Malta 2025: Miriana Conte - SERVING (1 Viewer)

I just saw somebody posit a theory that the little nod to The Sound of Music in the performance is a reference to the infamous ‘What is it you cuntface?’ scene.



HER MIND!
 
First of all, I'm quite excited for this being performed on the Eurovision stage.
I believe that the controversial bit will be quite lost on the general public who are not that well versed in that kind of slang terms.
Also, if the Malta delegation is clever enough, they should just project Imannuel Kant's face behind Miriana and get on with the rest of the performance like nothing has happened. Kant encouraged a bit of hilarity and frivolity anyway.
 
Obvious, crass lyrics aside...this is quite the earworm!
 
I absolutely see no problem with it, the spokesperson will tell Kant is maltese for singing during the postcard and that's it. She could be singing fingering my clit and still be random incomprehensible english to the vast majority of viewers.
The “it’s just a word” in Maltese justification is so disingenuous and I’m sure will be used a lot to no avail. She’s literally saying - repeatedly - SERVING KANT. If it were just a word in a song that happened to sound like something else they could get around it but the context is enough for the BBC and RTE to not even contemplate broadcasting it.

If a song has content that several of the broadcasters literally won’t be able to show unaltered (particularly one in the Big 5) I just can’t see how it makes the cut.
 
And what remedy is there? The whole arena is going to scream KANT at the (in)appropriate moments so short of cutting the audio feeds for the word they'll be broadcasting it anyway
 
Not to mention other countries who may have different rules! (Although I suspect may be more lax in my experience of seeing full on BOBS on daytime TV in Germany often a time)
 
The BBC isn’t really keen on cunt no matter what time of day, certainly not BBC One, and certainly not on ostensibly a family show that starts at 8pm.
 
The BBC isn’t really keen on cunt no matter what time of day, certainly not BBC One, and certainly not on ostensibly a family show that starts at 8pm.
Well parents will just need to take some responsibility and teach their precious little angels some transcendental idealism then.
 
Can you FOI the BBC? Because I absolutely need to see the minutes of the Kant meetings.

I want a full two hours about the difference between serving cunt and being a cunt.
 
If it were just a word in a song that happened to sound like something else they could get around it but the context is enough for the BBC and RTE to not even contemplate broadcasting it.
Sincerely I've never seen so much cock in my life as I did on British TV when I was living in the UK, and it was on prime time. And it was the 00s. A few years later BBC had Majela Zeze Diamond coming out of an inflatable vagina on Big Brother. 25 years later, on the campest show on earth will they really have a problem with a playful naughty little lyric that sounds similar to female genitalia? Doesn't sound like the Britain I know and love.
 
Sincerely I've never seen so much cock in my life as I did on British TV when I was living in the UK, and it was on prime time. And it was the 00s. A few years later BBC had Majela Zeze Diamond coming out of an inflatable vagina on Big Brother. 25 years later, on the campest show on earth will they really have a problem with a playful naughty little lyric that sounds similar to female genitalia? Doesn't sound like the Britain I know and love.

But it's not a "playful, naughty little" word in English. "Cunt" is absolutely the pinnacle, highest level of swearing you can manage in English. Many, many people who swear on a regular basis are absolutely massively offended by it. My Mother has always sworn, including regularly "fuck", but goes absolutely MAD if I say "cunt". I also cannot see how it can be allowed- "serving kant" is absolute bullshit- we all KNOW what's being said/ sung.
 
In a weird say it’s almost the “serving” part that makes it problematic. I can see a world in which they let it slide if they translate the whole phrase into Maltese for example.
 
To humour this for a second... there are different watershed rules for CUNT as well. You can't just say it like you can say FUCK after 9pm.

@Mary Whitehouse correct me if I'm wrong!
It’s a different channel, but last week The Last Leg had Brian Cox on and he described Trump as a cunt several times. Adam Hills had to immediately apologise after each of them.
 
I am so team "Kant" that I am up for the shows being shoved to BBC Three or iPlayer only if that's what it takes to get it past x

But it's not a "playful, naughty little" word in English. "Cunt" is absolutely the pinnacle, highest level of swearing you can manage in English. Many, many people who swear on a regular basis are absolutely massively offended by it. My Mother has always sworn, including regularly "fuck", but goes absolutely MAD if I say "cunt". I also cannot see how it can be allowed- "serving kant" is absolute bullshit- we all KNOW what's being said/ sung.
I remember from years ago, my mum having the same hatred of the word. Glad that Eurovision is something I no longer watch with family, though my parents do still tune in and my 10 year old niece watched for the first time last year, as I would be scared of her reaction :ToneNervous:
 
Maybe they just need to change the first letter to create a touch more plausible deniability.

Serving BUNDT - Everyone loves cake!
Serving FUNT - She's a fun aunt!
Serving GUNT - A body confidence anthem!
 
In a weird say it’s almost the “serving” part that makes it problematic. I can see a world in which they let it slide if they translate the whole phrase into Maltese for example.
This is what I was alluding to before. "Kant" on its own could mean "singing" (if they really want to insist that it does). "Serving kant" clearly doesn't.

In a similar example I remember hearing about Radio 1 censored the word "sex" on a Rita Ora song. "Sex" is usually okay to get past the censors, but this came after the word "drunk" and the implication of "drunk sex" is worse than "sex" alone. So the word "drunk" stayed, but not the "sex".

Basically it's not just the word. It's the context it's used it that can make all the difference.
 
In a weird say it’s almost the “serving” part that makes it problematic. I can see a world in which they let it slide if they translate the whole phrase into Maltese for example.

It absolutely is that. Because "serving cunt" is a well known phrase. It's all about the context.
 

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