February 27, 201213 yr 2008... my comments... 1) Average winner. Should've won with 'Never Let You Go'. 'Believe' is average at best. 2) Ukraine was EXCELLENT. She's sexy, she can sing, she's hot, the show was impeccable... deserved to do so well! 3) Norway deserved to finish top 5! 4) Armenia achieved their best result, good song but terrible vocals on stage 5) Germany was terrible live too... shame as the song was decent. 6) Azerbaijan's debut. My ears still hurt :( 7) I can't even remember properly how our song goes, or how the performance was for that matter (Malta) 8) Iceland deserved better. Fridrik is ... nice!
February 27, 201213 yr Forgot to mention how AWFUL Estonia and Ireland were. Andorra was aesthetically brutal as well. Bosnia & Herzegovina gave us a lesson on how to do a comic/funny performance :D That Polish lady looked like a mannequin!
February 27, 201213 yr A fantastically interesting read! Obviously I don't disagree :lol: It would be interesting to see how it would be written today, given American artists who'd traditionally be labeled as R&B/hip-hop/rap have co-opted so much of Europop into their songs, the genre's probably as popular as it's ever been, albeit in another form - and we now have another level of cultural elitism, with those who look down on the co-opted 'Eur&B' (to coin a genre) which is hugely popular among the lad subculture, but who probably additionally look down on Europop despite it being fairly similar in a lot of cases...I mean, just look at how much of Melodifestivalen could probably have charted this year! (Although that could probably also be down to diffusing tastes vice versa, with Guetta's influence and all - Shout It Out and Amazing being noted offenders!). But yeah, good read :lol: You could probably turn that into a book with just the amount of change we've had in the last four years and all! Thanks! It could do with an update but I've got no real reason to do one, short of literally extending the study a lot further as you say and turning it into a book somewhere down the line. I think that its originality helped me to get such a good mark, there'd been no real study done on it before which meant that a lot of it was new material from my own knowledge. Most people just did their dissertations on rock music and film soundtracks, pulling hundreds of quotes from existing sources and really not bringing anything new to the table. I wrote this dissertation immediately after I'd properly followed MF for the first time, so now that I have a much richer knowledge of it, I think I could write at least another few chapters, picking up on much of what you've just mentioned, SO much has changed over the past few years! It's one of the very few times I've genuinely enjoyed doing a long piece of work! I was all ready to draw a line under it when Scooter randomly went to #1 in the album chart, which made for a VERY fitting conclusion to my argument!
February 27, 201213 yr This was probably the best year :D You wanna be with me, you think and dream of me, come qele, move qele :wub: Also Czech Republic, Iceland, Switzerland, Greece, Ukraine, Germany, Andorra, gonna be hard to decide Senhora do Mar is nice, but wouldn't register as one of my favorite portuguese entries. For the 00s definitely, but not overall.
February 27, 201213 yr I'm not surprised, this really is the best year for overall quality imo. I could've easily voted for 5 more countries at least, it was tough leaving them out.
February 29, 201213 yr I have a clear top two for this, but beyond them this is so hard to narrow down and order! Too much goodness. Though I will say that 'Secret Combination' hasn't aged as well as I expected...
February 29, 201213 yr Nor has her album (of the same name). I don't think Timbaland had anything to do with it, but it totally apes his sound if not and indeed there are a couple of tracks which are almost note for note identical to a couple of JT songs. Bitch needs to release something NEW ASAP - that fatman Scoop thing doesn't count (because it was shit).
February 29, 201213 yr It's not exactly note-for-note identical to anything, but the beat is fairly unsubtly torn straight out of Give It To Me...
February 29, 201213 yr I was never as big on Secret Combination as people might expect that I would be, it was a #9 hit in my chart, but very much a flash in the pan hit. Other songs peaked lower but hung around for much longer in my affections - Divine, Pokusaj, even Wolves Of The Sea :lol:
February 29, 201213 yr It's not exactly note-for-note identical to anything, but the beat is fairly unsubtly torn straight out of Give It To Me... There's more than just that, there's at least 3 instances where bits sound VERY VERY SIMILAR (I shall refrain from saying identical). It's on more than one track too, I don't know which ones though [/helpful]
February 29, 201213 yr Author The Top 6 is already 31 points ahead! Looks like it won't be a close race by any means :o There might or might not be a shock current qualifier though :o
February 29, 201213 yr Senhora do Mar is nice, but wouldn't register as one of my favorite portuguese entries. For the 00s definitely, but not overall. It's not my favourite either as I'm happily in love with "Todas as Ruas do Amor", but it's by far the GREATEST Portuguese entry of the past 17 years.
February 29, 201213 yr It's not my favourite either as I'm happily in love with "Todas as Ruas do Amor", but it's by far the GREATEST Portuguese entry of the past 17 years. This! I love Todas as Ruas do Amor, such a feel-good song even though I don't understand a word of it! :D
February 29, 201213 yr This! I love Todas as Ruas do Amor, such a feel-good song even though I don't understand a word of it! :D Oh, it has beautiful lyrics too! http://www.diggiloo.net/?2009pt They're competing again in the Portuguese NF this year but as authors and producers. Their allocated "artist" is shyte though.
February 29, 201213 yr Oh, it has beautiful lyrics too! http://www.diggiloo.net/?2009pt They're competing again in the Portuguese NF this year but as authors and producers. Their allocated "artist" is shyte though. They are nice indeed! I hope she chooses to perform for Portugal again in the future, but it's good that they are still contributing to the Portuguese NF :)
March 3, 201213 yr Voted. This year really catered to all of my desires, camp disco pop, camp trance-pop, pirates and BEARS.
March 3, 201213 yr Author The song everyone thinks will win may not even be Top 5 currently. :o :o :o
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