Comments | profshallowness: Welcome to the Eurozone.

profshallowness

Welcome to the Eurozone.

May 21, 2006 19:38

Posting this before reading to see others' thoughts about Eurovision. My weekend was pretty good, I didn't get to watch the X-men films, which was as much my poor time-management as anything. I did some reading (may talk about that later) and writing (yay! Not loads, but some.)

I also watched The OC 'The Road Warrior' ( 3-16 )

uk, tv, the o.c., thank you for the eurovision, poptastic

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violetcreme May 21 2006, 21:13:22 UTC

Hated the Finnish entry, it actually freaked me the hell *out* which is not what I want at Euroviiosn - I want cheesy catchy pop ! I have no idea how or why it won, I am muchly confused.

Fearne Cotton deserves a BAFTA for that WoganInJoke delivered with a totally straight face and why oh why were Will & Grace presenting ? and who let them ? he gave up the will to live half way through and just mumlbed and sighed his way through it. LMAO !

I voted for Ireland as it was the only song I actually liked. All in all a very poor year I felt.

profshallowness May 21 2006, 21:22:52 UTC

It made me cackle and cackle in disbelief. I did like it BUT it was totally out there for Eurovision. Hence the floating of the pre-publicity plus Darkness theories.

he gave up the will to live half way through and just mumlbed and sighed his way through it. LMAO !
Will or Wogan? :) Grace really annoyed me, because she Just. Didn't. Get. It.

I didn't vote. If I had, it might have been Romania, because it was Eurodisco that kind of worked and I really liked his voice (so did he, little show off).

lusmeitli May 22 2006, 14:23:16 UTC

Well, I did watch until Finland came up (then I had to recover from a fit of laughter, seriously, the singer looked like a bat rather than devil with those wings, hehee) and then the votings. I must say, Finland's entry amused me. Don't mistake me, the song was quite okay for Hardrock. It was just... amusing ( ... )

profshallowness May 23 2006, 21:04:27 UTC

Finland's entry was one of the funniest things of the night - I couldn't but laugh.

I guess Eurovision Song Contest always attracts some, uh, "birds of paradise". And that's why we love it - I mean a lot of the performances this year had me scratching my head, wondering what they were thinking!?!?

That Finland won was surprising, however. But perhaps it was exactly because the group was so peculiar and the genre didn't really fit into the "happy-go-lucky-lalala" world. I guess this contest made it clear that it definitely is a "song contest" and not a "concours de la chanson" anymore. :) Vraiment! Thing is, if they're looking to make it big, English is the language of pop. Not that I think most of the contestants will do so. The UK's entries usually seem...sel-conscious somehow - and they can be pretty dire. but we're so aware of the hoop-la surrounding the competition.

And the votes. I find it very interesting to see who gives points to whom for which political reasons. With certain countries, very predictable. Others: always a ( ... )