Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 1, 2022 13:28:17 GMT
May 15, 2022 6:49:26 GMT Antaine said:
Between the gross LGBT stuff, and the obvious political stuff, Eurovision is something people have always known to be something you take with a pinch of salt concerning results. Even still, if Ukraine honestly got as many points as they did, I'll eat my hat! They got a lot of pity-points from the jury, but then 439 (out of a potential max 480) from televoters? I refuse to believe that. The song was abysmal, even by EV standards. I sincerely wish we would just withdraw from the thing.
I notice even Benny Andersson had something to say in this vein. Hard to take a smile off his face.
Time will tell whether we should find it disturbing for music in general if people start flocking to see holograms,even if it's ABBA.
Brian McFadden in a recent joint interview with Keith Duffy was quotable: "we made our boyband music,that was our job...it was that 80s pop-rock that really gave us the goosebumps. What I really hate about music now is nobody's trying to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Keith and I agree that we wanted each song to sound like it could have been on the Karate Kid soundtrack or one of those movies with those real feelgood anthems at the end"
They might be idealizing the past a bit. I can't place a single song to Karate Kid;I can remember one for KKII,which I remember I did see in the cinema, without looking it up.
Can't help wondering how an independent Scotland,or Scotland competing as a seperate entity, would have completed in the Eurovision of the era alluded to; the list of powerful singers produced, by Glasgow in particular,was impressive (think Jim Kerr, Midge Ure, Al Steward, Gerry Rafferty, Maggie Rielly,Big Country,some of which had a number one hit in Ireland only,due to the absence of a recognised Scottish chart at the time).Conjecturable.
I have to confess, though, finding this year's winner the better of Ukraine's three,the last of which was,from memory, also invasion-induced.
Ironic that members of prefabricated boys' bands-- which were once seen as the death of real music-- are now lamenting modern trends.