Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2011 Semi Final 1
I'm normally not interested in this contest at all ... it's a annual annoyance on TV ... an annual embarrassment for Switzerland XDDD maybe I'm just especially bored this week XD
The Eurovision Song Contest is organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), first time in 1956. The countries participate through the television station which is a member of the EBU. All participating countries can vote for the most popular song in the competition (It is not always the best!! >.<)
In the first contest were 7 participants, in this years contest are 43. Through the years, the rules as well as the concept has changed. Today, the countries vote with televoting and a semi-final round has been introduced (actually 2 semi-finals). Only the "big 5" countries (France, UK, Spain, Germany, Italy) are automatically qualified for the final (I guess they have serious funding problems if one of them don't participate ...) Anyway, only Germany managed to win the contest since that was introduced XDDD
For more information, go to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest)
I normally don't watch the contest cause the songs were all weird XD you normally don't see very famous groups since it's really unpredictable who will win and it can be a total humiliation. However, I think it's a very interesting contest, where many countries participate in an live competition. That's one big organisational event, I mean first every television station need to select a singer/group and the song. In many countries, a song contest is held for this just to select the song for the Eurovision Song Contest. Then the event itself, a live contest broadcasted to almost whole Europe ... and the televoting in all the countries ... and the final results ... the points given by the countries, where they switch to the respective country which give the points ... that's legendary XDDD
Well, yesterday was the first semi final for this year's contest. The 10 finalists are:
- Russia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4-T22p0y4)
- Serbia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLPCMrkPDGg)
- Switzerland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeWuGahGBKM)
- Georgia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFV0Tcy9OXc)
- Finland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoDsA9PutU4)
- Iceland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2l00PC0JA)
- Hungary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbKNKfePCrs)
- Lithuania (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aazruGl2jY)
- Azerbaijan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgE3bDH647M)
- Greece (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27gtuLhiac)
I liked the Norwegian song ... it was half English, half Swahili ... I thought it's something new ... I generally like something new XD
Some finalists are ... uhm ... i can't explain how you can vote for a song like that XDDDD
The next semi finals will be tomorrow, let's see if Austria make it to the finals ... after 3 years of absence ^^