Eurovision Songcontest - Germany 2011

Suicu

So, it’s already time for another year of the ~~corny~~ Eurovision Songcontest. Beforehand some infos what this contest is about:
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union.
Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition.

Now for some general infos:
Semi-final 1 date 10 May 2011
Semi-final 2 date 12 May 2011
Final date 14 May 2011

The participants have chosen their songs. If you like to skim over the songs:

For the full songs follow this link:
http://www.eurovision.tv/mediaplayer/2011/

Just two weeks before the event starts. Your bets? Who is your favorite? Which song totally sucks?
Seems that the UK wants to win this year’s contest, huh?
And I’m totally sad about the decision that most countries went with an english entry…

Flux

Our entry is awful this year. But then again, wasn't it last year?

Lena-Meyer Landrut was lovely. I downloaded that song even though I couldn't make out some of the words at times.

Darkstorm

No Terry no point.

SympathyX

Has Finland got another power-metal entry?

TLC

I hate this contest with such a passion.

Mastello

@SympathyX:

Has Finland got another power-metal entry?

I've got bad news for ya.

Daz

Denmarks intro is deriative and dull this year.

I find the Tetsuya Nomura character from sweden to be hilarious though, but the rest of the lineup will have to be abominable before I throw him my vote.

Oh and the "I love Belarus" song better get fucking stomped into the ground as the Lubachenko propaganda it is.

Croc7

The 1st semi final is tonight..
Anyways I put my money for UK for this year's winner.

Daz

It's on like plagiarism, poorly sung english and songs better off in the childrens eurovision…kong.

Norway and Switzerland are the only ones I care a bit for so far. I'm seriously missing the ethnic feel a lot of the countries used to have. I mean, what the fuck Armenia, Georgia?

Don Quichotte De Flamingo

Right now its rly a joke which songs even dare to start. Portugal was just…lol. Well, i dont care much for the whole contest, but Lena was rly big here in Germany last year and this year she also has a pretty cool song.

GetsugaZoro

@Don:

Right now its rly a joke which songs even dare to start. Portugal was just…lol. Well, i dont care much for the whole contest, but Lena was rly big here in Germany last year and this year she also has a pretty cool song.

They are actually comedians/musicians, they had a metal band before, the music they do is about social critic and they are actually protaying characters not themselves.

My favourite was Georgia and I didn't dislike Turkey the rest was a bunch of the usual, they do the same shit for years and years that why I don't like this contest, I just watched since I like the comedy show that the portuguese contestants have, so I made the effort.

I still think that we were better then a bunch of the generic people that were there, using music clichés ,etc.

Like I said I am probably not seeing tomorrow show, since I watched this due to liking the portuguese contestants comedy show but I hope Georgia atleast pulls it off they were the most original stuff out of everything there, besides ours XD but thats a diferent kind of original and people that don't know them don't understand obviously.

herr_sebbe

UK was a bit blend to me. Finland, if I may give my personal opinion, but Azerbaijan seems to be a worthy adversary.

Don Quichotte De Flamingo

Trying something differnet is sure cool, but with that comedic approach..it was just not fitting into this concept for my taste.
(But Germany is there not any better..with "Gildo hat euch lieb" and "Wadde hadde dude da", we were also testing good taste to the borders)

Chrissie

…I forgot this was tonight. =U

Flux

I liked Armenia .

Luffyko

I was really looking forward to the song contest :3

I watched the first semi-final yesterday. It was really nice, I liked the little video clips between the songs.
I like Serbia's, Georgia's and Lithuania's entries… and Turkey, but they didn't made it to the final. Portugal was funny, too.
But I really dislike Russia's and especially Greece's entries... and those two made it to the final :/

Oh, and Boom Boom Chaka Chaka xDD

Robinchen

First of all some words about the moderation. I always liked Anke Engelke, never thought she can speak french, my respekt for her is growing and growing xD Raab is Raab but with broken english. He has the Mids touch but should just moderate diverse TV Total shows. I never saw the blond woman before…what does se moderate? nt-v, n24 o.O never saw her in any news show.

