A topic many times discussed, here, there and everywhere around the ESC universe. Still, I want to talk about it again.
The Eurovision Song Contest started with the idea of celebrating Europe's cultural diversity. To do so, the contest only admitted songs performed in the mother tongue of the artist.
Today, we observe a hegemony of the English language, and hardly anyone thinks of singing in their native, probably a bit exotic, language. Needless to mention the quality of the English, often taking the patience of a herd of elephants to get it.
Or perhaps the ESC simply translates the trend of globalization, when you can sing in any language, as long as it is English.. Smacks of conveyor-belt production? What do you reckon?
Eurovision 2009 » ESC
Mother tongue or not mother tongue
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