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Subject: Re: Turkey's Eurovision 2004
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:12:51 +0200
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I have a question to you: What did everyone think of the German contribution
to the contest? The young lad, Max, was frenetically supported here in
Germany (Austria as well) and many people were secretly disappointed by the
fact that this number only reached #8. I even sent the single to friend of
mine in the US and they loved it. I guess "Can't Wait Until Tonight" Drowned
within all the east European contributions, huh? Any serious opinions about
this?
Other than that I'm real happy for Ruslana, s she is a favorite of mine for
a year now! If you're interested, please have a look at my website
http://www.frankie.org -> Music, where I have some biograpical information
about this gorgeous Ukrainian singer.
d.
"John Harding" <news@j-harding.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi all,
>
> What did everyone else think about Turkey's performance? The song was
dire,
> but the actual concert was the most amateur I have seen for years. The two
> presenters struggled to go through the entire show often making it look
> unrehearsed and extremely unprofessional. The introductions to the songs
> were clearly paid for by the Tourism Ministry and were way too blatant to
be
> effective (Turkey should have looked to Sweden 1998 to how to do it
> properly). As for the crowd, well they are a disgrace to the European
> continent, booing whenever they were awarded less than four points.
>
> However, I reserve most of my criticism for the "half-time" entertainment
> which was a dire massacre of Riverdance mixed with some weird Turkish
> dancing. Anyone voting for Turkish entries in future should realise that
> this debacle of producing a Eurovision concert could well be repeated in
> subsequent years. Never again must Eurovision be allowed to be turned into
> such a farce.
>
> As for the songs, I thought it would be Ukraine, Greece, Sweden and then
> Albania so I wasn't completely and utterly wrong. I am glad Ukraine won it
> as they had the best song, but I am concerned about the increase in
> locational voting. The UK, was as ever, fairly poor but picked up a few
> points so it wasn't a repeat of the catastrophe last year.
>
> Here's to Kiev 2005 (and please don't ask for help from the Turkish
> producers)
>
> John
>
>
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