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The ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: A Primer for Dumb Americans
observer.com ^
| 05/13/16
| Dana Schwartz
Posted on 05/14/2016 1:50:37 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Imagine youre in high school and you find out for the past 50 years, theres been a massive annual party that everyone else just assumed everyone else knew about but you were never invited. And also, the party has glorious dance music, over-the-top costumes, and human-sized hamster wheels.
Thats how it feels to be an American who is only now finding out about Eurovision Song Contest.
From what I can gather, the European Song Contest is like American Idol in its heyday, if you took every boring white guy with a guitar and replaced him with a techno dancer in drag and also everyone was huffing glue. Its a visual orgasm of sequins and visual effects that one can only hope to understand through excessive YouTube research of previous acts. And tomorrow its airing live in America for the first time.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: eurovision
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It’s on the “Logo” network here in the US? Tells me all I need to know. Count me out.
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posted on
05/14/2016 2:12:03 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
if you took every boring white guy with a guitar and replaced him with a techno dancer in drag and also everyone was huffing glue.....you'd have a showcase of faggotry.
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posted on
05/14/2016 2:31:33 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(Crump or Lose 2016)
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
The last good Eurovision was when it was held in Moscow. There were about 5-6 good songs. Since then, they have mostly sucked - very boring. The winning by the “bearded lady” was purely political, and I think has really damaged Eurovision.
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
05/14/2016 3:41:08 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Eurovision is a cultic institution, but to be fair it has boosted the careers of an awful lot of very big names over the years. Main examples are Abba, Celine Dion, Sandie Shaw, Olivia Newton John, Dana...Riverdance got its big break on Eurovision too.
These days its morphed into a massive visual spectacle of lighting and political posturing in which insipid music is largely incidental. I'll be watching it tonight, even though the British have largely given up on it. :)
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posted on
05/14/2016 4:13:56 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: Cowboy Bob
The whole thing is largely political now. It has been for years.
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posted on
05/14/2016 4:14:36 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: Berlin_Freeper
Imagine youre in high school and you find out for the past 50 years, theres been a massive annual party that everyone else just assumed everyone else knew about but you were never invited.
Au contraire mon ami, I have known about it for decades. I just don't care. It is very political and the best acts almost never win.
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posted on
05/14/2016 4:26:00 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Now, after Joe Scarborough pushed soccer down our throats, we have to be subjected this musical drivel? No thank you. I’ll stick with the Great American Songbook.
The only good that contest ever produced was ABBA and a lot of Americans hate THEM.
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posted on
05/14/2016 4:40:27 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
To: yuleeyahoo
Many of us Freepers know about it but just don’t care. Seen posts over the years here with the contest winners. Go to their music and it’s good but not enough for me to go out and buy it.
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posted on
05/14/2016 4:53:08 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
YouTube has it. (actually if it is video YouTube has it all)
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posted on
05/14/2016 5:03:26 AM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(The government is the problem, not the solution.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
05/14/2016 5:09:23 AM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(Still a Cruz Fan but voting for Trump)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Silly bread and circuses for the Euromasses.
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posted on
05/14/2016 6:42:38 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
What self-respecting German couple would name their kid “Jamie-Lee”????
That’s depressing.
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posted on
05/14/2016 6:43:18 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
I predict Ukraine to win for political reasons.
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posted on
05/14/2016 6:44:42 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: vladimir998
True. And if it doesn’t work our for her she can always keep that costume and go and do porn in Japan.
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posted on
05/14/2016 7:27:19 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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