Eurovision announces US show for 2021

[celedhring]

God, yes. A pan-American Eurovision would be superb.

Soo... revive the OTI Festival? The US even won its final edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr3eerYUWzg

Pity it died before it went through the same rejuvenation Eurovision enjoyed in the 2000s.

[Sheilbh]

God, yes. A pan-American Eurovision would be superb.

Soo... revive the OTI Festival? The US even won its final edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr3eerYUWzg

Pity it died before it went through the same rejuvenation Eurovision enjoyed in the 2000s.

YES!

Also I saw that Russia was considering basically re-launching Intervision (does Putin's Soviet-era revanchism have no limits? ) for countries that like song contests and hate gays.

I checked the BBC story on Amerivision and their main picture, correctly captioned, as a Eurovision legend Verda Serduchka:

So, no pressure Americans

Edit: Incidentally that's the image in my head when I hear continental politicians talking about the need to protect European "culture and values"

[celedhring]

Also I saw that Russia was considering basically re-launching Intervision (does Putin's Soviet-era revanchism have no limits? ) for countries that like song contests and hate gays.

If that means we'd get to see acts from Central Asian countries, it might redeem Putin's legacy.

[Sheilbh]

Also I saw that Russia was considering basically re-launching Intervision (does Putin's Soviet-era revanchism have no limits? ) for countries that like song contests and hate gays.

If that means we'd get to see acts from Central Asian countries, it might redeem Putin's legacy.

"Now for the entry from Uzbekistan! Yes - it is, again, the President's daughter."

(Was it Azerbaijan where the President's daughter was their entry - I feel like this did happen somewhere.)

[jimmy olsen]

Little Big is #1

They were robbed by this year's cancellation

[viper37]

Cultural appropriation of the worst kind. 

If only Quebec would appropriate some German of French culture like Wacken or Helfest