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

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I tried to post on that thread but I think the spam filter ate the post.

Basically, I accept most of your arguments. If it's essentially non-doms who decide this thing, then clearly we need to mobilise the UK expats. The fact that most of them are either of retirement age or getting close to it - whereas Poles in Ireland say are likely to be younger, mobile workers, arguably more likely to care about modern pop - may not help our cause much though.

I voted for:
Bosnia, Latvia and Azerbaijan. I liked France best, but knew that would be a wasted vote.

Also quite liked: Israel, Turkey, Denmark, Ukraine.

The winner is rub. :(