The Eurovision thread!
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What's this public vote thing in the Eurovision?
Heresy!
UK gets 0 points though so glad I tuned in for that.
Brexit is now complete.
Heresy!
UK gets 0 points though so glad I tuned in for that.
Brexit is now complete.
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I watched that video again for the umpteenth time (this video has everything, complete with race, class and sex issues!) and then googled a news piece about the two kids featured in it. First, they're both my age, 1979ers. He's an evangelist pastor these days and she's a veterinarian.
Edit: The singer was murdered a few years ago. :/
Edit: The singer was murdered a few years ago. :/
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Jendrik's video reminds me of this dialogue from QI:
Sandi Toksvig: "It's like the gay Olympics... Is that a thing? It should be a thing if it's not a thing."
Audience member: "It's called Eurovision!"
Sandi Toksvig: "It's like the gay Olympics... Is that a thing? It should be a thing if it's not a thing."
Audience member: "It's called Eurovision!"
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Searching for the quote, it seems that someone wrote a paper along these lines:
The ‘Gay Olympics’?: The Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging
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The continentals are petty.
Switzerland were robbed. I/We think that was the best entry. That dude can hit them notes and the video with him in the car was neat.
Switzerland were robbed. I/We think that was the best entry. That dude can hit them notes and the video with him in the car was neat.
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^ sounds like Dimash lite
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Eurovision! 1965! France Gall! That crushing cynicism that makes you love French pop!
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Holy shit indeed. For what it's worth, in 1965 France had had its own Vietnam and followed it up with a second Vietnam in Algeria.
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Sure, sure, but also most yé-yé girls were born during or shortly after the Nazi occupation and were aggressively exploited by sexual predator writer/manager/mentor figures French culture to this day largely refuses to inhibit, let alone expel, all for the sake of the purity of their artistic output.
But then I suppose there is nothing at all questionable about Serge Gainsbourg writing a song about oral sex for a 16-year-old. Separate the art from the artist!
As Louane sings in Midi sur novembre, "we'll be fine, we'll be fine. I guess."
Anyway, that Eurovision, what a god damn hoot!