Members Cat Posted May 18, 2009 Members Share Posted May 18, 2009 Why? There is enjoyable trash and then there is out-of-tune trash. Spain was the latter. Norway was by far the worst -- second only to Andrew Lloyd Webber at the piano while a woman with a strong resemblance to a horse neighed out a song. Was Armenia the country that sang about "we are the sexy Balkan girls"? Last time I checked, Armenia was located in the Caucauses, not the Balkans. As you say -- totally hilarious kitsch. Can you believe Abba began here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted May 18, 2009 Members Share Posted May 18, 2009 The lame disappearance from the stage... I thought her "choreography" would draw certain voters to it and the fact that she was last, thus being still fresh and not forgotten like the first song e.g., would make a difference. And yes, I like the song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cat Posted May 18, 2009 Members Share Posted May 18, 2009 oh, don't apologize for liking spain's entry! I am hard on spain because i expect more. The country has such a great tradition of distinctive music, now with latin american rhythms, that i was expecting a real standout... compared to, say, Estonia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Andrew Posted May 19, 2009 Members Share Posted May 19, 2009 I Agree that Moldova was great but, it where probaly a good thing that the poorest countrie in entire europe didnt win. I am really mad that Sweden came at 21, Norway was so damn overrated, i thought Greece or Ukraine, but Norway...... I am atleast Happy that with the most beautiful song sung by Estonia came at sixth, i also really liked Albania....... Elena Gheorge from Romania sang the song the Balkan girls, Inga & Anush the sisters from Armenia sang Jan Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huntress Posted May 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted May 19, 2009 At least "Fairytale" is becoming a major hit all across Europe - it's the biggest Eurovision success since 1976 (when "Save Your Kisses For Me" won). I really liked this year's contest, there were only 3 songs I couldn't stand - Croatia, Malta and Moldova. There was no "real" trash in the final as all weak songs got stuck in the semis. Spain's performance was awful as she couldn't sing live. However, at least she tried to sing unlike Sakis Rouvas whose backing singers carried the tune. He just danced and lip-synched. My favourites were: 01P: Romania 02P: Israel 03P: Germany (it was our best performance in years, the song itself sucked though) 04P: Armenia 05P: Portugal 06P: Azerbaijan 07P: United Kingdom 08P: Estonia 10P: Denmark 12P: Iceland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huntress Posted September 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 2009 RECAP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQ_b3mEEVg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huntress Posted January 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 Last fall, esctoday.com, the biggest Eurovision fan site on the internet, conducted a poll called "Song of the Decade". In the first stage, there was one poll per country with all songs having taken part between 2000 and 2009. The favourite song of each country made it to the second stage. In the second round, the 46 songs were drawn into two semi finals. The top eleven of each semi final were chosen by poll voting while a twelfth qualifier for each heat was chosen by an esctoday.com jury. Eventually, 24 songs competed in the grand final, where the winner was chosen by regular poll voting. Semi final 1 Semi final 2 The poll was won by Iceland's 2009 entry "Is It True?", followed by Serbia's 2007 entry "Molitva" and Estonia's 2009 entry "Rändajad". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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