Eurovision has always been an unashamed pleasure of mine.
I grew up assuming Ireland would always win or come in the top 3.
Whats interesting is how bland we’ve been since our last win in 96′. The Father Ted conspiracy of it being too expensive to host is one of the few conspiracy theories I can buy into. Aside from Mickey Joe and the euro-popular Jedward, we’ve sent utter shite year on year.
Dustin the Turkey was avant garde but looking at the quality of 2008 across the board it’s no wonder that Terry Wogan decided that would be his last year doing it as it had gone beyond parody.
My mother cursed the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Velvet Revolution, and the Soviet Union only because they created more countries to compete.
I think the rule change that allowed countries to sing in any language they want was the thing that shafted us thr most though. English is the Lingua Franca of Europe and that meant us and the UK (and Malta I guess) had a near monopoly on songs that the majority could understand. When that changed everyone was on equal footing again.
Either way, Eurovision is a load of cringy shite but I love it dearly (and still can’t see Ireland winning anytime in the near future).
Yer man is dreary as fuck anyway.
Yer wan is generic Eurovision.
Please tell me the songs are written by Irish people.
Last few years we’ve been getting songs written by people from Sweden I believe.
Obviously the swedes no pop but we’re gonna lose anyway. Might as well lose with our own writers.
They’re both shite. I’d take Rachel’s over Brendan’s though. Hopefully there’s something better in the other 4 options lol
Hers sound like the stuff of Eurovision, and that’s by no means complementary!
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Eurovision has always been an unashamed pleasure of mine.
I grew up assuming Ireland would always win or come in the top 3.
Whats interesting is how bland we’ve been since our last win in 96′. The Father Ted conspiracy of it being too expensive to host is one of the few conspiracy theories I can buy into. Aside from Mickey Joe and the euro-popular Jedward, we’ve sent utter shite year on year.
Dustin the Turkey was avant garde but looking at the quality of 2008 across the board it’s no wonder that Terry Wogan decided that would be his last year doing it as it had gone beyond parody.
My mother cursed the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Velvet Revolution, and the Soviet Union only because they created more countries to compete.
I think the rule change that allowed countries to sing in any language they want was the thing that shafted us thr most though. English is the Lingua Franca of Europe and that meant us and the UK (and Malta I guess) had a near monopoly on songs that the majority could understand. When that changed everyone was on equal footing again.
Either way, Eurovision is a load of cringy shite but I love it dearly (and still can’t see Ireland winning anytime in the near future).
Yer man is dreary as fuck anyway.
Yer wan is generic Eurovision.
Please tell me the songs are written by Irish people.
Last few years we’ve been getting songs written by people from Sweden I believe.
Obviously the swedes no pop but we’re gonna lose anyway. Might as well lose with our own writers.
They’re both shite. I’d take Rachel’s over Brendan’s though. Hopefully there’s something better in the other 4 options lol
Hers sound like the stuff of Eurovision, and that’s by no means complementary!
His is utterly fucking dire
PLAY JA JA DING DONG!!