Official song for Worlds 2021

[Tobbe]

Circles and Squares

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Måns Zelmerlöw won the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and Polina Gagarina came 2nd in the same contest.

 

[Frau Muller]

Circles and Squares

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Måns Zelmerlöw won the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and Polina Gagarina came 2nd in the same contest.

How creative of the ISU to select an official song! This idea sure beats holding that silly red carpet “Oscars-style” event that was planned for a year ago...remember? ?

 

[allezfred]

How creative of the ISU to select an official song! This idea sure beats holding that silly red carpet “Oscars-style” event that was planned for a year ago...remember? ?

We’ve had official songs before in 2017 and 2018. It’s not the ISU in so much as the local organising committee.

 

[Orm Irian]

Oh great. An official song. Sweden is actually starting to lock down in the face of a third wave, but the ISU is planning to run an event in Stockholm with no post-travel quarantine arrangements, no functional competition bubble, manifestly inadequate testing protocols, and athletes who are effectively being coerced to attend in order to gain Olympic spots also being required to sign waivers exempting the ISU of responsibility should they catch COVID-19 during the event...but it's all good, because there's an official song.

If you'd like to express your feelings about this in a way that the ISU will see, the hashtag #NoQuarantineNoWorlds on Twitter is picking up steam.

 

[tony]

Oh great. An official song. Sweden is actually starting to lock down in the face of a third wave, but the ISU is planning to run an event in Stockholm with no post-travel quarantine arrangements, no functional competition bubble, manifestly inadequate testing protocols, and athletes who are effectively being coerced to attend in order to gain Olympic spots also being required to sign waivers exempting the ISU of responsibility should they catch *********-19 during the event...but it's all good, because there's an official song.

If you'd like to express your feelings about this in a way that the ISU will see, the hashtag #NoQuarantineNoWorlds on Twitter is picking up steam.

Wasn't it you that said you weren't going to bother paying attention anymore because it was too much stress? If it was you, I'd think that's the better route to go than this constant stuff.

As pointed out above, it was probably the organizing committee who was behind this idea - who knows how long it has been in the works, but I'm sure it gave the artists something to do.

How do you know what the ISU has or doesn't have planned? Are you suggesting you have insider info about the exact final details of the event preparation and procedures?

NO ONE has to go to the event if they don't feel that they are safe. But for the billionth time: skaters all over the world are going to practice and working hard every day. They've said they want to compete, and you need not try to explain how they were supposedly forced into saying such things. Figure skating events are taking place in Europe the next few weekends. Nationals have happened in many different places. Athletes from your country are freely traveling and practicing as they want. Internationals have happened successfully in several different countries. The US, which so many here like to constantly bitch about, has pulled off two big-scale events when supposedly the air you breathe in here means an automatic positive test (and let me insert the ETA of these events being in Vegas. Most skaters still have to travel domestically through airports. The city of Vegas is running as close to 'normal' as possible comparatively speaking to most of the US. None of this means instant trouble or the wind is going to blow CV through a mask and infect everyone.) Speed skating has events going on. Other sports have events going on. Canada, which is almost completely shut down in some areas is still allowing elite athletes to get to the rink and skate.

Good grief. The people staying locked up and judging everything else should just stay locked up and off the internet. Figure skating is not the only thing in the world that matters. But it's also not the only thing trying to move on successfully with safety precautions in place. Why some people think figure skating and the ISU are the only thing that is trying to push forward is beyond me unless your life seriously only revolves around skating news.

 

[mjb52]

What is wrong with people? Why do some people want to destroy things so deeply? This is exactly what someone suggested was a problem in the other thread. People spread rumors and then try to use them to create pressure to cancel things. It's like some kind of weird psychological sickness. I sometimes wonder if these people even like the sport at all. Sometimes it seems like they literally hate life and they want to stop other people from living because they are so full of hate and envy for anyone who actually enjoys life.

 

[tony]

What is wrong with people? Why do some people want to destroy things so deeply? This is exactly what someone suggested was a problem in the other thread. People spread rumors and then try to use them to create pressure to cancel things.

Because they are going to come argue that 'all we care about is a stupid figure skating event like it's the only thing that matters' without realizing many other things in the world have been able to go on, at some level, without all this doom and gloom. But they seem to be unaware of those facts because they don't pay attention to anything else.

That, and I'm sure it's the typical 'hide behind a username and make a scene because I'm sooooo worried' Twitter fanatics. I'm tired of reading about the endless reasons why things can't happen. The line about skaters being coerced into something really pisses me off, as you saw above. The skaters would've sat their asses at home for the last year doing nothing if they didn't want to be put at any kind of risk, but MANY of them have competed as much as they could this year.

 

[AxelAnnie]

They should have chosen something from Frozen??

