Eurovision Song Contest

Well...have at it people.

The comedy sketch show preceding the local Eurovision livecast did a wonderful sketch about how every country votes for the same countries every time except a handful, but a contrived sequence of coincidences leads to Albania winning (despite the USA voting for the UK "because we are a part of EVERYTHING") and the Albanian delegates committing suicide of shame of bringing the expenditures associated with hosting the contest onto their country. Depressing, but utterly hilarious. Sorry, Albanian tropers, I'm a terrible person.

Ahem. So, the intro song is fun =)

Apparently people thing Finland's Derpyderp Oscar has a shot at winning. Don't really care either way.

He's not even finnish-speaking, screw him.

And everybody knows the whole thing is all about bloc voting and all the acts are universally terrible. And I'm still watching it.

One of my guilty pleasures. Will be watching

I'm just waiting for England to fail miserably to score anything.

Oh christ, the finnish hosts are horrible too.

I don't think that I can take it, but I'll have to try.

"Eurovision temple"? Seriously?

Have faith, Saig! We can do it!

...please can we do it?

edited 14th May '11 12:10:49 PM by Idler20

Oh, I thought that was just something dumb the finnish hosts came up with.

I'll just be talking about the show on this thread as I watch.

^^ Well, I guess we don't have the disadvantage of Jedward weighing us down. ...Poor poor Ireland.

Oh jesus christ.

This first song is such blatant eurovision fodder it's not even funny.

IMing with my friend. His comment on Oscar is "he's the best so far".

...I love my friend.

edited 14th May '11 12:16:40 PM by Idler20

I'm predicting 8th place.

Bosnia's song is pretty good.

What his song reminds me of:

...yeah, I'm not even watching the other acts.

I think the guy in the cap is, like, the mentally-impaired son of whomever funded the group, and only got in due to nepotism.

Denmark goes with genericEurovisionsong.wmv

Yay

What the Finnish dude sang, in our country is called "a yard song", something you write in the back of class during the day and sing to the girl of your choice in the evening after class on your badly-tuned guitar with your barely-crackling-under-the-strain-of-puberty schoolkid voice to the chagrin of other people present. In other words, "slightly below average karaoke level". Eh.

Then again, this IS Eurovision, not like we get a lot of objective non-pop megahits out of these for the last decade.

EDIT: Bosnia was good, although felt like a Jimmy Hart Version of several of Elton John songs. Denmark is basic Eurovision fodder, not even worth antagonizing the country over =(

edited 14th May '11 12:24:02 PM by Noelemahc

These songs are all just so pandering, it feels totally pointless.

HAVE HOPE

Lithuania's turn

edited 14th May '11 12:25:19 PM by nohaynicklibre

Just once, I'd like to see a country enter Eurovision with a dark Murder Ballad. Just to be different.

edited 14th May '11 12:26:13 PM by Idler20

Lithuania's song stood a chance with me until the orchestra kicked in.

Just keeping it as a simple piano ballad would have been classy as hell. As it is, it's just moderately clas— oh, sign language.

Baila el Chiki Chiki had several traits of that.

Anyway,does Lithuania girl seems like an Award-Bait Song for anyone else?

edited 14th May '11 12:28:40 PM by nohaynicklibre

A little bit.

It sounds a bit like Snake Eater to me, actually.

RE: Sign language: I suppose being deaf does give you an advantage when it comes to enjoying Eurovision.

EDIT: Wait, what did the actual words of Chiki Chiki mean?

edited 14th May '11 12:30:08 PM by Idler20