Why can't we have an American version of Eurovision?

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I really know almost nothing about Eurovision, but I am jealous of the concept and would like to have an American version with participants from different states battling it out with their incredibly cheezy and awful songs. Maybe we could be nice and invite performers from Canada and various Latin American countries to perform as well. Would this work? Would people watch it? And wouldn't it be cool?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Eurovision more about songs and less about performers?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

only if you would still read out the scores in french as well as english.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

it's mostly about the scoring part and terry wogan

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything I know about Eurovision I learned from Father Ted.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

nil points > costumes > wogan

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

and grandmama's drums with the mallet in her big house.

eurovison will only work if most people don't really take it seriously - i cannot see it happening in america.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Non! I don't think it would be the same without the strenuous European efforts to shoe-horn just a little bit of whatever country's traditional culture into the song. But maybe this would take the form of some duelling banjo action in the Alabama entry or whatever.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

That's how I envision it, there is so much STATE PATRIOTISM in the US that I think it could work. California could have a fuzz guitar solo in their song, Michigan would have a techno beat, etc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

But the repeating everything in French? You're not Canadian, dude, how would you replicate the joy that comes from that?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Do certain US states stick together/hate each other enough for this? (I do not know enough about America to answer this). You need to be able to predict exactly which state will give 10 points to which (the way the Greece/Cyprus vote goes, for example).

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather there weren't any sorts of regional biases! I mean COME ON CYPRUS!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah you'd totally need the factions! scandinavia! baltic states! uk/ireland! greece/cyprus!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Amerivision?
Uhuh, uhuh.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Because Florida would win every time.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

after an illegal recount.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

it should be called amerrovision, of course.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

now that sort of smacks of 'error', dunnit not?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Amurrkivision

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Would they still have silly song titles though (Boom-Bang-A-Bang and the like?)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

They should, dude!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Incidentally, I was looking up the band Monaco on Soulseek but kept finding the principality of Monaco's entries into Eurovision available for download. I'm tempted.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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