Official Eurovision Thread

[Gangerolf]

that's unethical

[Gangerolf]

OK

I have watched several of the entries

They all suck

except Lordi

[Winston]

I must say I think Eurovision is an unethical concept in and by itself.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
why don't you go stab yourself

I'm talking about oldschool Carola of course. Like when she won the contest back in 1993 or something. I haven't heard her newer stuff.

1991.

I could stand her fundiness if she weren't so honest-to-god stupid.

[MarkG]

Re: Official Eurovision Thread

Originally posted by Pekka
The country of SAGAPO has tried to block our competitor in every single stage, I mean not officially but like some small groups who are offended.

huh??!?!?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Winston
I must say I think Eurovision is an unethical concept in and by itself.

Yes. Grog forbid that Europeans should clash with syruppy songs instead of blazing guns.

[Stefu]

Re: Re: Official Eurovision Thread

Originally posted by MarkG
huh??!?!?

It's true MarkG, your country appears to be semi-full of fundies who can't withstand the power of appearance-is-more-important-than-music ****-rock

Oh well it's still better than anything else in there and I can safely say this even without having heard any of the other songs

[MarkG]

stefu, do you realise you didnt actually provide any new information? who are the "fundies" and what did they do?

[Barnabas]

It seems fundies dislike untalented clowns.

[Gangerolf]

The "fundies" are the Greek Consumers' Union?:

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Finn Eurovision hopes "don't want to burn in hell"
Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:41 AM ET

By Stephen Brown

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Song contest entrants are rarely forced to deny that they worship the devil, but Finland is hoping that heavy rock band Lordi's fiendish lyrics and bloody stage act can redeem its dismal record at Eurovision.

Christian groups in Finland and in Greece, which hosts the televised contest in May, denounce the band as Satanists and the Greek Consumers' Union wants them banned.

Lordi's devil worship denials are not helped by their outfits -- horns, skeleton and zombie masks, creeping flesh, mummy bandages, studs and huge platform-soles -- or lyrics like "Wings on my back and horns on my head/My fangs are sharp and my eyes are red".

But band leader Lordi, with red eyes, horns on his forehead and cheeks, silver armor and a cape lined with reindeer fur, told Reuters it was "insulting being judged by the way you look. Our lyrics mention the devil, but that's just rock'n'roll.

"If we had to choose between the devil and God, we'd choose God. We don't want to burn in hell," he said in an interview on a visit to Stockholm on Thursday, in a record label's office strewn with costumes, make-up and hamburgers.

"Some of our fans on the Internet do have nicknames like Lordi666, but after we brought out 'The Devil is a Loser' four years ago lots of Christians adopted us," said singer and lyricist Lordi, whose real name is Tomi Putaansuu.

Putaansuu is a 32-year-old horror movie buff who has been dressing up as a monster since he was seven.

He knows the band will be out of place in a contest that is historically the domain of clean-cut pop from the likes of ABBA, Britain's Cliff Richard and Ireland's Johnny Logan.

"We are like meat-eaters in a vegetarian cafe," said Lordi, sitting beside guitarist Amen who was sweating in a rubber mummy outfit and had to send out for a straw to drink mineral water through the fixed grimace on his mask.

DEAD SERIOUS

Hailing from the Lapland town of Rovaniemi, whose main claim to fame is as the home of Father Christmas, Lordi say they are "deadly serious" about their music, citing influences like Kiss, Twisted Sister, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne, who has also been accused of Satanism.

Lordi says his country's Eurovision Song Contest panel, desperate for a result, "begged" the band to compete for the Finnish selection, where it won 42 percent of television votes.

Finland has never come close to winning Eurovision. Even neighboring Norway, which has famously scored "nul points" at least four times, has two wins to its name, while Sweden next door is a Eurovision superpower.

The annual competition, in its 51st year, is often derided as tacky and outdated, but Eurovision remains a major television draw watched by over 100 million viewers in some 40 countries.

At first just keen for the publicity for their latest album "Rock Hallelujah", Lordi are now determined to make the finals.

Back home the band gets mixed reviews. Lutheran pastors have denounced them for blasphemy, while others like school principal Veronic Sandstrom, 58, suggest "maybe it would have been better to send someone more attractive".

But rock fans hope the outlandish costumes, snarled lyrics and hard guitar will make an impact.

"I don't see how a band with a mummy and a skeleton with a nose ring could lose!" said the editor of Finnish rock magazine Sue, Ari Vantanen, who thinks the band is perfect for the "camp event" Eurovision has now become.

"We've sent beautiful people before and that didn't work. Now we're trying something else, let's see how it goes," said language teacher Sofia Tasanko, 35, at Turku train station.

(Additional reporting by Laura Vinha and Arild Moen in Finland)

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-04-27T114101Z_01_L27688854_RTRUKOC_0_US-ARTS-EUROVISION-LORDI.xml&pageNumber=2&imageid=&cap=&sz=13

[Gangerolf]

Here's proof that Lordi is

"The Devil is a loser and he's my *****"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7532615930726061413&q=lordi&pl=true

Greek consumers need not be afraid

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
Christian groups in Finland and in Greece, which hosts the televised contest in May, denounce the band as Satanists and the Greek Consumers' Union wants them banned.

Reuters had zero info beyond this sentence so i turned to google, which turned out this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi

which links to this announcement

http://www.paskedi.gr/UserPages/NewsLetterPreview.aspx?ID=58

this is NOT the "Greek Consumers Union"!
it's a union of restaurants and bars and this lady's opinion doesnt account to anything important..... in fact the wiki article links to the reaction against this announcement on various greek sites....

[MarkG]

thanks for video link, it gave me material for my site

http://giannopoulos.info/3/69/&for=show&tid=62

[Pekka]

it was the union of restaurants and other weird little things.

It was on their website, splashed all over, saw it myself, it was official and you are bunch of crying fundies. Our satan will burn your souls in 3 weeks! MUAHEHAEAEHAEHAEEAH!!

[MarkG]

finns are not worth of worshiping satan