isso
Sat, 05-13-2006, 06:29 AM
VOTE LORDI!:D
Anyone with more intellectual capacity than cole slaw sees the Eurovision Song Contest for what it is: a bad joke, where utterly unimpressive, unintentionally humorous and genuinely awfully bad performances alternate with unfunny in-betweeners by a pair of photogenic but airheaded hosts, nostalgic bits of past song contests and unremarkable intermission shows, all in a candy-coloured, holdyourhandstogether-fa-la-la-ecstatic display of European pseudo-unity. The term "eurotrash" is redefined yearly in this orgy of tragicomedy.
There's a place for trash entertainment, sure. What's mostly worrying is the number of people who actually take the contest seriously, even turn it into a question of national self-esteem without understanding its true nature at all, bright-eyed with no sense of camp humour. These imbeciles mostly hold power over the selection of the representatives for the contests - which admittedly provides the rest of us with our hilarious annual portion of gourmet badness.
However, every now and then a country wakes from this banal hibernation and elects a contest representative with Attitude, showmanship and some healthy F U towards disapproving contest conservatives. This year, that country is Finland.
Not only is Lordi a genuinely decent hard rock act in the footsteps of Kiss, its concept - a visual, tongue-in-cheek monster show - is delightfully insolent. The band is as atypical a contestant as there's ever been, and most certainly the most outrageous performer in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Its selection into the contest is nothing short of poetic justice, a sharp-nailed middle finger presented to the shocked, sheepish masses. The infamy it has raised in the European media, as well as the laughable satanism outrage from boneheaded religious folks merely improve the laughs for those of us who Get It.
This page and you, dear reader, have a mission: to spread across Europe our message, "VOTE LORDI!" Let's test how big an influence a (hopefully) massive Internet campaign can have. E-mail, blog, phone, SMS, IRC and IM this message to all your friends, the friends of your friends, to casual acquaintances and net buddies and generally to everyone who's capable of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest semifinal on the 18th of May and in the final on the 20th of May.
Let's make Eurovision history. Exercise your right to vote!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
http://www.votelordi.org/
Anyone with more intellectual capacity than cole slaw sees the Eurovision Song Contest for what it is: a bad joke, where utterly unimpressive, unintentionally humorous and genuinely awfully bad performances alternate with unfunny in-betweeners by a pair of photogenic but airheaded hosts, nostalgic bits of past song contests and unremarkable intermission shows, all in a candy-coloured, holdyourhandstogether-fa-la-la-ecstatic display of European pseudo-unity. The term "eurotrash" is redefined yearly in this orgy of tragicomedy.
There's a place for trash entertainment, sure. What's mostly worrying is the number of people who actually take the contest seriously, even turn it into a question of national self-esteem without understanding its true nature at all, bright-eyed with no sense of camp humour. These imbeciles mostly hold power over the selection of the representatives for the contests - which admittedly provides the rest of us with our hilarious annual portion of gourmet badness.
However, every now and then a country wakes from this banal hibernation and elects a contest representative with Attitude, showmanship and some healthy F U towards disapproving contest conservatives. This year, that country is Finland.
Not only is Lordi a genuinely decent hard rock act in the footsteps of Kiss, its concept - a visual, tongue-in-cheek monster show - is delightfully insolent. The band is as atypical a contestant as there's ever been, and most certainly the most outrageous performer in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Its selection into the contest is nothing short of poetic justice, a sharp-nailed middle finger presented to the shocked, sheepish masses. The infamy it has raised in the European media, as well as the laughable satanism outrage from boneheaded religious folks merely improve the laughs for those of us who Get It.
This page and you, dear reader, have a mission: to spread across Europe our message, "VOTE LORDI!" Let's test how big an influence a (hopefully) massive Internet campaign can have. E-mail, blog, phone, SMS, IRC and IM this message to all your friends, the friends of your friends, to casual acquaintances and net buddies and generally to everyone who's capable of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest semifinal on the 18th of May and in the final on the 20th of May.
Let's make Eurovision history. Exercise your right to vote!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
http://www.votelordi.org/