ya like someone posted, Dschinghis Khan competed but they competed with Dschinghis Khan, not moskau
and the fact that someone could think zlad was a eurovision contest participant hahaha that says a lot about the quality of the show
celine dion competed and won, but that was a good while before she became famous.
also, it actually seems like the eurovision is experiencing somewhat of a resurgence in popularity at the moment, this year the norwegian qualification process actually had several known musicians participating, although the winner ended up being a lovesick puppyeyed belanorwegiarussian fiddler-singer.
After giving most of the songs a listen I have to agree that Finland's song is the best, although I'm not sure how well it will go off live. Hopefully they will do (did?) well.
People are so fast to call that all songs entering eurovision are automatically utter crap. I understand that you want to keep your e-cool appearances up, but give it a chance. Most of the times there are at least a few songs that are decent to really nice. To name a few, Lordi, that french song from 2008 linked on the previous page, and the serbian (?) winner some years ago. There is alot of crap, but if you can ignore that there are some songs that are really worth hearing.
To the compeition's credit, there hasn't really been that many (I can't think of one) _bad_ winning songs. The songs that win are generally okay and sometimes quite good. Though, last year (or was it the year before that?) I remember Ukraine (I think?) sent some space alien with a "song" that made me want to kill myself. This entry finished in second place...
And there are always a couple of songs that are really good (like Norway and Azerbadjan this year). Though sadly one of those songs don't always win.
Sweden used to send ABBAish songs year in and year out. This year I feel that the Finnish entry is typically Swedish. Decent quality but nothing that really stands out as a worthy winner.
After the jury system was abandoned and all former Soviet member states joined the party, the show has more or less become a spectacle. Suddenly, a lot of eastern nations reached high positions with their 80s songs (really, it's funny how faaaaaaar back some of them are). The response from western nations has, accordring to me, been a lot of stupid, worthless crap that should never have seen the light of day.
It's like, I used to expect Azerbadjan to send some weird crap but expect better from western europe. That's not a valid expectation any more. Now, everybody sends crap except Azerbadjan. Lol. Though I think Norway has had two good songs in succession now. I hope they win this year.
This is the best at eurovison so far, the show in the breaks are always the best every year. That's the part when the country wants to show off their greatness.
The irony being that they didn't win, they came 4th or something.
The funny part of it all is, that they are a bunch of Lithuanian showmen who grew tired of stupid pop singing dumbass singers entering the competition and placing second to last or not even making it in to the finals, and made this song as a parody of how the singers look on the stage. They placed 6th btw, but the dance was undoubtably the best dance I've seen in Eurovision history.
yea that bald guy is so awesome i had the impression they were just friends and not really musicians, although a couple of them are decent singers and that bald guy just wanted to tag along so they agreed he'd just do a crazy dance so he could be part of it
I have the same arrangement with my friends, they're gonna make a band and I can't play any instruments nor sing, but I'll get to be part of their stage performance anyway
sorry, but the norway kid just annoy the fuck out of me with his smile and look. I think we have the biggest ever improvement possible from last year to this one, but I can still see it fail pretty hard.... i guess it is the destiny of the country
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