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Post by patricklondon on May 22, 2010 12:37:51 GMT
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Post by lola on May 22, 2010 13:23:30 GMT
All right! Babushka Power!
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2010 14:13:03 GMT
As much as I love this every year, I confess that I have not been paying attention and it is almost upon us. I must immediately go and find the French entry.
Oh jeez. "France 1 point." Here it is:
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Post by bjd on May 22, 2010 14:49:58 GMT
That can't be it, Kerouac. Are they all going to be on stage? That little girl with the boots --how incredibly tacky -- I prefer the old ladies.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2010 15:14:32 GMT
I found the official Eurovision clip of the song -- just as bad with different images.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2010 15:17:49 GMT
Oops... looks like France might come in ahead of the UK. OMG, the lyrics of this song!
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Post by fumobici on May 22, 2010 15:31:24 GMT
Europop is almost inevitably insufferable, and has been for as long as I can remember.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2010 15:47:18 GMT
About the only thing worse is American music.
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Post by auntieannie on May 22, 2010 18:54:51 GMT
The Swiss entry almost sounds like a work of art compared to some of these...
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2010 20:36:41 GMT
I am pretty sure that I will be supporting Belgium... if it makes it to the finals.
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Post by happytraveller on May 26, 2010 7:04:08 GMT
The Swiss entry almost sounds like a work of art compared to some of these... I still expect to hear "Switzerland, zero points" As usual. I like the german song !
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2010 8:32:05 GMT
Ah, but you never hear "zero points"
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Post by happytraveller on May 26, 2010 8:40:17 GMT
Actually, you are right
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2010 8:51:41 GMT
It would be nice if the juries could also designate the worst song in their opinion.
Hey, professional juries are back this year to counterbalance the freakish phone results -- the real jury will count for 50%.
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2010 10:11:39 GMT
Do you think anyone takes this stuff seriously?
I just had a look at the UK clip above! Those women in their plastic shorts! And why do they all sing in English? The Belgian guy sounds American and has an Anglo name.
If the juries had to designate the worst song, they would have a hard time deciding -- it's all unremittingly terrible. Of course, if you look at it from a kitsch point of view, then it just becomes amusing.
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Post by happytraveller on May 27, 2010 8:15:57 GMT
I guess I will be watching TV tonight. Then get frustrated and say to myself that I won't be watching the final. Then watch the Final on saturday, get frustrated and say to myself that I won't be watching that crap ever again. Until next year. ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 8:25:15 GMT
Switzerland is in tonight's semifinal?
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Post by happytraveller on May 27, 2010 8:41:48 GMT
As far as I know, yes.
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Post by auntieannie on May 27, 2010 18:21:28 GMT
I think the Eurovision Song Contest is a fabulously terrible TV show once a year. One of the few things I used to watch the years we had a TV.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 19:57:40 GMT
As I implied, I am very serious when I watch it. Yes, a lot of it is terrible, but I consider it to be a pretty accurate portrait of the condition of Europe every year.
People like to laugh at it because they do not want to face reality. These songs were chosen in each country, generally by public vote. You get to see which countries are proud of their national culture, which ones want to skew the image (France), which ones have surrendered to Anglo musical dominance, and which ones are really searching for something new.
It is not a farce at all.
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Post by happytraveller on May 28, 2010 5:11:48 GMT
I guess I will be watching TV tonight. Then get frustrated and say to myself that I won't be watching the final. Yeah yeah...
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 5:34:36 GMT
Oh well, no Switzerland again...
Here is the lineup of the 25 finalists: Azerbaijan, Spain, Norway, Moldova, Cyprus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Serbia, Belarus, Ireland, Greece, United Kingdom, Georgia, Turkey, Albania, Iceland, France, Romania, Russia, Armenia, Germany, Portugal, Israel, Denmark.
And as a special treat, here is the creature from Serbia with the alien cheek implants.
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Post by hwinpp on May 28, 2010 9:28:18 GMT
Were the big ones again seeded? Germany, for example?
Jack, I'm with Fumo, Europop is not called Eurotrash without a reason, think 'Vengaboys'... Does America have anything as bad as that?
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 10:47:48 GMT
We don't get most of America's "local consumption" music in our far flung lands -- and there's a good reason for that. And when you think how bad a lot of the international exports are (think about all of those 'shake your booty' videos), Europe has nothing to be ashamed of.
Yes, the original big countries are pre-qualified for the Eurovision contest, no matter how awful their songs are, because they are the ones paying for almost all of it.
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Post by auntieannie on May 28, 2010 17:33:11 GMT
oooh... that serbian thing. Ahem ... Avantgarde?
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 17:41:02 GMT
What distresses me the most about the Serbian song is that it was composed by Goran Bregovic, who did the fantastic music for Time of the Gypsies and other films. Given the proper singer and treatment, it might have been good.
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Post by auntieannie on May 29, 2010 11:09:02 GMT
Some better Goran Bregovic stuff:
This one always makes me cry. It was introduced to me during the Balkan war by "yougoslavs" of all ethnies exiled in Switzerland, who were suffering to see their country's infighting:
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Post by bjd on May 29, 2010 11:27:32 GMT
Interesting how the first link just above sounds so Middle Eastern. I wonder if the fact that all those countries were occupied by the Ottoman Empire has anything to do with it?
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2010 20:54:06 GMT
Okay, I have just watched the 25 contestants, and the voting results have not yet been revealed.
My own top three are:
1. Belgium 2. Israel 3. Greece
Spain is singing a second time before things get serious because someone ran on stage and disrupted his first performance.
Anyway, I also rated my three worst and they are:
1. Azerbaijan 2. Albania 3. Russia
Naturally, I am usually wrong.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2010 22:14:21 GMT
Since you're all waiting with bated breath:
1. Winner - Germany 2. Turkey 3. Romania
25. Last place - United Kingdom 24. Belarus 23. Ireland
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