Nicholas ([info]nwhyte) wrote,
@ 2006-05-20 22:24:00
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Eurovision
Started watching this just over halfway in, so here are my thoughts, updated as it went on:

14 - Lithuania - full marks for cheek! But apart from the joke, not a great song.
15 - UK - Dreadful. Out of tune, trying unsuccessfully to combine two different genres.
16 - Greece - pretty good - fully professional, giving it her all.
17 - Finland - looked fantastic, of course, in the genre sense of the word. But I had a strange feeling that their hearts weren't in it.
18 - Ukraine - looked very nice, a full-hearted performance
19 - France - nice song, nice-looking singer, but teeth-gratingly flat on the high notes.
20 - Croatia - the (in)famous Severina, performing a song by Goran Bregovic - what could possibly go wrong? Yet something is definitely wrong. Why does the music sound more Irish than Balkan? Her costume is a disaster, and she doesn't even seem to be enjoying it much.
21 - Ireland - Hah, I remember standing with 20,000 people listening to this guy and Van Morrison do the warmup act for President Clinton outside Belfast City Hall in 1994. He's still pretty good. Not so clear what the backing singers were up to.
22 - Sweden - Crumbs, this is really good. Apart from the costume, which is very bad.
23 - Turkey - Very brave of them to sing in Turkish. But it looks fantastic. Much much better than it sounds.
24 - Armenia - Well, at least they were trying.

Well, I think I'll cast my vote for the Ukrainian entry. Or the Swedes. Though I don't know how I would go about doing that. Sorry to have missed the Moldovan, Norwegian and Maltese entries. Las Ketchup seem to have been terrible judging from the extract played at the end.



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[info]strictlytrue
2006-05-20 08:37 pm UTC (link)
I don't actually like the UK song but I thought it was a hell of a performance, and seemed to go down well in the hall. It'll do better than UK entries of previous years.

The French lady was, indeed, flat. Ukraine might well win it again. What's the deal with Severina? She seemed quite into it from where we were sitting, but is she usually even more full of grinning enthusiasm.

Ireland have just been on, and were pretty dreadful. They don't seem to get that soppy ballads stopped winning Eurovision about 15 years ago. (Unless, a la Father Ted, they're still trying to make sure they don't win).

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[info]nwhyte
2006-05-20 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Severina was trying to do Balkan ethno-pop, which I think is not her usual genre. She seemed to be very much not having fun.

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[info]strictlytrue
2006-05-20 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Is she a big star in Croatia?

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[info]nwhyte
2006-05-20 08:47 pm UTC (link)
One of the biggest.

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[info]srk1
2006-05-20 10:28 pm UTC (link)
She is also famous for reasons other than her singing ability. See.

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My lovely horse
[info]ceemage
2006-05-20 08:43 pm UTC (link)
My lovely horse,
You're a pony no more,
Running around with a man on your back,
Like a train in the night,
Like a train in the night.

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Re: My lovely horse
[info]slimmeroftheyea
2006-05-21 01:15 pm UTC (link)
with your fetlocks flowing
in the wind

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[info]sammywol
2006-05-20 08:42 pm UTC (link)
the Finns were a hoot - and I think that they knew it, hence the lack of heart in the performance. After all, what kind of hard rock cred' does doing the Eurovision garner? Still the most fun thing I have seen on that show, well, ever.

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[info]wwhyte
2006-05-20 09:43 pm UTC (link)
"Ukraine - looked very nice"

Nicely understated. I'll have to remember that.

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[info]ianmcdonald
2006-05-21 12:20 am UTC (link)
the middle one of Brian's backing singers looked disturbingly like Father Ted.

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[info]elmyra
2006-05-22 10:37 am UTC (link)
Musically, I liked Bosnia & Herzegovina best, actually - I think that's my cultural bias speaking there. Most of the rest I thought were bland, with Croatia being a cringeworthy disaster and Macedonia trying far too hard to be Brtiney Spears mark 2. I'm terrified by the fact that Bulgaria can't produce anything to make it beyond the semis, given the awfulness of most of the entries.

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[info]nwhyte
2006-05-22 10:39 am UTC (link)
I have great admiration for many areas of Bulgarian achievement, but music is not one of them!

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[info]elmyra
2006-05-22 10:42 am UTC (link)
LOL! Current popular music sucks, that much is true. I quite like some Bulgarian folk music, and some of the stuff that my parents used to play. But let's face it, it's not like the standard at Eurovision is particularly high.

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