The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) or Eurovision is an annual song competition held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956.
As a little girl I loved watching Eurovision with my parents. We sat down on the couch with a pen and a large note pad where I would write down the contestants in order of performance. Each of us would give each song a score between 0-10 and try to guess which country was more likely to win that year. My father always used to give very low scores until he found one song he really liked. My mom and I, however even used half scores, we were that serious and professional, feeling like real judges.
As I grew older I always come up with excuses to tell my friends in order to stay home on that particular Saturday night so I could watch the song contest with my parents. I felt I had to hide the fact that I loved watching it as it was considered lame among teenagers.
I left home at the age of 18 but I kept the tradition of sitting down with pen and paper while watching Eurovision. My father passed away a few years later and as an only child I treasure the moments I spent with both my parents in those years where teenagers would normally prefer to go out with friends than staying home watching TV with the old folks.
Unfortunately, since televoting and SMS voting were introduced I lost a bit of interest in the contest as I felt voters would support their country regardless of the song being actually good.
To end this topic for the #2014BloggerChallenge I leave you a Youtube link to my personal favourite of the year 2012; and before you ask me: no, she didn't win :(
Ooh I have only ever watched this contest once! I was up till the early hours of the morning watching it two or three years ago! I was much younger then so I felt so naughty staying up so late to watch it, hehe. I didn't know it was coming up so soon and I feel like it's time I gave it another shot! :D Can't wait... thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for stopping by gorgeous! Funny thing is I didn't time this post to coincide with the contest I just wrote about the first thing that came to mind when I thought about this topic. I think I skipped it last year's so I will definitely sit down with some popcorn and watch it this weekend. See u around ;)
some of the songs in that contest were utterly amazing, i still remember that Romanian singer with It's my life <3
ReplyDeleteI can't recall that song but I'll look it up so I can listen to it. Thanks for commenting ;)
DeleteOoh I have only ever watched this contest once! I was up till the early hours of the morning watching it two or three years ago! I was much younger then so I felt so naughty staying up so late to watch it, hehe. I didn't know it was coming up so soon and I feel like it's time I gave it another shot! :D Can't wait... thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by gorgeous! Funny thing is I didn't time this post to coincide with the contest I just wrote about the first thing that came to mind when I thought about this topic. I think I skipped it last year's so I will definitely sit down with some popcorn and watch it this weekend. See u around ;)
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