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Georgia has withdrawn from this year's Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) earlier this week ruled its entry We Don't Wanna Put In in contravention of the rule which states: "No lyrics, speeches, gestures of a political or similar nature shall be permitted during the Eurovision Song Contest." …

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  1. Yorkshirepudding
    Alert

    in soviet russia...

    was amused to hear a comment on the radio the other day by a crapovision official that it is a non political contest

    really? block voting means nothing to these people then? ill be voting for ireland then in that case.

  2. Graham Marsden

    expect lively voting...?

    You mean expect the usual politically motivated(!) voting which has rendered this tedious "contest" utterly meaningless...

  3. Kae Verens

    no politics?

    tell that to Portugal... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Depois_do_Adeus "the only Eurovision entry to have actually started a revolution"

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Russian entry is about 'Mother Russia'

    The funniest thing is the Russian entry, is really a VERY thinly veiled song about love of 'Mother Russia in the breakaway states.

    http://lyricstranslations.com/eurovision/eurovision-2009-russia-anastasya-prihodko-mamo

    Out of the shadows once again, my enemy, my love

    Destiny can’t be avoided, no matter how much you’re prepared

    But before you left, with golden ring

    you proposed to me and didn’t save me from sorcery

    and didn’t let my soul be free

    Mum, you’ve been telling me not to desire

    Mum, at that time I didn’t know where trouble lied

    Mum, you’ve been telling me that time is like water

    Mum, Mum, Mum, love is trouble

    I will throw away my dream and smash it on the floor

    How you’ve broken my destiny and set it aside

    I will pour girl’s tears like rain

    Mum, you’ve been telling me not to desire

    Mum, at that time I didn’t know where trouble lied

    Mum, you’ve been telling me that time is like water

    Mum, Mum, Mum, love is trouble

    Mum, you’ve been telling me not to desire

    Mum, at that time I didn’t know where trouble lied

    Mum, you’ve been telling me that time is like water

    Mum, Mum, Mum, love is trouble

    Mum, at that time I didn’t know where trouble lied

    Mum, you’ve been telling me that time is like water

    Mum, Mum, Mum, love is trouble

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Never mind the politics...

    ..........its the crimes against music they should have been kicked out for.

    Not so much Disco Inferno as Village Hall Smoulder..

    And what's with the rapping?

    ..flames of course...Burn Baby, Burn.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Half time entertainment

    ...won't be Boney M performing Rasputin then??

  7. Austin Chamberlain
    Unhappy

    Actually ...

    ... the TV station that is hosting Eurovision said it was nothing to do with them, and that it was the Eurovision organisers who complained. Blame Russia for the things they actually do, rather than everything that comes up ...

  8. Austin Chamberlain
    Unhappy

    Re: The Russian entry is about 'Mother Russia'

    The Russian entry is also written by an Estonian, directed by a Georgian, and sung by a Ukrainian. In Ukrainian.

    The idea may be to push unity in the CIS, and plenty of Russians are complaining about the nationality of various people, but it's still a reasonable gesture.

    Once again, FFS, blame them for things they actually have done wrong.

  9. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

    Have these utubers

    ever heard the word "deinterlacing"?

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