Eurovision 2013

[Prospero]

This has ceased to be a competition about songs, and has become a political festival of back-slapping: Greece votes for Cyprus, Cyprus votes for Greece, the Slavs vote for the Slavs and so on. I think the UK should pull put of it altogether.

Was it ever anything else? or at least it has been so for 15 or 20 years. I shan't watch. When Wogan presented he did a good job in making fun of the entire thing. I'm not sure who does it now.

As for the "music" Has there ever been a good winner? I covered the event for a newspaper the year Abba won with "Waterloo." That is about as good a song as anything that has won - and it's dire.

Adriana - for a while I thought you had the entire thread to yourself.

[tsadriana]

HOLLAND

well count us out,i found it a terrible song!....

Agreed with you ...It wont gonna reach the final,it reminds me of the UK song last year...

[rodinuk]

... I think the UK should pull put of it altogether.

I think taking away the choice of the song/singer from a public contest was a bad move and Pete Waterman rubbishing his own song's chances just before the contest was a really cuntish thing to do to the young lad having to perform it.

I shan't watch.

Don't worry - with viewing figures of 7.5 million for the final last year Adriana and I won't be alone.

When Wogan presented he did a good job in making fun of the entire thing. I'm not sure who does it now.

Graham Norton does it now for the final. Wogan was just a disinterested onlooker sounding like a confused parent unable to understand his teenage children but lining his pockets in the process

As for the "music" Has there ever been a good winner? I covered the event for a newspaper the year Abba won with "Waterloo." That is about as good a song as anything that has won - and it's dire.

Philistine

[fuzzunoisedk]

Only Teardrops - song from Denmark

and the one that was abit better but did not win - Danish singer Simone with Stay Awake

[rodinuk]

Agreed with you ...It wont gonna reach the final,it reminds me of the UK song last year...

It just did reach the Final!

I think it sounds better the more you hear it, especially with lager

[tsadriana]

It just did reach the Final!

I think it sounds better the more you hear it, especially with lager

Actualy she qualifyed for the final so it wasnt that bad.FOR the first time in Eurovision the Yougoslavian countrys dint qualifyed ....

[Prospero]

I might be a philistine but at least I got to meet the lovely Agnetha Faltskog

[Stavros]

Am I right in thinking that the girl carried on stage by some 8 foot giant was not wearing anything under her tight white dress? Can't tell if she was singing either.

[FruitTree]

The choir version of Euphoria was one of the greatest things I've ever heard, perfectly done

I've always been quite interested in what Americans or other non europeans think of Eurovision, I love it but it must be even more ridiculous than normal to someone who doesn't know anything about it

[ImpulZ]

Agreed with you ...It wont gonna reach the final,it reminds me of the UK song last year...

well unbelievable at it is,we made the finals