As we expected:
Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia voted for Serbia
Belarus voted for Russia
Ukraine and Russia voted for Belarus
Denmark and Norway voted for Sweden; Sweden returned the favor for Finland
Greece voted for anyone other than Turkey, but Germany voted for Turkey
Turkey voted for anyone other than Greece, but Cyprus voted for Greece
I'm still not convinced that Moldova is a country.
The Swiss commentators only mentioned DJ Bobo four times, as far as I heard, which is about 20 times less than I was expecting.
And, in the end, the winner is Serbia. I was hoping that the Ukraine would pull through in the end (the Serbian song was boring almost beyond imagination) but it was not to be...
See you next year...
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Oh my goodness. That Yassou Maria video was a scream. There's a boy who's unashamed and a boyband unto himself! Love the Aphrodite-Cleopatra smarminess and the little Greek ukelele bridge with his wannabe fancy footwork...
I can tell I would be hooked on Eurovision if I lived over there... oh it's so unfair.
At least none of the Stans won!
Have mercy on the Romanians... more on that some other time. But are you sure they weren't Romanian Jews with music like that???
anyway. I'm homesick for Europe in all its glory... even the chintzy glory.
I only wish you could have seen him live. I'll keep looking and see if I can find a clip, but the performance was, as you say, absolutely without shame. Which was a shame, but one that we can all benefit from...
The Eurovision bloc-voting is a good argument for independence for Scotland. And Wales. And Cornwall. And the Isle of Wight. Heck, Northumberland could probably get in there as well - they have Celtic heritage and end in "land", which ought really to be enough. And Yorkshire, of course. Then all the various bits of the formerly United Kingdom could give each other points like the Yugoslavians do and then we'd be in the top half by default.
Meanwhile we'll just have to make songs that sound like "Carry On Baggage Handling", which keeps us entertained, if no-one else.
You'll be happy (though understandably confused) to know that I voted for England. Of course, I meant to vote for Greece but got confused because Richard was going to vote for England so I had their number (19) in my head when I sent the SMS.
And since we're ALL thinking it, I may as well be the one to say it...
That brings us to another curious divergence between English and Canadian (and even US) grammar: when a British announcer is talking about a team (like the UK ladies' softball, team, let's say), he will use the plural, as in "England are in the final for the first time in 42 years". A Canadian commentator, though, would refer to the team as an entity, and use the singular form of the verb, as in "Canada is poised to bring down a grossly under-prepared English squad".
And, if anyone is still reading, I will say that the UK song this year is a long ways away what they had on tap for the last two. Who knows - a little more progress, a couple more independent states and you may have a contender on your hands...
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