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So what are people's thoughts on this year's contest? My money is on Sweden this year. The Ark is a well-known band, their song is catchy, plus they're flashy and have a gay singer. Though if he dresses like in the Swedish semifinal he might not win the middle-age vote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oKXIAqwujo

Finland isn't gonna win this year, the song isn't good and the singer is pretty bad (she's a former Idol contest winner):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4nPD41h7MM

On the other hand, Denmark might be a surprise winner, their contestant is a drag queen who looks like the guy from Sin With Sebastian. The tune isn't as good as Sweden's though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONk4SQmZ-kQ

― Tuomas, Sunday, 18 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Our entry may be the gayest thing ever, which surely puts it in with a fighting chance. It's quite catchy too, though I wouldn't go so far as to call it actually good or anything.

― chap, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

That Scooch song and performance via youtube was shockingly bad, moronic pop !

I thought Daz Sampson was an all time pop embarrassment to Britain but now Scooch as surpassed that.

― djmartian, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, Scooch are better than Daz. More homosexual innuendos, innit. Also a drug reference ("flying high in Amsterdam...")

― chap, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

But this surpasses Scooch (and maybe everybody else this year) (not just Eurovision-wise, either):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVHDMDAu0A

― xhuxk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

PLANK Wogan opts for GAY POP. England chances in Europe DOOMED. Where was he when Portsmouth DARKWAVE sensations Numpencorpse played BLINDER during XFACTOR AUDITIONS? Something something SYSTEMS THINKING BOXCAR #@

― Hupi Bojangls, Sunday, 18 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ukraine to win!

― chap, Sunday, 18 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm loving Spain, Denmark, Bulgaria and Cyprus. Slovenia will win though, sadly. And Scooch are the worst decision the UK has ever made, it's too ironic and knowing and sounds like it was made by people who hate all pop and Eurovision.

― V, Sunday, 18 March 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sverige for the win!

I recently came across this classic from 2004: http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/deen%2B%2B%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bdisco/video/xbuzk_deen-in-the-disco-live

― Lovelace, Sunday, 18 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

I love Switzerland's entry: DJ Bobo - Vampires Are Alive. If you don't like it, it means you hate fun!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dDxp8Cez0

― musically, Sunday, 18 March 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

not to be anal or anything, but ola salo isn't gay, tuomas. he's bisexual and he has a girlfriend.

― Lovelace, Sunday, 18 March 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Scooch - it's not camp, it's not funny, it's Dick Emery meets Fast Food Rockers and it is vile.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Even if it was! (good I mean..)

Who would vote for it other than England? The flag is the english one so why would Portugal (for example) vote for it?

(caveat: England has already voted for it)

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

The flag is the British one. Jesus, how hard is that to grasp? Nonetheless, Scooch = final proof, if proof be need be, that Britain is finished.

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

oops soz.

But you know what I mean.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine Dr. Ian Paisley might be tempted to vote for them

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's disgraceful Scooch promoting the act of flying in these dark days of irreversible climate change!

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Camp bastards

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson sue the backsides off them for ripping off The High Life.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

They should get Stellios on stage with them.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Or, for Scottish readers, the cast of the Globespan adverts.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE POWER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUGefscDCKY

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit Ukraine!!!!!!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

my friend in response to the ukraine video: "that was the most excruciating thing i have ever seen"

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

is this the first year andorra have entered? their entry is reasonably enjoyable busted-ish pop punk (english chorus, catalan verse [i'm wagering, i don't really know what catalan sounds like])

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bulgaria's is really really good!! But I'm not sure I'm ready to give up my Ukraine love that easily.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

There are like four countoffs in Andorra's entry, that's the most pop-punk thing ever.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i just watched bulgaria now, i kinda wish it had been 4 minutes longer

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

czech republic = kinda lame metallica thing going on, figures that after lordi you get the non-big-winner countries doing a watered-down version of last year's winner

greece is on some ricky martin type shit this year

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

i like the drag queen trend this year! denmark, ukraine, any others?

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah Greece throws in some Laika shit in an attempt to distract you from the fact that it's essentially "La Vida Loca"

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

Poland apparently decided to sample every period of Gwen Stefani's career

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

poland kinda reminds me of fergie! (so yeah, by transitive property, gwen too, i guess)

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

those stretch pants she's wearing in the actual music video are SEVERE

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

urghhh @ the comments on the israeli eurovision entry on youtube

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, DJ Bobo is representing Szitzerland??! I may have to vote him, you know, just for old times sake.

not to be anal or anything, but ola salo isn't gay, tuomas. he's bisexual and he has a girlfriend.

