Since when has Eurovishite been about musicalness (made that up), songs and quality?
FFS, if the Latex-loving Lordi can "win" it...
Not so sure, have you seen the UK entry? it is truly awful
Ye Gods, that is horrific.
For once I hope the religious fundamentalists get their way
DJBobo=Satan? , no just Shite.
The UK entry is freaking cool in all its cheesy-ness. It is the perfect formula for Eurovision. UK could actually win it.
All they need now is an aeroplane mock-up which is filled with scantily clad dancers.
Anyone heard of the story that someone entered 55,000 signatories to the Swiss parliament asking for the Bobo to be withdrawn as the national candidate? Or was I dreaming?
I think you need a lie down. The English entry that I saw was bloody awful.
well, the only possible explanation for the existence of EUROVISION is money laundry, c'mon, there is no way that exist people who likes that kind of... entertainment.
Yes. I was going to post about this earlier this week, but decided not to. Their objection is that his song is too negative, not that he cannot sing or that his music is absolutely terrible in general.
Have you ever seen a Eurovision contest?
The Normal and The Good just won't cut it. Eurovision is all about the wierd and the cheesy
Believe me, if the English contigent has a mock-up airplane which is filled with scantily clad dancers plus tons of pyrotechnics, next year's Eurovision contest will be held in London.
Ireland's still suffering from winning the contest too often several years ago. The whole budget of RTE was used up staging the event so there wasn't enough to fund new programming.
The only real point of Eurovision is to promote tourism: check the cheesy 'best of' clips between the cheesy tunes. Irelands problem was there was not enough capacity to deal with demand in the tourism sector, so there was no point in continuing with Eurovision...
But long live Terry Wogan: great to hear his commentaries on the BBC going from resigned to merry to sloshed as the night goes on. You can even hear the ice in his drink clinking sometimes. Allegedly...
This just appeared on the Swissinfo feed:
Christians attack "satanic" Eurovision song
Christian fundamentalists are calling for Switzerland's Eurovision Song Contest entry to be banned because of its allegedly satanic content.
I took this to be a form of viral marketing from Bobo. The Christian attack is doing nothing but give Bobo free publicity...
interesting....because Yokine got that in his feed this morning...
I can fondly remember DJ Bobo many years ago miming in the Palavrion. Everyone was happy and cheering as I mouthed to him, "who are you?"
This is horrible But what happened to Morissey??? Has the BBC rejected his offer to writte a song???
By the way, in Portuguese ans Spanish, bobo is synonime of foolish, stupid, idiotic, oafish, asinine. You can always find layers of stupidity, but a bobo person is quite low on the food chain. Personally, i think the name fits the bill....
Hi there,
Just thought I would let you know that I think DJ BOBO is a git.
Whether he has success outside of Switzerland I don't know but in 1998 I was visiting China and went into a very seedy record shop and inside the shop was one of these cardboard cut out of(yes you guessed it)DJ BOBO git.
Needless to say I ran out of the shop screaming and have been in therapy ever since.
See ya,
Matt.
Look at this and weep DJ Bobo haters....
Interesting, yes. This time I will not wait for an English-language translation to come out and might as well beat everyone by a day or two. Page 2 of the Sonntagszeitung reports that DJ Bobo has been pulled from Eurovision. I don't know why I cannot find this anywhere online, but they state in the headline: "Beissverbot für den Vampir: Eurovision Song Contest: Schweizer Fernsehen nimmt DJ Bobo aus dem Rennen." (Biting forbidden for the Vampire... Eurovision Song Contest: Swiss Television takes DJ Bobo out of the running")
They report that in a little over one hour (11:30) on SF 2 there will be a chance to choose his replacement.
Me thinks this is the Aprils fools hoax as the show on SF2 that is mentioned in the article is a religious sunday programme.......... well i post my reply just as early so we'll see if i might be right he he
Given that there is nothing about this anywhere else, you're probably right. I still thought I might as well post it in case it turns out to be true. I don't think that the Sonntagszeitung is known for publishing "April Fools Jokes," but maybe I've not been here long enough.
I'm rooting for the song "Hallelujah for Jesus" to win.