Eurovision 2006: Nott? Ohhh Yes

[dreiser]

I've made it sadly plain I worship bad pop music and I have a long running obsession with Eurovision. I have ever since I stumbled upon it when I was sixteen and I would LOVE to actually go and see the contest live someday. But with someone who actually wants to go with me. lol. I don't care if it's a friend or a gf. When it comes to something as goofy and over the top as Eurovision I really only want to go there with someone who will truly worship and revel in the hilarity of the event with me. Not someone who will sort of roll their eyes and put up with my lame love of it because I amuse them or something. The love of Eurovision must be pure if they are to join me on this epic musical journey!

Why the fuck am I babbling about this? I won't have nowhere enough money to attempt doing this for probably at least another seven years. Whatever. It's fun to babble. It's what I do.


Anyway. I'm glued to the Eurovision Today website, I'll link it later, and watching all the various semifinalists that are showing up. My early favorite is Silvia Nott who is an actress/comedian from Iceland. A lot of people are peeved about her because she's basically parodying the typical Eurovision song entry styles. The parody entries don't tend to do well in terms of winning the overall contest but I must admit I find them really amusing. Plus Silvia is just unbearably adorable in the performance of her song Til Hamingju Ísland. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCmIBIRqOU&search=eurovision

If you want to see the site I'm glued to lately this is the link:

http://www.esctoday.com/

You can register on the site for free and if you do that you get access to a lot of exclusive and cool stuff. The only bummer about it is I had to lie about what country I'm from because United States isn't an option on the drop down list. Normally I would just not put anything but filling out what country you're from is a requirement of opening up an account. So what country is Nic now from? I come from France! Hah. No, I didn't do that because I carry a perverse torch for that stupid SNL sketch. My mother's side of the family is almost entirely French, although an Italian snuck his way in there, and I've gone to visit family there a few times. I figured that was as close as I could get.

Though part of me wanted to say I was from Estonia just because.

For the random ass sake of it I'm now going to link a really fucking high quality video of Eurovision 2004 winner Ruslana and her semi-live performance of Wild Dances. It's not from the actual contest but it's hella cool. And please, don't even try to tell me it's not hella cool. She's deliciously dressed up like Xena: Pop Music Warrior Princess, it has a super dramatic tension filled intro, fucking crazy fast cut aways, warriors who appear to be having a grand old time despite being consumed in battle, and Ruslana flashing her 1,000 watt smiles constantly. This is quality, I tell you! lol. Quality!

Wild Dances Video by Ruslana:

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ETNX21TB1LA91H2JTE8DL2YMO

Comments

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

While I would love it if we did something like this in the USA it seems almost blasphemous for us to attempt our own version of Eurovision. But what I would really LOVE is for us to just join the fucking contest and show the ignorant American Idol worshippers what a real music contest on an epic level looks like. And as much as I love my country I would get perverse pleasure out of the fact that the first year we competed we would most likely get our asses kicked royally which would take wind out of the sails of a lot of mindlessly Pro-American/Con-Anyone Else retards we have populating this country. lol. I know. I'm bad.

I forgot all about Katrina and The Waves and I have no idea how since I love Futurama and the main character on it, Fry, has this hilarious habit of randomly singing Walking On Sunshine. I love the parody songs but they never really get close to winning the whole thing, do they? I'm not sure but I'm fairly positive there hasn't been a song parody performance that ends up in the top ten by the end of the contest. Hmm.

[narcolepsy-slds.livejournal.com]

I just know that participants from my country are only able to make it into the top then when they do parodies:
1998 and 2000 respectively. Which is somehow ironic considering how incredibly funny Germans are, I mean, the first thing that comes to mind when you her Germany is their humour.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

Cool. I wasn't for sure if any of the parody songs managed to get very far in the contest so it's nice to know that Germany actually gets somewhere with those because I really do have a fondness for the goofy parody entries. Probably because even though it's a parody they have this weird reverence for the material and the contest. Maybe it's better to call them hilarious tribute entries? lol. That works.

As far as Germans not being known for humor I have a little story that somewhat relates. Mostly because Germans are also not known for being altruistic and accepting people for their differences. My ex-gf from high school went to Germany over the summer for an exchange program and we were both really out and open in high school as lesbians and lesbians dating each other. But anyway. We talked fairly often on the phone, despite the charges, when she was there as well as wrote each other emails several times a day and she was forever going on about how accepting everyone was that she was gay and I was like, "What does that mean? No one treats you bad here."

She basically explained that while no one personally treats her badly for being gay we have a large population who are phobic assholes but although she has only been in Germany for a short time she doesn't get that vibe from the population. I was surprised at her enthusiasm in praising Germans and German culture but hey! It was cool to hear.