Alright, these are my picks to go through from the second semifinal:
UKR - super hot girl and neat sand artist
BEL - possibly too patriotic - not really in the spirit of Eurovision...
SLO - actually quite enjoyable
BUL - scaryu dwarf chick, but decent enough song
AUT - reminds me of Lucie Silvas
SWE - truly banal lyrics, but whatever...
ISR
SLK
LAT
DEN
Finland's song worked nicely in the first semi-final as it was sung in the middle of some too noisy, crappy, chaotic songs. So it stood out from that group of entries as a pleasant, simple, slow-tempo song. It was also the only song in the first semi-final to use the simple "man and a guitar" concept, so it differentiated well. That may not be the case in the final, though (haven't seen/hear all countries yet), and the starting place as the first country to present is far from being optimal, so it probably won't finish in the top 5 at least.
i like Finland's song. every song is so HYPER HYPER too much action while Finland is like: yeh enough of that shit guys. let's all be calm. i don't need any fancy effects.
also i DISGUST YOU, Sketchy? here have some FAN ART i did then.
i think they are lully because they are so mental.
also i think lena might get 11 or something.
did anyone see those weird rockers with those super pointy black hats? they are cool in my opinion. really liked them. in the end it will be each former commi country giving each other points again. eurovision is the only event where i think we should build up the wall again.
Nice picture. Shame about the subject matter, but very good drawing nonetheless.
I agree the Finnish song is good. I'm sure I've heard it before somewhere - maybe on a TV commercial or something.
That and the Slovenian entry (the unconventionally hot Christina Aguilera wannabe) are *way* ahead of all the rest, IMO.
If I was going to vote, it would be for Slovenia
(although Belarus's entry was awesome, but sadly didn't make it through to the final)
Jedward aren't mental, they're immature and rely on acting stupid because they can't sing. That's the only reason they became popular on the Xfactor in the first place. Moldova and Austria were my favourites, but as predicted it turned into a complete load of political bullcrap again. The voting system really needs to be changed. Azerbaijan was one of the only songs my family couldn't even remember this year.
Originally Posted by -Adam- Jedward aren't mental, they're immature and rely on acting stupid because they can't sing. That's the only reason they became popular on the Xfactor in the first place. Moldova and Austria were my favourites, but as predicted it turned into a complete load of political bullcrap again. The voting system really needs to be changed. Azerbaijan was one of the only songs my family couldn't even remember this year.
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lets see where I will agree with you. personally I enjoyed Moldova a lot and thought they were awesome (glad they made it to the finals) but didn't think they would have a big chance looking at what Europe's "taste" (TASTE OLOLOLOLOL get this?) is like.
greece was just awful. i didn't even care who was gonna win- seriously i didn't have a favourite. i just cared that TWO artists lose big time: greece and azerbaijan who I couldn't stand at all.
I went furious when I saw Greece was getting all those points. HELL even GERMANY gave Greece 8 points and I was like "okay that's it. gonna move to the netherlands. only country i agree with"
fun fact: the german committee who makes 50% of the votes and the other 50% are from phone votings did NOT vote for greece so god knows why they got 8 points from germany.
i also liked the fact that everyone but Beligum and France spoke English. Those language fascists. its hilarious.
the lady from poland was ANNOYING as hell.
the opening with lena's satellite was actually better than the original song. i think the show was very well done, good work düsseldorf and no way Azerbaijan is gonna beat such a show.
I'm pretty sure Jedward aren't "acting" stupid. Still, at least they didn't win.
I thought Azerbaijan's entry was actually okay, if rather dull. It had mainstream appeal (unlike Moldova for example), without being too similar to any of the other entries - whereas the solo-female-balladist vote would have been split between AUT, SLN, UKR, etc. The Ukrainian entry was probably the only one to place in the top 10 that I thought was better.
Like you said, definitely a lot of political/geographical voting going on, as always - but then the UK did give maximum points to Ireland (in spite of them being by far the worst entry in the entire competition), so we can't really complain. We're just disadvantaged by not getting along with most of our nearest neighbours...
I'm surprised how badly Slovenia did in the end, considering they had a good song, pretty girl, and good geographical location (should get votes from all the Balkan countries).
Ukrainian was the sand picture lady wasn't it? i think no one fucking listened to the music. i think it was just background music to the art
Seriously Jedward are so hyper and just jumping around all the time like they were on speed or something. Those guys just crack me up so badly and I actually find the song to be CATCHY.
stooooooooooooooop haaaaaaatin on jeeeeeedwaaaard :C :C :C
Really disappoiting to see that Finland only took 21st place. X| It's also a little strange that Switzerland was at the bottom. The singer wasn't that great, but I thought the instrumentation was quite nice on that one.
Moldova was great this year too, but they only got 12th. Also disappoiting.
Originally Posted by Austrian W3R3W00F Man, the ratings sucked. |:C
Really disappoiting to see that Finland only took 21st place. X| It's also a little strange that Switzerland was at the bottom. The singer wasn't that great, but I thought the instrumentation was quite nice on that one.
Moldova was great this year too, but they only got 12th. Also disappoiting.
today i just realized that your name is AUSTRIAN not AUSTRALIAN
heißt das, dass du mich verstehst?
oh and YEH i was really for finland because everyone was like OH LOOK WE HAVE HOT CHICKS (damn a few chicks were really super hot. i like the Belarus one the most) and we have FIREWORKS and explosions and a lot of fancy effects while he was just like: here i wrote this song myself and you are gonna listen to it.
HE DID IT ALL BY MYSELF and it was really happy go lucky with a nice message and stuff. i liked it and i feel sorry for him /blame those commis.
5am i forgot what i was gonna say so whatever night
The winner was quite expected. Definitely better than Italy or Sweden who finished 2nd and 3rd.
Finland plunged all the way down to the place #21.
It's interesting to compare semi-final results and the correlation between those and the final results:
Greece #1 in semi-final --> #7 in the final
Azerbaijan #2 in semi-final --> #1 in the final
Sweden #1 in semi-final --> #3 in the final
Denmark #2 in semi-final --> #5 in the final
Slovenia #3 in semi-final --> #13 in the final
So all of these top-3 semi-final songs (there were two semi-finals) finished quite high in the final as well...but then...what happened to Finland:
Finland #3 in semi-final --> #21 in the final !
I think if the starting order would've been different, i.e. Finland performing in the middle of the pack instead of as the very first country, it might have finished at least in the top 15, maybe even top 10. It won some media award anyway, so somebody actually liked the song.
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