14: 01 - Eurovision 2k7

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Written by: Melaisis

Firstly, before I begin today's article properly; I'd like to take the opportunity to credit Sam ("Jesus The Second") Newell for helping me with the prior-posted rap, Migration Nation. There, Jesus. I gave you credit. Happy, kidda? However, his major contribution to the work was cut from the final version. That being his suggestion that we have someone in the background singing the chorus to Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing' when the rap was being read. I'm sure there's some sort of possibility for that in a mash-up/remix sort of thing, but the idea wasn't that pratical at the time.

Now, moving on from that totally out-of-context opening; I'm sure if you're British, like all of us Three Rs posters are; you'll have realised that last Saturday, it was the Eurovision Song Contest, 2007. I had somewhat of a party to celebrate the occasion. Now, despite Terry Wogan's initial fears at the semi-finals that the show would be 'just too camp for television' - I personally firmly believe that it was one of the greatest Eurovisions to date. Certainly, Terry's fears were confirmed - as the contest offered everything to transvestites to the French entry playing Daisy Rock guitars. Yet I believe that anyone who finds this sort of behaviour offensive should take the time to grow up and become more liberal. Heck, even the British entry featured PVC suits and the most explicit, innuendo-induced lines I've ever heard ("Would you like something to suck on for landing, sir?"). Yet, I suppose that's the fun in the whole event; just how outrageous can an act get without pushing the limits too far? I feel that the entry that I did eventually vote for, Ukraine, tests it to the very limits. Here they are prior to the semi-finals:



If anyone watches 'Japan Today'; I think you'll agree that the parallels between the infamous drag queen Verka Serdyuchka in this video and Japan's notorious 'Hard Gay' are rather disturbing. However, what is even more unnerving about the Ukraine entry is that it indeed, did come second - much to my semi-delight. But, as everyone says: 'The voting is just political'. Which makes perfect sense, of course. Especially when it comes to Israel not making it past the semi-finals (with their ironic song, 'Push the Button'; detailing of how the world is run by trigger-happy fools. Nice one, Israel. Nice one) and the British entry (despite being clearly better and more humourous than many of the Western mainland Europe finalists) only gaining second-to-last place. Then again, the British didn't even end up giving 12 points to Ireland - apparently violating the 'unwritten rules of Eurovision'. Oh, we apologise for being the only ones who vote fairly.

So, this year's contest was slightly more surprising than the norm, but nothing overly special. Especially when we consider that Serbia's entry (no more than an out-of-tune ballad with a singer sporting a dyke-cut) won in the end. Although I am unsure what holding the event in Serbia next year will bring. Regardless of the bitter end, however, the contest was generally an overall sucess - raking in the most amount of viewers and votes ever (even I voted!).

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