Eurovision Song Contest

[CJ01]

So it looks like Turkey´s won this year but will there ever be another success like ABBA for instance which will result from this whole affair?

Did actually anyone from this board make a vote ( I ceratainly didn´t)?
CJ

[franki]

Other then the HOT dancers I didn\'t think the turkish performance was very special...

[CJ01]

I didn´t even watch the show, I´ve just been following the end rsults thing just now. What did you think about the dutch and the german performances franki? ( I didn´t see those either btw)

I was kind of impressed that the highest votes Germany got was from sweden though. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[franki]

I only saw the turks (at the end). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[CJ01]

I didn´t watch that part either /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

CJ

[CJ01]

PS, I guess mentioneing ABBA only isn´t totally fair. There are a few songs from this event that caught on and that really were of good quality, I know of two german songs alone that ended up as being classics and guess what - they´re even in original language too (gasp). But I don´t know about other songs/countries - not counting Katrina&the waves for GB of course. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

franki, did any dutch euro song ever make it kind of big in Holland? The type that people know instantly and recognize etc?

[franki]

Whew, I believe so, but that was more in the seventies and eighties and before my time. The difference between then and now is that now there are all kinds of clowns (Stefan Raab) that compete and in the past they maybe took it more seriously.....

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[CptKipling]

I managed to switch on just in time for the UK\'s group, then i switched off after, ooooh...5 seconds.

[seadove]

I watched, but in a drouzy condition.Yes I liked Turkey\'s song.

I thought they would win and I was right.

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[CJ01]

I didn´t see the UK but they didn´t get any votes hardly at all. Who performed it, anyone I might know?

[CJ01]

franki, I think you got a good point there. But Germany last year I think had no clown. I mean a blind singer though I didn´t hear the song.

Clowns or not, the music industry, or should I say the standard of the majority of so called modern pop music has gone seriously downhill. The people `in charge´ just haven´t got a f*cking clue in my (not so humble) opinion.
CJ