eurovision69 – eurovision song contest 2017 
Each year during the contest, the EBU and the host broadcaster, hold a press conference.
AN opportunity to self-congratulate and to list the records broken by the shows to come. And it’ss true that the Austrians can this year be proud… Not easy to make a capital city with the size of Vienna, exude eurovision. Accomplished mission, Eurovision is here everywhere. Not easy neither to please fans, bloggers and actual journalists during the fortnight. Once more, Austrians have done a fantastic job. Everything is perfectly organized and we are treated like princes. Princes with no weight problems given the junk food graciously offered, chips and cocktail biscuits, Männer – the visibly partner biscuits.
Not to mention the show itself. For now we anly saw one of the 3 shows, but if they’re all up to the first semi, well the 60th Eurovision Song Contest will be a real success.
Jon Ola Sand, Executive Supervisor of the contest also intervened. Particularly regarding booed on the Russian song.
I already wrote here, I’m not part of those expressing this way, their opinion on this country and its political, especially when the singers are two girls 17 years old.
But one can not say this contest is only a TV show, an apolitical family entertainment, while for 3 years, it begins with a parade of nations, flags as banner…
Come on ! Obviously, this competition, is also political. Obviously, it is a showcase for some nations. Obviously, this year’s Russian song has implicitly, a political message, it’s part of the propaganda of the country it represents. And obviously, the LGBTI community use, fair reward, the contest to denounce an abject law.
Other participating countries have laws hostile to minorities. But Russia is the most emblematic one, and the most influential internationally.
So no, it’s not kind at all booing an artist, no Eurovision should not be the place of hostile demonstrations, but I do hope to see more and more rainbow flags raised during the Russian song.
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