For crying out loud! - Part 4

Well, the finals of the Eurosong competition are over. I stayed up last night all the way to the end, contributing my fair share of votes, of course, so I decided to write one final word on the subject today.

Once again I must say: Belgrade, absolutely brilliant organization! The scenery, the hosts, the way things were going,... Immaculate!! Well done!!

And now back to the singers. I haven't changed my opinion since my last post. In fact, I have a few more remarks to make. The guy who came on stage in a glofcart? The toy-pink-guitar guy?! Too much is too much!! And Russia winning? If you ask me, it wasn't for the song, but for the "co-actors" Plushenko and the violin player. Europeans, you forgot the point of Eurosong -you're supposed to vote for the songs, not the theatrical show...

Well, unfortunately my favourites, Mor ve Ötesi, ended up 7th. My votes didn't help much... Let's hope for a 1st place next year!!! :-)

For crying out loud! - Part 3

Soon after I started writing my blog, I wrote 2 articles about the Eurosong competition (that was the year the Finnish group Lordi won). Well, 2 years have passed since then and, after thinking long and hard whether to "indulge" myself in writing on this subject once more or not, I decided that I simply have to get it out of my system - again!

I watched both "pre-finals" and I would like to begin with something positive. I must say that the organization in Belgrade was absolutey amazing! The scenery was beautiful - I especially liked the glass stage - and everything went smoothly. Well done, Belgrade!

What scared me half to death were the singers! Already in my 2006 article I talked about the horrors of having to watch terrible correographies and listen to bad songs and screaming singers. Well, 2 years have passed since then and, let me tell you, the whole thig has become even worse. Pirates and chickens on stage?! Come on!! Is this a singing competition or a bad theatre?! There was only a handful of real professionals - the rest was the kind of material you find in the lowest nightclubs (those without any audience in them!). If it was up to me, only 6 countries would qualify for the finals: Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Slovenia and - since I'm a huge rock fan - my favourite of all, Turkey! Now, those are professionals!! Immaculate performance, professional singers with good voices, and nobody was making a clown of themselves on the stage! Only 4 of them got into the finals, though (Slovenia and Hungary are out), so let's wait until tomorrow, when the big night comes! Let's not forget what the point of this competition is (EuroSONG!) and vote with that in our minds!

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Taken on 1st May 2008.

Also posted on my Flickr site.