EUROVISION 2012

little bit of Bjork Yoga

kinda off key though... not so kinda

I kinda like this, actually. Impressive whale noises.

Only thing tender is the audience's eardrums after her vocal heroics.

lol, subs just read 'cos this is what I do best now' during the high pitched wailing

Why can't I get subtitles? Grargh smash

Subs are kind of laggy and rub tbh. And I'm watching via the TV card on my PC, so I can't really help anyone else.

JEDWARD SPOTTED

KEEL THEM!!!

Not the best Costi song of the year, by a long shot, but i like it.

Moonwalking bagpipes! Yay Romania.

Romania the best so far IMO.

i think her earphones were off (not that it really mattered)

Okay finally some pyro.

BRITPOP

xp Azerbijian's natural gas reserves being put to good use.

Switzerland is the usual Eurorock with a touch of Muse.

Swiss = "We love the Killers"

FOWOWING YUH WOWDEST DREAM YUH WOWDEST DREAM

I'M BREAKING BALLS

I'M BREAKING BALLS

crying

very serious looking chick on bass

Okay no

Belgium you are boring, silence.

i kinda liked it, but i am 10 km away from Belgium so i dunno

Finnish entry in Swedish, why not

Lordi this is not.

Pleasant though.

Another competent but boring song. Maybe Jedward will win this, just by being one of the few exciting entries.

Israel ring has earring in wrong ear to win

Israel you are...strange.

brings older sister to give him a good luck kiss

This man is terrifying.

"You're the man in my playground"

this is amazing.

how creepy is it that michael jordan is still wearing that LONE, GOLD HOOP EARRING?

He looks like Dexter Fletcher's creepy uncle.

I like the Israel song! It's like a cheesy '60s proto-indiepop thing.

Mel C

Israel has a certain...something, can we all agree? Hypnotic awfulness perhaps?

"JAM SESSION"

Warnings already sounding about San Marino here.

"Are you ready for a little text?"

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

tumblr gif fave, i can see it now

probably San Marino's best entry ever (not that it's saying much)

Electronic acts are often accused of looking like they're checking their e-mail when they play live, but this could be the first time that could be said of a Eurovision act...

This is... really bad.

I guess it's kind of 'Flying the Flag' levels of shit concept, shit execution...

"GOOGLING"

Wow, you can do so many interesting things with the internets! Thank you San Marino for letting me know.

Is it the first time someone's used the word 'cyber' unironically since 1995?

Oh, I forgot the most important thing... I totally shouted "too much time on ilx" when the word 'nakhchivan' came on screen. I am an idiot.

I did raise my eyebrows when they mentioned that Malta had given 12 points to Azerbaijan three years in a row. I certainly don't think they'd be above wanting to bribe juries or rig votes but i'm not sure it would be all that easy to accomplish and it would be pretty risky.

Austria came last in their semi. Fuck you Europe.

Wow, Norway really did just scrape through the semi-final - tied for tenth place with Bulgaria.

No idea Austria came last in the semi... it was a shit song though...

They should have picked bearded tranny Conchita Wurst instead of those shittrackkers - at least people would have remembered the entry..

Conchita Wurst would have been delightfully wtf. But her song did not feature the line "Your bum has an opinion".

"University of Surrey in London" ffs Norton, it's in Guildford.

― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:18 PM (Yesterday)

lol

http://news.uk.msn.com//blog/trending-blogpost.aspx?post=94aed414-e4f5-4970-be97-ecf7f46b65b9&_nwpt=1
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22University%20of%20Surrey%22

That "up up up" bit in the Swedish song is annoying as hell. I love Eurovison but there's too much anonymous Europop written by Swedish hacks clogging up the competition these days.

Having said that the worst songs were Germany and Denmark, which were sort of snootily anti-Europop singer songwriter bollocks that sounded like they were written on the back of a fag packet

the german song was written by jamie cullem

per comments upthread, I had to remind myself that I was watching Eurovision with friends, rather than on ILX, when this appeared:

http://i45.tinypic.com/2w4jubk.jpg

The guy reading out the votes for Finland during this contest is officially my new hero!

It was one of previous Eurovision winners Lordi, wasn't it? Ah, how I yearn for those glory days...

Yes that was Mr. Lordi, of Lordi.

from the meme resuscitation department:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pCyYyjkL9U

after a while it starts to sound like the new Daft Punk single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXhJZ9ceUc

YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS, RIGHT?

Lordi made a horror film called Dark Floors a Finnish friend described as "terrible, absolutely terrible". It's streaming on Lovefilm in the UK so i'll probably end up watching it, though.