/ world at present information/ Eurovision is a political, not a music contest. Through the years he has grow to be an increasing number of cynical, however this time he outdid himself.
The federal government of the victorious Ukraine is waging warfare in opposition to its personal residents.
Because the outbreak of the battle, tens of 1000’s of individuals have died and proceed to die there. Solely ten days in the past it was two years because the Odessa bloodbath, during which fifty folks had been burned alive, shot and tortured within the Commerce Union Home in Odessa. The killings had been carried out by Ukrainian ultras beneath the watchful eye of the police and the tacit approval of the federal government, which didn’t maintain the sadists to account. The music that gained Eurovision this 12 months is among the propaganda weapons of those crimes. It was written, produced and broadcast for the participant by the Ukrainians themselves with a political purpose and accordingly pushed to be the winner by the organizers additionally with a political purpose.
This can be a scandal, not a trigger for pleasure.
It is an actual disgrace for everybody concerned on this cynical circus and I personally see no trigger for happiness, a lot much less delight. Even the BBC commented that the choice of the winner was clearly political. There isn’t any one who doubts that. And after the cynicism of propagandizing the legal regime in Kiev, right here is the second huge scandal.
Because the choice of the winner is political it implies that it’s rigged and the general public vote is manipulated. That’s, it’s a mass fraud, as a result of there isn’t any different means for this to occur. Rejoicing in being cheated appears to me, to say the least, silly. To not point out that all the competitors and its TV packaging was paying homage to a refined “Scarlet Poppy” and different related Komsomol performances of the current previous.
Totalitarian drive and unifying design,
predetermined as unity of variety. Nobody seems like a German, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Ukrainian, a Russian, and even an Australian anymore (Australia at Eurovision!?!). TV producers produce the identical product and put completely different labels on it – Hungary, Poland, Azerbaijan, France, and so forth. After all that is their job. It’s apparent that the competitors has large funding which, as we’ve got all established, has a political objective. Such had been the contests and competitions throughout the time of communism. The one distinction is within the packaging. Simply because it is extra colourful and glossy does not imply the content material is any completely different, not to mention higher. It is about the identical one
rubbish produced by the political business.
Music right here is simply a pretext, a facade, a display, an insignificant event for the achievement of the “vital” political purpose. That’s the reason nobody can bear in mind or sing any music after its final observe has been performed. The unified choice can also be outstanding – in so many nations the identical songs are broadcast. It isn’t simply that there are no good ones. There are not any completely different. All the things sounds the identical. Composed on pc by craftsmen within the contest music enterprise. That is accomplished by design and is not any tougher to the creativeness than making a machine ingredient on a manufacturing line for the wants of sunshine business.
It is a joke in regards to the music, not a triumph of the music.
On this sense, the Bulgarian presentation on this rezyl and the media hysteria surrounding Polly Genova fall utterly into the cliché and there may be nothing distinctive about them. The music that the Bulgarian lady sang is simply as dumb and untalented as all of the others. Whether or not it’s in fourth, first, eighteenth or hundredth place is of no significance. Polly herself has a likable air and sings tolerably mediocre. It sings true, which is a giant success, and with out the necessity for pc corrections for pitches and false tones. She doesn’t irritate with the timbre of her voice, which is an actual achievement for at present’s Bulgarian pop music. If it is not on the display, you will by no means bear in mind what it feels like, however that is how it’s with everybody of her era, and at the very least there is not any hazard of one thing haunting from her songs getting caught in your head at any time.
Throughout and after the race,
Polly Genova speaks solely patriotic clichés,
with out straining to give you something extra like that, and even acquired concerned within the debates in regards to the Electoral Code, which was an extra little bit of native kitsch, however fairly applicable, given the worldwide political objective of Eurovision. This made the protesters, the so-called right-wing and the media gravitating round them, all of the sudden like Eurovision, which within the communist period was thought-about a marginal and even despised contest, as a result of it was pushed on us as an alternative choice to the true Western stars we wished to take heed to. However that is one other small proof that that is solely about politics, not about music.
Eurovision is a triumph of mediocrity, cynicism and political impotence. Childish TV Rip-off. If somebody actually wants nationwide delight, that is probably the most inappropriate event for it.
The remark was printed in “Gallery”
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