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.

Comments

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.