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talkpoliticsHi all! I hope I am allowed to initiate the Friday lols thread? =)
As some of you may know, the Eurovision song contest is underway this week (first semi-final on Tuesday, second semi-final on Thursday and the final will be on Saturday). This reminds me that in the winter of 2010 the readers of the Eurovision website voted for their least favourite Eurovision songs ever. So here is the entire list of the worst of the worst Eurotrash songs! Before listening to the songs I advise you to have aspirin or if needed alcoholic beverages at hand to ease the pain...
You have been warned!
#1: Piero and the Music Stars – Celebrate
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The readers think that Piero and his music stars are responsible for the worst entry in Eurovision history. The song was plain children’s pop music with idiotic lyrics like “Clap your hands, Celebrate, have a good time” and maybe the worst vocal performance Eurovision has ever seen. At the end Piero was so out of breath that the last part of the songs was more moaning and panting than singing. 32 countries voted in the semi-final and not one thought this song was worthy of a single point. Switzerland thus became the first country to come last without a single point in a semi-final.
#2: PingPong – Happy song
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We continue with the silver medal which goes to Israel. In 2000 they were represented by the pop quartet Ping Pong. The song lyrics mentioned a friend from Damascus who dates an Israeli girl. The band was dis-endorsed by the Israel Broadcasting Authority after waving the flag of Syria during the rehearsal and the video-clip of the song. They refused to back down for the performance in the final and pulled the flag out live, as planned, all to encourage the Israeli-Syrian peace Ehud Barak was negotiating at the time. They also visited a Syrian community center in Stockholm, where the Eurovision was held. Apart from the political message which was undoubtedly pretty noble, the song was a total mess and one of the worst examples of Europop.
#3: Jemini – Cry baby
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Here's the bronze medal: And once more (as it happens so often!) the “honour” goes to the UK. In 2003 they sent a male/female pop duo by the name of “Jemini” which presented the most off-key performance of the last decade (probably) and were rewarded with a last place and Nil points. The Eurovision failure prompted a great deal of mirth and consternation in the British media. Jemini admitted that their performance was off-key, and claimed they were unable to hear the backing track due to a technical fault. Chris claimed that Terry Wogan had warned them before the contest that they would not get any points due to the Iraq War.
#4: Josh Dubovie – That sounds good to me
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This is fairly recent - from last year. And again it’s the UK! The mixture for 2010 seemed to promise success: A famous composer with tons of hits and a young motivated performer (that’s what worked for the UK in 2009 with Jade and Andrew Loyd Webber). Unfortunately Pete Waterman’s song sounded too 80s, the lyrics were horrific (I bring the sunshine, you bring the good times) and Josh Dubovie was not good enough a performer to make the audience forget about the bad song. The result: The downfall of a once glimmering Eurovision nation (last place) and 4th on the Worst Eurovision Songs Ever!
#5: Scooch – Flying the flag
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The bubble gum pop which is so typical for Eurotrashvision is here represented by Scooch, again from the UK (2007). Their performance of “Flying the flag” included airplane seats, typical stewardess moves and some sexual allusion. At the end of the evening Scooch finished 23rd of 24 with 19 points; 7 points from Ireland and the maximum 12 points from Malta. This was the first time since 2002 that a UK Eurovision entrant had received the maximum 12 points in the competition from anyone. Malta later stated that the 12 points was a protest at how many countries in Eurovision voted for their neighbours. I guess some are too unlucky to have too few neighbours. LOL.
#6: Dustin the Turkey – Irlande Douze Points
Was this Ireland’s revenge for their bad placings in the new millennium? Probably! Because Dustin’s entry, “Irelande Douze Pointe”, is a mock entry, making fun of the Eurovision Song Contest, with lyrics such as “Drag acts and bad acts and Terry Wogan’s wig”. The title of the song also mocks the contest, mimicking the famous phrase from Eurovision “douze points”.
#7: Gipsy.cz – Aven Romale and Tereza Kerndlová – Have some fun
The Czech Republic only sent 3 songs to Eurovision to date, one of them got nil points and 2 of them are in our Worst Eurovision Songs list. Quite the unachievement, eh? In 2009 a man in a red superman suit with a cape (seriously) was the third entry by the Czech Republic and will probably be their last for a while. Personally I think the song is quite ok, but maybe the performance was just a little too eccentric.
