Everything posted by Vülker
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Czech Republic · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
To me this is the best ballad to grace Eurovision since 'Is It True?' and definitely in my Top 3 since I started watching along with that one and 'The Silence That Remains'. Hoping this does extremely well.
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Portugal in the Eurovision: The Countdown
PORTUGAL in the EUROVISION YOUNG DANCERS http://www.youngdancers.tv/save-files/resizes/f1/ff/6d/fb/50/19/3c/85/12/bb/2b/fe/32/ed/ed/81/logo-cropped.png And it's not only in the Song Contest that the Portuguese embarrass themselves showcase their talents. After failing to reach the finals of Eurovision's dancing competition for the youngsters on their first two participations in 1989 (don't turn your nose up at Australia, Canada also took part in this!) and 1991, the Portuguese gave up until their fabulous comeback with Ricardo Macedo in the 2011 competition. He was only 16 when he finally put Portugal in the Young Dancers final for the first time ever... well, there wasn't a Semifinal to go through anymore but still, first time in the Final! , he regrettably failed to be picked by the jury to be one of the two superfinalists and so we don't even get a glimpse of him in the official . Needless to say RTP didn't bother with this competition since but one would hope another Young Dancer will take the country's name further but it's no bother: no one knows about this contest in the whole of Portugal. Don't ask me about the 1989 and 1991 participations, all that is known is that both girls failed to put their nation in the Final!
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Dangerous Woman • 1st Single
It's a good track, but can't see how they thought this would make a good single? I'm all up for being shut up when this becomes a long running hit.
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Peter Bjorn and John - Breaking Point
What a huge summer hit this will be! What a song!
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Spain · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Love the revamp. Sounds like it was produced by Rudimental and it would be a surefire UK #1 in 2012! Hope they do well with this as it's probably the most modern song they've sent to the contest. Love that they went to Stockholm to shoot the music video too! :D
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Australia · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Oh full version is available on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/6bYh14i6MLl4tOPoV9h34J I actually quite like it. I can see it being this year's 'A Million Voices'.
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Portugal in the Eurovision: The Countdown
RECAP Let's look what we've spoken about thus far: XX | 1970 | "Onde Vais Rio Que Eu Canto" | SÉRGIO BORGES XX | 2000 | " " | LIANA 48 | 2006 | " " | NONSTOP 47 | 2001 | "Só Sei Ser Feliz Assim" | MTM 46 | 2011 | " " | HOMENS DA LUTA 45 | 2005 | " " | 2B 44 | 1978 | "Dai Li Dou" | GEMINI 43 | 1997 | "Antes do Adeus" | CÉLIA LAWSON 42 | 1995 | "Baunilha e Chocolate" | TÓ CRUZ 41 | 1987 | "Neste Barco à Vela" | NEVADA And that's some of the bad crop. Let's crunch some numbers: Still to go: 60s: 6 out of 6 entries 70s: 7 out of 9 entries 80s: 9 out of 10 entries 90s: 8 out of 10 entries 00s: 4 out of 8 entries 10s: 4 out of 5 entries We lose half of the 2000s entries in the lower section, decidedly a grim period for the Portuguese participation. All the other decades lose only their black sheep, while the 60s remain intact. Which entries will be out next? :teresa:
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Dangerous Woman • 1st Single
Uh-oh. They're going for that Weeknd-like sound. I don't think this'll particularly work as well for Ariana. Why are they not putting out 'Be Alright' first? The Tropical-Pop lane is here she should be focusing - she sounds stellar on Major Lazer's 'All My Love' and her remix of 'What Do You Mean'.
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Australia · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
I don't think the snippet was that good... http://www.animateit.net/data/media/august2009/th_hiding.gif
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Confirmations \\ BJSC - Buzzjack's 10th Anniversary Edition
Wot? I was actually the only one to confirm that? YAAS!
