Euro-Vision

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This article is about the Belgian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1980. For the article on the contest itself, see Eurovision Song Contest.

Euro-Vision was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, performed in French by Telex.
The song was performed nineteenth on the night (following Spain's Trigo Limpio with Quédate Esta Noche). At the close of voting, it had received 14 points, placing 17th in a field of 19.

The song has become known as one of the landmarks of the Contest, as it was the first entry ever to mention the Contest by name as part of what is generally agreed to have been a send-up of the whole event (previous entries such as Schmetterlinge's Boom Boom Boomerang had parodied the Contest without actually naming it). Further, in contrast to the upbeat and generally living entries submitted from other entrants, Telex performed from behind synthesisers and in a robotic - somewhat Kraftwerk-esque - manner.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the song remains controversial among fans. One school of thought is that, much as in the musical mainstream, robotic techno beats were still ahead of their time at the Contest. Another school of thought is that the time to send the entire institution up has still not arrived.

It was succeeded as Belgian representative in the 1981 Contest by Emly Starr singing Samson.