If there is any justice in the world the winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Competition should be France.
It’s a brilliant song and sound so ‘Jarvis Cocker’ I had to look twice to see who was on stage.
But…
I really don’t know why the male compere goaded the audience by asking the question: Come on, where’s your Olympic spirit?
Err…
It’s not the Olympics dude.
It’s Eurovision.
B.
Now I have to read the news and check who won the Eurovision. I didn’t know it already happened but if I was honest I wouldn’t give a thought about it as I never watch it, just like most television programs.
Being from Frogland myself, I think the guy was referring to the Pierre de Coubertin Olympic games motto: “the most important is not to win but to participate”
OK, Russia. Congrats to them
Hi Brennig!! Looks like I’m getting to be a regular. I even added you to my RSS feeds 🙂 Why don’t we rename Eurovision to “Balkan & Former Eastern Bloc States Love-in”. It’s just a pity that some entries with veritable musical merit don’t get a look in. Of course, the UK’s entry rarely has much musical merit. But I think it’s slightly better than a song about washing lines…
froggywoogie: Yeah, I did get the continuity guy’s meaning; I just thought it was a little misplaced. Perhaps I was too hard on him. I’m prepared – this morning – to ease up on the whole Eurovision thing a little.
But what I can’t understand is why haven’t a bunch of the Euro-states got the joke yet? The Irish did – when they submitted their entry sung by a Turkey. Brilliant humour. 🙂
Lis: Hi. Gosh, I’ve really taken my eye off the ball there. Sorry. I’ll rectify the reciprocals. All muchly ironic because I’ve been reading your stuff for ages through Bloglines. 🙂
Anyway… Yes I agree about the B&FEBSLi tag. We might need to work on that acronym a little though. lol.
You’re right, Brennig. The newer particpants just don’t seem to get the joke and appear to take it very seriously!
Felt really sorry for Andy Abrahams only getting 14 points – he deserved more than that.
My favourite was the Spanish song! It was just so bad!
I was in stiches during the song about a Kalashnikov during the break while they were sorting oute the scoring by the wedding/funeral band … It was truely awful and must have lasted about 20 mins…
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There is only one thing now for the UK to and that is to enter something that truly represents our culture; Stereophonics, Portishead, Paul Weller or even Take That or Amy Winehouse. We then lose and walk away never to take part in the farce again
I appreciate that none of the above would stoop to that level but wouldn’t it be great.
But of course we all know that this competition has Jack sh1t to do with music or even fair competition but my God it is blinding insight into what the European Union actually is. A bunch of partisan, squabbling, corrupt old states with an awful lot of bigotry thrown in. In otherwords the same old beautiful Europe that we have always had. Multi-lingual, multicultural, spectacularly diverse.
They can’t agree on a decent tune so what chance does Europe ever have of agreeing on any single policy of import. Dream on and realise that ultimately the single most powerful about Europe is it’s diversity and precisely the fact that it was never, ever united.
If the current bollocks that calls itself the EU existed 2000 years ago tnen we would never have had Michaelangelo, Newton, Max Plank or Rembrandt, just two thousand years of Finish Rock and Balkan Pop.
Vive La Differance!!