There is no use explaining to non-believers the magic of this event, and I'm not gonna try to do that. We just know that we understand, and the mutual understanding brings together the diverse and beautiful countries of Europe, together in music, in party, and in bad dresses and hair.
Let's first of all have a look at the 5 countries we didn't talk about yet:
United Kingdom: Andy Abraham – even if
too funky. Farben.
zappelig. nervig.
S: 4
Germany: No Angels - disappear
Lucy hat die schlimmsten Haare im Universum.
Kostüme???
Furchtbarer Song.
Grauenvoll. Tod. Verderben.
S: 5
France: Sébastien Tellier – divine
What the fuck was that?
Spain: Rodolfo Chikilicuatre – baila el chiki chiki
??? --- (Please note that I'm at a loss for words)
Serbia: Jelena Tomasevic feat. Bora Dugic - oro
slavic women = <3
nett.
So, as you can see you didn't miss anything here. Boring, annoying, abysmal - shame on you, "Big 4".
As for the personal faves: Finland was amazing. A great metal tune and an awesome performance, featuring a charismatic bandleader. Excellent!
Speaking of a charismatic bandleader: Harun Tekin, my Turkish delight. Mor ve Ötesi had a perfect appearance as well, a great, Muse-inspired Rock song in Turkish (<3) and an enthralling performance. This was perfect - they should have won...
Iceland was great as well with their gay disco/eurodance track - I do believe that the female singer didn't quite fit in, but all in all that was a very nice song.
As for the depression and the black holes: Croatia and Bosnia. What have you done?? What did we do to you that you make us suffer so much?? From countries that gave us acts like Indira Radić or Colonia... we now get this? Sorry that I could not find a trace of creativity or the desire to differ from the typical Song Contest entries - I could only see awkward insanity, embarrassing helplessness, non-existent songwriting and... old men. Think about what you've done and bring turbo folk or euro techno next time. I mean it!
Also worth mentioning: Sweden sent an alien to perform this year. I was shocked to see Charlotte Perrelli, but I can't tell you how shocked I was to learn that this fucking was Charlotte Nilsson! The winner of 1999 ('take me to your heaven') - oh my GOD!!!! What did you do to your face??? Very very sad and unsettling... She looked like something from outer space.
And yeah... Germany. I'm sorry. We have to address your disaster. I cannot believe your snootiness, Germany! Are you able in any way to perform normal thinking? ARD's Peter Urban is the saddest example of this outstanding act of denying reality: not only did he say that the No Angels did a great performance (I'm sorry, on which planet were you when they slaughtered their already incredibly bad song on stage?), no, he also presumed to mention again the oh so unfair "Eastern European Mafia" that shoves the points onto each other and gives the glorious Western European countries no chance to perform well.
Peter Urban, honey, listen to me and listen well: your entry sucked. It was so bad that I cannot even find words to describe the pain I felt when hearing and watching your performance. Everything about it was wrong: the song, the voices, the costumes, the choreography, the hair (MY GOD, THE HAIR!!!). This has nothing to do with the fact that the Eastern European countries send each other all the points. This has only to do with the fact that your entry sucked. It deserved the last place. Yes, the pirates from Latvia were better than you. Much, much better. Is it even necessary to mention that also the Western European countries didn't give you any points? That only Bulgaria (that - if I remember correctly - is in Eastern Europe, right?) gave you 12 pity points because of Lucy's roots? That your self-pity combined with your arrogance speaks volumes and once more confirms what the rest of the world has always thought about your country? No, it's not necessary. Cause your entry sucked, and everyone on this planet with ears and eyes knows it.
focus.de gave me this user comment by "Christian" - there is nothing to add. Christian, whoever you are, I love you dearly, you got it. Thank you:
„Der Eurovision Song Contest ist gut und das Ergebnis ist gerecht. Das Lied der deutschen No Angels war einfach zu lahm. Griechenland ist kein osteuropäisches Land aber trotzdem machen sie meist gute Plätze weil sie poppige, stimmungsvolle Songs haben. Das, was an dem Abend gefragt ist. Am Ende geht es sowieso nicht um irgendein Land, sondern einfach um ein europäisches Großereignis. Man sollte sich auch für andere mal freuen können.“
THANK YOU BELGRADE
--Sapnish--
1 comment:
I cant really add much to the fantastic review of Sapnish of this really great night full of joy, sometimes disappointment and rare times of pain.
Its the yearly event where millions of people across Europe get Popcorn ready and stare on the TV screen for a few hours.
Belgrade did a great job this time and the stage was top notch and im pretty sure that Russia will try to top this next year ... Eurovision Song Contest losing popularity, I dont think so and next year it will be a great event again.
Please, PLEASE ... Croatia and Bosnia please send someone serious to Russia, I was so disappointed about the performance of the "performance artist" and the old grumpy man. The picture where he scratches on the gramophone with a DJ headset on his right ear will haunt me in upcoming nightmares ... so please return to your roots, to the great music that I so much love.
I think I dont have to explain what was painful to see, to listen to at this night ... the "face" from Sweden and the horrible "hair" from Germany. The rest is better explained already in Sapnish' post.
Finnland and Turkey, you were the peak of this night. Perfect performance, very charismatic front men with great bands in their back adding to the fantastic presentation. This just worked so well and im only a bit, a tiny bit sad that Finnland didnt get the points that it deserved, but in my heart those 2 bands are way on top :-)
few words to the host of this evening, Sapnish ... great Banana Split and Popcorn, cheers for the fun :)
Sacrifi-sir
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