Let’s get this out of the way: I’m a total arsehole when it comes to music. Like most people, I have very strong musical opinions. I also have enough restraint to know that most people who read this site probably don’t give a shit about my taste in music and hence it rarely, if ever, gets a mention.
I was tempted recently to rip into Dizzee Rascal’s new single, “Dream”, which amounts to the original record with off-key and half-finished singing. I thought better of it, thinking it would be best to let it speak for itself.
Today, however, I say something being advertised that I couldn’t remain silent about. The Junior Eurovison Song Contest. I am at a total loss as to who thought this was a good idea. The Eurovision song contest is a painful joke, a cruelly perpetrated one at the expense of the Irish who think it’s a good thing to win, but I digress. What sick fuck decided to bring children into it? The humanity, oh, the humanity. I can already imagine the entrants from the backwaters of Europe in their red sequined shirts crying into their milk as they get nil points. Normally, that would amuse me somewhat but, given the setting, it’s just embarassing.
The last thing music needs.
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You know, it did occur to me to make a joke about Neil and the kids but thought better of it. As long as we all know the sordid truth.
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Despite your use of the word allegedly my team of crack lawyers are on their way to your house now.
Seriously though, stop the jokes. One day I’ll crack and kill you all.
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It’s the fact that the proper Eurovision contestants are adults and thus eligible to be laughed at because they chose to do it that makes it good entertainment. It should keep sil’s commenters happy at least.
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Still greatly amused that that post of sil’s still gets comments, thus confirming that people are morons (as if the first hundred didn’t make that clear).
As for Junior Eurovision, you do have to feel sorry for the kids. You can imagine the Latvian parents beating their child with a stick until they get every note right.
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You think this is a bad thing?!
I was glued to the heats to pick the UK representakiddie last year, rooting for a tiny scally rapper called something like Aslan; crushed when the public (ie. grandmothers) picked a squeaky-clean micro-Robbie Williams creature. Quite sad that I missed out on this year’s heats and the early stages, to be honest.
I mean, it’s more naff, kitsch and Euro than the grown-up version, with the added bonus of being more than slightly sinister, in a Minipops way (as in the Channel 4 paedo favourite, not the Flipflopflyin’ pixel art.)
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“it’s more naff, kitsch and Euro than the the grown-up version”
That being the reason I think it’s a bad thing. Sure, it’s kinda funny but only in a “Europe really does have shit taste in music” way.
I was in Malta a few years back when the main event was on. It is insane how seriously they take it (street parties, pubs closing, the works), as it is with the rest of Europe. And we want to give these people control of our country? Frightening.
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