May 16, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| The Eurovision Song Contest is the most watched non-sporting event in the world. | |
| It started in 1956 as a way for European countries to come together with music to help heal the wounds of the Second World War. | |
| It has since become a full-blown festival of degeneracy. | |
| This group, Nebulosa, was one of this year's competitors. | |
| Popular music has had revolting acts for a long time, but Eurovision is different. | |
| It is the Olympics of song. | |
| Every group is chosen by the national broadcaster. | |
| That would be the BBC in the case of Britain. | |
| And this is supposed to be the face of the nation. | |
| At one point in the contest, the participants come up on stage with national flags, just like the Olympics. | |
| There is a strange whimsy about the countries that participate. | |
| This year's 37 contestants included Australia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus, and Israel, though they aren't in Europe. | |
| Morocco participated one year. | |
| China tried to join in 2015 but wasn't let in. | |
| Israel has competed 45 times and won the contest four times, and this is probably why Turkey is the only regular Muslim participant. | |
| The stage has the words United by Music projected on it, but Eurovision is drenched in politics. | |
| This year, there were thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators demanding that the Israeli contestant get the boot. | |
| Greta Thunberg, hollering for Hamas, was arrested for failing to disperse. | |
| Watching the winners over the years is sobering. | |
| This Act I in 1956. | |
| This Act I in 1956. | |
| By 1965, the songs were more up-tempo. | |
| Si je meilleur, si je vis recul pour le salon | |
| In 1974, ABBA was the winner. | |
| Wabaloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to. | |
| Wabaloo, knowing my fate is to be with you. | |
| Celine Dion pretty much closed out the 1980s. | |
| I'm going through my heart, let me follow you. | |
| Who will free others, let me live. | |
| By the 1990s, there was dancing that would have astonished earlier winners. | |
| I'm a song of a stormy, fast today. | |
| Nothing can help me when it's in my head. | |
| I'm a song of a stormy, night and day. | |
| I'm a song of a stormy, fast today. | |
| 2006 might have been the first year of the deliberately repulsive winner. | |
| The winners were so big, oh, dear old angels, with that heart, rock, hallelujah. | |
| The winners and angels, only one have a word. | |
| In 2009, backup dancers were doing push-ups. | |
| In 2010, it was still possible to win without being outright freakish. | |
| Love, oh love, I gotta tell ya how I feel about you Cause I, oh I, can go a minute without you alone | |
| Not so in 2014. | |
| Out of the ashes seeking love and avengence Retribution you were warned Once I'm transformed | |
| The man in the dress is an Austrian who goes by the name Conchita Wurst. | |
| Conchita is Spanish slang for the vagina, and Wurst is German slang for the penis. | |
| 2022 was shamelessly political. | |
| Russia was kicked out because of war with Ukraine. | |
| And guess who won? | |
| The Ukrainians, of course. | |
| And they didn't even have to be grotesque. | |
| *Muchas singing* | |
| But last year's winner was aggressively weird. | |
| I'm a brightest people move. | |
| You stop coming and I get the people move. | |
| No, I don't care about the pain. | |
| I want the fire to burn. | |
| You might imagine that this year's acts from Eastern Europe would be more traditional than the decadent West. | |
| You'd be wrong. | |
| Here are the Serbians. | |
| The Estonians look like they're trying to be black gang members. | |
| And this Irish creature called Bambi Thug seems to be a Satanist. | |
| *outro music* | |
| I expected an orgy of BIPOCs, but was spared. | |
| This practically pornographic Austrian entry lets just a few non-white faces flash by. | |
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| The one out-and-out African contestant, representing Denmark of all places, dressed relatively modestly and performed without acrobats. | |
| I can feel you slipping through my hands Yes, we build a castle out of sand | |
| But, needless to say, the winner, crowned just last weekend, was a non-binary something from Switzerland. | |
| The story is my truth. | |
| I, I went to hell and night. | |
| This brings me to how the contest is scored. | |
| Half of the votes are cast by professional music business judges, and half are cast by viewers who do it by internet. | |
| The winning Swiss creature got a lot more votes from judges than from viewers. | |
| Which leaves you suspecting a thumb on the scales. | |
| The Israeli girl, who got boos from the floor, came in fifth, but with a lot more viewer votes than judges' votes. | |
| With huge crowds roaring anti-Israel slogans outside the hall, I imagine the judges were worried that if she won, there would be riots. | |
| But even worse than the politics is the degeneracy, along with a strong dose of salaciousness. | |
| Remember, this isn't a private enterprise race to the bottom. | |
| National broadcasters choose these acts to represent their countries. | |
| The goal of many groups seems to be outrage and even perversion, if we're still allowed to use that word. | |
| An old-style song, no matter how beautifully performed, would never make it through the national competition, much less win. | |
| And this is an internal sickness we can't blame on the Great Replacement. | |
| Much of Eurovision is frankly nihilist. | |
| It says there's no such thing as beauty, good health, or purity of heart. | |
| The contestants carry national flags, but you wonder why. | |
| What does nation mean to these people? | |
| Increasingly, wherever they come from, they sing in English. | |
| Laugh all you like at this North Korean girl band. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| But which is better, Eurovision or these ladies singing, Study Now! | |
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