Archive for the ‘In the press’ Category

Switzerland: Zero points

Posted: November 17, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in In the press, Switzerland
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Switzerland - Under the title “Switzerland: Zero points” the website 20MinutenOnline has published its assessment of the Swiss finalists for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Their opinion: devastating! The prejudice, that the Swiss are a very humble people is reinforced in this article. They don’t talk about the question “Who will win for us” but rather “Who will not come last with zero points for us”. “A flop becomes apparent – a disgrace seems inevitable” (more…)

Lena or nostalgia?

Posted: November 9, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Germany, In the press
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Germany – The German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” has recently published an article entitled “German Eurovision fans divided – Lena or nostalgia” on the occasion of EC Germany’s annual fan club meeting.  Firstly, they compare Ralph Siegel (who wrote 18 Eurovision entries to date) with Troubadix from the famous Asterix comics: (more…)

How to write a Eurovision winner

Posted: November 4, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, In the press
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In the press -”What’s the main ingredient of a winning Eurovision lyric?” asks BBC journalist Mark Savage in his article, and his answer is “love”.  Savage looked at the lyrics of each of the winning songs since 1956 and analysed the words that are used. “Love” accounts for an impressive 2% (one in 50 words in a Eurovision winner). For the article they took every single winning lyric (including English translations where necessary) and fed them into the Wordle website, which then provided an image of the most popular Eurovision words in 56 years:  (more…)