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posted March 20, 2013 08:25 PM

Music often tries to make a point but when it's things like this:
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I've been sung about love to your motherland and the oposition of cosmopolitan motherbeeprs who wish to eradicate our national identity.
that you remember after a concert it's not good music. It's just propaganda.
And unless you wanted to go to a propaganda concert if the thing you remember is MY GOD THAT WAS AWESOME MUSIC, it's a lot better music.

It's when they get past that we want to make a point to we want to make music people will enjoy, that it gets a lot better.

I like to use Sabaton as an example here, their themes are different war events/heroes from different times but did they choose them because someone needs to remember how glorious/heroic something was? No, they choose them because it was fricking awesome and a song about is even more awesome.
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posted March 20, 2013 08:45 PM

I enjoyed their music. It reached for the heart.
same goes to our partisan songs.


the bands mostly get shunned by being "nazi". In my opinion it's better to sing about how much you love your country rather than sing about something pretty useless and stupid.
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posted March 21, 2013 08:22 PM

34. ARMENIA
Dorians with "Lonely Planet"


Sidebar: How come that Armenian women are *always* hot and Armenian men are not? seriously tho, eep x 5 @ them.

Anyway, Lonely Planet. I have no idea why any song would name themselves after a travel guide, but who am I to judge as I didn't pen it. Then again, who *did* pen this song about ecology and increasing your life's standards?

Sorry if this seems out of the order, but this is *kind of* important for me as to whether I like or mislike songs of this calibre. Mostly because this is after all, an international song contest, and I am always highly suspicious of songs that were specifically designed to tug at the audience's heartstrings (and milk the televote as much as possible.) It's not so easy to distinguish those that are launched JUST to win the contest by exploiting the televote, and those that are *true* and heartfelt.

This song though... I am sceptical towards its *genuinity*. And even if it were *genuine*, the lyrics still moralizing to the point they are *irritating*. And the rest of the song... just run-the-mill male-fronted rock with no real spark to it. So it's mediocre... and kind of irritating. Mild dislike, I would call it

Of course this will qualify and do well since It Is Armenia and it will gets lots of votes from the Armenian diasporia AND the Soviet Voting Bloc. A top 10 finish isn't implausible either. HURRAH... so not looking forward to it.

Projected placement: 8-15 hooray for Europe rewarding mediocrity -_-





33. RUSSIA
Dina Garipova with "What If"


woohoo no more red, you go girl.

Idk what I can add to Russia that I haven't ALREADY addressed in Lonely Planet's write-up. Except that this song is more ridiculous, perhaps? I like it a bit more though.

Believe it or not, this is one of the top contenders to win. Most oddsmakers think this will make the TOP5, maybe even in. God, I hope they are wrong. This is dull and corny.

There however is a chance that, with proper staging and an excellent live performance, this could be That Boring Ballad that just gives you goosebumps when you least expect it. Like Kuula, last year, sorta.

Finally, the video clip gives me hope that this will be Over-The-Top and ridiculous in Malmö (actually giving putting in a standing ovation in your own video clip

Projected placement: 1-8 and i'll be really shocked if it does worse.





XXII. Sirkus Eliassen with "I Love You Te Quiero"
NORWAY - 3rd place.


I'd HATE to go back to PeR, but I think *this* is what they were trying to achieve. A fun, carefree party song. Sirkus Eliassen succeeded where PeR failed, but like all of Norway's songs they were slaughtered in a blaze of unstoppable margraretpwnage, making it a necessary sacrifice ^__^

Still there's quite a lot to like. Bringing their own living room <3 TOLERABLE RAP WORTHY OF A "<3" <3 it is in Norwegian (aka the most beautiful nordic language that isn't Icelandic) too <3 their energetic hopping <3 Never aspiring to be more than a funtempo party rock anthem <3 and of course: BUNNIESSSS <33333333

In other words it's like a cross between a duracel commercial and an acid trip, which is always worthy of more



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posted March 21, 2013 10:44 PM

I kind of like the armenian one. But I doubt it will be half as good without that music video. The message, image and appeal of the song is not going to get through when they perform on stage.