Oh, I thought he was gay. Doesn't the band even have a pro gay adoption song, where he sings that one day he too can be a father?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

czech republic = kinda lame metallica thing going on, figures that after lordi you get the non-big-winner countries doing a watered-down version of last year's winner

I think it's the first time Cz enter the competition, so no wonder they haven't won before. :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

oh yr right! that's kind of worse in a way

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Milli Vanilli all over again.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Russian song is equal parts classic trashy pop and unbearable crap.

― mitya, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Another problem with Scooch - [Removed Illegal Link], except their proper proper gimmick was that they were in drag as opposed to just air hostessing. They ended up coming 13th.

― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Milli Vanilli - I think Lordi had a hidden background vocalist too last year, it wasn't the female keyboardist who sang those high vocals. Still, to demand artistic integrity from an Eurovision performer is kinda silly, isn't it?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, you can watch better versions of all the entry song videos here:

http://www.yle.fi/eurovision/main.php?id=2776

The DJ Bobo video is ridiculously great! I'm definitely gonna vote for him now!

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

Or even quality.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Well, no surprise there's a lot of "metal" this year, which means all the rock numbers will grab votes from each other and probably something else will win.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ukraine all the way!

― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEozvLUViJc

is the link what I was trying to post upthread. Slovenia 2002=UK 2007, except, er, better.

― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Scooch are so atrociously bad they would fail to meet the entertainment requirements of Butlins or Pontins

― djmartian, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Bobo is an interesting entry, but I still think it's too early for Eurodance in ESC. 25 year-olds don't spend Saturday Night in front of the telly, and today's 25 year-olds are the ones who grew up with Eurodance.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Turkey's entry is their version of Justin Timberlake:

http://www.yle.fi/eurovision/mediaplayer.php?id=2815

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 512 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Ah, got you. I could see what you were attempting but the numbers made no sense to me. I didn't realise the commas were decimal points.

I like that no matter what way you cook it the UK were still rotten (did he really say "Would you like something to suck on before landing sir?").

― onimo, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, to mass yawns and zero outrage.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he should've got his cock out

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Given the current state of humanity it really wasn't wise for Britain to come on in front of an audience of x million/billion and start smugly singing about flying the flag all over the world.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Just been trying to confirm it via Google, but I think Serbia's Maria Serifovic is actually married. A friend told me of a recent interview in which she was talking about looking forward to getting back to her HUSBAND and her DOGS. (NOT CATS!)

It's hard to fin any info in English but the Serbian posters here seem to think she's gay:

she is gay, all the lesbians in belgrade know that ;) but she is not out. she was asked in interviews about that, but she usually evaded the answer, i don't remember that she denied.

i wonder is she the first lesbian to win the eurovision song contest?

Of course if she isn't out of the closet, no one can know for sure. But I can't imagine anyone choosing an outfit and performance like that without thinking about what it implies... Nor did it seem like she was trying to appeal to straight guys a la Tatu. As far as I know lesbians aren't a major voting group in the contest, so if she isn't gay, all I can think of is that she was trying to appeal to some sort of LGTB solidarity.

― Tuomas, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Who was that duo who won one year? Both looked like Sandi Toksvig?

― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Was that the Irish "Rock 'N' Roll Kids" lot?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realise the commas were decimal points.

Oh right sorry, forgot that I was copying from the Norwegian version of Excel grrr.

― anatol_merklich, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost

Maybe she just wore some clothes she liked.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Marc: "Let it Swchwing" or so.

― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah - Bobbysocks.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

all I can think of is that she was trying to appeal to some sort of LGTB solidarity

still, low numbers

― o-ess, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Telex should win.

― Cameron Octigan, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rte.ie/tv/eurovision/av_20070512.html - The entire contest, streamed in RealPlayer, courtesy of the lovely folks at RTE.

― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 14 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Molitva" was also the most popular song amongst WESTERN European voters:

http://chig.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_chig_archive.html#1030149418906230769

― mike t-diva, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sweden was the only act I would really want to see live.

I eagerly await the album from the Russian group, however.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Molitva" was also the most popular song amongst WESTERN European voters:

Note that several Serbs live in Western Europe. Who do you think they voted for? All night in some cases.....

