I don't get this Conchita hype, and I'm an Austrian. So to win you need to:
* Dress as the opposite sex to cater to a minority
* Have a mediocre song
Whatever happened with good music? Has everyone and everything to be/have a political statement nowadays?
I usually watch the Eurovision, even though it's just a hopeless attempt at trying to create an European identity that has absolutely nothing to do about music, culture or identity but everthing about politics and making political/socially correct statements. Still, I'm European (yea I'm a hippocrit..)
That said, this year I only watched the semi-finals, not the final itself but they really outdid themselves again.. Austria was always going to win for the simple reason that he portraits himself as part of a, still widely, unaccepted lifestyle. Combined with the renewed rise of Russia, letting him win is nothing more than a politically correct statement and a pathetic attemt to upset Putin.
The whole thing has nothing to do with music. The best singer was that guy from Norway, no doubt about that. We came in second (The Netherlands) and still can't believe that with that idiotic song. And countries like Israel, Ireland, Montenegro and Belgium had good songs/singers but most didn't even make it to the final. Instead we get UK, France, Spain and Italy who are automatically placed with just about the worst songs there were and countries like Poland, Russia, Belarus and Greece who don't even bother with a song.
Not like cross-dressing is a new thing. One of the best rock singers of the 80s, Pete Burns is a bisexual cross dresser and his voice is absolutely amazing.
It's not even something new on Eurovision but it does come at a time when people finally come to accept it and want to be popular by accepting it. Plus it is Europe's way to ****** off Putin since they refuse to take any real actions against Russia..
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Whatever happened with good music?
>Eurovision
>good music
I'm going to be singing in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I will be singing as The Necromancer representing The People's Chaotic Republic of The Internet.
I hope you love my song called "Happy 60th Anniversary".
It's going to be awesome!
Good luck to all participants.
I'm excited to hear Australia in Austria!
Go Guy Sebastian!
I'm also looking forward to UK.
Hopefully we won't be in the bottom five this year.
First time that I liked my own country's entry (UK). 
I liked the Italian song this year but I think Serbia or Russia will win.
Voted Italy.
Edit: I also think there were too many ballads this year.
I'm also looking forward to UK.
Hopefully we won't be in the bottom five this year.
- Oh, but UK will!
Why the hope? It's not like it's not totally obvious that it's intentional. BBC is not taking any chances at all. They will not host the next event. Personally, I think they overdid it.
(I kinda liked Estonia, but they'll never win).
I laugh to keep from crying
I'm Austrian and I can't wait till this hyped event is finally over. Not only is the music complete and utter conformist pop garbage as usual, no, the artists are morons too. Nowadays if you want to hear good music and talent you have to look far beyond television and popular radio broadcasts.
Nowadays if you want to hear good music and talent you have to look far beyond television and popular radio broadcasts.
All you need is artists who mash up genres for the lulz.
Like reggae music with Elvis impersonator vocals making Led Zeppelin covers. It exists.
I'm also looking forward to UK.
Hopefully we won't be in the bottom five this year.
Remember how good the 90's were when the UK were nearly always in the top five?
Then the millennium happened and the (voting) machines turned on us...
That has to be the explanation! Otherwise, we're left with the very real possibility that the rest of Europe believes the point of this music contest is not to come up with a good song, but to recreate the soundtrack and outfits from extremly bad 70's porno or any Tarantino film?
I mean, Europe not liking the UK probably has something to do with it too... but my money's still on it mostly being either the voting machines rebelling or the porno tribute thing? Gotta be?
Remember how good the 90's were when the UK were nearly always in the top five?
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I mean, Europe not liking the UK probably has something to do with it too... but my money's still on it mostly being either the voting machines rebelling or the porno tribute thing? Gotta be?
Please, 
UK is sending songs and artists which have as much chance as the famous snowball in hell. There's no mystery or conspiracy.
That's what's happening. Why is another question? Apparently some decision makers thinks it's not worthwhile to take ESC seriously.
The British music industry is not dead, but ESC is dead to them. They obviously don't want to <shrugs>. Maybe they think it would hurt their Amy Winehouse sales? Maybe it's an ideological question? Brainwashed by Punk and Indie-Pop? ESC commercial pop is beneath them?
Meanwhile, the Swedish music industry provides any country who wants it with songs (this year Russia and Azerbaijan in addition to Sweden itself), so they're spreading their bets. And I have this suspicion that they're not really viewing having to host ESC yet again as a financial burden. Which I suspect BBC do.
Could be that the UK music scene kinda went off commerical pop after the 90's? Not that pop is bad music, just that the tastes changed? Pop is only starting to really come back around again in the UK, it's part of why boy-bands are back off the endangered list?
I think the BBC probably don't want to host the ESC, while they're not scrimping for some cash, they're still a non-profit organisation and they had to sell off Television Centre a while back because it became too costly to run stuff from there? And with Rockstar apparently suing them cause they were going to do a docu-drama about the origins of the GTA series, can't rule out that the UK music industry is deliberately self-sabotaging themselves?
Or we just have no-one willing to go that we can send, hence why we were forced to unfreeze Engelbert Humperdink a couple years ago?
A year on and they still had to make a thing over that bearded man dressed as a woman and the gay rights in Russia. My eyes nearly got stuck in the back of my head from all the eye-rolling I did.
But we all know this "song contest" is political anyway, always has been.
Yeah considering a few years previosly russia had TaTu representing them (Yeah everyone and there mum. knows they were straight.)
we need more mixed variety of music this is how Lordi wone and i loved Lordi even more ater that.
Amy chance of Skindred playing for the UK?
A year on and they still had to make a thing over that bearded man dressed as a woman and the gay rights in Russia.
These are the issues the world needs to be hammered with, like we don't have actual problems.
It's like worrying because no one has fingernails made of anthrax, while there's people dying, starving and suffering due to real matters.
Only caught two acts this year. Sweden (which was really well done and glad they won with that) and our entry (the UK was was so awful I had to go out the room )
Its always entertaining, even if people don't care to admit it. 
Before he stopped doing it a few years ago, I used to enjoy Terry Wogan's passive-aggressive commentary;
"Who knows what hellish future lies ahead of us? Well, I do... I've seen rehearsals."
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