Europeans only!!! What do you think of Eurovision???

Question

I am from U.K. and it's a must watch for me! I dislike pop music and the glamour/craze that surrounds it but this supposedly meant to be the "best "competition in Europe where "best" singers/bands collide to win the title of the Eurovision winner.
Last years winners were the band "Lordi" from Finland and the tune Hard Rock Halleluja is on my iPod along with a few other video clips of them. I think they were simply best ever winners of eurovision? What do you think? Are you happy about who will be representing your country this year?
P.S. this appaling band will be representing UK - must watch you'll have a laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNoAddyUMQ

and here are who I think will win it in 2007 the russian entry called "Serebro" - translated as "Silver" they are three attractive young ladies (one of them appeared in Russian POP idol3)

http://pop.gzt.ru/2007/03/14/serebro-song-1/

just click on the green circle with an arrow)))

I am from U.K. and it's a must watch for me! I dislike pop music and the glamour/craze that surrounds it but this supposedly meant to be the "best "competition in Europe where "best" singers/bands collide to win the title of the Eurovision winner.
Last years winners were the band "Lordi" from Finland and the tune Hard Rock Halleluja is on my iPod along with a few other video clips of them. I think they were simply best ever winners of eurovision? What do you think? Are you happy about who will be representing your country this year?
P.S. this appaling band will be representing UK - must watch you'll have a laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2knoaddyu...

and here are who I think will win it in 2007 the russian entry called "Serebro" - translated as "Silver" they are three attractive young ladies (one of them appeared in Russian POP idol3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEVC2W37s4&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEVC2W37s4&mode=related&search=

here are lyrics to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEVC2W37s4&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1SMHM8M_c&mode=related&search=

click above for lyrics!!!

Answer 1

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I am from Macedonia {called FYROM- former yugoslavian republic of macedonia, because Greece isn't accepting us for our constitutional name} and here we also watch Eurovision a lot and I have been following this festival since I was little. Our country has high hopes of winning, or even getting to a higher place, but I seriously doubt that we will acomplish anything. You ask if I am happy about who will be representing my country this year? I am not. As long as we don't come up with something that is new or ORIGINAL, we won't win and I wouldn't support a song that is either old, unoriginal or plain bad/horrible, even it is from my homeland. But it all comes down to politics. And that is very dissapointing. From the start, when the song that will represent a certain country, to the festival itself, politics, and not art, has a major role. If you follow the voting on Eurovision, you'll notice that Sweden is giving points to Finland, Finland to Denmark, Netherlands to Belgium, Belgium to the Netherlands, we to Serbians. they to us, we to the Croatians and again they to us. With this we can conclude that a neibourgh countries excange points, and it has a small impact on the results (bad songs get points).
Let me remind you of the fact that Italy IS NOT in the Eurovision song contest. Why, you ask? Because they would send their winner of the San Remo, the most prestigious festival in Italy (perhaps in Europe as well), and they would always have the best song and the best of singers (who could work in an opera) and they would still end up last. The Italians figured out this concept and now they don't bother. It is not fair that some countries will go to the finals automaticly, no matter what, just because they founded europe (this includes the UK). Maybe that is why noone is voting for the Uk, and they always finish last. So, I would say that the influence of politics is high in the Eurovision and that is a bad thing. That causes voters to think subjectivly, and not objectivly. But, let's forget about winners or losers. Let's look at the music, and that is the main thing about any festival, it's the art, it's the reason why people keep listening. Last year the winners were Lordi, and they won because they were original. Europe was bored of the same old, same old...They were in a need of something new. And I hail Lordi for the revolution they made. Honestly, I didn't like their song. In fact, I didn't like anyone, including us. You know what I think? If it wasn't for tradition, this festival would be long gone. I would vote for a man with a guitar, on a chair with a spotlight on him, and the only music would be from the guitar, and he would sing from his soul with the sweetest voice. No fancy coreography, light efects, video beams, backup singers, playback music, props, costimes, none of that crap. Just plain, simple and honest. To be original, and to provoke a feeling at a listener. Find Abba-waterloo, and listen to it, and think of the future of Eurovision. There is a lot that needs to be changed and we must pay more attencion to the music, to the very art, that is commercialed and without any value. Eurovision diserves a make-over.


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"Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair."

Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
U.S. composer.



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"A bird of brilliant plumage, fluttering over the horrors of the abyss."

Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
French poet.

Comment on the music of Frédéric Chopin, who was a friend.


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Answer 2

Other mid-japanese international locations also are in Eurovision and different European establishments. besides, Israel is culturally European, and near adequate to Europe. And a Brit judges on American Idol on the grounds that you purchased the notion off ITV, and Simon Cowell used to be the one factor that made our long-established variation well, so that you purchased him too.

Answer 3

I am so excite about Eurovision 2007. Me like pop song about rock and roll and blue jeans. I am Serbia. Our band to represent is called The Milosevic 7. They sing devil's music about living in rubble and firing mortars. Unfortunate 2 members of The Milosevic 7 were recently kill by Kosovar gypsy brigade. 2 dead members played harpsichord and lute. Very sad are we and now Milosevic 7 need harpsichord and lute players before big contest.

Answer 4

i only watch it because i like the fact that the whole of europe participates...

and scooch will win..!!!