The potential Georgian entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest, aimed at annoying Moscow, where the event will be held, is actually called We Don't Wanna Put In (not Put-In Disco, as was reported by Georgian TV yesterday). It's typical tacky Europop, sung by Stefane Mgebrishvili and Georgian girl group 3G (pictured in photo), and its chorus goes like this: "We Don’t Wanna Put In/The negative move/It’s killin’ the groove." What you actually hear ,of course, is "we don't wanna Putin" - but that's about the extent of its 'protest' element. You can hear it here. Georgia had previously considered boycotting the Moscow Eurovision because of the war with Russia last year; now it seems the Georgians might go to poke a little gentle fun instead.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Eurovision Protest Pop: Update
The potential Georgian entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest, aimed at annoying Moscow, where the event will be held, is actually called We Don't Wanna Put In (not Put-In Disco, as was reported by Georgian TV yesterday). It's typical tacky Europop, sung by Stefane Mgebrishvili and Georgian girl group 3G (pictured in photo), and its chorus goes like this: "We Don’t Wanna Put In/The negative move/It’s killin’ the groove." What you actually hear ,of course, is "we don't wanna Putin" - but that's about the extent of its 'protest' element. You can hear it here. Georgia had previously considered boycotting the Moscow Eurovision because of the war with Russia last year; now it seems the Georgians might go to poke a little gentle fun instead.
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I actually like it :-)
The only thing I am unhappy about the Eurovision Song Contest is that the use of English, in the Contest increases year by year.
As a native English speaker I think this is unfair!
It's certainly time to break the habit of "language imperialism", in the Eurovision Song Contest, and use a song, sung in Esperanto instead!
This is a serious suggestion, as you can see from the Esperanto music which is already available at http://www.vinilkosmo.com/?prs=listen or at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
There's even cheesy Esperanto music available! See http://www.ipernity.com/home/56084
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