israel continues to trash the contest with cheating, voting manipulation and propaganda designed to whitewash its crimes. 5 principled countries are boycotting the contest because of israel, and yet the EBU continues to allow it to bring the contest into disrepute.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said Israeli broadcaster Kan violated contest rules after promotional videos urged viewers to “vote 10 times” for Israel’s entry, ahead of the semi-finals starting on 12 May.
There were actually nice songs originating from there, even a long time ago. Whenever some musician does not take it too serious it may get me a smile.
Unfortunately censorship was very active long before Spain decided not to let participate their artists any longer. Rodolfo Chiciliquatre had to remove his Hugo Chavez reference and some other politicians names, but the famous “¿Por qué no te callas?” stayed and everybody knew what it was referring.
Despite removing Chávez’s name, the song kept the reference to the famous incident where Spanish King Juan Carlos I told Chávez, “¿Por qué no te callas?” (“Why don’t you shut up?”).
Perhaps a more apposite question would be: why is a Middle Eastern country even in a European song contest?
And why is it allowed to cheat, bully and cause 5 other nations to boycott the contest in protest at its genocide. The EBU banned Russia within days of its invasion of Ukraine.
If you can get an Irish TV channel they’re showing the Song For Europe episode of Father Ted instead of the Eurovision final, which IMO is far more entertaining than the contest
Slovenia will also be filling the void with more worthy content.
“We will not be broadcasting the Eurovision song contest,” RTV Slovenia’s director, Ksenija Horvat, told the Associated Press. “We will be airing the film series Voices of Palestine, featuring Palestinian documentaries and feature films.”
Same reason that one half way around the world is I guess.
“Eurovision is phenomenally successful in the country, despite its distance from Europe, with more than a million people regularly tuning in to watch the show.”
Out of a population of over 27 mil. Doesn’t sound that popular to me.
With very few exceptions, the UK gets nil points with literally whatever they field in the contest. Why not just send in an act that lightly takes the piss?
What, you mean gloriously camp Graham Norton and his subtle catty commentary about costumes, dance routines, and hammed-up performances were totally lost on audiences outside of the UK? No way - really??
This time, Rylan is ok as he’s carrying the mantle of the acidic remarks but I’m not so keen on his new side-kick, Angela Scanlon, who had to hastily replace Scott Mills.
I was actually referring to Terry Wogan, I’ve…got some years under my belt, and lived in the UK for 12 years - including a good part of the glorious Tony Blair years of Ali G and Eurotrash being broadcast live
Edit 1: But, come to think of it, maybe Graham Norton was better (ie worse!) than Wogan!
<3 the UK anyway, English/British humour walks a very fine line between being funny and being offensive, took me years to get it, but still some of the stuff they used to say was pretty outrageous! (realise I am most likely replying to a British person, so don’t feel patronized, it’s for the benefit of the non-Brits here!)
Edit 2: but imagine, people coming to the UK before the internet was widespread were shocked by many things, including page 3, The Sun, euro…jabbing being prevalent, “bloody foreigners”, “dodgy foreign shit” being common parlance - and not just Europeans, I remember a Korean flatmate and a Japanese colleague (student) saying this stuff would be beyond outrageous in their countries!
Edit 3: Germans and French took it fine, Italians, Spaniards and Greeks like me much less so, perhaps people from these countries need to learn to take themselves less seriously! And then there was football…I genuinely remember feeling somewhat intimidated watching Greek teams play English teams in my local working class pub in Birmingham.
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