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  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Too political? Definitely, bothers me too.

    Has-been music? Mostly, yes. I have no issue with that. I prefer older music to newer trends anyway. Besides, not sure if anyone is reinventing music as we speak. As far as I know it's not happening outside the ESC either.

    Are all the ESC songs good? No, certainly not. Some of them are really really terrible. Even more so live. Are they all bad though? Also no. Not in my opinion, anyway.

    What ESC does that I do like though, is celebrating Europe's cultural and linguistic diversity. And I'm all for that. It's also the only, the one and only, moment in the entire year that some non-English language music gets a little bit of attention before we are encouraged by mainstream media to return to the same stuff from the same people all over again (and pretend music is only produced in Anglo-Saxon countries). Is it the best representation of continental Europe's music? No. The Italian music scene for instance has much better stuff to offer than what we see at ESC from them (although the Italians are always amongst the better entries regardless). But it is what it is, I quite like to go from Italian to French, from German to Swedish, from Spanish to Portuguese, from Serbian to Greek, etc., each time changing genre along the way too. Just this single one time in the entire year however, I don't need to go all niche for that. For that reason I can appreciate ESC, despite its more than obvious shortcomings.

    After that elaborate justification, I'll now return back to my niche playlists and will return here in May in the hope that ESC doesn't undermine my defense too much :p

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    As it's St Patrick's Day, here's the greatest Eurovision trolling entry ever from Ireland:

  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Just coming back here to share what I think is a superb Albania entry:



    Easily top 3 for me.
  • GerardGerard
    edited May 2 Posts: 6,141
    The spokeperson for the United Kingdom is (drumroll please) :



    Ncuti Gatwa. Given that the Doctor will attend the Intergalalctic Song Contest earlier that evening, that's quite logical, methinks.

    https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/eurovision-2025-ncuti-gatwa-uk-spokesperson-newsupdate/
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    Just coming back here to share what I think is a superb Albania entry:



    Easily top 3 for me.

    Checks the right boxes, but gets a bit boring soon imho. If the performance goes well on stage, this could be among the best. But people's tastes are difficult to predict.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    At the eve of these years contest, let's revisit some classic stuff, such as Uno per tutte by Emilio Pericoli (with an 'appearance' from FRWL's Daniela Bianchi):



    Finished 3rd at ESC 1963. Remains one of my favourites.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Certainly better than anything I've heard of the ESC 2025 so far.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Musically, I enjoyed these the most:

    Miriana Conte - Serving (Malta)
    Klemen - How much time do we have left (Slovenia)
    Gojo - Milkshake Man (Australia)
    Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato (Estonia)
    Laura Thorn - La Poupée Monte Le Son (Luxembourg)
    Napa - Deslocado (Portugal)
    Ziferblat - Bird of Pray (Ukraine)

    But in the end, none of these will make the top 10 if the bookies are to be believed.

  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited May 13 Posts: 7,480
    Agreed about Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia.

    I personally also quite like Sweden, Albania, Spain, Germany, France and of course Gabry Ponte for San Marino :)

    My favourite ESC entry ever will never be matched though ;) :



    With this one as a runner-up:

  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 6,141
    The song that launched a revolution :



    A favourite of mine :



    Who would have thought that an Ingmar Bergman movie would inspire a Eurovision song ?
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    @Gerard I had to look up the meaning of the first song for the Portuguese people. I guess we learn a bit more every day.
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