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Since RTÉ has submitted a JESC song to Basel, it wouldn't be far-fetched.
Apparently it was confirmed on BBC Radio 4 that the BBC didn’t complain - the digging continues!
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Desperation and a hefty stench of it coming off Malta. To try and claim it’s discrimination does a real disservice to actual discrimination that goes on in the world. A shameless and shameful statement on their part.The Maltese broadcaster attempts to spread the narrative that the EBU is discriminating the Maltese language because they asked PBS to censor the one and only word in Maltese in the song.
🇲🇹 Malta: PBS in Discussions on Appealing EBU's "Kant" Ruling - Eurovoix
The Executive Head of the Maltese broadcaster has stated that PBS is in discussions on appealing the EBU ruling on "Kant".eurovoix.com
It's quite a desperate attempt to turn things around. I mean, it wouldn't have been an issue if the whole chorus was sung in Maltese.
Trying to portray the EBU as discriminators is ridiculous and pathetic.
The EBU tried to make "Kant" happen and even praised the "comeback of the Maltese language" after so many years.
Seriously, they should drop that narrative ASAP and find a creative way to save the song.
They are doing themselves no favours here.
Maybe Malta complained about themselves?
They do like attention clearly…
Shocker. There was no actual proof it was the BBC, just people making an assumption and running with it. Tbh I feel like it would have been multiple broadcasters and not just one anyway even if it turns out to be RTE.
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It was Bolsonara from RTVE.
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Regardless of who complained... Having a whole song in one language than changing a word to your own language which sounds like the worst swear word in the original language is just stupid.
I'm usually a massive Malta fan, but they have got what they deserved this time.
I'm usually a massive Malta fan, but they have got what they deserved this time.
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The BBC are bound by a lot of things such as impartiality which they ignore all the time. I don’t see an issue with the one Maltese word which sounds like a word some people find offensive.
Also it’s a word very common on tv
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I don't have any sympathy for Malta. IMO it's a poor song that relies on a smutty pun as its selling point. And the joke has already got old.
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If they care so much about the Maltese language maybe have more than 1 word of Maltese in the song next time!The Maltese broadcaster attempts to spread the narrative that the EBU is discriminating the Maltese language because they asked PBS to censor the one and only word in Maltese in the song.
🇲🇹 Malta: PBS in Discussions on Appealing EBU's "Kant" Ruling - Eurovoix
The Executive Head of the Maltese broadcaster has stated that PBS is in discussions on appealing the EBU ruling on "Kant".eurovoix.com
It's quite a desperate attempt to turn things around. I mean, it wouldn't have been an issue if the whole chorus was sung in Maltese.
Trying to portray the EBU as discriminators is ridiculous and pathetic.
The EBU tried to make "Kant" happen and even praised the "comeback of the Maltese language" after so many years.
Seriously, they should drop that narrative ASAP and find a creative way to save the song.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They knew exactly what they were doing and that this was always a possibility, they must now swallow the consequences.
Exactly on point! At least Malta should have kept the whole song in Maltese, then I would have had no problem with the word "Kant", it would have been more believable. But to me it just sounds cheap.
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Personally I see a big huff for nothing, they wrote it in Maltese but they ofcourse meant it in English. I cannot see why Zorra was accepted as well as Kuula remind to a*s in italian language and there's plenty of example in any language that reminds to bad words in another language. IMHO Malta has two way out of it:
- skipping Kant to be sang and let the crowd do it
- or little rephrasing like "...Serving? I can't!" that would be a reaaallly cool way to go around the obstacle without say the Kant word but everyone will now what they really mean
Then why accept "ich komme" which doesn't make sense in a song completely in Finnish? The intent there is exactly the same!
- skipping Kant to be sang and let the crowd do it
- or little rephrasing like "...Serving? I can't!" that would be a reaaallly cool way to go around the obstacle without say the Kant word but everyone will now what they really mean
Then why accept "ich komme" which doesn't make sense in a song completely in Finnish? The intent there is exactly the same!
I see them going with either "I'm serving chant" or something like "Qed inservi kant", or whatever else they want in Maltese. That would really rub it in, change the supposedly offensive Maltese word by using even more Maltese. Maybe they could add more Maltese lines to the lyrics!
When did some ESC-songs get so cheap-ish.
Well Randajad starts with "kurwa"Check γαμα με in Greek
Kuula (Estonia 2012) also meant something vulgar in Greek that I can't recall but as I said, we Mediterranean people don't take everything seriously//make a fuss about misheard lyrics