Eurovision 2016: We Can('t) All Be Heroes

[SHARPIE]

Love Joe and Jake! Just caught up cos we had rugby innit ...

 

[Lisa]

It was the best of the night, I think.

It was good, no doubt about that. Surprisingly enough, I rather liked Alex Diehl's song - which I didn't expect because I am not very much into German music. Alex Diehl is a singer songwriter and his song is about staying united and working for peace at a time when Europe is under the threat of terrorism. While he was singing, one could read the lyrics of his song in French, German and English. At the end, there was the Paris peace sign. This would have been an excellent contribution not only to this ESC but to European political life in general.

 

[SmallFairy]

Norwegian final is tonight. I haven't hear all the songs, but the ones I heard doesn't set my hopes too high

 

[Aerobicidal]

Thanks again to everyone for the updates!

Report from Sweden: The last Melodifestivalen heat just ended. The first song through to the final was "Youniverse" by Molly Sandén, a total ripoff of "Euphoria" with wonderful Eurovision lyrics: "It's only you/It's only you/It's only youniverse." The other finalist--with even worse lyrics--was "If I Were Sorry" by Frans, who apparently released a couple of hit singles when he was a child (the Swedish Jordy? Unfortunately I don't think so).

Of the other finalists, there are some whose appeal escapes me (Oscar Zia, Ace Wilder, and Lisa Ajax) and the rest I don't remember. Dolly Style qualified for the Second Chance round with "Roller Coaster," a song as dumb as last year's but less catchy, which is good for my sanity. In the Second Chance, I prefer "Kizunguzungu" by SaRaha, an upbeat faux-ethnic entry that reminds me of Norway's song from a few years ago, "Haba Haba."

Sorry for the scattered and bad coverage; I hope it isn't as bad as those lyrics.

ETA: According to Wikipedia, SaRaha is "a Swedish-Tanzanian singer" so she is arguably not faux-ethnic (by Eurovision standards) but I still think her song is.

 

[SmallFairy]

You don't want any song to remind you of HabaHaba!!!

 

[dramatheater]

Errr, the "euro public" voted you second last year.

well immigrants obv voted

Anyway I absolutely adore the Hungarian song
this type of voice makes me hot'n'bothered

the French guy also
another catchy song is from Cyprus

yeah yeah I guess another attempt of my skipping this show miserably failed cause I like most of the songs already

 

[allezfred]

well immigrants obv voted

A song cannot finish second on an immigrant vote alone.

 

[MarieM]

Ah cool, our song makes me sure we can't think of winning

 

[Reuven]

UK winning song

No winner, but no disgrace either.

It's nice, in a damning with faint praise sort of way.

 

[Eden]

One of these four songs will be Israel's entry to ESC:
1. Hovi Star - Made of stars
2. Ella Daniel - Somebody Out There
3. Gil Hadash - Follow The Sun
4. Nofar Salman - Made of stars
The decision will be made this Thursday.

BTW, an Israeli singer will participate in the Finals... for France.
Amir Haddad is to represent France in ESC this year.

 

[Eden]

And the Israeli winner is:
Hovi Star - Made of stars

 

[dramatheater]

A song cannot finish second on an immigrant vote alone.

It can even finish 1st! see - 2008
yeah Plushyfans contributed too

Netherlands country song

 

[antmanb]

UK winning song

No winner, but no disgrace either.

Yes they definitely saved the best for last. I kind of hated most of the songs, but for some reason I quite liked the first song - the country sounding one, and this last one was also not bad.

Like you say I don't think we'll be winning, this year but we might manage to scrabble a few points here and there.

 

[handomi]

and here goes the Polish hope..... Margaret placed 2nd in Polish eurovision level. Michal Szpak won....( a lot fan girls....)

 

[shah]

and here goes the Polish hope..... Margaret placed 2nd in Polish eurovision level. Michal Szpak won....( a lot fan girls....)

