Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Portugal Victory and Geopolitics
Portugal won the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest held in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a non-traditional ballad that stood out from the typical pop entries. Analysis of the event suggests that while Google trending stats predicted a win for Bulgaria, the professional jury and televoting system favored the Portuguese entry. The competition remains a significant geopolitical display where voting patterns often reflect regional alliances between Scandinavian, Baltic, and Slavic nations.
eurovision song contest· portugal· bulgaria· salvador sobral· ukraine· voting blocks
00:00 Marry Yourself in Canada offers consulting and wedding photography. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. And Sunday May 14th 2017 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode niner to niner! This is no agenda Watching 43 mediocre pop songs being performed so you don't have to and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet in the capital, The Drone Star State. In the Cluedio! In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where i'm coming in loud and not so clear I'm John C Devorah It's Crackpot & Buzzkill You're okay...you're okay We strive for protection For perfection on this show
00:41 Protection. We want protection too, but we strive for protection. Yeah we do. We strive for protection. Okay let's start off with this stupid event that you like to watch Oh the Eurovision? They don't even show it on American TV It's so... You know.. It's on LogoTV LogoTV Yeah which I think is only streaming But they have American guest hosts and one of them is Ross Hollywood Today, your favorite show. Ross the gay guy that used to be on The Leno Show? Yeah that guy He's the guy they got? They did it last year too Little brother okay Everyone is trying to do a little bit of Sir Terry Wogan but he died a couple years ago in UK UK has only won I believe once or twice with some really sappy poppy song like Bucks Fizz
01:41 But because they would always lose, it became this whole thing. Before you go on and on I don't think we used the word Eurovision yet for listeners to know what the hell we're talking about. Eurovision Song Contest is a... How long has it been around now? Is it 40 years or something? You're asking me?! Do you want to report or do you just wanna be a dick? Cause I'm ready for ya. I'm ready for ya Mike boy! heard of this thing in my life until you told me about it about five years ago. Right, the Eurovision Song Contest which is not Europe alone it is members of the Eurovision consortium which started off as a satellite television project and I don't remember exactly when but uh...I can remember it as far back as that year I was 10
02:34 And so what's interesting about it is that it is not European because they have a lot of countries, Russia is not officially Europe. Ukraine where I was hosted as non-officially Europe Israel participates. And it is usually highly politically charged and they've changed this, the voting throughout the years where you could always tell Russia would either be pro and vote for Ukraine or not vote for Ukraine. The Scandinavian countries would vote for each other to the Dutch for the Belgians, the Belgians for the Dutch, the French for the Belgium... It would just go back and forth. So they created these panel of professional judges and then they combine that with a televote
03:13 And of course people cannot vote for their own country, but that's where you really see the favoritism pop up. So it is always interesting to see and we have called this correctly a couple of times in the past based upon geopolitical issues... This was a different year yes? 1956 is where it officially began, which is way back. Yeah before I was born and it's actually based on the existing Sararimo music festival held in Italy since 1951 Ah thank you well there you go But it really turned into a bring-the world together type of no borders No Nations type of thing yeah It's one world government yeah And what's cool about it or I don't know if we want to call say cool Is
04:00 I don't know when i was oh yeah. I think you nailed it! Yeah exactly there's nothing cool about it but, It's supposed to be about the song so it says the composer that's the writer and composer not about the artist but of course it's now become a place to showcase your country and because I really didn't put any effort into it this year knowing how you hate it I don't hate it. And then we got a comment from one of our producers who donated and said, hey you know I need to know any to look smart and of course I steered him completely wrong. I said well right now i think maybe France would be a good country to win just geopolitically speaking? No no you didn't know you predicted it straight up straight up in the last show
04:43 I said, I hadn't paid any attention to it. Let me just think quickly that's exactly what i said so I didn't-I didn't What are you trying to do? Don't be like this today Okay Okay? I'm irritated when you do that Good Go Here is the winner You can do the report next time I will And that's the winner. There you go, everybody fine That's the end of my report. That sounds pretty generic Yeah, it's the end of my report that is Portugal who won I'm not-I think this was... It's not generic in fact it was exact opposite Everybody had a poppy song like they always do and this was a completely different genre It stuck out way above everything and it just seems that they tried to get Bulgaria to win
05:37 In fact, there was a comic strip blogger who had been chasing all the Google trending stats and he said based upon what he's seeing from Google and the way that algorithms are reacting it looks like Bulgaria is going to win. They came in second they almost won So maybe that was supposed to happen, but man the French song was it wasn't actual song. It was completely different wasn't bubblegum II it was a French song Portuguese song and I think that's why one Bulgaria made a lot of sense in hindsight And I should have guessed Bulgaria or deduced Bulgaria, so I think for once music actually won
