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00:00welcome to ms mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the eurovision songs that
00:10were banned from the contest whether for being released too early featuring colorful language
00:16or stirring up controversy with their lyrics
00:19number 10 nowhere denmark here's the first thing you need to know about songs submitted
00:29to the eurovision song contest they must be 100 original and unreleased before a set date
00:36but that's getting harder to enforce and less favorable in the digital age in 2012
00:42denmark's entry almost slipped through even though it had already been making the rounds
00:48songwriter tina lungard had posted it months earlier way before eurovision was even on
00:59her radar at first the danish broadcaster tried to let it slide but fans came armed with receipts
01:06not wanting the ebu to swoop in and ban it later denmark made the call themselves and disqualified
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01:19number nine dare star germany in 1976 germany had a rough night at eurovision ending up near the
01:36bottom of the scoreboard with their second choice entry sing sang song
01:40it wasn't necessarily their most crowd-pleasing pick but it got bumped after dare star the original
01:52winner of their national contest was disqualified it won by about 20 000 votes but it turns out it had
02:00already been released by another singer
02:02since germany's part of the big five they couldn't just sit it out they needed a backup
02:13unfortunately sing sang song didn't exactly set the stage on fire germany placed 15th out of 18
02:21while viewers happily threw their kisses and votes at the united kingdom instead
02:25number eight c italy this one's a little different because seemingly the ones who took issue with the
02:41song were italy
02:42around the time of the contest the country was holding a referendum on divorce prohibition
03:01a vote yes would ban divorce and a vote no would keep it legal italian officials got nervous that a song
03:08literally called c meaning yes could sway voters and be used as propaganda
03:21so they heavily censored it across their media and even delayed broadcasting the event until after the
03:27referendum some say this hurt italy's chances but they still came in second after abba's waterloo
03:34oh and by the way almost 60 percent of voters said no to banning divorce
03:47number seven thymame cyprus as we've established every country undergoes its own selection process before
03:55submitting its song in 1988 cyprus picked thymame performed by yannis dimitriu
04:04the song crushed the competition winning 14 out of 16 votes from the cyprus broadcasting
04:14corporation seems like a solid choice right
04:24well there was just one teensy problem this wasn't the song's first rodeo fymame with dimitriu still
04:31attached had already made it through three out of four voting rounds in 1984
04:43and apparently that wasn't the only time it had
04:52number six imperia fyr macedonia we'd argue that step one to picking a strong eurovision song is choosing
05:00one that doesn't instantly irritate your own population
05:12macedonia seemingly went the other direction in 2013 with imperia now sure the ebu has rules against
05:20political content even though they don't always quite follow them but imperia hit a nerve back home
05:26the song was linked to skopje 2014 a highly controversial urban development plan that was
05:40accused of being wasteful nationalist and politically motivated so naturally when audiences got even a whiff
05:47of that alarm bells went off the song was swapped out for pred dasiras deni which missed out on a spot in
05:54the final
06:04number five yes nagger memysel denmark if you thought broadcasters were strict before buckle up
06:16in 1962 denmark had six songs in the running for their eurovision entry one of them was a swing style
06:27tune performed by 16 year old gita henning it was catchy maybe a little too catchy
06:43after attending rehearsals a producer was heard whistling the melody in the canteen and believe it or not
06:50that counted as a public performance
06:59the song was disqualified before poor gita even got her chance
07:03many believed it would have done better than vuge visa the song denmark ended up sending instead
07:09which finished joint 10th out of the 16 countries competing that year
07:13number four cunt malta one challenge of multilingual events like this is that a totally innocent word in
07:26one language might mean something different in another
07:37take malta's 2025 entry cunt which means to sing in maltese however thanks to a certain phrase
07:44popularized by rupaul's drag race starting with serving and ending with a word that sounds rather
07:50similar it caught the bbc's ire interestingly it wasn't even the most explicit sounding song that
07:59year with just a week's deadline malta's miriana conte changed the lyrics although her queen energy and
08:07positive message stayed the title is now serving and the cunt part is replaced with some ahs
08:14whatever it's called it still slays go off queen
08:23number three razom nas bahato ukraine eurovision loves to say it's all about love love peace peace
08:31and no politics whatsoever ukraine's 2005 entry said yeah about that
08:44hip-hop duo green jolly wrote razom nas bahato during the orange revolution a huge protest after
08:53a presidential election that was widely seen as fixed the song didn't just hint at it either it
08:59apparently even name-dropped the opposition leader victor yushchenko right in the lyrics razom nas bahato
09:07meaning together we are many became the unofficial anthem of the movement
09:19eurovision rules forced the duo to rewrite the song to make it a little less obvious
09:25still the title stayed and they even sang it in multiple languages during their performance
09:34so
09:43number two i will teach you belarus belarus really went two for two trying to sidestep the no politics rule
09:51in 2021. their first entry i will teach you got blasted for mocking anti-government protests
10:03people were so mad by this seemingly pro-political oppression stance that a petition to boot them from
10:09the contest racked up over a thousand signatures in half a day
10:21the ebu gave them a second chance to submit a new song but their follow-up
10:27song about hairs managed to break the rules too at that point the ebu just pulled the plug
10:34and disqualified them all together belarusian broadcaster btrc's boss ivan eastmont did not
10:41take it well he claimed the decision was quote politically motivated
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11:10georgia in 2009 eurovision was held in moscow remember that it's relevant georgia held a national
11:18selection like many countries often do and the group stefan and 3g won with their song we don't want to put in
11:32yeah you heard that right put in it didn't take a genius to connect the dots especially with the
11:38russo-georgian war just a year earlier
11:50the ebu stepped in and told georgia they had to either change the lyrics or pick a new song georgia
11:56refused to budge denying the political undertones of their song and accusing the ebu of caving to
12:03pressure from the host country in the end they decided to pull out of the contest altogether
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