Eurovision Song Contest!
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Topic: Eurovision Song Contest!
Posted By: Ovidius
Subject: Eurovision Song Contest!
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 08:42
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Yes its that time of the year once again, when our tv's will be taken over by 24 songs that should never have been created are broadcast accross Europe. Ukraine are the favourites, with a more than annoying, Elton John impersonating, crossdressing, fashion reject - Verda Serduchka! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJ44NV6m-E - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJ44NV6m-E I have to say I'm supporting Romania's Todomondo, with his guitar song about love. As for the British Entry, another year of nil pois, hopefully. If scooch win, we will have to suffer their song on the radio for the next few months, please, no one vote for Britain! Anyhow, my money is on Ukraine, Bulgaria or Turkey. http://www.eurovision.tv - http://www.eurovision.tv http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/eurovision/2007/ - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/eurovision/2007/ |
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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 09:08
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My girlfried has voted for Latvia, even after I spesifically forbitten her to do so.
Yes I had to sit down and watch the stupid show, She made me!  ------------- The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin |
Posted By: Ovidius
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 09:31
and Yiannis, that was only the Semi's! You have the Final to watch now!!! 
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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 09:44
Arggggg!  ------------- The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 11:29
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cshVh0FwJs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cshVh0FwJs
Marija Sestic - Rijeka bez Imena
for Bosnia
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 11:41
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Ok, Iceland was kicked out , once again. An international complot against Icelandic culture.
May all the other ridiculous songs stick in your craw.
listen to Icelands contribution:
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Posted By: Athanasios
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 12:15
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Mmmmmmmmm....Russia...Nice... What's going on with Malta? At least ,this year their singer wasn't that fat  ------------- 
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 12:26
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Iceland drops out of Eurovision
Iceland’s representative in the Eurovision song contest, Eiríkur Hauksson, did not make it past the semi-finals held in the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland, yesterday with his rock song “Valentine Lost.” Ten countries from last night’s competition will go on to the finals along with the four largest countries who automatically qualify, the UK, France, Spain and Germany, and the top ten countries from last year’s Eurovision finals. “Of course I’m disappointed, but I’m not really surprised,” Hauksson told reporters after the results were revealed. “Just look at the results and you’ll see why,” he said, referring to the fact that of the 28 countries competing last night, the ten qualifiers are Eastern European countries. Hauksson then encouraged Icelanders to vote for their Nordic neighbors, either Sweden or Finland, in tomorrow’s finals. Denmark and Norway didn’t make it to the finals either. Hauksson told RÚV he would go as far as to say the eastern block “mafia” had “bought” the competition. Iceland has not made it to the finals since 2004. Newcomers and countries that place below the 14th slot in the final Eurovision song contest have to take part in the semi-finals the following year. The ten favorites make it to the final contest, but the rest has to compete in the semi-finals again. Viewers across Europe choose their favorite song with televoting, but cannot vote for their own country. Yesterday Belarus, Moldova, F.Y.R. Macedonia, Slovenia, Hungary, Georgia, Latvia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey were chosen to continue in the competition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision - The Eurovision Song Contest has been held annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. It is one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world with millions of viewers both in Europe and abroad. Iceland first participated in 1986, when Hauksson also represented the country. Iceland’s best results were in 1999, when it placed 2nd with Selma Björnsdóttir’s “All Out of Luck.” -------------
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Posted By: Athanasios
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 18:26
Ulrich, your singer in last eurovision song contest was a grotesc figure. She'd also insulted Greek people in her performance... Hope she is not the characteristic type of icelandic woman
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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 11-May-2007 at 22:21
She was a fictional character. How exactly did she insult Greeks?
