May 19, 201312 yr Greece and Germany should've switched places Seriously Greece could send in 3 minutes of farting and they'd still reach the final
May 19, 201312 yr Greece was one of my favourites from this year! Such a lively, jumpy, feel good track. Plus some wishful thinking that if only Alcohol was indeed free.
May 19, 201312 yr Greece and Germany should've switched places Seriously Greece could send in 3 minutes of farting and they'd still reach the final THIS! You said what I said on faceook last night in different words. I said, Greece could send a sneezing baboon in as an entry and still get top 5.
May 19, 201312 yr With a much better song too! :( But it's still the final. The likes of Turkey, Armenia, Serbia etc. have proved that they aren't untouchable but I'd love a year when either Russia or Greece don't even reach the final.
May 19, 201312 yr THIS! You said what I said on faceook last night in different words. I said, Greece could send a sneezing baboon in as an entry and still get top 5. Well, clearly apart from yesterday when they didn't get top five...or last year when they came 17th. Their entries are by and large pretty memorable. Turkey showed a couple of years ago that a diaspora is no guarantee of getting into the final.
May 19, 201312 yr Greece tend to send something that makes you feel happy and want to party. Nothing wrong with that!
May 19, 201312 yr Eurovision is great, the right songs generally win each year, and the pattern of voting is the same for all countries east or west, you could see it in the last 30 minutes when the top 10 songs got votes from everyone, pretty much (if you ignore the odd bit of neighbouirly voting which doesnt influence the Top 10 hardly at all - the voting panel;s have FAR more influence than neighbourly voting, thats just 4 or 5 "experts": I give you Blue as evidence, Top 5 in the telephone votes, bottom 5 in voting panels). The UK keeps losing cos the BBC ignores our pop songwriters - you DONT need a famous name to win, obviously! 2 British songwriters were placed higher than our entry (not British), and even a 40-year-career songwriter from a metal band wrote a more commercial song than the UK's.... Russia, Azerbaijan & co win/do well consistently cos they hire current/established songwriters. Most of my faves did well this year (except Bonnie, and I'm biased in her favour and the song took a good 2 months to grow on me) hooray!
May 19, 201312 yr I've uploaded a few of my favourite pics from my trip, featuring pics of the arena, bits of Copenhagen, Malmo, random things and pics showing just how crazy they go for Eurovision in Sweden. One of my favourite things was the local shopping mall doing 'Euphoria Hour' between 6 and 7 yesterday, 20%-50% off everything in every shop for one hour just because of Eurovision. Amazing! http://s164.photobucket.com/user/gooddelta...rt=3&page=1
May 19, 201312 yr Was Carola falling over part of the interval act last night? I haven't seen anyone mention it and I'm honestly not sure what to make of it.....
May 19, 201312 yr Yes, it was a joke relating to her fondness of using strong wind machine's, part of the interval act as something that Sweden is famous for. Although that said, Carola is hardly a major star anywhere other than Sweden so most people wouldn't have made the connection, hence the lack of talk around it.
May 19, 201312 yr It was definitely a joke (a brilliant one as well) as 'Fångad Av En Stormvind' (the 1991 Sweden entry) translates to something like 'Caught In A Storm Wind' so yes, Carola was literally caught in a storm wind. :D Oh, and I'll echo the YES PLS for Little Boots for Eurovision just as long as she enters a track on par with 'Remedy'.
May 19, 201312 yr Soooooooo Russian Channel 1 Eurovision watch was indeed hilarious just like I had expected but I'm going to talk about the contestants themselves. Really liked: - Germany. What the hell, how did they flop? Natalie was really on fire, the song is 9/10 too. - Norway. Wowzerz, Margaret BURNED the whole show, such a great dark electropop track! - Malta. I saw so many negative comments in here about them. Yes, his smile was kinda creepy but the song as a whole was very feel-good, it made us smile. Edit: not in a way he did! - Netherlands. Anouk definitely stood out and that was in a good way. Great song and performance Also decent: - Denmark. Kinda overrated though - Russia. Pretty good track but HA at Russian propaganda TV, as they were hyping her up to death as a 'Russian treasure' but didn't even *slightly* acknowledge the fact that the song is written by Swedes. :lol: - Ukraine. Entertaining! - Moldova. I like the staging, the performance and the voice were good too. Not counter but not pro too (5/10 rating): - France - Lithuania - Sweden - Hungary - Greece - United Kingdom - Spain WTF: - Belgium. Was this guy under some serious drugs? I've never seen anyone singing "love kills" so happily, he almost had a heart attack from happiness proving the point of the song but kinda in the opposite way. - Finland. This could be sung by Katy Perry as a b-side. - Romania. erm... just no - Belarus. So 2003 and so cheap that I can't even... Now going to the worst i.e.... ...Dull: - Armenia. No words - Italy. ITALY. Did they bring up some random singer from the bar? Too typical and too boring - Azebaijan. Again pure disappointment. Why does Europe like their songs from contest to contest? Well, at least unlike Italy he had a performance. - Ireland. One of the most predicable songs I've ever heard - Georgia. Non-song + shouting instead of singing - Estonia. at least she didn't shout - Iceland. Didn't go anywhere too Edited May 19, 201312 yr by Salt Without GMO
May 19, 201312 yr If only the finalists had voted: 01. Denmark 193 02. Ukraine 154 03. Azerbaijan 145 04. Norway 129 05. Russia 108 06. Malta 99 07. Netherlands 87 08. Greece 76 09. Belgium 56 10. Romania 55 11. Hungary 48 12. Georgia 48 13. Moldova 47 14. Sweden 46 15. Italy 46 16. Iceland 38 17. Belarus 37 18. Armenia 32 19. United Kingdom 20 20. Lithuania 17 21. Estonia 9 22. Finland 6 23. France 4 24. Ireland 3 25. Germany 3 26. Spain 2
May 19, 201312 yr Whoever decided to do the early winner announcement needs to be sacked It confused everyone in the audience too but I suspect the reason that they did it as so that Emmelie could be prepped and rushed to the stage whilst Petra announced the remaining votes, seeing as they were running about 15+ minutes behind schedule. Shoddy from SVT but they clearly tried to cram so much in that it just wouldn't fit into 3 hours and 15 minutes.
May 19, 201312 yr They should officially run it 5 or 10 minutes longer in future, is it ever finished properly by 11:15?! And I must ask - is the music used in the postcards an actual piece of music anywhere? I suspect it was probably a special thing but I thought it was stunning, an extra touch to make these postcards the best I've seen, kudos to SVT for them and the general butterfly presentation.
May 20, 201312 yr I had a dream last night that the original Sugababes would be the UK entry next year :lol: Prophetic?
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