Musical Saturday Morning

Last week was the Eurovision song championships.  I have posted other entries from the contests in the past.  And here is the 2014 winning song and performance.

The only real heads up I will give you is that Conchita Wurst, is very obviously a guy named, Tom Neuwirth of Austria.  Is
Tom truly a drag queen?  Is he what ... ?

Certainly he is talented as his win has shown but critics have looked now upon the Eurovision contest as being not a talent contest but a reality show to parade all but talent across the screen.  As for Neuwirth, the BBC has written him off as the "bearded lady" of Eurovision.  Though Newwirth claims his wins is an act of unity and triumph (over what unspecified), it has not worn well even with Eurovision, in whose statement:
"... this act could be just gimmicky enough to damage its credibility as a song contest ..."



And so I leave you with this thought from Edward Gibbon, whom wrote this line between 1776-1788 in his book, ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’:

“The following five attributes marked Rome at its end:

• first, a mounting love of show and luxury;
• second, a widening gap between the very rich and the very poor
• third, an obsession with sex
• fourth, freakishness in the arts, masquerading as originality, and enthusiasms pretending to be creativity
• fifth, an increased desire to live off the state.”