Eurovision and Baila El Chiki Chiki

On Friday, my tandem group and I went for lunch. After lunch, we just hung out in the park. The Spanish girls showed me a lot of Spanish songs. Here I will introduce a special song from the Eurovision Song Contest.

Though I’ve never heard of Eurovision Song Contest before, the girls told me that the contest is huge in Europe. Each year, European countries will hold contest and decide their best song. For Spain, France, Italy, England and Germany, their songs are automatically qualified for the final because they put a lot of money into the contest. Except the five countries and the host country, all other countries have to compete for the final.

On 2008, Spain sent this song called “Baila el Chiki Chiki”!! It’s hilarious!!!!

In such a serious contest, it’s like a joke. But this is epic!! LOVE it. lol. The guy was from another comedy show and they didn’t expect this would be selected to be sent to the final.

At first, the song that they sent to the contest to represent was decided by votes from people. But after this song, judges’ opinion and the votes count fifty fifty. lol. Oh! And this song didn’t get the worse final score in the contest. Greek people actually loved the song!

The girls told me that because of Spain’s financial status, Spain actually doesn’t want to win. Because the winner country will hold the next contest and Spain doesn’t want to spend money on this. Then I asked they what would happen if the song that people chose is actually really good. They told me that there was one time, a very good song by a famous singer was sent to the competition. But the song was ranked pretty low in the final. After the contest, the singer’s career went down. After that, no other great singers and groups tried. The girls also said that it’s very difficult for Spain to win because:

1. People can only vote for songs that are not from their own countries. People live in nearby countries vote for each other. But Spain doesn’t have many neighbors. Well, if a person lives near the boarder, they can actually travel to the other country to vote for their own country. But that’s only a small part.

2. Spain always sends songs in Spanish, while most countries send songs in English for more people to understand the lyrics;

    3. Because the five countries don’t have to compete for the final but other countries have to, people in other countries don’t usually like those countries and don’t want to vote for them.

Btw, this year’s winner is Sweden. It’s a beautiful song called “Euphoria” :)