Every now and then, comes a day that a lot of people will be
commenting about: Christmas, elections, April’s Fool, the latest Spielberg
movie release, World Cup Final, prince William’s wedding. And then, of course,
the Eurovision Song Contest. The week leading to the grand final of this amazing event (please do not excuse
my sarcasm) is highlighted with video-clips, comments, “good lucks”, anxiety and
ridicules of “rival” countries’ songs posted all over facebook walls. On the
night of the grand final of this amazing event, it is advised to avoid facebook at all costs, to
prevent vomit spillage all over your computer.
So this circus that calls itself “Eurovision Song Contest”
is anything else but what the title suggests. Let’s begin with the word “song”.
Bad-written melodies and lyrics, mediocre singers, ridiculous outfits and dance
moves, all compose songs which will be forgotten by tomorrow – or in a few
weeks’ time maximum. At least, I have some appreciation for songs performed in
the country’s native language, with traces of traditional music in the tune. As
the years progress though, most of the songs sound more and more similar to
each other – or more and more ridiculous than their precedes.
Which brings us to the word “Eurovision” and I will only say
this thing: On the verge of the Euro collapsing, the whole European and Global
economies going to shambles, people losing their jobs and incomes or even
unable to find one to begin with, how can these countries – with debts rising faster
than Berlusconi’s phallus in front of a naked chick – afford to host, organise
and participate in this ridiculous contest?
Ah, contest. Here is the last of the three magical words.
This contest is so much guided and manipulated by political scenarios and
fake-patriotic bravados, that whatever the true, pure purpose of this
competition was, it is now lost forever. Its essence is gone and there is no
one able to retrieve it. And every year, the whole story is repeated, with
people cheering or booing the same countries, investing their time and emotions
in a cause that is no longer a celebration of music but a theatrical parody of
our world’s true colours.
