I went to a wedding this weekend and got talking to a perfectly intelligent, likeable sane guy who also happened to know every single winner of the Eurovision Song Contest for every year and most of the competitors who didn’t win. He didn’t think it was a joke. He didn’t like that punters voted but preferred the panel system. He admitted that standards had dropped and a lot of the songs were very poor but believed in the concept as a means of a) showcasing new songwriting and b) bringing European people together.
The wedding was in France, natch, which explains the unfortunate’s poor taste in music. It’s also notable that French television coverage doesn’t feature Terry Wogan, who’s sneering attitude to everything about the Eurovision makes every viewer feel ashamed to be watching (which given that the programme is fronted by Terry Wogan, I suppose they should be). I wonder if they got a music critic and a songwriter to front the British coverage, quite how despicable we would all find the whole enterprise.
I went to a wedding this weekend and got talking to a perfectly intelligent, likeable sane guy who also happened to know every single winner of the Eurovision Song Contest for every year and most of the competitors who didn’t win. He didn’t think it was a joke. He didn’t like that punters voted but preferred the panel system. He admitted that standards had dropped and a lot of the songs were very poor but believed in the concept as a means of a) showcasing new songwriting and b) bringing European people together.
The wedding was in France, natch, which explains the unfortunate’s poor taste in music. It’s also notable that French television coverage doesn’t feature Terry Wogan, who’s sneering attitude to everything about the Eurovision makes every viewer feel ashamed to be watching (which given that the programme is fronted by Terry Wogan, I suppose they should be). I wonder if they got a music critic and a songwriter to front the British coverage, quite how despicable we would all find the whole enterprise.