Talking about 2012, I know the answer actually but still, I have a question. San Marino was prevented from singing the original version of their song because it had that Facebook lyric, and per ESC rules advertising brands were forbidden and many people even gave the example of that Coca Cola song from Sweden.
Fast-forward to 4 years later literally the second sentence of Australian song is "Trying to feel your love through Facetime" why did no one made a fuss about this I mean I understand EBU's silence but what about the other delegations?
The EBU tend to make as many excuses as possible for pretty much every rule break in order to keep the peace. Facebook was blatant so they had to ask them to change it, but in Sound of Silence the lyrics have it down as "face time" rather than "FaceTime" so they just went with that
Talking about 2012, I know the answer actually but still, I have a question. San Marino was prevented from singing the original version of their song because it had that Facebook lyric, and per ESC rules advertising brands were forbidden and many people even gave the example of that Coca Cola song from Sweden.
Fast-forward to 4 years later literally the second sentence of Australian song is "Trying to feel your love through Facetime" why did no one made a fuss about this I mean I understand EBU's silence but what about the other delegations?
plus, they did make a complaint about it, Reference Group ruled it wasn't. Even if it was, they would only have to rewrite the lyrics. That's not that big of a deal
plus, they did make a complaint about it, Reference Group ruled it wasn't. Even if it was, they would only have to rewrite the lyrics. That's not that big of a deal
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time spent meeting with someone
time spent at the place where you work especially before or after normal working hours
the amount of time someone spends appearing on television
How can you feel someone's love through one of these? It was obviously about the app.
I know they would only leave that sentence/word out but I didn't know there was a complaint.
I feel bad for Nina because I hadn't heard her song before the final and I was really turned off by it, but after listening to the studio and her other live performances, I really like her and the song