However the stage looks really awesome o.o

The entries...
Portugal: the most dazing performance of ESC EVER!
Greece: my face was the whole time like this o.Ô a bad rapper x opera singer ...what is wrong with this guys?
Switzerland: was good, I´m happy that they are in final
Georgia: wanne be Linkin Park xD but better theb Turkey
Russia: bäh! -.-"
Serbia: best performance yesterday
Finland: Go away please!!! >.< "Let us save the world!!" too cheesy...
Azerbaijan: don´t deserve the final. If one is "running scared" one isn´t enamored and the world is love, peace and harmony gosh
Poland: she has a good voice, too bad she didn´t get enough votes

Last but not least the postcards. I loves them . it was awesome to see Dresden, Ahlbeck, Berlin etc. with a toy-look

Daz

Apart from Norway, all my picks went through. Still not a particularly good year though.

I'm surprised so many people liked Georgia. It was just charmless forgettable noise to me. Same with Turkey, only at least his mumbled mispronounced english was at least somewhat entertaining.
Russia made me think of stalkers.
Serbia I liked, but the background made my girlfriend nauseous.
Greece, lose the rapper and you have a much better song.
Portugal…look, I'm sure theres a deep message there and it's all very funny in Portugal, but to the rest of the Europe it was a story told in gibberish by characters you didin't know who did nothing but wave signs around which you barely had time to read. If it'd been the same song but with some Portugese folk dancers prancing around, but you honestly couldn't have expected this to win.

Albania made me want to nail my ears shut.

Hungary was the absolute best. Definetely rooting for them so far.

Sonic Youth

Just shoot sweden already!

Traveller

For once Finland has a song that doesn't send shame down my spine. Yes, it's very naive, but the guy (Oskar Ehnström) sings very nicely and I guess they're going for something of a James Blunt-ish direction there.

Germany bringing Lena back again is kind of a stupid move. It's like if Finland brought Lordi back for the next year after they won. At least, I would be like: "Okay, it was good the first time, but really, again? It's done, it's old, get over it."

Nami

@Don:

Trying something differnet is sure cool, but with that comedic approach..it was just not fitting into this concept for my taste.
(But Germany is there not any better..with "Gildo hat euch lieb" and "Wadde hadde dude da", we were also testing good taste to the borders)

Don't….. remind me.....

I can't say I like Lena. And I was fuckin ashamed when she won last year with her fuckin bad english :/ I think even I can pronounce better than her. I mean, come on.
blergh.
When I heard she would start this year I was just like "... yeah. This will do good." I wouldn't wonder at all when every country goe slike "pfft, Germany has not enough good singers so they just go with the old one. LAAAAAAAAAAAME"

UK was Blue, right? I know these guys a little back from my teenage time

Other than that, I'm not really interested in this whole thing and I can't really take it seriously.
I mean it's good this exists, but the actual process and the actual singers who go there... is just.. meh.

Silent K

I didn't like Lena last year at all, but at least she was still miles ahead of the Netherlands' embarrassing choice of song last year. Not too crazy of Lena's song this year either.
Haven't seen much of the other songs yet, though.

I'm hoping our guys do better this year… their song seems nice and not cheesy for once, even though we haven't gotten past the semi-finals for 6 years in a row. I'd love to see us advance with a normal song for once.

Daz

I'm going to be royally pissed if the winner is decided solely by the most well known band/artist. I'm still nagged by my suspicion that Lenas win was guaranteed before the 10' show even started, due to her fame and the songs hype

Huschel

@The:

I'm going to be royally pissed if the winner is decided solely by the most well known band/artist. I'm still nagged by my suspicion that Lenas win was guaranteed before the 10' show even started, due to her fame and the songs hype

Pretty much this.
Although I did like Lena's song, the actual perfomance was really not as good as it could have been.

I haven't really heard any of this year's songs yet but I am about to remedy that by watching the 2nd semifinals.

Daz

So far, this semifinal is using the former as flossing. Too bad the Swedish Nomura character couldn't break all the glass; maybe he isn't a high enough level to face the final boss yet

Flux

Rooting for Lena. Not such a good song choice this year but Blue are awful, and Jedward? Jesus Christ.

