THE BOSTON PEOPLE'S FRIEND. 29 Floréal CCXXVII
EUROSONG 227: YOUR GUIDE FROM THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND
Citizens, it’s happening again! Gather round the kinetoscopes, crack open the drink of your choice and leave your taste at the door, because it’s EuroSong 227!
What’s that you say citizen? You haven’t been keeping up with the run up to the competition? Don’t you know we’re taking part this year? Wait… you don’t know anything about EuroSong! Ah! No wonder you’re confused by this great display of culture. It may look as if the continent which produced Mozart and Moliere has decided to spend one week a year getting drunk and watching very heavily perfumed-and-painted musicians sing terrible songs that alternate saccharine sweetness, blatant lust and calls for political violence- but wait, no, it is what it looks like.
Let’s explain.
I remember: ‘Letters from Cleo!’
That’s the one! It helped that the competition needed another few nations to even out the new round structure. So now the Alawiyya send entries from Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine and the Ottomans send entries from Anatolia, Rumelia and Mesopotamia. Eureka used to be a regular wild card, but now they’re a standard part of the competition. Even the Tsardom’s been allowed an entry now. And there’s three wild cards- this year they’ve gone to Brazil, Sokoto and Corea.
Seriously, practice the catchphrase: ‘Brythonia: Nil points.’
EUROSONG 227: YOUR GUIDE FROM THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND
Citizens, it’s happening again! Gather round the kinetoscopes, crack open the drink of your choice and leave your taste at the door, because it’s EuroSong 227!
What’s that you say citizen? You haven’t been keeping up with the run up to the competition? Don’t you know we’re taking part this year? Wait… you don’t know anything about EuroSong! Ah! No wonder you’re confused by this great display of culture. It may look as if the continent which produced Mozart and Moliere has decided to spend one week a year getting drunk and watching very heavily perfumed-and-painted musicians sing terrible songs that alternate saccharine sweetness, blatant lust and calls for political violence- but wait, no, it is what it looks like.
Let’s explain.
- What is EuroSong?
- So it started in Helvetia… but it hasn’t stayed there, right?
- Where’s it happening this time around?
- So, what should I expect?
- Back up. At the start… You said that some of the contenders aren’t Republics?
I remember: ‘Letters from Cleo!’
That’s the one! It helped that the competition needed another few nations to even out the new round structure. So now the Alawiyya send entries from Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine and the Ottomans send entries from Anatolia, Rumelia and Mesopotamia. Eureka used to be a regular wild card, but now they’re a standard part of the competition. Even the Tsardom’s been allowed an entry now. And there’s three wild cards- this year they’ve gone to Brazil, Sokoto and Corea.
- Wait, you said there were twelve guest nations. You just listed eleven.
- So I should be excited about this?
- Write disapproving commentary in the journals and lament the decline in civic unity?
- So what should I say to be taken seriously at a EuroSong party?
- Could this be the year that we see a great entry from the Brythonic Republic?
Seriously, practice the catchphrase: ‘Brythonia: Nil points.’
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