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I liked Romania, Lithuania and Croatia (and Lordi, Halleluejah). I was kind of disappointed not to see Iceland being outrageous and silly, because I never actually saw the full act, just clips.
The UK entry was, er, dubious to say the last. A middle-aged man doing something he would probably describe as 'rap' (he missed off the 'c') whilst young women dressed as every paedophile's schoolgirl fantasy cavort around him is probably not what the good Catholic countries of our European neighbours would expect to see on their TVs at 9pm on a Saturday night.
Did y'all see the little Greek "tourism" clips in between some of the acts? Some of those were shot right in my neighborhood; in fact, exactly where I was today.
But Greece's entry? Anna Vissi? Bleh. Thank god she didn't win, or she would be even more unbearable than she is now. Plus, I could live quite comfortably for four or five years on what her outfit tonight cost, and even aside from the overwrought performance and crappy song, she deserves heaps of abuse for that alone.
It was good to see a few shots of Cape Sounion and the Temple of Poseidon, one of the most beautiful places on earth. I also now must visit Iceland after the view of the skyline behind their presenter.
No, but you better do it if you're interested in winning.
I just received an email from my mother who lives in Finland. She says the streets of Helsinki have been filled with singing, dancing monster mask clad youth with long black nails tonight and in the news this morning they were already discussing who is going to pay for next year's show.
I had a great time watching this. It's fun to snark on, and fun to see some unexpectedly nice stuff. I especially like seeing cool ethnic traditional music successfully fitted out for a Eurovision attempt, though, sadly, performers are more likely to go with a generic pop-culture-all-in-one sort of thing.
Here are my votes:
Best legs and Best Ethnic Cool: Croatia
Most lyrical cliches ever crammed together into one song: Israel
Best makeup: Finland, duh.
Most Hotsy-Totsy: Who was that with blue jean daisy dukes? FYROM?
Best Actual Talent: Romania
Most Pre-Pressed Nonparticipant: Iceland
Most nipply uncoverage: Co-host Maria
Worst Song by Best Band Name: Las Ketchup
Best, WTF Were You Thinking With That Outfit?: Turkey? Co-host Sakis? Russia? Help me here, people.
Best Clever-But-Silly-But-Good: Lithuania
Worst Use of a Piano: Russia
Best Ballerinas?-WTF?: Russia
Best Two-Kinds-of-Music-Country-and-Western: Germany (but I liked them, actually!)
What have I overlooked? Add your "Best", "Worst" votes, yes?
Also, have I ever told you what nice eyes you have, seanyboy? Or how much I like lobster? (You are going to totally spend this on a fantastic dinner out, right?)
Thing is, I'm not a gambling man. This is the first bet I've placed in about three years. I saw the video, thought - there's no way they can't win, placed the bet and spent the next 30 hours second guessing myself and thinking I was an idiot.
The press had it in for the band, everybody I told looked at me like I was a crazy fool, and by the end I'd pretty much given up all hope of winning.
I'm glad the UK entry didn't go anywhere because that would've been very embarassing.
Anyway, the pub I was in last night was showing the scoring and everyone in there was cheering everytime Lordi got 12 points. Which was a lot. Great fun.
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