SO I'm the only one that preferred last year's final, to 2009? :lol: I don't know whether it was just because I was following it closer last year, than I had been previous years, but I definitely think I prefer more songs in the final last year than I preferred to the songs in 2009. Oh and most of us know about my thoughts on 'Fairytale'... :puke:

I feel we ought to be able to vote for Georgia, just saying ~

Almost as good as 2008 imo.

 

I think I'm transforming into a Balkan Girl for this contest :wub: haha

 

Didnt like the UK entry at all - Yohanna did it better :D

 

Svetland, what a mess. Wonderful :wub:

 

Didnt really care for Moldova at the time, but it grew on me :o

 

Excelent Irish entry :D

I feel we ought to be able to vote for Georgia, just saying ~

This way we also should've included Serbia & Montenegro in 2006, but NOBODY MENTIONED THAT, DID THEY?

1. Portugal's best entry since 1994 IMO!! :wub:

2. The Highest Hights being my ABSOLUTE favourite that year with a breathtaking backdrop screen but let down by poor vocals and a chopped-up version of the 4 minute wonder that is the album version.

3. http://www.etoday.ru/uploads/2009/05/15/eurovision2009_svetlana_loboda_ukraine4.jpg #WATTAMOMENT!!!

Best. Eurovision. Performance. EVER.

Best. Eurovision. Performance. EVER.

 

By a country mile. Ani Lorak was left AGOG!

I just rewatched LA VOIX, God it didn't half look/sound shit on that big stage without the backing track. Not to mention probably blinded a few hundred people nearest the stage.

Best. Eurovision. Performance. EVER.

I hope you're referring to SLUTLANA and NOT the Lovebugs, because if the latter then that's a new level of wrong even for YOU! Hearts were BROKEN (ok, just Rich's and mine ~) by how poor that perf was!

I hope you're referring to SLUTLANA and NOT the Lovebugs, because if the latter then that's a new level of wrong even for YOU! Hearts were BROKEN (ok, just Rich's and mine ~) by how poor that perf was!

Slutlana indeed. Lovebugs' perf was one of the worst of the Semi. Weird staging, piss-poor vocals, average song.

The Highest Heights is an amazing song :o But yeah the staging was poor. An early (?) example of the rock band Eurovision curse.

Voted! :D I really wanted to give 3 more countries points too :(

 

So many good songs, well done 2009!

Right, OH NINE in FULL:

 

- Well it's probably best to begin with the fact that it's CLEARLY THE GREATEST YEAR EVER. I count seven ACTIVELY UNLISTENABLE tracks amongst the 43 that were entered (I like to include Georgia ~) and in terms of the last decade that's an EASY best, especially when you factor in that ALL OF THEM fell at the semi-final stage *.*

 

- Albania deciding to give us a bit of a homo drama anthem which was one part electropop, one part South London grime production, and five parts fabulous was a DISTINCT HIGHLIGHT

 

- I'm sorry people but Jan Jan made my life worth living and SMACKED THE SHIT out of the ridiculous ethnofluff that was Azerbaijan's entry that year. Chuck in the snake charmer produx and the 'drag queen in medieval Jerusalem' staging and you have a CLASSIC ARMENIAN ENTRY for the ages (possibly their best ever though Sirusho may have something to say to Inga & Anush about this). I know I personally have chosen to jump up with the nor par in moments of high homosexual power in my life ~ (TRY IT AT YOUR NEXT WEDDING OR OTHER FAMILY EVENT)

 

- I absolutely ADORED Bosnia's entry this year even though I really shouldn't have. The production and melody were so fantastically atmospheric - and OK, the staging was a bit Viva La Vida meets Les Miserables but this is entirely irrelevant when one considers that this is clearly the greatest Bosnian entry ever.

 

- Shame on Armenia's voters for saving Belgium from nul points.

 

- Bulgaria's stage performance may just be the biggest car crash of the ENTIRE YEAR (and not in the good way as with some other entries). The stilt dancers who resort to throwing each other around by their legs towards the end! The backing singer who clearly fancies herself as a world star! The WORLD-DESTROYINGLY TERRIBLE vox! A 12/0 from start to finish

 

- Poor Switzerland :( I absolutely LIVED for The Highest Heights only to have my adoration cut down by an incomparably terrible stage performance, leaving this Radio 2 anthem with just 15 points at the end of the night. Undeserved.

 

- A definitely deserved nul points for the Czech Republic. I can't get any further than ten seconds in without cringing...

 

- Germany's entry was DISGUSTING YET FABULOUS (that middle eight! http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/images/smilies/grin.gif) Like some horror hangover from 1999 (those squelching synths! *_*) sung by a man so queeny even LIZ HERSELF would've been agog - and even BETTER, a stage perf featuring him attempting to pretend Dita von Teese (old MISS TIT BANG herself - how DID they get her?!) even VAGUELY excited him downstairs in those hideous silver trousers of his. And then it FLOPPED. I lived for those three minutes of sheer awfulness.

