1997 Eurovision Song Contest Puns

I'm actually a long time fan of the ESC so seeing this made me extremely excited!
Now I'm curious what your thoughts are about it (as I don't expect too many ESC fans in this sub).

You can watch their announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LSngVNBw8

Everyone already got the news that Eskimo Callboy wants to represent Germany in Eurovision 2022, but meanwhile the Czech metalcore outfit Skywalker actually qualified for the national finals! Wouldn't it be sick to see them both (or one of them at the very least)?

Luckily, the voting is international, so the boys need all the help they can get. You can drop a vote once per e-mail address here: https://escz2022.com/

The song is great by the way, check (Czech?) out the music video and live performance.

Hey guys :) My boyfriend and I want to watch old ESC shows. We'll watch the show from 2008 later today and thought it would be fun to do a little fan-vote :) So guys your points please 🥰 Just fill in:

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I will add our personal points to yours and post the result if you're interested 😊 Cheers and thanks for your attention 🥰

This may be the best kept secret I’ve ever had.

So, as many die hard Eurovision fans know, the full television broadcast of the 1964 contest is lost (presumably forever) and there have only been short glimpses of video footage from the contest.

I have spent months contacting each country’s broadcasting companies that aired the contest back in 1964 and asked if they had any footage remaining in their archives. Most of the companies responded with no luck, however a few months ago I was able to purchase a copy of a 3 minute long video of the actual TV broadcast from Finland.

The footage contains Gigliola Cinquetti being presented as the winner, the host introducing the award presenter, a shot of the Grand Prix medal, a shot of the audience, and about a minute and a half of Gigliola singing.

The issue I have is that after contacting Danmark Radio, I am not able to upload the footage to YouTube due to rights issues. This is something I really want the ESC community to see, but I do not know how this can be done.

I personally feel like an Entente+Reichspakt victory would be the best result for the ESC being created

edit: Sorry I botched the title. The question was supposed to be: Was there any outrage across the French populace to a song celebrating the fall of Napoleon winning a contest intended to promote European unity?

I just watched the movie for the first time, and am honestly shocked. This movie was an absolute masterpiece and is much better than ratings show. I will say that you can not go into it thinking of it as a comedy, because it is not a comedy. It is a movie with comedic tones. If you watch the move with this mindset, it plays as a charming, heartwarming, and truly masterful work of art.

Good evening Europe! Welcome to the Grand Final of the Junior Eurovision Fantasy Song Contest 2021, held here in Berlin! We wish everyone the best of luck, and I ask the winner to please PM me after they have seen this.

Good luck!

Viel Glück!

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I don't know what inspired me to make this post, but I kept thinking about this today. It's no secret that France was one of the most successful countries in the early days of the contest. They won five times in the contest's first 22 years, the most of any country at that time. But since their last win in 1977, France has entered a 45 year drought, the second longest of any country in the contest (only Spain, who last won in 1969, has gone longer). Just last year, however, France put up their best finish in years, taking second place with Barbara Pravi's "Voila". Whatever happened to France? Why weren't they able to maintain their Eurovision supremacy? Was 1980 really the turning point that some people think it is? And does France have a win in their future? I don't have the answers to all these questions, but to attempt to give us an idea, we need to look at France's history in the contest.

Eurovision began in 1956, a time when the French language held more sway across Europe and the world than English did. English was only just beginning to establish itself as the new "Lingua Franca". Eurovision also began as a very strict and serious contest. It was an event where people would dress up in suits, sit in rows of seats, and listen to an orchestra. It was seen as a place for refined music. Not surprisingly, the "French Ballad" dominated the early contests. France themselves won the contest three times in six years with the songs "Dors mon amour", "Tom Pilibi", and "Un premier amour", all of which could be described as ballads. Even when France themselves did not win, often another French-speaking country won with a ballad, such as Lys Assia with "Refrain" for Switzerland in 1956 or Jean-Claude Pascal with "Nous les amoureux" for Luxembourg in 1961. Even when another country, such as Netherlands or Italy, won in their own language, it was done in the style of the French ballad.

Most people mark the end of the French ballad's supremacy to be 1965. That was the year that Luxembourg won with the song "Poupee de cire, Poupee de son". It was performed by budding superstar France Gall and written by the genius songwriter Serge Gainsb

The Galaxie Amnéville in Metz! We are excited to have you there! Sign ups will open on an undetermined date in the near future. Happy new year!

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Eurovision Song Contest is amazing for me and helps me so well. It can really calm me down and when I feel at my lowest, watching ESC is the only thing I can manage doing. Yesterday evening I was feeling really unwell and agitated, but then I put on the Grand Final 2015 and it soothed me. I don't know what it is about ESC, it's pure magic.

r/AmericanSongContest exists for all of your ASC questions, discussions, and info!

Enjoy!

Hello Armenia! :) Congratulations on winning Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021, you really deserved it :)

Greetings from Poland

SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Junior Eurovision Fantasy Song Contest (JEFSC) 2021. I am aware of the late nature of this contest's organisation, and as such, the rules will be slightly more lenient than it will be in future years.

