Re: Eurovision 2016!

by Daaharu Sat May 14, 2016 9:46 pm

LunarWolf wrote:Watching atm. Russia was pretty damn good.

It was, but it copied "Heroes" so hard...

by Daaharu Sat May 14, 2016 10:19 pm

12 points from Daaharu go to Bulgaria. Very Happy

My favorite of the Contest. With Cyprus a close second.

by jakeb1993 Sat May 14, 2016 10:23 pm

Bah xD

by Daaharu Sat May 14, 2016 11:15 pm

What is HAPPENING with this voting??

by jakeb1993 Sat May 14, 2016 11:17 pm

It's Eurovision. What do you expect. It's basically just countries grouping together

by Daaharu Sat May 14, 2016 11:23 pm

jakeb1993 wrote:It's Eurovision. What do you expect. It's basically just countries grouping together

It's different this year. I can sort of understand all the votes for Australia, even though the chorus lyrics were bad, but Ukraine deserves to be, like, second-to-last place. Ukraine does NOT deserve to be second on the basis of its music. I mean, I understand they want to vote against Russia, but then just avoid voting for Russia. Don't give a mediocre song from Ukraine votes.

by jakeb1993 Sat May 14, 2016 11:26 pm

Bah. It's all stupid. Australia isn't in Europe. Let them be in one as a one off, but not each year. It's getting silly now. I don't think Russia should be in it either.

by Daaharu Sat May 14, 2016 11:42 pm

Worst Eurovision ever. The political voting always has an effect, but they usually still choose a good song. What the fuck? What the FUCK?

by jakeb1993 Sat May 14, 2016 11:46 pm

That's Eurovision.

by Daaharu Sat May 14, 2016 11:49 pm

jakeb1993 wrote:That's Eurovision.

I mean, like I just said, it really isn't. The political voting has an effect. They usually choose a good song. "Only Teardrops" in 2013 wasn't my favorite, but I understood the choice. I loved "Rise Like a Phoenix" in 2014. "Heroes" last year was amazing. But this song was awful.

Saying "That's Eurovision" is silly because it isn't. Political voting has an effect, and sometimes it prevents the best song from winning, but rarely (if ever) have they actually chosen one of the WORST songs to win. Plus, Ukraine's song really violates the political content rules of the Contest...

I mean, I sympathize with what's been happening in Ukraine. I was pretty much rooting against Russia for that (not to mention for their anti-gay slant of recent years). But, seriously? Ukraine was NOT GOOD. Not only did they not deserve to win, they did not deserve to be top ten. Now Russia is going to throw a whiny little fit and quit next year's Contest. Wouldn't be surprised if Belarus joined them. And then what? It's a Contest in a country undergoing major political strife, who backed out of Eurovision 2015 because they COULDN'T AFFORD TO COMPETE? And now they're going to need to spend SEVERAL TIMES THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY to host?

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