 

- Oh Soraya :( When Spain drew the pimp slot in the final my mind was BESET with excitement - La noche es para mi was an UTTER ethnhomopop anthem and I could just imagine it kicking off with the momentum of the baying cheering crowds as the final track and providing the world with a true EURO MOME to treasure 4 evz as Soraya sparkled her way to the top five. Alas, she instead provided the world with some of the worst NOCALS ever seen on a Eurostage and the whole thing was a bit of a damp squib, leaving Spain in LAST.

 

- France coming top ten! Classy and dignified doesn't really happen too often at Eurovision (let's face it, if that's what I was after I'd spend my May at the proms and we all know the adjacent homosexuality levels there just are not up to scratch ~) but Patricia really brought it to Moscow, and I'm glad she got her just reward.

 

- Three years later on Jade Ewen...It's My Time is LOVELY when you're listening to it, and of course we ought to be forever grateful that it returned us to the top five...but let's face it, it's a bit of an inessential moment, isn't it? It's all v X Factor final track and GOD KNOWS we didn't really need another one of those. Still, bring back Jade, I'm TIRED of having to get behind a nation that is NOT MINE (even though I am 4 all intents and purposes a Swedish exile living in Colchester these days)

 

- And coming to Sakis Rouvas attempting to give us his own rehash of Shady Lady really IS a bit of a comedown. Wearing a shirt FAR too small for him, and jumping up and down on a massive pair of hair straighteners in the way only a 37 year old acquainted with sitting on 8+ inchers without even grimacing can muster without a sense of irony, I think we can ALL BE GLAD this was not rewarded when the bell tolled

 

- Poor Ireland with their sub-Lavignery :( Let's face it this PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE QUALIFIED

 

- Oh YOHANNA. Like a glistening Nordic beauty out of the night (featuring essentially everyone Iceland have ever entered on backing vox) she came to save us with her glorious lilting ballad, crystal live vox, flawless money notes, and hideous dress, and what a job she did! It's only a shame those sodding Icelanders fell for old DEAD DAD two years later when she should've been reclaiming the glory with Nótt. The original and final versions of Is It True? are still on regular rotation CHEZ SVERILOQUY all those years later.

 

- UGH LATVIA DIE. Quite literally the WORST song ever, to say nothing of the worst ever from Eurovision. My feelings on Pavel's music taste and inexplicable love for this are well documented. I have no idea how ANYBODY in Latvia could have ever considered this a good entry, let alone 21,627 voters in their national final, and remain disgusted that Lithuania AND Estonia saw fit to place this within their top tens.

 

- ETHNOSTOMPERS. In addition to the others mentioned thus far Moldova and Romania REALLY stepped up to the plate this year - with Nelly Ciobanu, the whore of Moldova, being a NOTED highlight (along with the tonic + lime of the Balkan girls. All VERY GOOD but WHERE WAS THE GIN)

 

- And at the other end of the spectrum (well, Balkans, but excuse my genericism of what I'm sure is a v diverse region) we have the sheer wonder that was Montenegro, a track which I can never tell if I love or VIOLENTLY DISLIKE. For a start the verses are horrific - having a melody which follows the EXACT SAME LINE as the instrumental in this case just makes the thing sound tacky as hell (not to mention the melody itself in the verses is DIRE). Then comes along the chorus to save things, before the whole thing is ruined IMMEASURABLY with the DISGUSTINGLY JARRING final lyric 'just get OUT OF MY LIFE, get OUT OF MY WAY...or just STAY'. I mean REALLY, it was almost enough to justify it not qualifying

 

- Chiara's BASIC BITCH NEWS BULLETIN ANTHEM can GO DO ONE (thank god it did)

 

- Now look, I knew I'd have to deal with the issue of Fairytale at some point but DESPITE my virulent hatred of Alexandra Rybak and all she stands for (in EVERY NATIONAL FINAL YOU COULD CARE TO MENTION) in the last three years I actually DON'T DISLIKE the track (which is v good at the heart of it). I just never need to hear IT or see HIM EVER AGAIN.

