The 2013 Eurovision thread

[288gto]

the circus of eurovision has become boring and is so annoying.
no offense to whom who like it but, i don't get that at all.

 

[L3ggy]

Become? It's always been boring.

 

[too fast]

I may be an ignorant American but what is Eurovision?

 

[Jeep!]

I may be an ignorant American but what is Eurovision?

There's a large television broadcast union that organises a singing contest every year, each country subscribing to the union submits an act, all the countries vote for their favourites and the winner hosts it next year. Because it's a mix of so many European, west/central Asian and north African cultures it gets really campy and ridiculous. It's awesome.

 

[JaanaRuutu]

I may be an ignorant American but what is Eurovision?

Every country in Europe competes to see who can send the most horrible musical abomination possible to a country. Europe votes. Whoever wins gets the contest in their country the next year. I guess it's supposed to unify us somehow but all that usually ends up happening i me being reminded of why I never want to visit Eastern Europe. Some good songs have come out of it, like ABBA's "Waterloo", but mostly it's gems like this:

This is the song that won last year. it's a decent pop song, but like I said, loreen rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

 

[Slaughtersun]

Ah yes, back in the good ole days...

...nowadays it's just another entertainment show featuring the most boring Pop songs ever created (e.g. Loreen, Cascada, and so on...)

 

[JaanaRuutu]

Euroviion songs don't sound like normal pop songs. It's weird.

 

[Scancunt42]

I like Finland! It's in my top 10

 

[Slaughtersun]

Apart from the musical individuality that has been completely lost in the last ten to fifteen years, the thing I'm missing the most is all the different languages you could listen to during the ESC. Actually, most countires singing in English nowadays is part of the musical demise as well as any glimmer of individuality is squashed and then meshed up so that we've got 20 something pop songs you can hear on the radio all day long, every day of the week. But oviously I'm part of a dying breed of ESC fans as people still enjoy this farce. Anyhow, as a music enthusiast, I'm opting for the San Remo festival, it's only Italian songs of course, but the quality of the music is not even comparable to the same old same old ESC shit.

 

[FreeOnes_Anders]

Dont think she actually made it to the ESC... but holy crap.... I am ashamed of both my Swedish and Finnish heritage here.

 

[rivasky]

LOL @ UK!

2012: Engelbert Humperdinck
2013: Bonnie Tyler
2014: Bruce Forsyth

Haven't listened through this year's contestants yet. My favorite from recent years still is Serbia's 2011 entry.

 

[JaanaRuutu]

I don't think the UK gives a fuck at this point.

 

[JaanaRuutu]

a. what the fuck is on your head?
b. You're aware you're suposed to sing and not talk your lyrics, right?

Something tells me this won't do very well.

 

[DP_LOVER]

i fucking love eurovision, cant wait for this years

 

[rivasky]

Finland's entry is fucking horrible. This may actually be one of the worst songs I've ever heard and I'll be genuinely surprised if we make it to the final

Sorry, hun! I've now listened through all contestants and I must say that Finland is my favorite this year. Suomi douze points.

Italy is a close second

 

[rivasky]

Bringing this up.

First semifinal tonight. Bookies see Denmark as the frontrunner this year with Ukraine and Norway trailing behind them.

http://www.oddschecker.com/tv/eurovision/winner

 

[JaanaRuutu]

Should be interesting. Can't wait!

 

[288gto]

Finland's entry is fucking horrible. This may actually be one of the worst songs I've ever heard and I'll be genuinely surprised if we make it to the final.

What kind of embarrassment is your country putting forward this year?

i saw her pictures and so, and did a nice wanking on her, she was good for that.

 

[Patrick_S]

Didn´t Nightwish take part in the finnish tryouts in 2000? How they didn´t win is a complete mystery since they´re one of the few finnish bands worth listening to (Children of Bodom and The Flaming Sideburns are the only other ones i can think of).

 

[288gto]

Didn´t Nightwish take part in the finnish tryouts in 2000? How they didn´t win is a complete mystery since they´re one of the few finnish bands worth listening to (Children of Bodom and The Flaming Sideburns are the only other ones i can think of).

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