Melodifestivalen

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Sir Terence of Wogan, on the radio just now:

'Pop music's an anglophone thing. In French or Finnish, it's just not right...'

O RLY? Can you judge Eurovision for anything here? Does all English music sound like Canal Street hi-NRG then? Or is it because the only European music 'we' - 'we' being yr Radio 2, maybe Radio 1 audience - hear is in English, save dancehall shows which I guess are already targeted at a patois-speaking audience, radio-wise. But like I said earlier, I'm musically rusty, and probably don't listen to enough non-English pop save 'Initial BB' and Jacques Dutronc.

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Wogan gaffe

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I noticed yesterday that the BBC basically blamed Tezza for announcing the wrong winner on Making Your Mind Up, issuing a statement to say that the correct winner had been piped to his earpiece. He seems to have taken his role as 'curmudgeon' to extremes this year, if his point then was that Scooch were rubbish, and now that everyone else is rubbish. How yawnsome. Perhaps he is angling to be pensioned off.

Re: Wogan gaffe

[mippy.livejournal.com]

It's his schtick, though, isn't it, to be enormously cynical about the contenders.

Re: Wogan gaffe

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

He's always been cynical about it, but in the past he occasionally seemed to genuinely like at least some of them. He now tends to be cynical about all of the entries, which makes his commentary tedious to say the least if you have any interest in the contest for anything other than 'ironic' reasons.

Re: Wogan gaffe

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

He's been getting increasingly annoying even though I can't really imagine it without him. His constant banging on about the bloc votes for instance - YES WE GET IT TERRY. I do find it endearing how his "tips" are always such dreadful no-hopers: "Keep an eye out for this lot" he says of what turns out to be an atrocious Maltese ballad sung by a human yak.

Re: Wogan gaffe

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's always the maltese one as well innit. it's like he's some sort of GARY NEVILLE (http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:LttAaJ8kYFIJ:www.maltatourismauthority.com/uploads/483/427/GaryNevillePR_amendedbyAirMalta.doc+gary+neville+malta&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5)...