unforuntately there are only a select few loons who feel this way about Eurovision (me included :wub:)

 

when discussing Sugababes with a girl at work the other day, she didn't even know who Jade Ewen was, and couldn't recall It's My Time or any of the Andrew Lloyd Webber stuff at all :/ was it not EVERYWHERE, or do people who don't care about it just completely ignore it

 

I think this girl is probably an exception. I think most people know of Jade Ewen and that she represented us at Eurovision. She just wasn't EVERYWHERE as she seemed to be in our little world :lol:

 

 

My friends know her as that one that flopped at eurovision before i correct them an tell em she came 5th. :lol:

I don't get this perception that 5th was a flop...she got almost 200 points :drama: was the win the only thing that would have been satisfactory to the media!?! it was our best result in years and Jade was flawless (apart from elbowgate which wasn't her fault)...a win was clearly never going to happen when Fairytale was in the running...

Fairytale = most over-rated song EVER

 

Yes, the song is good, but 12pts from 16 countries? Over 300pts altogether? I don't think it was that good. For a certain time, I even HATED it. Personally, I still think "Butterflies" should've been sent to Moscow.

 

I was doing a competition with my Dad, we printed out score-sheets from the BBCs website and were seeing who could predict the most qualifiers and then who could predict the winner. I think we both got 14/20 qualifiers, and then he said Iceland (who came 2nd) where I said Bosnia-Herzegovina (9th?). I was on ESC fan-sites every day, and he didn't go on them once, he didn't hear the songs until the shows. Yet he still predicted better than me. Looking back, I think Iceland would've been a better winner.

Agreed, I hated it at first, but by the final, I could see the quality of it, even if I would have personally preferred Iceland or the UK (which was NOT a flop!) as winner... or Ukraine :kink:

Fairytale was by far the best song in the competition this year in my opinion...the first time I heard it I knew it had winning potential

 

it's the whole package, catchy memorable song, confident, talented, attractive (to many) artist, completely different to everything else in the contest and basically just a very good contemporary pop song with traditional Nordic influences, not some generic Europop song like Greece's (who incidentally are usually very good at displaying their culture through their Eurovision 'sound') that could have been from any country...

 

Yohanna definitely gave the best vocal performance, but Fairytale ticked all of the boxes not just one or two

Fairytale was my favourite song off the contest by far for most of the time actually, and just 2 weeks before the semis it really started to bore me :o :(

 

Interestingly, i was talking about one girl about Sugababes too two days ago and she said that she doesn't remember Jade in the ESC either. :nocheer: :mellow: I mean .... :mellow:

I thought Jade was quite well publicised in Russia too :o on the front of a big magazine there or something :lol:

I don't know, i don't read magazines much :o She even was on our National Final in march performing the song though... and finished Top 5 in Eurovision, TOP FIVE. Surely people can remember at least the Top 5? :(

Edited October 3, 200915 yr by Bloc Pavvii

not in the UK I don't think...

 

most people here probably remember Jade and Alexander but ask them about Yohanna, Aysel & Arash and Hadise and they'll be absolutely clueless

 

people here (that I know at least) tend to remember the UK act, the winner and anyone that stands out from the pack for some reason, like LT United, Verka, Malena from this year in fact quite a few of my friends remember

not in the UK I don't think...

 

most people here probably remember Jade and Alexander but ask them about Yohanna, Aysel & Arash and Hadise and they'll be absolutely clueless

 

people here (that I know at least) tend to remember the UK act, the winner and anyone that stands out from the pack for some reason, like LT United, Verka, Malena from this year in fact quite a few of my friends remember

Tell me about it... Same here precisely! "Oh i remember that man-ly woman with the horrible Molitva song that won". If asked about someone/something else from this year... "hmmmmmm, don't know" :lol: Eurovision fans (I mean, proper fans, loons, geeks like me :kink: ) will soon needed to be put in the Red Book. The endangered species :drama:

:lol: people here always talk about the winner but soon forget about the whole thing

 

I remember in 2002, the Monday after ESC I walked into my History class at school and another group of people were discussing how they'd all voted for 'the amazing Marie N' because they loved her striptease act...I went over and started ranting that it was a song contest and that they should have voted for the good songs and not that awful thing...then I realised that I was getting a tad over obsessive/passionate and walked away...:lol:

