It's that time of the year again. Most countries have already chosen their songs but in Sweden the long spectacle of Melodifestivalen has its final today.
It will be a bit like The Music thread but only for Eurovision songs.
I'll begin with Swedish Kevin Borg representing Malta??
No Sean Banana for Europe this year but a complete outsider in Robin Stjernberg with the song You.
Ladies and gentlemen. The winner of Melodifestivalen 2013
Recieved some plagiarism allegations and bad critics due to its striking (chorus) similarity to "Euphoria".
It's quite obvious this is a try to simply re-use the winning formula of last year and let it perform by a known band, which might turn out to both extremes.
Sure is that it has less "affinity potential" than Lena or last year's Roman Lob, and thus makes me a bit less enthusiastic about the contest.
Lachi wrote:
cio93: Why do you think that "they" try to re-use the winning formula from last year? Wasn't it a public phone vote?
I should've phrased it differently. Indeed, it was 1/3 internet voting through radio stations, 1/3 phone vote, 1/3 jury vote (where it's interesting to know all jury members are signed by the same label as Cascade, and the final decision was quite influenced by their vote).
I wanted to express that it won because this is what people expect to be successful, rather than being passionate about it like it was the case with Lena 2010.
Where C'tulhu rises from his ancient slumber to cast upon us the cosmic horror of the Eurovision? Yes, it is.
I'll be in my soundproof bunker
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Well,
I really have nothing to cheer for in the Eurovsion as Luxemburg refuses to participate, due to the points shuffeling in the eastern block
And since I am living in Ireland:
The last years have been downriht awful... Afterall, who would send two idiots like jedward twice? They cant sing, have no brain and on top of that are a shame for the irish nation (and quite frankly resemble the failure that is the irish secondary school system )
Ah well... Will probably not watch it anyways.
The whole system is a complete farce from start to finish! Voting is rigged, songs are awful, show is expensive and long.
When nations try to actively not win, its time to pack it in. Was a good thing for the past, like the '70s, but its an outdated event that pretty much everyone under 18 gives less that a sh*t about.
You can usually predict the winner with some certainty just due to various political situations across Europe. Or at least pick 5 countries and the winner will come from one of them.
And in such a time of economic trouble in Europe i cannot believe that every nation could even afford to win and put on the event next year. It's actually just a waste of precious resources now.
Miggi hit a great point. If Jedward are the best a nation wants to send, combined with the UK theory of "fu*k it" and several other nations just going for gimmick over actual quality, then something is wrong.
Enjoy your horrible, tacky, overpriced, biased, political, shambolic excuse for a "popularity" talent contest.
I don't mind people criticizing Eurovision for being horrible music .. because mostly, it is.
But I am getting tired of the "political situations decide the winner" argument.
First of all, it's more a matter of cultural similarities that make neighbouring nations vote for each other. Not politics.
Second of all, did you see the list of winners?
2012: Sweden
2011: Azerbaijan
2010: Germany
2009: Norway
2008: Russia
2007: Serbia
2006: Finland
2005: Greece
Not really sure what you're trying to say, but as you can see from the list of winners, there's a great variety of countries from most parts of Europe.
Besides, I like that your longest post in this forum is about something you don't care about. Might be a good idea to show the same enthusiasm for themes you do care about
- Greece/Turkey will send some guy wearing a completely white suit with a very low-cut shirt showing of his chest hair.
- Some of the south-eastern Europen countries will send a tall, beautiful woman doing a provocative dance showing a massive amount of cleavage/thighs.
- Some of the smaller eastern European countries will send something absolutely insane like a guy dressed as the Tin-Man or dancers jumping like space monkeys while wearing traffic cones.
- UK/Sweden sends some boyband/female singer who everyone thinks is going to win, but when they lose the entire population claims they don't care because it's a stupid competition anyway and the didn't even want to win to being with.
- Norway comes last and/or get's the most 0-pointers.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
- UK/Sweden sends some boyband/female singer who everyone thinks is going to win, but when they lose the entire population claims they don't care because it's a stupid competition anyway and the didn't even want to win to being with.
We know we are never going to win! But we still complain
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