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Rupaul's Drag Race · Season 8
{potential spoiler, do not click if you haven't seen ep 1 yet} CACKLING at this: http://i.imgur.com/fvEo2Ta.gifv :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Portugal in the Eurovision: The Countdown
two more songs out of the Top 40: 42 | 1995 | http://fes095.no.sapo.pt/por95.jpg | "Baunilha e Chocolate" | TÓ CRUZ I can't make up a better text for this than its Wikipedia description so here it goes: "The song is inspired by urban music and features Cruz singing to his "sweetheart with white skin" while musing on their interracial relationship (Cruz is black). He suggests that this could only have been made possible via the intrepid maritime history of their country, and sings about the spices and cultural knowledge that were brought back to Portugal as a result of this history." Probably thanks to that last note, he still managed to get three studio albums out with the last one being produced in the United States, grabbing no one's attention except the Ballot Nominations for the 46th Grammys for this song, as well as a of songs for the soundtracks of popular soap operas. He was also for the Portuguese version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Good for him! The song however, no one remembers. At all. 41 | 1987 | http://fes87.no.sapo.pt/por87.jpg | "Neste Barco à Vela" | NEVADA Little is known about this duo. After Eurovision one of the members left and the other one recruited their two Eurovision backing vocalists to release an album which no one has ever heard of. The inability to turn this entry into a classic may be RTP's fault: after being alerted by the expert panel about the poor quality of the songs submitted for the National Final, they've decided to go ahead anyway but shortening the contest to showcase only six of those songs. Still, they've managed 15 points at Eurovision which is more than a lot of the Portuguese classics can say.
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Rupaul's Drag Race · Season 8
I think Derrick is going to try to show them versatility but will fall short with her looks and RuPaul will eventually tell her to show Britney again as that is her A-game. I don't think she'll make it through the makeover challenge if there's one this season.
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Greece · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
#ShouldaCalledKalomira
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San Marino · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Well you say that but then you have Belarus going Top 5 in their SF back in 2014 with an universally panned song without the aid of their usual allies while Israel languished in the bottom of the pile or Moldova scraping through 2011 over other favourites too. And let's not forget Valentina managed to qualify without any of those countries in her SF too (although Crisalide is a masterpiece compared to this ofc). It'll all be in the staging and how it comes across in the telecast and if the juries will be out of their minds or something. I can easily see it being a nul pointer but I'll be preparing myself for the worst. Of course I would be saying the cliché "this year is not as good as last year", but I'm beginning to think a EBU Entry Framework would be a good thing to improve the overall quality of the Contest. {Silas to begin working on it asap}
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San Marino · Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Watch this causing an upset in May for qualifying over one of the high profile entries. :nocheer: Anyone else thinks the EBU should have an 'expert panel' to give entries the 'green light' in order to guarantee the Contest has some top quality tunes? This year is so rubbish... :nocheer: :nocheer:
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Indie/Alternative Album of Buzzjack's Lifetime
Oh crap, yes it is. I'll change it to HV as it was my close 5th.
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Melodifestivalen 2016 / Andra Chansen · Halmstad (05 Mar)
Watch SVT drafting in Matt Simons for an interval performance á là Las Ketchup.
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Indie/Alternative Album of Buzzjack's Lifetime
01 The National - Boxer 02 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 03 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 04 Siobhán Donaghy - Ghosts (if she qualifies for this) 05 The National - High Violet edit: adjusted the formatting
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Game of Thrones (Season 6)
My carcass is ripe in readiness!
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Britney Spears - The Singles Rate - Results
I saw him dancing there by the record machine Went over and kicked his ass he was such a queen I said "this cover is poor" "let's play Gimme Moooooore"
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BJSC ✯ Movies ✯ Voting
Oops, I've got signatures disabled :kink: but that is one of the greatest movies of all time for me! :heart:
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Rupaul's Drag Race · Season 8
Cynthia is like a Latina Tammie Brown :wub: then Acid, Bob, Kim and Derrick are all up in my affections Also I live live LIVE for Derrick's Britney realness. Could Ru be calling Santino to make a fur coat.~
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BJSC ✯ Movies ✯ Voting
Just for the record, had I sent in a Confirmation this would've been Vülkyria's entry: c6-EfveplnA Brie Larson should've won an Oscar for THAT performance instead. Iconic. :wub:
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Portugal in the Eurovision: The Countdown
2016 update: To celebrate RTP's participation in a year we're not graced by a Portuguese entry I shall pick this thread back up and update it with Suzy and Leonor Andrade. It completely passed me by last year that we've reached 50 Festival da Canção winners/Eurovision entries Portuguese songs and so this should be celebrated. Please re-read the newly updated 42-48 section only a couple of posts earlier. ^