Eurovision song contest 2022

[Creoda]

I didn't like the oversexualised bum shaking. I think it is degrading to women. Imagine men performing like that with their arses hanging out and shaking for the titillation of the audience like crazy monkeys? I don't know what the other acts were like as I've only watched the Spanish one and the Australian one. If other acts were doing that I'd criticise them also. It's not the song but the arse bearing and shaking which looks like some primitive mating ritual that I really dislike.

It's called African culture, and over the past few decades the powers that be have been successfully flooding our culture with it. Unfortunately many white women now twerk voluntarily because that's the dancing they see promoted on TV.

[catgeorge]

Didnt watch one performance - wife and kids enjoy it though..

[Grace O'Malley]

It's called African culture, and over the past few decades the powers that be have been successfully flooding our culture with it. Unfortunately many white women now twerk voluntarily because that's the dancing they see promoted on TV.

Everything now is global and people will just copy something that they have no connection to. That's another thing at fault in today's Eurovision. The acts in many cases have no connection to the country they represent. At least in the past Eurovision acts had some uniqueness and represented their country culturally. At least the Spanish act was in Spanish and to be fair the singer was of Cuban heritage so the Latin flavour à la JLo was not exactly something foreign. Booty shaking origins however come from traditional West African dance.

[Tommie]

it's Spanish, llamame mi bebe.. Romania usually sends most retarded songs in the contest anyway.

the singer is Gypsy and probably gay. not relevant, but just mentioning.

I still wait that Romania sends to Eurovision Gypsies that aren't afraid to embrace their identity, with a manele song. with manele there'd be many chances to win the contest.

He's not Gypsy.

Yeah we did sent a couple of joke entries, but then we sent some great iconic songs in the 2000's and early 2010's with second and third place in the contest.

[wvwvw]

Where was the solidarity towards Cyprus when Turkey invaded Cyprus, after earlier napalmed indiscriminately civiliians, killing 10,000 Cypriots and displacing more than 200,000 people?

Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, and in 1975 Turkey participated in Eurovision for the first time. Nobody politicized the song context then, and if anything instead of showing any solidarity towards Greece and Cyprus, they allowed Turkey to participate in the event. Russia or Yugoslavia had no such luck.