Norway... just lol.

Norwegian version of Sean Banan x2.
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posted March 21, 2013 11:04 PM

San-Marino goes to the top!
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posted March 21, 2013 11:50 PM

Norwegian, a beautiful language? >,>

Armenia and Russia have lame songs this year. I agree with armenian men looking like gorillas. I really got the hots for russian guys though. Russia has always struck me as a huge closeted gay country.

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posted March 22, 2013 01:38 AM

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I really got the hots for russian guys though. Russia has always struck me as a huge closeted gay country.

Well, they do say that the more outspoken against homosexuality someone is the more gay he secretly is. And Russia takes its homophobia seriously.
It is unusual for Russia to disappoint in Eurovision though...
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posted March 22, 2013 12:03 PM

Russia's nice, Armenia and Norway are OK.
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posted March 22, 2013 08:15 PM
Edited by Lexxan at 17:50, 23 Mar 2013.

32. Croatia
Klapa S More with "Mizerja"


HOORAY WE ARE SO MISERABLE WE HAVE TO SING ABOUT IT FOR THREE MINUTES.

Seriously though, I think they were attempting some sort belcanto here, but then ended up with this... awkward acapella messs. I don't dislike Mizerja per se, but... I don't rly know what Croatia tries to achieve by sending a song whose title means MISERY. It's so morose and sullen.

I really have no idea what else could possibly be said about this entry? It's a Jury Entry that will bank on the juries dragging it to the finals (spoiler: they will not). There's another vid of it where they like held hands with each other, in some weird, even more awk, borderline homoerotic choreo, but it seems that idea was scrapped so I can't give them lolzpoints for it . I think that's it?

....

Projected placement: 30-39

yeah idk what else to add. MOVING ON:






31. Cyprus
Despina Olympiou - An Me Thimase


ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*snore*ZZZZZZZZzZzzzzzzzZZZZZzzz

Apparently An Me Thimase means "So You May Remember Me" or smth... WELL IT'S NOT WORKING SINCE THIS S#!} IS UNMEMORABLE AS F!ç£.

Seriously though, this song is easily the most forgettable in the entire contest? I just listened to it and do NOT remember it at all. To make matters worse, Cyprus performs in a semi that has like.... 3 songs that are 1) Not Ballads AND 2) mid- or high-tempo. So it means that by the time Cyprus performs I'll prolly be lulled to sleep and miss them. I'd be sad if I could be bothered to care.

Oh one thing I like about it is that is just one of those songs that SCREAMS "one-but-last placer" to me. I hope she continues the trend set by her spiritial predecessors Iris and Christos Mylordos.

On the bright side though, Cyprus won't have to worry about the financial expenses that hosting the Eurovision Song Contest brings. The extra cash will come in handy once Europe strongarms them into using drachmae again

Projected placement: 38




XXI. Gromth feat. Emil Solli-Tangen with "Alone"
NORWAY - Finalist



AND NOW... TIME FOR A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON. Starring Professor Lexxan ^__^

In 2010, Norway hosted the contest and sent alleged musical performer DIDRIK SOLLI-TANGEN to defend their honour in the Telenor Arena.

Here's a visual reminder of Didrik btw if you don't remember him



Sadly, his corny ballad "My Heart Is Yours" failed completely when he sang the entire song out of tune and finished 20th

A year after that, some idiot got the idea of combining HipHip and Rap with Greek folk, which led to this abomination representing Greece and finishing seventh ()

Two years after that, the HEAVY METAL BAND GROMTH copied Some Idiot's idea and contacted our good friend Didrik (who apparently changed his name to Emil and grew a beard in the process), combining heavy metal with opera.

