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England's fantastic performance at the Eurovision Song Contest last night got me thinking
.How much of the fantastic music we hear on our radios and that we possess in our CD collections is English? Justin Timberlake, Kylie? Nope. Girls Aloud. Discuss. |
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Your title says British music but then you go onto to ask about English music? So what's it to be?
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Both I suppose.The title refers to British music, and the Eurovision song was English. I mean British music as a whole in comparison to music from other countries.
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Originally posted by Hamish Buchanan No - the Eurovision Song Contest entry represented the UK - not just England.Both I suppose.The title refers to British music, and the Eurovision song was English. I mean British music as a whole in comparison to music from other countries. Michael Nyman who did the music for the film The Piano is one of my favourite English composers. |
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I know. I was referring to England's Eurovision entry.
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Originally posted by Hamish Buchanan England didnt have a seperate entry from the rest of the UK tho
I know. I was referring to England's Eurovision entry. |
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GG is right, whether the writer and performers are English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh, this is a UK entry, not English.
The reason we put forward songs like this is because the public believe these 'Euro-pop' songs will win Eurovision. Our song wouldn't stand a chance of getting anywhere in the charts if if wasn't for its involvement in Eurovision. We need to get away from public voting for our songs, and leave the selection of our songs to a commitee of people like, maybe Oasis, Gareth Gates and David Bowie. I only list those people as examples so don't have a go at me for who I list, but my point it that it should be people we know who are involved in our music industry |
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the fact that eurovision is generally accepted as a joke contest (outwith the smaller nations to whom the contest is genuinely a big deal) stops established acts from performing in it.
the acts themselves are generally aimed at non-commercial audiences too, otherwise the genres would be far more varied than what actually get shown (rap's the biggest seller right now in the world, but from the few acts i painfully sat through last night it wasn't shown, nor was rock, punk etc). what i did see was simply because it was going to take some time for a cab to arrive
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Originally posted by freneticvirus Well i am from a smaller nation (holland) and we are not finding it that important. The only thing we hate is when we send a good singer and performer we become 13th place and some one ho can't even stay in tune or sing in general becoms 3rd.
the fact that eurovision is generally accepted as a joke contest (outwith the smaller nations to whom the contest is genuinely a big deal) stops established acts from performing in it. the acts themselves are generally aimed at non-commercial audiences too, otherwise the genres would be far more varied than what actually get shown (rap's the biggest seller right now in the world, but from the few acts i painfully sat through last night it wasn't shown, nor was rock, punk etc). what i did see was simply because it was going to take some time for a cab to arrive
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i still consider the netherlands a large country compared to many in europe.
maybe i should have put it more as the 'more westernised' countries. |
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