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Eurovision Song Contest |
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02/05/08 (72 review reads) |
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Advantages: It was a good show,
Disadvantages: We came second place, our performance sucked, its all about politics.
The Eurovision song contest is a competition thats held on an anual basis and held among active member countries of the EBU. Each country is likey to have a competion, to see who will represent their country. Then there is a semi-final where members who are going to be entered into the finals are annouced. In the finals, each country representive sings live and afterwards the lines open, and you can dial up for any country you wish to win except your own, then there is a live broadcast from each country participating and each country annonces their most popular votes, and the most popular votes from each country is given points, according to how many votes there were for each country. At the end, the points are added up, and as you could imagine, the one with most points win.
This show started in 1956 and is watched all over Europe. The folling countries who have made a debut entry are:
(1956) - Belgium
(1959) - France
(1956) - Germany
(1956) - Luxembourg
(1956) - Netherlands
(1956) - Italy
(1956) - Switzerland
(1957) - Austria
(1957) - Denmark
(1957) - United Kingdom
(1958) - Sweden
(1960) - Norway
(1961) - Finland
(1961) - Spain
(1961) - Yugoslavia
(1964) - Portugal
(1965) - Ireland
(1971) - Malta
(1973) - Israel
(1974) - Greece
(1975) - Turkey
(1980) - Morocco
(1981) - Cyprus
(1986) - Iceland
(1993) - Bosnia and Herzegovina
(1993) - Croatia
(1993) - Slovenia
(1994) - Estonia
(1994) - Hungary
(1994) - Lithuania
(1994) - Poland
(1994) - Romania
(1994) - Russia
(1994) - Slovakia
(1998) - Macedonia
(2000) - Latvia
(2003) - Ukraine
(2004) - Albania
(2004) - Andorra
(2004) - Belarus
(2004) - Serbia
(2005) - Bulgaria
(2005) - Moldova
(2006) - Armenia
(2007) - Czech Republic
(2007) - Georgia
(2007) - Montenegro
Even though this is a European contest, it is broadcast to other parts of the world: Australia, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Vietnam, and the United States.
Last years United Kingdom performance
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In my opinon, I would describe last yeard performance as "embarassing". We were second last on the final scoreboard. But, how could this be? Well, perhaps due to the fact our act were a bunch of complete idots trotting around dressed as flight attendants singing an embarrasingly cheesy song, "flying the flag (for you)" which became a top hit in children's school discos. So, maybe the Eurovision is about cheesy songs and funny performances, but this wasn't even funny! I even recieved a phone call from one of my friends in Turkey, and the first thing she said was "what the hell was that?". I don't exactly blame her, the performance was simply outragous. Heres a bit about the band:
Natalie Powers, Caroline Barnes, David Ducasse, and Russ Spencer are four singers which make up the British-Pop band, Scooch. They have brought out four singles
When My Baby
More Than I Needed To Know
The Best Is Yet to Come
For Sure
Flying The Flag (For You)
Albums:
Welcome to the Planet Pop
Four Sure
This band reached fame of some sort, in October 1999 when they auditioned for a singing/dancing contest. They were judged by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken and future manager, Steve Crosby. They got their 'inspiration' for their band by a sofa or bench (very strange) and they got their name "scooch" meaning the term as in asking someone to move up a bench or sofa.
The group entered the ESC by winning on the TV Show, Eurovison: Making Your Mind Up, Where they managed to overcome Cyndi, a solo singer by 6% of the votes. Even though they had great sucesses in this round of Eurovision, they didn't do so well in the finals, coming second place. This was only possible by getting top points from Malta. However, this was due to the fact that Malta beleived many people were voting for their neighbours in Eurovision. So, basicly, those 12 points wern't even earned by Uk, just a protest from Malta. The seond highest score we got were from Germany.
The Uk gave top points to Turkey, with Kenan Dogulu signing "shake it up sekerim". they came third in the competion. There was arguments in online blogs with people claming on a German blog "they only gave Turkey the 12 points because of high tourism " How this one works out, I do not know.
The Eurovision is suppost to be about good signing and creatful performances, but over time it has been more about politics. Either way Scooch let us down terribly, and hopefully Eurovion 2008 will have better to offer.
Summary: You flew the flag for us, and look where you got us. Nice job, guys.
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