1. Bosnia
2. Hungary
3. Greece
4. Romania
5. Cyprus
6. Latvia
7. Norway
8. Malta
9. Spain
10. United Kingdom
11. France
12. Denmark
13. Moldova
14. Russia
15. Ukraine
16. Sweden
17. Switzerland
18. Germany
19. Turkey
20. Croatia
21. Serbia & Montenegro
22. FYR Macedonia
23. Israel
24. Albania
Felt I may as well write in this forum, as there are now more far important matters in Eurovision than petting forum squabbling.
ESC 1956-2005
As a devgreat fan of eurovision, I can't believe i'm saying this, but last night I saw the death of Eurovision. Great songs like Austria, Netherlands, Iceland and Belarus not making it through to the final, but dross like Croatia, Latvia and FYROM making it through was disgusting. Political voting is not even funny anymore as pure crap is making it through to the final at the expense of actual good entries. I hope those that 'voted for their neighbour' last night are sufficiently appauled at themselves for runing the contest like this.
I for one am shocked with the results of the semi final round.
Macedonia!!!! - What the hell were the voters on watching this! It's a silly song, and it's only saving grace is the looks of the performer.
Modolva, I expected, the same with Switzerland who put on a really good show Romania, Norway, Croatia, Hungary were well performed and well deserved finalists, but Denmark - too cheesy for my liking, Latvia average at best, but I am estatic Israel are through, Shiri performed and sang the song brilliantly, and I for one hope she gets a Top 5 finish.
Shame about Ireland...I really though they'd make it, Belarus and Netherlands deserved to go through as well, but I have to say the standard this year is quite poor song-wise.
My rank of the semi-final songs top ten from last night (Out of 15, in three categories: Performance, looks and song):
1. Israel 15
2. Belarus 13
3. Netherlands 13
4. Hungary 12
5. Iceland 12
6. Switzerland 12
7. Rumania 11
8. Monaco 10
9. Croatia 10 (looks were it's high mark 5/5 )
10.Ireland 9
11. Andorra 9
12. Finland 9
bottom were Denmark and Moldova with 4pts. Norway was 14th, but won more marks for it's performance. Also, what is it with Balkan men, Croatia, Slovenia and FYR Macedonia's performers were all nice looking Also the Serbian boyband are quite hot too!
The following made it through (somewhat debatably given recent events) to the final;
Hungary
Romania
Norway
Israel
Latvia (how??!!)
FYR Macedonia (how??!!)
Croatia (or maybe they didn't!!)
Switzerland
Moldova (again, how??!!)
Denmark
Netherlands, Iceland, Belarus and Ireland all fell victim to the cull. God knows how this happened as they all performed well and were favourite to win the whole thing!
can't believe holland and iceland didn't get through. moldova was such rubbish! None of the songs were either decent, or cheesy, just plain crap. A rather dull eurovision ahead i fear. last nights show was so good until the results happened!
Does anyone have proper confirmation that the voting was dud?
Also, I wouldn't worry about Javine's voice just yet, its happened to other before and they've been fine. The Netherlands sung amazingly well in semis, despite not getting any further, and their entrant was stung by a hornet thing!
Yes it was decent, but some of the stuff that got through clearly wasn't. The Dutch women clearly had the best voice, perhaps not THE best song, but still good.
balkan tastes, macedonian and croatian singers are popular across all the ex jugoslavia. and no that is not political voting, more like people voting for the kind of song/singer they usually listen to.
Comments
1. Bosnia
2. Hungary
3. Greece
4. Romania
5. Cyprus
6. Latvia
7. Norway
8. Malta
9. Spain
10. United Kingdom
11. France
12. Denmark
13. Moldova
14. Russia
15. Ukraine
16. Sweden
17. Switzerland
18. Germany
19. Turkey
20. Croatia
21. Serbia & Montenegro
22. FYR Macedonia
23. Israel
24. Albania
ESC 1956-2005
As a devgreat fan of eurovision, I can't believe i'm saying this, but last night I saw the death of Eurovision. Great songs like Austria, Netherlands, Iceland and Belarus not making it through to the final, but dross like Croatia, Latvia and FYROM making it through was disgusting. Political voting is not even funny anymore as pure crap is making it through to the final at the expense of actual good entries. I hope those that 'voted for their neighbour' last night are sufficiently appauled at themselves for runing the contest like this.
i'm happy the second best latvia are
through and hope that they win now
About the same size as Malta!!
Macedonia!!!! - What the hell were the voters on watching this! It's a silly song, and it's only saving grace is the looks of the performer.
Modolva, I expected, the same with Switzerland who put on a really good show
Shame about Ireland...I really though they'd make it, Belarus and Netherlands deserved to go through as well, but I have to say the standard this year is quite poor song-wise.
My rank of the semi-final songs top ten from last night (Out of 15, in three categories: Performance, looks and song):
1. Israel 15
2. Belarus 13
3. Netherlands 13
4. Hungary 12
5. Iceland 12
6. Switzerland 12
7. Rumania 11
8. Monaco 10
9. Croatia 10 (looks were it's high mark 5/5
10.Ireland 9
11. Andorra 9
12. Finland 9
bottom were Denmark and Moldova with 4pts. Norway was 14th, but won more marks for it's performance. Also, what is it with Balkan men, Croatia, Slovenia and FYR Macedonia's performers were all nice looking
according to eurosong.nl, people who voted for Netherlands were greeted with 'thank you for voting for croatia', how wrong is that???
wonder if it will make any differrence to the final results?
This forum is much better for current eurovision stuff. i had to search through pages and pages of the other one just to get to the actual contest!
Hungary
Romania
Norway
Israel
Latvia (how??!!)
FYR Macedonia (how??!!)
Croatia (or maybe they didn't!!)
Switzerland
Moldova (again, how??!!)
Denmark
Netherlands, Iceland, Belarus and Ireland all fell victim to the cull. God knows how this happened as they all performed well and were favourite to win the whole thing!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4565987.stm
Also, I wouldn't worry about Javine's voice just yet, its happened to other before and they've been fine. The Netherlands sung amazingly well in semis, despite not getting any further, and their entrant was stung by a hornet thing!
its clear in this visual age you have to stand out to be remembered, image is everything in eurovision as in every walk of life.
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?p=4020861#post4020861
mods, why cant both threads be merged