 

- I lived for Anastasiya's Russian old woman anthem, even if the rest of you FICKLE HOMOSEXUALS were disgusted by the thought of an aged vagina (do not argue with that production or I shall hex u)

 

- If I ever set up my own state (IRL, Kopečka doesn't have the appropriate range 4 me these days ~) I'm making La Voix the national anthem. I can NAIL that chorus live, as Peter30 can testify, and let's face it THAT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE GREATEST KEY CHANGES EVER (I cannot nail the key change alas ~)

 

- On Hadise - the INEXPLICABLE LOVE for this IRREDEEMABLE BASIC BITCH on here DISGUSTS ME TO MY CORE and is as GOOD AN INDICTMENT AS ANY that Buzzjack is satisfied by any generic lazy whore so long as it's a VAG on the record and it's vaguely catchy because let's face it by any objective measure Hadise is one of the WORST EUROVISION ENTRANTS EVER. Bitch could barely be bothered to sing on her own track (which was by numbers as fuck - it's NO EVERY WAY THAT I CAN and she was NO SERTAB. Bitch wasn't even a SIBEL TÜZÜN!), invited some WEIRDO IN A GREEN SHIRT on board who looked like he'd accidentally wandered onstage and wasn't actually supposed to be there, and spent the whole three minutes looking like a PIG WRAPPED IN A TORN SARI. I believe they call that a KEBAB under normal circumstances but for some reason on Buzzjack it's the focus of worship and this is SIMPLY UNFORGIVEABLE.

 

- Now, let's get on to the HIGHLIGHT OF THIS ENTIRE AFFAIR - SLUTLANA LOBODA http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/images/icons/disco.gif

 

I present my GENUINE EVIDENCE that Be My Valentine! is one of the greatest things to EVER hit the Eurovision stage. EXHIBIT A: SWEATY SVETTY HERSELF

 

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(!!!)

 

EXHIBIT B: LYRICS

 

You are so sexy – bom

Gon' make me crazy – bom

We're gonna do the bom bom

Ain't that amazing – bom

 

ALREADY, just one verse in and Svetlana has REINVENTED BASIC ASSUMPTIONS over the nature of song in modern day Western culture, rhyming bom with bom not just ONCE but THREE TIMES (take THAT Saade h8rs ~) before creating a new euphemism for getting a bit of RUMPY PUMPY (I recommend you use the above as a chat-up line - IT WILL BE AMAZING (BOM))

 

I'm very busy – bom

It's not so easy – bom

I'm gonna tease you – bom bom

Without a reason – bom

 

And ONE VERSE later she's already decided she can't be BOTHERED with whichever poor basic non-bitch she's attempting to seduce, focusing instead on the DIFFICULTIES of these things (she's very busy of course, why ELSE do you think she's being forced to rhyme everything with the word BOM. She is HARDLY GOING TO HAVE TIME FOR YOU). Analysing this through a Marxist-feminist prism we already begin to see that the existence of Svetlana and her daily struggles may have been partially responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union (but only due to pre-emptive uprisings that this must eventually one day represent the Ukraine at Eurovision)

 

I'll call you on the phone

You speak in monotone

Don't wanna be alone

Because I'm crazy – bom

 

And IN ADDITION to her previous reinventions, she even manages to change the traditional interpretation of monotone (i.e. soz I cannot be bothered to tap your ass this evening) into one of INVITATION and PROMISE. But SHUT UP THE CHORUS IS ABOUT TO ARRIVE AND IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU WILL DO IN YOUR SORRY LIFE (BOM)

 

Baby, baby you're so fine

Be my, be my valentine

Baby, baby you're so fine

Be my, be my valentine

 

!!!

 

My pride and prejudice

I will just reminisce

These are the things you can't miss

Come on, give me a kiss

 

Jane Austen both AGOG and WORSHIPFUL at Svetana's GRACIOUS reinterpolation of her literary values to a situation appropriate for documentation within a Ukrainian Eurovision entry. But MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN THAT, she's found words which ARE NOT BOM to rhyme with each other. LET US SEE WHERE SHE GOES NEXT

 

There's nothing dangerous

I know what's waitin' on us

We'll keep each other restless

Oh boy, you look impressed

 

From MONOTONE to IMPRESSED (with being restless) in the space of a verse. Bitch must dispense some FUCKING GOOD SEX!

 

The charm that I possess

Will put you to the test

To satisfy my interest

Come over, be my guest

 

I'll show you to my nest

You're under arrest

The others may be jealous

'Cause you're the one who's blessed

 

I literally don't even know why I have to analyse this part because the entirety of its fabulosity ought to be self-evident to all (someone put this bitch in the American Constitution!). The first two lines of the second verse within this - FURTHER !!!

 

Baby, I can save your world

I'm your anti-crisis girl

Baby, I can save your world

I'm your anti-crisis girl

 

Baby, I can save the world

I'm your anti-crisis girl

Baby, I can save the world

I'm your anti-crisis girl

Baby, I can save the world

I'm your anti-crisis girl

 

Basically if your world isn't imploding with glittered glass explosions by this point your life ISN'T WORTH LIVING. ANYWAY.

