Eurovision song contest is comin

What will come from your country to Eurovision 2007?

Nothing we aren't a country yet, an I would rather claim I was from Iceland than admitt that I'm actually Danish according to the law

As I'm from the Faroe Islands, wich is an autonomous region in the Danish Kingdom.
( In Danish: Kongeriget Danmark for så vidt angår Færøerne)
So our contestants would be the Danish one, wich is a pink-obsessed transvestite singing "I'm Your Drama Queen".
You do the math...

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo *runs crying away and throws himself of a cliff*

What exactly is Eurovision?

*stops falling*

A European song contest. First the countries make up new songs indepentley, and the groups with new songs compete for winning in that country. Then they take the best singer from each country and pit them all together. The winner is decided by phone voting, and each country gives an equal amount of points, nomatter the size.

The whole contest is a huge load of ****. The amount of musicians/bands who have a decent reputation and participate in it is negligible. It's mostly people that are starting or can't place their songs anywhere else because they suck. Sure, my own country's song - sucks, and so do most of the other countries. I can think of maybe 2-3 good songs that I've heard on the contest in the last couple of years. And the voting? Ridiculous. Balkan countries always give each other best votes, and almost never receive any from Nordic or Western European countries. Same goes for them. You always know who is gonna vote for who and the whole telephone voting is a terrible idea IMO because the average Joe just votes for a)his country b) the one who has the best choreography.

It just.. blows. Props to Helena from Greece, I like her and she has had a good career before ES, but most of the other stuff is garbage.

Totally agree with Inf. The "competition" has gone down in the last 10-15 years, with votes so embarrassingly biased (depending on the relations between countries) I would have never imagined for an international contest.

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Originally posted by Zamolxis108:
Totally agree with Inf. The "competition" has gone down in the last 10-15 years, with votes so embarrassingly biased (depending on the relations between countries) I would have never imagined for an international contest.

I wasn't a lot of higher before anyway.
It's a nights light entertainment(some are so horrid that they leave me choking with laughter, and that is entertaining by any means).

It's nice that smth like Eurovision exists.And yes Balkan countries vote for each other and Baltic too (All that neighborly spirit) but still you never know the score and who will win 'cose it's the small votes that make a difference.
But I agree that Eurovision is **** but it's nice to have smth like that organized and maybe some nice songs will emerge eventually

Well, if you look on Eurovision like on sports contest, then it is OK. I realy don't expect some musical quality in Eurovision, but that contest thing...

But Lordi song was nice.

We will have song in Italian, I hope italians will vote for it

I'm in baltic country, and I can't say that we vote just for another baltic countries. But our russians will wote for Russia. I have heard, that some time ago there was posibility in Latvia with mobile phone to vote in Estonian voting

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Still, it looks like eastern europeans increase Eurovision musical quality (or take Eurovision more seriosly)
p.s.
But balcan countries vote for each other. Knowing, that just some five years agou they fight with each other, it is good sign

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Originally posted by Edo_555:
We will have song in Italian, I hope italians will vote for it

There are no Italians on Eurovision.They gave up years ago.

Ugh, there is so much to complain about the contest...one major one is that the participants are selected via text-messages/calls, which means that teen-idols are competing for the winning place in Finland. Why? Because a single teenager uses 20 votes for their favourite while "normal" voters use only one... That means that in Finland the only contestants ever to follow are from Idols-show or something like that, agggrg. Our this years contestant does have a beautiful voice, but that doesn't cut it. The song is something everyone has heard a million times - the producers are supposed to be "hit makers" Blaah. Makes me puke.

What I like about Eurovision contest is a) atleast there used to be a lot of music influenced by their countries history/heritage/mythology (go Norway!!). b) I enjoy hearing songs in other languages, for example France and Russian are beautiful and last years Bosnia-Hertsegovina song, Romania as well, and there are plenty of others c) There are always some crazy contestants that just make you laugh, like Ukraine this year

Oh and by the way, the contest has always been like that neighbours give some points for each other.

Since song autor are swede, swedish alsou should vote for Latvia I hope... Ukrain contestant Verka Serdjuchka is the most paid diva among russian speakers Yeah, and ukrainian folk songs are fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_J8vLeFBI

Eurovision are one of those things, what none watch, but everyone knows, what there hapens))))
p.s.
I like that contest thing. Just like in sport.

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Originally posted by Infiltrator-SF:
The whole contest is a huge load of ****. The amount of musicians/bands who have a decent reputation and participate in it is negligible. It's mostly people that are starting or can't place their songs anywhere else because they suck. Sure, my own country's song - sucks, and so do most of the other countries. I can think of maybe 2-3 good songs that I've heard on the contest in the last couple of years. And the voting? Ridiculous. Balkan countries always give each other best votes, and almost never receive any from Nordic or Western European countries. Same goes for them. You always know who is gonna vote for who and the whole telephone voting is a terrible idea IMO because the average Joe just votes for a)his country b) the one who has the best choreography.

It just.. blows. Props to Helena from Greece, I like her and she has had a good career before ES, but most of the other stuff is garbage.

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Eurovision song contest is comin

When exactly?

(Shame that Italy don't. Swedes must not forget that that it actualy is swedish song.)

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Eurovision 2007 Latvia -Bonaparti.lv - Questa notte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THdXrYjedDE


Ukraine 2007 Verka Serdyuchka - Dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHR491s3iSw

Semifinals are 10.5 and finals 12.5, so a month still to go. I guess Edo is from Latvia, hmm

A week ago we went through Baltic countries with my friends, but only stopped to Riga for 5 minutes :S Because we have a friend in Vilnus so we had free accommodation there.

But here is something for you who think there is no good music in Eurovision
Go Serbia - Molitva!!

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Originally posted by Shauku83:
Semifinals are 10.5 and finals 12.5, so a month still to go. I guess Edo is from Latvia, hmm

A week ago we went through Baltic countries with my friends, but only stopped to Riga for 5 minutes :S Because we have a friend in Vilnus so we had free accommodation there.

But here is something for you who think there is no good music in Eurovision
Go Serbia - Molitva!!

Nice promotion of the song ... I'm not even gonna mention mine. Stevan Faddy just sucks!!!!