I had high expectations this year for the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens (Greece), because I knew that Finland would send Lordi. A (hard)rock band disguised as monsters. Already before the Eurovision Song Contest I downloaded the song, and I found it great! I knew immediately that they would win! Although I thought the song sounded less good live, but the performance was excellent! But of course that was not the only good song, Belgium (my home country) sent Kate Ryan, a quite well known singer (in Europe). But, unfortunately Belgium didn't pass the semi finals. Before the contest she was tipped as one of the favorites, but, like I said, she didn't pass the semi finals. In general this was a good Eurovision Song Contest. Most of the songs were quite good. And, according to me, Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" is one of the best Eurovision-entries ever.
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another top night
AndrewPhillips22 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Greece did a fantastic job of hosting this years eurovision song contest, the opening section was breathtaking, so well done, I've not seen it done better.
So what about the songs, well for about half an hour I was getting a little worried the quality was not very high, but never fear along came Germany with a country style song, and it wasn't bad. Then the middle section of the contest arrived and it was obvious that the winner would come from here. Russia produced their best song for a long time, Romania, the pre contest favourite was sung very well, a young man with a powerful voice. This was followed by Bosnia & Herzegovina, ethnic, melodic, and one of the best songs in the whole show and the best Bosnia have ever produced. Lithuania decided to go down the novelty route and came up with a great song. Our entry in the UK was OK Greece had a great song which I was surprised didn't do better. It was then time for the rock monsters of Finland who rocked and then rocked a bit more. The Ukraine came back to form, Ireland had managed to get through the semi and the song was well received. Finally the last song that was going to stand a chance was Sweden, having failed to automatically qualify for the final after last years poor showing they put everything into their entry this year, Carola, eurovision queen, thumping dance beat and flags how could it not do well, camper than something very camp.
The voting changed this year as we had 38 countries taking part it would have taken about a week to get through unless something was done. So points 1 to 7 were added to the scoreboard and the final three marks were read out. It quickly became obvious that this was going to be a three horse race, Russia, Bosnia and Finland. As it was Finland led the competition from the second country to vote and that's how it stayed, heavy metal wins the eurovision song contest, an interesting concept. There will be those die hard cheese fans who want it to be euro pop but I for one think it is healthy to get something different triumphing. Finland have one of the worse records in this contest and are deserving of the win, rock rules. My sister who is a rock chick and hates the contest even though she is forced by me to watch every year, is in seventh heaven and is at last looking forward to next year. As am I.
So what about the songs, well for about half an hour I was getting a little worried the quality was not very high, but never fear along came Germany with a country style song, and it wasn't bad. Then the middle section of the contest arrived and it was obvious that the winner would come from here. Russia produced their best song for a long time, Romania, the pre contest favourite was sung very well, a young man with a powerful voice. This was followed by Bosnia & Herzegovina, ethnic, melodic, and one of the best songs in the whole show and the best Bosnia have ever produced. Lithuania decided to go down the novelty route and came up with a great song. Our entry in the UK was OK Greece had a great song which I was surprised didn't do better. It was then time for the rock monsters of Finland who rocked and then rocked a bit more. The Ukraine came back to form, Ireland had managed to get through the semi and the song was well received. Finally the last song that was going to stand a chance was Sweden, having failed to automatically qualify for the final after last years poor showing they put everything into their entry this year, Carola, eurovision queen, thumping dance beat and flags how could it not do well, camper than something very camp.
The voting changed this year as we had 38 countries taking part it would have taken about a week to get through unless something was done. So points 1 to 7 were added to the scoreboard and the final three marks were read out. It quickly became obvious that this was going to be a three horse race, Russia, Bosnia and Finland. As it was Finland led the competition from the second country to vote and that's how it stayed, heavy metal wins the eurovision song contest, an interesting concept. There will be those die hard cheese fans who want it to be euro pop but I for one think it is healthy to get something different triumphing. Finland have one of the worse records in this contest and are deserving of the win, rock rules. My sister who is a rock chick and hates the contest even though she is forced by me to watch every year, is in seventh heaven and is at last looking forward to next year. As am I.
Waterloo
rbn_lrk-120 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Spoiler, some people clad as monsters from Finland won this song competition that takes place every spring.
Eurovision had many protest songs in the old days like Finland in 1980, but not as hard as this.
This year 2014 my country Denmark hosted the competition because we won last year.
To those who still reads it Eurovision is a big selection of songs that began to have a Semi Finale form 10 years ago because of more countries came in.
Back in 2006 there was modern Schlager from Sweden, a joke song that ended bad for Iceland, a tropical song from Monaco and much more.
Since then Monaco haven't been heard from again.
Our country tried to revive the 1950s and 1960s fever, but failed.
It's like a travel around Europe without moving.
From youthful pop songs, and modern music blend with Eastern sounds.
Go see this on Youtube.
10/10
Eurovision had many protest songs in the old days like Finland in 1980, but not as hard as this.
This year 2014 my country Denmark hosted the competition because we won last year.
To those who still reads it Eurovision is a big selection of songs that began to have a Semi Finale form 10 years ago because of more countries came in.
Back in 2006 there was modern Schlager from Sweden, a joke song that ended bad for Iceland, a tropical song from Monaco and much more.
Since then Monaco haven't been heard from again.
Our country tried to revive the 1950s and 1960s fever, but failed.
It's like a travel around Europe without moving.
From youthful pop songs, and modern music blend with Eastern sounds.
Go see this on Youtube.
10/10
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