I never laughed so much during ANY preselection event than when I first heard and saw this. I don't know why, but the juxtaposition of Opera and Gromth's frontman SQUEALING his lungs out is SO hilarious to me. It's so damn' random. It also actually *works*? Watch My Dance didn't work because it sounded like two songs clumsily fusioned together as one. This actually sounds unified and it hilarious to boot. What's not to love?
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posted March 23, 2013 12:41 PM
Edited by Lexxan at 12:55, 23 Mar 2013.

30. AZERBAIJAN
Farid Mammadov with "Hold Me"


I am SO over Azerbaijan's existance in this contest. There was a time I liked them, though. Remember when they were SO desperate to win the contest that they send all sorts of hilariously incompetent desperado crap and they were JUST pipped from first place every time? Good times.

But then they took the route of sending boringly competent songs penned by equally boringly competent Swedish songwriters (like that Malfoy Ogre Thomas G:Son) sung by AWFUL singers and i've viciously turned against them ever since.

Knowing that Azerbaijan had SO much lolpotential before 2011 definitely sours my mood whenever I listen to the unbearably saccharine bullcrap they're sending today. Well ok Hold Me isn't *that* bad. But it's.... so bloody run the mill. And coming from the country that gave us Day After Day, Drip Drip and Always, that is still a disappointment.

That being said though, Hold me isn't *BAD* and continuing on that paradigm, also makes it the best Azeri entrant since



because after Ell/Racist Wench and Cocobo Murderer, the only way is up, even if you are as generic as you can be. :-/

Projected placement: 6-14 - Azerbaijan NEVER did worse than eight. And I have this *feeling* they might do better than eight *again* although there's no reason for that. -___- buuuuut since Turkey doesn't compete there's a chance this will be the worst performing Azeri entry EVAH so here's to hope ^__^



29. ICELAND
Eythor Ingi Gunnlaugsson with "Ég Á Lif"


That videoclip is soooooo c00t ^__^


Too bad the same thing cannot be said about the Icelandic preselections. Out of all the preselections, Iceland's was the only one who ALMOST gave me a rage-induced embolism. There's a big backstory to that, so allow me to elaborate before we continue rating "Egg How Leave".


I hope you all remember the gorgeous viking diamond princess known as YOHANNA, the runner-up from the 2009 contest. I'm not sure if you are aware, but "Is It True?" is actually my second favourite Eurovision song of ALL TIMES. So when I heard Yohanna would compete again I was THRILLED.

Then it turned out her song was a pretty generic, but fun pop song. Ok, so she wasn't going to do well when she was selected, but that's no big deal. I liked her song and just wanted to see her again.

BUT THEN........ The typical Eurovision snobs reared their ugly heads and TRASHED Yohanna mercilessly leading to her elimination in the FIRST ROUND of the Icelandic preselections. Their rationale: "Well The Song Is Weak. She Is A Great Performer But This Song Isn't Good Enough For Her. She's Wasting Her Talent. It's For Her Own Good "

And then.... the SAME SNOBS send "Ég Á Lif" To Malmö, a very run-the-mill ballad because "It Is Pretty Music". I was SO FURIOUS because I think "Thú" is JUST AS GOOD, if not *better* than Ég Á Lif", even from an objective perspective.

Ok that's for the backstory as to why I actually don't like "Ég Á Lif" in a nutshell. As a song, it's alright, I guess. It's pretty, but nothing more than that. And the live performance of this song, in case you wonder: not very impressive. he just... stands there, yelping "I've A Life!!!" 154 times.

Such a waste. Iceland can do SO MUCH BETTER (actually it is, generally, the BEST Eurovision Country) and I'm just... really disappointed this year. Luckily this year will feature SCANDIDOMINATION anyway, but if Iceland elects to not be a part of it by willingly defending mediocrity, then on their head it be.  


bonus points for singing in icelandic though ^__^

Projected placement: 20-30 - if it qualifies, it won't do better than 20th (this ain't no Kuula). IF it qualifies, that is. it's possible, but not certain.





