Eurovision
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burntcopperThe camp fest of the year, is over, ladies and gents. We wuz crap, but still considerably better than most of the rest... (which is why Britain normally ends up in the top six most years)
Looking at my notes I make every time I watch Eurovision so I can remember when I fight for call space during the 5 min voting time. These notes consist of :
a) type of song and whether it's any good
b) costume
c) whether or not there's a Bucks Fizz Moment (if you have no idea what this is, you obviously aren't educated. Or you're American and don't count.)
Latvia disgracefully rigged it by providing a reasonable song, dance routine in time, and not one but three Bucks Fizz Moments with a pretty, nicely shaped girl singing it. :sigh:
Slovenia wuz robbed. Robbed, I tell you. Not only did they have three drag queens in sparkly air hostess outfits with great makeup and a brilliant dance routine but the song was good, too.
Most of the voting was split between Latvia and Malta - Sweet, pretty girl, nice dress, nice song, generally agreed to be in at least the top five.
France provided a Celine Dion type, Croatia a rather good pop act in sexy sparkly black that wouldn't have looked out of place on TOTP, and Romania. You don't want to know about Romania, trust me. Oh, and Russia fielded what was possibly the ugliest boy band I've ever seen.
Utterly trippy travelogues and Terry Wogan going through the whisky and insulting everything. A good Eurovision, all in all.
Looking at my notes I make every time I watch Eurovision so I can remember when I fight for call space during the 5 min voting time. These notes consist of :
a) type of song and whether it's any good
b) costume
c) whether or not there's a Bucks Fizz Moment (if you have no idea what this is, you obviously aren't educated. Or you're American and don't count.)
Latvia disgracefully rigged it by providing a reasonable song, dance routine in time, and not one but three Bucks Fizz Moments with a pretty, nicely shaped girl singing it. :sigh:
Slovenia wuz robbed. Robbed, I tell you. Not only did they have three drag queens in sparkly air hostess outfits with great makeup and a brilliant dance routine but the song was good, too.
Most of the voting was split between Latvia and Malta - Sweet, pretty girl, nice dress, nice song, generally agreed to be in at least the top five.
France provided a Celine Dion type, Croatia a rather good pop act in sexy sparkly black that wouldn't have looked out of place on TOTP, and Romania. You don't want to know about Romania, trust me. Oh, and Russia fielded what was possibly the ugliest boy band I've ever seen.
Utterly trippy travelogues and Terry Wogan going through the whisky and insulting everything. A good Eurovision, all in all.
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Ah -see....
Date: 2002-05-26 11:18 am (UTC)Unfortunately, by the time I got around to it, all I could remember were the translations on the subtitles (with subtitles is the only way to watch the eurovision I find...) Oh. And I also did remember Terry Wogan's amusing and often insulting commentry. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to get a stiff drink."
Oh the joys of bad music and a derrogatory commentater...No better veiwing. (okay, that was a lie - there's lots of 'better' things..This just always has, and always will, tickled me)
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Rach
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Date: 2002-05-26 01:01 pm (UTC)I watched it stone cold sober this year - not pretty, I can assure you - and there were a number of things I noted:
1) Russian boyband - consisted of mysterious lookalikes, including the white, fat version of Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson BS (before surgery.) Not to mention the blonde one with the strange fringe and mad staring eyes who blatantly couldn't sing.
2) The Greek "boyband" - all clearly over 35, with their Borg-like military costumes. Was this supposed to send a signal to British plane-spotters?
3) Halle Berry kept quiet about singing for Switzerland. Not only this she was wearing a skirt fashioned out of Liberace's curtains.
4) As did Catherine Zeta Jones for a former Eastern bloc country (I forget which one), Kathy Nijimy for Spain, and Charlotte from Sex and the City for FYR Macedonia (I think.)
5) Sweden's entry? Destiny's Child gone horrible wrong and dying a disco death.
6) Lithuania? There aren't words. An obviously gay man without charisma, wearing a beret and a jumper that only his gran could've knitted. She also went mad a crocheted hideous outfits for the backing singers.
I was very disappointed the Slovenian drag queen didn't fare better but at least something gender-bendy won with Latvia's Marlene Dietrich stylings.
And, well, at least Britain managed a respectable 3rd place, given how bland our song was.
Hurrah for Eurovision!
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Date: 2002-05-27 12:31 am (UTC)'Finland, one point!'