Eurovision 2010

Song too political for Eurovision Song Contest

Georgia has pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest after the organisers, EBU, banned it from entering with the song `We don’t wanna put in´. The act was seen as `mocking´ Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin.

EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, in a statement from the Geneva headquarter on10 March announced that the Reference Group of the Eurovision Song Contest had decided that “the title and lyrics of the selected Georgian entry for this year’s Contest do not comply with Section 4 Rule 9 of the Rules of the 54th Eurovision Song Contest, and cannot take part in the competition as such.”

According to the rules`the lyrics and/or performance of the songs shall not bring the Shows or the Eurovision Song Contest as such into disrepute. No lyrics, speeches, gestures of a political or similar nature shall be permitted during the Eurovision Song Contest.´

Georgia, however, rejected an offer to revise the lyrics to We Don’t Wanna Put In, whose chorus played on the Russian Prime Minister’s surname.

In an interview with UK based the Times Natia Uznadze, a producer at at Georgian public television, which organised the national contest in which viewers chose the entry, said:

“We have decided not to change the lyrics or choose a different song. We will not go to Moscow and will not take part in Eurovision 2009,. Source

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