Just got back from watching this years Eurovision Song Contest. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s basically an annual competition where countries from Europe send a song to be performed live against each other, and once all the participants (24 of them) have finished, the people from those countries then can vote for their favourites by phoning in.
So its a bit like those Idol, or Singstar, or whatever they call those shows these days. Except it’s taken on a whole level higher by pitting countries against each other. What can I say about this year? Well it gets worse and worse with every year, and I don’t even know why I keep watching it every year.
Sure last year was quite funny with Lordi, but these year was really surreal and absurd. I don’t even think that I liked any of the songs (yes, I actually like one or two usually every year, so sue me if they are pop), like last year’s Lordi song. One thing that I did really enjoy this year was the German (I live in Austria, thus German channels) commentator who was more or less slandering every entry once it was over.
I actually started looking forward to the commentary and not the upcoming song. British being British, they made total fools out of themselves like they do every single year, but this year it was really sad. But they gave enough ammunition for the commentator to make three whole jokes in space of 40 seconds about them.
All in all it sucked. Kudos to the commentator though, he was the only reason why it was worth watching it this year. Oh yeah, and of course the Russian girls who looked much nicer on the stage than they do in the picture above.
4 replies to “Eurovision 2007”
Kev said on May 13th, 2007 at 04:20
Well, at least it provides some comic relief. I could not stop laughing at the Ukraine act. However, if it was a competition of sex appeal (which obviously it wasn’t cause Serbia won) Russia would have had it in the bag.
Oh and the Latvian act wasn’t much better I might add.
crazybjörn said on May 13th, 2007 at 09:47
Ukraine was indeed terrible, though what was funnier about Ukraine was that every was saying that they would most likely win, and somehow after watching them I just thought they must be out of their minds.
As for Latvian act yeah was quite well yeah, very strange, Latvians singing in Italian, no idea what they were thinking there. But you have to take into account that Latvia isn’t in the so-called “Big Four” that always auto qualify by default like the British so one would expect something more from them :P
Mark said on May 13th, 2007 at 16:49
Haha it was hilariously bad, yeah our commentator was funny as hell too – Terry Wogan, he was slagging off that silly pink dressed bint who kept wandering talking to people :D
Ukraine did very well with the votes, and frankly I’m not surprised – they were so goddamn awful it was almost hypnotic – slightly catchy too :P
Our entry was horrific :D I wanted us to end with no points lol
Latvia were still way better than our entry though, hehe silly hats :D
Russia’s entry was … well it wasn’t subtle how they were hoping to get votes hehe.
crazybjörn said on May 13th, 2007 at 20:52
They were probably thinking “why beat around the bush?”. And I agree with them :P