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    • Yoska
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      Everybody's least favourite song contest! And no, I'm not talking about Idols. Anyway, as every country has their finalists picked already I decided to check them out. For fun. I was sort of hoping that the quality would a lil bit better this time around but, well, perhaps there was more diversity than usually. It's still like listening an anime OST though :devil:. And I still can't point where some of the participating countries are on the map.

      But if I had to try to predict who's going to win I say Sweden because I have actually heard about The Ark before hand (and, hey, that's cheating!). Israel's Push the Button song will probably do well too as it have had some media attention before hand. Besides the song is pretty catchy too. I still think that Isreal isn't an _euro_pean country but yeah. I really like Romanian's entry: Liubi, Liubi, I love you. It's a good song, it stands out and it actually sounds like it could come out from Romania. I hope it will do well. Andorra could be successful with their generic American teen band. And German's entry isn't half bad either. So those are my top five.

      I suppose I should say something about Finland's entry too. Eh… I have nothing against Hanna, she's very humble and down the earth, but her music is incredibly shallow. It's not even really her's. The song isn't that bad once you have heard it many times but Leave Me Alone is still just a typical Eurovision song with few guitar riffs. Thunderstone would have been a better band even though it's just an avarage heavy band - it would stand out. But at least Finland's entry isn't that horrid Lovex 🆒.

      http://www.eurovision.tv/

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        Is it wrong to wish for a giant meteorite to crash on the studio during the Eurovision or for another horrible natural disaster to happen and wipe out all people involved? It's so unbearably corny. Like a giant highschool end of the year festival.

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          I guess this is why I like Europe.

          Originally Posted by Battle Franky

          Bad move, bub!

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          • Ms. Suave Debonair
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            I think it's just to remind the people of Europe, we aren't as awesome as we all think.

            I'm so full of shame for our entry this year.

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              hey our band is fun this year, ok the song they'll submit is lame, but their "hit" is called "goldorak is dead" and just for that, i wish them good luck.

              and as every year, i won't watch the eurovision. i know i miss something…

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              • Yoska
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                I used to really loathe the show but last time around it the most funnies thing to watch ever so I have decided be more positive about it. Nobody takes the whole thing seriously anyway: everybody are just too busy of being ashamed of their own entry. It's pity though. Bands and musicians could use it as a platform to break through internationally but we don't really see that. Still, it's pretty entertaining.

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                • Mog
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                  I don't even know what (or if) my country's doing and I have no idea when this is all supposed to happen. Nor do I care.

                  Like always though, I'll probably end up watching some of it through some freak series of happenstances.

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                  • Daz
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                    Even if I don't understand why my country (DK) saw fit to choose an ABBA-wannabee song, sung by a cross-dresser with a costume that'd make a peacock vomit and enough glitter to illuminate the entire stage, I feel good about it.
                    It allows me to obectively see the contest, and pick my favourite out of all the countries, instead of hating them by default because they were competing against ours. So, because I loathe our entry, I can relax.

                    On another note, I love Eurovision. Even if 50% of the songs are awful and corny, and even if Greece, Cyprus and Turkey continue to trade points, theres still always been enough songs I genuinely liked to make me enjoy the show. + My taste in music is extremely broad, and I always love seeing the mediterranian and eastern countries often kore national songs.
                    And the awful ones can be unintentionally enjoyable too.

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                      cant wait until the preview of the entrys from each country

                      it seems that The Ark are favs… thats good

                      no lessOR I'm too lazy and uninspired to make a proper sig

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                      • Yoska
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                        @Kingudora:

                        cant wait until the preview of the entrys from each country

                        You can easily preview all of the entries on the official web site. You can get samples, music videos and all that jazz from there. For example, and for Mog's joy, apparently Netherland's entry is this chick named Edsilia Rombley. It's a quite basic song.

                        Yeah, point trading is pretty obvious. A country with a lot of neighbours will probably get more points. 😁

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                          Eurovision, the song contest of Europe with lots of semi-English, average songs and whatnot.

                          Also very popular amongst Europe.

                          Much of the stuff was forgettable.

                          Sweden's "Vampires are alive" was a stupid idea for a song but it wasn't actually bad.

                          Going to post more after I watch more.

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                          Hooray for Danish cross-dressing singers. Good stuff.

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                            So,thought I'd remind everyone that the finals is today.

                            The semifinal was awesome. Musical quality was like a graph of Cos(x), but man, I was entertained. I haven't laughed as much as when I saw "Vampires are alive" since I saw the Harry Potter 4 movie. But apart from that and a few others (The first two were URGH), I thought the standard was high this year.
                            And, even if our drag did a decent job, I'm perfectly ok with the eastern countries stealing the show. In fact, their songs were the most "eurovision-like"; It seemed the seniors were all focused on gimmicks, wackiness, and "being different".

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                              Poo, I already amde a thread and I didn't see this one.