Scott Mills' UK coverage isn't THAT bad. It's that retarded BBC3 Woman who started singing 'Thats Amore' to the French Entry.

Armenia's was a fun laugh. I liked it.

Robinchen

Europe what is wrong with you? Do you really love autotune "popstars"?? >.<

Austria: nice voice! I´m glad she´s in the final
Belarus: I love Belarus!! not xDD laughed so much about the song
Belgium: they were great! instead of Jedward should this guys sing in the next round
Bulgaria: also good. It´s really sad that they don´t got enough votes
Denmark: I don´t really like soft rock but it was a catchy song
Estonia: Autotune the 1st >.>
Ireland: Autotune the 2nd -.-" God I HATE this guys and want to punch them in their hyperactive face!
Moldova: the song is good but I totally hate the singers' voice, it´s fucking annoying
Sweden: Autotune the 3rd

Suicu

Rofl at Armenia and Turkey, bwahahaha xDDD

Quite surprised about some entries. I mean really? Sweden? Ireland? Romania? Some of them are surely a result from the jury voting and bad taste…Why would you prefer the Nomura-Gackt Clone over Bulgariaaaa?
And I’m quite irritated about the semi-final voting rules. Did they established them this year or was it always this way?

Happy that most of my favorites are in, but Bulgaria was robbed :’((
And Germany totally sucks at their camera work.

MagiciteKefka

I should be happy that Sweden is in the finals, but i'm not… really.

I don't actually like any country this year, Finland is the only one that's ok.

Luffyko

Damn, Belgium didn't make it to the final =(
I really loved their performance, it was something special.

But Sweden is in the final… -__-

Sonic Youth

Sweden just die already.

Monkey King

I see it's another year with New England denied entry. I see how it is.

MarcelloF

@Nami:

Don't….. remind me.....

I can't say I like Lena. And I was fuckin ashamed when she won last year with her fuckin bad english :/ I think even I can pronounce better than her. I mean, come on.
blergh.
When I heard she would start this year I was just like "... yeah. This will do good." I wouldn't wonder at all when every country goe slike "pfft, Germany has not enough good singers so they just go with the old one. LAAAAAAAAAAAME"

UK was Blue, right? I know these guys a little back from my teenage time

Other than that, I'm not really interested in this whole thing and I can't really take it seriously.
I mean it's good this exists, but the actual process and the actual singers who go there... is just.. meh.

Speaking of Lena, didn't she have this English phrase she always said? What was that again? I just remember finding it totally annoying.

Wagomu

And Eurovisions continues to be one of the tackiest things humanity has managed to come up with since beauty pageants.

Chrissie

@Monkey:

I see it's another year with New England denied entry. I see how it is.

Poor, poor New England~

I never heard Cyprus' song before. So I just tried listening to it and shut it the first 30 seconds. It sucks.

Monkey King

@Wagomu:

And Eurovisions continues to be one of the tackiest things humanity has managed to come up with since beauty pageants.

We grow up as Americans being indoctrinated into a depressive state of mind where we must face the fact that Europe is more cultured and sophisticated than us. And that we're blunt tacky boors.

And then one day, in some form or another. We learn how this is all a lie. Sometimes in the form of an

. Sometimes in the form of realizing

. Sometimes in the form of our first time actually watching a French art film and realizing

.

Or it's this.

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It comes to this.
We do trash better, you do art better (except for the French, they produce pretentious meaningless garbage and really awful romance (Italian and Swedish art films rule like hell though)).

But when done wrong which is more horrifying? Truly it's the trash.
Point of comparison. Van Halen and Def Leppard are virtually the same band.
Except one if American and one is British.
Van Halen is a ton of over the top fun and hard rock theater that's lowbrow and knows it, and loves it.
Def Leppard is crap.

(the Japanese do trash best of all btw)

Cyan D. Funk

Are the Latvians who sung about pirates in this one.

Smudger

@Monkey:

I see it's another year with New England denied entry. I see how it is.

Old Englands laughing at you dude.

