Well, the Eurovision Song Contest… whoops sorry! I mean the Eastern Eurovision Song Contest is over and it was a bust! I think Western Europe took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up at the wrong contest. Clearly we weren’t wanted there.
OK in all seriousness…
The first couple of hours were great with the performances. All my favs did an excellent job, especially Sweden. Charlotte did amazing! The singing was on and the energy was great! Much better than at the semi-final! I ended up voting for the UK and Norway, my two favorites other than Charlotte. But then the results came. And I just deflated. It was more than just disappointing. Well, here is how all my favs placed.
Ukraine - 3
Norway - 5
Turkey- 7
Iceland - 14
Sweden - 18
UK - 25
ARGH! Kudos that Norway made it so high. She was my absolute favorite for the night. Such a great song. A real song. Something you could easily hear on the radio and buy on a CD. That is rare in Eurovision. So it’s great that she got so high. But let me be a bit cynical and say I think the only reason she did so well was because she was the last to perform and fresh in everyone’s minds. Because, obviously, having a great song, singing well and performing well is not actually what people want.
Instead, Russia won. Russia. Russia. Which their cheap-sounding song and ridiculous ice skater. I keep going over and over and over in my head HOW they could have won. Was it because of the ice skater? Must be. Because the song was boring. And the singing? Terrible! The guy could barely even pronounce the words, and he sang in that awful vibrato the whole time. I just wanted to smack him. I never ever thought he’d win. He song is, at most, entirely forgettable.
Ah but he won, and no amount of complaining will change that.
And Sweden came in so low! Which I really don’t understand. For the first time, I really had faith in Sweden’s song. For the first time I really believed Sweden would do well. Last year, when Sweden sent The Ark, I laughed when we got low points because we deserved it. The Ark! PLEASE! But not this year. I was utterly shocked. I was convinced we’d make it to the top 5, if not win the whole damn thing. But maybe it’s too “old fashioned” a song, and people don’t want that anymore. In that case, maybe we should have gone with BWO as was my first choice.
Well anyway, if there was ever a high point, it was when Björn Gustafsson presented the Swedish voting results. He sat there and blatantly mocked all those countries who choose presenters who can’t speak a word of English but pretend they can. For the record, of course he has no problem with English. He’s Swedish for goodness sakes! I don’t know if any of the other countries understood that he was joking. But that’s the fun of it! It was the good hard laugh I needed by that time of the evening.
12 points to Björn Gustafsson!
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Måns and I saw a few songs online yesterday. I would have voted for Spain of course.
I watched the whole thing online here in Texas! Was I the only one who liked Azerbijan (i think I butchered that spelling). The whole angel/devil thing. I laughed my butt off during the first 30 seconds of the song, but then thought, “hey, i kinda like this.” I also really liked Norway. I felt Sweden deserved getting low points because to me the song was just another cookie cutter boring piece of hooey.
We also thought Azerbaijan was pretty cool! We were happy to see that they went through to the final. I just didn’t vote for them because I only vote for songs that I could actually see myself listening to voluntarily.
hey. mindless that you didn’t like the greek song that, apart from being greek, I belive it had the best perfomance, I agree with you. Eurovision has not much to do with singing any more. Of course you need a decent song but mostly u need politics. It’s not a song contest for many years now. Maybe it never was but it’s more obvious now. So I propose either to stop the televoting and have votes just from musician juries from each country, or to finish Eurovision. Both of them are not possible to happen though since Eurovision is a show that brings millions. Hard to turn the tide. At least we can ignore it, leading to economic blast to it, until it gets a song contest again. Thanks to the readers
You don’t judge the winners, hun. Go there and perform something yourself before criticizing others. And, by the way, the “ridiculous ice skater” is world famous.
But that’s exactly what one is supposed to do at Eurovision! Judge the participants and cast your votes! Duh.
“But that’s exactly what one is supposed to do at Eurovision! Judge the participants and cast your votes! ” Exactly! The whole fun of Eurovision is to point and laugh at the bad acts and wonder how bad the rest of their competition was if they were the cream of the crop in their country! Oh and eating candy! That is the other fun part of Eurovision!