#8: Krassimir Avramov – Illusion
In 2009 Bulgaria sent Krassimir Avramov to Moscow which caused a major controversy in Bulgaria and lead to ringing ears all over Europe. In Medieval costumes Avramov and his dancers and “singers” tried to convince the juries and the public. Their singing was absolutely atrocious screaming. Sorry,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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#9: Alf Poier – Weil der Mensch zählt
In 2003 he was the biggest favourite… for last place. He proved his critics wrong! Alf Poier’s 6th place is the best result Austria has achieved in the last 22 years! His bizarre song starts as a kind of children’s song about animals (the words are quite “elaborate” tough) and turns into a hard rock song during the chorus. The dance moves were just as remarkable as the age difference between his two backing singers. During the contest Poier said his song was supposed to promote individualism in a the sea of mainstream that the Eurovision Song Contest is.
#10: Rodolfo Chikilikuatre – Baila el Chiki-Chiki
Honestly, IMO the worst song on Eurovision for the last decade. It is a parody of reggaeton music and has a joke reference to the world-famous ¿Por qué no te callas? incident. Some Eurovision fans accused this song of containing political content, which is prohibited in the Eurovision contest. An example of the song’s political content would be “Lo baila Rajoy, lo baila Hugo Chávez, lo baila Zapatero, mi amor ya tú sabes.” (“Rajoy dances it, Hugo Chávez dances it, Zapatero dances it; my love, you already know it”). Supporters of the song claimed that this is only a mention of Spanish political figures, and doesn’t constitute political content. In any case, the most controversial lines were changed to fit the rules after the Spanish national final.
#11: Verka Serduchka – Dancing lasha tumbai
Obviously quite controversial a choice for 11th. Some people loved it and others apparently hate it in their guts. A year after the Finnish monster-band Lordi won the competition nobody thought the winner could get any more eccentric, but Verka Serduchka came quite close the year after in Helsinki. Actually the drag character of Ukrainian comedian and dance pop singer finished 2nd in the contest.
#12: Remedios Amaya – Quién maneja mi barca (1983)
#13: Kreisiraadio – Leto svet
#14: No Angels – Disappear (2008)
#15: Peter Nalitch and Friends – Lost and Forgotten
Peter Nalitch became famous in Russia after the publication of the clip of his song “Gitar” on YouTube (where he makes fun of himself with broken English lyrics and dubious film editing qualities). In about three years, more than 4,000,000 people have watched the video. In Eurovision he received many points from neighbouring countries but not from Western, Northern and Southern Europe. Apparently this kind of humour is inherently Russian =)
After all this, I hope you are still alive and able to add your lols!
As some of you may know, the Eurovision song contest is underway this week (first semi-final on Tuesday, second semi-final on Thursday and the final will be on Saturday). This reminds me that in the winter of 2010 the readers of the Eurovision website voted for their least favourite Eurovision songs ever. So here is the entire list of the worst of the worst Eurotrash songs! Before listening to the songs I advise you to have aspirin or if needed alcoholic beverages at hand to ease the pain...
You have been warned!
#1: Piero and the Music Stars – Celebrate
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The readers think that Piero and his music stars are responsible for the worst entry in Eurovision history. The song was plain children’s pop music with idiotic lyrics like “Clap your hands, Celebrate, have a good time” and maybe the worst vocal performance Eurovision has ever seen. At the end Piero was so out of breath that the last part of the songs was more moaning and panting than singing. 32 countries voted in the semi-final and not one thought this song was worthy of a single point. Switzerland thus became the first country to come last without a single point in a semi-final.
