Anyone watching Eurovision?

mossygreen had a video to watch said Tue, May 9th 2017 at 11:51pm ET

I generally don’t, and haven’t in years, but I found myself on The Telegraph website for unrelated reasons and noticed this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/eurovision-song-contest-2017-competitors-taking-part/

Long story short, Italy’s song has a dancing gorilla in the second half of the video and is also the favorite to win. Coincidence?

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jqubed said Wed, May 10th 2017 at 1:06am ET:

Once they started blocking the YouTube stream to the U.S. I haven’t watched. I was thinking about using one of those VPN services for general use anyway, and maybe getting one that would let me set my exit to a country where the YouTube stream works, as soon as I bother to figure out which are the few countries where that works.

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- @jqubed Oh man, I didn’t even know there was a youtube stream, and now I’m mad that I can’t watch it.
  
  mossygreen said Wed, May 10th 2017 at 11:53pm ET
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aungericht said Wed, May 10th 2017 at 10:18am ET:

Oddly entertaining even though I don’t speak Italian.

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- @aungericht Right? Generically uplifting EuroDisco beat, a part where people can shout, (apparently) snarky lyrics about cultural appropriation AND a dancing gorilla? It has everything I want to hear in the background of a European vacation when I’m buying overpriced ice cream in a park. Which I now want to do.
  
  mossygreen said Thu, May 11th 2017 at 12:33am ET
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- @mossygreen The goofy songs are part of the appeal, but I find the voting to be equally entertaining.
  
  jqubed said Thu, May 11th 2017 at 1:08am ET
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