Eurovision 2014, interesting...

[marylander1940]

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[TruthBTold]

WTF?? I love the woman doing laundry on stage.

[+ azdr0710]

hmmm....that chick doing the wash could almost make me turn straight!

 

was this some modernized folk song about the toils of Polish women...or what??

[Steven_Draker]

Ahh, it's this time of the year again ...

 

" ... Tonight an estimated 120 million viewers from Iceland to Azerbaijan, more than watched this year’s Super Bowl, are expected to tune in to see which of the 26 finalists will take the top slot and the exposure it provides.

 

“It’s ‘American Idol’ on steroids,” said William Lee Adams, a journalist in London who founded Wiwi Bloggs, a leading independent site devoted entirely to Eurovision.

 

A place where soft power meets soft porn, Eurovision offers a view of Europe in microcosm, particularly now, when old fault lines from the Balkans to Russia and Ukraine are surfacing. The competition, which takes place on three nights, is highly political, albeit flavored with a hefty dose of camp.

 

Over the years, Eurovision has reflected Europe’s social and political changes, and this one is no exception. Along with the requisite scantily clad women and hunky men, an Austrian transgender singer, Conchita Wurst, advanced to this year’s finals, to the consternation of Eastern European social conservatives who have called Eurovision the epitome of the morally corrupt West.

 

 

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Conchita Wurst's performance (also known as the bearded Kim Kardashian) carries a powerful message. Her song "Rise Like a Phoenix" is an anthem for people who are different, struggle with their identity or have suffered through discrimination.

 

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There’s also intense speculation about whether tensions between Russia and Ukraine could split the post-Soviet voting bloc. At Tuesday’s semifinals, the audience booed when it was announced that Russia’s contestants, the wholesome-looking twin Tolmachevy sisters, made the finals.

 

Mariya Yaremchuk of Ukraine also placed, with her cheery pop song “Tick Tock,” which she sang while a man ran in a giant hamster wheel on stage. Crimea, now annexed by Russia, will still vote as part of Ukraine, which still runs the state broadcaster and the cellphone networks. Eurovision officials say they will monitor to make sure the phone lines aren’t obstructed.

 

The winner is picked by a mix of votes from viewers calling in and from five-member juries from each of the 37 countries that entered the semifinals this year. Voters cannot vote for their own country, so just as in Brussels, the European Union headquarters, there is a drive for consensus and also rampant bloc voting in which like-minded countries band together to support their favorites.

 

Balkan countries tend to vote for one another, as do Scandinavian ones. Greece never supports its rival neighbor Macedonia, known internationally as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

 

“If this were football, there would be riots,”

 

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/arts/television/eurovision-splashes-into-2014-finals-to-rapt-audiences.html?_r=0

 

 

A kitsch and fun night ahead ...

[marylander1940]

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[Steven_Draker]

And the winner is .... Conchita Wurst from Austria

 

sending a great message of tolerance across Europe and the world. Congratulations!

 

[Bosguy]

And the winner is .... Conchita Wurst from Austria

 

sending a great message of tolerance across Europe and the world. Congratulations!

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Such incredible talent! I am totally in awe. Conchitta is an amazing person and a gorgeous man and woman. A very difficult task to accomplish all these tasks in one being.

 

Boston Bill

[Steven_Draker]

Russia massively booed at Eurovision

 

"When the country “phoned in” to deliver its top three votes, the crowd could be heard booing the Russian spokesman as she attempted to read out the country’s results from Moscow.

 

After Russia delivered its vote – giving a full 12 points to neighbouring Belarus, 10 to Azerbaijan and eight to Armenia – the crowd could still be heard booing.

 

Countries who voted for Russia, including Armenia and Belarus, were also booed when delivering points to the country, which has been at the centre of criticism over its handling of the crisis in Ukraine and its controversial anti-gay propaganda law.

 

 

Austria’s transvestite entry Conchita Wurst has also been at the centre of controversy surrounding the contest, after receiving a number of transphobic comments from some eastern European groups demanding she resign from the competition.

 

Russian politician Vitaly Milonov, one of the architects of the country’s gay propaganda law, called Wurst a “pervert” and labelled the competition a “hotbed of sodomy”.

