Eurovision Reaction Thread

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have been arguing about it for half an hour at work. :(

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I really have no idea why Sweden placed in the bottom half, their song was excellent. Similarly I have no idea why that emo-ballad, above all the others, got so many points (far more than can be explained by just tribalism).

Early on, when it appeared to be between Ukraine, Serbia, Latvia (I think? The mental drumming one) and Turkey, we were saying "anyone but Turkey", but naturally after it thinned out we were rooting for the Ukraine.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Latvia was the rubbish opera Il Divo one. Bulgaria was mental drumming IIRC.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I was convinced Latvia were going to win, I could really picture that being performed at the end with lots of confetti and stuff going everywhere. Them or the German crooner prat.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Bulgaria was the mental drumming one - my favourite! And I felt vindicated when G3ir Hongr0 called it the worst song in the contest on The Bad Place. Percussion plus goth plus eurotrance - WINNER.

Ukraine I was disappointed with - tried too hard and too cynically somehow - but at least their mentalist had a streak of actual menace in him.

ALSO: Best pre-voting entertainment ever! We've come a long way since Riverdance?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, the circus was great (though trapezists look too graceful for even life-threatening stunts to seem dangerous). Is it now customary for the previous winner to perform in the halftime?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I thought all the extra-musical stuff was grebt this year, with the exception of the rub Finnish comedian woman. If they'd replaced her with more Moomin action it would have been pretty much perfect.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Oh god I have just remembered that i drunkenly texted you about the moomin. Sorry...

non tribalism sed tribadism

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i still hold a torch for vanessa mae

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As for Sweden, admittedly I was too busy trying to stop Lytton eating some paper (http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/05/eurovision-song-contest-2007-reviewed-by-a-five-month-old-baby/) to really listen, but it seemed to me that the Ark's rock-band sound was a bit puny next to the full on techno-orchestral mentalism on show elsewhere. Good performance though!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

although as xrrf pointed out, it's a rip of "love grows where my rosemary goes" (i was trying to spot it throughout the song, but was being sidetracked by thinking of digsy's diner...)