Eurovision 2005
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jawnbcSo which one of these do you think is a contender? You'll need Real Player to hear 'em . . .
1. Andorra La Mirada Interior, Marian de Wal (yeah, she'd Dutch,singing in Catalan, for Andorra. Don't ask such complicated questions!)
2. Malta, Angel, Chiara (who finished a very close 3rd at the 1998 Eurovision with "The One That I Love")
3. Albania, Nesër Do Të Shkoj, by Ledina Çelo. Remember last year Albania almost pulled a Edyta by finishing 7th in their very first try)
4. Slovenia, Stop, Omar Naber. Slovenia's best showing remains Sestre, 2002's drag queentrolley dollies air hostesses
5. Cyprus, Ela, ela (come baby), Constantinos
To me, only one registers at all....Chiara's Angel. And since we already know she can sing live, plus they're directly in the final, I'm predicting top 3.
1. Andorra La Mirada Interior, Marian de Wal (yeah, she'd Dutch,singing in Catalan, for Andorra. Don't ask such complicated questions!)
2. Malta, Angel, Chiara (who finished a very close 3rd at the 1998 Eurovision with "The One That I Love")
3. Albania, Nesër Do Të Shkoj, by Ledina Çelo. Remember last year Albania almost pulled a Edyta by finishing 7th in their very first try)
4. Slovenia, Stop, Omar Naber. Slovenia's best showing remains Sestre, 2002's drag queen
5. Cyprus, Ela, ela (come baby), Constantinos
To me, only one registers at all....Chiara's Angel. And since we already know she can sing live, plus they're directly in the final, I'm predicting top 3.
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Date: 2005-02-21 06:41 am (UTC)Fer the love of all that tis holy....
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 07:22 am (UTC)Eurovision is so dangerous.
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Date: 2005-02-21 07:32 am (UTC)I am now complete.
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Date: 2005-02-21 04:15 pm (UTC)Goodness...
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Date: 2005-02-21 08:09 am (UTC)It won't win, of course. But it is a decided improvement over last year*
You get a bit of the Mediterranean feel in the Cypriot entry too, but it's a little more generic. The Andorran entry is nice, but not much more. Interesting that it doesn't really sound as though she's singing phonetically, but then I don't speak Catalan so what do I know? The poor Slovenian guy sounds like he's having trouble faking interest in the song he's forced to sing. As we all know, that never happened before!
As for the Maltese entry...pure saccharine. Please let this not win! I was going to say that this would jinx it and make sure it would win, but these days, it seems any song I have feelings for positive or negative is fated not to win. Nicki French's ironically titled "Don't Play That Song Again"? Hated it with a passion. Didn't come within throwing distance of the winner's circle. Most of the winners these days tend to be songs I have no strong feelings for positive or negative. I couldn't hum "I Wanna" or "Everybody" if you paid me money, and I found the videos to "Every Way That I Can" and "Wild Dances" far more memorable than the songs that accompanied them.
Using that logic, "La Mirada Interior" is the clear winner here.
*where I'm convinced their top-ten finish in 2004 was due to the "Let's be nice to the new kids" vote. Sort of like Cyprus' sixth-place finish in their first year (helped along by Greece's twelve, a bit overgenerous for what's basically an "Eres tú" imitation).
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Date: 2005-02-21 10:00 am (UTC)The Slovenian guy probably knows that Eurovision is mostly a Slovene-pop-shtar slaughterfest. Probably he wanted to win the selection and then withdraw.
I'm still down with Malta: they've been among the most consistent countries of the last decade, have never won, and this might well be the year of the ballad. One's not won since Rock and Roll Kids in 94--assuming you don't count Nocturne as a ballad--I don't.
I don't agree about I Wanna, in fact I think it's a lame, lame song--the worst winner ever. Oh except for Diggy Loo Diggy Lay. But Everybody is my "song I didn't get for a long time"--but I now love it. It's a great uptempo dance-pop nonsense-track ("I guess this is party time!"). It makes me do happydance!
BTW Cyprus 2004 was our wedding song. Please take your Lisa Andreas bashing elsewhere. But, just for the record, the ESC composers Union (all living composers who've had a song in an ESC final) voted it best song last year. Not just this day, but . . .
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 10:03 pm (UTC)Well Dutch ESC singers often are robotically precise--in singing, in movement--that might be part of it.
But I agree, it's a lovely language.
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:40 am (UTC)http://www.rtvasa.ad/Eurovisio/eurovisio_05.htm
and click on 'VideoClips'
Scary!! She is such an awful singer!
If you browse around the website of RTVA they even have 2 hours videos of the seleccion of the song. KEWL!
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:56 am (UTC)BTW O-Zone broke up, leaving Moldova fooked for their first ESC entry . . .
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Date: 2005-02-21 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 09:54 am (UTC)It does the same thing with moods: for months I was perplexed . . .
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Date: 2005-02-21 10:44 am (UTC)Am I the only one that finda "Ela ela" to ... I don't know, DRAG?
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Date: 2005-02-21 10:59 am (UTC)Opa!
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Date: 2005-02-21 08:10 pm (UTC)