 

EXHIBIT C: THE PERF

 

 

Where does one BEGIN with this three minutes utterly free of flaw yet at the same time displaying all the essential attributes of a class hot mess? I could write a dissertation on this bitch (namely 'Anti-Crisis Bom: an analysis of the essential contribution of Svetlana Loboda - Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl) to the fields of radical feminism, pop culture, and the concept of love since 2009'. Coming to a university publisher NEAR U), but I'll try to be succinct:

 

- THE HELL MACHINE. You know a bitch is fabulous when she REMORTGAGES HER HOUSE FOR AN OVERSIZED DANCE APPARATUS and CALLS IT A HELL MACHINE. I hope the starvation since then was worth it for Svetlana (it TOTALLY WAS 4 ME)

- silver goddess back-up singers. ON STILTS. Take THAT Bulgaria, and stuff that up your basic bitch backing singer's Grammy aspirations!

- Roman centurions in silver armour

- SVETLANA HERSELF. Looking every day of her (obvious) 40 years, the Ukrainian Madonna decided everything else was so OTTfabulox that a basic bitch belt + red dress (which she remained cooler than) would be suited so she could pull off the EXPIRED MUTTON dressed as veal look (and it WORKED)

- On-stage grinding. Let's face it if this were a compulsory element of all Eurovision songs that environment dreck from Finland last year would've FLOWN BY

- The middle eight, at which point the producers realised that throwing EVERYTHING at the stage perf may not just have pulled it off up to this point, and as such sent Conceptlana Loboda up to a DRUM KIT to rock it all out herself on improv (accompanied by UKRAINIAN FLAGS and being pulled across the stage by the centurions to a backing of SHOOTING FLAMES), before Conceptlana BROUGHT IT ON HOME with the grind-tastic bassline and epilepsy-licious lights show of the final chorus.

 

It came. It went. I lived for every second of it and still continue to do so on a weekly basis three years later. It may even be my FAVE EUROVISION SONG OF ALL TIME. It's certainly my favourite mess and I RUE that it didn't win the whole affair, as I think this getting shot down sent out a message about how the big stage perfs of the 00s would fare under the new 50/50 jury/televoting system (even though it (INEXPLICABLY) flopped with the televoters too). Obviously with only two proper contests since it's too soon to come to a conclusion but I think the world is OVERALL a WORSE PLACE for this not being the breakout hit of Eurovision 2009 rather than that overdone Fairytale pish. BUT ANYWAY.

First of all, I can count SIX (1999 + 2006-2011) Bosnian entries that are better than 'Bistra Voda'. Bosnia & Herzegovina are my favourite Eurovision country.

 

Second of all, I agree with everything you said apart from about Anastasiya (who was BLEH - but still better than the Russian entry the following year) and Bosnia.

 

Svetlana. *.* This performance just CANNOT be topped by ANYTHING else. I'm surprised you didn't have the countless flips and the ridiculously hot centurion dance routine during the chorus in your highlights. :o

 

The Ukranian entry is just too much for me to handle right now. I'mma go lie down to regain my senses.

 

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Sveltana is so fcking fierce, seriously! And yes, best performance EVER. So pissed the way Portugal voted this year, every year it was Ukraine 12pts, then in 2009, 6. I blame the juries that year.

I feel like Ghosty with Mirakel when it comes to Be My Valentine. I just don't get it, nor have any desire to ever listen to it or her horrible accent again. The performance was a moment though, that much I'll give her.

I just watched back the recap and whilst it wasn't a stand out track amongst so many gems, I did really like Albania's entry. I'm probably the only one. :(

 

My top 3 Eurovision songs from 2009 are so far ahead of everything else but alas like a great edition of BJSC, I want to give more than 10 countries points. The battle for 1 point is killing me. :cry:

 

Oh, I'm glad I'm not the only who found the Ukraine entry a bit *tumbleweed*. :o

Be My Valentine was pretty awesome, however it wasn't until the week before the contest that I finally realised just how fabulous it was.

 

Bistra Voda is Bosnia's best entry for me too. When it was performed in the semi final, I genuinely thought it was going to win the whole thing. Rybak didn't do a great deal for me at the time and his record breaking win really came as quite a surprise to me :lol:

I just watched back the recap and whilst it wasn't a stand out track amongst so many gems, I did really like Albania's entry. I'm probably the only one. :(

 

There's at least one person who loves Albania's entry too...

 

(It's me, in case that's not obvious.)

 

The best part of 'Be My Valentine' for me is the final section - the speed of her vocals and the repetition really quickens the pulse!

Be My Valentine was pretty awesome, however it wasn't until the week before the contest that I finally realised just how fabulous it was.

 

For me it was at the UK Eurovision Preview Party, the first I went to, when it was at Scala, which is a much better venue than the Shadow Lounge :( Imagine having Slutlana and her muscle mary rentboy centurions (though if I remember right they were dressed as shirtless Russian millitary at the time) 2 feet from your face. AY CARAMBA.