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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Yah but I, for one, give no thoughts ever about RuPaul, and I think SWE is the proper Pop Hit of the bunch. It has, in a small way, the thing ABBA were good at -- in the chorus after the hook (eu-pho-ree-ah!), they provide ANOTHER hook (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-O!-oh). (ABBA would of course give a THIRD chorus hook after that just to rub it in.)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
Your belief in it is giving me pause, actually. Most of the people I'm mentioning wouldn't know anything that's not charting in the UK or Sweden and haven't got any idea of what might work Europe-wide. I still think it'll be top 5 but perhaps not a winner.
I won't even speculate on the influence of SNOWFLAKE COUGH SHOCK.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Saturday, 26 May 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
Well I tend to have this kind of belief in a song, but I'm not sure I am right more than about one time in five... :)
(ie I remember being this way about Lena's "Satellite", and have conveniently forgotten my enthusiasms that *didn't* win)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
Sure-to-be-wrong prediction:
1. Sweden2. Italy3. Russia
― nagl lack (seandalai), Saturday, 26 May 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to go with Norway, Sweden, Serbia, Denmark, Romania.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 26 May 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
Having some people round so not gonna be able to liveblog with y'all on this thread tonight. I've decided I'm supporting Albania, though, in goth retaliation for the overbearing sunshine and heat of today.
Been watching the Song for Eurotrash episode from around '98(?), it's pretty good: Edwyn Collins doing 'Ding a Dong', Kenickie doing 'Save All Your Kisses For Me', Shane MacGowan doing 'What's Another Year', Saint Etienne doing 'La La La'.
― emil.y, Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
IT BEGINS
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Graham Norton, Azerbaijani government spokesman "There have been stories about riots. I've seen no trouble."
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I still don't like the UK song, but Eng's vocals are better live than on the recorded version.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
The Hump has a certain... presence, it must be said. Song also Not Bad At All.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Also the botox has worn off and he doesn't look like embalmed like he does in the video.
This is probably the best of the ballads, tbh.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
There are a lot of ballads this year, hopefully Eng's performance has shown people 'how it's done', so to speak, and we'll get some votes out of it.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
liking hungary a lot more this go-round - getting kind of a nu-george michael vibe (enough with the wobble bass already tho)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Hungary: much effort into what sounds like a bare skeleton of approximately nothing
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
HORSEMEN LAND
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
The person doing the subtitles tonight is a faster typist than whoever was doing it during the semis.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
TAILPIPE MAN LAND
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
xxp
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
That long plait of hair going across her chest looks like a turd.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
markedly less terrible than the semifinal at least
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Albania is like alien music on Star Trek...not a gd look.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
emil.y does a mean goth retaliation, it must be said -- this is wtf in all the most fabulous ways
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
CITY OF DRIVE
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
It'd be funny if everyone left the building before he took off the blindfold.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Hahahaha!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
The 'rrrruuuhhhh' bits make him sound like the singer from Bros.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
would have been better if he'd done those acrobatics with the fold on
― Ludo, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
*does somersault and nuts self unconcious on the floor*
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
The Boz/Herz entry is like a subdued Celine Dion B-side. Really forgettable.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
For a second I thought 'what are those huge lumps on the Russian grannies' faces?', but then I realised that they were microphones.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
UDMURT
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
I have a feeling they'll be advertising car insurance for whoever Russia's equivelent of Shelia's Wheels is.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Just turned on and those grannies are bluddy awful.
― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Iceland = time for a piss break
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Umpty-tum nonsense. But would have been top 3 10 years ago.
OOH KEY CHANGE
― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
if you liked that key change, you're gonna love moldova
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I wait with bated breath.
This Cyprus thing sounds like a David Guetta b-side.
― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
I must disagree with Aldo. Rabid grannies for the win!
― Guilty_Boksen, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
But info quite like Cyprus ( actually I seriously do warn Enge to win, I just don't think it will happen)
― Guilty_Boksen, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
France = shit.
― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
It's a bit 'mid 90's French Eurovision entry'. They've never really moved beyond that.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I dunno. It's OK. I'm quite perversely thinking of It Bites.
― Guilty_Boksen, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda like the climax of a jodorowsky film
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
France = ok indeed.
xp lol It Bites!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
LAND OF CARPETS
Italian woman has annoyed me enormously in the build up, but the song has a chance.
― Guilty_Boksen, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link