February 27, 201114 yr A song in Russian for Ukraine. Granted, 3/4 of ukranians speak russian but it's either ukranian or english they should be singing their songs in IMSO (in my shallow opinion :lol: ). I guess they're still mad at Anastasiya Prikhodko and want the revenge :lol:
February 28, 201114 yr From ESC Today, looks like they're changing their entry as per usual :rolleyes: Two days after the Ukrainian selection show concluded, a new scandal has risen in the country as one of the jury members asked for the re-evaluation of the votes. Anna Herman expressed her negative opinion about the outcome of this year's Ukrainian national selection. Moreover, Mika Newton announced that she wants to perform another song at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Ukraine's national broadcaster NTU is facing once again with a chaotic situation days after their national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Just like last year, several contestants of the show including Zlata Ognevich and Jamala, have expressed their desire to cancel the results of the competition as the voting process was invalid. Anna Herman, one of the members of the jury, asked for the re-evaluation of the votes aswell. "I will initiate the creation of a special commission to examine the preparatory process and the very course of the final selection of candidates from Ukraine for Eurovision[...]I think it's worth to listen to the tens of thousands of people, that during these two days were ringing and expressed their dissatisfaction with the result of this competition. I have many doubts, but I would not want to disclose them before the decision of the commission, which I hope will be established and will give its findings. I would not want to blame anyone in advance, but my impression is that something was decided on the sidelines and not on the stage, which we do not understand and did not know", Anna Herman told the press. An online petition was created by the fans in order to cancel the result of Ukraine's national selection. The initiative of the fans is based on the fact that Mika Newton received votes from about 2,000 unique phone numbers, while Jamala got votes from more than 6,000. "I think next year we will change the rule and will accept votes only from unique IP-addresses and phone numbers" was the official statement of NTU. As a reply, Mika Newton sent a letter to the president of Ukraine, mr. Viktor Yanukovich as well as to the prime minister, mr. Mykola Azarov, requesting their involvement in order to prove that the voting was fair and no fraud was intended. Moreover, Mika Newton announced her desire to perform another song at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. A new song written by Walter Afanasieff who was responsible for Celine Dion's My heart will go on, will be performed at the second semi final of the favourite European competition. Why must they have drama like this every year? Granted it will probably result in a better song but they seem completely incapable of hosting a fair national final. Mika may 'desire to perform another song', but it's not the one that the public voted for or indeed was used in the NF :/
February 28, 201114 yr Author I do find it humourous that she wants Viktor Yanukovich to prove that there was no fraud. :P
February 28, 201114 yr NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH SVETLANA (or Ani/Verka/Tina/Ruslana for that matter)
February 28, 201114 yr NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH SVETLANA (or Ani/Verka/Tina/Ruslana for that matter) THIS.
February 28, 201114 yr From ESC Today UPDATE : NTU have confirmed the news and through a press release they have announced that a new selection show will be held on March 3rd in order to clarify the chaotic situation regarding the voting procedure. Mika Newton, Zlata Ognevich and Jamala will compete in a special show aired by the First Channel of Ukraine at 20:30 CET. The winner will be chosen by tele-voting and only votes coming from unique phone numbers will be taken into consideration. This is how the line-up for the new final is looking like : • Zlata Ognevich - The Kukushka • Jamala - Smile • Mika Newton - Angels Looks like it's last year all over again - hope Jamala doesn't win, 'Smile' is very annoying!! Edited February 28, 201114 yr by RC741
March 1, 201114 yr Actually she doesnt... According to Jamalas site the singer has decided not to participate in the new final...
March 1, 201114 yr Yep, she's 'happy to have forgot three times the votes that the winner got', but doesn't want to be involved in all this mess.
May 9, 201114 yr I just heard Zlata and the Kukushka song. Why couldn't this have been entered? Amazing song and would have definitely stood out this year. :wub: Instead they had to send the borefest that I can't recall the name of....all I remember about it was that there's a woman singing it and that it's unexceptional in every way possible. edit: I just checked, Kukushka came 2nd. Is there some kind of secret rule that all the best songs must finish 2nd in their national finals? :( Edited May 9, 201114 yr by Sabrewulf
May 9, 201114 yr It's weird but Angel (that's the name :lol:) has grown on me a lot recently. Well, not THAT much but it's less awful than I thought. And I like the bleepy bits in the intro.
May 9, 201114 yr I just heard Zlata and the Kukushka song. Why couldn't this have been entered? Amazing song and would have definitely stood out this year. :wub: Instead they had to send the borefest that I can't recall the name of....all I remember about it was that there's a woman singing it and that it's unexceptional in every way possible. edit: I just checked, Kukushka came 2nd. Is there some kind of secret rule that all the best songs must finish 2nd in their national finals? :( There were 4 much better songs than Angel in their NF; Kukushka, Smile, Action and Allo, Allo. All of which would have made brilliant entries, imo. They've wheeled out the perfect gimmick for Angel though, so I'd expect a fairly decent finish for it.
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