:lol: people here always talk about the winner but soon forget about the whole thing

 

I remember in 2002, the Monday after ESC I walked into my History class at school and another group of people were discussing how they'd all voted for 'the amazing Marie N' because they loved her striptease act...I went over and started ranting that it was a song contest and that they should have voted for the good songs and not that awful thing...then I realised that I was getting a tad over obsessive/passionate and walked away...:lol:

Although I don't remember myself watching ESC 2002 I reckon I'd have thought she was terrible, i think so now at least :puke:

I'm known as the Eurovision expert here in my Uni group so some people ask me about different things when the season comes (like preparation, opinions on contestants entries, etc etc) :kink: I can out speak everyone and find enough words to prove my point in the ESC field, the only thing (well, bar obvious ones like my current obsessions, soaps and music) i can talk for hours :heehee: :lol:

I actually totally missed Eurovision 2002... I was on a date... it didn't go well, surprisingly :kink:

Although I don't remember myself watching ESC 2002 I reckon I'd have thought she was terrible, i think so now at least :puke:

I'm known as the Eurovision expert here in my Uni group so some people ask me about different things when the season comes (like preparation, opinions on contestants entries, etc etc) :kink: I can out speak everyone and find enough words to prove my point in the ESC field, the only thing (well, bar obvious ones like my current obsessions, soaps and music) i can talk for hours :heehee: :lol:

 

god, don't even ask me about ESC or I will be guaranteed to lecture anybody on it for hours on end :lol: it's quite sad really...I even did my uni final dissertation on Europop with a full chapter (4000 words) on Eurovision and Melodifestivalen :rofl: my lecturer said 'what research have you done' and I said, I don't need to do any research I know all the stats/full scoreboards and points scored already :heehee:

I actually totally missed Eurovision 2002... I was on a date... it didn't go well, surprisingly :kink:

 

I don't doubt it, I bet you were distraught to miss it :heehee:

 

I watched it with a friend and we were absolutely amazed when Austria gave us a 12 and were cheering on Jessica the whole way through...but stupid Marie N had to go and ruin the night with her terrible song in front of amazing songs in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place :(

Do you still have that? Call me a geek, but I'd love to read that... Maybe you should publish it :kink:

Do you still have that? Call me a geek, but I'd love to read that... Maybe you should publish it :kink:

 

haha, maybe, seeing as there's no other work in the field :kink:

 

I do have it, I'll send you a link :D it's 18 months old now nearly but still relevant, well parts of the last chapter aren't so relevant now that they've bought juries back into ESC (you'll see what I mean)...

 

let me know what you think

 

I also mention 'the blog' where I found some of my BJSC entries in it, in fact in exchange for me featuring her blog in the dissertation, I sent it to her to read :D

I could talk for hours about ESC...shame it took me so long to find this forum on Buzzjack.

 

I change my opinions on the song all the time. In March, when I made my top 10 video for YouTube, I had "La Tevo Decisio" at the top, with "Fairytale" second. In the actual week of the contest, I think my two favourites were "The Balkan Girls" & "Firefly".

 

Strange think is, I've only been properly watching ESC since about 2007 (when I first printed out a score-card), or 2008 (when I started looking on fan-sites every day and paying attention to the songs before the contest, along with buying the CD & DVD). But I did always kinda watch it.

 

This year, the Monday after the contest when I went to school, people were talking about Germany the most. No wonder they managed to get 2pts from our tele-vote.

 

And one of my friend's (she's a couple of years older than me) still listens to Malena Ernman. Dunno if she knew about her before ESC or not, but she's really into Malena's style of music. I'm glad to know that though we've sent a lot of joke entries, some people in the UK do still care about the contest.

Edited October 3, 200915 yr by bigzarafan

I've watched Eurovision for years, 1994 is the first I can remember most of, but I remember supporting Sonia before that... My parents hated it, so it seemed almost rebellious :kink: The first time I really considered myself a fan though was in 1999, though my tastes took a while to settle (France's Ou Aller was my pre-contest favourite :lol:)

 

Germany this year was p*** poor tbh. Bad vocal, boring show, Dita Von Teese living up to her name by standing there for thirty seconds in, frankly, more than usual and doing NOTHING... :puke2: