Eurovision 2015 Final
So Sweden wins! I'm perfectly happy with that result. And Listening to it again, the song is actually better than it seemed the first time.
Hungry were my favorites, though :( So totally underrated. But Eurovision voting almost never prefers the songs I do, so...
Putting politics aside (which is the right thing to do really, but kind of hard, seeing as Eurovision IS pretty politicized) Russia DID have a very good song. Objectively one of the best, so it's a totally deserved 2nd place, ngl.
(We weren't sure when it was airing and missed most of the actual final. So I still need to catch up on the people who I didn't see in the semis - Big 5, Australia, Austria - to see what I think of the songs. From the previews I got on tv, it looks like the British had some wacky song again, Spain had something pretty, but there didn't seem to be anything instantly catchy. Everyone liked Italy, so I should probably check that one out.)
I was watching all of this on a Russian channel. The commentators behaved themselves, thankfully. They did start going off into bitter self-aggrandizement land there a bit at the very end. But I'll give them a break - it was a tense vote and they were upset. Their behavior was still miles better than many Russian athletic commentators.
Hungry were my favorites, though :( So totally underrated. But Eurovision voting almost never prefers the songs I do, so...
Putting politics aside (which is the right thing to do really, but kind of hard, seeing as Eurovision IS pretty politicized) Russia DID have a very good song. Objectively one of the best, so it's a totally deserved 2nd place, ngl.
(We weren't sure when it was airing and missed most of the actual final. So I still need to catch up on the people who I didn't see in the semis - Big 5, Australia, Austria - to see what I think of the songs. From the previews I got on tv, it looks like the British had some wacky song again, Spain had something pretty, but there didn't seem to be anything instantly catchy. Everyone liked Italy, so I should probably check that one out.)
I was watching all of this on a Russian channel. The commentators behaved themselves, thankfully. They did start going off into bitter self-aggrandizement land there a bit at the very end. But I'll give them a break - it was a tense vote and they were upset. Their behavior was still miles better than many Russian athletic commentators.