Honestly, Romania deserves more credit. THEY BROUGHT A HOLOGRAM. AND FIREWORKS. (I also gave Lithuania points for the hand holes in her tutu because WAT.)
I actually hated Ireland, because it was basically last year's show except not as good. And no shirtless guys.
Poland is odd. If you watch the video, the entire song is in English. For her Eurovision performance, she'd switched the first half to Polish, which worked better, I think.
Slovenia...I'm surprised YOU ranked her that high. I thought she'd be in the basement for you - and in fact, it seemed like most of Europe hated her (she must have been a jury favorite). Her video is actually something, though - it's basically her playing flute on a volcano interspersed with cuts of two people dancing which then devolves into two people mud wrestling. (It's not anywhere near as WTF as Albania's video. Which is basically their singer stumbling along a beach...which then turns into a nightmarish tribute to Lil' Sebastian or something. I don't know. My head exploded after that happened.)
Her act needed more interpretive dancers. And a better-looking space witch dress.
Oh yeah! Israel's flag was strips of blue fabric against the Dead Sea! (Because she's Israeli. Get it?)
And she actually did sing it correctly (that is, English>Hebrew>English), but she's growly to begin with. (And then it went downhill when she language-switched. It basically sounded like she was hacking up phlegm for that entire verse.)
Slovenia got ranked high because so many of the songs themselves annoyed me in this semis.
Actually, when I went to do my voting on the goon site for finals, Slovenia still was high enough in my rankings that it got my 1 or 2 points. I think it's because Poland's song finally started grating on my ears enough to overwhelm the hilarity of their stage show and moved way down my list.
Re: Poland - From what I've heard, there was a HUGE dichotomy between the jury and the public voting - for example, according to the Telegraph, Poland was ranked last by the UK jury, but came in first in tele-voting. (To be fair, IIRC the largest immigrant group in the UK is Poles, but even still.) Also according to them, if there were no juries, Poland would have racked up something like 162 points.
(I can't find the article right now, but it is...interesting. The comments devolve into allegations that the Brits voted for the tits, which is funny because...suffice to say, the Eurovision demographic is not exactly noted for its fascination with breasts.)
About Slovenia - It just seemed like almost exactly the kind of song you'd hate. (And I'd like for some reason.) It's not quite a sleepy ballad, but it's close, and Tinkara Kovac (Slovenia's singer) basically just stood on stage as lights whirled around her. Her song was good, but not that good.
Yeah, looking at the jury-televoting gaps can be fun in cases like the UK. But, then, they crunch the numbers and, so far, I don't think it's actually changed who the winner was. Maybe the most it does is flip around a few in the top ten.
I don't hate all ballads (unless I'm in a no-slow-song mood, or doing something like driving or working out). Just most ballads, and I ultra picky about melody and instrumentation.
Yeah, I know I gravitate towards Hard Rock and dubstep, but when I say I love me some Journey and Foreigner, I really do mean pretty much all of what they've done. XD
I don't care what a person's personal opinions of breasts are, Poland had objectively nice ones!
I actually hated Ireland, because it was basically last year's show except not as good. And no shirtless guys.
Poland is odd. If you watch the video, the entire song is in English. For her Eurovision performance, she'd switched the first half to Polish, which worked better, I think.
Slovenia...I'm surprised YOU ranked her that high. I thought she'd be in the basement for you - and in fact, it seemed like most of Europe hated her (she must have been a jury favorite). Her video is actually something, though - it's basically her playing flute on a volcano interspersed with cuts of two people dancing which then devolves into two people mud wrestling. (It's not anywhere near as WTF as Albania's video. Which is basically their singer stumbling along a beach...which then turns into a nightmarish tribute to Lil' Sebastian or something. I don't know. My head exploded after that happened.)
Her act needed more interpretive dancers. And a better-looking space witch dress.
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And she actually did sing it correctly (that is, English>Hebrew>English), but she's growly to begin with. (And then it went downhill when she language-switched. It basically sounded like she was hacking up phlegm for that entire verse.)
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Actually, when I went to do my voting on the goon site for finals, Slovenia still was high enough in my rankings that it got my 1 or 2 points. I think it's because Poland's song finally started grating on my ears enough to overwhelm the hilarity of their stage show and moved way down my list.
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(I can't find the article right now, but it is...interesting. The comments devolve into allegations that the Brits voted for the tits, which is funny because...suffice to say, the Eurovision demographic is not exactly noted for its fascination with breasts.)
About Slovenia - It just seemed like almost exactly the kind of song you'd hate. (And I'd like for some reason.) It's not quite a sleepy ballad, but it's close, and Tinkara Kovac (Slovenia's singer) basically just stood on stage as lights whirled around her. Her song was good, but not that good.
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I don't hate all ballads (unless I'm in a no-slow-song mood, or doing something like driving or working out). Just most ballads, and I ultra picky about melody and instrumentation.
Yeah, I know I gravitate towards Hard Rock and dubstep, but when I say I love me some Journey and Foreigner, I really do mean pretty much all of what they've done. XD
I don't care what a person's personal opinions of breasts are, Poland had objectively nice ones!
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