eurovision note

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: armenia for the win
ii: norton NOT AT ALL AS BAD AS WOGAN hurrah (in fact fine given i hate him; and given he was doing a total "wogan script")
iii: ukraine = is this the hardcore continuum i heard so much about? the whacky moscow camerawork was (i assume) putin-ordered sabotage
iv: utterly baffled by the unanimous runawayness of norway
v: brit song also did better than should have but it was a slow year really
vi: new voting system good for professional craft earnestness; will deliver pbs-ification of eurovision
vii: eurovision-as-carmodian-space news... i thought very little, except maybe continued rise of small, under-regarded nations (armenia, moldova) (were they even in any previous final? moldova is the smallest and poorest country in europe, i believe, and just returned an actual old-skool communism-for-communists party to govt by free and fair election)

Comments

[koganbot]

vi: new voting system good for professional craft earnestness; will deliver pbs-ification of eurovision

How so? PBS isn't mere "worthiness," it's also "alternative to the mainstream" and can even be "subversive" in its "worthiness." So "legitimate" songwriting and "quality" singing and staging aren't necessarily PBS, any more than American Idol and X Factor are PBS. For PBS, think Death Cab For Cutie, not Streisand.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i was thinking of "rendered lame in the context of our appreciation" really i suppose -- the competition has been chaotically wide open for years, with no one having a consistent bead on what it;s for, what;s going to happen, what the audience wants to happens, and etc: now that it has a professionalised focus, i think limits are being drawn andi think the result (long term) is going to be a smallening of possibility, x y and z all ruled out not because someone has said "x y and z"are ruled out explicitly, but because such and such a panel is worried about a, b and c being too much the focus

on the way to pbs it may actually produce something amazing