Translated material
"The Swede is also ours!"
Judging by the results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, Europe voted with her heart, and not its political views.
In Vienna, Eurovision has two main platforms. One in Vienna Stadthalle, from where, in fact, a direct television broadcast of the competition is being conducted. This hall accommodates ten thousand people, but it was still impossible to buy tickets for the final, a month before the start of Eurovision, only the most expensive ones, worth 600-1000 euros, remained on sale. Nevertheless, everyone could see the rehearsals of the semi -finals and the finals, this pleasure was much more accessible - for example, I sat on rehearsals for 79 euros, and you could stand up for only 49. Those who stood, by the way, did not stand at all, but were dancing and were terribly satisfied with this. Well, the spectacle itself differed from the actual television broadcast itself only in that the results of the audience vote were not announced on it, and all the same, lively support by the public performers, live glee after each number and live technical effects, which, of course, made even more impression than the music itself. In general, the living picture of this hall itself was impressive much more than her image on huge plasma screens that were placed all over this giant hall. I'm afraid the one who once sees this spectacle in its natural form, on TV, will not be able to watch it anymore, too unequal competition.
By the way, before the presentation, the organizers warn the audience so that it doesn’t whistle in any way, do not offend those musicians who, for some reason, do not like it, but this warning seemed unnecessary to me-they met everyone in a row here, exploding, of course, on the numbers of those performers who were extremely spectacular, like the performances of the Serbian singer Boyana Stamenov, Russian Polina Gagarina, Russian Polina Gagarina. The Italian group IL Volo and, of course, the Swedes of Mons Zelemerlev - by the way, the last three, in the end, will make up the podium, so in principle, according to the rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal, it was highly likely to determine the three winners.
The second large Eurovision site was the area of the Town Hall, where the audience gathered at huge plasma screens.
Most, of course, occupied the site itself at the town hall, and the smaller stood on the steps of the theater located opposite. They were separated by tram tracks. However, in the evening of the final, there were so many people that the movement of trams on this site had to be canceled. By the way, in Vienna, all these days there was a silent rainy weather - nothing, the people did not stop it!
In this square, fans were not divided into countries, everything was mixed up, everyone was sick for each other. British fans were especially bright.
For some reason, they came across to me at every step.
The most spectacular, most cheerful, very distinguished on this "Eurovision" were they - fans from Britain.
All screens in this square showed, of course, the same thing. And suddenly on one of them I saw a completely different person - not the one who was everywhere at that moment in the frame. It turned out that this is a Surda-translator, who at this moment “voiced” the number of the Belgian performer.
Closer to the end of the final performance, I decided to move to the press center. She sat in a taxi. And she said that I was going to Stadthalle, where does the Eurovision’s live broadcast come from. And suddenly the driver announced to me that he was never looking at Eurovision, because he was outraged that the main thing in him is politics, not music. He asked: where did I come from? I said that from Russia. And then my driver, who, in turn, turned out to be an Algerian, dedicated his fiery monologue to Russia. He said that Europe, for example, would never vote for the Russian performer, because Putin covered her eyes. "Well, because of the Crimea, you know." I said I know. He said that even if she is a supercarled singer, she still has no chance. “What is the highest score? Ten?” The driver said. “Never! Neither France nor Germany will put such a point, even if it will deserve it, and even if all the others put it on it. That's why I hate Eurovision,” he concluded. “And if they put good points in the Russian singer, it will mean that the music on Eurovision has defeated politics?” The driver agreed that he did not provide for such a variant of the development of events, and when Pauline Gagarina began to give very high points, so she immediately knocked out to the leaders, I was looking forward to those that would give it to France and they took it. Germany is all 12!
The leadership of Polina Gagarina continued, so to speak, twenty countries that put up grades. But in the whole, the countries were forty. By half the counting, Pauline began to ahead of the performer from Sweden Mons Zelemerlev. And then our press center has visible noticeably. Here I have to say that, despite the very warm welcome, provided by Pauline by the local public, the sympathy of the entire press center was still on the side of the Swede. Pauline successes with cries of delight were met by one Russian delegation. But the Swedish - the whole hall. And when his final victory was declared, the joy happened just total and indescribable.
