Eurovision Song Contest

[sus]

As an American I just heard of this "Eurovision Song Contest" for the first time. Apparently the video below is genuine footage of a real event... If you have not seen it previously, strong content warning on what's to come


Is this why the UK went and Brexited?

Is this poptimism's ultimate challenge and redemption narrative?

Will we look back on it all as The Golden Age of Pops?

 

[sus]

Is this what happens to pop music when you don't have any black people

 

[yyaldrin]

i like this one

 

[linebaugh]

apparently a will ferrel movie about ESC was released just months ago

 

[linebaugh]

I had no idea this was a thing, looks to be an institution of sorts

 

[luka]

The European song contest is a big and beautiful holiday for some people but for others an occasion to organise political provocation. One must be prepared.
Mehriban Aliyeva, First Lady of Azerbaijan.

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[sus]

aye that's what alerted me as well, though I'm not sure why parody is needed when the object itself exists

 

[sus]

For a split second when I learned "Waterloo" in '74 launched the magnificent ABBA, I thought it would make me like ESC more, but it has only made me like ABBA less

 

[linebaugh]

something sci fi about euro spectacle, this looks like an intergalactic meeting. American equivalents feel self contained

 

[version]

 

[linebaugh]

something sci fi about euro spectacle, this looks like an intergalactic meeting. American equivalents feel self contained

Imagine a NAFTA-vision song contest

 

[sus]

it's amusing to me because American taste gets constantly called tacky, but this purple-lipstick plastickFuturism wouldn't even fly in a Delta Airlines ad

 

[version]

Legendary.

 

[linebaugh]

Some of the performances and staging in the original video feel like American mega church congregations. Is there any euro equivalent to the southern U.S. mega church?

 

[version]

Some of the performances and staging in the original video feel like American mega church congregations. Is there any euro equivalent to the southern U.S. mega church?

17:30

 

[sus]

i like this one

great song but this is the flattest vocal performance I've ever come across

 

[sus]

on a scale 1-10 how much shame ought one to feel if one has, hypothetically, only heard Poupee de cire because Arcade Fire covered it

(I was a teen in the 2000s fkn sue me assholes)

 

[linebaugh]

Is Europe constantly stewing in that feeling Americans have once every 4 years during the summer Olympics?

 

[linebaugh]

on a scale 1-10 how much shame ought one to feel if one has, hypothetically, only heard Poupee de cire because Arcade Fire covered it

(I was a teen in the 2000s fkn sue me assholes)

I know the shame. We stood no chance.

 

[boxedjoy]

fascinated by the UK approach to Eurovision - we slag it for being gaudy and tasteless, we send dreck that embarasses us and refuse to either take it seriously and send a Real Popstar, but we don't buy into the kitsch spirit either, then we take the huff when we don't get the win we feel we are entitled to just by virtue of being British and not actually doing it properly.

I love the competition, not as entertainment but as spectacle, so much of it codes as camp but without the knowing irony that spoils these things