Bruno Kerouanton

A month ago, the now famous yearly Eurovision song contest was nominating the winning country as Finland. Usually I’m not fond of this event and do not follow it, but this year there was something weird and new !

As usual, France sent a beautiful and well trained singer to the contest. Unexpectedly, she only obtained the 22nd price… And even more unexpected, the winning country was represented by a band of singing evil monsters seeming to have come directly from a dark episode from the Lord of the Rings movie.

This is already an interesting fact, proving that the jury (audience voting by telephone and SMS) considered Eurovision wasn’t any more a contest aimed to reveal beautiful voices, but was now a contest greeting the most fascinating band.

Then, since the french presentators of the Eurovision show weren’t very happy about this weirdness, they presented them as “zoo animals” that “could never win”… Those two sentences weren’t appreciated and started a buzz on the Internet that ended with a 16000 signature petition to complain against those two french presentators for their bad jokes about this Finland hard-rock band.

All I can say, is that life is somehow unpredictable, that this is a nice example of how Internet can quickly aggregate people for or against something, and that I’m believing more and more that what people think about music is definitely not my vision of music… That being said, I’ve listened to the song that was presented by those hard-rockers, called “Hard-Rock Hallelujah”, the music is good but I still defintely cannot undersand how they managed to win a singing contest…

RESUME : Le dernier concours de l’Eurovision a fait sensation, puisqu’en nominant la Finlande comme pays gagnant (la France fut 22ème au classement), et plus précisément la horde de monstres hard-rockers dignes d’un roman de Tolkien, cela a suscité nombre de réactions. Des présentateurs français de l’émission d’une part, contre lesquels une pétition de plus de 16000 signatures circule sur Internet à cause de leurs propos déplacés concernant le groupe sus-mentionné, et de nombre de personnes se demandant pourquoi la Finlande a bien pu gagner avec un groupe pareil, alors qu’il s’agit d’un concours de chant !