2022 American Song Contest

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

This applies to both music and television, so I post it here. The first edition of the American Song Contest has begun. It was postponed with one year, from 2021 to 2022, because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

It is a spinoff on the Eurovision Song Contest, but instead of being a contest between European countries, the American Song Contest is a contest between federated states and territories of the United States of America.

https://eurovision.tv/story/the-amer...about-to-begin





The Eurovision Song Contest was first held in 1956, and included countries from Central, Northern, Southern and Western Europe (including Yugoslavia just a couple of years later). Countries from the Socialist bloc in Eastern Europe joined in the 1990's, following the Eastern European Revolutions of 1989.

[neatoman]

... OK, I know that technically the individual US states are big enough to be countries in their right, both in territory and population. Some (if not most) are bigger than European countries, but it still somehow feel less... Significant because it's still technically an intranational competition.

It's kind of like how the NFL refers to itself as "The World Cup", it's technically correct but only because hardly anyone plays that game outside the US.

[Jester]

When I first heard about it I wondered if it would include Canada, Mexico, and South America too. I'm kinda disappointment it's just the 50 states and some territories.

Made me think of:

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by neatoman

It's kind of like how the NFL refers to itself as "The World Cup", it's technically correct but only because hardly anyone plays that game outside the US.

It is the Major League Baseball playoffs that refers to itself as the World Series.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

It is the Major League Baseball playoffs that refers to itself as the World Series.

Hey! There are Canadian teams...er...is a Canadian team.

[IndigoErth]

Wait... when I saw an ad for it back in Feb. I didn't realize that some states were going to be represented by people who are already platinum record holders and Grammy winning/nominated artists already with top of the line professional experience in the industry. I figured this was just going to be all local singers/bands who were chosen by casting. Hmm.

Like pitting state football teams against each other in some off season match, but the handful of us without local NFL teams have to use a college one instead... lol

Unless those states lack someone local who'd stand a chance so a celeb was called in for it?

I'll probably never remember its on anyhow, but curious to find out of the celebrity singers have an upper hand or if that is a negative factor because them winning would be boring.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

I'll probably never remember its on anyhow, but curious to find out of the celebrity singers have an upper hand or if that is a negative factor because them winning would be boring.

A lot of Swedish artists and pop group use the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest preselection as a way to promote new songs. Their main ambition is scoring a radio hit rather than their song winning.