Oh and Ireland. Ireland fucked up big time.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 19 March 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
swiss entry isn't bad, in a goth kelly clarkson coaxed out into the world of tedder way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_pXW3p74Q
― maura, Saturday, 4 April 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
this song is much better than the entry that won denmark's bid, which is a 'beatlesesque' track by a band called ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
anyway i like this track a lot, it's v kylie-in-traininghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L92AmzWVinQ
― maura, Saturday, 4 April 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
the netherlands are sticking with anouk-penned songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZwKW3RqT0
― maura, Saturday, 4 April 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
georgia's entry is making me long for the return of hi-nrg as epitomized by evelyn thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jo83OjRw-w
― maura, Saturday, 4 April 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Denmark is always the worst
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Saturday, 4 April 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Julie Bjerre is exactly who I was thinking of when I was saying Denmark passed on a better song. Anti Social Media = "The Way You Do The Things You Do" if it had been written as a collab between one out of McFly, and Mika.
Other than the actual voice, the Dutch entry just sounds like Natalie Imbruglia, but worse. (NB I love Natalie Imbruglia).
My favourites now are Georgia, Iceland, Estonia, Sweden, Spain and (!!!!) Czech Republic. WTF?
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
Other song I have positive feelings about: Albania, Belarus, Belgium, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
no love for Israel?
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Sunday, 5 April 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Can Eurovision introduce a music video award so Spain can win it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-g92hNNbPQ
he run like he in a atari game
― Leonard Pine, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
First semis happening, etc.
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/webtv?program=132893
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
This has yet to take off. Belgium's ok though.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I am all about the Finns.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
The part of Stig Rasta appears to be being played by Max Beesley.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
I loved how Serbia's tune turned into a house stomper, complete with diva vocals, and the performance was fierce! But Belgium is probably the best objectively the best, sure the guy was channeling Justin Timberlake and MJ, but the tune was such lean and perfectly crafted dancepop number.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
<3 Polina
Russia is 8/13 to win this semi final so idk what Scott Mills is going on about dark horses for.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Electro Velvet is such a terrible name
― soref, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
It couldn't be more appropriate.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Serbia has gone from 200/1 to 20/1.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I am all about the Finns
lol
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Come on Israel! Come on Latvia!
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Israel's basic 2006-era ethnopop is being made to sound great in this company.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
I am on board with Latvia though.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Where are all the props this year? People seem to be compensating with shoes.
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
Most goth Eurovision ever
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Cyprus could be a good bet to place in the top 4.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
society is in the gutter
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Nothing of value was lost.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Fka twigs made it through.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 21 May 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
I didn't think Ireland's entry had a hope of winning but I did expect it to get through to the semi finals
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 21 May 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
I mean final
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 21 May 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Okay, Spain, what the hell was that? And Austria, I kind of hated your entry at first... but it grew on me. A little Elton John Lennon thingadoo.
And I love Georgia's entry, but it's not gonna win. The video is fab (if a little cliched). Ditto Romenia.
― rb (soda), Saturday, 23 May 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
would have been better if the guys marching out during France had been Michelin men
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
"But officer, you don't understand! 'As I got outside I smiled to the dog" is the name of my dog!"
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.3271542.1319732902!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/feature_416/image.JPG
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
welcome to tory britain
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
fuck this is hateful haha
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
It's like if Heaven was modelled after Butlins.
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Fittingly the UK entry included some scat.
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
whoa @ banjo
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
I liked the witchcult Armenians. Song nothing special but at least tolerable and they prob sacrifice goats to Satan, so they have my vote.
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
otm
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
lithuania kiss trying to hide their 6th rate taytay biting
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
this rules
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Get readyfor the bosh
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Would be very happy for this to win.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
ok I am just going to vote 20 times for Serbia
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
serbia always have a good song don't they?
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
has my multiple votes!
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is great
me and Han were debating whether Ms Electro Swing was wooden and grooveless naturally or whether it was the high tech costume she was wearing but either way tbh
― gong mad (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 May 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Electro swing not just popular in Europe, festivals in London (Swingfest) and Birmingham (Swingamajig) this year. Maybe the most 'current' a British entry has been in decades.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 24 May 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
A guy I used to work with is a near-the-bottom-of-the-bill Electro Swing DJ.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 24 May 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
maybe Electro Velvet are just too current for the fuddy-duddies of ilx, will try and console myself with that thought
― Category:Low-importance biography (musicians) articles (soref), Sunday, 24 May 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Read somewhere that every juror who voted for Electro Velvet was over 60.
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Sunday, 24 May 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Electroswing got big at least 5 years ago, it's really not "current", you guys. Also it's only popular amongst reprehensible posh twats.
― emil.y, Monday, 25 May 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
I'd wager it's more "current" than Eurobosh or power ballads.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 25 May 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
Electro Velvet were shit yeah, in an in-your-face kind of way, but the song was also the world's first objectively bad tune.
― abcfsk, Monday, 25 May 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
The UK selectors may exhibit rank cluelessness, but the German ones have got themselves into a row already:
Germany withdraws 'homophobic' Eurovision act
The arguments against Xavier Naidoo paint him as a caricature right-winger, based on a few statements/lyrics from a long career. The truth seems a lot less clearcut. The charges against him are (in German) here. Herbert Grönemeyer defended him, calling Naidoo a "Christian free-spirit", not sure if that's a paradox. The ARD coordinator supported him in an interview. But now they've decided it's better not to bother persisting with it.
Anyway, back to the UK selectors. I'm betting that our 2016 song will contain at least one shout of the word "Selector!".
BUT this dream might be scuppered, if the 'new' selection system can pick something a bit more up-to-date.
There's going to be a public vote at some point, presumably after the experts get rid of anything too interesting. The process isn't well explained, but song entries closed last week.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-09-30/public-given-back-power-to-choose-uk-eurovision-entryhttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/sep/30/bbc-to-hold-open-talent-search-for-uks-next-eurovision-entry
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Friday, 27 November 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Eurovision 2016
― bored at work (snoball), Friday, 26 February 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link