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Georgians Consider Eurovision Pop Protest
Georgians may use the Eurovision Song Contest to poke fun at neighbouring Russia after losing last year's war between the two countries, if one potentially provocative song is chosen by the Georgian public as their entry for 2009. Eurovision, of course, will be held this year in Moscow, where the song Put-In Disco would probably not get much of an enthusiastic welcome. According to the Georgian pro-government television channel Rustavi-2, "the content of the song will be embarrassing for the Kremlin". But the TV station believes that it will not breach the contest's rules because "the lyrics do not include insulting phrases".
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| February 19, 2009 1:53 PM
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BTW: They changed the lyrics from the original audio recording for the live performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXm6fFeUDE
Now there's reference to "shoot him..."
And check out the mimicking of a gun at the end as well as the slowly rising Nazi salute.
To be honest, I don't even think they're expecting to perform in Moscow...
| February 27, 2009 8:38 AM
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i think the whole idea is just disgraceful to georgia and georgian music in general
just a cheap propaganda
and i hope they will be banned to perform
What do you think?
Matthew Collin in Georgia:
Matthew Collin reports for Al Jazeera from Georgia, and is the author of several books including 'The Time of the...
This is Stefane & 3G:
http://www.eurovision-georgia.ge/participants/3g/3g.aspx?LanguageID=2
The song, incidentally, can be downloaded at:
http://www.eurovision-georgia.ge/participants/3g/Stefane_da_3G_-_Put_in_Disco.mp3