Hahahahaha, I didn't even remember the song until she started singing. That shit left a strong memory.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen |OT| The Queen of Europe rises
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Hahahahaha, I didn't even remember the song until she started singing. That shit left a strong memory.
Mavromatis
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Wish Cyprus wasn't out, we need more of this in this contest:La La Love
Anyway, I was expecting a song with a drop this year to win but apparently nobody got one. With many ears accustomed to that nowadays it would be an easy win.
Thanks, even singing in English was too much for the conservatives. But we didn't understand that there isn't a winning formula that we can apply to every year. And the music taste changes. Sertab had a good ear on the global music, most of her albums contains snippets from all over the world.
Anyway, I was expecting a song with a drop this year to win but apparently nobody got one. With many ears accustomed to that nowadays it would be an easy win.
Jimmyfenix
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Wait until Scotland go independent. We will show you guys what the uk was missing!
Looking through the results, Poland really would have done quite a bit better without the juries. Austrian televotes had them at #3, the jury at #24.
Can you see the total results split by jury and televotes somewhere? I only found them per country.
Edit: #3 to #15 in France.
Can you see the total results split by jury and televotes somewhere? I only found them per country.
Edit: #3 to #15 in France.
That's even worse. Numbers confuse me
ReplacementPelican
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Where are all the Poland gifs? I am disappoint.
They'll have to go through the qualifying like all the other plebs! [/union blackmail]
Red Arremer
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Thanks based juries.
Mavromatis
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I liked the French song, somehow I found that it was the only song that has a story to tell, or I only listen to French and zone out when they sing in English.
Je veux une moustache!
Not when they start throwing all their oil money around (i'd love to see teenage fanclub or mogwai representing scotland)
Brb producing some butter.
Well THAT says a lot.
Mavromatis
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Been in Poland and I can say that their plea is rightful.
http://puu.sh/8HlWG.webm
http://puu.sh/8HlY4.webm
http://puu.sh/8HlZH.webm
SecretMoblin
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yikes, and it was the juries that were supposed to be the non-political actors
It will be The Proclaimers.
They mostly aren't. Another one that's probably highly politically motivated: In Estonia Russia placed #2 in televotes, but #24 with the jury.
Austria may have won the voting, but we know what our hearts say.
Mavromatis
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Checking the twitter trending topics, apparently Eurovision is now over, but not the French loss. Poor France is still trending. But France is too deep in Eurovision now, I don't think they'll exit it and give away the famous douze points, or the chance to speak in French for half a minute to Europe and make them remember that they exist.
I wonder if they are thinking, like the British who want Adele to go to Eurovision, to send Daft Punk to grab it.
I wonder if they are thinking, like the British who want Adele to go to Eurovision, to send Daft Punk to grab it.
Okay, after looking through all the "per country" results, I'd say Poland lost by far the most points because of the jury votes. Looks like they could have easily been in the top 5 otherwise. Armenia also lost quite a few points. To a lesser extent Russia and Austria also suffered.
Remember that moment when you first recorded yourself singing and then listening to the recording you realized you are utterly shit at singing?
This is worse, way worse.
Royal_Flush
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Why is everyone hating on the polish song At least it was not the exchangeable pop most other counties did...
At least it was not the exchangeable pop most other counties did...Red Arremer
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Why is everyone hating on the polish song
Musically speaking, it was pretty bad, and the performance was blatantly "masking" that with boobs, boobs, boobs and some more boobs. The images on the background screens literally were shots of cleavage.
Mavromatis
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Why is everyone hating on the polish song
I think Polish song was the Babushka of this year. There is only two possible explanation for its failure:
- Boobs doesn't attract the same attention with grannies.
- The song was really bad.
SecretMoblin
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I'm glad they have previous telecasts up on the site still
As a Brazilian who lived a few years in Europe but ended up returning to my own country, I still love watching Eurovision every year. Not every song is great, but the effort put into making it a fun show is tremendous, and I can only wish stuff like that happened for other continents too.
Enjoyed 2014 quite a bit, and was happy to see Conchita win. Thought it was a good theme, reminiscent of Bond ones as some people have pointed out, and all in all he seemed to be pretty into it as well. Vocals totally delivered there. Wasn't too big a fan of Netherlands' entry myself, not quite my cup of tea in terms of music, but enjoyed Ukraine, Switzerland, Russia and Sweden quite a bit, as well. Oh, and Poland, though not necessarily because of the music... haha.
Only thing that left me a bit sad was all the booing that went on for the Russian girls. I certainly get the tough spot Russia's in right now, but to be fair doing it every time came off as a bit off a disrespect towards two young girls who most likely have little to do with everything going on at Ukraine.
Anyhow, looking forward to Austria 2015 already. If I've got one wish is for them to nail production like the danish people did -- it was easily my favourite stage since the 2009 ESC in Russia.
Enjoyed 2014 quite a bit, and was happy to see Conchita win. Thought it was a good theme, reminiscent of Bond ones as some people have pointed out, and all in all he seemed to be pretty into it as well. Vocals totally delivered there. Wasn't too big a fan of Netherlands' entry myself, not quite my cup of tea in terms of music, but enjoyed Ukraine, Switzerland, Russia and Sweden quite a bit, as well. Oh, and Poland, though not necessarily because of the music... haha.
Only thing that left me a bit sad was all the booing that went on for the Russian girls. I certainly get the tough spot Russia's in right now, but to be fair doing it every time came off as a bit off a disrespect towards two young girls who most likely have little to do with everything going on at Ukraine.
Anyhow, looking forward to Austria 2015 already. If I've got one wish is for them to nail production like the danish people did -- it was easily my favourite stage since the 2009 ESC in Russia.
Mavromatis
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I think Tolmachevy twins should have been gotten a bit more attention since they are winners of Junior Eurovision, implying both that Junior Eurovision exists and matters, and also there is some progression. Too bad they were taken as a Tatu replacement.
PotionBleue
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Here's a video that shows when people booed at Russia.
I'm pretty sure it happened at several other points but got covered by fake claps.
I believe last year, or the years before in general, it only happened when Greece gave 12 points to Cyprus and the other way around.
I'm pretty sure it happened at several other points but got covered by fake claps.
I believe last year, or the years before in general, it only happened when Greece gave 12 points to Cyprus and the other way around.
Auron_Kale
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Heard the great news from my friend about Austria winning.
Well deserved and now I need to find a clip of her performance once home...
Well deserved and now I need to find a clip of her performance once home...
ReplacementPelican
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I don't think they win, nor would Adele. I guess high-profile acts don't want the risk of not winning.
SecretMoblin
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cascada did ~terribly~, don't forget
s_mirage
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You still have to have a decent song to go along with a name. Cascada's entry was ok but sounded like a clone of Euphoria from the year before. Looking like they were ripping off the previous winner hurt them badly.
Probably worth posting Emmelie de Forest's newer song, people at the venue were more hyped about this than anything else;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XRvsi-qJEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XRvsi-qJEo
PK Strawstorm
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30 year old American here. I loved France, after going into the performance thinking I was going to hate them. That's the kind of bizarre stuff I watch Eurovision for. The ballads and techno numbers tend to disappear out of my brain almost as soon as they're over. Good singing, but most of the songs are completely forgettable with even more forgettable lyrics. RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results
Looks like we were ditched by juries and even televoting did not do any good
SteveWinwood
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http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results
Looks like we were ditched by juries and even televoting did not do any good
Some of this jury stuff just rubs me the wrong way. Norway for instance, the first voted for song through the telephone only got one point because the juries hated it.
Who gives a shit what the juries have to say?
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