Eurovision 2008!

[haarewin]

armenia, sweden and ukraine had fantastic songs, and sweden deserved a LOT more points than they got. i didn't like greece's song.
russias song wasn't good enough to win imo.

UK do not deserve to win if they keep putting through shit acts!(or dustbin men!) terry wogan's fault that andy abraham even got through to the public vote. people in the UK treat it as a joke because of terry wogans commentary.
the last time we put through a good act, we won. katrina and the waves. since then we've had nothing but shit.

i'd love for the big 4 (UK, france, spain, germany) countries to pull their funding and see how the eastern bloc cope then

edit: i forgot to say that the latvian pirate entry was fucking ace.
youtube

 

[Yrendan]

Greece should have won without a doubt, the best song by far. Political voting is ridiculous, I'd bet Russia's influence over some Eastern European countries hasn't diminished, even after the fall of the Soviet Union.

why i think i know this guy from a .gr forum...
In my uni forum was a guy who used to flame insult and make fake accs all the time just like dorimor

 

[Lethul]

YouTube - FRANCE EUROVISION 2008 SEBASTIEN TELLIER Divine
[youtubevid]ZoJqO1bzrCg[/youtubevid]

winner imo!

 

[noblok]

winner imo!

Just a shame the live performance was nowhere near as good as it sounds in that video. The start is just terrible.

YouTube - France Eurovision 2008 Sebastien Tellier - Divine
[youtubevid]MZBjUwcdZpM[/youtubevid]

 

[Lethul]

Just a shame the live performance was nowhere near as good as it sounds in that video. The start is just terrible.

YouTube - France Eurovision 2008 Sebastien Tellier - Divine
[youtubevid]MZBjUwcdZpM[/youtubevid]

Ye, wtf did they have girls there for?

 

[Maeloch]

Ah the spanish one rocked, easy the best song in whole competion. Some beardo wierdo in elvis wig rapping away in gibberish, what's not to like.

It is just a bit of fun although, although I'll tell you who really won the song contest - it was Stalin.

All those easten bloc countries like the Baltics voted for the russians, not because they love the russians but due to soviet era ethnic cleansing and 'russification' which involved sending all the locals off to siberian and transplanting huge amounts of ethinic russians to these countries. Upshot being they have huge blocks of russians in the countries which make up about 30% of the population which regard themselves as russian and ofc will vote for russia.

Bit like the UK having all the commonweath voting for it or someshit.

 

[Levin]

Ah the spanish one rocked, easy the best song in whole competion. Some beardo wierdo in elvis wig rapping away in gibberish, what's not to like.

It is just a bit of fun although, although I'll tell you who really won the song contest - it was Stalin.

All those easten bloc countries like the Baltics voted for the russians, not because they love the russians but due to soviet era ethnic cleansing and 'russification' which involved sending all the locals off to siberian and transplanting huge amounts of ethinic russians to these countries. Upshot being they have huge blocks of russians in the countries which make up about 30% of the population which regard themselves as russian and ofc will vote for russia.

Bit like the UK having all the commonweath voting for it or someshit.

So true.

 

[Lethul]

YouTube - Swedish announcer in Eurovision, drunk?
[youtubevid]BBkQVd5ajNc[/youtubevid]

 

[Olgaline]

lol

 

[Lamp]

They should do an all-women Eurovision Snog Competition

 

[pikeh]

They should do an all-women Eurovision Snog Competition

Can we not have Terry commentating on that please?

 

[Aoami]

the reason we did crap is because we never submit eurovision style songs. people who watch and vote in eurovision don't care about ballads, it's all about wierd dance and shit. Anyway, France should've won because Sebestian Tellier is a hero.

 

[Vasconcelos]

Spain's was a joke invented by a popular TV show from a private channel.
Eurovision 2008 itself is a joke so they decided to make some fun of it and invented that stupid song with ugly and clumsy dancers (also kind of a joke of that hell_in_earth music style called Reaggeton, God! my ears bleed everytime i get to hear that music).
The funny thing is that this year, Spaniard contestant was elected by popular choice via Internet - SMS poll. And so, by that time, the joke had become so popular that it won the national contest hand down.

Shame we didnt get to see the Irish representation. It was hilarious too

 

[Vasconcelos]

i'd love for the big 4 (UK, france, spain, germany) countries to pull their funding and see how the eastern bloc cope then

You just hit the nail on the coffin :worthy:

Italy and Austria already done that. They refused to participate this year because the contest have become a bag of shit since the Eastern countries joined (NO OFFENSE TO EASTERN COUNTRIES).

 

[Mikah75]

i quite liked the ukraine song rest were pretty poo, pirate one made me laugh though
me and some friends went to cornwall for the weekend stayed in a static caravan near bude and played eurovision drinking game before we went out
1-4 points 3fingers cider
5-9 points 3 fingers wine
10 points shot of sambuca
12 points shot of vodka

i pulled finland out of hat so was chugging all night, but my poor friend was ukraine haha i only got one vodka shot i think luckily, she was on them all night.

 

[kiliarien]

Leave this competition to the emerging nations imo, nobody who seriously cares about music gives a hapenny's worth of jizz as the competition stands.

What is very silly is where in the hell are the boundaries drawn for participants?? Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan - that's as easterly as Syria and Iraq for fuck's sake. I'm not saying those countries shouldn't be allowed in, just what the hell, let's let everyone in.

I'm looking forward to Zimbabwe's entry - imagine some of the crazy shit Africa would come up with.

Back on topic: dunno which country it was, but the Pirate song should have won, PIRATES FTW!! ARRRRRRRRR!!

 

[Overdriven]

Firstly, Latvia doesn't have an ocean. Therefore, pirates?
Secondly... EL CHIKI CHIKI.

 

[kiliarien]

Firstly, Latvia doesn't have an ocean. Therefore, pirates?
Secondly... EL CHIKI CHIKI.

It's the pirate spirit that matters, not whether you're landlocked for those out there. Just get old Redbeard Rum on the case

YouTube - Blackadder - S02E03 - Potato(2/4)
[youtubevid]YgML3MMi63k[/youtubevid] (watch the whole show if you haven't already!)

That said, last time I checked Latvia was a coastal nation

 

[pikeh]

"You have a womans purse, mi'lord!"

classic.