He Eurovision Festival had been a reason for repeated dislikes For Russia in the years prior to its definitive expulsion, in 2022, as punishment to large -scale invasion of Ukraine. In the 2014 edition, the year in which the Kremlin annexed the Crimean Peninsula, the Tomalchevy twins, their two representatives, were booed by an audience that paid with them the imperialist veleities of their government, also seeing how the Austrian representative, Conchita Wursst, artistic name of Thomas Neuwirthwas imposed on the B & W Hallerne stage of Copenhagen dressed as a Barbuda woman. In Moscow, a country in which state homophobia It was impregnating the official discourse to forced marches, that was interpreted as a sound upside down to its values and postulates.
In the next edition, in 2015, the disagreement was draft. Paulina Gagarinaa popular Russian singer of spectacular voice that, at present, encourages Belicist evenings in Moscow, being sanctioned for it, was in second place despite being a favorite in many pools, which also motivated sour criticism from Russia. A year later, the drop that spilled the glass was finally poured: JamalUkrainian representative, a singer of Tartar origin, won a song that denounced the deportations of the minority Tartara de Crimea under the terror regime of Stalin in the 40s. “Foreigners come, they come to your house, they kill everyone and say: ‘We are not guilty'”, start the letter of the letter of the letter of tema musical.
Before so much contempt lived in the most veteran music festival of the Old Continent, the authorities of Russia seem to have concluded that the Refalket time. In the belief that Vladimir Putin He has finally managed to break international ostracism in recent months thanks to the recent Alaska meeting with the president Donald Trump and the last summit of the Shangái cooperation organizationMoscow has organized a musical contest that aims to be erected in the alternative to Eurovision and in which countries will participate that, to a greater or lesser extent, continue to cultivate relations with the Kremlin and refuse to secondary the international sanctionsto those who, yes, have added the surprising participation of an American representative: the singer of Australian origin Vassy, with four million listeners in Spotify, who, paradoxically, came to encourage manifestations of gay pride in her country.
The chosen format
The chosen format is the so -called Intermission Festival, the old network that grouped the televisions of communist Europe, which organized musical competitions in the 60s and 70s In Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, and the city of Sopot, in Poland, until they were interrupted by trade union protests against the communist regime in neighboring Gdansk. In this reissue of the interview festival, on the other hand, the contestant grill will be composed of representatives of countries from various continents, some of them with nourished populations-China, India, South Africa- with which Moscow expects to obtain a record figure of viewers who, according to their calculations, should exceed 166 billion spectators who saw the latest edition of the Eurovision Festival in the Swiss city of Basilea. “If one in three or four inhabitants look at the contest, it will be a record hearing,” Pervyi kanalthe first Russian public television channel.
The contest will constitute oneBigarrada musical representation Planetary, something like if the late Festival of the Ibero -American Song OTI would season with African rhythms, music of soft medianar and frantic chords pop rhythms of the east European. By Colombia, country whose current authorities aspire to integrate into the BRICS will sing Nidia Góngoraby Venezuela, close ally of the Kremlin, the singer will do it Omar Acebowhile Cuba will be represented. Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, China, Madagascar, and Ethiopia, among others, in addition to the Soviet ex -refuels of Central Asia, have also sent representatives. Russia, the host country, will be represented by singer Shaman, a barely known artist before the invasion of Ukraine who gained popularity for his public support for the Russian invasion, even composing a song that paraphrased Adolf Hitler’s literary work, under the title ‘Moy Voy‘(My fight).
All paraphernalia keep huge similarities with the annual Eurovisive appointment: from tables with the national flags where the singers feel, to the covers of the television broadcast. Of course, there will be two substantial differences. The first: The winning song will be chosen by a jury ‘Sûr Place’, avoiding the exciting moment of voting by countries in Eurovisive Nemesis. The second, and probably the most important: there will be no concession to the LGTBI+movement, nor will transgender singers appear on stage. As explained by Russian Foreign Minister, SERGUÉI LAVROV, To whom a good part of the initiative is ribbed, “there will be no perversion or vexation about the nature of the human being: singers will act how their parents were educated and God created them.”
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