Eurovision 2016

[Katsuya]

39 minutes ago, ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster said:

Last year some of Australia's votes were "hey welcome to the party!" votes, but they're gonna struggle this year with that song and not so many of the political friendship votes.

Honestly, they'll be fine with the general quality of the second semi final.

Also, the Russian song is now favourite to win, presumably because he's good and it's the first Russian song since 2012 that wasn't also a two-faced message of peace and unity.

[Molly]

On 22 March 2016 at 10:09, Katsuya said:

Honestly, they'll be fine with the general quality of the second semi final.

Also, the Russian song is now favourite to win, presumably because he's good and it's the first Russian song since 2012 that wasn't also a two-faced message of peace and unity.

I loved the Granny's 

[Katsuya]

It's this Saturday!

Semi-finals are all done. Big shocks are that literally no Nordic country qualified, so only Sweden will be in the final (and therefore probably guaranteed all the top points from the other four). Ireland also didn't make it, and Greece and Bosnia both didn't qualify for the first time ever. Meant that the likes of Czech Republic and Bulgaria, who traditionally do shit, did make it through this year.

Running order has come out and the UK sing 25th, which actually might not be *too* bad for us. 

Also, here's your cheat sheet for the favourites:
Russia: Sergey Lazarev is like, the biggest pop star in Russia. He's had a two year long world tour at this point that's still going on. He's the bookies favourite, although that might be something to do with dodgy Russian betting inflating his odds. He's a great singer, but the performance is probably a little bit overstaged:

Australia: Yes, they're back and nobody is quite sure why, other than "they did well enough last time, and they'll put the EBU to be in it". Then again, why does Israel, Azerbaijan etc. get to be in blah blah blah. Anyway, Dami Im is a former Australian X Factor winner, she learned how to speak English through the Spice Girls and has the MOST AMAZING VOICE. She was expected to be like top 5 at best up until last night, when she absolutely tore the house down with her song. She's charting around the world after that and the EBU have given her the best possible slot they could, closing out the first half of the final. 

Ukraine: Ukraine are back after taking a year out because Russia. Their song, "1944", is about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by order of Stalin, which Ukraine classes as a genocide. Jamala says it's definitely not political though and instead is a personal story about her own family. Not quite sure how many people believe that. This is the one that the press have really hyped us to be a winner, as well as the Eurovision "community". I'm not so sure about it now.

Sweden: Sweden really, really, really wants to match Ireland for the most wins. They managed to piss off a lot of Eurovision fans by choosing an entirely non-Swedish prototypical song in their selection process. You may have already heard "If I Were Sorry", because in a move that literally has NEVER happened in a good decade or so, Radio One playlisted the song a couple weeks back. It's also all over Spotify. Frans is a bit of an aloof dick, but at least his English accent is kinda real (his dad grew up there).

 

 

[Hellraiser]

Many great singer singing horrible songs. I love how they mention the versatile musical backgrounds of these singers in the introduction videos which makes you hope you might get something original only to have them sing generic garbage.

[Lineker]

What's song #9? That's when Wogan says we can start drinking  

[Katsuya]

Sweden 

[Lineker]

I often rise up when watching Swedes performing.

[Lineker]

It's our year!  

[Lineker]

This Eurovision opening is so totally @Katsuya loves Oslo

[Walker]

Belgium was alright.

Czech is just dull.

[Lineker]

Holland is outright shit though.

[Bobfoc]

This Dutch performance seems to be a gathering of punchable faces.

[Lineker]

Azerbaijan to win, I think I'm in love  

(Song is naff though)

[Lineker]

Song Nine. 

*raises drinks*

Wogan :'( 

...what the fuck Germany?

[Gazz]

Poland no stronk.

[MDK]

[Lineker]

I'm firmly on the Australia bandwagon.

[Lineker]

Jesus Christ Russia!

[Lineker]

How the hell did Georgia reach the final!

[Hellraiser]

Can I vote for the parody song the hosts are singing right now? Better than any of the other songs I've seen tonight.