Eurovision song contest

So it’s finally over. No more will I have to get spammed by eurovision themes as I walk to my bus station. Thank goodness. Some of it was good, but most of it was shite. 

To be honest, I was actually surprised by the amount of good singers in this year’s competition. There were actually more than the standard 2 people who could hold a note! What’s going on? Is Europe yet again starting to take it seriously? 

I watched the finals last night, and I have a few totally irrelevant observations to make. First of all, Black is the new White. Yes. That’s right. Last year, like five different groups dressed in all-white. This year, only Spain was behind the times and dressed their really terrible boyband up in white. Everyone else, it seems, dressed in black. 7 out of 24 performances featured people in all black, and many more had people in mostly black. Wind machines also remain in style. Last year, I believe the Swedish performance had perhaps the most blatant use of windmachine as well as a few others, but this year I counted a total of five!!! Wow. That’s a lot of people who felt they needed some more drama. There were also some groups who decided to use both the windmachine and dress in black, such as Finland’s really mediocre entry (which got exactly the points it deserved). I can’t believe people were so delusional they expected that crap to win. I mean, seriously… so ok, she didn’t sing off-key unlike the first four performances before her, but those lyrics!! SO BAD! 

Leave me alone, I want to go home… 

Couldn’t you possibly think of a slightly better more powerful rhyme? No? Oh well, I guess that’s what you get from Idols-performers. Incidentally, I hear there were 2 other countries who also sent in their Idols-people, but I don’t know which countries they were. 

Anyway, in the end, Serbia won. This was a pleasant surprise, because the woman can actually sing. It was apparently also the first time Serbia partook in the competition. Great stuff! They also beat the really horrible horrible horrible slimy Turkish entry (dear god, someone castrate him, please?) and the equally pathetic Russian child-porn-schoolgirl entry. 

England was… abysmal. I think it’s safe to say that they definitely stopped taking the competition seriously. Unlike the Ukraine who also had a “comedy” entry, theirs was really tasteless. It was an airplane-themed entry that featured lines such as “Would you like something to suck on during landing?” Very very very very camp. I was disappointed to see that they actually only came second-last, beating Ireland, who really tried so very hard but was so nervous they couldn’t hit a single note. 

So sit back. Relax. Enjoy the flight! 


 

Thank god it’s over. Shame Switzerland didn’t get into the finals and England did. Something wrong with the system, methinks.