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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 07:00
 a "huge" split between the two forest teeths  ------------- Bu mıntıka'nın Dayı'sı http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/DayI/2006-03-17_164450_bscap021.jpg - |
Posted By: erkut
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 08:13
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I liked the Bulgarian song. :) ------------- |
Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 13:26
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My votes are as follows: 1) Israel 2) France 3) Moldova 4) Turkey 5) Russia 6) Bulgaria 7) Serbia Bravo to Israel! really funny song ------------- |
Posted By: olvios
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 13:31
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Israel& moldova
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Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 13:39
I think Israel didn't make it 
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Posted By: Spartakus
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 13:55
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Eurovision- Madhouse ------------- "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. " --- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996) |
Posted By: Lotus
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 14:59
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My favourite from last night was I agree about the Maltese song, it was quite painful to
listen to, and she was upsetting the dogs, which is a pity as we normally rely
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Posted By: Athanasios
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 17:10
She said f* word Greece or something 
Anyway, i hope the Russians will get "the money" in the end  -------------
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Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 17:22
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Serbia will win.!
Eurovision has always been such a loser propaganda tool...
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Posted By: Ovidius
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:05
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SERBIA???????????????????? Oh dear, how sad Eastern Europe is, I'm almost ashamed to study Eastern Europe! heh. Another year of rigged voting and out of tune songs. Woohoo! |
Posted By: Roberts
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:06
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Yeah, Serbia indeed won, such a boring song. worst ever, ------------- |
Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:16
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no big surprise, if serbia didnt won ukraine would win with another "masterpiece". this shows actually that people or voters dont give a f.ck about how the song actually is. ------------- Bu mıntıka'nın Dayı'sı http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/DayI/2006-03-17_164450_bscap021.jpg - |
Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:17
Indeed I had to watch the final as well
 The sacrifices we do for women...The only decent song was the German one and to some extend the Latvian.
Serbian was not good, still the singer had an excellent voice... ------------- The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle, Politics Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin |
Posted By: Roberts
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:26
Damn right, if similar song like Serbian was offered by UK in English language - even then they would get next to 0 points. Personally I liked Hungarian song in jazz style. ------------- |
Posted By: Roberts
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:29
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Yeah its nice political lesson how Europe is connected. Who is neutral, who is allied. Also population spreading.
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Posted By: TheDiplomat
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 18:42
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I wanted to vote for Latvia, but my cell was in recharging in the hotel room. Why did Latvia sing in Italian? Singing in Latvia could have been more interesting for the audience;) I watched the contest with at least 100 people in the hobel conference room, everyone was suprised when Latvian got 10 points Ireland, except for me :D ------------- ARDA:The best Turkish diplomat ever! |
Posted By: Roberts
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 19:02
Well IMO it is not a such bad idea to sing in Italian (one of group members was Italian), even better than to sing in crappy English accent, at least no one could understand us (since Italy is not participating though we could get some points from them ). Overall I think that this was the best song which we could offer compared with other local contestants.And yeah Ireland, the only place in Europe where Latvians have sizable population besides Latvia itself. ------------- |
Posted By: Anton
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 19:14
I would put Slovenia and Germany. I was affraid Bulgaria (as usuall for Bulgarian pop songs) would sound vulgar and it wouldn't. In fact I liked it. 
After amaizing performance of Greece, Turkey and Ukraine last few years, I am disappointed by these countries this year. ------------- . |
Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 19:37
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Is there a list that tells us how each country voted?
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Posted By: New User
Date Posted: 12-May-2007 at 20:30
| gutted Ukraine didn't win... |
Posted By: Lotus
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 06:43
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Well thank you
 My personal favorites were |
Posted By: Spartakus
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 12:22
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Indeed the UK gets humilated more and more in the last years of the Eurovision. ------------- "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. " --- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996) |
Posted By: Krum
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 16:05
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Turkish performance was very poor,they didnt deserve fifth place.As a whole i think that this was one of the worst eurovisions of all times.
Thanks to all greeks for voting for Bulgaria.  ------------- It is only the dead who have seen the end of war. Plato |
Posted By: TheDiplomat
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 17:16
Armenia received 12 points from Turkey  ------------- ARDA:The best Turkish diplomat ever! |
Posted By: Roberts
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 17:25
So there is a secret Armenian population in Turkey. ------------- |
Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 18:16
I know, the number of "hidden Armenians" is greater in Turkey than you might think How much did Armenia give Turkey? (if any...) ------------- |
Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 18:18
I actually thought it was better than the Bulgarian Vampire song...or the Armenian one for that matter, I think 4th place was justified. ------------- |
Posted By: TheDiplomat
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 19:10
No points from Grecee and Armenia to Turkey even tough Turkey gave top points for these countries..
