The 2007 Eurovision Song Contest
 

I know that it's not even worth mentioning, but I saw the highlights on the news this morning.
Where do they get these twats! What a load of hogwash!

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Bahaha that was so funny. I watched the whole show (actually, no, i was on here, but my mom watched it). They were all either gay, shemales, or goths. Like Ukrain WTF??? tin foil dressed drag queens.

My country won. Which is really sad, considering that was shit.

i thought it was great show... too bad we didn't win it this time...

I didn't watch it. Unusual for me. But I was in protest. Because Scooch are absolutely fucking awful. There's a great interview with them here where the interviewer has a bit of a go at them for being shit.

Quite why Girls Aloud didn't enter is beyond me.

It's all a fuckin farce more to do with stupid politics. It ain't even about bad music, it ain't about music at all.

People don't even know HOW to suck!!!

aw was it on already?
was the guy from the darkness in it?

It was so damn soulless I couldn't finish my dinner.

No, there was a bunch of mettalers playing cello though...

Ukraine were by far and away the best (funniest) thing about the whole event. Them and the girl in the pink dress backstage.

haha i was flicking through the channels and that was the only act i saw, had a good dance with my mates in the living room.

i was laughing along with this farse when the stupid cable decides to fuck off and when it got fixed, the show was over. this is one of the funniest things to experience every year.

the russian girls were really hot, though.

It's one of the reasons why i think that gay men have become useless at both music and fashion. The contest itself is inoffensive enough, but it seems to propagate bad taste in a semi-ironic fashion that is just out fashion.

i wanted Georgia to win, either them or greece.

i'm thinking that half the joke is seeing it from outside of europe.

we, here in the new world, tend to have really awful things get passed on as music and music events, in really bad taste and really half-assed. seeing eurovision, we understand that it's not a thing of a third world way of thinking or colonialism or any of that crap, that bad things tend to get followed by the masses and be taken seriously regardless of how ridiculous it really is.

it also makes us feel that we are not alone, whether it's eurovision, american idol or whatever; poor taste is golden.

Haha those guys were weird. Have you seen when they ask the girl if she wants to host eurovision? they 'pick out' a random member from the audience...

No, no, that wasn't set up...

i thought bulgaria was half decent. moldavia had a really good representative 2 or 3 years ago. i dont lose any sleep over the voting though.

I just heard on television a man seriously complaining, that the Song Contest (as we call it) has become a forum for the Ex Eastern Bloc states (analogous). And further, they would only vote for each other.

you won't believe, but...





this is him in the real life. ukraine is full of crazy freaks:D

didn't they say the same thing about the scandinavian countries?

This could well be.

Well heres something interesting for you all. Scooch (the british entry if you didn't know) have been around for quite a while, and back in their early days they came and performed at my primary school. I would have been about 8 or 9. So by no choice of my own, my first gig was Scooch. I can't really remeber too much of it really, which is a shame. I must have been off my head.

That's what makes it so funny. It doesn't matter how godawful the songs are - Sweden always vote for Norway, Cyprus always vote for Turkey, Ireland always vote for Great Britain and so on.

Now that there are a whole load of 'Eastern Bloc' countries included they all vote for each other and the 'Western Bloc' don't get a look in. It's hilarious.

I was surprised that Estonia voted for Russia though.

To be fair, the winner recieved votes from all over the place and won by a fair margin. It was a bit of a rubbish song though.

Overall it was the best Eurovision for some years. Bulgaria managed to do a reworking of an old Sheep on Drugs song, with drum interludes, the Romanians were great, Georgia were all serious and very cool with Visionary Dream, Armenia were a bit worrying, that thing that arced across the stage was nice, Andorra gave no points whatsoever to Spain, Turkey saved the UK's embarrassment (or at least a fragment of it) by having an even worse song than ours, and Wogan was as good as usual (especially the Abbot and Costello reference at the end).

That silly woman in the pink dress was very very very annoying though, and not in the least bit amusing.

yeah, i don't know how well the foreigners got it, she's a very famous finnish comedian, but even most finnish people are nowadays tired of her manners... she seems to be in almost all programs here.

but did you like santa claus? he's the most famous finn in the world, even if some people don't realise he's from finland...

i think georgia was best, great song, nice performance, sounded a lot like björk.

Sounded a bit too much like Madonna's version of 'Ray of Light' for my taste, probably one of the best 'proper' songs tho, along with Bulgaria.

madonna's version? i thought that was an original madonna song. but whatever, bulgaria was another fave too.

Oh no. It was originally called "Sepheryn" and was released in 1971 on the eponymously titled album 'Curtiss Muldoon'.
Madonna and William Orbit gave it a bit of an extreme makeover.

some people are just born that way i guess. poor unfortunates.

israel are in the EUROvision song contest.

Santa was splendid.

My top three was Romania, Georgia and Bugaria.