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And the Balkan countries have almost all withdrawn from the competition due to financial difficulties. The contest is mostly Western European now, with Sweden, Italy and Ukraine being the most successful. Other than Ukraine's victory two years ago, there's nothing political about the contest (though this year it will be very political again with the whole Israel fiasco).
No I am not old at all, and all I have stated is that I agree with a previous poster in relation to Eurovision becoming increasingly political, so you can tone down the personal attacks.
In reality I have never been a fan of Eurovision, and neither are most people I know, and one of it's largest supporters is the LGBTQ+ community, with a lot of fairly weird acts and even transgender woke winners in the past.
The fact that Ukraine was handed a victory despite not having the best song spoke volumes, as did the fact that Britain then had to pay for it to be hosted in the UK.
If you like the Eurovision that's up to you, however do not launch personal attacks just because you disagree with someone's opinion or someone agreeing with someone else's opinion which is the case here.
No I am not old at all, and all I have stated is that I agree with a previous poster in relation to Eurovision becoming increasingly political, so you can tone down the personal attacks.
In reality I have never been a fan of Eurovision, and neither are most people I know, and one of it's largest supporters is the LGBTQ+ community, with a lot of fairly weird acts and even transgender woke winners in the past.
The fact that Ukraine was handed a victory despite not having the best song spoke volumes, as did the fact that Britain then had to pay for it to be hosted in the UK.
If you like the Eurovision that's up to you, however do not launch personal attacks just because you disagree with someone's opinion or someone agreeing with someone else's opinion which is the case here.
Can't repu you.
CD is free for all, so let us appreciate and learn from all willing to share and post.
Even when I lived in Europe and sometimes watched this, I would have never really considered calling to vote. I mean if you watched, it was mostly to make fun of the silly acts and the for the most part terrible music.
Ever since the early 90s there's been an obvious Western vs Eastern dichotomy in the contest. The Western participants went to openly pandering to the gay community pretty early, definitely by the 00s it was pretty obvious and clearly driven by the fact that the gay community kept support for the event alive when most of the public had lost interest. Meanwhile for the Eastern nations it was clearly a way of showcasing they had 'arrived' and could compete on level footing with the West, so it became a big national ego thing. Funnily enough, this meant most of the music has always been trashy euro dance as gays and Eastern Europeans love that stuff.
I think the format will always be cursed by the fact that it by default encourages lowest common denominator music with fairly basic appeal. It's like even the more sophisticated attempts basically take a current big trend in pop music..then simplify it and 'dumb it down' for the venue. I haven't watched it in years, but I suspect much of it sounds like the stuff you'd hear on any top 40 station today, but clearly a level or two below it in terms of quality.
No I am not old at all, and all I have stated is that I agree with a previous poster in relation to Eurovision becoming increasingly political, so you can tone down the personal attacks.
In reality I have never been a fan of Eurovision, and neither are most people I know, and one of it's largest supporters is the LGBTQ+ community, with a lot of fairly weird acts and even transgender woke winners in the past.
The fact that Ukraine was handed a victory despite not having the best song spoke volumes, as did the fact that Britain then had to pay for it to be hosted in the UK.
If you like the Eurovision that's up to you, however do not launch personal attacks just because you disagree with someone's opinion or someone agreeing with someone else's opinion which is the case here.
Lol, personal attack my ass. I simply disproved your misinformation. Just because you only know bands and singers from 50 years ago when you were a teenager doesn't mean "not many people even watch it anymore".
Lol, personal attack my ass. I simply disproved your misinformation. Just because you only know bands and singers from 50 years ago when you were a teenager doesn't mean "not many people even watch it anymore".
What information, all I did was agree with another forum member regarding the increasing political nature of the Eurovision song contest, and I merely stated that many people including myself don't bother watching it, although to be honest it's always been crap and I don't know any bands or singers and I don't remember the singers because I have never watched it and I am not that old.
Here's my original post, which merely agreed with another forum member.
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Originally Posted by Brave New World
I totally agree, the amount of fake pandering and political voting has basically ruined the event.
I don't think many people even watch it any more.
I personally don't watch it and neither do most of my family and friends etc.
However I have no problem with you or your community and friends watching the contest, and my views are just my personal views, and you are perfectly entitled to your views, and I note that you vigorously defend the contest and clearly enjoy it.
As for the Contest it's well known for being political and has a long history of it, and it also has a history of being an LGBTQ+, Transgender and woke fest, and a lot of people have been critical of it in recent years.
Eurovision is even openly known as the Gay World Cup or the Gay Olympics.
"The contest, developed in the 1950s as an opportunity for cheap TV, is now synonymous with camp. How did it come to celebrate queerness?" - New Statesman.
Either be North African, Turkish, Caucasus, Israeli or Australian. You have to be part of the European Broadcast Area: north of 30N, West of 40E, east of the ITU Region 1/2 boundary (a line between Iceland and Greenland). So that includes all North African countries on the Med, all Levant countries and Iraq, all Anatolian and Caucasus countries, but not Iran.
Australia was invited in 2015 for some reason.
Eurovision doesn't set rule that the artist has to be from the country they represent.
They have set rules for sung languages, but all those have been out since 1999.
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