Esmerelda

Destiny seems to attract an awful lot of OTT criticism online for her supposed "arrogance", which I don't see at all

The EBU really made sure that Italy was surrounded by semi final televoting flops in the final. I'm sure it's just a big coincidence...

Have been a huge fan for years, but was quite underwhelmed by both their Eurovision entries.

Whoever did the running order clearly a) Wants Italy to win b) Wants another all male top 10 in the televote

I think I only care about San Marino and Bulgaria from SF2. Literally every year I prefer SF1 to SF2 though for some reason.

Yes, I predict an all white all male alliance will effortlessly glide to the end like the past 15 editions probably with help from production.

Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria were all pleasant surprises. Bulgaria could be back in contention imo. I really like the Slovenian entry, but I seem to be alone there. Moldova and Malta probably had the most disappointing staging for me- was expecting so much more. Looking forward to seeing France and Italy on Thursday

Best: Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Bates Motel, Veep, The Americans, Arrow. Disappointing but not terrible: Lost, Dexter Bad: House of Cards- this show had been circling the drain for a while and there were obviously extenuating circumstances in the final season, but that ending was just nonsensical on all levels. Horrible: Game of Thrones. I didn't expect a happy ending, but I did expect an ending that was at least vaguely narratively satisfying and that made sense. Dany's sudden turn from someone who consistently acted ruthlessly towards those that harmed innocents to someone who slaughtered an entire city of innocents for no reason didn't work for me. Nor did King Bran- a boring non-character who was gifted a poorly explained, unused power he did NOTHING to earn and then gifted the throne he also did NOTHING to earn -literally the least satisfying ending to a story I could come up with me. Also, for a show that always got it's female characters so right, it left a bit of bad taste in the mouth that the show ended with all the "mad overly emotional women" being removed from power and replaced with King Bran and his council of bros in charge. I guess Sansa got to rule the North- the 4 people still alive there anyway. Sadly it is the only ending to the story we are ever going to get as Martin is clearly never going to finish it

Enya- Orinoco Flow is her number 1, but I'd say Only Time and May It Be are probably more well known now. Carrie Underwood- Her only top 100 appearances in the UK are Favourite Time of Year and I Know You Won't, which are definitely not her most well known songs or even close.

Gosh, she doesn't stop. Spoken to so many people who loved Born to Die yet seem to think she hasn't released anything since. :kink:

1- Born to Die- Possibly my favourite album of all time 2-Lust for Life 3-NFR 4-Honeymoon 5-Ultraviolence- Still love this though Not listened to Chemtrails enough to rank yet

Wouldn't be surprised if it is Frock Destroyers. The BBC have been begging Jason Donovan and John Barrowman to do it for years and internally selected Electro Velvet. Their standards are not high.

Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor- Groovejet. The original version anyway

Certified FLOP. Drivers Licence Revoked.

Even less excited about this than I was her about her Christmas album. :nocheer:

I do think juries are somewhat influenced by hype and bookies odds, so they might be more generous this time (assuming Norway send them). Spirit in the Sky had virtually no hype in 2019 and nobody saw it as a serious contender to win the public vote, so they felt comfortable putting it at the bottom of the rankings.

I'm hyped for Bjorkman's inevitable 2022 Melfest Entry- an emotional ballad called 2010 with Anna Bergendahl or something. :cheer:

Doctor Who (unfortunately). Not UK shows, but the final seasons of The Man in the High Castle and Altered Carbon were also really disappointing.

Mariah returning to the North Pole until next Christmas

We had Alexa playing Christmas songs all day yesterday and I counted at least 8 appearances from Jess- she could still do it. :cheer:

Dance Monkey deserves it.

Another very good album. Taylor will be cracking my top 5 music artists ever soon if she keeps this up.

The charts are basically entirely dominated by the same genre of music for the first 11 months of the year. The Christmas Invasion is almost refreshing.

Push is probably my least favourite album track. Don't think I ever heard the bonus tracks. If it weren't for the clunky lyrics, I Love New York would be in my top 3 for the album.

The USA Spotify Top 50 chart is virtually female free all year- 3 or 4 at most and usually Cardi B features and the occasional Billie Eilish track. Things are marginally better here at least.