Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2006:
As you all know ESC is HUGE in Sweden. We love it, love it, LOVE it! And this year it was amazing.
All bets are off! The laws of nature are not valid anymore! Hell has, if not frozen over, at least defrosted slightly. The unbelieviable winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2006 is.... FINLAND!!! They've entered the contest 40 times and not won once. At best they've been 6th and that was way back in 1973. Often they've been the laughing stock. (Hey! Let's face it, they usually suck...)
Even more bizarre (or perhaps equally bizarre) is that it's a rock song that wins. They were dressed as hard rock monsters, described on eurovisions homepage as:
"It’s the turn of Lordi, the monstrous hard rockers from Finland. The eponymous lead singer Mr. Lordi has miniature skulls on his kneecaps whose eyes light up red, his microphone is attached to the handle of a battleaxe and he has devil horns protruding from his head. It’s not exactly Abba. Despite their frightening appearance, there’s something really likeable about the group and the crowd really warm to them… and are warmed by them! There’s so much fire on stage, the temperature in the arena rises several degrees."
You GO, Finland! :)
Other reflections:
My favourites were (that is, who I voted for and YES I actually pay money to vote): Russia, Dima Bilan with "Never let you go" (ah! pretty pretty boy, and a nice pop song), Lattiva, Cosmos with "I hear your heart" (an accapella group, so I simply HAD to vote on a group that is actually musical, which isn't always the case embarassly enough), Armenia, Andre "Without your love" (nice rythm and another pretty boy, can it get any better?) and of course Finland, Lordi with "Hard Rock Halleluja" (what can I say? We all know his number and it's 666!)
Sweden was represented by Carola, who has entered the contest twice before. 1983 with "Främling" (which means "Stranger"), which was her big break through, and in 1991 with "Fångad av en stormvind" (which sort of means "captured by a storm"). In 1991 she won the whole thing. She is NOT a favourite of mine, she is quite controversial in Sweden. Carola is famous not only for her very strong voice, but also for her deeply (sometimes) fanatic religiousness. She has, for example, said that gays can be cured if we only pray hard enough for them. This she eventually took back, probably since someone wise had pointed out how HUGE ESC is in the gay community.
The hosts were, usual, not so interesting. The female co-host, Maria Menounos, was (I'm sure) a bit tipsy at the end of the show. She acted totally flimsy-wimsy while her male colleague, Sakis Rouvas, sort tried to cover up. A theme amongst the different representatives from the member countries (during the presentation of the voting) was that the color of the female hosts dresses were mostly red or black and that the male ones didn't dress up really. And of course they all complimented Greece on the spectacular show.
The female participants are, as usual, mostly tits and ass while the males are not. C'mon, you could've at least shown us some ass, man!
Some trivia for you ESC-ignorants out there:
The most used words by Eurovision fans in connection with the song contest are “Abba”, “Eurovision”, “Dana” and “Leandros” according to a study by the University of Leiden.
More women than men win the Eurovision Song Contest. On average, for every three or four women who win, only one man has won the contest.
Dialects and imaginary languages have surfaced again and again at Eurovision. In 1989 Switerzerland’s entry was sung in Romansch and Lithuania’s song “Strazdas" was sung in a west-Lithuanian dialect. In 1996 Austria attempted to win over voters with a song in another alpine dialect. France has also attempted to win with songs in Corsican and Breton and in 2003, Belgium came second with a song in an imaginary language.
Until now, the most covered Eurovision hit is “Volare”. Stars like Dean Martin, Al Martino, Marino Marini and David Bowie have all made cover versions of the song.
ESC ROCKS!
All bets are off! The laws of nature are not valid anymore! Hell has, if not frozen over, at least defrosted slightly. The unbelieviable winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2006 is.... FINLAND!!! They've entered the contest 40 times and not won once. At best they've been 6th and that was way back in 1973. Often they've been the laughing stock. (Hey! Let's face it, they usually suck...)
Even more bizarre (or perhaps equally bizarre) is that it's a rock song that wins. They were dressed as hard rock monsters, described on eurovisions homepage as:
"It’s the turn of Lordi, the monstrous hard rockers from Finland. The eponymous lead singer Mr. Lordi has miniature skulls on his kneecaps whose eyes light up red, his microphone is attached to the handle of a battleaxe and he has devil horns protruding from his head. It’s not exactly Abba. Despite their frightening appearance, there’s something really likeable about the group and the crowd really warm to them… and are warmed by them! There’s so much fire on stage, the temperature in the arena rises several degrees."
You GO, Finland! :)
Other reflections:
My favourites were (that is, who I voted for and YES I actually pay money to vote): Russia, Dima Bilan with "Never let you go" (ah! pretty pretty boy, and a nice pop song), Lattiva, Cosmos with "I hear your heart" (an accapella group, so I simply HAD to vote on a group that is actually musical, which isn't always the case embarassly enough), Armenia, Andre "Without your love" (nice rythm and another pretty boy, can it get any better?) and of course Finland, Lordi with "Hard Rock Halleluja" (what can I say? We all know his number and it's 666!)
Sweden was represented by Carola, who has entered the contest twice before. 1983 with "Främling" (which means "Stranger"), which was her big break through, and in 1991 with "Fångad av en stormvind" (which sort of means "captured by a storm"). In 1991 she won the whole thing. She is NOT a favourite of mine, she is quite controversial in Sweden. Carola is famous not only for her very strong voice, but also for her deeply (sometimes) fanatic religiousness. She has, for example, said that gays can be cured if we only pray hard enough for them. This she eventually took back, probably since someone wise had pointed out how HUGE ESC is in the gay community.
The hosts were, usual, not so interesting. The female co-host, Maria Menounos, was (I'm sure) a bit tipsy at the end of the show. She acted totally flimsy-wimsy while her male colleague, Sakis Rouvas, sort tried to cover up. A theme amongst the different representatives from the member countries (during the presentation of the voting) was that the color of the female hosts dresses were mostly red or black and that the male ones didn't dress up really. And of course they all complimented Greece on the spectacular show.
The female participants are, as usual, mostly tits and ass while the males are not. C'mon, you could've at least shown us some ass, man!
Some trivia for you ESC-ignorants out there:
The most used words by Eurovision fans in connection with the song contest are “Abba”, “Eurovision”, “Dana” and “Leandros” according to a study by the University of Leiden.
More women than men win the Eurovision Song Contest. On average, for every three or four women who win, only one man has won the contest.
Dialects and imaginary languages have surfaced again and again at Eurovision. In 1989 Switerzerland’s entry was sung in Romansch and Lithuania’s song “Strazdas" was sung in a west-Lithuanian dialect. In 1996 Austria attempted to win over voters with a song in another alpine dialect. France has also attempted to win with songs in Corsican and Breton and in 2003, Belgium came second with a song in an imaginary language.
Until now, the most covered Eurovision hit is “Volare”. Stars like Dean Martin, Al Martino, Marino Marini and David Bowie have all made cover versions of the song.
ESC ROCKS!
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