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, Geir! The things you know!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I, for one, didn't realize Western European Serbs got a longer voting period than the 15 minutes the rest of us had!

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

But they all voted for the same song, regardless of whether they liked it or not. Same about Turkish people living in Europe (but they got less votes from Eastern Europe)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Cyprus voted for Greece, as they always do.

Hey, they probably do like Greek music best!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

The last time Cyprus and Greece didn't vote for each other was in 1993, when Norway's song was a beautiful Greek-sounding ballad with bouzoki and all. :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, not that the Scandinavian countries ever vote for one another, eh Geir? ;)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://info.rsr.ch/xobix_media/images/tsr/2007/swisstxt20070512_7813405_3.jpg

say no more

― the Dirt, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

and that got what, second place?

― the Dirt, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

That was performed directly before the UK entry, right?

Made the UK version seem very polite. and forgettable.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this was one of the worst Eurovisions I've ever seen, the Ukraine song was the only one that stuck in my head for more than 3 milliseconds... the Romanian entry is surely grounds from them being thrown out of the EU?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, not that the Scandinavian countries ever vote for one another, eh Geir? ;)

We all vote for Sweden. Sweden never vote for us though....

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

... they're obv. not as parochial and narrow-minded as you lot then

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or they may be better at writing, well, I wouldn't say good pop music, more like pop music that they know people (In Northern Europe, that is) will like.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

shake it up, sekerim

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Hungary was OK - no way to win but I'd spend the phone call on it. Like Matt A. I eagerly await the album from the Russian group also.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 20 May 2007 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure why the fact that neighbouring countries vote for one another is always construed as some sort of political statement. Wouldn't it be equally as valid to assume that geographically close countries also share some sort of cultural heritage that makes an appreciation of a shared musical styles more viable?

Not to say that its never political, just perhaps not as nepotistic as it is sometimes portrayed.

I have to say that everything seemed fine after enough absinthe. "Eurovision cocktails" only really works if you've bothered to find out something about the country, and bought a wide enough variety of alcohol.

SANDI TOKSVIG FOR NEXT YEAR'S EUROVISION. THE CAMPAIGN STARTS HERE.

― hobart paving, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I agree. It's all about musical taste really. In Southern Europe, they prefer the entries to be sung in the singer's native tongue, and influence by folk music. This doesn't compute with Northern European taste, but after the addition of the Balkans and some other Southeastern European states, Southern Europe does now have the majority to decide.

The distaste against the English language may have political connotations though.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

It might also have a lot to do with people of one nationality living in a neighbouring country. That's one reason why Ireland getting nothing from the UK shows how bad the song was: there's plenty of Irish people who can vote in the UK poll for the Irish song.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Georgia's entry is #175 in the UK charts this week on downloads.

― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

and The Ark's 'The Worrying Kind' is all the way up at #121

― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

The cultural thing makes more sense than the political thing. A couple of years ago when Switzerland were represented by Vanilla Ninja, who were Estonian, they got good scores from quite a few ex-Soviet countries (not just Estonia). Those countries don't have a reason to care about Switzerland doing well, but they were probably familiar with the band and the music.

― V, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Now this really is, like, reallyreally hardcore -- peeps discussing euro"vision" when whole WEEKS haveth passeth since the latest ~~acci..~~ erm, event-ah. heheh.

― t**t, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Right, so basically the UK has no chance, unless next years entry is sung in French by a Ukranian based in Cyprus?

― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

No. NO! Er, metaphorically speaking - "yes", of course. But better still if ~~she~~ he ...IT be from Arctica. No, like, shit.

― t**t, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

It struck me the other day where I'd heard "The Worrying Kind" before - the chorus has a huge lift from "Love Grows" by Edison Lighthouse.

― aldo, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i noticed that at the time

― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Already noted. Indeed, the composer of Love Grows publicly accused The Ark of plagiarism.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oops. Already noted:
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 thread.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I have to admit "The Worrying Kind" is a bit too similar to "Lowe Grows", yes.

But my main reason for loving it was the middle-eight, which is original and contrasting and very great.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find an English news link, but according to the Finnish news Marija Serifovic has officially come out of the closet in Serbian TV, which I guess isn't really news to anyone.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 26 May 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that much about Eurovision history, but she might actually be the first Eurovision winner to come out of the closet.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 26 May 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dana International obv. Except she wasn't gay anymore after her operation.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 26 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

She's certainly not the first lesbian Eurovision winner....

― mike t-diva, Sunday, 27 May 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

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