Eurovision makes me feel good about being European...more so last Saturday because we actually came 5th! Woop go Jade! Does this spell the end for political bloc voting then...?
Mmm....not quite! This year, 50% of the vote went to professional 'music people' and although it didn't get rid of all political voting, Eurovision became a singing contest once more! Kinda :)
I felt that last Saturday was a case of traditions continued and traditions discontinued....
Traditions continued included:
- key changes, jumping and fireworks
- satirical commentary (I thought Wogan would be sorely missed but Norton did the job admirably)
- intro videos before each song which doesn't seem to relate to much
Traditions discontinued included:
- camp songs/performances
- bloc voting (nearly!)
- nil points (no country got this accolade!?)
- bad songs
On the latter point, I honestly thought all the songs were pretty good. We had a Eurovision party in one of the two flats that had a tv and we all agreed that the results were generally correct. I liked all the top 5 (though I thought we should have beaten Turkey to claim the 4th spot...).
I especially can't get Norway's or Iceland's songs out of my head but as the former won, I'll only post up his link....what an *awesome* song:
Alexander Rybak with "Fairytale"
I'm going to add it to my list of "songs to play when I can play the violin". Pure Eurovision! No wonder it broke the record for number of points with 387 points!
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