News Eurovision Song Contest 2014....

[Notebook]

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/timeline

 

[SolarLiner]

Yeah! Another try for France at being the worst it can possibly be!
EDIT: I searched for the ones that will represent us. Well, never heard of that group, and heard nobody speak of it. Not even TV or anything. They're that unknown ...

 

[C3PO]

EDIT: I searched for the ones that will represent us. Well, never heard of that group, and heard nobody speak of it. Not even TV or anything. They're that unknown ...

I tried to watch the "semi-finals" several times but buckled under the urge to switch channel. I've seen around 20-30 minutes of the thing without spotting a single musician. I saw a trampoline, a parachute, a giant hamster wheel and a bearded lady though. Maybe some of the performers did actually sing, but I saw that at least 3 countries used playback.

I'm not particularly into pop music, but I don't hate it either. However, this has completely departed from the original scope of composing and song-writing. It's just another popularity contest like X-factor, BigBrother, X got Talent etc. The musical talent of the composer or the musicians plays a very small part in this production.

PS: I was a bit puzzled to see an interview with subtitles in a supposedly live show. :huh:

 

[Urwumpe]

It is more a "performance" contest. A good composition helps, being a good singer as well. But more of all, you have to do a show that stays in the memory of the audience. If you look at the winners of the past years, all had done really great spectacular performances. Especially Lordi. :headbang:

The bearded lady from Austria is actually counting as one of the favorites in the German speaking partition of the world... while the joke is not really getting better over the years, its a solid performance with a John Barry-like composition... not the worst mixture for getting into the top ten. And Belarus and Russia hate her/him...

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PS: I was a bit puzzled to see an interview with subtitles in a supposedly live show. :huh:

AFAIR, the interviews are not always live.

 

[C3PO]

AFAIR, the interviews are not always live.

It was an interview in "the green room" in front of the stage while the voting was still going on, and they were 'tonight's performance' was among the topics. It was certainly presented as Live TV.

 

[Urwumpe]

It was an interview in "the green room" in front of the stage while the voting was still going on, and they were 'tonight's performance' was among the topics. It was certainly presented as Live TV.

Oh, then they changed this... :lol:

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Congratulations to Austria and Conchita Wurst!

 

[Face]

Congratulations to Austria and Conchita Wurst!

FTFY. It is Conchita's success, but IMHO not Austria's.

Seeing how so many people here picked (and still pick) on Thomas Neuwirth for his way to perform, despite him bringing home that contest after almost 50 years (Udo Jürgens), I wouldn't say that my country deserves congratulations. I guess many here would even be offended if you congratulate them for this .

Personally, I think the song was very nice (could easily be in the next James Bond movie), the performance was quite good, and the PR was genius. Although I doubt that Thomas would have won if he performed as himself - and knowing how the contest is more about show than songs - I think Conchita deserves this victory. :10sign:

 

[fort]

Udo Jürgens !!! :blink: I feel at one go very old...( la chair est triste hélas et j'ai lu tous les livres...).

 

[Urwumpe]

Quite interesting regarding the rants of Russian politicians about the winner of this years ESC:

In the televoting, Conchita Wurst received the third most votes in Russia - only the Jury placed her on place 11 - which meant 6th place in the end and 5 points.

(Wasn't much different in Germany BTW. 11th by the jury and first by the public vote. But we wink when we call our jury "experts" )

 

[Marg]

Leader of the latvian band in Eurovision this time was german guy Joren Steinhauer (or something like this)... but they stuck in semifinal.
I thought it was a joke, when they won our local contest.

 

[N_Molson]

It is more a "performance" contest. A good composition helps, being a good singer as well. But more of all, you have to do a show that stays in the memory of the audience.

Exactly. And I think that the Austrian victory demonstrates that. Its a reason why France has no hope to win : we still think it is about music, while it is clearly an "artistic performance" in the contemporary art meaning of it. After all, it is "Eurovision", not "Eurosong" or something like that...

 

[Urwumpe]

Exactly. And I think that the Austrian victory demonstrates that. Its a reason why France has no hope to win : we still think it is about music, while it is clearly an "artistic performance" in the contemporary art meaning of it. After all, it is "Eurovision", not "Eurosong" or something like that...

Also, France overestimated its performance a lot... I was about to say "Hey, France, the 80s just called, they want their style back"... also the song was likely much better, if you understood the lyrics.

 

[N_Molson]

Also, France overestimated its performance a lot...

Its more than nobody cared about it. I have no idea who selected those amateurs. They said : "we are just going there to have our names on the medias". Means everything.

Also, the "european" context is currently very cloudy over there. People don't believe in it anymore. Worse, governement impopularity spreads on the "Europe" political theme. There are soon european elections and I can forecast an historically low voting participation without resorting to sorcery. This is going to be a full disaster.

 

[Urwumpe]

Also, the "european" context is currently very cloudy over there. People don't believe in it anymore. There are soon european elections and I can forecast an historically low voting participation without resorting to sorcery. This is going to be a full disaster.

Looks a bit better here... for the first time, there is at least the feeling, that something important is going on. But, before we enter Basement terrain, I still think its not going to exceed 40% turnout this year.

(The turnout from 2009)