So ''hidden nationalism'' in Greece and Armenia is greater than ''hidden nationalism'' in Turkey  ------------- ARDA:The best Turkish diplomat ever! |
Posted By: Lmprs
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 19:32
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Russia and Greece were my favourites. Turkey was average at best. Those Ukranians should be exiled to another planet. ------------- |
Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 20:22
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Well France gave 12 to Turkey..2nd year in a row, and it is the least popular country in Turkey I dont know about Greece but in Armenia the nationalism is kind of open on a serious note, there is almost not nationalism in Armenia...ARF only got 13% of the votes in May 12th elections. ------------- |
Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 22:30
What I couldn't understand is that the organization itself has always been so childish and weird. Other cultural organizations of Europe such as UEFA are super cool but Eurovision  . Why? 
" - After watching Eurovision, I stopped respecting European civilization."
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Posted By: mamikon
Date Posted: 13-May-2007 at 23:52
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Why has it been childish and weird? At least you dont have riots here when your "team" loses... And who was the one who said the quote above? If all he needs is Eurovision to respect European civilization, maybe Europe doesnt need his respect at all. ------------- |
Posted By: The Hidden Face
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 00:05
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Come on Mamikon. It's all about self-respect.
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Posted By: Peteratwar
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 05:59
| Ok, How many of these very poor songs will be remembered in1 month's time ? or on the other hand in 1 week's time? |
Posted By: Giannis
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 06:44
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The best song was performed by Lordy and the video-clip was super, Bulgaria's and Slovenia's song were pretty good too.
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Posted By: Mortaza
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 06:54
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why should we listen all these bad songs.
Just lets shout name of country and vote for them..
By the way, Thank western Europea.
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Posted By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 14-May-2007 at 08:37
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Some say that distinction through education is obtained not only through knowing a lot, but also through knowing what sort of thing you should rather not know so much about. Eurovision would be one of those.
I'm a bit perplexed, it seems that for the duration of these contests many Europeans suddenly lose all sense of taste. ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 17-May-2007 at 03:16
It seems Armenia gets 13.000 votes from Turkey.
Please check the link (Turkish) : http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2007/05/16/guncel/gun09.html - http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2007/05/16/guncel/gun09.html TRT says they used German Digame system for SMS voting and the results: Armenia 12 points for 13.333 votes Bosnia 10 points for 10.884 votes Russia 7 points for 7.101 votes Regarding the population (70 mil.), it seems Eurovision voting is not popular in Turkey. |
Posted By: New User
Date Posted: 17-May-2007 at 13:16
I for one love the song contest. We get some folk round and have a laugh watching it and remembering the ole songs from years past. This world is so serious that this panto of a song festival with Terry Wogan muttering in our ears is a fun highlight of my viewing year!
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Posted By: Ovidius
Date Posted: 17-May-2007 at 15:05
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indeed, it just wouldn't be the same without Terry Wogan! I watch it just for the commentary. And because I have no choice...! |
Posted By: Jagiello
Date Posted: 20-May-2007 at 06:23
You shouldn't thank western Europe.No western european voted for Turkey-it was the turkish emigrands that voted.Just like with Serbia.England gave 12 points to Turkey but i doubt any real english voted for Turkey.There are just many turks in England-that's it.It's not a competition for songs but for countries."Who has more emigrands" - that's how they should name it.
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Posted By: Jagiello
Date Posted: 20-May-2007 at 06:25
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BTW the turkish song really suc*ed.It was a typical oriental song.It's EUROvision after all ,not Middleeastvision.
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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 20-May-2007 at 11:26
9 of 10 songs sucked, as usual. I'd rather have the Turkish song represent Europe, then say, Ukraine :p Do you really take this crap seriously? |
Posted By: Jagiello
Date Posted: 21-May-2007 at 06:19
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Ofcourse i don't take it seriously.The ukrainian song atleast was funny and made fun of the germans and the russians what we polish really enjoy.And not all songs were bad.I liked the Czeh,Slovenian and Hrvatian songs.The bulgarian was also good.Our unfortunately also suc*ed.
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