#2: PingPong – Happy song
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We continue with the silver medal which goes to Israel. In 2000 they were represented by the pop quartet Ping Pong. The song lyrics mentioned a friend from Damascus who dates an Israeli girl. The band was dis-endorsed by the Israel Broadcasting Authority after waving the flag of Syria during the rehearsal and the video-clip of the song. They refused to back down for the performance in the final and pulled the flag out live, as planned, all to encourage the Israeli-Syrian peace Ehud Barak was negotiating at the time. They also visited a Syrian community center in Stockholm, where the Eurovision was held. Apart from the political message which was undoubtedly pretty noble, the song was a total mess and one of the worst examples of Europop.
#3: Jemini – Cry baby
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Here's the bronze medal: And once more (as it happens so often!) the “honour” goes to the UK. In 2003 they sent a male/female pop duo by the name of “Jemini” which presented the most off-key performance of the last decade (probably) and were rewarded with a last place and Nil points. The Eurovision failure prompted a great deal of mirth and consternation in the British media. Jemini admitted that their performance was off-key, and claimed they were unable to hear the backing track due to a technical fault. Chris claimed that Terry Wogan had warned them before the contest that they would not get any points due to the Iraq War.
#4: Josh Dubovie – That sounds good to me
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This is fairly recent - from last year. And again it’s the UK! The mixture for 2010 seemed to promise success: A famous composer with tons of hits and a young motivated performer (that’s what worked for the UK in 2009 with Jade and Andrew Loyd Webber). Unfortunately Pete Waterman’s song sounded too 80s, the lyrics were horrific (I bring the sunshine, you bring the good times) and Josh Dubovie was not good enough a performer to make the audience forget about the bad song. The result: The downfall of a once glimmering Eurovision nation (last place) and 4th on the Worst Eurovision Songs Ever!
#5: Scooch – Flying the flag
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The bubble gum pop which is so typical for Eurotrashvision is here represented by Scooch, again from the UK (2007). Their performance of “Flying the flag” included airplane seats, typical stewardess moves and some sexual allusion. At the end of the evening Scooch finished 23rd of 24 with 19 points; 7 points from Ireland and the maximum 12 points from Malta. This was the first time since 2002 that a UK Eurovision entrant had received the maximum 12 points in the competition from anyone. Malta later stated that the 12 points was a protest at how many countries in Eurovision voted for their neighbours. I guess some are too unlucky to have too few neighbours. LOL.
#6: Dustin the Turkey – Irlande Douze Points
Was this Ireland’s revenge for their bad placings in the new millennium? Probably! Because Dustin’s entry, “Irelande Douze Pointe”, is a mock entry, making fun of the Eurovision Song Contest, with lyrics such as “Drag acts and bad acts and Terry Wogan’s wig”. The title of the song also mocks the contest, mimicking the famous phrase from Eurovision “douze points”.
#7: Gipsy.cz – Aven Romale and Tereza Kerndlová – Have some fun
The Czech Republic only sent 3 songs to Eurovision to date, one of them got nil points and 2 of them are in our Worst Eurovision Songs list. Quite the unachievement, eh? In 2009 a man in a red superman suit with a cape (seriously) was the third entry by the Czech Republic and will probably be their last for a while. Personally I think the song is quite ok, but maybe the performance was just a little too eccentric.
#8: Krassimir Avramov – Illusion
In 2009 Bulgaria sent Krassimir Avramov to Moscow which caused a major controversy in Bulgaria and lead to ringing ears all over Europe. In Medieval costumes Avramov and his dancers and “singers” tried to convince the juries and the public. Their singing was absolutely atrocious screaming. Sorry,
htpcl .#9: Alf Poier – Weil der Mensch zählt
In 2003 he was the biggest favourite… for last place. He proved his critics wrong! Alf Poier’s 6th place is the best result Austria has achieved in the last 22 years! His bizarre song starts as a kind of children’s song about animals (the words are quite “elaborate” tough) and turns into a hard rock song during the chorus. The dance moves were just as remarkable as the age difference between his two backing singers. During the contest Poier said his song was supposed to promote individualism in a the sea of mainstream that the Eurovision Song Contest is.
