Eurovizh Poptimist Postmortem

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Who ruled? Who wuz robbed? Who did the robbing? Will Terry stay or go? Is the Russian win down to Timbaland, rollerblades, or the bloc-vote version of Buggins' Turn? When did modern dance take over Eurovision and why won't the UK play the game? Is Sebastien Tellier in fact The Dude? Any other questions??

(I thought overall the quality was pretty high this year, though only 1 or 2 real standouts. Only 1 or 2 real stinkers too, sadly one of them won the thing.)

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Full liveblog of it here (http://katstevens.livejournal.com/580351.html) (public entry for now but I might have to lock it when I get back to work), but here's my gist:

- UKRAINE FTW (http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-gN4xfm8s) my god that song was so awesome, every time you thought you knew what was coming next it threw a DISCO CURVEBALL at you. (The video is a bit rubbish though)
- Spain were even worse than Dustin the Turkey
- Azerbaijan & Latvia = entertaining but not all that
- Iceland = this is what Gemini should have been like the other year
- Finland = I rly liked this, fake-metal or no
- France = shame about the backing vocals being a bit off as this was a reasonable song for once

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Teräsbetoni's heroes are MANOWAR, so surely they cannot be false metal.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

[i]I bet loads of dudes will vote for [Portugal] out of sheer frustration.[/i]

Har har ow! ;)
Srsly though, Iceland-Turkey-Portugal was a solid run.