Last night Italy hosted the prestigious, traditional Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, and winner was Ukraine, United Kingdom came second, Spain third and Sweden number four. It was a well performed competition which I partly watched. 25 countries competing in the final, this is Sweden's contribution:
I watched some of it out of a sort of morbid curiosity; it was a quite well presented as a show.
Of the songs I heard before falling asleep, I thought the UK’s song, performed by a guy who was some sort of staccato howling Viking, was by far the best of a collection of strangely outfitted prancing depressives whining about being victims (if I understood the terrible subtitles correctly) of some sort, in a litany of pseudo Sam Smith dirges.
I’m probably not in the target audience to be fair.
Spain deserved at least a trophy for the wonderful outfit worn by the outstandingly hot female singer … and her high kicks! Highlight of the show, at least for the hour I saw.
Congratulations to all involved and especially for Ukraine who managed to come first. No one saw that coming!
@divegeester
Neither you, nor I are in the target audience so it's not my kind of music. Still there is so much ambition, talent, hard work and hopes - and money - involved in this event, I can't very well ignore it either. Ukraine was a favourite from the start. Perhaps we should leave our personal impressions aside, and just see it for what it is meant to be - a special occasion made possible by a lot of people accomplishing this together.
@torunn saidOn the contrary I think we should air our personal impressions AND see if for what it is meant to be.
@divegeester
Perhaps we should leave our personal impressions aside, and just see it for what it is meant to be - a special occasion made possible by a lot of people accomplishing this together.
It is our personal impressions which validate the show and add a rich tapestry of commentary, without this what’s the point ?
@divegeester saidThere are a lot of people who believe the contest is totally irrelevant and a waste of money, nothing else, whether they like the music or not. Their personal ideas I can do without.
On the contrary I think we should air our personal impressions AND see if for what it is meant to be.
It is our personal impressions which validate the show and add a rich tapestry of commentary, without this what’s the point ?
@divegeester saidHow do you 'silence' people? 🙂 🙂 With the point of view I suggested - a great number of skilled, talented, hopeful people joning up for this occasion deserve recognition.
So “a lot of people” should be silenced?
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@divegeester saidyou are the one that believes in the supernatural.
And “a god damn crock” perhaps?
@badradger saidThere is nothing supernatural about about the Eurovision Song Contest, although the Spanish singer was super in a very naturalistic sort of way.
you are the one that believes in the supernatural.
I haven't watched it or seen it or been aware of it since 1991 aside from a disconcerting acid flashback of the 1982 contest which I experienced in 2002. To be honest, on this occasion only, I haven't liked it since about 1978.
What's more, I didn't think Israel should have been allowed to compete, whenever that was, but I shrunk back from being strident about it when I was accused of anti-semitism and my university came under pressure to revoke my doctorate after my Swiss finishing school had revoked my A Levels