#10: Rodolfo Chikilikuatre – Baila el Chiki-Chiki
Honestly, IMO the worst song on Eurovision for the last decade. It is a parody of reggaeton music and has a joke reference to the world-famous ¿Por qué no te callas? incident. Some Eurovision fans accused this song of containing political content, which is prohibited in the Eurovision contest. An example of the song’s political content would be “Lo baila Rajoy, lo baila Hugo Chávez, lo baila Zapatero, mi amor ya tú sabes.” (“Rajoy dances it, Hugo Chávez dances it, Zapatero dances it; my love, you already know it”). Supporters of the song claimed that this is only a mention of Spanish political figures, and doesn’t constitute political content. In any case, the most controversial lines were changed to fit the rules after the Spanish national final.
#11: Verka Serduchka – Dancing lasha tumbai
Obviously quite controversial a choice for 11th. Some people loved it and others apparently hate it in their guts. A year after the Finnish monster-band Lordi won the competition nobody thought the winner could get any more eccentric, but Verka Serduchka came quite close the year after in Helsinki. Actually the drag character of Ukrainian comedian and dance pop singer finished 2nd in the contest.
#12: Remedios Amaya – Quién maneja mi barca (1983)
#13: Kreisiraadio – Leto svet
#14: No Angels – Disappear (2008)
#15: Peter Nalitch and Friends – Lost and Forgotten
Peter Nalitch became famous in Russia after the publication of the clip of his song “Gitar” on YouTube (where he makes fun of himself with broken English lyrics and dubious film editing qualities). In about three years, more than 4,000,000 people have watched the video. In Eurovision he received many points from neighbouring countries but not from Western, Northern and Southern Europe. Apparently this kind of humour is inherently Russian =)
After all this, I hope you are still alive and able to add your lols!
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Date: 13/5/11 12:43 (UTC)Fun story: the next year some police raided his home in search of drug-trafficking criminals and they failed to recognize him and brought him to the floor and cuffed him. He was screaming all the way "But I'm Krassi Avramov! The Man-Voice!" and even pointed the cops to a wallpaper with his photo from Eurovision-2009, but they would have none of it. Only later he was released and he got an apology. That's how "famous" he was.
Verka Serduchka is the most awesome/terrible/magnificent/appalling piece of Euroshit I've ever heard, but at least he did it on purpose. Some others are hilarious in their sincere belief that they're doing something serious. And the funniest part is how some of the ESC organizers seriously believe that ESC in some way reflects the actual trends in modern mainstream music, whereas they couldn't be any further from the truth.
The Verka Serduchka mocks on all of that. I think his song deserves to be displayed in its full glory:
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Date: 13/5/11 12:50 (UTC)My country has been big on Eurovision. I mean it has never performed too well but Eurovision is considered as something big in Iceland. I suppose because of some sort of inferiority complex or something... We must do well, we must be noticed, period!
There are only a few exceptions from the general rule that we always send what appears to us as "cool stuff", only to see it being spanked at the contest. One of the exceptions was the angelic Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir who in 2009 stormed to 2nd place, just behind the Norwegian boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiH4BFTELME) who was the clear front-runner.
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Date: 13/5/11 13:09 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 13:06 (UTC)Still, some of my all-time faves:
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If anything, its colourful, it provides variety and its curious.
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Date: 13/5/11 13:18 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 21:27 (UTC)if these are the best...
sorry, not my cuppa tea at all
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Date: 13/5/11 21:30 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 13:16 (UTC)Miss you summer.
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Date: 14/5/11 09:48 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 14:21 (UTC)2005 entry:
http://youtu.be/RWQCgSB_lpE
2011 entry:
http://youtu.be/1aNK0L3XiYw
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When Mariah Carey heard this cover, she instantly wanted to meet this girl and make a joint album!
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Date: 13/5/11 20:20 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 14/5/11 09:49 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 14:50 (UTC)Since John Galliano is in the news again... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_34bHE8Iw&feature=related)
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Date: 13/5/11 17:41 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 19:11 (UTC)http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/12/galliano-racism-antisemitism-trial-june?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.leparisien.fr/flash-actualite-culture/le-styliste-john-galliano-juge-pour-injure-le-22-juin-12-05-2011-1446813.php
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Date: 13/5/11 19:21 (UTC)Also, according to the last link it is exactly the same weather in Paris as it is here today, 20C and sunny with cloudy patches.