                              And yes, the Danish drag queen was great.

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                                @Bad-Beat:

                                I'm so full of shame for our entry this year.

                                So true..
                                Its so annoying and I can't believe people at home actually voted for it when surely Big Bros or that french woman are so much better.

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                                  I'd love to kill whoever thought up our song, and whoever had the smart idea of putting Eurovision on instead of Doctor Who.

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                                    Can't believe they are putting this on instead of the Doctor >.< Anyways, I absolutely LOATHE our entry this year, I mean, wtf, it's just terribly terrible.

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                                      I'd love to kill whoever thought up our song, and whoever had the smart idea of putting Eurovision on instead of Doctor Who.

                                      I'll be right there with you trust me😉

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                                        I dont care what the votes say the Ukranian robot guy with the accordion should have won! i havent laughed that hard in ages xD

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                                          Can't really understand how the hell Serbia won with a song that you forgot even when you were listening to it and had a bunch of truck driving lesbians singing it. I was happy that UK did so poorly this year though. Its just horrible that people actually send that kind of crap to Eurovision and I can't be sure if they are serious or not about it… unlike Ukraine which was clearly and embodiment of the ridiculousness of the whole competition.

                                          Yes, i voted for Ukraine.

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                                            @Runkuz:

                                            I was happy that UK did so poorly this year though. Its just horrible that people actually send that kind of crap to Eurovision and I can't be sure if they are serious or not about it…

                                            We have a contest a few week sbefore hand to choose ours. For some reason the public votes for it. Anybody with half a brain can see it is bad. We deserve to do so poorly but really our country is fastly losing any excitement for the contest. The voting is starting to get more and more political.

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                                              Serbs killed Franz Ferdinand now they're killing music

                                              when will it end

                                              the bigot who thinks being an asshole is actually worth shit

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                                                Serbia wasn't my first choice to win, but even if I didnt understand a word she said, and even if I was unsure she was a "she" at all at first, I can't deny that it's a good song, musically.
                                                Then again, their main opponents being nightmare inducing tinfoil drags propably made me like them more…thank God Ukraine and Bulgaria didn't win. Them scoring so high terrifies me.

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                                                • Mog
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                                                  I actually watched it, and have sworn never to do so again. I do this every year. 😞

                                                  Not too big on Serbia's Kelly Osbourne imitation, but thank god it wasn't Ukraine.

                                                  I kinda liked Hungary's entry, and uh… that was about it.

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                                                    If not anything else, at least I felt proud for us Finns to be able to deliver such an event. 😄 I voted for Hungary(favourite above all, but I'm biased being half Hungarian), Georgia and Germany. I believe Hanna could've done better(I mean, what was with that stage movement? :blink:)… she didn't rock my world and neither did our neigbours Russia and Sweden. The performances of France, Belarus, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Ireland, Great-Britain and Spain made me flinch of horror, just to mention a few. The most horrifying thing though was Switzerland with all that vampire crap at the semifinals. I thought Serbia was only OK and Ukraine made me burst out in laughter. 😁

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                                                      I thought the songs would be worse than last year. but i was wrong this time. For me the songs were good. My favorite was Switzerlands song, but because it didn't come to the finals i voted for the Moldova in the end.

                                                      What have you thought about my country's entry (Slovenia that is). I thought we had a pretty good song this year, and i was a bit sad because it only ranked 15th in the end.

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                                                        @Local-chan:

                                                        I'd love to kill whoever thought up our song, and whoever had the smart idea of putting Eurovision on instead of Doctor Who.

                                                        i also back this quote

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                                                          @Tcold: I loved it. I voted for it. It felt like a mixture of Opera, Nightwish and LOTR.
                                                          Generally, I loved how diverse Eurovision was this year, covering so many gernes and styles this year….Blues, Jazz, soul, opera, techno (uuuuurgh) latin, and a surprising amount of rock.

                                                          Sigh...it's just too bad that all the western countries are now bitching, and being sore losers.

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                                                            @The Daz: Nice to hear that. Yeah i agree with you. You could really find any genre.

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                                                            • Takaho
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                                                              @Bad-Beat:

                                                              I think it's just to remind the people of Europe, we aren't as awesome as we all think.

                                                              I'm so full of shame for our entry this year.

                                                              Yeah, damn scooch to hell:getlost: I really did hate them. If only we got 0 points I would have been happy. The ony band I liked in Eurovision was Apocalyptica, even worse they weren't even entered.

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                                                                I heard only around 6 actually good songs.

                                                                Germany's song was better than a lot but since I heard so much like it, it wasn't that good for me.

                                                                Bulagria's percussion was good, the singing was god-awful.

                                                                And Ukraine had a glad-wrapped, possibly bald 40-something crossdresser. Which isn't necessarily a good thing.

                                                                What I don't get is the compulsion to sing in english though.

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