The Eurovision Song Contest 2007
Thoughts and comments afterwards...

This is a more lighthearted look than the comments following the contest review.

Best and worst...

Best dressed: Serbia, followed by Georgia.

Worst dressed: Pretty much a dead heat between Denmark, Austria, France and Ukraine - the pictures say all that needs to be said...

Most bizarre costume: Albania - check that dress....

Best performance on both nights: The winners, Serbia...

And the worst overall performance(s): Belgium!

But there were numourous runners-up!

Cutest...

Cutest females: The Russian girls...

Cutest male: As before, this isn't really a category I feel comfortable picking... and it is even worse this year as none of the male performers really stand out as 'cute'. We've a drama queen, Bobo, a few boyband clones... Nothing I'd describe as 'classy' (which isn't necessarily 'cute', but it helps), so we'll just have to revert to choosing somebody "most like that one from Busted"...

Who I'd most like to have a date with...: I'm tempted to say the dark-haired Russian girl, but I suspect that sort of thing could get me arrested. So I'll choose the Irish singer, Cathy. I even have a pet name she can call me - eejit. ☺

I'd also like to know the name of...: Svante's Little Helper.

And the award for...

The missed opportunity award goes to...: Poland, she'd have won a place in the final with better material.

The funniest song of the contest award goes to...: Switzerland.

The song-that-you-just-can't-get-out-of-your-head award goes to...: Cyprus - "Comme si, comme ça"; closely followed by Finland - "Leave me alone".
Sorry, but it helps (me) to have the words in a language I know. I couldn't read the Serbian entry, never mind attempt to say it...

The most dramatic performance award goes to...: Slovenia, no question.

The she's a sweetheart really... award goes to...: Finland.

The projectile vomiting at the television award goes to...: France, oh my God, those colours! It's like drowning in cheap raspberry yoghurt!
This, additionally, may be a strong contender for "the most misunderstood" award.

The dodgy lyrics award goes to...: Russia - I'll take your money, yummy! I've got my bitches standing next to me. (yes, seriously!)

The cheesiest performance award goes to...: Now you'd expect Eurovision to excel in cheesy performances. Amazingly this year there were not many. We had more a problem of aging rockers and cloned boybands.
However, for cheese, the UK must win it - the singing wasn't much cop, but they managed to redefine, reinvent, and reinvigorate what it means to be cheesy. Cheddar, Red Leicester, Camembert, Wensleydale, Compté, Jarlsberg, Brie, Ossau Iraty, Edam... take your pick!

The most enduring song

I recorded the songs I like into the computer, created MP3s, and downloaded them to my little MP3 player. The song with the most longevity - in other words one I'm not likely to delete after a week of hearing it - is a tie between Molitva - the Serbian entry, and Leave me alone - the Finnish entry.

Mmm, just a teeny-tiny thing... I thought the Serbs wrote in Cyrillic? Or is it a transition area where both alphabets are in use? What would Molitva be in Cyrillic? Молитва?

The nice-but award goes to Unsubstantial Blues - Hungary. It is a nice song, but I think you'd have to be in a pretty bad place to want to listen to that for more than a few days; it isn't exactly a happy feelgood number, is it?

You'll notice there is no 'MP3' tag beside this song. I recorded it from the semi-final, and deleted it by the time the final came around. Sorry, I'm just not depressed enough. ☺

Good guys come last

Ireland. Poor sweet Cathy... Oh dear.
Okay, granted, it starts off being about the song contest and togetherness and veers into trampling every living thing but can't stop the Spring... but it was a nice song. It was certainly a better song than some.
Perhaps with the strong Eastern European showing, the more traditional aspects of Irish music are not understood? If I remember, they didn't fare well in 2005, and Brain's classy performance in 2006 only won them a 10th place spot, after the likes of LT United.

I'm not the slightest bit surprised to see the United Kingdom flunk. It seemed to be a cheesy sort of Eurovision number, but lined up against the quality of this year's entries, it ranks about the same as the yucky-coloured weirdness from France; which incidentally came joint second-to-last (if I can read the scorecard correctly, they are both 19, yes?).

Lordi's encore

From BBC interactive, entertainment news (p501) on 2007/06/04:

Lordi film 'gets state funding'
A horror film by 2006 Eurovision Song Contest winners Lordi has received 300,000 euros (£2000,000) funding from the Finnish government, reports say.
Dark Floors, which will feature the rock band's four members, is being shot in Finland at a cost of 4.2m euros (£2.84m), according to Screen Daily.
The film, which features a largely Finnish cast, will premiere in the country on 8 February. Lordi recently introduced the film at the Cannes Film Festival.

They might also get some milage from the possessed-cheerleader thing in the video for their single "Hard Rock Hallelujah". You know - it's up to the ignored girl to try to figure out how to save the day... while figuring out if she actually wants to bother saving that lot...

Now hear this!

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I look forward to hearing from you.

And finally...

Chart Show TV (channel #355) do a programme called MinX on demand where you can vote for female artists you'd like to see. Last night (2007/05/16), they played that infamous song of Tatu - All the things she said. Pure coincidence, or a bit of Eurovisual influence?

Other people's thoughts (from interactive)

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