Monkey King

Maybe I should edit that and say "Western Europe", because the only thing Americans are raised to think about Eastern Europe are "communism", "gypsys" and "no money". Except for Greece maybe.

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@Smudger:

Old England laughing at you dude.

Explain Robbie Williams immediately.

Smudger

@Monkey:

Explain Robbie Williams immediately.

He was popular waaaaaaay back in the days of the spice girls.

Then we sobered up.

Monkey King

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Smudger

@Monkey:

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And yet its still a thousand time more famous then anything produced by good ol' obscure new england.

Monkey King

Our music from that time in history is flawless.

And just for fun.

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That's right. THE PIXIES ARE OURS.

Smudger

You act like these two people are the only singers from back then.

Oh do I have news for you….

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Fairplay on aerosmith, they are the dogs.

Wagomu

What did England have in the 80s? The remainder of NWOBHM, some goth rock and the occasional anarcho punk band?

Though America did have its fair share of crap, too, thanks to MTV and hair metal… (which in turn, pissed enough people off into making hardcore punk and extreme metal).

Luffyko

Wow, France and Italy were great! Really unique songs between all those pop songs!
Oh god, those dwarfs from Moldova are funny!
Lena is next!

Worldvision Songcontest? xD

Monkey King

@Wagomu:

What did England have in the 80s? The remainder of NWOBHM, some goth rock and the occasional anarcho punk band?

Though America did have its fair share of crap, too, thanks to MTV and hair metal… (which in turn, pissed enough people off into making hardcore punk and extreme metal).

Actually English 80's rock was awesome I have to admit.

-The Cure
-Echo and the Bunnymen
-Joy Division/New Order
-The Smiths
-The Stone Roses (Madchester in general)
-Jesus and Mary Chain
-Shoegaze
-Dream Pop

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@Luffyko:

Wow, France and Italy were great! Really unique songs between all those pop songs!
Oh god, those dwarfs from Moldova are funny!
Lena is next!

Worldvision Songcontest? xD

lol at Moldova just singing and farting along with everyone else in Europe like nothing's weird about it.

England: Oi mates! Ain't it great to be in Europe?
France: Vive la Europe lol!
Sweden: Word!
Germany: It really is, stability…money...civil society.
Hungary: haha, well some of us could use a bit more money lol.
Poland: But not TOO much! I don't need no loans, I'm gonna be buying YOU the drinks one day Mr. Spain lol.
Spain: I can't wait friend!
Italy: haha, oh you two!
Moldova: I make less money on the average than people who live in Botswana.

England: Oh..um..well, how about them wars in Libya? Boy, good thing we're done with wars.
Bosnia: Yeah, believe me! We're done!
Portugal: Conflict sucks!
Spain: Yeah, my Basques are learning that y'know. Phew!
North Ireland: Same here bro! Peace rules!
Moldova: I have a frozen conflict zone and breakaway state that threatens to erupt again and doubles as a reason that I can't escape my limbo like hell of poverty and isolation.

France:…...cough
Switzerland: uh well….women's rights! We have that in Europe! Yes sir!
Sweden: Who's the one baby.
Denmark: Don't get a big head about it or anything Sweden!
Belgium: Yeah, we're all good on that braw.
Germany: Hell yeah, check my head of state.
Moldova: I'm suffering from a sex trafficing epidemic tied to my deep corruption and mafia issues.

England: ahhh…..
Moldova: So whos up for some bubblegum pop! I know I am!
England: …hell yeah! That's the spirit!
Moldova: I know it keeps me from killing myself!

Chrissie

@Luffyko:

Wow, France and Italy were great! Really unique songs between all those pop songs!
Oh god, those dwarfs from Moldova are funny!
Lena is next!

Worldvision Songcontest? xD

Oho! Thanks for pointing out Italy! Just listened to the song. -purrs happily-

kappa-san

Haha! I missed Eurovision! It's more fun if you actually see this the Hetalia-fandom way. Good times, good times.
Back in Eurovision 2009, I used to have some of the songs on my phone.
My favorites are:
1. Fairtytail (Norway)
2. Lose control (Finland)
3. Rändajad (Estonia)

Chrissie

Wait, who are in the finals again? o3o