Eurovision Arockalypse!
Ok, so this year's Eurovision winners, Lordi of Finland, have to be about the coolest I've seen on that show for a long time. It was like someone had taken a group of Klingons and shown them a tape of a GWAR concert.
As for the rest of the show... well, I didn't think too much of the UK entry at all (some rap thing done by a guy who looked about five years too old to be rapping), France and Spain appear to have given up all pretence of even trying to win (France had the same type of song that they seem to have every year, while Spain's entry was sung by... Las Ketchup), and Germany gave us a country and western number, sung by an Australian fronting a band called Texas Lightning. Confused yet?
Lithuania seemed to be beliving their own hype just a little too much, as their entire song was a modified football chant ("We Are The Winners"), complete with a Harry Hill-lookalike doing a mad dance in the middle. Scarily, it got quite a few votes - blame the drunken student contingent again, I guess... Nick was convinced that Malta's singer was a werewolf, and while we're on the subject of Nick, he very much enjoyed himself this evening, creating his virtual harem out of the female singers and representatives throughout the evening. He had a special spot in his heart (or pants) for the Norwegian entry, who reminded us all that elves can be very kinky. Finally, at least one member of the Latvian group appeared to have sacrificed his testicles for Eurovision...
Voting was all over the place this year, mainly because several countries who make up the 'blocks' who vote for each other never made it past the semi-finals this year. Still, it was rather too easy to guess where a lot of the votes were going. It's just never been the same since they got rid of the judges and brought in telephone voting...
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As for the rest of the show... well, I didn't think too much of the UK entry at all (some rap thing done by a guy who looked about five years too old to be rapping), France and Spain appear to have given up all pretence of even trying to win (France had the same type of song that they seem to have every year, while Spain's entry was sung by... Las Ketchup), and Germany gave us a country and western number, sung by an Australian fronting a band called Texas Lightning. Confused yet?
Lithuania seemed to be beliving their own hype just a little too much, as their entire song was a modified football chant ("We Are The Winners"), complete with a Harry Hill-lookalike doing a mad dance in the middle. Scarily, it got quite a few votes - blame the drunken student contingent again, I guess... Nick was convinced that Malta's singer was a werewolf, and while we're on the subject of Nick, he very much enjoyed himself this evening, creating his virtual harem out of the female singers and representatives throughout the evening. He had a special spot in his heart (or pants) for the Norwegian entry, who reminded us all that elves can be very kinky. Finally, at least one member of the Latvian group appeared to have sacrificed his testicles for Eurovision...
Voting was all over the place this year, mainly because several countries who make up the 'blocks' who vote for each other never made it past the semi-finals this year. Still, it was rather too easy to guess where a lot of the votes were going. It's just never been the same since they got rid of the judges and brought in telephone voting...
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