Eurovizh Poptimist Postmortem

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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.)

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My top 5:

Latvia: pirate eurobosh
Spain: fantastic tack-rap. The guy sounded like the male interlocutor on Yolanda Perez's Estoy Enamoranda track from a few years back.
Bosnia & Herzogovina: showing the Arcade Fire how it should be done.
Azerbaijan: Queensryche-a-like
Sweden: solid europop

Also memorable:
Germany: good track but poorly sung on the night
Malta: didn't make it to the final, but stonking eurobosh
Estonia: ditto, best comedy entry
Ireland: you know about
Armenia & Greece: 2 x Shakira
Croatia: nice old-school euro-nonsense.

Everyone on the message board I was following this on liked France. I thought it was wacky funster nonsense for student c&nts.

I think Britain should enter separate Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English entries, then we can all vote for each other. But there is no way we should bother paying for this crap-fest.

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France = I thought it was Jarvis w/fake beard for a sec

Sweden = the one europop dance thing that I disliked.

Unlike Armenia, Ukraine, Greece (she looked like Britney a bit)

Spain was excellent. Loved how Terry just spent his time working how this got more points than the couldn't-be-arsed UK entry! Reggaeton x Macarena = funny + quite gd.

Also loved how Malta gave no points to the UK.

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Oh, and Iceland ws nice.

Spain got abt 50 points, so it was worth that.