tijeretamiel -> Eurovision Song Contest (May 10 2014 20:13:35)
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.
Graham_B -> RE: Eurovision Song Contest (May 11 2014 5:35:29)
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? [:D]
I do admit that I learned that traditional Polish clothes washing requires the display of an awful lot of cleavage so it was educational...
Guest -> RE: Eurovision Song Contest (May 11 2014 8:33:17)
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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
El Kiko -> RE: Eurovision Song Contest (May 11 2014 9:21:06)
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 ...
Erik van Goch -> RE: Eurovision Song Contest (May 11 2014 16:38:49)
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).
Paul Magnussen -> RE: Eurovision Song Contest (May 12 2014 16:17:32)
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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.
withinity -> RE: Eurovision Song Contest (May 18 2014 9:07:56)
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.
