Do you like the Eurovision Song Contest?

You know I love it! :lol:

I think there have been many good entries. I sometimes disagree completely with the final ranking though.

 

From this year: Belarus: Cheesecake. Was my number 2.

Ukraine: Tick-Tock was also very underrated.

I still listen to Tick-Tock though! :icon_bigg At the moment, I ranked it 3rd, but I like it more than Cheesecake now.

Oh yeah, I rank all songs haha. :lol:

 

hell yEAH

for the last couple of years i've watched it while on tumblr which makes it 1000x better

 

Hahahaha sorry! :roflmao:

I think Maria Yaremchuk (Tick Tock) is gorgeous too.

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Could that be because I'm 25% Ukranian?

 

I don't like it for a couple of reasons: The style of music that is generally performed isn't my scene at all, the contestants take away from the music with visual performances and other related gimmicks like that Conchita Wurst and finally the voting is one massive farce as neighbouring countries always vote for each other no matter how terrible their entry's music is.

 

I think the music is refreshing, it takes me to other cultures and places. That's why I love it.

I care more about the music and still listen to plenty of songs today. Without the ESC, I wouldn't have known various good artists.

 

wait... people watch eurovision for the music?! you mean there's people who don't watch it just for the weird performances?!

 

Yeah I do, I really do. Although I love the drama too hahaha.

 

I like the voting too. Especially this year, Ukraine and Russia... Oh boy.

 

I love it too, probably as I was raised in a very Eurovision loving family.

Its funny, its often portrayed as a very gaycentric affair (i.e. a bit like pride, something only gay people "get"), and I can see that with the campness of it all - but in reality it actually has a very universal appeal. I'm not a massive fan of camp culture or pride etc but I do love Eurovision! Over here whole families (be it straight people, gay people, children, aunts, uncles, whatever) get together for parties and place bets on it. As an annual event its probably one of the closest things we have to the Superbowl in America for bringing people together.

Theres always some controversy, some surprise voting, etc and that adds to it for me. One part I do like about it is the usual "intros" each country puts together, as you get a bit of a glimpse of different cities and cultures around Europe. I do think its easy to forget all the diversity and things going on throughout Europe, its easy for us to fall into the habit of only thinking about what is going on in our own country.

 

You are so right about this. I think, because people think it's related to LGBT, they suspect that I'm not straight. I talk too passionately about it.

 

I think its one of those automatic presumptions people have without thinking. Like female football fans who presume football is a manly thing...despite them being fans and not viewing themselves as masculine in anyway.

Here we do have the thinking that its a "gay thing", but at the exact same time its very mainstream - all the national papers will have articles about it in the run up and after the contest (many being on the front page) - there is widespread public interest in it. Likewise there will be live-blogs and forum discussions across the internet. I'm fairly sure not all the journalists, bloggers and posters are LGBT...unless there is a massive hidden gay majority out there! :lol:

 

I agree with you.

Hahaha who knows! :roflmao: But I don't think so either. It's cool that the ESC is alive in your country. :icon_bigg

 

No, it's rubbish. No one ever votes for us anyway, and those weird Eastern countries just vote for each other.

 

Then you should send a better act.