I don’t think anyone won the Swedish final with so much marginal since ABBA.
My kids all voted for the Ark. Will be fun to see how they do in Helsinki.
I liked this one, Andeas made a good preformance but the song really reminds me of some
60’s tune (maybe Herman and the hermites) so it felt kind of old. Still a good song though, but it didn’t deserve to win. Andreas Johnson - A Little Bit Of Love - real player Andreas Johnson - A Little Bit Of Love - media player
The traditional outfit “Dervish” are representing Ireland this year, its a bit of a lame song though. Im working till eleven anyway so wont see anything on the “idiots lantern” this evening.
After close to three hours of carefully listening and watching
here are our (me, semi-ex wife and our three expert judges, age 5, 6 and 8y) top five from the semi final last night:
Hungary
Georgia
FYM Macedonia
Serbia
Israel
I’m sure a few Eurodance remix versions of both Serbia’s and Georgia’s contributions will be played quite a bit on the dance floors this summer.
Not been much quality up so far. The hungarian entry was alright. I still think the UK’s entry is going to lower the whole thing to a new depth of absolute rubbish.
Ireland 5 points !!!
Thats what you get for faking the whistle with playback
I have got use to that so many songs are in english, in part or some sort of hybrid english, it has been like that for a number of years now. I guess the artists and the song writers see it as a chance for international PR.
I think it was more strange to hear a swedish song translated to italian and competing for Latvia
In all I thought that Sweden would to better, hoping for top ten but I guess that the rest of Europe didn’t like it much. I liked Hungary, Serbia and Georgia the most in the final. Ukrane made me smile and so did Germany but for a complately different reason
I wondered the same thing. I also wonder why in the world they let Israel participate. I really liked Dana International when she was in there, but I mean, is it not called _Euro_vision for a reason?
I think a lot of songs are in English because English is the world’s most powerful language right now in terms of business and pop culture. In things like this, the only country I think you can reliably count on NOT to sing in English is France and that’s just because France is…uh…well, France.
Regardless, I just watched the Albanian entry, which is in English, and I really like it.
I’d have voted for the Swedish entry if my phone had been working, them and Russia were my favourites. Although honourable mention to Ukraine for being utterly nuts.
I think most of them sing in English just because most pop music is sung in English. It’s not anything to do with business or politics, just the way it goes.
