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May. 14th, 2011 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caz963Does anyone in the UK actually take Eurovision seriously? I mean, we all watch it to take the piss, don't we?
The thing is, it doesn't even fall into the category of something that's so bad, it's good. It's just... BAD.
I know this is said year after year, but we all know damn well this isn't a song contest. And even if it were, how can you possibly make any value judgements about songs that come from such musically disparate places? Apples and Oranges.
I think they should bring back Sir Tel. At least he was intentionally funny!
The thing is, it doesn't even fall into the category of something that's so bad, it's good. It's just... BAD.
I know this is said year after year, but we all know damn well this isn't a song contest. And even if it were, how can you possibly make any value judgements about songs that come from such musically disparate places? Apples and Oranges.
I think they should bring back Sir Tel. At least he was intentionally funny!
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Date: 2011-05-14 08:35 pm (UTC)Ummm, no! Even before I stopped having a licence, I hadn't watched it for more than 20 years. Not just because the songs are unbelievably crap - Europop is such a terrible advert for music as an artform - but because it has absolutely nothing to do with whether the songs are any good or not. Countries swap votes between themselves to the extent you can more or less predict 70% of the voting. Where's the contest in that?
Even if the only reason to watch it is to take the piss out of whacky forriners, we're just conforming to stereotype. We take the piss out of them and they hate us for never bothering to learn their languages and sending our drunken teenagers to puke on their beaches.
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Date: 2011-05-14 08:48 pm (UTC)