It's not about the music. It's about which country is most liked. For instance: Portuguese viewers will most likely vote for their neighbor Spain; and Sweden will vote for Norway and vice versa. I think all of the artists should hide their nationality and reveal it after the show.
Use to be the way you explained it but now it's less about neighbours and more about overall voting. Now it's like Music Idol / Xfactor the winner is known before the show starts and it's too much in your face like a WWE match. There was a reason why non neighbours were voting for top 3 countries entire show
its a fun. also interesting wat the countrys put up. often its disappoing, but actually this time the songs are quite good. (the semifinal is running atm)
Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, and Switzerland could easily be matched with Austria but, assuming the voting was even legitimate and not political theatre, in a world desperate to prove how tolerant it is the tranny easily took 1st place ;D
You don't think it represented some diversity at the Eurovision? I'm not saying the genre is revolutionary, but compared to the rubbish dance acts we so often see at the ESC I think Lordi was a breath of fresh air.
eurovision has always been a a laughing stock for me (and as far as i remember for everyone else), don't know why this year it's taken so seriously or even "just seriously" - for me it's still a joke... i mean what does it have in common with accurate judging of music skills? i mean i don't even understand why this "contest" is so popular all over the world... it's so much the wurst ever
It has that easy warm feeling to it. It's like watching Top Gear. You know you are going to learn fuck all about cars, not watch some sweet touge battle, laugh at Keiichi Tsuchiya commentary or Orido's hair...............but you are going to see something car related on a sunday evening when there is nothing else on TV and a bit of general humour.
For me I watch it for the final voting round when it goes through each country to cast the vote. Thats where I spot some amazing chick that steals the show. Or at least hope some of the singers are hot like Sweden this year, Poland, Ukraine not bad either.....and so on
I think it also makes it vital that you watch the show with Graham Norton commentary (english) instead of a country that may try to sound too serious about this. He makes El Faggatory out of every one and how lame the show is in general which makes it watchable. Like I said it's like watching a WWE match but with commentators that know its fake and make a mockery out of every move.
Usually you don't even hear talking about that eurovision lame festival, but this year, no, this year an undefined faggot won, so of course that every news must show a quarter hour celebration about a man with psychological troubles that without his beard, or just presenting himself dressed in male dresses, would have never won.
Personally, I do not care about ESC and pop-music, but watching how raging ruzki Ivans blowing their social networks are priceless!
And genocide of Tatars is not politics, but history.
I find it very strange how Russia is so upset about Ukraine winning....
I mean according to Russia there are no homosexuals in all of Russia, so who does that leave to watch the eurovision song festival?
How can they be upset about something they didn't see?
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