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5/12/2007 - Eurovision Song Contest

Tonight one of the most repulsive aspects of the European quest for unity is on: the Eurovision Song Contest. This is a song contest where European nations compete against eachother. It is also the greatest evidence that composers shouldn't try to write songs for competitions. From what I've heard on the radio these past few weeks, there's nothing even remotely interesting about the songs competing tonight. Also it pits against eachother people singing in English, who previously haven't even spoken English before.

The poor quality is one thing. Another thing people often complain about, is the fact that certain countries always vote for their neighboring countries, esp. in Eastern Europe. In fact, the president of the Dutch TV station that are associated with the contest declared on the news yesterday, his tears flowing freely, that it's not fair (the Dutch entrant lost to ten Eastern European nations in the preliminary round), that a commission should be set up to look into it, and that in two years time there should be a song contest for Western Europe alone.

Another thing about it that irritates me, is that there is a certain group of people who know every last detail about every edition in the five-decade history of the contest, upto the color of the nail polish of the Polish entrant in 1963. And these people don't know just when to shut up. It's like those baseball stat fanatics in America.

I must also warn America. Apparently NBC has bought the rights to stage a similar show in the US (Probably cities or states competing against one another). It'll bring out the worst in America's song writers for sure.

Anyways, I'm not watching it. I've watched it twice in the 1990's, and that's about all I can take.

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