Why would you want your country to win this?
Why would you watch this?
Why do 125 million people watch this?

Sometimes I wish i lived in cave, on Mars.

Eurovision has been political ever since it was first conceived. Likely winners are decided far in advance, and the outcome has nothing to do with ability.

It's kinda like Olympic figure skating.

Moldova should have won for their Beasty Boys tribute act!

Eurovision is normally about voting for your neighbour or politics but we did do better then i thought we were going to be but lets face it.....we aren't going to win with the sort of acts we send over due to the fact that Europe is quite crazy when it comes to musical taste.

As I said before. Anyone can win eurovision. Now that english songs are allowed at least. Imo only one good thing ever to come out of eurovision is riverdance

I'm pretty sure if England actually entered one of our many many famous bands we would win. I think a lot of the smaller countries do enter some quite big local stars. But to be honest how Azerbaijan won it with that song I have NO CLUE. Is it just the rest of Europe have completely different hearing than the rest of us? It sounded marginally better the second time they sang it but really.... I quite liked Serbia's song; I think they would have got a few more votes if it was in English. I could see it as a get up and dance sort of tune. But regardless of the actual lyrics, which were abit dodgy, I really liked Finlands entry. It was the only song with any real soul and meaning... most of the others were just the normal dull pointless pop song. I also always like the Greek entries regardless of whether they suck or not, because they usually keep their songs quite traditional to their countries culture... instead of just borrowing off the sort of UK/America Pop music. I think I'd like to see more countries sing in their own language again... just because you are allowed to sing in English you shouldn't be ashamed to sing whatever language you want.

It's always fun by the time they start announcing scores as my housemates and I are normally pretty drunk by then. So we always have a good shout about why each country should vote for us because what we have done for them lol. One example: Ireland - "Don't vote for us an we'll steal all your potatos," Greece - "Vote for us because the British tourist is essentially your economy" etc etc. All in good humour of course.

It does sound a little bit butthurt but the thing is, we really don't care that much as a Nation. It's not like we need to win it anyway; we have the Olympics next year so I think that trumps the crappy Eurovision 1000 times over. If we reallllly wanted to win I think we would enter a huge band. Although no popular band would want to play it due to the stigma attached to the competition.

I laughed when, as usual, France refused to speak English lol..... So predictable and so painfully obvious why they do it.

The whole thing must be rigged. Either that or the voting system does note work fairly. If you watched the vote being given you would notice as my family did that the majority of countries voted for their neighbours. Spain was one of the best, but came around 3rd last?

Originally posted by neonitus
Why would you want your country to win this?
Why would you watch this?
Why do 125 million people watch this?

Sometimes I wish i lived in cave, on Mars.

Because its bizarrely fun Remember fun? that thing we have when we're not filling our heads full of conspiracy theories.
That cave on mars sure sounds stimulating and a rewarding existance.
No offence intended btw.

Seriously, there was no way Blue or Jedward deserved to win. In saying that, I know what you mean the Baltic states all vote for each other as do the Mediterranean ones and so on.

Why is this not in BTS?

Originally posted by neonitus
Why would you want your country to win this?
Why would you watch this?
Why do 125 million people watch this?

Sometimes I wish i lived in cave, on Mars.

Lighten up.
Have you ever watched it with friends and got completely plastered? It's such a fun thing to watch when drunk.

Originally posted by Noviz
I'm pretty sure if England actually entered one of our many many famous bands we would win. I think a lot of the smaller countries do enter some quite big local stars. But to be honest how Azerbaijan won it with that song I have NO CLUE. Is it just the rest of Europe have completely different hearing than the rest of us? It sounded marginally better the second time they sang it but really.... I quite liked Serbia's song; I think they would have got a few more votes if it was in English. I could see it as a get up and dance sort of tune. But regardless of the actual lyrics, which were abit dodgy, I really liked Finlands entry. It was the only song with any real soul and meaning... most of the others were just the normal dull pointless pop song. I also always like the Greek entries regardless of whether they suck or not, because they usually keep their songs quite traditional to their countries culture... instead of just borrowing off the sort of UK/America Pop music. I think I'd like to see more countries sing in their own language again... just because you are allowed to sing in English you shouldn't be ashamed to sing whatever language you want.

It's always fun by the time they start announcing scores as my housemates and I are normally pretty drunk by then. So we always have a good shout about why each country should vote for us because what we have done for them lol. One example: Ireland - "Don't vote for us an we'll steal all your potatos," Greece - "Vote for us because the British tourist is essentially your economy" etc etc. All in good humour of course.

It does sound a little bit butthurt but the thing is, we really don't care that much as a Nation. It's not like we need to win it anyway; we have the Olympics next year so I think that trumps the crappy Eurovision 1000 times over. If we reallllly wanted to win I think we would enter a huge band. Although no popular band would want to play it due to the stigma attached to the competition.

I laughed when, as usual, France refused to speak English lol..... So predictable and so painfully obvious why they do it.

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Can i come over your house next year, sounds like a laugh, no hang on, lets hire a hall and have an ATS eurovision party. Aah no we can Ah well never mind, it wasnt that good anyway.
Btw, i dont think any of Britain's top bands would enter it anyway because theyd be too scared that anti british feeling would result in them not winning. Can you imagine what this would do to Tom Meighan's ego if Kasabian entered and lost? Or Bono ? Sting? Elton? Although i reckon Sir Paul could handle it.

Originally posted by kevinunknown
Seriously, there was no way Blue or Jedward deserved to win. In saying that, I know what you mean the Baltic states all vote for each other as do the Mediterranean ones and so on.

Why is this not in BTS?

I thought about that one Kevin, i did think for a moment about putting it in BTS, but its sorta political its a conspiracy, and well it hasnt been moved (yet) by mods. so....

Originally posted by kevinunknown
Seriously, there was no way Blue or Jedward deserved to win. In saying that, I know what you mean the Baltic states all vote for each other as do the Mediterranean ones and so on.

Why is this not in BTS?

That contest managed to make Jedward look reasonably good. Just shows the kind of standard you have with the Eurovision. I dont think as a nation we need to worry about the quality of our pop music compared to that of other european nations. They were nearly all singing in English anyway. They should be forced to sing in their native tongue if you ask me. The winners, both live in north London anyway, so I guess we won the Eurovision in a sense.