Thursday, February 19, 2009

Eurovision Protest Pop: Update 2

The slyly anti-Russian song We Don't Wanna Put In has been chosen as Georgia's entry to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow - if the event's organisers allow one of the entries to denigrate the host country's prime minister, of course. See previous posts for more details and a link to the song itself.

2 comments:

Onnik Krikorian said...

BTW: They changed the lyrics from the original audio recording for the live performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXm6fFeUDE

Now there's reference to "shoot him..."

And check out the mimicking of a gun at the end as well as the slowly rising Nazi salute.

To be honest, I don't even think they're expecting to perform in Moscow...

Onnik Krikorian said...

Correction, the reference to "shoot him" is in the original audio, but not in the published lyrics. It's just that it was more noticeable in the video...