Julia Posted May 29, 2010 Author Share Posted May 29, 2010 Thanks *still dancing through the room* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 So, the UK come last again - LOL! I think the UK should understand two things from our recent years failing to win: 1. We need to stop using inexperienced nobodies and get in someone with some serious experience behind then and who knows what they're doing. 2. We need to stop writing a song for Eurovision and just start writing a song instead. There are hundreds of brilliant songwriters out there (many of them singer songwriters) who could come up with something WAY better than the pap we enter year after year. We deserved to come low down on the table (perhaps not last, but certainly close to it) for the rubbish song we entered. THe poor lad did a fairly decent job of it, but hit a ocuple of duff notes at the end. And sorry, but I hated the German entry - the song was awful and she couldn't sing for toffee. Turkey were far better. The dance everyone did in the half-time entertainment was epic - loved that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julia Posted May 29, 2010 Author Share Posted May 29, 2010 (edited) Actually I can understand that many people don't like Lenas Satellite. When I first heard it I thought: What a rubbish. But after listening to it for a few times I began to really like it Edited May 29, 2010 by Julia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 I am happy tonight. I was rooting for Germany to win all week long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 So, the UK come last again - LOL! I think the UK should understand two things from our recent years failing to win: 1. We need to stop using inexperienced nobodies and get in someone with some serious experience behind then and who knows what they're doing. 2. We need to stop writing a song for Eurovision and just start writing a song instead. There are hundreds of brilliant songwriters out there (many of them singer songwriters) who could come up with something WAY better than the pap we enter year after year. We deserved to come low down on the table (perhaps not last, but certainly close to it) for the rubbish song we entered. THe poor lad did a fairly decent job of it, but hit a ocuple of duff notes at the end. And sorry, but I hated the German entry - the song was awful and she couldn't sing for toffee. Turkey were far better. The dance everyone did in the half-time entertainment was epic - loved that! But it's a well known fact that the UK could put their best singer/songwriter ever into the competetion and we would still come last .. or near it. The voting is so political, you can always predict who is going to vote for who. We should pull out of it and stop funding it. Still keep it on the TV but not participate. No decent UK singer or group would ever want to be associated with it, they know it's a poisoned chalice. It's really a refuge now for the hopeful or desperate (as far as the UK entries are concerned) .. and in any case the sort of songs that win or do well are just not the sort of songs that we do well here, or not anymore anyway, the nearest we ever have been to it is glam rock in the 70's. Radiohead once said they wanted to do it but they didn't want to go through the auditioning processes that you now need to go through. That would've been the biggest laugh of them all, to see a world famous band get nil points. Our entry this year was poor, but it didn't matter, James Morrison could have been on there singing 'Broken Strings' or 'Wonderful World' and he would've got the same result. It's not a level playing field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Last time we won it was Katrina and the Waves with Love Shine a Light - great song and great performance. 1997, I think. Proof that we canwin - but only with a professional and a proper good song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 I used to watch it but only because Wogan's observations never failed to make me laugh. Just not the same now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 This show was hilarious I loved France's amazing entry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Did anyone else initially think the stage invader during Spain's entry was part of the act? And then that the guy that slid onto stage later on was another stage invader? All credit to the Spanish performer - he never batted an eye during the invasion. I didn't like the song, but he gave a good performance and showed exactly how professional he was by carrying on as if nothing was happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 1. We need to stop using inexperienced nobodies and get in someone with some serious experience behind then and who knows what they're doing. 2. We need to stop writing a song for Eurovision and just start writing a song instead. There are hundreds of brilliant songwriters out there (many of them singer songwriters) who could come up with something WAY better than the pap we enter year after year. Like me! I could write a tune! I could dress up in some garish clothes, pearl-ise my teeth, slick back my hai...oh, can't do that one...and show these Europeans just why Great Britain is called Great Britain. Or maybe I could just hide in my living room with a blanket over my head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheeta Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 This show was hilarious I loved France's amazing entry! Really? xD I can't stand what my country tries to send to Eurovision nowadays, but I love the Fatals Picards, it was the only band that I liked (in 2008). I'm in love with Alexander Rybak, I wish I was Norwegian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 yeah it depends whats going on this year, Lordi was entertaining That was a very proud moment in this country I have to say. It was nice to see that after that year others were more willing to explore that music genre as well, and it's not all weirdo pop anymore. Still, the acts Finland has been sending out after that have been quite horrid. It was like our winning never happened in the first place and we learnt nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettyboop33 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 the singer who sung englands song was a former student at my school. I was very sad to hear we lost badly . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Univerze Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Does anyone remember the dutch song? It was sooo awful, funny thing was most people in my country hated the song.. it's like, old folklore stuff but none of the good things about that. It's as ancient and not Holland as tulips, clogs, windmills and cheese. The image foreigners may have of Holland but it's just a tiny bit of us that actually like these things. The girl who sung that song lives in my town, actually like 10 minutes from my house, and is related far off to some cousing of mine, don't know if she's related to me, I hope not. Can you believe she's only 18? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 It's not Eurovision that makes the UK look bad - it's the UK that makes itself look bad by entering rubbish songs with inexperienced performers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julia Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 Well, I allways thought it is a political thing and you only win with many countries liking you. But can't really be so, Germany would have never won then. @Sheeta: I really liked the France song. It was fun and perfect for a party and actually a really good thing after all this ballades! @Univerze: Yeah, I watched the song in the internet after all this remarks made in German TV. Well, I must say, I didn't really liked it, but I don't think it was bad. I thought it was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Really? xD I can't stand what my country tries to send to Eurovision nowadays, but I love the Fatals Picards, it was the only band that I liked (in 2008). I'm in love with Alexander Rybak, I wish I was Norwegian. It was so horrifically BAD that i loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheeta Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I found the song FUNNY, but maybe we were not many who understood the franglais they sang. Anyway, I know all their other songs, and it's by far the most funny band I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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