It's pretty obvious really. An event like the Eurovision song contest is pretty easy for anyone to hate.
Unless you are Serbian.
Then you love it.
This year was a first for me - I have never watched the Eurovision before...I've made it to my 27th year and finally I have got round to making a date of it. I started off enjoying - hopeful even. Hopeful that uber-camp SCOOCH could well 'pull it out of the bag' or even have 'slotted it home' or whatever cheap semi-inuendo bingo line they wanted to 'squeeze in'. It was not to be. Eventually our tact changed to hoping that the UK would not get any points at all! But that was not to be either...thanks to the Irish and Maltese. Shame really - we could have been the runaway failures...but now we're just also-rans.
But seriously, I know nothing about European politics but it strikes me that objective appreciation of a decent performance or tune has very little to do with where one ends up at the end of the night. Every neighbouring country giving their neighbours a pat on the back and 12 points to boot. Obviously not having any neighbours can't help us. Maybe the Maltese just like us because, like them, we're also an island? Or maybe people don't vote for us because over history we've probably attacked every one of them at least once and nicked all their best inventions and claimed them as our own. Or is it because we don't use the Euro yet and we're being punished through pop music!? Maybe we just didn't have enough goth in our entry?
But aside from my bitterness - what can we do to sort things out next year? I suggest there are three options:
1 - Start a petition to not put in an act next year - leave them to it. They only good thing about it this year was the staging and the Germans...and they got pathetic points too. And they haven't got anywhere near as chequered a past as we Brits...have they?
2 - Put in Coldplay. They're not doing anything else at the moment. Chris Martin can do some activist promo at the same time. 100 million viewers in one hit? Nailed it! Could be embarrassing if they get nil though...
3 - Send the Beckhams. They'll sort it out - and they're not doing much at the moment either. Everyone loves the Beckhams. David can sing. Victoria can pout and do keepy ups.
Perfect.
It's ours for the taking next year - you mark my words.
7 comments:
shame on you for slaggin the Irish for doing something nice for the British for once! Anyway, yes, a beckham duet would be the best thing since bucks fizz.
It's always fun listening to wogan slur his way through it though! - He is the king of the put down!!
When you say it is ours for the taking next year, do you mean 'ours' Britain or 'ours' Electralyte? That could be your new project.
Oddly enough, as Britain is one of the 4 biggest contributors to the European Broadcasting Union we qualify every year, no matter how badly we do...
I've taken it upon myself to post a defence of Eurovision...
Sorry, but i couldn't disagree with you more. Eurovision is some of the best telly on the box. Stereotyping, bad singing, sarcasm, Political voting. It's magic. Can't wait for next year.
"Sorry, but i couldn't disagree with you more. Eurovision is some of the best telly on the box. Stereotyping, bad singing, sarcasm, Political voting. It's magic. Can't wait for next year."
Sun reader? All those reasons are why it is such a pile of crap and why i do not pay my license fee any longer.
PAH lol!
We were hoping you didnt get any points as well mate ;)
Stopping making judgements on somthing you've only seen the once.
Hahahaha!
i bet you only didnt like it because your country didnt win :P
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