Iommi + Eurovision

I thought Bonnie Tyler's song deserved more than it got, but I do think Denmark's deserved to win.

Wasn't actually that bad a set of songs this year, haven't seen it for a long time but I remember it being a lot more cringeworthy. Gone are the times that it was the best your country had to offer and it would actually be a career boost, now it seems to be a sort of death sentence for your career, or a new artist starting out.
 
Vap said:
No. Most countries just send the most ridiculous artist they can find and see what happens.
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Like when Finland sent Lordi... and won lol. It is entertaining, but not for the intended reasons. I HATE all the ABBA rip-offs, which are too prevalent throughout the continent, but other than that, there is always a nice surprise here and there.
 
So, I hear every country that didn't win (which is bullshit. It should be the artist winning. The country didn't do anything.) whines about not winning, and the votes were fixed and political. To those who watch, is this true?
 
Our country didn't whine that much. The Dutch artists from the past did very bad in the last 10 or more years and a ninth place was actually great progress. Still people say that Anouk deserved to end up higher because she sang so well (and professional compared to many other contestants).

I saw that lots of neighbouring countries -esp. in the east and Mediterranean- gave votes to each other.
But Holland gave Belgium 12 votes and Belgium gave us 12 votes. :)

Still there was a huge European unanimity about the three best countries. I didn't agree with it because I had other favourites, but it clearly showed that there was big agreement throughout who Europe, who should win.
 
I did watch part of it actually, and I can really only say that this sort of shallow, empty entertainment is the reason why I listen to heavy metal music.
 
OK Per, check this out. Ugly and too ridiculous for words!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22609523

Russia's foreign minister has called Azerbaijan's failure to award any points to Russia's entry in the Eurovision song contest "outrageous".

Sergei Lavrov said the points had been "stolen" from Russia's Dina Garipova and "this outrageous action will not remain without a response".

Azerbaijan says it cannot explain how it awarded no points to Russia, when Garipova came second in its phone poll.

Russian voters awarded the maximum 12 points to Azerbaijan's Farid Mammadov.

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has ordered an inquiry into how its votes for Russia apparently went missing.

And the country's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, sitting next to Mr Lavrov at a press conference in Moscow, called it a "detective story".

He said records from all three of Azerbaijan's mobile phone operators show that Azeris awarded Ukraine's entry the most votes, followed by Russia's.

"Where did the votes go? How did they disappear? This, of course, is a question for our public television," he said.

National jury
Mr Lavrov said he and his counterpart had agreed they should take a "unified course of action" once the reasons for the discrepancy became clear.

A spokesman for the European Broadcasting Union, which runs the competition, said the phone vote was not definitive. A national jury in each country also contributes 50% of the final decision, the Associated Press reports.

Despite the high-level political interest, 10 points for second place from Azerbaijan would not have made any difference to Garipova's fifth place, since she finished 17 points behind Norway.

Azerbaijan, which hosted last year's contest, has traditionally tried to maintain good relations with Moscow though there have been tensions over energy in the past.

Meanwhile, the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has weighed in with his own accusations. Suspicious that the Belarusian singer did not receive a single point from Russia, he has claimed that the final was falsified.
 
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