Eurovision: 50 years old and it's still...
Well, my watchwords last night were mainly "scary" "appalling" and "oh dear" so you get my drift. (Although at the same time I love it madly and was giggling my head off.)
I'm trying to make sense of it. I get the biased voting, although 39 instances of it is a bit much, could every country only have five points to award or something? But could someone explain to me why - other than their neighbours - anyone voted for Moldova (the granny 'song' which frankly, the Ukranian chant beat) and Romania's Pink wannabe's percussion display? Huh?
Given that it was the year of the drum machine, any ballad was something to be snuggled undeservingly. I sort of liked Denmark's - Paul Bettany lookalike non-professional singer, who didn't screech, also teaches autistic kids (aww.) Although the song was weirdly jaunty. I also liked Swizerland's entry, which was a Gothic melodrama done in rock song form.
Others were entertaining but for all the wrong reasons (NORWAY!?!?) and I gave up on trying to work out who had the campest backing. Meanwhile the UK and France (who are all amusingly SHUNNED) missed the point spectacularly. [Germany and Russia seemed to miss the point of actual music, but that's neither here nor there.] I think that the UK should find the people who write songs for kiddies tv programmes (the more hallucogenic the better) and not vote for the song that the Pop idol reject is singing. Also, I don't care if the UK gets last, we must pay for this flouncing, loud, absurd cacophony of silliness every year.
After all, this morning's headache is mainly due to my head cold.
I'm trying to make sense of it. I get the biased voting, although 39 instances of it is a bit much, could every country only have five points to award or something? But could someone explain to me why - other than their neighbours - anyone voted for Moldova (the granny 'song' which frankly, the Ukranian chant beat) and Romania's Pink wannabe's percussion display? Huh?
Given that it was the year of the drum machine, any ballad was something to be snuggled undeservingly. I sort of liked Denmark's - Paul Bettany lookalike non-professional singer, who didn't screech, also teaches autistic kids (aww.) Although the song was weirdly jaunty. I also liked Swizerland's entry, which was a Gothic melodrama done in rock song form.
Others were entertaining but for all the wrong reasons (NORWAY!?!?) and I gave up on trying to work out who had the campest backing. Meanwhile the UK and France (who are all amusingly SHUNNED) missed the point spectacularly. [Germany and Russia seemed to miss the point of actual music, but that's neither here nor there.] I think that the UK should find the people who write songs for kiddies tv programmes (the more hallucogenic the better) and not vote for the song that the Pop idol reject is singing. Also, I don't care if the UK gets last, we must pay for this flouncing, loud, absurd cacophony of silliness every year.
After all, this morning's headache is mainly due to my head cold.