A lady from the Swedish delegation, who was shed in tears of emotion, standing in front of a plasma screen, where Monsito Vurst, and where they now showed his radiant face, was right in front of her shining face, attracted special attention. She cried so eagerly with happiness that everyone asked each other: was she not a relative to him? I decided to approach and ask who she was, directly with herself. She said that she was a television producer, working in his team. Her name is Miller King. It would be nice if Mons knew how much she was betrayed for him.
Of course, journalists immediately began to interview their colleagues for the reaction of the Monsieur. Among these colleagues, they met very extravagant. Here, in general, many journalists were not much different from the fans in terms of dressing and dying in national colors.
Returning a little to the side, I want to express incredible admiration for the organizational talents of the current owners of Eurovision - the professional life of thousands of journalists working here was perfectly equipped. I can’t count how much money was invested in our reception, taking into account the fact that everyone had the right to free travel in public transport, everyone was given a local SIM card with a sufficient number of minutes of Internet traffic, everyone received a guest card of Vienna, allowing him to go to all museums for free and drive on all excursion buses, alas, there was no time to use it at all, but still vibrantly enormous. Thank you. I do not mention about tea, coffee and sweets, which were also distributed here. Yes, perfectly - I have no other words for them.
At the end of the show, our entire press center went in friendly rows to the Monsieur press conference, who said to a common delight that he did not exclude his marriage in July at all.
I do not think that he was going to arrange an unconventional marriage, if so - he would certainly clarify it. In this connection, the statement of one foreign journalist seemed to me somewhat strange (as it turned out a little later, Bulgarian). By the way, I did not hear his question, because I quickly returned from a press conference to my workplace to upload photos. My neighbor was a very nice Russian man, to whom I kept molesting with a question which of the pictures to choose for publication. And at some point, I realized from some remarks that the man works on Channel One, foreman-foreigners came up to him and his colleagues-girls to say goodbye and say good warm words to Polina. And one of them suddenly stated: “Have you heard what question I asked the Swede during a press conference? I said that the homosexual beginning won female beauty at this“ Euro Contraction ”! Because not one of those countries where the power was seized by sexual minorities!” There was no logic in this. It turned out that for its quite traditionally oriented Monsi, for some reason, exclusively “blue” lobby voted. I don’t know that Mons himself answered him, I didn’t listen to the fact that the colleague answered from Channel One, probably, both got off with something formally polite, well, there are things that are simply impossible to comment.
Yes, here is another interesting observation. Two young Russian journalists, I don’t know what publications, it is clear that they were passionately fought for Polina Gagarina. Then, when Polina began to concede Monsa, they had a pause of disappointment. And then one resolutely announced the other: "Well, nothing! The Swede is also ours!" - "I just wanted to say that our Swede!" - another crushed.
In conclusion, it should be said about the main heroine of "Eurovision" - end the VURST. It seems that this was the first time when the winner of Eurovision, thanks to which his country had the following competition, played such a huge role in all the procedures related to these events - I already wrote that the whole Vienna was filled with the conch , on all souvenirs, on the airships and on cardboard shields, and against her background, against her background, every guest of Euro -Council considers it to be photographed.
And how much it fell on it during the broadcasts itself, do not count at all-open, close, sing, congratulate the winner, the conveyor man this conchita is a lobby! And she became a real recognized star, and I already heard how one who was late for a rehearsal nervously asked: did she come up with Conchita? Will Condourch still sing? Conchit, it seems, becomes the same full -fledged Austrian symbol as Mozart, Vienna Opera or the same sausages (VURST).
PS The results of the competition in countries look like this: 1. Sweden 2. Russia 3. Italy 4. Belgium 5. Australia 6. Latvia 7. Estonia 8. Norway 9. Israel 10. Serbia 11. Georgia 12. Azerbaijan 13. Montenegro 14. Slovenia 15. Romania 16. Armenia 18. Lithuania 19. Greece 20. Hungary 21. Spain 22. Cyprus 23. Poland 24. Britain 25. France 26. Germany. 27. Austria.
The European audience was not impressed by the burning piano, demonstrated by the Austrian performer, so the Eurovision host country took the last place, losing, as it should be in a decent society, all the preceding places to its guests.