Måneskin - a challenge for the PA:s!
Hera
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After seeing Måneskin's win the day before yesterday, I hope some PA's feel ready to take up the challenge and re-create their awesomely camp outfits 
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Wow, can't believe I have never even heard of the Eurovision song contest before (I am in the U.S.). I did a google search since I had no clue who this group was or what they won and found a recap clip of the contest. Looks pretty cool and now I want to watch the whole thing.
You will get it next year:
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/eurovision-song-contest-american-song-contest-1234726887/
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@FSMCDesigns wou will experience a whole new level of cringe but apparantly a lot of people love it
I heard on the news you should put aside 27 hours to watch. No clue if that is correct.
I stopped watching it about 20+ years ago; for me, the festival went from crap to, well, even worse. (I'm too old for this sh*t....
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Not sure what you mean by cringe, but I like discovering new music and bands. I was a rock musician for 20+ years and always enjoyed checking out new bands and genres. I watch new talent shows often, like the voice and such, but was really surprised I have never heard of this contest before now.
Different tastes...
(and obviously not my taste.....)
I'm not a big fan of it, it like derailed in the beginning of 2000, but it still has a huge audience all over.
I'm with glasseye on that one, once upon a time it was a fun contest more oriented towards folkoristic influence from the different countries participating. Then it became the plaything of a few people, the participants from Germany were always chosen by the same select people and there was one person writing the music for each German participant for years, that was neither good music nor interesting in any other way. I can't speak for the other countries though. Some year it was just a riot of nonsense, none of the aprticipants took it seirous. Then they started and tried to turn it into something worth listening to, But that faded again by now. Not sure what the music was like this year, I didn't bother anymore ( I know the German participant was back to mostly nonsense)
Wow, they all look wasted. LOL
Actual Eurovision isn't likely to be broadcast in the US again any time soon, I suspect. Logo tried to get it going here for three years, using the hosts of its popular RuPaul's Drag Race -- and declined the option for the next year, because ratings had gone from dismal to dismaller to "three people in Pasadena watched this year", or something like that.
Who knows? Maybe the American Song Contest will be a success, and then eventually the US winner might get to be considered an honorary European (much like Australia) and get to appear in actual Eurovision! (Mind, Australia actually broadcasts Eurovision -- at some truly ungodly hours of the night and early morning -- and that's a requirement to be in Eurovision, so unless someone else picks it up here, that won't happen, either.)
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See my post above, was big news here when the main organizer for Swedish and the European contests, Christer Björkman, announced that NBC will run an American one with one song from each state.
Most Australians know of Eurovision and it's on tv, but it doesn't mean to say we have any great interest in it.
I thought one of the reasons they did Eurovision was because American Music was so pervasive that they wanted to support local (European Countries') talent.
So inviting a US Participant might be counter to that AIM.
But seriously, you need to watch WIll Ferrel's
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Here is just a taste of what you are in for
After 25 Years of living in Europe, they (really broad brush) have a "child like curiosity" and almost naivete in comparison to Americans and the English. (and seriously, no disrespect meant)
For example, if a guy or gal was playing the spoons and had blocks of sandpaper strapped to his knees and was making music, in "most" European countries, there would be a crowd around him listening and finding something to enjoy about it.
In the US and UK... uhmmm... not so much... irregardless of the musician's "spoon playing, sand paper rubbing skill"
One spoon player got a Soundgarden song written about him, which isn't nothing.
And of course, there's "Love Love Peace Peace"
All of those things were actually Eurovision acts. Even the salacious Polish milkmaids. (I remember the milkmaids from the first year Logo carried Eurovision. They were ... a lot.)
And "Love Love Peace Peace" gets deconstructed ... at some length.
I wonder if the same formula will apply in the American Song Contest, if that really does ever get off the ground. It's not scheduled to move forward for another year -- it got pushed back by the pandemic -- and who knows what will happen before then.
You have never heard of the internet-famous Epic Sax Guy?
He is a mere pretender. The true Epic Sax Guy is Tim Capello.
It probably helps a lot to have Graham Norton hosting the night. Also a number of drinking games. :)
That video give the one best description ever about the ESC (European Song Contest). Everybody should watch it... really!
But of course if You mention the Polish Milkmaids You have to supply proper links, too.
Go here for the "Eurovision Version (english vocals)" or this one for the slavic version
And from a german perspective the ESC is defined about as this:
In the north-western european countries it's the second biggest holiday for the LGBT community right after the Christopher Street Day.
In the south-western european countries it's a competition between Italy, France and Spain (+ their associated countries) who is the most cultural music producing country.
In the eastern countries it's more a "love show to your neighbour (country)" day.
And for me? Well... sometimes, very rarely, it's proof that Hard Rock Rules, because on the rare occasions when a Hard Rock song enters the contest it usually wins.. Like Lordi from Finland with Hard Rock Hallejulah (Video Version) or this year Måneskin
Still waiting for Germany sending Rammstein to the ESC...
Do you remember the scandal about LaBrassBanda who got cheated out of the ESC by the german "Professional Jury" after getting the majority vote from the Public Vote? Which lead to sending some Discopop Clone group getting sent to Malmö to get a stunning - Drumroll - 21th (of 26) place in the contest.
I heard of ABBA way before I ever heard of Eurovision and my only temptation to watch Eurovision is in the hopes of hearing another band like ABBA on it. I still haven't watched it though. Some of the voices do sound really good though but nothing quite like ABBA's harmonizing and the way they integrated old folk music & pop music in some of their early hits. I've discovered I like early 60s pop for the same voice harmonizing reason which is great because I've not heard most of it.