The results are in
Finalists:
Russia (yes yes yes!!!!!)
FYR Macedonia (hmm)
Bosnia & Herzegovina (yup, knew that one)
Lithuania (oh… my… god… they deserve all the booing)
Finland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ukraine (hmm)
Ireland (oh well, hoping against hope it wouldn’t)
Sweden (yup)
Turkey (blah)
Armenia (cool!)
So Belgium didn’t make it? LOL
Estonia missed out as well… too bad, although I’m not surprised
Iceland is also out… well it was always a gamble
Semi-final
It’s live, it’s right now!I’ll skip the opening act (what were they thinking?!)…
1. Armenia
The Armenian guy doing Sertab… If we ignore that, not a bad opening from first timers Armenia.
2. Bulgaria
Just when I thought she couldn’t find the right note if it hit her on the head, she belts out the chorus and for a moment it sounded ok.
3. Slovenia
Mr. Nobody… Ditto about the song.
4. Andorra
This one had started to grow on me after I had heard it a few times, but having seen the live show… Excuse me. Children actually watch this. The Swedish commentator just said that even the singer started out the rehearsals dressed in a corset. Thankfully, she was fully dressed now.
5. Belarus
A fast song at last, Belarus might benefit from the position. Might.
6. Albania
No line-dancing granddads? Forget it.
7. Belgium
If I really try to ignore the insanely inane chorus, I could almost like the song. The singer seems to have the stage presence of a paperclip though. If Belgium wins, my feelings about it depend entirely on what song they beat to it - if they beat some of my favourites, I’ll be disappointed. If they beat some of the others, then I’ll probably be ok with it.
8. Ireland
Sure a contrast to Belgium’s entry and it’s not in Ireland’s favour. Sheesh this is lame.
9. Cyprus
Speaking of lame songs. This is horrible. Really. Awful. What the hell is the audience cheering about? Oh when will it ever end?
10. Monaco
Ugh.
11. F.Y.R. Macedonia
Blah blah ninaninaja whatever.
12. Poland
Oh look she is wearing a mask as well! If I pretend not to hear the idiotic rapping and the raspy croaking, it’s a borderline tolerable song.
13. Russia
My #1 favourite! The show seemed a bit thin though, despite the ballerinas. I love the song but now I have doubts about how far it can go. Surely to the final anyway? Could it be lucky 13?
14. Turkey
Sounds like a good opportunity to get something to eat…
15. Ukraine
I think I’ll check out the Finland-Belarus match reports.
16. Finland
Love the hat! …I was laughing thru the song. They are most definitely not scary…
The best lyrics in the competition and no devil worshipping in sight. Anyone accusing them of satanism has clearly not done their homework! I hope they go to the final, but I don’t hope that they win. And even if they did win, it wouldn’t kill the ESC as these doomsday sayers are claiming. ESC is bigger than just one song.
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Interval chat. Someone should ban that. Not that I have anything against interval chats as such, but spare me from this. Embarrassing.
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17. Netherlands
Hmm… maybe the interval chat wasn’t all that bad.18. Lithuania
No, the interval chat was definitely not bad at all. I could listen to it all day compared to this. Is three minutes really this long?
19. Portugal
Four chicks in search of a dress sense, right key and a good song.
20. Sweden
Oh yeah in English this time. Well what do you know, she pulled it off… But almost overkill… I still don’t think it’s a particularly good song, but Carola could teach a thing or two about performing live to the Belgian singer. Talk about owning the stage.
21. Estonia
A totally off-key start but luckily she found it after the first chorus. A simple Swedish pop song (yes) that I will be listening to this summer until I get bored. Like bubblegum… As for the Eurovision result, I think she suffers a lot for performing after Sweden.
22. Bosnia & Herzegovina
Yeah this will go to the final. Even if I don’t like the song, I must admit that it’s a nice calm moment after two high-speed entries.
23. Iceland
I’ve read in the papers that she has behaved like a complete idiot in Athens. That’s probably why she got booed right off the bat.. but then the lights came on and… uhh… boo. I kinda like the song and the original concept but this performance… What the hell are they doing?! And… they finish off to booing as well. I can’t remember I’ve heard that before in ESC and there’s sure been a stinker or two in the show.
And now, voting!
… or I would vote if I could. It appears that these numbers are blocked for me. Serves me right for using the business phone for private calls (and yes I do pay for my private use, so don’t get smart with me!).
Oh well, good luck Russia and Finland then.
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