Eurovision Song Contest

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tijeretamiel

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Joined: Jan. 6 2012

Eurovision Song Contest

Did anyone watch this year's contest?

I don't really know what to say about the Eurovision Song Contest the but it's a wonderful, terrible thing.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 10 2014 20:13:35

Graham_B

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Joined: Jul. 10 2007
From: Leigh, Lancashire, UK

RE: Eurovision Song Contest (in reply to tijeretamiel)

I watched the entire show for the first time in many years.

I could not see a single musical instrument actually being played...

Best summed up as a karaoke show with the most unimaginative song selection and fantastic lighting effects with the audience clearly on mind altering drugs to keep them at fever pitch

And, of course, won by the bearded lady...

What better way to spend a Saturday night?

I do admit that I learned that traditional Polish clothes washing requires the display of an awful lot of cleavage so it was educational...

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 11 2014 5:35:29

Guest

RE: Eurovision Song Contest (in reply to Graham_B)

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And, of course, won by the bearded lady...

Damn
Were a day behind here
Another dream shattered
Guess I'll just have to spend those few hours playing the guitar

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 11 2014 8:33:17

El Kiko

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Joined: Jun. 7 2010
From: The South Ireland

RE: Eurovision Song Contest (in reply to Guest)

I know , i know , i kinda watched it on and off as the wife shouted ... come in and see this one .. from time to time ...
But really as SONG contest it should be on the radio .. or just about the song .. not the costumes .. the beard . the weird performance .. it should just be the song ... and as to all the political pressure being thrown around ...nuff said ...
I kept hearing the boo-ing every time the word RUSSIA came up ....
a big thing it is for some .... and oh yes i nearly forgot , there were some songs as well ...

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 11 2014 9:21:06

Erik van Goch

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Joined: Jul. 17 2012
From: Netherlands

RE: Eurovision Song Contest (in reply to tijeretamiel)

After the selected dutch song "calm after the storm" was presented on dutch television for the very first time it generated the very opposite reaction the title suggested because "a strorm of criticism" arose, a lovely dutch expression meaning mass criticism was ventilated in the media of people telling them it was boring and not proper for export. The most funny one was a parody in another popular show a couple of days later using the song itself to name/show what should be altered to make it a real festival hit. The words they sing tell what should be altered: swing/tempo/arrangement/the hat/ad a catching theme (flute), bridge, modulation etc). The presentation was extremely funny. The suggested visuals included a giant, a dwarf and not 1 but 3 transvestites !!!

Here are both versions, the first presentation as well as the parody (funny enough parody is also known as travesty).

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 11 2014 16:38:49

Paul Magnussen

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From: London (living in the Bay Area)

RE: Eurovision Song Contest (in reply to tijeretamiel)

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I don't really know what to say about the Eurovision Song Contest the but it's a wonderful, terrible thing.

I haven’t watched it in decades, but I remember thinking that the voting for the early rounds was fatally flawed, in that the judges voted for the song they thought would be a hit, rather than the song they liked.

The result was that anything the least bit unusual (and thus interesting) was eliminated, leaving the blandest song to be entered in the final.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 12 2014 16:17:32

withinity

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Joined: Sep. 17 2013

RE: Eurovision Song Contest (in reply to tijeretamiel)

That's the influence of the West spread right there pretty much every country disbanded there traditional cultural song to make a more modern appeal , in turn it just feels like another one of those pop contest voting idol shows.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 18 2014 9:07:56