Oh Serbia.
Yeah, sure, they were good (and those red sash things that the backing singers were wearing were excellent. Were they supposed to be reminiscent of beauty pageant entrants? Or did they have a faintly Princess Mary tinge about them?), but what does that matter at Eurovision? Exhibit A, last year's winners, a bunch of Finnish nutcases dressed as monsters, ludicrously over-the-top, so bad it's good crap entertainment. Exhibit B, that woman in the pink dress who was plucked from anonymity (allegedly) to fulfill her life's dream of hosting Eurovision. She was ridiculous. If Eurovision was at all concerned with talent and good taste, then she would not have been there. Therefore Serbia should not have won. France should have won, because they were hilarious and excellent and completely ludicrous. Especially the guy who ran around a lot and seemed to be wearing a cat (which is sadly absent from this video, as are their excellent pink costumes, but it seems there is no youtube version of the actual performance yet. Sigh). Or I would have been happy with Sweden (also ludicrous).
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I liked Sweden's song. And France's. Dunno how they ended up but they were both in the bottom quarter most of the time. These crazy Europeans.
The other disappointment was that the Pommies got any points at all for their crap effort.
I suspect they were disappointed to get any points too. I mean, they obviously take advantage of their automatic qualification into the finals to enter abysmally bad songs that everyone hates, don't they? Aren't they aiming to get no points (or at least come last) every year?
Oh, and by the way, France and the UK got the same amount of points! What a travesty.
The entire show was a travesty.
Only songs with potential were
- the "Björk-wannabe" (can't remember her nationality)
- the finnish song (although a bit too Evanescence like)
- the Bulgarian song (but mainly for her vocals - they were intriguing)
The rest of them ranged from ridiculous to pathetic. What on earth went wrong with the brits?
And when the fat lady sings, she apparently has a lightbulb in her hand, which she uses to illuminate her tonsils.... freaky!
The UK qualifies for the finals automatically?! What a travesty of justice! It does explain a lot though. Who else automatically goes through?
Yes they do qualify automatically, since the rules were changed in 1999 or something to let them, Germany, Spain and France (aka the Big Four)get straight into the finals every time (because they contribute lots of money, or something). I was reading something about it in Wikipedia the other day. Apparently before 1999 the UK had really good entries and was usually in the top 10, but since 1999 they have been uniformly abysmal, culminating in a high (low) of no points for their 2003 entry.
Somehow I don't think they're losing much sleep over the crappiness of their entries.
Serbia won ! Enough said...
There you are, Vlad! I was wondering why you hadn't gloated earlier...
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