XX. Yohanna with "Thú"
ICELAND - Semifinalist.


Ok, so decide for yourself if you think Iceland made the right choice by unilaterally hating THIS and mbating to Eythor. I think they made the WRONG choice

Even if this wasn't Yohanna singing it but someone I didn't know, I'd still really like this. It's so *deceptively* catchy. It also SOUNDS exactly like a television anthem, which is just lol. Even so, I like it for being SO upbeat and fun. Listening to music like this just makes me *cheerful*. It's also sung in Icelandic, which is SUCH a pretty language. (I rly should study it someday <3)

For good measure, it's better than roughly half of the songs will perform in Malmö.



I don't consider "Thú" to be, like, DABEST (if I did it would be *I*, not *XX* on this sideranking), but I really like it, regardless. I think the comments were so misguided and so rude, especially if we consider what we got INSTEAD. (If 'Ég Á Lif' was any good, I wouldn't have cared lol.)

ok enough incoherent rambling. I think i'll update later today if someone is friendly enough to comment :-/
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posted March 23, 2013 01:31 PM

I don't know, it really was just another pop song for Yohanna. Might have had better success in the contest but it's boring. So yes, they did the right choice.
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posted March 23, 2013 03:52 PM

28. HUNGARY
ByeAlex with "Kedvesem"


....

I am so about:blank about this one, if you know what I mean? Hungary, like Iceland, made the WRONG decision and in this case it WAS more tragic. I guess Kedvesem won because of the lyrics because otherwise this s#!{ is  just bland.

I don't mind this being selected AS much as Eyþor winning Iceland because I wasn't *that* into Hungary's preselections and Kedvesem is kind of pretty, actually... in a boring, take-for-granted sort of way

One good thing: It's in the semi 2, which has many of my random favourites for this year (most of which aren't certain to qualify), so in the likely event that it doesn't qualify it's likely going to ensure one of my favourites does. So GJ Hungary.ia ^__^

Projected Placement: 24-36




27. Italy
Marco Megoni with "L'essenziale"


Something about Italy's attitude towards the Eurovision Song Contest really rubs me the wrong way. I have for quite a while suspected them to be lofty, holier-than-thou little S#!{s in this contest and i've actually rewatched some of Italy's pre-1997 entries and I came to this rather grim conclusion: Italy in Eurovision represents *THAT* RTV contestant who is offensively boring/boringly offensive AND competent and therefore does well while doing nothing of worth.

Ok, some parallel's with other RTV shows:

- THAT designer on Project Runway who just makes pretty dresses because "that is what the judges like" w/o any of his own creative input
- THAT person on Survivor who does nothing other than beast it out in challenges
- THAT girl on America's Next Top Model who takes good pictures and gets dragged to the F5 despite never doing anything other than take good pictures
- THAT team that wins The Amazing Race
- THAT bloody whitebread guy on [American] Idol
- THAT bloody whitebread guy on Big Brother

etc. And it loops back to Italy being THAT Nation in eurovision that bombards us with Ho-Hum *Jury Entries* that provide very little in the process.

Take L'essenziale for instance. It SCREAMS mid-carding ballad to me. However, because It Is Italy, juries will cream their panties over it and grade it much better than they should. Because It Is Italy, televoters will be more inclined to vote for it, eventhough it is SO insipid.

Last year, Italy was on the right track and replaced their boring ballad with a fun Amy Winehousesque jazzpop song. (Italy was my preshow favourite last year!!). But I'm afraid he just got VERY lucky last year, and that for the most time, we'll get the boring San Remo winners, like this one X___X

In other words: You bore me Italy, stop bothering me with trite BS like this.

Projected placement: 8-20





XIX. Christina V & Glam Girls with "Celebrate"
MOLDOVA - Finalist


I can't find a live version of this so the Video Clip will have to do.

I *love* this. It is SO FUN and SO CATCHY. It's one of those songs I can listen to ALL DAY and daydream about at the most inconvenient moments. It also sounded pretty good live , considering it's Moldova, a country notorious ofr its botched coal miner's English ^__^

I do think Serbia's song is superior to this one, so I'm glad they didn't win, but Moldova's selection this year was fantastic (they have the second most representatives on the ShoulveBeen list -behind Sweden of course) and I hope they win a contest really soon. (spoiler: they MIGHT win this year =O)




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posted March 23, 2013 05:22 PM

Croatia's miserable and that entry was probably the best gift Cyprus could give both to the EU and themselves.

