Re: UNITED KINGDOM 2011
94ayd said:
I doubt it's only gay people there, either. Why did Andrew Lloyd Webber participate, then?
Ha! While Lloyd Webber isn't gay himself, his musical theatre talent contests are some of the campest shows on television. He's the only straight man on this year's programme.
I saw an advert for a comedy show about the upcoming election this week, which said "The election is basically eurovision for straight people". Obviously, not everyone who likes eurovision over here is gay - I'm not - but the fact I have to specifically state that speaks volumes.
I don't think the gay thing really stops people from entering, though. No one thinks Eurovision's gay following reflects in any way on the artists involved.
lucian-crusher said:
I thin big names don't participate because they are afraid to fail in Eurovision. Fo Cheryl Cole a 2nd place in Eurovision would be a disaster....
2nd place would be fine. We can always blame Eastern European bloc voting for that. If we come outside the top 20, that's a disaster.
Some british people said somewhere that ESC is a "gay contest" in UK so a lot of artists avoid their association with it. In eastern countries the contest is more popular I think, artists wish to participate....and we don't have this wrong mentality, all people like ESC not only gay people.
