Re: ??????? - Ukraine 2010 - Vasyl' Lazarovich
The anthology of Ukrainian scandals:
2003 - people whined that Alexander became the 1st representative because he was Mozgova's husband and she was the Head of the Music department of NTU then.
2005 - The biggest political scandal ever, certain politics even confessed that they "insisted" so the voting was faked. Without any explanation few entries were added right to the final (when others had to go through quarterfinals) because of political reason. The new political party wanted to promote Orange Revolution so everything turned on a dirty circus. Ani Lorak became some kind of political victim (though she was invited in 2008).
2007 - Radical psychos were burning handmade dolls of Verka in front of NTU screaming about moral etc. This is when people found out that NTU didn't sponsor our ESC entry at all in fact they even asked for money :shock:
2008 - Rather behind the stage scandal between Kirkorov and NTU bosses. NTU also didn't sponsor Ani, they asked for money in order to make normal NF.
2009 - The biggest scandal since 2005. Pryhod'ko was kicked out of the selection because her song didn't fit the NF rules. Instead she gave them the new song but NTU refused to accept it. After that Mozgova (she was fired in 2007 right after Verka's success) teamed up with Pryhod'ko and together with 1 pr agency they organized a huge scandal. Suddenly Pryhod'ko became a victim of political channel (NTU) that didn't want to accept her because of her Russian success (she was the winner of Russian Star Factory ie. ORT's fave). And dirty circus began again ... everything was taken to the point when the court had to decide if NTU was eligible to host the NF
They postponed the NF few times, everything could end up very bad -> we could withdraw because of court's decision but Mozgova refused from the case so it was closed just few days before the NF.
2010 - scandals become bigger... Novyi Channel is getting official warning from NTU about ESC selection. After that Novyi organizes the press-conference where they demand the NF. Court again?
ps. Lazarovich said that they will create a song that would appeal to the whole Europe. It won't be a patriotic song. Also it seems that it won't be a sad balald. It will be a catchy hit (ie. people should be able to remember the song because they like it, not because it's awful, lol). + collaboration with the best European authors, hmmm. The conception is not ready, he said that everything depends of a song.