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xiphiasSo, a Finnish GWAR-like heavy metal band won Eurovision, with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah," which is the sort of song which kind of went out of fashion in the United States ten or twenty years ago.
But I was thinking about the message which their music video is sending. I think it's a message of hope sent out to all the disaffected kids who are effectively outcasts in their own high schools. It's a message telling them that they don't have to pull a Columbine and kill their tormentors. All they need to do is have a magical heavy metal band show up, slaughter the cheerleading squad and raise them as your zombie slaves, and use THEM to kill your tormentors.
But I was thinking about the message which their music video is sending. I think it's a message of hope sent out to all the disaffected kids who are effectively outcasts in their own high schools. It's a message telling them that they don't have to pull a Columbine and kill their tormentors. All they need to do is have a magical heavy metal band show up, slaughter the cheerleading squad and raise them as your zombie slaves, and use THEM to kill your tormentors.
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Date: 2006-05-21 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-05-21 05:06 am (UTC)LOL
I'm somewhat ashamed that Israel insists on participating. For this reason, I'm somewhat happy that, with all of four points we placed 2nd to last out of 37, before OMG Malta (with one point)!! Never mind that the voting for MANY countries (especially Israel) or "country blocks" is completely politics based, rather than the merits of the actual song, as even the sore-looser BBC (placed 19th) points out. The contest is actually not between countries, so much as between their public broadcast companies, so it is the BBC itself and not the UK that lost. Perhaps if the corrupt Israel Broadcasting Authority actually involved the public in choosing which song to send, like they used to (and we've actually won often enough), we might have some serious competition...
Due to the revised rules of the contest (now that it has so many participants), placing so low, means we may not actually get to participate next year! Yay?
For what it's worth, all the buzz, at least two weeks before the contest, was that Finland had the winning song. So this was entirely predicable. I have no idea what this says about Europe (nor have I seen/heard the specific song), but it just so happens, that the leading Op-Ed piece, in the weekend newspaper we read for this week was titled - "Is Europe dying?" (from a cultural POV, in face of its growing Islamization). The answer, which I've been stating for many years, is clearly YES!
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Date: 2006-05-21 03:36 pm (UTC)Hacked off
Date: 2006-05-22 12:23 pm (UTC)Just wondered if you were aware that your comments on the fantasticly stupendous spectacle that is the Eurovision Song Contest had been printed in todays Guardian
Thanks for your time
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Date: 2006-05-22 03:43 pm (UTC)I may friend you if that's OK...
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