Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

[Vahram]

Since Europe is so progressive how did they manage to give the contest to azeribaboonistan?

Why did azerbaboonistan get the award? For Euro values? For democracy? ( holding side in pain from laughing )

So who left Greece?, sorry correction let me say this in a more truthful way, who robbed Greece? Who abandoned Greece? After robbing them of everything?

[TomServo]

Re: Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

I don't get it. What were they robbed of?

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

I don't get it. What were they robbed of?

Being robbed from birth of every last trace of musical talent and taste is a requirement for Eurovision.

[Vahram]

Re: Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

Greece’s entry, Alcohol is Free, sung by the group Koza Mostra and noted Rembetika player and singer Agathon Iakovides makes plenty of reference to the era of austerity in Greece, where pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions have people so worried about survival they’re more likely to sing the blues.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013...it-eurovision/

[TomServo]

Re: Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

Being robbed from birth of every last trace of musical talent and taste is a requirement for Eurovision.

True.

The 2007 Ukrainian entry remains the contest's high point.

[Vrej1915]

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I really do regret Baku's failure in buying the first place!
This means they did not bribed enough

[Mher]

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It was a relief to see the baboons lose. Usually I cherish them hosting contests and tournaments because their idiotic dictator wastes their resources and overspends like a fool, like a teenager trying to impress girls with his car. For example, they like spent several hundreds of millions of dollars last year, while Sweden spent about $22 million this year ( http://www.tol.org/client/article/23...ar-winner.html ). Unfortunately, this year they would already have most of the infrastructure in place, so we wouldn't be able to take refuge in the fact that their moronic man-child dictator would be further hurting them by hosting it. It would just be free tourism for the morons.

The contest's political nature though is a total sham
example of countries who voted Azerbaijan as the best: Israel, Hungary, Georgia

I wonder if Eurovision was a specific article in Ramil Safarov's release contract

What do you guys think of the prospect of Armenia ever winning?
would it be a positive economically and politically in terms of tourism and publicity for the country, or would the cost be not worth it?

[Vrej1915]

Re: Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

In my view:
We must continue to participate, since it is a kind of 'Euro' circle, plus it forces their regime to spent millions...

But we must not only forget about winning, but make the minimum fuss out of this (used by our own regime as a delusion from real problems for months), an more so, spent the minimum possible. As do most real European states.... where they remember Eurovision for one evening, and with sarcastic smiles...., on one channel, at late hours! (the brits even recycled Bony Tyler from the ashes of 30 years of rust )
If we are wise, and admitting by advance the impossibility to win, we can even use the process for Pan-Armenian internal propaganda, with a real Armenian song and clip, not unisex EU standard in english +/- alaturka accents like it was a couple years back with the 2 sisters...., or even external, with a indirect and shocking presentation in 2015, by making a lithurgy in memoriam... in the middle of gay bands and unisex exhibitionists...??

[Vrej1915]

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http://news.am/arm/news/154217.html

[Mher]

Re: Eurovision Politics and everything but the song!

In my view:
We must continue to participate, since it is a kind of 'Euro' circle, plus it forces their regime to spent millions...

But we must not only forget about winning, but make the minimum fuss out of this (used by our own regime as a delusion from real problems for months), an more so, spent the minimum possible. As do most real European states.... where they remember Eurovision for one evening, and with sarcastic smiles...., on one channel, at late hours! (the brits even recycled Bony Tyler from the ashes of 30 years of rust )
If we are wise, and admitting by advance the impossibility to win, we can even use the process for Pan-Armenian internal propaganda, with a real Armenian song and clip, not unisex EU standard in english +/- alaturka accents like it was a couple years back with the 2 sisters...., or even external, with a indirect and shocking presentation in 2015, by making a lithurgy in memoriam... in the middle of gay bands and unisex exhibitionists...??

Exactly
If you want to actually have a unique and different presentation, and do your absolute best, how about you perform in your native language, your proud language that has a heritage that dates back thousands of years before English, instead of the euro duplicate performance with accented english.

Also the idea of having a 2015 performance about the Armenian Genocide would be absolute brilliant, and it would be well received in European society that favors us over the Turks in spite of all of their bribes and threats.