Eurovision Kiss Kiss

[Igor]

Eurovision is like Ed Woods movies- it's so bad you actually have fun watching those miserable guys&gals thinking they just reached their 3 minutes of fame and glory  

[Las Naranjas]

I don't know if the concept of sampling is well known [drips sarcasm] but the Holly Vallance song sampled a popular Turkish song. That was well recored in our media at least.


The response that the crowd gave when the Greeks awarded Cyprus 12 points was hilarious though, as is the Israeli's pernnial attempts to be Latino.

[Matt Brown]

forgive me for being the dumb american, but just what is eurovision? is it some kind of international song contest?

[Barcik]

It's a European song competition. All songs are sticky and popish, none are good.

A few stars made their name in the Eurovision, like ABBA and Celine Dion.

[Flippy_D]

We forgive you. Eurovision is a celebration of poor quality music from Europe (and... Turkey) which unflaggingly sucks, every year. It's camp and kitcsh and altogether rubbish, but it's hilarious to watch.

Sort of like Pop Idol.

[Las Naranjas]

Hey, that's why they try the Latino stuff, they need to prove they're actually European.

[wOoDz]

don't worry about it! your better off not knowing! its like miss america but with cardboard cut outs
really its a euro singing comp, with very below average music, our saving grace is terry wogan an irish dj/tv host with one hell of a dry sense of humour

woodz

[Flippy_D]

Country representative: (after getting the points wrong)
Oops, I am sorry.....

Wogan: It's alright love, you're fired.

[Nacho]

I saw Eurovision because the Spanish candidate is very know as the winner of a famous contest. I think the spanish singer does not sing very well, her voice is too broken, but she likes many people, what can I do . My favourite song was the Irish, but... The Austrian song and how they did the performance was brilliant! Very funny and new for Eurovision. I laugh a lot, I was sure it was going to get a lot of votes. If all the songs in Eurovision are going to be like that I´ll record it and I´ll see the tape once a week, at least.

P.S. The Turkish song was just average, not even good, I think there are many political matters involved in that contest.

[Shattered Sponge]

I don't know if the concept of sampling is well known [drips sarcasm] but the Holly Vallance song sampled a popular Turkish song. That was well recored in our media at least.

The media didn't really make a point of that over here, mostly because everyone already recognised the song as it had ben used in an advert for an extremely popular talk-show (I for one can remember what the Turkish original sounds like pretty well despite it being a pretty forgettable advert, but the Holly Valance one seems to have slipped my mind - wonder why).

[Evil]

I watched a Miss America sort of thing on one of the spanish channels I get today. Very funny, like a kindergarden birthday party...

[Synthetique]

Of course, you have to watch it with subtitles, too. Live subtitiles are hilarious as you watch the poor typist trying to keep up with the two presenters making Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood look slick and professional

i just had to answer this

you know that they know what theyre going to say long before that day right?

[Flippy_D]

Well, that and they suck.

[DGMacphee]

I don't know about everyone else's opinion on this, but here's mine:

Any concert that gives a prize to a schoolgirl lesbian act is DEFINATELY worth watching!

[Bob The Hun]

So Eurovision is kinda like Europe's answer to 'The Gong Show'?

[EDIT]

Sort of like Pop Idol.

You mean American Idol? I think it's called Pop Idol over there.

[Las Naranjas]

I think it's funny, that through a huge system of contracting and sub contracting TV franchises, Pop and/or American/Australian Idol is actually a third generation licence of popstars that appears on rival networks.

I also liked the Austrian grabbing his stomach because crotch grabbing was not allowed.

[SSH]

Of course, you have to watch it with subtitles, too. Live subtitiles are hilarious as you watch the poor typist trying to keep up with the two presenters making Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood look slick and professional

i just had to answer this

you know that they know what theyre going to say long before that day right?

Of course, but the typist obviously wasn't informed and Terry Wogan's comments aren't scripted.

[Butcher]

It's all a coincidence!

It's not our fault the Cyprus song is ALWAYS the best one.

Anyway I was to bored to watch the competition, and unfortunately missed the Austrian entry which had to be worth it. I also missed our singer who certainly earned the best boobs award this year.

We got the same place as last year which is a shame, because I think that moving from Gay-space-knights who wink all the time to a shameless display of amazing boobs should be rewarded...too bad.

[Gonzo]

The gay space-knights last year were the best thing on. This year, I liked Estonia's real band, it was catchy and fun and they were obviously pretty talented guys. For sheer Eurovision comedy, I think Poland takes the biscuit though - I had a few belly laughs at the translated lyrics when they were singing that.

I wish I were an astronaut    
I could watch the Earth from above
Everyone who has been there at least once
Says
It’s wonderful

There is peace and bliss and happiness
Everything that is there
Hardly exists any more
One sees with innocent child’s eyes
How we, people
Are small on Earth

Chorus:
No borders
No flags
From there, from above
The world seems so beautiful
No countries
No nations
No wars
Can be seen from above

Everyone should go there at least once
To realise
This struggle doesn’t make sense
He may forget about his stupid megalomania
And instead of talking
Will start to live again.

Chorus:
No borders    
No flags
From there, from above  
The world seems so beautiful
No countries
No nations    
No wars
Can be seen from above  

No borders,    
No borders,    
a world without flags    
a world without flags    
From above one sees no borders
No borders    
No borders,    
No quarrels, no explosions, no war
From there, from above
The world is just beautiful.



The 'stupid megalomania' line is the best.

[Flippy_D]

*smirk*