It's not always because of bloc voting, but it is also because of poor music that the countries send there year after year (especially the big 4)!!! The quality has escaped from ESC lightyears ago and it is nothing but sheer stage circus these days!!! Nothing to do with music any more!!
Eurovision Song Contest,do you think the contest is a farce because of countries voting for fellow countries?
Of course it's a farce! And it has especially become so since the Eastern-Bloc countries came into the contest. They seem to have no concept of 'fair-play' or 'sportsmanship'. For them the ESC has become a poltical battlefield where they vote along purely partisan and political lines. Before they even hear the entries of the Western European nations they already know how they are going to vote, i.e. neighbouring countries and, of course, Mother Russia, the Great Protectress, who must be appeased lest she decide to lean on the offending East European nation which failed to give her top or near- top marks.
Until the Western nations of Europe stop lavishly handing out points to the Eastern European nations and show more solidarity between them, they can wave goodbye to any hopes of ever again getting anywhere in the ESC, as Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and Russia have clearly shown the path they have chosen to go down, and that is to restrict all significant points awarded to their fellow former Eastern-Bloc countries. With that system solidly in place, no Western European nation can ever again hope to win the ESC, and they might as well stay home!
The ESC has been cynically turned into a political and partisan arena by the countries of Eastern Europe (and former Soviet satellites) which cannot conceive of awarding points on the purely artistic merits of a song. It is obviously a concept deeply alien to them and as a consequence they have all but killed off the ESC in terms of being a musical competition ostensibly based on talent and musical merit and has become a 'flatter my neighbour' exercise.
It would seem that the only way to counter nepotism and favouritism would be to assign a number to each of the competing countries, make them choose between English and Esperanto for their lyrics, and keep their identities a secret, so that people would then in effect be voting purely on the basis of the artistic and musical merit of an entry, but alas I doubt whether this impartial system would be either feasible or acceptable.
Reply:yes we could send the best singer in the world to represent great britain and we still wouldn't win-because we're not in eastern europe
Reply:YES absolutely a farce !!
Reply:Pure boll-ocks. If it was a serious contest the UK would win every time. Not some La la la dee doo da la do da day
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