Eurovision song contest. What a joke!?

Perhaps next year we should have two contests, one for the Eastern European countries and one for the Western European countries.





Or maybe the United Kingdom should just pull the funding and see how they cope without us.





And with all that political voting going on, why the heck didn't we give any votes to Ireland?!!!





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Eurovision song contest. What a joke!?
CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN





It’s only a game.





Why do people think that If the UK doesn’t win, it’s all down to politics. What evidence do you have for this?





Has it not occurred to you that people in different parts of Europe have different musical tastes – so a Lithuanian is more likely to like something from Estonia than from Spain? Also, how often have you heard the UK entry? Probably, if you’re into Eurovision, you’ve heard it a lot. Now what songs do you think the people in Bosnia have heard on their radios? The Serbian one? The Croatian one? Very likely. So they vote for songs that are familiar. After all, if it was political the Serbs would do very badly in the former Yugoslavia.





Anyway, the UK song was terrible. How many more times are the UK going to enter Bucks Fizz clones?
Reply:wow all that music was so good. it has truly inspired me. also the fat girl from serbia was beautiful i want to marry her
Reply:Great idea about the two contests - I don't know why we bother to even enter.
Reply:I think its played itself out. Its not about a good song anymore, its politics now..
Reply:That's the whole point - it's a joke. That is why it is so amusing to watch.





I can't believe anybody takes it seriously.
Reply:A rather good joke, I think. It's supposed to be funny.
Reply:Serbia eh ,Ok without checkin is there anyone who can remember the name of the group ?


Can't see them selling out stadia around the world ,can you?





Oh and we should have given all our points to Ireland
Reply:since europe expanded into the world ha ha we have no chance of winning this song contest all we need is america on our side when do europe take over the yanks
Reply:i feel we should be relegated, russia should have won it was the best song. i feel we should leave the ebu its politics not the best song. we pay so much get nothing out of it let the eastern european countries pay for it. t
Reply:i'm sick of the political neighbour country voting. Scooch was hardly cutting edge, but jesus, some of that sh*t turned out tonight and we only get 2 votes, one from ireland and one from malta......
Reply:Lets face it. Countries like Ukraine, Russia Serbia, Latvia etc could simply walk on stage and fart repeatedly into the microphone and they'd still receive top marks from their neighbouring countries, it's a joke now.
Reply:if you are annoyed about the program dont watch it simple
Reply:I completly agree, I feel sorry for Ireland now. They did us a big favour and yet, we put salt in their eyes! Aww.





It was a fix, a lot of countries knew who they were voting for even before the performances x !





I don't think England actually wanted to win, there was no hope with Scooch anyway.





Next year if England want to win, we have to put somebody good forward. Like Jordan and Peter singing A Whole New World in glitter, maybe that will give us votes? Or Chico with the kids, singing Its Chico Time. That would win it!
Reply:When the eurovision song contest was primarily made up of western European countries Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland all voted for each other, as did other close groups (including England and Ireland) and we STILL did badly! Mostly because our entries are so bad. Would any of us REALLY pay to see Scooch?
Reply:the Ireland point....exactly. I asked the same question 10 mins ago. We have just lost our only alli in Europeean song contest! What a waste of money
Reply:I totally agree with u. eurovision song contest? Ha! more like political contest to me.


I only watched it because of Terry. He makes me laugh with all those witty comments. United Kingdom should have been in the top 5. It was better than most others.
Reply:Eastern European nonsense!. We deserved so much more!.
Reply:I don't know why I bother answering this, as you will not listen to me and I will get thumbs down, but I'll just try.





Eurovision is not political - 1. people will not vote for something they don't like and 2. if e.g Ukraine votes for Russia, it's not because they are neighbours, but because their music is closer to them and so is the language. If the show was political, the winner would be the same every year and it would be the country who has most neighbours. The fact that UK didn't give points to Ireland proves this.





I'm from continental Europe myself and my country, Slovakia, never takes part in this contest, so my opinion would be the most unbiased one. What you guys don't seem to realize is that people on the continent have different taste in music. But you choose to think it's political, because Terry Wogan says so and because you don't share a border with any country, instead of admitting your acts are simply not good.





And don't you think that if every country gives points to 10 countries, it actually prevents the contest from being political?
Reply:I agree compleately lets face it all the songs are crap and the uk and ire were watching the grease singing thing instead like my missis was therefore not bothering to vote


( politically ) for each other.
Reply:We had No chance of winning same as Germany, France, Ireland and Spain after seeing how many Eastern Countries where in the running. Armenia and Gerorgia! Not Part of Europe by a long shot, they are in the Near East!!!