{"id":2368,"date":"2008-05-28T01:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T01:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaninka.net\/stefan\/2008\/05\/28\/besta-greiningin-a-jurovision\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T01:05:28","slug":"besta-greiningin-a-jurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/2008\/05\/28\/besta-greiningin-a-jurovision\/","title":{"rendered":"Besta greiningin \u00e1 J\u00far\u00f3vis\u00edon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Au\u00f0vita\u00f0 m\u00e1tti treysta \u00e1 Spiked til a\u00f0 koma me\u00f0 bestu greininguna<\/a> \u00e1 J\u00far\u00f3vis\u00ed\u00ad\u00f3n og „austantjaldssams\u00e6rinu“ mikla!<\/p>\n

Many commentators seem to believe that Eastern Europeans are inferior to we civilised, stable and wealthy Westerners. At a time when Eurovision could be a symbol of international harmony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c bleached white teeth, dodgy lyrics, cheesy dance routines <\/em>et al \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the support Wogan has received from some quarters comes with a nasty undertone of xenophobia, or at least suspicion of the East. <\/em><\/p>\n

Yet if you want to talk about being overwhelmed by \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsomeone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s culture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, check this: this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s competition was hosted in Belgrade yet the whole show was presented in English, with the odd bit of token French translation. Of the 25 entrants, 17 were partly or wholly sung in English – including the French entry. Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s winning song was produced by Timbaland, the most high-profile music producer in the US. And the slickest performances from the likes of Ukraine were heavily influenced by big Western music acts (and were also a match for them). The singer of the Greek entry was a Britney clone from New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Au\u00f0vita\u00f0 m\u00e1tti treysta \u00e1 Spiked til a\u00f0 koma me\u00f0 bestu greininguna \u00e1 J\u00far\u00f3vis\u00ed\u00ad\u00f3n og „austantjaldssams\u00e6rinu“ mikla! Many commentators seem to believe that Eastern Europeans are inferior to we civilised, stable and wealthy Westerners. At a time when Eurovision could be a symbol of international harmony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c bleached white teeth, dodgy lyrics, cheesy dance routines et … Halda \u00e1fram a\u00f0 lesa: Besta greiningin \u00e1 J\u00far\u00f3vis\u00edon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}