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Date: 13/5/11 20:12 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 21:24 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/11 22:20 (UTC)A little barter ?
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Date: 13/5/11 22:35 (UTC)Also, why are we not LJ friends? Let's remedy that, I can practice my rusty French.
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Date: 13/5/11 22:46 (UTC)Your weekly dose of science news
Date: 13/5/11 17:21 (UTC)A data memory can hardly be any smaller: researchers working with Gerhard Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have stored quantum information in a single atom. The researchers wrote the quantum state of single photons, i.e. particles of light, into a rubidium atom and read it out again after a certain storage time. This technique can be used in principle to design powerful quantum computers and to network them with each other across large distances. ...
Physicists Create Quantum Twin Atoms (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110501183605.htm)
Objects that are well separated in space but still cannot be understood separately belong to the profoundest mysteries of quantum physics. Pairs of photons are prominent examples of such systems. They allow the teleportation of quantum states or tap-proof data transfer using quantum cryptography. In future, such experiments will not be restricted simply to photons. At the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), a method has been developed to create correlated pairs of atoms using ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates. ...
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Date: 13/5/11 17:34 (UTC)(no subject)
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...but he is cute.
The *real* Street Fighter!
Date: 13/5/11 17:51 (UTC)But... what about Round 2? >:-]
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Date: 13/5/11 18:13 (UTC)The Imperial Russian regime is kind of a hybrid of fascist Italy (authoritarian but no real hatred of Jews taken into the factor) with the Soviet Union (in the sense of T-34s, KV-1s and KV-2s as main battle tanks, and Soviet generals who started in the Tsarist Army still in the Tsarist army and still generals). They start the war with a fully modern army equipped with some of the best equipment of WWII and due to the different political history of the late Victorian and interwar era have far more manpower to throw around than the USSR did (they could lose 10 million soldiers and start where the USSR did) while having a desire to seek and gain Russian hegemony.
Thus far Russia, moving from the province of Finland has taken all of Sweden in a sweeping combined-arms attack known as Operation Narva, the Republic of China's overwhelmed British and Imperial Japanese forces, Russia's also overtaken Korea in Operation Ugra, setting up a puppet Joseon Emperor Manchukuo style, and the Kingdom of Italy's thrown in with the guys it thinks are going to win to expand further at Austrian and Hungarian expense, the latter two deciding Russia's the bigger evil than Germany and joining the Central Powers which brings Italy into the Eastern Alliance.
Currently I'm rather amused at the thought that in this case Europe depends on the same bunch that lost OTL WWII to save it from Russia-on-steroids. While Russia, due to how many Soviet generals started in the Imperial Russian Army, can still have the same army that did what it did IRL, with much more resources to use and much less handicapping it. Essentially in the alternate history at present 1/6th the world has been armed to the teeth to go conquer Europe and it has to depend on Kaiser Wilhelm III to hold the line and even with the USA involved it's not exactly going to be simple to outright defeat this Russia on the battlefield.
One of the more ironic bits about this war is that technological development has proceeded faster in Russia than elsewhere because Kornilov, unlike Stalin, can with a straight face advocate building a superpower army. So Russia's starting the war with Kalashkinovs, the best WWII tanks, fully mechanized infantry, and a military doctrine ahead of everybody.
While Europe depends on the likes of von Manstein and von Bock, the same guys who lost WWII to a Russia that started *in*competently led to defeat super-Russia. Because the timeline follows from the POD, not necessarily what I expected I've created a sort of Command and Conquer: White Alert, LOL.
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Date: 13/5/11 18:23 (UTC)Non! This post will self destruct in 5, 4, 3... um, which number was before 3?... Dammit I forgot.
OK you're lucky today...
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Date: 13/5/11 21:09 (UTC)Where is Waldo?
Date: 14/5/11 03:57 (UTC)Big, like REALLY big copy here! (http://i.imgur.com/UvIp6.jpg)
Re: Where is Waldo?
Date: 14/5/11 04:19 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 14/5/11 09:38 (UTC)Everyone forgets about Molvania
Date: 14/5/11 04:25 (UTC)