Haha, I've heard that one too, first saw it during the televote on the Facebook live feed, lol. I guess it's since Germany can't be blamed to be a Balkan state or ex-USSR (well, not all of it, I guess. Wonder if anyone's gone there yet?:D..). There has to be something!!!11 ;) Personally I don't mind the song - I don't think it was the best, but it's sort of amusing. And irritating as well, for that matter... (I might just be jaded, being from the country that sent and won with bloody monsters. Every other time when something resembling normal music has been sent, it's been shot down flat. Personally I much prefer the ethno of this year, but it's not what I'd call marketable.)
Yeah, the whole block thing amuses and pisses me off; even the NY Times claimed it as a fact that the ex-USSR countries somehow had staged their wins over the past decade, noting that half of the ten winners were from said countries. Um hello, ever heard of the fact that like something like half of the CONTINENT is, too?! Christ. I wonder if everyone was bitching about North Sea bias in the Logan days of Irish double/triple/whatever victories...;) It's just a pet issue of mine, the whole mental divide of the continent still, and the ways it's always brought up around the ESC bugs me a lot. I realise that the romantic idea of uniting the continent for one night/week is terribly idealistic, but it still seems so ugly when people have to pull this stuff during an event supposed to be all hippie-lovin'.
Oh, that's why the Swedes whine, too - they've won four times and the spectacle is close to national holiday (not so much in Finland, since, well, we suck at it. We can't really blame the Balkans for not winning, since we never did before either...) And I understand that very well, but the fact that no columnist ever seems to realise that adding at least double the amount of contestants = not the same ol' winners anymore. Just basic logic. But of course, resentment is very basic as well, so ;)
This spectacle just isn't good for my nerves, clearly.
Yeah, the whole block thing amuses and pisses me off; even the NY Times claimed it as a fact that the ex-USSR countries somehow had staged their wins over the past decade, noting that half of the ten winners were from said countries. Um hello, ever heard of the fact that like something like half of the CONTINENT is, too?! Christ. I wonder if everyone was bitching about North Sea bias in the Logan days of Irish double/triple/whatever victories...;) It's just a pet issue of mine, the whole mental divide of the continent still, and the ways it's always brought up around the ESC bugs me a lot. I realise that the romantic idea of uniting the continent for one night/week is terribly idealistic, but it still seems so ugly when people have to pull this stuff during an event supposed to be all hippie-lovin'.
Oh, that's why the Swedes whine, too - they've won four times and the spectacle is close to national holiday (not so much in Finland, since, well, we suck at it. We can't really blame the Balkans for not winning, since we never did before either...) And I understand that very well, but the fact that no columnist ever seems to realise that adding at least double the amount of contestants = not the same ol' winners anymore. Just basic logic. But of course, resentment is very basic as well, so ;)
This spectacle just isn't good for my nerves, clearly.
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