Michał's song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txL8BYydmDM
His English accent gives me a headache... Well, I also expected Margaret to win, but "Cool me down" is not that cool live, I'm afraid...

Other selected songs:
Latvia (music + lyrics: Aminata Savadogu, last year's Latvian entry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vCG64pBZU (a strong entry, imho)
Estonia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53-HcrqRnlE (disappointing choice, I Wear Experiment and Mick were better)
Armenia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7m3wOGhEvE (a little bit wtf)
Moldova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcDKy97BHk (heard it all before)
Montenegro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNTPaTnoTuY (that's unexpected!)
Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7hRZS-nLhY (he's hot! and the song is incredibly cheesy! lovin' it )

 

[frida_lumen]

and here goes the Polish hope..... Margaret placed 2nd in Polish eurovision level.

Come on. Did you hear her live? "Cool me down" is a perfect example of great pop song going wasted on a bad artist. She is out of tune in every live performance and has no clue about how to breathe properly. No wonder she didn't win.

 

[Eden]

Following an online petition (sorry: Hebrew only), Hovi Star (Israel) is thinking of changing his song to a new version of Somebody Out There, which was performed by another finalist in the Israeli HaKokhav HaBa TV reality show (similar to American Idol).

 

[shah]

Following an online petition (sorry: Hebrew only), Hovi Star (Israel) is thinking of changing his song to a new version of Somebody Out There, which was performed by another finalist in the Israeli HaKokhav HaBa TV reality show (similar to American Idol).

Noooo! "Made of Stars" is pretty solid!

Btw, the Romanian winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8E9DP-GGL8
Trash has reached its new level with that song and performance. Yikes!

 

[skoppa]

has the Icelandic song been shown? if not here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwz2xNK1h7A

 

[Jenya]

Russian entry was released over the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7hRZS-nLhY

 

[Jenya]

ETA: sorry, double post

 

[Finnice]

has the Icelandic song been shown? if not here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwz2xNK1h7A

Love the self-ironic way how they blow black smoke around in the video.

 

[Finnice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJkfJ4LJqc

The Finnish song is here. Sandhja and Sing it away.

 

[wustfan]

Macedonia's song: Kaliopi - Dona.

 

[dramatheater]

wow I didnt expect that Polish guy to win over Mararet but she was kinda bad live. He's totally looks like Jack Sparrow btw me likey!

Macedonia's song: Kaliopi - Dona.

liked her previous song better (( but every song sung in native language inspires me!

Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7hRZS-nLhY (he's hot! and the song is incredibly cheesy! lovin' it )

aww lol at my bb Sereja he didnt disappoint (2 mil views already!)! The vid is so funny with that girl's 'acting' Her model background is soo apprarent Good thing she won't be at the actual contest. & the song IS cheesy & the chorus feels so outdated I like it! Hopefully there will be actual thunder & lightning onstage

Hovi Star (Israel) is thinking of changing his song to a new version of Somebody Out There, which was performed by another finalist in the Israeli HaKokhav HaBa TV reality show (similar to American Idol).

wow I thought it was Adele

What's your top 5 guys?
RN mine is
1 Cyprus
2 Hungary
3 Germany
4 France
5 Latvia

 

[dramatheater]

Greece
Australia
Czech Rep

& the best of all
San Marino
really this is epic

 

[RomyNL]

Greece

Is Greece going to use that running hunk on the stage as well? Is he part of the band? Then that would be the only good part

 

[Finnice]

[QUOTE="dramatheater, post: 4735656, member: 58970"

& the best of all
San Marino
really this is epic[/QUOTE]
OMG!

 

[Finnice]

Ukraina is allowed to compete with 1944..
I am going to dine tonight with my very big Eurovision fan friends. They so appreciate our FSU poll and always want to know our results.

 

[wustfan]

Melodifestivalen in Sweden finished last night. Frans won.
The song is okay, I guess. A bit boring, though.
It could have been worse