Azerbadzjan, so cheesy. Well seems like the ruling dictator family there doesn't care about the contest anymore. I think it's gonna flop.

Icelandic is my favorite language and the music video is so beautiful. So yeah, I love it because it's icelandic. If he's gonna sing it in english, I'll forget all about it.

Hungary, another colorful music video. Well, meh...

Italy gave Euphoria 0 points. Can't forgive that. But the language is nice. Funny how it's similar to spanish yet sounds a million times less stupid. Okay, I actually like the song. It's relaxing. But dafuq's up with his haircut.

Norway's attempt at opera is hilarious. Unfortunaly, opera doesn't work very well in Eurovision. Sweden tried with the beautiful entry "La Voix". We did get points from France though...

lol you're right about Yohanna's song sounding exactly like a tv series theme. And that's boring. I like "Egg how leave" (what, it's called that?) much better. I think you're being Yohanna-blinded, Lexxan.

"Celebrate" is one of those entries that might be terrible live.

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posted March 23, 2013 06:11 PM

omg Xerox, Yohanna is one of the few people I'd take bullets for, it's true but I'm gonna make zero apologies for that.

if you like Italy's song, just wait 'til we get to the other, WAY superior Italian ballad of this year - San Marino's song.
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posted March 24, 2013 09:33 PM
Edited by Lexxan at 21:41, 24 Mar 2013.

And now for my laziest update as of yet.

26. IRELAND
Ryan Dolan with "Only Love Survives"


A boring whitebread song sung by an even more boring whitebread dude. Ryan Dolan must be the most writebread and boring Irish name ever too.  *Yawn* x3.

Also, what's UP WITH SOUNDING LIKE POP*EW*LAR IN THE VERY BEGINNING. EWWW.

But it's mid-tempo, which, as a Semi1 participant makes it ~something different~ and i got to give so bonus points for that I guess. I get people liking it. I just don't. ^__^

Projected placement: 16-30





25. SLOVENIA
Hannah with "Straight Into Love"


MORE LIKE *GAY* INTO LOVE, AMIRITE?

This isn't my style of music at all, but it's not bad I guess. I think it's just a bit flat and boring, even. There are better electropop songs to root for this year imo.

On the other hand I have NO IDEA how well or poorly this will do. It had drawn semi 1 (aka the Ballad Semi) and is competing alongside montenegro, croatia and serbia. In other words: a PERFECT draw. However, their qualification odds don't seem that certain to me... i dunno, i dunno.

Projected placement: 20-35


PS: Bonus points for looking like Kujin tho <3




XVIII. Betty Dittrich with "LalaLa"
GERMANY - Finalist


omglol @ this retro Hairsprayesque mess of a song. Betty is so adorable you just want to go an pinch her cheeks.

The lyrics are hysterical too - it's basically one big pro-long hair manifesto set to 50s music <333333333333333 Serbia did this genre better in 2011, with Caroban, but i'd rather have had this than CAS*CADAVROUS* (YES my distaste for Cascada will continue making cameo appearances in other write-ups in this ranking - get used to it cascada fans)

Besides this is fun and Cascada is not so there's that. ^__^

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posted March 25, 2013 10:12 PM

24. ESTONIA
Birgit Õigemeel - Et Uus Saaks Alugse


Estonia's selection was so weird for me. It basically was a 20-something amount of AWFUL songs (like: Latvia levels of terrible), two great ones that I'm - to this day - obsessed with.... and Birgit lol. I mean, I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with Birgit winning Estonia, since she beat two acts I would have unironically put at #1 in this preshow ranking if they were selected (furthermore because it meant ANOTHER BLOODY BORE-ASS BALLAD IN THE FIRST SEMIFINAL).

