Eurovision Rants

The Memes / Joke Acts

If you might be a new little europal in the labyrinth of musical oddities, you might have been introduced to Eurovision by a friend or as the Internet likes - through memes. And usually like 96% of the cases your friend suggests you as a first Eurovision song to listen a joke/novelty act or a song which became easily a meme.

Oh, Youtube loves those damn memes, don't they?

So, one of the examples given here as a meme song is the viral "Epic Sax Guy". Some people were introduced to Eurovision just by trying to find the original song from where the Epic Sax Guy hailed from.

By the way, the "Epic Sax Guy" showed up there is a member of the Moldovan trio Sunstroke Project. Now, people might not locate well Moldova on a regular map. But you can remember it as the country which invented this meme.

And this is the original song! It did participate in Eurovision back in 2010, but placed rather poorly for a meme song which went viral. "Run Away", the song which basically introduced this viral meme, came 22nd in the end and it barely qualified from its semi-final.

Now, don't be sad, because Sunstroke Project actually returned in 2017 to avenge their little country after a series of poor results in the past 3 years before that.

And guess what?

Epic Sax Guy 2.0! So the meme, the legend, was back, back again to gain what was his. (Or theirs, they're a trio and function as a trio).

And look at that: they came 3rd overall in that year, and gained Moldova's best result in years. Who said memes aren't good for something though?

Another example of an iconic act which gained a lot of notoriety outside the Eurovision fanbase is this gem:

TANZEN!

Now, for some other europals which were introduced into this contest, this one was probably the act which changed literally everything you thought to be logical in life. Or maybe started dancing like a maniac to this, while having the melody in your head for the rest of the day.

Verka Serduchka. The meme, the legend, the uncrowned queen of Eurovision memes and whatever else. You name it, Verka probably did it without any shame.

Love it or hate it, but "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" is a song which basically began the new wave of joke acts in the 2000's in the silliest, most campy way possible.

Despite beginning as a controversial act during the 2007 competition (I want to see, Russia goodbye line over there, which is misheard), this novelty act came second in the end - being beaten only by Serbia in the same year.

Now that's what I call memorable. And this character literally made my childhood so damn awesome back then.

Those kind of meme/novelty acts became so requested by europals because of their campy style of not giving any fuck while basically performing the songs in front of the European audience and not only.

Assuming Eurovision isn't for everyone though. It's all having fun and loving what you do on stage, while representing your country.

~Kebab