas, also a big star in that part of the world, but her song was horrible.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 11:30:13 GMT
Ready or not, the big event is tonight! Might as well show the entry from Azerbaijan, since they won last year and are hosting this year's event in Baku. Rumour has it that they spent more than 300 million euros to build the arena and to spiff up the looks of this lamentable dictatorship. But to show that other countries still amuse themselves by putting on the most ridiculous looking act imaginable, you can also wash your brain out with the Irish entry. The Irish have absolutely no mercy for the rest of Europe, because these two awful twins represented the country last year already.
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2012 11:36:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 14:27:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 16:17:32 GMT
While there is still time, I suppose that I should post the French song. I'm sure that Indonesia is crossing its fingers, even if France is not.
I am very sorry about all of the product placement at the beginning of the video.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 19:11:37 GMT
One interesting quirk of this show is that the whole point of it is that it be aired live on "Eurovision," a broadcast entity that was created after the war to promote unity.
Obviously, Azerbaijan is about as far as you can get from the rest of Europe. So while the main broadcast time is 9pm for Central Europe Time (or 8pm for the British Isles and Portugal), the show is actually taking place at midnight in Azerbaijan -- and it will last 3 hours.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 19:57:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 21:00:39 GMT
As usual, I will get everything wrong, but my top three are Germany, Estonia and Malta.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2012 22:16:02 GMT
Well, anyway Sweden has won, followed by Russia and Serbia.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2013 23:37:01 GMT
So, the English Eurovision entry for 2013 will be sung by Bonnie Tyler. Clearly England doesn't want to win any more than France does.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 17:07:13 GMT
Oh boy, the contest is tomorrow night! I will be able to post some more annoying videos! Digital Spy says that Romania has the absolutely worst entry, and they might be right!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 17:09:38 GMT
Okay, I suppose I should also post the favourite -- Denmark.
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Post by fgrsk8r1970 on May 17, 2013 18:36:35 GMT
OK, this is one of my favorite old comedic routines by Hape Kerkeling. It is mostly in German but also english and french as he pretends to get all the results from various countries for the Eurovison. This is from 1987 and I just remembered this reading about the upcoming one tomorrow. He does speak many languages and is really good with dialects so it's a funny bit and of course it is very silly.
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Post by bjd on May 17, 2013 18:52:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 19:21:08 GMT
I agree that it is much more serious than it appears, since the voting has become totally geopolitical and has tossed quality out the window However, since each country is equal in the voting, no matter how small or large the population, we are still not getting an accurate picture of what is happening.
I suggest that in the future the votes be also weighted by population of the various countries. While this would be fairer, it is also impossible to ignore that various immigrant or ethnic groups vote much more than the general population. For this reason, for a long time, France gave the most points systematically to Portugal or Israel while Germany voted for Turkey. Now it is much more of a jumble in the "old" countries, but the newer Eurovision countries continue to vote for their closest neighbours and/or language groups, even if most of the singers sing in English.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 10:48:05 GMT
And Denmark won with the song posted at #53.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 17:10:59 GMT
This year I think that Austria has a good chance due to its total audacity.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 17:14:21 GMT
France as usual does not have a rat's chance in hell.
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