All the standard info is here and here. The country’s official website is here. But I’m still not finding anything that explains Azerbaijan’s entry in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest!
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Whatever the explanation is, I’ll be disappointed if it doesn’t include the phrase “disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh”.
Kim, that clip makes me mor afraid to ask.
Um, More. It’s early here in Footskaya.
Just wanted to say - great LOL headline, Kim!
Erm.
There’s nothing I want to know about Azerbaijan. Does that make me a bad person?
The arty film clip version does have the song making slightly more sense than the live on stage version, but that’s not saying much.
I haven’t heard rock falsetto work like that since Jesus Christ Superstar.
We will smash their cities with our catapults!
Everyone:
What? It’s obvious!
Turkey and Israel are in the Eurovision Song Contest. So too Georgia, of course. And Armenia too. So why not Azerbaijan? Azeris can sing and dance and bung on a spectacular son-et-luminaire as well as anyone else.
Who knows but the 2009 Eurovision first prize might go to the the Baku Baritones with the backing of the Sumgait Symphonia.
Go Azerbaijan, Go!!
Three cheers for Azerbaijan!!
It’s a 1970s-style rock opera translation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, isn’t it?
If it keeps spreading like this, we will have our chance to win!
The old meme was that any country or proto-nation state hosting a MacDonalds would never go to war with another where the Golden Arches glowed. I believe the Yugoslavian clusterfuck sorta proved that one wrong.
Now though, I think it’s time for a new meme along the same lines. Which is that any country entering Eurovision ain’t gonna do war on a fellow participant. It’s the world’s first multinational school prom. OK, a few punchups in the toilets sure but basically everyone’s too excited by the mirror ball to waste big time on settling old scores and creating new ones.
Besides, does anyone have the balls (or breasts) to take on head to head in the Field of Mars a Baltic glam rock band where the front line have angel wings, the drummer vomits fire, the manager is the brother in law of the CEO of a multinational hi-tech company and the roadies are Army Reservists who use antifreeze as a cocktail additive.
The EU is the only multi-national geo-political organisation in history where nations are queuing up to join. In silver jumpsuits on ice skates while playing clunky funk riffs on a trombone.
Questions of style aside, you gotta admit it’s a decided improvement over what the place was like just two or three lifetimes ago.
Nabakov [10]:
Nice thought …. that’s why the absence of Transdanubia from Eurovision should worry us.