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Neapolitan · 05-21-2013, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

You could have a nitpicking contest instead.

But yeah, I think of Eurovision as different nations and representatives of different cultures coming together, musically battling it out for better and for worse. Different states competing against eachother doesn't quite sound like an American version of Eurovision. It sounds like an idea potentially inspired by Eurovision.

Europe has a different dynamic that other parts of the world so I don't see something be exactly analogous to an interstate or international contest. There is already American Idol which is a UK import really. And that is a franchise that has caught on in many different countries. If there was a song contest, and it was design just as a US version, it wouldn't be about different cultures per se but different music genres, and the songs would be in the styles of Country, Hip hop, Pop, Rock or Zydeco etc. There is still some local, regional differences that would make it interesting.

If hasn't catch on in the 40 something years that Eurovision been around, I doubt if it will catch on now. The purpose of these programs is to launch the career of the contestants. I don't know if a record company would invest in in a songwriter/performer just from one song. Large record companies are a bit of a dinosaur and they don't operate like you think they should. But if hypothetically it did if they had something like a Countryvision or a Hiphopvision where amateur or semi-professional artist would compete within a genre that might have a fan base large enough that could warrant such a show.