So the Eurovision Song Contest came and went...
And this year the ESC took Europe by storm once again, for political/geographical reasons. The Western countries were outraged on thursday night after the semifinal, when 9 Eastern Europeans countries + Turkey got the 10 places at the final.
Expressions like 'the Eastern European maffia', 'regional voting', 'cheating' were heard everywhere when not a single Western country got through the final. The only Western representors at the final were the ones who always have a secure place (Germany, France, Spain and the UK) and a couple more (Sweden, Ireland, Finland and Greece). Out of 24 songs, 16 came from the ex-Yugoslavia and ex-USSR countries...
Here in Denmark, where the ESC is still popular, pleas where made for the Westerners to stick together and don't vote on an Eastern country...
But it's no novelty that the countries always give maximum points to their neighbours, but only now the Western countries realized that they can't vote on a song they like, but rather on another Western country, or the ESC will soon become the Eastern European Song Contest.
The lesbian song from Serbia (how it's known around here) won the contest this year, with the amazing Ukranian unbelivable number 'Danzing!' a close second.
It's still fun to watch the final with a bunch of friends!!
Verka Serduchka - Danzing Lasha Tumbai (Ukraine ESC 2007)
And this year the ESC took Europe by storm once again, for political/geographical reasons. The Western countries were outraged on thursday night after the semifinal, when 9 Eastern Europeans countries + Turkey got the 10 places at the final.
Expressions like 'the Eastern European maffia', 'regional voting', 'cheating' were heard everywhere when not a single Western country got through the final. The only Western representors at the final were the ones who always have a secure place (Germany, France, Spain and the UK) and a couple more (Sweden, Ireland, Finland and Greece). Out of 24 songs, 16 came from the ex-Yugoslavia and ex-USSR countries...
Here in Denmark, where the ESC is still popular, pleas where made for the Westerners to stick together and don't vote on an Eastern country...
But it's no novelty that the countries always give maximum points to their neighbours, but only now the Western countries realized that they can't vote on a song they like, but rather on another Western country, or the ESC will soon become the Eastern European Song Contest.
The lesbian song from Serbia (how it's known around here) won the contest this year, with the amazing Ukranian unbelivable number 'Danzing!' a close second.
It's still fun to watch the final with a bunch of friends!!
Verka Serduchka - Danzing Lasha Tumbai (Ukraine ESC 2007)
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Actually the track is called "Danzing" ;)
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