Posted January 22, 201213 yr HI! Welcome to fabulous YEAR 2003. Here's the FULL CONTEST if you want to relive the experience. TbYgcptE1lY And here you have the full list of participants with individual links to each of the performances. 01. // Birgitta Haukdal - Open Your Heart 02. // Alf Poier - Weil der Mensch zählt 03. // Mickey Joe Harte - We've Got the World 04. // Sertab Erener - Everyway That I Can 05. // Lynn Chircop - To Dream Again 06. // Mija Martina - Ne Brini 07. // Rita Guerra - Deixa-me sonhar 08. // Claudia Beni - Više Nisam Tvoja 09. // Stelios Konstantas - Feeling Alive 10. // Lou - Let's Get Happy 11. // t.A.T.u. - Ne ver', ne bojsya 12. // Beth - Dime 13. // Lior Narkis - Many Words For Love 14. // Esther Hart - One More Night 15. // Jemini - Cry Baby 16. // Olexandr Ponomaryov - Hasta la vista 17. // Mando - Never let you go 18. // Jostein Hasselgård - I'm Not Afraid To Move On 19. // Louisa Baileche - Monts et merveilles 20. Poland // Ich Troje - Keine Grenzen-Żadnych granic 21. // F.L.Y. - Hello From Mars 22. // Urban Trad - Sanomi 23. // Ruffus - Eighties Coming Back 24. // Nicola - Don't Break My Heart 25. // Fame - Give Me Your Love 26. // Karmen Stavec - Nanana So, unless you're the busiest person in the whole wide world, you aren't going to use the video below, which is the RECAP of all the songs. wnFgbhJVvfI As always, you vote using the traditional Eurovision system, i.e. 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points, and send the scores to my by PM! 6 songs will qualify for the Semifinals. You have until evening of SUNDAY, January 29th to vote. And yeah, vote for you favourite song, and not the country you live in, etc. Edited January 22, 201213 yr by Ljósið
January 22, 201213 yr RECAP PLEASE The first contest I went into proper loon mode for! Happy memories. I remember spending the next day DESPONDENT at all the 'political voting' that had gotten Jemini nul points. Quite high quality overall! Off the top of my head (though I'll relisten) I'd like to see (in perf order) Iceland, Turkey, Germany, Russia, Greece, and Belgium make it. I imagine four of those will make it along with Spain and Sweden - or maybe the UK!
January 22, 201213 yr Gosh, Iceland got absolutely SLAUGHTERED by the running order, didn't they? :( They did, and it didn't help that they appeared last in the recap video!
January 22, 201213 yr I used to think that 2003 was a weak contest but looking back it was actually really strong overall, I just wasn't particularly interested in and therefore pleased with any of the top three. I appreciate why they all did well (although Sanomi was a bit of a surprise!) but I wouldn't listen to any of them out of choice really. I was doing my GCSE's at the time of this contest, I remember going off in a break between revision periods to buy the CD, and I had Nicola's Don't Break My Heart stuck in my head practically all the way through one of my exams :drama:
January 22, 201213 yr HA! at the commentator snidely name-checking Fly On The Wings of Love after We've Got The World! (YES I AM REWATCHING THE WHOLE THING AND WHAT. If anything I demand others do the same, this is a VINTAGE YEAR (and I don't want to be alone in my in-depth Eurolooning))
January 22, 201213 yr Author Out of interest, how's this going to work when semis come into play? 15 songs from each Semifinal will qualify for the big Final!
January 22, 201213 yr HA! at the commentator snidely name-checking Fly On The Wings of Love after We've Got The World! (YES I AM REWATCHING THE WHOLE THING AND WHAT) I can't believe he got away with it! Blatant copy. I've done my first run through and could easily vote for 15 songs here, compared to 7 in 2002 where my remaining 3 were fillers!
January 22, 201213 yr 15 songs from each Semifinal will qualify for the big Final! No, I mean - how's it going to work when the years start having semis? Just voting for the top six out of all of them, or will we do the semis THEN the final?
January 22, 201213 yr I can't believe he got away with it! Blatant copy. I've done my first run through and could easily vote for 15 songs here, compared to 7 in 2002 where my remaining 3 were fillers! I could vote for at least 16 here. 2002 was a matter of five really easy choices and then struggling to find five others I liked enough. -x- God, Malta didn't stand a CHANCE after Turkey! I'd completely forgotten how this had gone. Not that that's surprising, this is so MoR even Shoat would probably turn his nose up at it...
January 22, 201213 yr There is no justice when Latvia send a far better song than the previous year and finish bottom three instead of top three :( It was very strange to see the top three from 2002 end up as the bottom three here actually. I don't really remember what my pre-contest thoughts on Cry Baby were, I thought it was fairly decent and would finish mid-table I guess but it definitely deserved nul points, and it's always worth rewatching that car-crash performance! The UK really took to it after that, it went top 15 in the chart anyway, had it finished mid-table I doubt it would have gone near the UK top 30.
January 22, 201213 yr I could vote for at least 16 here. 2002 was a matter of five really easy choices and then struggling to find five others I liked enough. -x- God, Malta didn't stand a CHANCE after Turkey! I'd completely forgotten how this had gone. Not that that's surprising, this is so MoR even Shoat would probably turn his nose up at it... http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131800 #89 :(
January 22, 201213 yr http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131800 #89 :( Ha! Definitely not one of my favourites that year - a definite blip on Malta's fantastic form in the first half of the decade. I'd COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN about the glories of Ne Brini. More Sex Bomb rip-offs from Eastern Europe in 2012 please.
January 22, 201213 yr Poor Rita Guerra :( What a GLORIOUS slice of MoR balladry. Alas whacked on at an inopportune moment in the running order, in a language nobody understood, by a less good looking Shakira lookalike wrapped in snakeskin. Probably my favourite Portuguese entry ever... Enough of that though. CROATIAN BRITNEY AHOY
January 22, 201213 yr I'd forgotten just how terrible the Israeli entry was. How it didn't get 0 points is beyond me!
January 22, 201213 yr I'd forgotten just how terrible the Israeli entry was. How it didn't get 0 points is beyond me! And Ukraine, they were great from that point onwards but his voice was DIRE, as was the song, I thought they'd be a future nation for us all to laugh at based on their first entry! How wrong I was... I'm down to a shortlist of 13 and it's going to be a bloodbath now, who do I chop? :drama:
January 22, 201213 yr Keine Grenzen - Zadnych Granic was such an unlikely anthem :wub: All of my top ten, and the song that I would have placed 11th take me right back to Year 11 and being 16 again :lol: Memories!
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