[Multilingual Monday Music] A Day Off

[aadroma]

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So yeah, today was a full day; it was the first day I've ever tried to geocache in Peoria and did so with slavetoreznor and Mika (who was no help whatsoever!). 2 out 5 isn't bad. Okay, technically it's failing, but we were damned excited about what we DID find

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[bitterlawngnome]

whatever happened to the Trio Bulgarka?

[aadroma]

Apparently they still occasionally perform together but are more focused on solo projects these days.

[progbear]

Oh it finally happened this weekend, I finally decided that the Russian song is even worse than the Dutch one. The horribly dated Smurfiness of the Dutch tune aside, the Peter Nalitch song just bursts with crappitude, the awful lyrics, the spoken part, Peter’s hoarse off-key vocals. I really have no clue what they were thinking (apart from, “We can’t afford to host this damn thing again, send something that hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell. Like that no-talent Youtube guy!”).

If nothing else, the Ukraine preselection drama has been entertaining. Just when you think it can’t get any sillier, something else ridiculous happens. I know some people who think they should be banned for all this ridiculous rigamarole. Well, they’ve already been fined (and Vasyl awarded something like 500,000 Euros for his massive public humiliation).

[jawnbc]

would've been a much better choice. Even if the performance was this ragged in Oslo.

But *gasp* songs two years in a row not entirely in Russian? Unacceptable!

[roxbear]

We got terrible songs from this selection. But i think this year choice is much better than last one /Prixod'ko/.
Babushki is funny but seems thay are not from the right opera.
For me always interesting Eurovision is song contest, but usual they made it as mad house. Very rarely you can hear some song that can live after that show. Why they do it?

[aadroma]

I think there's more of a focus on "what will make this performance immediately memorable?" and sadly many people think that means "make it a circus". But there are some songs that I adore and continue to listen to long after they were in the ESC.

Yeah, I wasn't fond of Russia last year either, but I like this year's song even less. I hate the singer's voice, sorry ;_;

[roxbear]

This year singers, as i see, remake of VIA from 70s.

Yes, every artist try to make it memorable, but sometimes choose very strange forms for this. Babushki will be really memorable for this, but who really like to hear mumbling of old ladies?
Will see what will this year.

Here still live joke that better to send for Eurovision Evgeni Plushenko to sing and Dima Bilan for back dance.