# It really is the Eastern European Song Contest this year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772 "2007-05-11T23:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/21 "2007-05-12T19:51:11Z")
Here we go - there’s always one or two songs I genuinely like. This weird Bjork-ian Georgian entry is not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/22 "2007-05-12T19:54:32Z")
and Sweden just doesn’t care anymore ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/23 "2007-05-12T19:55:34Z")
Unless there’s a secondary prize for Artist Most Resembling Marc Bolan ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/24 "2007-05-12T20:01:29Z")
Richard Fairbrass has a career in France, who knew ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/25 "2007-05-12T20:11:53Z")
At least we now know that Sinatra doesn’t work in German. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/26 "2007-05-12T20:13:46Z")
If any Americans are wondering what we are on about, a live feed can be found at [http://www.octoshape.com/play/play.asp?variant=ESCTV07&lang=en&install=true](http://www.octoshape.com/play/play.asp?variant=ESCTV07&lang=en&install=true) Serbia answers the question what would happen if Hiro of Heroes and Betty of Ugly Betty would mate ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/27 "2007-05-12T20:18:20Z")
Ukraine’s entry sums up Eurovision for me. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/28 "2007-05-12T20:20:04Z")
Just hold me i’m scared ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/29 "2007-05-12T20:27:08Z")
I think some of the subtext of the UK song was lost because of the frantic cutting. It’s really about global warming. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/30 "2007-05-12T20:31:22Z")
You know I’m really starting to miss the good old days of unibrows, folk dress and weird regional instruments. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/31 "2007-05-12T20:53:42Z")
OK, the pain is over. Now the fun starts, the voting. I predict: 1. Ukraine - quite fun, and apparently he’s already big over there 2. Latvia - Stirring, if cheesy, opera lite. Baltic bloc votes guaranteed. 3. Bosnia & Herzogovina - can’t remember the song, but does that matter? ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/32 "2007-05-12T20:57:08Z")
Well the Ukraine entry was definitely memorable it will probably win. For some reason i rather liked Hungary. So what will it be: Mandatory riverdancing or the history of Finland through interpretive dance ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/33 "2007-05-12T21:00:39Z")
Got a country western feeling from Hungary, speaking of feelings Germany got the swing ones. Ukraine for the weird award! I liked Russia. Bulgaria with those drums! If I could, I would vote for them. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/34 "2007-05-12T21:08:25Z")
And I forgot to add: I heard of commercialism starting earlier and earlier every year to remind us of Christmas shopping, but that was ridiculous… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/35 "2007-05-12T21:19:48Z")
Some of these performers have decided to just mock the whole idea… …right? _Please Dear God_ let them be deliberately mocking us… unless You dont exist, and they are in all eagerness serious… 😉😛 Were I so inclined I’d also favor Hungary (why, what an unusual concept, an actual band… 😛 ) and Bulgaria, just because of the drums. The Greek act… oy. I’d call up their home committee and threaten them that if they do something like that ever again, the contest is going to start referring to FYROM as just plain Macedonia. Maybe that’ll motivate them. …and yes, that was an uncomfortable flashback on Sweden’s part. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/36 "2007-05-12T21:23:30Z")
This is going to be a lot less fun when Terry quits. Oh, and Denmark have just given Sweden 12 points. Shock. ---
**Author:** ![Saitou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Saitou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saitou)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/37 "2007-05-12T21:28:44Z")
Terry, quit ? I alway imagine that one year he’s going to drink himself to death in that booth ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/38 "2007-05-12T21:29:08Z")
I can’t help but thinking, if we could somehow incorporate Simon Cowell into this show, it would absolutely rule. If only because he’d probably spontaneously combust before it was halfway through… ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/39 "2007-05-12T21:35:52Z")
Wow, the audience is actually booing the bloc voting at times. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772/40 "2007-05-12T21:49:20Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] I love the Eurovision. I hope Ireland never wins again. We’ve proved we can punch above our weight in euro-cheesemongering with seven victories. Ever see the Eurovision episode of Father Ted? It was hilarious! I don’t know what they think in the UK putting Scooch or whatever that band’s name is. They’re desperate and not in a way that’ll secure them Eurovision success. [/QUOTE] I just came to this thread to ask if this is the contest that that Episode of Father Ted was about! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-really-is-the-eastern-european-song-contest-this-year/403772.md?page=3)