The Anonymous Widower

Is Eurovision Promoting National Stereotypes?

I don’t usually watch Eurovision, but hey, what else is there to do tonight, after the awful Mancunian double?

But are countries promoting their own sterotypes?

After all the Irish entry was about humour! The Greek one had no chance of making any worthwhile sales! The Russian one was all about male machismo and was probably written by someone with lots of talent like Vladimir Putin. I did like the singers for Hungary and Estonia and if they played their cards right ….

The French entry was calling out for someone in the orchestra to open a bottle of brown ale at the right moment, to enliven the proceedings. You may laugh about that, but a friend once played in the 1960s in the backing orchestra for such high-brow touring productions as The Desert Song. You quickly learned what was the best time to get a drink.

But quite frankly Eurovision isn’t the same without Terry Wogan.

May 14, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Entertainment, Music