But on the other hand, I'll gladly take her as a Better-Than-Nothing option given how awful Estonia's selection was in general (If it were up to Estonia's jury three obese banjo-playing bears would represent Estonia o___O... i'll spare you.)

About Et Uus Saaks Alguse. it's aight. I kind of gravitate towards like on this one because it (and Birgit herself) is really prettyish. It also reminds me a bit of IN A MOMENT LIKE THIS, which was Denmark's best entry since this year's.

This to explain why she made it this far. We're almost at the end of the *BORING SONG* Slaughter and after this update we're finally getting into the songs I like

Projected placement 21-35 - I have no idea if this qualifies, but IF it does it won't place in the top 20, sadly.



23. ISRAEL
Moran Mazor with "Rak Bishvilo"


Hebrew is so phlegmatic ::brrrrrr::

This one is kind of a sleeper hit imo. I almost lumped it in with the Boring Song pile, but then I found myself humming the chorus  on the bus two days back, so I guess it's not that boring at all

Honestly though, Israel's selection was EXACTLY like Estonia's imo (except i wasn't that invested in Israel's as most song were more boring than anything) and Moran takes a role similar to Birgit's, in that her victory stopped Israel from sending something terrible(y boring). On the other hand, I didn't rly like her and my favourite song ALMOST won, so I'm kind of on the fence for this one. :-/

I do think Rak Bishvilo can deliver if staged well and if Moran can put even MORE emotion in her performance. But as of now, it's solidly ok imo.

Projected placement: 27-35 - I don't expect this to qualify. Semi 2 is a huge free-for-all with all sorts of light-hearted and fun songs, and while Israel's powerballad may stand out, I expect it to be snubbed by the televote.



XVII. DOINITA GHERMAN - Planeta E Un Rai
MOLDOVA - FINALIST


This crazy woman almost won the televote for Moldova's selection. Bless her.

I don't know what I could possibly add to this hilarious performance other than irrationally distributed hearts <33333333333333333333333333333. So. Much.
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posted March 25, 2013 10:14 PM

AND I'M USING THIS GHOSTNIC TO MAKE A FILLER POST BECAUSE THIS BOARD IS TERRIBLE AND DOESN'T ALLOW ME TO POST 4 TIMES IN A ROW.

also because I'm updating again RIGHT.NOW and i want to be able to post lol.

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I really like the Estonian entry. She's singing in Finnish key, it sounds like Finnish but no recognisable meaning.
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Edited by Lexxan at 23:38, 25 Mar 2013.

22. LITHUANIA
Andrius Pojavis - Something


Lol. I'm shocked that I actually *kind of like* Lithuania's entry, to be honest. They are usually WORSE than Latvia at the contest, mostly because the Lithuanian juries fawn over the most BORING of songs at the slightest promise of some sort of ~artistic edge~. That bit of ~artistic edge~ however is rarely enough to cancel out the numbing boredom that accompanies the average Lithuanian Eurovision entry.

This is probably the first time since 2002 (as awful as Aivaras was you have to admit Happy You was HILARIOUS(ly bad) that I've found a Lithuanian entry *funny* in some way.

I kind of liked Something ever since it was first released(the Williamesque music <3), but I never commited myself to liking it... untill the official video was posted.

I mean, just look at it. This live performance of Something just SLAYS me every time I see/hear it. His excessive eyebrow acrobatics <3 His hilarious primal yelling <3 The irrational glint in his eyes <3 I don't know WHAT he took that night, but I hope he takes a double dosis in Malmö.

I'm kind of excited for Lithuania on an ironic level. Hipster Sentiments towards a Hipster song <3 That being said though, Andrius is a (hilariously) terrible singer and with a ridic performance that is almost certain to qualify(!!) I hope he continues providing the lolz.

Projected placement: 14-26  - Lithuania qualifies and it will not do better than Donny Montell. other than that... hard to predict how well or poorly they'll do.