This year's contest will be held in Berlin, and we are very exited to see you there!

The Grand Final will be held on the 29^(th) of December, and voting will begin on the 15^(th) of December.

Rules for JEFSC 2021

• Songs must be at least 75% in an official language, recognised minority language, or a dialect of either from the country they represent. There may be exemptions, a good example of what would be permitted is Georgia 2008, as these are classed as sounds, and not words.
• Songs have a maximum running time of 4:00. This includes any parts pre-song.
• Songs may not be purely instrumental.
• The deadline for submitting a song is the 14^(th) of December. In normal years, the deadline would be further before the show, however due to the last minute nature of this show it has been extended to ensure there is enough time.
• The song must have been released after 1^(st) of March, 2021.
• Singers must be 16 years or younger.

Preferences

• It is preferred, but not mandatory, for the song to be of a live performance video.

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FINALE!

Dove guardare:

Televisione: Rai1 (attenzione che non è più Rai4 come le altre serate)

Streaming con commento in italiano: RaiPlay (disponibile anche l'audio originale).

Streaming ufficiale con commento in inglese: YouTube

Radio: Rai Radio 2

Quando inizia:

La diretta Rai con commento italiano inizia alle 20:35, dopo il telegiornale.

Lo streaming ufficiale invece partirà alle 21.

Per l'Italia gareggiano i Maneskin, con lo stesso brano vincitore di Sanremo 2021: Zitti e Buoni.

Quella di stasera sarà la loro prima esibizione completa di questa edizione, in quanto rappsesentando uno dei paesi "big" sono entrati direttamente in finale.

Quando finisce:

La trasmissione dovrebbe finire poco prima dell'una di notte (dilettanti).

CLASSIFICA FINALE

1. ITALIA: Måneskin con 'Zitti e Buoni' - 524 punti (di cui 318 dal televoto)
2. Francia: Barbara Pravi con 'Voilà' - 499 punti (di cui 251 dal televoto)
3. Svizzera: Gjon’s Tears con 'Tout l'univers' - 432 punti
4. Islanda: Daði og Gagnamagnið con '10 Years' - 378 punti
5. Ucraina: Go_A con 'Shum' - 364 punti
6. Finlandia: Blind channel con 'Dark side' - 301 punti
7. Malta: Destiny con 'Je me casse' - 255 punti
8. Lituania: The Roop con 'Discoteque' - 220 punti
9. Russia: Manizha con 'Russian Woman' - 204 punti
10. Grecia: Stefanìa con 'Last dance' - 170 punti
11. Bulgaria: Victoria con 'Growing Up Is Getting Old' - 170 punti
12. Portogallo: The black mamba con 'Love Is On My Side' - 153 punti
13. Moldavia: Natalia Gordienko con 'Sugar' - 115 punti
14. Svezia: Tusse con 'Voices' - 109 punti
15. Serbia: Hurricane con 'Loco loco' - 102 punti
16. Cipro: Elena Tsagrinou con 'El diablo' - 94 punti
17. Israele: Eden Alene con 'Set Me Free' - 93 punti
18. Norvegia: Tix con 'Fallen Angel' - 75 punti
19. Belgio: Hooverphonic con 'The Wrong Place' - 74 punti
20. Azerbaigian: Efendi con 'Mata Hari' - 65 punti
21. Albania: Anxhela Peristeri con 'Karma' - 57 punti
22. San Marino: Senhit con 'Adrenalina' - 50 punti
23. Paesi Bassi: Jeangu Macrooy con 'Birth Of A New Age' - 11 punti
24. Spagna: Blas Cantò con 'Voy A Quedarme' - 6 punti
25. Germania: Jendrik con 'I Don’t Feel Hate' - 3 punti
26. Regno Unito: James Newman con 'Embers' - 0 punti*

^(*No, non è un errore. Zero punti dalle giurie nazionali e zero punti al televoto. Anche altri brani hanno

Welcome, welcome to Eurovision 2021! We're as excited as ever for this year's competition and hope we all have fun in the live thread.

Drinks and snacks ready? Friends and family ready? Let's get cracking.

Running order below. The chance to win is a combination of all bookies odds put into a percentage which was found here.

All kicks off at 8pm on BBC 1 here in the UK!

#Bangers Not Ballads!

#RUNNING ORDER

I mean basically a central portal for content from RTÉ, RUV, RAI, ARD etc. Like iPlayer for all the broadcasters combined.

RTÉ Player is AWFUL so having a centralised system would be a huge improvement. And Netflix has already shown people will watch stuff with subtitles.

And they can call it "Eurovision", that's not just the name of the song contest.

Everyone's probably already got the news that the partycore legends Eskimo Callboy want to represent Germany in Eurovision 2022, but meanwhile the Czech post-hardcore/melodic hardcore/metalcore outfit Skywalker actually qualified for the national finals! Wouldn't it be sick to see them both (or one of them at the very least)?

Luckily, the voting is international, so the boys need all the help they can get. You can drop a vote once per e-mail address here: https://escz2022.com/

The song is great by the way, check (Czech?) out the music video and live performance.