 

[MsZem]

Oh great. An official song. Sweden is actually starting to lock down in the face of a third wave, but the ISU is planning to run an event in Stockholm with no post-travel quarantine arrangements, no functional competition bubble, manifestly inadequate testing protocols, and athletes who are effectively being coerced to attend in order to gain Olympic spots also being required to sign waivers exempting the ISU of responsibility should they catch *********-19 during the event...but it's all good, because there's an official song.

If you'd like to express your feelings about this in a way that the ISU will see, the hashtag #NoQuarantineNoWorlds on Twitter is picking up steam.

I am sure the ISU and the Swedish government will reconsider their plans now that there's a hashtag.

It's perfectly fine to criticize the protocols for this event, but the insistence that no sporting event can be held safely/this will be Rostelecom 2 is getting ridiculous. Also there's nothing wrong with an official song, it's not like Mans and Polina would otherwise be volunteering at a vaccine site or the sound engineer would be working on better CV protocols.

(Mans is surprisingly competent for someone who's never been on figure skates, but I imagine he has skated before - maybe hockey skates?)

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

Oh great. An official song. Sweden is actually starting to lock down in the face of a third wave, but the ISU is planning to run an event in Stockholm with no post-travel quarantine arrangements, no functional competition bubble, manifestly inadequate testing protocols, and athletes who are effectively being coerced to attend in order to gain Olympic spots also being required to sign waivers exempting the ISU of responsibility should they catch *********-19 during the event...but it's all good, because there's an official song.

If you'd like to express your feelings about this in a way that the ISU will see, the hashtag #NoQuarantineNoWorlds on Twitter is picking up steam.

I'm so with you on this.

It's like the Titanic's planning committee, where they spent days talking about decorations and 5 minutes on lifeboats.

At least the FC 2021 organisers had the good sense to (eventually) cancel and reschedule for 2023 in the face of Australia's CV-19 crisis. I remember getting a lot of heat from several others on the board when I raised my concerns about holding an international event in light of this global health issue.

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

I work at a school.

Granted, I live in Australia where figures were low.

But last year, as Melbourne was recording the highest numbers (and fatalities) in the country, believe me, it made myself and fellow co-workers extremely anxious leaving our respective houses each day, being told that as essential workers, we had to be on site.

A lot of Victorians are still upset that the Australian Tennis Open went ahead, releasing the more virulent British strain into our midst, as well as creating a five-day snap lockdown that created all manner of chaos in education.

I completely understand athletes being put in a stressful position where they have to show up. We're talking about people's lives here.

 

[allezfred]

I completely understand athletes being put in a stressful position where they have to show up.

But athletes don't have to show up. No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing anyone to compete in Sweden.

 

[Finnice]

The song is blaah anyway. Loved Måns when he won the Eurovision Song Contest, this just is so forgettable.

 

[tony]

But athletes don't have to show up. No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing anyone to compete in Sweden.

This is the logic that I continue to not follow with the Twitter and 'omg they are forced!' brigades. Take a look around: skaters have shown up to rinks since they reopened. They got new programs. The Europeans competed as much as possible. The Americans traveled to compete at two big-scale events. Skaters are living their lives off the ice, not barricading themselves into their houses and telling everyone else what they should be doing (some fans should take note). Those same people on Twitter (and the occasional ones who show up here to whine) surely are following enough skaters on social media to know all of this is fact. Daleman is practicing her ass off to potentially get to Worlds. All three Canadian men are working hard to go to Worlds, and I think Sadovsky even straight-up says he wants to go. Yet we have Canadian posters here continuing to say that ALL Canadians know how to follow rules, unlike America or country X, and that they are the only responsible ones. Yeah, sure. Keep on with that narrative that none of them really want to go but they have to because of Olympic spots. Brendan Kerry has been country-hopping quite a bit and he surely wants a Worlds, too.

It was pathetic how quickly these people tried to make the excuse of P/C withdrawing because they didn't feel safe. They sure hoped that was the reason, and even when it got shut down immediately, there's still this narrative that skaters are being forced. Yeah, I'm sure they are being forced to go to the rink every day, to keep in shape, to travel to competitions when available, all because they don't want Worlds to happen. They could've sat the year out.

So the figure skating fan 'activists' who think they know all seriously just need to barricade themselves away from their computers along with the world outside of their homes. Or please explain to us with their mind-reading abilities which skaters are FORCED to show up to Worlds after having trained and competed as much as they could.

 

[Cherub721]

I'm a big fan of Polina but this song is a little bland and doesn't really showcase her voice too well. I was hoping they'd go with a song that was more dancey.

 

[MsZem]

The song is blaah anyway. Loved Måns when he won the Eurovision Song Contest, this just is so forgettable.

Not everything can be as good a follow-up as Love Love Peace Peace/Fuego in the Eurovision Switch Song

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

An official song?

ANL's suggestions:

1. "Night Crawling" by Miley and Billy Idol
2. "Plastic Hearts" by Miley
3. Anything by Dua LaPeep
4. "Magic" by Kylie
5. "Last Chance" by Kylie
6. "Real Groove" by Kylie

 

[alj5]

“Down With Disease” by Phish.