Comments for Eurovision America

Comment on A Eurovision Drinking Game? by Lee

Lee — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:23:42 +0000

They play these games in the U.K.

Comment on About by Lee

Lee — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:19:27 +0000

I'm from the U.K. and am amazed there are Americans into this. I follow it on the radio each year. Is it on tv in the U.S.? I would never want to go to one but admire you for going. Some people in the U.K. take the mickey out of it but others use it as a reason to party. It's a way of uniting Europe on one night. There is no other event that does that.

If you google Eurovision at the time of the show, you can see people's twitter comments live as they are written.

Comment on Bonsoir Europe! by listigraev

listigraev — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:00:37 +0000

I also have an ESC blog and would gladly link to your's if you like, we American fans have to stick together! First we unite on the internet, then we get our own OGAE.

Comment on Globalization… by listigraev

listigraev — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:55:36 +0000

I think Shiri Maimon's comments are the most pervasive across most European broadcasters – how else would you explain SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), and several others demanding that their artists change their lyrics to English. What makes it worse is when the original song's meaning is lost in the translation (Iceland is notorious for this). When I was in Denmark, I actually heard people saying that a song in Danish didn't stand a chance of winning ESC which is why Danish language songs routinely fare poorly at DMGP.

I like YLE's answer, they close caption the entire show in Finnish so that the viewers can understand what's going on. If this was a requirement (obviously, in a country's language – not Finnish!) for participating countries, then maybe more people would feel free to sing in their own language. I think it would be fun for the UK to send something in not English, like Welsh, Scots, or Irish – oh, heck, or even Russian just for kicks!

Oh, and Cyprus tried singing in French instead of English back in 2007, but it didn't work out too well for Evridiki – though, to be fair, nothing works out too well for Cyprus.

It's awesome to find other American Eurovision fans with blogs, especially when those Americans are also Carolina alumni!

Comment on Eurovision [participants who happened to hail from North] America: 2000-2010 by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:28:02 +0000

Great blog….check out mine on http://escaddict.blogspot.com

Comment on Globalization… by Daniela

Daniela — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:20:00 +0000

From my own impartial perspective, it seems only fitting that the Russians rhyme “money” with “money”. The sad part is, I’ve heard some of the worst lyrics in American songs…or at least the strangest.

And speaking of American Idol, I wonder what ever happened to Americavision?

Comment on Globalization… by Daniela

Daniela — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:42:23 +0000

And speaking of American Idol, I wonder what ever happened to Americavision?

Comment on Globalization… by Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:03:29 +0000

As to Natalya Vodyanova, what's sad is that she was worse in rehearsal. In fact, if I remember right, they swapped who was speaking some of the lines in French because Natalya simply couldn't do it. The worst was the “Show us your mobiles” part. Nobody wanted to do that, and nobody did. It looked really pathetic on international television. I think that's where the “Give us lights” line by Andrei came from in that video.

While this probably deserves its own post, this year's Bosnian song contains completely nonsensical English lyrics. Here's the chorus:

This is the time to melt the ice
Off our lips and off our hearts
Thunder and lightning holding hands
Let's overcome the past

Yeah. That makes sense. And the Slavic countries are the worst offenders. Consider Russia's 2007 entry, “Song #1″ by Serebro:

Oh, don't call me funny bunny
I'll blow your money, money
I'll get you to my bad ass spinnin' for you
Oh, I'll make it easy, honey
I'll take your money, yummy
I've got my bitches standin' up next to me

I'm pretty sure they just threw English words in there that rhyme for no reason. Also, they rhymed “money” with “money.”

And don't think that America is immune from song contests. American Idol is consistently one of the top rated songs on television.

Comment on Oslo Bound! by Oslo Bound! « Eurovision America « Oslo hot news and trends

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Comment on Eurovision Night in Washington by BJ

BJ — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:06:30 +0000

Do hope it becomes an annual thing.