We Don't Wanna Put In - Georgia's Eurovision mockery of Russia ('Put In' = Putin)

The Times (UK) ^ | 02/19/09 | Tony Halpin

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We Don't Wanna Put In - Georgia's Eurovision mockery of Russia

Tony Halpin in Moscow

Georgia has chosen a song that mocks Vladimir Putin as its entry for this year's Eurovision contest in Moscow.

We Don't Wanna Put In includes a play on the Russia Prime Minister's name in a Seventies-style performance that is unlikely to get Russian organisers of the contest dancing in the aisles. The cheesy disco number, sung in English by Stephane and 3G, contains the chorus: "We don't wanna put in/The negative move/It's killin' the groove" before urging "You better change your perspective".

It also features the line "Gonna try to shoot in/some disco tonight" - at which the trio of women in the group mimed being shot in the head during their performance on Georgia's public television last night. Songwriter Stephane Mgebrishvili goes on to rap "I love Europe".

Georgian television viewers and a jury chose the song from among ten entries for the contest. Stephane and 3G will perform in Moscow at the first semi-final on May 12 in a bid to reach the Eurovision final, broadcast live in Russia and across Europe four days later.

The prospect of Georgia's less-than-subtle message winning the Eurovision contest in the Russian capital is already stirring controversy. It has success attracted dozens of comments on the contest's official website, with predictions that Eurovision's notorious bloc-voting tradition would be used to deliver a humiliating snub to Russia's Prime Minister, particularly in the Baltic States and eastern Europe.

[AmericaUnite]

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[1rudeboy]

For your list.

LOL--Gasputin gets a slap to the head via the teenieboppers.

[RolandOfGilead]

Georgia mocks Putin?? LOL
I would say they are in no position to mock anyone, having been so humiliated last summer.

[1rudeboy]

You’re not acting as though you are “humiliated,” when even your dope-smoking maggot-infested FM-types are giving someone else the finger.

[SolidWood]

I guess this means that US conservatives are also in no position to mock Obama, having been so humiliated last fall.

It's called defiance and free speech.

But I don't expect differently from a newbie Putin sycophant.

[RolandOfGilead]

I guess this means that US conservatives are also in no position to mock Obama, having been so humiliated last fall.
Hardly comparable. GOP lost the elections, but I wouldn't call them humiliated. On the other hand, Georgia's army was utterly destroyed, not to mention having the country itself broken in three parts.

[1rudeboy]

Too bad Putin can’t hop in one of his tanks and roll over Eurovision.

[1rudeboy]

Russia seemed to bounce back from its “humiliation” in Afghanistan pretty well. I don’t get the Russians. They think international affairs involves dropping your pants and comparing sizes. When you point out that they’re not that big, they turn around and say, “well, we beat up that small country/poisoned that journalist/cut off someone’s gas well enough,” as if that will make you take them seriously.

[SolidWood]

Georgia's army was utterly destroyed, not to mention having the country itself broken in three parts.

You feel proud for the mighty Russian Army defeating a tiny small neighbor country?

[SolidWood]

That’s because the Cremlin is simply a bully.

[1rudeboy]

Bunch of wannabes, in my opinion: