Should the "singers" on the eurovision song contest be made to sing in English?

Or is this taking something away from their national identities?

Should the "singers" on the eurovision song contest be made to sing in English?
After ABBA won with Waterloo in 1974, the rules were changed so that each country had to sing in their native tongue.





This rule lasted some time until it was relaxed. (Do not know the year)





So your suggestion is a bit on par with what actually happened after ABBA, at the other extreme scale.
Reply:if they sang in english the songs would be rubbish songs sung in english





as opposed to rubbish songs sung in a range of languages





in the olden days they sang in english if they hoped to sell the tripe after the competition but these days no one would waste their money





the question should be .....why is there a eurovision song contest?


it is now just political voting for 'friendly' nations ....with rubbish songs
Reply:No, it's a Eurovision song contest, they are allowed to sing in any language they want. By the way, the most spoken language in Europe is actually German - you wouldn't want them to sing it German, would you?





Terry Wogan is a nasty obnoxious mean old man - I'd happily torture him into death if I could. On Making Up Your Mind he said "there's no 43 countries in Europe". There's actually around 50 of them, for his information and Turkey and Israel (Asia) usually take part too.





It's wasting time, but I still repeat - Eurovision is NOT political. It's only in UK people think that way. I'm from Slovakia, a country which NEVER enters Eurovision, so I think I am unbiased enough to be trusted on this. I think the fact that each country gives points to 10 other countries- and not just 1 - prevents it being political. And if Ukraine gives points to Russia, it's not because of politics (I wouldn't say they love each other!), but because Russian music is close to people of Ukraine. I'd love to watch Eurovision, but I can't because of that stupid Wogan and his comments. I was really shocked when I watched it first time in UK, I've never seen so much hatred on TV from a presenter. I watched Eurovision on Austrian TV in 2002 and it wasn't anything like that, even though Austria ended up somewhere down at the bottom, the presenter never uttered a word of abuse. (And yes, I could understand German at that time well enough to know that.)





UK is a great country - I really want UK to win - but tell me, is it such a crime when somebody like Serbia wins? The guys there don't have so much, so come on!
Reply:Why should anyone expect them to sing in english? It's not an english contest, it's a European one and there are many languages in Europe.





I could just about understand it if you expected everyone to sing in the host country's language, but to expect everyone to sing in english is ridiculous.





This type of comment is why the rest of Europe thinks the English are arrogant.
Reply:I don't think so, becuse the whole point of this ridiculous contest is to introduce unity between nations.





So everyone singing in English would make the contest dull for other nations.





Then theres other issues of learning English, changing songs to match the new english words...the list goes on... maybe they should add enlgish subtitles.
Reply:The could speak in Hanik for all I care I will keep boycotting it, I hate it since my 18 bday party was ruined because my friends wanted to watch it on the tv in the pub. By the second song I felt like walking out on my own Bday party in fact.
Reply:That's why the Eurovision songs try to go for gay, catchy tunes because it appeals to people who can't understand the language. Well, they try to appeal to people anyway.
Reply:English just makes it easier to understand. It is also broadcast in french however. But you must rememebr that 70% of the funding comes from the UK, so really our language should be used...
Reply:Oh! LB, prey tell me why would you think such a thing, most of the crappy 'songs' sound better in another language.








And of course not forgetting the Irish turkey this year!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:Seeing as it's the Eurovision Song Contest, I think the competitors should sing in their own language.
Reply:theres more contries that dont speak english, what if they demand every....





what am i doing, who watches eurovision song contest anyway. it's cr@p. lol
Reply:How did Israel manage to sneak into the Eurovision Song Contest?
Reply:Eurovision is wonderful after binge drinking.... it makes you puke.
Reply:No. They should all sing in Norwegian as it's much more European than English.
Reply:It's kinda weird when they all sing in their own languages.. we can't understand..but what if they can't speak english? Hmm..
Reply:no, its called eurovision
Reply:I don't care really but they should definately be made to sing.
Reply:I would prefer they not sing at all, but if they must then it should not be on prime time TV.
Reply:I could care less what language they sing in...this programme is so boring, and half of them cannot sing at all.
Reply:Got to agree with you lol
Reply:I can't stop crying. My heart goes out to the family.
Reply:only if they get paid in dollars.
Reply:No..Why would they...They represent their country, language etc..

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