 

Online petitions were started in Belarus, Armenia and Russia - whose government passed a law last year banning "gay propaganda" among minors - to have Wurst censored or edited out of broadcasts in their countries.

 

Tonight Conchita had the last word.

 

 

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/eurovision-2014-russia-booed-by-crowd-during-final-9350249.html

[fedssocr1]

So is she transgender or a transvestite?

[marylander1940]

He's a gay man.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchita_Wurst

 

http://galeri7.uludagsozluk.com/241/conchita-wurst_495235.jpg

 

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[Steven_Draker]

So is she transgender or a transvestite?

 

Good question!

 

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[+ quoththeraven]

In the video above, he says he's not transgender; he's a drag artist, which is why I'm using male pronouns instead of female ones. "Transvestite" would be another way to categorize his gender presentation.

[+ FreshFluff]

Love the Polish one.

 

#tbt Israel's entry for Eurovision 1983 in Munich, West Germany: Ofra Haza singing Chai (The people of Israel are alive). She came in second.

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[+ FreshFluff]

was this some modernized folk song about the toils of Polish women...or what??

 

The song is called "We are slavic" so you're probably right.

 

hmmm....that chick doing the wash could almost make me turn straight!

 

Hehe, here's a good test of how many guys here are 0s on the Kinsey scale vs. >0: Would you do the Polish laundry girl, the other girls, or none of them?

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They're as hot as women get--perfect face, tiny waist, big chest--and they'll wash the sheets when you're done.

[+ purplekow]

And a powerful set of lungs

[+ FreshFluff]

hmmm....that chick doing the wash could almost make me turn straight!

 

was this some modernized folk song about the toils of Polish women...or what??

 

Actually, it appears to be a sales pitch for Slavic women. Here's a summary

 

[+ nycman]

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Like an Ian Schrager Hotel....

 

Overly stylized.

 

Painfully loud.

 

Minimal talent.

 

Zero substance.

[Steven_Draker]

Overly stylized.

 

Painfully loud.

 

Minimal talent.

 

Zero substance.

 

nycman, you just summarized what Eurovision is all about! It's kitsch, it's loud, people love it.

 

It shouldn't be taken too seriously.

 

BTW, Did you notice that Australia is now part of Eurovision?

 

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[Steven_Draker]

[Steven_Draker]

Russia threatens pulling out of Eurovision

 

Russia is reportedly considering pulling out of Eurovision, and making a rival contest for its regions and allies.

 

The deputy leader of Russia’s Communist party, Valery Rashkin, said the country should leave the contest after the win of drag queen Conchita Wurst, and make its own contest which abides by its ‘gay propaganda’ laws.

 

The move would follow in the footsteps of Turkey, which left the contest in 2012 citing objections to format changes to create the Türkvizyon Song Contest, which 24 countries from Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East entered last year.

 

After a same-sex kiss featured in last year’s Eurovision, Turkey stopped broadcasting the song contest entirely.

 

 

Rashkin said: “The last Eurovision contest’s results exhausted our patience.

 

“We must leave this competition. We cannot tolerate this endless madness.”

 

He would instead push for a rival “Voice of Eurasia” show with allied countries, which will be “family friendly” and not controlled by the West.

 

The Slavic Advisory Committee in Belarus has agreed with the suggestion, saying: “”Conchita Wurst’s Eurovision victory symbolises the complete collapse of the European Union’s moral values,” the country’s advisory Slavic Committee said in a statement.

 

“We do not need Europe!”

 

This year’s Eurovision has received cross-party condemnation in Russia, with former Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky labelling it the “end of Europe”.

 

He said: “There is no limit to our outrage.

 

“It has turned wild. There are no more men or women in Europe, just it.

 

“[it is] the end of Europe.”

 

A rival Eastern bloc song contest named Intervision was previously attempted during the Cold War, running for four years between 1977 and 1980.

 

 

source: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/05/14/russia-considers-pulling-out-of-eurovision-making-straight-rival-show/

[Newly]

Maybe Turkey should quit worrying about song contests and spend a bit more time on mining safety?