Eurovision is canceled, but its wonderfully over-the-top music videos live on
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Inform the sequin producers: Eurovision has formally been canceled.
Sure, the world’s largest singing competitors—additionally, not coincidentally, one among its single largest shoppers of jumpsuits, aptitude, and a really Swedish model of “perspective”—has announced that it’ll be becoming a member of most different main occasions for the unforseeable future by canceling its 2020 installment. Eurovision’s semi-finals had been set to happen in Rotterdam on Could 12-14, with the ultimate competitors to find out musical supremacy to happen on Could 16.
Initially launched in 1956 as a means for the international locations of the world to air out their regional variations with out being compelled to resort to battle or sports activities, Eurovision has been an establishment for almost 7 many years, with this 12 months’s competitors being the primary it’s missed in that complete time. The competitors has a rabid fanbase on Twitter, with critiques of more and more out-there performances and stage set-ups raucously celebrated by all people, even us poor, disadvantaged Individuals who don’t get to area an entry yearly.
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That being stated: You don’t have to completely deprive your self of a few of the weirdest set designs and dance decisions in trendy music. The Eurovision YouTube channel has loads of movies of finalists/semi-finalists and their efficiency, together with the magnifying-glass-based dance strikes of Lithuania’s The Roop, and the legitimately form of nifty, “Children Integrated”-esque look sported by Iceland’s Daði & Gagnamagnið. (Iceland additionally fielded final 12 months’s “S&M torture dungeon” band Hatari; Iceland offers good Eurovision.)
