The annual moaners are starting!
Things guaranteed to happen in the Eurovision year.....
1. Deadlines for songs
2. National finals
3. Finals
4. The "we woz robbed" claims from countries who believed they should have won when their song was crap.
5. After the "we woz robbed" claims, comes the we would have won if it hadn't been for the eastern European block voting claims.
However, there is one other annual event on the Eurovision calender, which never fails to appear....
6. THE PLAGIARISM CLAIMS
Now there are a number of classes to the plagiarism camps.....
a). The "my favourite song woz robbed" camp - These are people who so strongly follow a song that the only way they can rationalise that their song didn't qualify is to claim "wrong-doings" by the winning song. I visited a website today and was totally amazed by one person's comment. In his claim of wrong-doing, he stated that one judge had given a song 11 points in the semi-final and only 7 in the final. So what?! I regularly like a song on first hearing, but then change my mind and vice versa.
b). The "Eurovision obsessive" camp - these are people who live and breathe Eurovision to the extreme. One person has reported that the Romanian song has a string of six notes the same as other songs! WHAT?!!!!!! How sad is that?! Surely there is no enjoyment in Eurovision if you have to look that deep to try to trap a song for plagiarism! With the zillions of songs that have ever been composed, there is bound to be some parts of songs that sound the same or have a passage that is similar/identical. Just accept it and enjoy the Eurovision songs.
I think some people forget what the Eurovision Song Contest was actually set up to do! So come on, listen to the songs and enjoy them for what they are.
1. Deadlines for songs
2. National finals
3. Finals
4. The "we woz robbed" claims from countries who believed they should have won when their song was crap.
5. After the "we woz robbed" claims, comes the we would have won if it hadn't been for the eastern European block voting claims.
However, there is one other annual event on the Eurovision calender, which never fails to appear....
6. THE PLAGIARISM CLAIMS
Now there are a number of classes to the plagiarism camps.....
a). The "my favourite song woz robbed" camp - These are people who so strongly follow a song that the only way they can rationalise that their song didn't qualify is to claim "wrong-doings" by the winning song. I visited a website today and was totally amazed by one person's comment. In his claim of wrong-doing, he stated that one judge had given a song 11 points in the semi-final and only 7 in the final. So what?! I regularly like a song on first hearing, but then change my mind and vice versa.
b). The "Eurovision obsessive" camp - these are people who live and breathe Eurovision to the extreme. One person has reported that the Romanian song has a string of six notes the same as other songs! WHAT?!!!!!! How sad is that?! Surely there is no enjoyment in Eurovision if you have to look that deep to try to trap a song for plagiarism! With the zillions of songs that have ever been composed, there is bound to be some parts of songs that sound the same or have a passage that is similar/identical. Just accept it and enjoy the Eurovision songs.
I think some people forget what the Eurovision Song Contest was actually set up to do! So come on, listen to the songs and enjoy them for what they are.
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