21. ROMANIA
Cezar - It's My Life


Oh.My.GOD. This is so ridiculous <33333333333333333

Seriously though, I was SHOCKED when Cezar revealed himself to be a countertenor (apparently he's an AWARD winning opera singer lol), but it makes It's My Life so much better. Especially since the song is ALREADY the campiest song that ever camped.

To be honest, I WOULD have prefered Electric Fence or Luminita Anghel  representing Romania, but c'est la vie *sigh*. Besides, everyone went SO BONKERS (and defensive) about Cezar so i don't rly dare to say anything bad about him in fear of reprizals

I don't really know what to add about It's My Life really. It's ridiculous and funny. And that's what matters <3 And for those who hate falcettos bear in mind things could've been so much worse. This also made the Romanian final.... ::shudders::

Projected Placement: 16-26 Romania always qualifies and I think they'll do it again this year. But they won't do well.





XVI. Haya Samir - Happy And Sad

ISRAEL - Semifinalist

What makes me Sad is that I cannot find a live version of this (she was GOOD tho trust me)
What makes me Happy is this song when i listen to that. Am I Happy or Am I Sad?

Things that I love about Happy And Sad include:

1) Putting a horse in her cast pic for no good reason <3
2) This is perhaps the most morose song ever penned <3
3) Irrationally rhyming hebrew with English <3
4) Her deep glottal voice <3
5) The fact that this songs lulls you into some dreamlike thrance when you loop it <3
6) The fact that the lyrics are just completely pointless <3
7) She was the only palestine singer in the kdam this year <3






CONGRATULATIONS TO THE *TOP* 20

Albania
Austria
Belarus
Bulgaria
Denmark
Finland
France
Georgia
Greece
the Netherlands
Norway
Malta
Moldova
San Marino
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
the United Kingdom
Ukraine




List so far:

21. Romania
22. Lithuania
23. Israel
24. Estonia
25. Slovenia
26. Ireland
27. Italy
28. Hungary
29. Iceland
30. Azerbaijan
31. Cyprus
32. Croatia
33. Russia
34. Armenia
35. Montenegro
36. Latvia
37. Macedonia
38. Belgium
39. Germany
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Coincidence? I think not!!!!

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posted March 25, 2013 11:48 PM
Edited by Seraphim at 23:56, 25 Mar 2013.

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I've got a chance to explore some of Lithuania's metal scene not a while ago. most of the bands (save for the Latvian one) of the biker organised concert I've been sung about love to your motherland and the oposition of cosmopolitan motherbeeprs who wish to eradicate our national identity. overall, a time well spent. a complete opposite of the "mainstream" scene with dumb blondes, gypsies and fake gays dominating the pop genre which sole purpose is to dumb down and idiotize the public.


You do know right that you are being a racist towards a whole group of people, otherwise hated in the east. I am talking about gypsies. Please tell me one, just one gypsie band,singer whatsoever that actually is popular across europe...

Also, please elaborate how mainstream music idiotizes people?
Mainstream music makes you hate it? Hey, dont listen to it. I hate mianstream music aswell.
Mass sensational music is there to cattle different folks, like teens and kids.
And nationalistic BS music catters to skin-heads, nazis and other lowly members of the society and thats because they are so lowly, they gotta feel pride for something. And hell yeah, feeling pride for something you practically did nothing for is amazing. This is so HARDCORE!


And as for Patrotic music. It is such a mothereffing effort and power to feel that you were born into that territory. snowin hell man, imagine if you were born in another country, chances are you would feel patrotic about that place aswell.

Here is my point, there is no reason to feel patrotic because the reason you are latvian or whatever the hell, is just chance. It took NO effort whatsoever from your part to be a specific nationality.
You got born into that area, and like music that make you feel proud into that place?

So in all honestly, patriotism or nationalism is BS to the magnified scale. There is absolutely no reason to feel proud about the place you were born. This is the reason why Eurovison sucks. It REEKS of nationalistic BS.

Hell, if i cared about the culture or the flag of a country, I can go visit it or visit wikipedia.

George Carlin on Pride

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