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The Eurovision Thread
Kelda:
--- Quote from: oilgun on May 15, 2011, 10:37:04 am ---Did they win when they were on the X Factor? I watched their performances on youtube and man were they ever off key, and only 17 then. I liked their audition when one of the judges asked them where they see themselves in 15 years and without missing a beat John replies "Well, I see myself being older." Very cocky, lol! Simon hated them.
Here's the audition clip:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwW_DYmxEw[/youtube][/quote
Beleive it or not they got WORSE during the auditions! But Louis loving the Irish put them through to the live finals.... and they were eliminated from the competition in week 7, which I think made them about 4th or 5th..
Cos they had done a cover of this they then released this with Vanilla ice!!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Cq6rVAWt8[/youtube]
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Kelda:
A brokie Eurovision would be awesome!!! Can we please!? Can we!?!
--- Quote from: sophytofu on May 15, 2011, 06:26:19 am ---It has to do with EBU. European Broadcasting Union, which country who are a member of the union.
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I didn;t know that Sophy.. whats the wee country above brazil??
Kelda:
--- Quote from: sophytofu on May 15, 2011, 06:18:14 am ---I thought I had heard the Danish song before... now I know.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_fFy5Icbh0[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7xvGDMeBQ[/youtube]
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We were saying it sounds like the start of My Chemical Romance's 'Black Parade'....
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDWgsQhbaqU[/youtube]
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Kelda on May 15, 2011, 12:05:13 pm ---A brokie Eurovision would be awesome!!! Can we please!? Can we!?!
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I'm in!
--- Quote ---I didn;t know that Sophy.. whats the wee country above brazil??
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French Guiana. Belongs to France and thus to the EU. They even have the Euro.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: southendmd on May 15, 2011, 05:45:10 am ---I didn't even know that Azerbaijan was in Europe. Congrats anyway!
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--- Quote from: Sason on May 15, 2011, 08:32:01 am ---You're in good company, Paul.
Most of us didn't.
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I didn't know it either. And for a good reason, because it doesn't.
Azerbaijan doesn't belong to Europe, geographically. It belongs to (Western) Asia.
Yet the ESC has always had wide definitions of what country is allowed into the contest. Israel has always been in the contest, and Israel is by no means in Europe when you look at a map. Turkey has only a very small part of its land in Europe and the biggest part in Asia.
The Caucasian countries belong geographically to Asia. Politically and culturally they are often counted as European though. (The last part was new for me, too. I looked it up).
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