Eurovision

[elisi]

We are at the cinema watching live! :)

So no live blogging this year... but hoping for a good show!

ETA: There is an advert for a show called 'I Kissed A Boy' which might be the gayest thing I have ever seen.

Also a lady has handed out Union Jacks, as she had plenty extra.

ETA2: This was SUCH a good idea. Eurovision should always be watched on a big screen.

Comments

[kerk_hiraeth]

I have both semi's & the final so, should I want to I can watch them.

My feeling is; think I mentioned this last year, that 26 in the final is far too many.

There's no reason why there can't be three semi-finals, or qualifiers.

You can still have the five big contributors pre-qualify, as well as the previous winners. Should that be one of the big five you can check the votes and have the next best entry out the non-qualifiers; top five from each qualifier, to make a total of 21.

Much more manageable, and you needn't have them all in the host country. Have them in three venues, with a week of events in the host country leading up to the final.

I will go through each of the entries; some of whom have non-eurovision promos for single releases, and get them in some kind of order.

A couple of the songs grew on me as I listened to them again, but the top four pretty much remained the top four through the whole process, though Norway & France gained on Estonia which itself gained so much I broke my rule for the first time and awarded them and Spain six points.

Really not too interested in all the extraneous stuff; much too much fun to go over the actual entries and have them jostle for position in my head.

Actually I was disappointed that in the semi Alika, for Estonia, wasn't playing the piano herself; was played remotely. I thought that really weakened the entry.

I recall last year; Cyprus I think it was, one song had a poor semi-final performance and a good song failed to qualify.

Never had time to put together any Eurovision posts this year, but I can hopefully do something next weekend. I do want to do some posts about all the previous contests anyway.

kerk

[elisi]

You can still have the five big contributors pre-qualify, as well as the previous winners. Should that be one of the big five you can check the votes and have the next best entry out the non-qualifiers; top five from each qualifier, to make a total of 21.
That sounds like a sensible compromise.

A couple of the songs grew on me as I listened to them again, but the top four pretty much remained the top four through the whole process, though Norway & France gained on Estonia which itself gained so much I broke my rule for the first time and awarded them and Spain six points.
Hear hear. Norway was just so much fun! And the singer was delightful.

Never had time to put together any Eurovision posts this year, but I can hopefully do something next weekend. I do want to do some posts about all the previous contests anyway.
I shall definitely point people your way!