Are we sure this isn't Sasha Baron-Cohen's new character?
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
this rules
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
My ship is made from rope jism for a bay?
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
hop onto my ship baby, I'll make you fly
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol boat-head-man
― Ludo, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
A flying ship made from men wearing sheets.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
This does not rule.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
WRONG
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
ALL -- BY-- MY-- SE-ELF, Don't wanna be...
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
He was on Estonian Pop Idol. Nice to know that other countries don't give a shit about sending some unknown Johnny as their entry.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
That was actually quite lovely.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Come on Slovakia!
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh, I thought this could be good but the singer is too Bon Jovi. False metal!
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's Def Leppard!
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
IT'S THE FI-NAL COUNT-DOWN!!!
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
Please be in tune, i have money on you.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
sharivari otm
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
The best entry tonight so far.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
BUT THIS RUSSIAN IS MAKING ME STRONGER
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
is he talking about putin?
Pitch went all to hell in the last minute.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
actually I like Sweden better (btw they share 1 x songwriter)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
She's about the right age to be the lovechild of Joni Mitchell and Ming the Merciless.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Euphoria" is both anthemic + catchy enough to be a bona fide worldwide (well pan-European at least) hit even outside ESC season I think
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
That piano had better transform into a fire breathing robot or I'll fall asleep.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
Don't want the expense of hosting the contest next year? Simply get someone from a TV talent contest to sing your entry!A tactic more and more countries are using.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm not sure all ESC-heads regularly check the Bobby Bare thread, so I'll post this fun fact here as well. Just think what might have been, with Engelbert only the second-oldest old-skool star in this year's final...
Bare was a participant in this year's Norwegian selection final for the Eurovision Song Contest, partnering up with some other dude. They finished third.
(Bare second from left.)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Lithania's answer to Josh Dubovie.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
Here we voted for Malta, Turkey, Slovakia, Georgia and Indian Joan.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
But I'll be happy if we avoid a Balkan power ballad sweep.
I think they'd be happy to avoid that too.
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Balkan power ballad gold.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
"I left a bowl of shit for you"?!
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
stoked turkey made it through
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
Bummed Turkey made it through. Like a bad comedian attempting to act like Marc Almond c. 1989.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Can't believe people voted for Estonia AND Lithuania - how much tedium can one final take?
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
Had to miss today's coverage but sounds...off.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
You'll see bad comedian attempting to act like Marc Almond c. 1989 on Saturday, though. :p And a Sweden WIN one supposes. (I had high hopes for the song sung in UDMURT, but it is useless alas.)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
Felt like Loreen's show didn't really come together tonight? I equivocate back and forth as to whether the song has general appeal outside of boshland.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
That said, I have a 100% record at failing to predict Eurovision winners.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
^^^ I'm sure I'll be sitting here on Saturday night saying "wha? people like this?!"
― banal like a null (snoball), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
I think it's a pretty decent Eurobosh single but i'm not sure there's enough there to win over the older audience.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
I guess it's between Sweden, Russia and Italy. Beyond that: ??? I don't think we'll see a runaway winner.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Russia is going to run away with this.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
Kinda happy Italy has gone with the times and entered what is apparently a contender (only heard abt 20 seconds myself), rather than griping about it not being like The Old Days and withdrawing in a huff
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
If the juries vote for Russia they're a lock. But I dunno if they will.
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
(i'll grant the first 15 seconds of Russia are good, but then it is direct unto oompah crapper, I feel)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oompah hasn't done well for DECADES; but still some countries insist on sending it. Netherlands this year. Idgi.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Final draw is up:
01 United Kingdom English Engelbert Humperdinck "Love Will Set You Free" — 02 Hungary English Compact Disco "Sound of Our Hearts" — 03 Albania Albanian[39] Rona Nishliu "Suus"3 Personal[40] 4 04 Lithuania English Donny Montell "Love is Blind" 05 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian MayaSar "Korake ti znam" I know your steps 06 Russia Udmurt, English Buranovskiye Babushki "Party for Everybody" — 07 Iceland English Gréta Salóme & Jónsi "Never Forget" — 08 Cyprus English Ivi Adamou "La La Love" — 09 France French, English Anggun "Echo (You and I)" — 10 Italy English, Italian Nina Zilli "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" Love Is Female (Out of love) 11 Estonia Estonian Ott Lepland "Kuula" Listen 12 Norway English Tooji "Stay" — 13 Azerbaijan (host) English Sabina Babayeva "When the Music Dies" — 14 Romania Spanish, English Mandinga "Zaleilah" — 15 Denmark English6 Soluna Samay "Should've Known Better" — 16 Greece English Eleftheria Eleftheriou "Aphrodisiac" — 17 Sweden English Loreen "Euphoria" — 18 Turkey English Can Bonomo "Love Me Back" — 19 Spain Spanish Pastora Soler "Quédate conmigo" Stay with me 20 Germany English Roman Lob "Standing Still" — 21 Malta English Kurt Calleja "This Is the Night" — 22 Macedonia Macedonian Kaliopi "Crno i belo" (Црно и бело) Black and white 23 Ireland English Jedward "Waterline" — 24 Serbia Serbian Željko Joksimović "Nije ljubav stvar" (Није љубав ствар) Love is not an object 25 Ukraine English Gaitana "Be My Guest" — 26 Moldova English8 Pasha Parfeny "Lăutar"
― nagl lack (seandalai), Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
My predix for top 5: Serbia, Italy, Norway, Ukraine, Sweden.
Skeptical of Sweden if only because my Facebook feed is full of people going "LOREEN TO WIN" and "WORK LOREEN!" and these people otherwise only post about RuPaul's Drag University, so they are not really representative of Eurovision voters as a whole.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Saturday, 26 May 2012 01:55 (11 months ago) Permalink