It is such a cool thing that in 2014 in Copenhagen it was aubsidied by almost 83m DKK (about 11m CHF). I hope the poor tax payers watched it.
http://en.horten.dk/News/2016/Oktobe...-state-aid-law

I used to watch but I gave up a few years ago. It quit being amusing and just became a few hours of my life I won't get back

Every year I swear I'm not gonna watch this show ever again, that was the last year.... blah blah blah.
Hope I'll finally change the pattern this year....

Oh, yes! Eurovision and drinking games are fab!

No, it's a waste of time.

Yes, to waste the time!

Tom

Oh, so you're basically saying that we should stop resisting and start embracing our true nature of superficial beings..aren't we supposed to listen to Tchaikovsky or, I don't know..play chess against the computer all this time ?

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, they've found a way to hit a new low!

Half a dozen Celine Dion clones, crap act from Switzerland (as usual), and the rest amorphous androgenous crap acts and presentators.

Best so far is San Marino.

Tom

Considering you don't like it, you have a lot of information.
I don't even know where it takes place or who will be there (if I did I probably wouldn't know who they are).
But I do know that we have a reputation to defend: We gotta be last! Therefore a crap act from Switzerland is required. And to be crap in comparison with the others is quite an achievement, I've heard.

Switzerland is out, thank god, now I don't have to watch it anymore ths year!

Speaking of crap, the Romanian entry features yodeling.

Tom

Does out mean last? Or do we have a problem?

There's no crap and crappier, all of them are crap. It's more popular and less popular crap. (or countries voting for each other lol)

Out means that they didn't make the cut for Saturday's final, so lower than last!

Tom

So, do you all really yodel in Romania, or was this just a trick to out-Swiss the Swiss?

Tom

Oh, I am so hurt.I thought you like yodelling....but well, you are not a real Swiss after all.

Jokes aside, the song was composed for Switzerland. Since they decided to come up with their own song, it was given to someone else (an 18 y.o. girl inspired by America's got talent yodelling performance) who participated into the national contest, and out of 10 or something songs they won. Simple.

Yodelling, my dear, is more popular the you think. lol

Nobody yodels in Ticino, Swiss or not.

But Romania?

You really should check out what your countrymen are up to.

Tom

No, you should check out what your countrymen are to, it was America's got talent that corrupted Ilinca...

I was actually joking with my husband / it would be like someone from Germany happily jumping up and down on a Hora...lol
But let's admit it> rap, pop and whatever else they sing there wasn't invented in say Croatia or Georgia. It's the same thing.

"She is well known for her unique yodel."

Ummm, Americans don't yodel.

Tom

For God's sake, give us a break, would ya'? . She's a 18 y.o. who watched someone yodelling in this contest - America's got talent and she decided to try doing that herself - in fact she participated in the same type of contest, only the Romanian version, with yodelling and country music. That's when she draw attention to her vocal abilities.
Now get used with the idea..yep, some of us like yodelling.

Don't worry, I'm sure there's a cure....