Eurovision Song Contest 2008

[Kaiomitsuki]

Who will win the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest ?

Last year was the worst result for Ireland...

this year they will win the contest for the 8th time with Dustin the Turkey (Sign of approval...)

or maybe Spain will win it for the third time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5kCPJEQIc ;-)

Russia with an english-speaking song will try to win the contest for the first time with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDJxR0fsbN8

Serbia the host country will try to win for the second time with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTJKHAu2wI

Germany will try to win the next year...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhyKg7lsVI

United-Kingdom...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTllsZozTFY

France will try to win 2 points (but what country will give 2 pts... Monaco will not be here :-P ) with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePpbeWxaqw

(Tellier rules... Electro-Rubettes sound !!!!!!!!!!!)

more here

First semi-final

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BEE75F153E91E6C3

Second semi-final

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=06B415849CEE5DF6

[aderechelsea]

forgot about

.... (bleargh)

[Jejima]

what is with the singing in english?

i thought there was a rule that songs for eurovision had to be sung mainly in one of the country's official languages - but the russian, german and greek entries are all in english....

Edit:

The Icelandic 'Wiggle, Wiggle Dance' appears to be in English too - although i think they have cheated a bit, by just updating 'the hokey-cokey'.

Edited April 6, 2008 by Jejima

[Oimeru]

what is with the singing in english?

i thought there was a rule that songs for eurovision had to be sung mainly in one of the country's official languages - but the russian, german and greek entries are all in english....

Edit:

The Icelandic 'Wiggle, Wiggle Dance' appears to be in English too - although i think they have cheated a bit, by just updating 'the hokey-cokey'.

They dropped that rule a few years ago after they got fed up with Ireland winning again and again. English is certainly more popular in pop music than Albanian.

[aderechelsea]

i hope Ireland gets voted by millions and millions of people. Then the eurovision organizers will realize this is a total travesty and just stop doing this "competition" altogether.

IRELAND DOUZE POINTS !!

(Sign of approval...) ;-)

[Kaiomitsuki]

So Russia wins (Being thrown tomatoes at...)

forgot about

.... (bleargh)

... and Greece is third (Neener, neener...)

Germany and United-Kingdom are last... 23rd

[Fujisan]

I was forced to watch this rubbish at my friends but when it became clear that the Russian song(I use the term broadly)was going to win,I left for fear that I might be physically sick when the result was announced.

If this was Sumo it would be pure yaocho.

[Mark Buckton]

few days ago the BBC had this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7412199.stm

Thought it was connected to CC!? Not this time hey but a punt says he envies that other turkey!

[Kotoseiya Yuichi]

I stopped watching that bullshit in mid-80's. Seems like I haven't lost anything.

[Kintamayama]

I wrote this exactly two years ago, and it is getting worse every year..

'The Eurovision Song Contest voting is becoming increasingly outrageous. I guessed 90% of the top three votes of every country. Cyprus will always give Greece 12 points and vice versa. Same goes for Ukraine-Russia. Finland/Sweden/Denmark/Norway in a never-ending orgy of automatic point swapping. All parts of ex-Yugoslavia-ditto, goes without saying. Moldova-Romania. Germany-always 12 points for Turkey. Guess why.

It's a frigging farce. No one listens to the songs. And the announcer always says "And 12 points go to our lovely neighbor XXX!!". They don't even attempt to cover up the yaocho.

Makes me want to throw up.'

Add Belarus and Georgia to the Russians etc.. and we get a veritable frucht-saladen.

Barfy.

Edited May 25, 2008 by Kintamayama

[Oimeru]

Germany-always 12 points for Turkey. Guess why.

Only 10 this time!

I find the yearly outrage over crappy pop music very entertaining. Whiny headlines ("Why does Europe hate us?")

in the tabloids included. Well, Germany had a 100% yaocho ratio this time and still finished joint last ;-)

[Koukai]

I wrote this exactly two years ago, and it is getting worse every year..

Our singer was the best (it doesn't happen a lot) but unfortunatly we don't have lovely neighbours.