Eurovision 2007

Now that I cannot deny that my Eurovision addiction any longer I feel obliged to write my yearly few words on the event.

Like every year there was talk of bloc voting and neighbouring country favouritisms, but despite all this like every year the winner was unpredicted. The winners Serbia (download mp3)not only didn't have an interesting stage, appealing song or sexy singer, but their song was performed by what the Czech friend described as a "lesbian boy".

This year my votes went for Slovenia, Finland and Ukraine, in that order. Both Finish and Slovenian acts had a similar dark gothic touch, which explains why I liked them, but I guess that wasn't generally appreciated trait by the public this year. Ukraine (download mp3)with their fun and funny drag act managed the second place but the other two didn't even manage to make the top 10 to automatically qualify for next year.

My biggest disappointment wasn't even the fact that the dot didn't qualify for the finals but that my compatriots, with whom I categorically disassociate myself from, gave maximum points to the UK. The UK's song was the only song I couldn't stand watching and actually left my seat to prepare a drink in the kitchen. With the abysmal quality of the recent British songs I think they should be banned from entering the competition let alone automatically qualifying despite the result.

Ireland finished last receiving only 5 points from Albania. This is ironically exactly what happened last year to the dot with the difference that we received 1 point instead of 5. The UK should have been reserved this treatment this year. Having said this, I might add that the dot only got 15 points in the semi-final only managing the 25th place in the semis (position 39 out of 42).

Eurovision finals: Serb your enthusiasm

We Yanks like to think that the success of reality-competition shows like American Idol reveals something very special (good or bad, take your pick) about our national soul. I won't argue with that. As so often happens, though, Europe got there first. Not only is our own Idol a knockoff of the U.K.'s original Pop Idol, but both of those shows are mere upstarts compared to the venerable Eurovision Song Contest. Every year since 1956, artists from across the continent have come together to vie for voters' hearts. Each country fields a single band or singer to represent it; only one can win.

Hundreds of millions of Europeans watch every year, and they take this stuff pretty seriously. In this year's contest, which wrapped up last weekend in Helsinki, 22-year-old Marija Serifovic took home the gold for Serbia with a solid if boring ballad. The night's sore losers, thankfully, were far more entertaining. The U.K. and France shared a stinging tie for next-to-last place; the notoriously intemperate British press immediately fell to heaping abuse upon their national representatives, the campy (and fairly lame) disco act known as Scooch. Germany, meanwhile, beat the Brits by three places, but they felt like complaining, too — and how. "It is obvious that eastern European countries engage in dirty trade with points every year," hissed one German singer; another newspaper suggested that "western Europeans are losing their enthusiasm for the Eurovision Song Contest because the East has become triumphant." Yikes!

Variety reported yesterday that a team including longtime Sacha Baron Cohen associate Dan Mazer is planning to film a comedy about Eurovision, though the story was tanatalizingly vague as to whether this would be a documentary or a fictional feature. Given Mazer's previous oeuvre, I'm hoping it's closer to the former. If results like this year's have shown us anything, it's that you hardly need to add a thing to get pure comedy gold. I personally think Ukraine's second-place entry (see below) was robbed — and just tell me you wouldn't want to see Verka Serduchka's trippy transvestite dance-off joined by one Borat Sagdiyev.

So what do you think, PopWatchers? Any brilliant performances I missed on YouTube? Would you pay to see Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Contest of Eurovision in theaters?

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ZF Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:36 PM EST

My Fav EUROVISION 2007

Verka Serduchka



is eurovision turning into a drag show? who cares its great!

Eurovision

Eurovision 2007

Not that any of you will even know what Eurovison is, but Serbia won it this year!!!





We used to watch this every year! Now next year it will be held back home in Belgrade, and I gotta be there for that! There will be so many people on the streets partying, it will be amazing experience!!!! And when I say many people, I mean tons, like hundred thousends!!!







Who wants to go? Lol!!!!!!!!!


We are going to party like it is my birthday! That is some scary song that exsist that Tim kariokied it for me last night! We did party like it is my birthday, because it was my birthday yesterday! My "daddy" came to party with us, oh, I have not written in so long, I will have to explain that to you some other time. We watched the whole 2 hour Eurovision contest again. Tim recorded it for us by placing the handycam in front of his computer screen, he he, duix (12) points to Timi from me, he, he... Then we danced like crazy, and did karioki, I am sure it was painful for our nightbours' ears, but we were partying like it was my brithday...he, he..... Hm.... I have been having these outbursts of crazy happyness, whcih includes sudden high pitch screaming, random "ballet dancer on drugs" kind of dancing, shirt lifting, cath me if you can move, neck grabbing, piggy back riding.. there are too many to list!! Just be glad that you do not never had to see any of this, lol!!!!!!!!!!