Eurovision - Belgrade 2008
Wow, I haven't updated this in a long time and the very few of you who still read this might be forgiven for thinking I'd moved on from livejournal. But I still check in with you, particularly when I want to procrastinate. When I have a massive Legal Theory essay (worth 100% due in a week which I haven't properly started) is the perfect time for such procrastination.
So what woke me out of my LJ hibernation? Eurovision, of course. The block voting which makes the competition more about politics and less about music (bet you didn't realise it was music right?) is pretty amusing. But here's how the night should have gone, according to me.
Top 5:
1. Serbia - Great voice, beautiful song. Highly atmospheric; it gave me goosebumps. Serbia, douze points.
2. Finland - Hottest lead singer ever! Leather pants. Caveman-like grunting. Need I say more? Finland, dix points.
3. Turkey - Good quality rock song, lead singer that looks slightly like that guy from Star Trek. Turkey, huit points.
4. Romania - The motherland. Nice song, the guy has a great voice. The girl was tone deaf, I wanted to shoot her. Overall, pretty good.
5. Armenia - So catchy and trashy, the kind of crap you love to dance to in a seedy club. Think QBH at age 14. The girl was so cute though.
Honourable mentions:
1. UK - So underrated. It was a great "Dancing in the moonlight" type song, and a great performance. The best I've ever seen from England.
2. Portugal - Scary looking lead singer but great backup singers. Although a bit slow, it really won me over with the key change and fake-wind-blowing-everyone's-hair-back-thing.
3. Israel - Nice song. Gorgeous lead singer.
4. Denmark - I'm sure they ripped off the song from somewhere, but the lead singer's perfect English pronunciation was a redeeming factor.
5. Russia - The winners were overrated. Impressive allround performance but slightly laughable and unprofessional in that typical Eurovision way we love to hate.
Wooden spoon:
1. Ireland - Ireland must be sick of winning. They must have been taking the piss with Dustin the singing turkey.
2. Spain - No point even commenting. It speaks for itself.
3. Latvia - At first I thought Captain Feathersword was the half-time entertainment.
4. France - The 'worldwide outrage' at the French entrant's choice to sing in English fortunately distracted everyone from the sheer shit that was this song.
5. Azerbaijan - The commentator and I were equally baffled as to how this noise managed to score as well as it did. Boo.