Posted Wednesday at 18:271 day It was kinda obvious they were gonna be entering Eurovision after there was news the other day that CBC joined the EBU.But it's now been officially confirmed!https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.eurovision.com/stories/canada-will-debut-at-eurovision-song-contest-2027/&ved=2ahUKEwjG1pCyjbKVAxU3YUEAHX82H3MQFnoECFkQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2tB1QkTfQbalPJqh6DmkSM
Wednesday at 21:171 day I’m not really a fan of this. They should focus on solving their internal issues instead of bringing in Canada for mostly political and economic reasons.
Wednesday at 21:351 day I say the more the merrier, especially in the current climate thanks to their own dear neighbours x
Wednesday at 21:511 day sceptical that this will lead to US within a fewCanada's fine by themselves but nothing too exciting on its own
17 hours ago17 hr It seem like every decision the EBU has made over the last few years serves to dilute Eurovision. It's all about money now because it continually has to prop itself up due to the fall out of those decisions. Just pitch-correct the singers or allow them to lip-synch and be done with destroying the whole thing in one step, instead of this slow tortured erosion. As gooddelta said yesterday, Eurovision is irrelevant now. Once it was at the forefront of progress and inclusion - a platform for normalising and celebrating LGBT+ entertainment. For giving visibility.It could still have been politically brave by excluding Israel but instead it chose to allow that country to instrumentalise the contest.
15 hours ago15 hr Yeah not a great decision. Focus on sorting your issues to get longstanding countries back that mean something to Eurovision, don't look everywhere else to plug gaps in finances and country numbers made by your own terrible decisions.The contest is unrecognisable to me lately from the one I loved for over 20 years.
12 hours ago12 hr Indeed, this does feel like watering down the aim of the contest, like the football Copá America invites a whole bunch of random countries who want to take part in the South American tournament, or something like that.if the direction for Eurovision is to become more of a brand of one-upping new announcements, inviting more non-European countries (that fans will have to forever explain why they're there) at the expense of getting back Spain or the Netherlands, then it is not a good direction. Maybe Canada politically wants to move closer to Europe, that's fine - and they are politically compatible with the contest in the ways that Israel and Azerbaijan are not or shouldn't be. One clearly non-European guest was one thing with Australia, this is, well, a worry for how the contest will look and feel essentially.
9 hours ago9 hr It doesn’t greatly bother me either way because Canada is a country like Australia who I’m pretty sure will slide into Eurovision with no fuss or issues. I’d feel similarly about New Zealand, but there probably aren’t that many non European countries beyond that who could join without changing the vibe of the whole thing.I do take the point though about the EBU diverting attention from their failure to addressthe issues within their existing membership.
9 hours ago9 hr The general public still hasn't accepted Australia's participation, and every year people ask what Australia is doing in Eurovision. If Canada joins especially after the contest has become more politicized than ever over the past five years, I think it will finally be clear to most people that Eurovision as we know it is over.At this point, I think it's only a matter of time before the EBU officially acknowledges that too, perhaps with a name change within the next 15 years.I understand the financial pressures and why they're making these decisions. Expanding the brand is their way of keeping the show at its current scale and production quality. But, as always, the bigger fish eats the smaller one, and Europe's smaller, less wealthy countries will gradually become less relevant.Even bringing back Bulgaria and Romania last year, while several countries were withdrawing just to keep the participant count stable, felt like a desperate move. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some questionable deals behind it.But the one thing that seems almost certain is that we'll be hearing, several times in one evening: Good evening Europe, Good morning Australia and good afternoon, Canada! Well, maybe I won't hear that after alI bcs I don't really feel like watching anymore.
9 hours ago9 hr if Canada's involvement can't impact songs like Cha Cha Cha/Rim Tim Tagi Dim/Espresso Macchiato/Viva Moldova to enter Billboard Canada Hot 100, then it's a bad move.
8 hours ago8 hr 38 minutes ago, CowTzy was here said:if Canada's involvement can't impact songs like Cha Cha Cha/Rim Tim Tagi Dim/Espresso Macchiato/Viva Moldova to enter Billboard Canada Hot 100, then it's a bad move.I’d put good money on bbno$ being a part of this lineage within 3 years of Canada being a part of the competition.
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