{"id":17919,"date":"2013-05-26T18:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=17919"},"modified":"2013-05-27T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T06:54:01","slug":"watching-eurovision-2013-with-the-aegee-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2013\/05\/26\/watching-eurovision-2013-with-the-aegee-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Eurovision 2013 with the AEGEE family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you watch it with your family, with your friends or with The AEGEEan, it doesn’t matter if some songs are \u201c unlisteneable\u201d or just awesome, if some performances are genious or lame, the Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> (ESC) is always a unique experience, that keeps fascinating Europeans year after year, and is always the subject of discussions and emotions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Watching ESC with the AEGEEan<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s no doubt that the Eurovision unites people. That\u2019s why this year the AEGEEan decided to try to watch it with as many people as possible and created a very successful Facebook group<\/a>. The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the most long-lasting television shows. It was launched for the first time in 1956 and every year the competition was a great success, whether you liked the winner or not. The Eurovision has become the symbol of a united Europe, something that goes beyond the border of the European Union as well as a tradition within families or between friends.<\/p>\n

Should the Eurovision be free of political statements?
\n<\/strong>Some things that took place in Malm\u00f6 touched upon big political discussions, and some of those opinions were shared on our Facebook group as well. One example was the debate following the Finnish kiss<\/a>: should the Eurovision be free of political statements?<\/p>\n

Some of you would says yes, others no. In my personal opinion politics are part of our everyday life, even though we don’t pay attention to it. \u00a0Art, and therefore music, is a means of expression, it’s a way to make \u00a0your voice heard and if your feelings are about changes in your society, then you are more than empowered to do it. Of course nothing on earth would authorize someone to make an electoral campaign, to insult someone or to support any form of\u00a0 non-democratic government that harm human rights. Political messages are always incidental to music. ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ by U2, ‘A great day for freedom’ by Pink Floyd, ‘Hammer to fal’l by Queen, ‘London Calling’ by The Clash, ‘Blowin’ in the wind’ by Bob Dylan, and ‘Civil War’ by Guns ‘n Roses are only a few examples.<\/p>\n

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How about Finland’s performance? I think that it’s more than a political issue;\u00a0 gay marriage\u00a0 is a social and natural fact which still has to be legalized in Finland by law. \u00a0Miss Siegfrids was only trying to attire the attention upon a social need that hasn’t yet been solved so she was fighting for a cause for all 107.000 Finnish\u00a0 people that signed the petition<\/a> in favour of same-sex marriage.\u00a0The more conservative part of Europe complained about the lesbian kiss, especially Turkey who\u00a0refused<\/a> to broadcast the ESC final.<\/p>\n

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Quotes from the facebook group
\n<\/strong>\u201cAt least Eurovision is being useful to raise awareness!\u201d -Miguel Gallardo Albajar<\/p>\n

\u201cBy not broadcasting they admit that it is a political statement for them, while it could have been just some people kissing, which their peoples can disapprove of by not voting for them…\u201d – Paul Smits<\/p>\n

“The glass box is a political statement”(Azerbaijan). But no one payed attention to that. Was the reference too deep? Or too far?\u00a0 The answer is up to you.” –\u00a0Patriks Kir\u0161s<\/p>\n

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“Belgian heroes: Again a winner without shoes.” #trend – Mathieu Soete<\/p>\n

“The eye of sauron watches over Azerbaijan in the back\u201d -Patriks Kir\u0161s<\/p>\n

“What is Cristiano Ronaldo doing in Norway?\u201d –\u00a0Juan Luis Toboso Garcia<\/p>\n

“Germans could have given us (The Netherlands, ed.) some points for taking our bikes\u201d – Paul Smits<\/p>\n

“Montenegro was the two astronauts rapping on dubstep, right?” – Marije Arentze<\/p>\n

“The best comment by the German TV: “This is what we needed, Modern Talking reborn as Earl Dracula” – Stephanie M\u00fcller<\/p>\n

Thank you for watching ESC with us and we look forward to repeating the experience again next year!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by Cosmina Bisboaca, AEGEE-Torino<\/em><\/p>\n

Pictures courtesy of FlickR<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether you watch it with your family, with your friends or with The AEGEEan, it doesn’t matter if some songs are \u201c unlisteneable\u201d or just awesome, if some performances are genious or lame, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is always a unique experience, that keeps fascinating Europeans year after year, and is always the subject of discussions and emotions.\u00a0 Watching… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1041,511,426,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17919"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17924,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions\/17924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}