Eurovision Reaction Thread

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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

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[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...)