Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Norway Official Discussion

 
So,as most of you know,Germany won this year's Eurovision Song Contest since 1982,with Ein biechen Freiden.Germany was one of my favourites and one 
of the worthy winners.Did you watch it?If so,which were your favourites and was Germany the worthy winner?Heres the results in order from 1 to 25. 

1.  Germany 246 points
2. Turkey 170 points
3. Romania 162 points
4. Denmark 149 points
5. Azerbaijan 145 points
6. Belgium 143 points
7. Armenia 141 points
8. Greece 140 points
9. Georgia 136 points
10. Ukraine 108 points
11. Russia 90 points
12. France 82 points
13. Serbia 72 points
14. Israel 71 points
15. Spain 68 points
16. Albania 62 points
17. Bosnia & Herzegovina 51 points
18. Portugal 43 points
19. Iceland 41 points
20. Norway 35 points
21. Cyprus 27 points
22. Moldova 27 points
23. Ireland 25 points
24. Belarus 18 points
25. United Kingdom 10 points

Not living in Europe, I know next to nothing about this. What I do know, is someone posted a link to a video of it on Twitter and it looks nuuuuuuts! 

United Kingdom at 10 points? 
 
Seriously? Wow. =P 
 
I didn't watch it so I don't have any opinions. Are all songs sung in a certain language?

As German, I can proudly say:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nobody gives a fuck.
 

haha 

UK lost again

" As German, I can proudly say: Nobody gives a fuck.   "

The UK always loose lol. Good thing nobody actually cares about it here.

Having done European Studies as a major, I was subjected to Eurovision to some degree. It just seemed like the same crappy pop but with more bizarre outfits and slight regional variations. And not that I want to make any negative generalisations about the Germans or their taste in pop music, but didn't David Hasselhoff top the charts there at one point?  I'm surprised they won :P

Hey, it's like the WW2 results in reverse order.

I am from Ireland.  We have won the Eurovision song contest seven times, the most any country has ever won.  We won three consecutive years from '92 to '94.  I liked our song this year, but unfortunately very few others did though. 
 
Anyway, at least we beat the UK!  Take that eight hundred years of oppression! 

"Nobody gives a fuck.  "

UK could bring out the Beatles and still lose.  It's not that we are hated, it's just that nobody likes us.  If America was in the competition we would (hopefully) count on their vote.

" Hey, it's like the WW2 results in reverse order. "

This thread is proudly sponsored by the Eurovision song contest. 
Poor kid who did the UK song. It was an awful song, but he didn't deserve to be last. 
Lack of exploding drums/Dancers on fire really set them back though

So for those who don't know the voting is all political and I do find it pretty funny that the contest always seems to inspire more political questions in me than it does musical ones. The slightly worrying thing is that while the UK doesn't take the contest too seriously the rest of Europe does seem to, although to a certain extent I'm sure that ties back into the political side of things. I think the contest has certainly told us over the years how much Europe seems to dislike the UK, even the year Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the UK song we got completely thrashed. I did enjoy the year Lordi won, partly because in such a pop-dominated contest there was this ridiculous metal band playing a song called 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' to all of Europe. In general there's almost no Eurovision music I've enjoyed, it's pretty much all cheesy, generic Europop although from what I can tell the music scene in mainland Europe is very detached from that of the US and UK music scene. Of course, there are always one or two crazy entries that you can't help but smile at... 
 
  

The Eurovision was on again?

Lena, the winner from Germany, linked for the lazy.  For a Eurovision winner, it's not THAT awful.

Belgium was by far the best, I actually kinda enjoyed their one.

" I am from Ireland.  We have won the Eurovision song contest seven times, the most any country has ever won.  We won three consecutive years from '92 to '94.  I liked our song this year, but unfortunately very few others did though.  Anyway, at least we beat the UK!  Take that eight hundred years of oppression!  "

I watched it and there wasn't even something wierd and/or cool! 
 
Check out these two contestants from 2008! How can someone not LOVE the wierdness of them!
 
  

" I am from the United Kingdom and I am extremely embarassed about this result. Not only was our song extremely camp and rubbish. All of the voting is biased as certain countries always vote for each other. "

I didn't even watch it, I saw Scarface on Showtime instead. Which is funny, since I live in the city that ESC was hosted in. I have however heard the Norwegian song about a million times and felt the need to kick the singer every time.

Good thing we(Norway) didn't win again. I think there's a conspiracy going on though, since Keep of Kalessin got outclassed by that soapboy that represented us this year. I mean just listen to how awesome they are: 
 
  

Past glory for my homeland, Ireland! 

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So,as most of you know, "

Sweden didn't even get in and I looooooooooooooove it.
 
Hate this thing with every fiber in my body.

" Sweden didn't even get in and I looooooooooooooove it.  Hate this thing with every fiber in my body. "

I like to think the UK fails on purpose. Hosting Eurovision along with a recession and the 2012 Olympics is pretty damn pointless.
I like to think that. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised at how pathetic modern music is. God this is depressing. I need the Russian entry and some hard liquor right now.

Haha, you guys should check out Lithuania's song. It was a real pity that they didn't make it to the final, as they had a brilliant song. I honestly hated the Swedish song (yet again; "fel låt vann" bahaha). I watched Melodifestivalen this year and thought (along with a ton of my friends) that the Salem al Fakir song should have been sent to the final.