English Dominated Year

[Romeo]

I have just had a shock when looking on wikipedia at Eurovision 2015.

it says only 4 songs are not in English

Macedonia (No official confirmation?)
Serbia (although will be in English)
Portugal (not 100% known?)
Finland (will be in Finnish)

 

[Romeo]

I think there will be 5 at the most not in English

 

[esc87fan]

will all be in their native languages if I recall correctly

 

[Romeo]

will all be in their native languages if I recall correctly

I was talking on skype about it and here, I was supposed to put: In the Semis

 

[Scooby]

Macedonia will be on English too (for sure)

 

[EscGeek]

oh,this thread again :twistedlleyes:

 

[FilipFromSweden]

In 2014, only 4 songs we're fully non-english. I'm surprised people are surprised at this point at the english dominance

 

[A-lister]

In 2014, only 4 songs we're fully non-english. I'm surprised people are surprised at this point at the english dominance

It's the impact of the juries (who are put here to hate on anything that isn't vanilla "western" in English)

I told this years ago, and here we are with the results:

No local sounding entries, only English language... so much for European diversity

This was the agenda from the get-go when EBU decided to bring the juries back (who have ALWAYS throughout history hated on anything different), and here we are some years later with the results. Alot less colorful, fun, native, authentic and diverse ESC.

 

[ParadiseES]

This is quite sad

 

[Brandt]

And there is absolutely nothing wrong for me.

 

[FilipFromSweden]

It's the impact of the juries (who are put here to hate on anything that isn't vanilla "western" in English)

I told this years ago, and here we are with the results:

No local sounding entries, only English language... so much for European diversity

This was the agenda from the get-go when EBU decided to bring the juries back (who have ALWAYS throughout history hated on anything different), and here we are some years later with the results. Alot less colorful, fun, native, authentic and diverse ESC.

I don't think the jury system is wrong, but how they choose the juries. I mean look at the Swedish juries, Elli and Oscar Zia?! All they ever accomplished was being on X Factor and Melodifestivalen and Sacha Jean Baptiste, part of Love Generation. I thought they would have music experts, professionals - not some B-rated celebrities. Because when it all comes down to it, they are not any different comparing to the regular voter, making their personal votes a big impact.

Personally, I don't think Eurovision has become worse, other way around actually. But I feel the juries are not necessary, looking at the results I can see that televoters are more open minded than juries (remember when the juries in 2012 put Georgia in top 10?)

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

People say this every year

 

[Terence]

Last year I blamed it on the lack of Serbia, Bosnia, Portugal etc.
Now that Serbia are back, they could be going down the English route. Shame!

 

[eerik]

Not a problem at all. Language is just a small part of music.

 

[Brandt]

Last year I blamed it on the lack of Serbia, Bosnia, Portugal etc.
Now that Serbia are back, they could be going down the English route. Shame!

Bosnia? But they send in English more often than their official language already.

 

[IncognitoGH]

When I was growing up, I used to really look forward to sitting down in front of the TV and watching the ESC, knowing I was going to hear lots of cool and different languages through music. I had no idea what was being said, but I just fell in love with foreign languages and the ESC helped me connect with them more. Safe to say I love entries in their own language.

But with many songs now being adapted to English, it's taken a little (just a little) thing away from my ESC experience. Still there are songs in their target languages, so that's great, but I have learned to accept that English is a language that everyone can connect with and mostly understand, so that is beautiful in itself. So I feel a little sad that not more songs are not in English, but I also like the idea that more and more people can come together and unite through our language.

I think that's the beauty of the ESC.

 

[LoveHate]

The first time I watched ESC was in 1992. Three countries were allowed to sing in English, and those three made up the top-3 (1. Ireland, 2. UK, 3. Malta). All good songs, but still. This was followed by:
1993: 1. Ireland, 2. UK, 8. Malta
1994: 1. Ireland, 5. Malta, 10. UK
1995: 10. Malta, UK, 14. Ireland
1996: 1. Ireland, 8. UK, 10. Malta
1997: 1. UK, 2. Ireland, 9. Malta
1998: 2. UK, 3. Malta, 9. Ireland

So during those seven years five winners were in English, an additional six podium finishes were in English, and only one song in English finished outside the top-10. The rule had to be changed.

However, I have to agree the current situation is a bit sad. I would be completely fine with the majority of songs being in English, but there's barely a handful of non-English songs nowadays. And some countries NEVER send anything in their own language/languages. Some kind of "soft" language rule (e.g. national language at least every fourth year) would be nice. And stop translating songs that have won a national selection. What the heck is that all about?

 

[GRE]

will not be in english.
Maybe Montenegro too.

 

[tuorem]

English is an easy route. I don't buy the "everyone understands it" excuse because it's not true. My guess is that we're much more accustomed to the sound of it than any other language (because globalization = English), that's why many people don't mind Eurovision with so few languages.

Music is the only universal language, not English.

 

[Milos-BC]

English is an easy route. I don't buy the "everyone understands it" excuse because it's not true. My guess is that we're much more accustomed to the sound of it than any other language (because globalization = English), that's why many people don't mind Eurovision with so few languages.

Music is the only universal language, not English.

Amen to this.