I wondered if that was behind the 0 score.
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Lullabelle
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Mostly, but we were probably rubbish as well.I wondered if that was behind the 0 score.
Lullabelle
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Tasteofspain_uk
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At least in Oxford is just misty. Very windy, though.
Ahhhhhh Leicestershire! Proud home of The Foxes.
Kid and I watched the show. But went to sleep before winner announcement. Just read it is Italy.
Congratulations .
I thought Portugal or Iceland.
Although Finland went for the style of Italy too. I wondered if it were not going to be Finland.
But one never really knows. Well ...someone does. How did you guess?
I honestly never heard of Eurovision. I had to look it up. It seams like a song contest??? The winner says he didn't snort coke before the final performance. Okay.
I don't watch those shows -- except for one season of The Voice, where my 17-year-old cousin was a contender. Pharrell Williams and Blake Shelton selected her, and she went with Pharrell as her coach.
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I first heard about it as a kid in the '70's, because I loved the song "Waterloo," and all the stories about the song and ABBA always mentioned that they got their first recognition on Eurovision. I think when I first read that, I though it was a TV channel in Europe or something.
We got hooked watching it in the UK, and it's a pretty big thing (or at least it was, I don't know about now), and when we moved back, we really missed it, though it wasn't too hard to find a live stream, even in the late 1990's, to find a live stream online.
They started showing it here (US), as in properly broadcasting it live, maybe five or six years ago, and we watched it live on NBC's Peacock free streaming service, which was nice.
With the popularity of America's Got Talent and The Voice (neither of which I've seen), it may be finally capturing some attention here. Ten years ago, when I'd say, "We can't go out today, it's Eurovision," I'd get blank stares, and now I know people who have watch parties and there were several of my wife's friends giving running commentary on FB. Of course, that goofy movie with Will Farrell helped raise the visibility here as well.
It's really addictive, because of the cultural differences and some of the performances are charmingly kitschy, and then others are so crazy with the onstage fireworks and aerial acts, it's just wild. We love it.
Spinoff behind the big pond: American Song Contest in 2022. "Ja Ja Ding Dong".
My first ESC memory is watching ABBA win from the upper bunk bed at our countryside sauna cabin. I've been an ESC fan since. Finland did well yesterday. In my book the tune wasn't super but our hard pop rock was less boring than Italy's monotonous rock tune with shirtless male models. I liked the Swiss falsetto song although the set design, hand movements and the corny outfit of the singer were way worse than the stylish car crash video version of the same tune. France was an updated "Padam, Padam" with a heartfelt rendition but without Piaf's deep and sonorous voice. The nasal, artificial bleating of the Portuguese singer was appalling, although the tune was bearable elevator music. The Ukrainian song reminded me of Finnish Värttinä. In general, the focus in the the present-day Eurovision Song Contest is in visual effects, lobbying/marketing skills and choreography, tolerance (50 000 Liberaces in the audience) and having a good party - not that much in music. Most entries are sickening (which I love as I love to pick on things) and especially Slavic and South European countries always vote for their neighbors. It's like watching Monty Python. The same issue might arise in the US between states. This year Finland got 0 points from Sweden and Norway. Normally Finnish entries are weird or awful and don't even qualify for the final (except for Lordi's winning entry in 2006):
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My first ESC memory is watching ABBA win from the upper bunk bed at our countryside sauna cabin. I've been an ESC fan since. Finland did well yesterday. In my book the tune wasn't super but our hard pop rock was less boring than Italy's monotonous rock tune with shirtless male models. I liked the Swiss falsetto song although the set design, hand movements and the corny outfit of the singer were way worse than the stylish car crash video version of the same tune. France was an updated "Padam, Padam" with a heartfelt rendition but without Piaf's deep and sonorous voice. The nasal, artificial bleating of the Portuguese singer was appalling, although the tune was bearable elevator music. The Ukrainian song reminded me of Finnish Värttinä. In general, the focus in the the present-day Eurovision Song Contest is in visual effects, lobbying/marketing skills and choreography, tolerance (50 000 Liberaces in the audience) and having a good party - not that much in music. Most entries are sickening (which I love as I love to pick on things) and especially Slavic and South European countries always vote for their neighbors. It's like watching Monty Python. The same issue might arise in the US between states. This year Finland got 0 points from Sweden and Norway. Normally Finnish entries are weird or awful and don't even qualify for the final (except for Lordi's winning entry in 2006):
I'm sure shows like The Voice pale in comparison to Eurovision, I did rather enjoy one season of it. But, you've never watched it. Why would you.
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When I saw the winners on the news last night, I knew why I don't watch it. Or any of those music shows. My wife tapes that sort of crapola.
I'm not musically minded but love certain bands.
Russ
I'm not musically minded but love certain bands.
Russ
Did you see the Icelandic judge awarding their points? He had me laughing so hard!
First, he looked like he'd just wandered up from the fishing boat, then his manner was of someone who'd really rather be anywhere else, and when it came time to award the points, he awarded them to "Ja Ja Ding Dong"...twice!
Thanks for posting that video. When we watched that movie and that scene played, and she started singing in Icelandic, I'm not going to lie...I got a little misty-eyed. That doesn't usually happen during a Will Farrell movie. I think I was Icelandic for about 30 seconds, maybe.
We always, always watch the Scandis for the most "in spirit" EV performances. To me, you all are the keepers what EV is all about.
Now I need to go watch that Father Ted episode where they wrote a song for EV.
Yup, I sure did (while having chips, pop corn, salted peanuts, sushi, assorted fruit and berries, candies, soda and beer like every year during the ESC). The Icelandic actor (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) who announced the Icelandic vote played another good role as a drunken Greenlandic helicopter pilot in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.Did you see the Icelandic judge awarding their points? He had me laughing so hard!
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About half of this year's ESC performing artists have participated in either a national Talent or Voice version (which aren't mainly for songwriters).
Russ, if I'd seen only the Italian lead singer sniffing the table or repeating his boring winning song, I couldn't care less either - but there's (and has been) a lot of versatility in the ESC during 65 years: several languages, cheeky pop songs (like Johnny Logan's "What's Another Year" or Norway's "Fairytale"), hilarious camp memes (like Moldova's Epic sax guy or Ukraine's Verka Serduchka), solo artists (like Celine Dion), groups (like ABBA), disco beats (like Romania's Mihai) and gems (like Switzerland's Gjon's Tears or Sweden's Loreen).
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mjd
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I'm late to the party here but wanted to share this article with you. Remember the "widespread voter fraud" Trump has been whining about? Well, they caught ONE guy and he voted for Trump twice - once in his name and once in his deceased wife's name. Oh, and he got arrested on suspicion of murder in her death.
Man arrested in wife's murder now accused of voting for Trump in her name
I'm sure our ridiculous new voting rules will be just around the corner as well.
medtran49
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And they apparently turned over some of their voting machines to an.outside independent company, and now there's a flap over whether these machines will be able to be certified for use in an election again since they have no idea what was done with/to them while out of the official chain of custody.Meanwhile, the red state of Georgia is going to audit the 2020 presidential election... for the FORTH time, hoping it will turn out differently this time.
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