Eurovision Song Contest 2009

[androl]

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all the songs for this year's ESC have been chosen

you can listen to or download them here, here or here
and read the lyrics here

my favourites this year are Estonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, also good is Israel, Serbia, Andorra, Lithuania
and Belgium gets a special prize for the lyrics

[Kleman]

and mine is NOT France

[Sirmia]

For me, the first 3:

1: Estonia
2: Ireland
3: Portugal

and Norway gets an extra prize as I can't even compare it with the other songs! But I love it

I also like the songs of Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Lithuania, France and Romania

[jrnsndrs]

Netherlands send 'De Toppers'. I think they will return as 'De Floppers' (flop is also in Dutch a big failure)

And de is an article.

[gustrot]

This year, France will send a known singer, the one with the best recognition all over Europe, and especially Russia where she gave thousands of concerts... I name.... Patricia KAAS... My wife has been an ABSOLUTE fan for 19 years, so I begin to know the songs !!

Hopefully we will have some votes from Eastern Europe this year and will finish elsewhere than in the 5 last positions as usual

[Ewri]

This year, France will send a known singer, the one with the best recognition all over Europe, and especially Russia where she gave thousands of concerts... I name.... Patricia KAAS... My wife has been an ABSOLUTE fan for 19 years, so I begin to know the songs !!

Hopefully we will have some votes from Eastern Europe this year and will finish elsewhere than in the 5 last positions as usual

A very demanding French song this year, but is better than some of the most recent ones.

I like Germany and Norway songs particularly.

[Schlauchen]

Today is the day
To be honest, I didn't watch the semi-finals, and I also haven't listened to any song except the german one.
I guess we'll achieve one of the last positions today, the german song is absolutely awful
Article today in our local newspaper: "The fear of another disgrace"

[vermeer]

Is there still somebody in this political nonsense.

[gille]

I vote for Turkey, Hadise because Belgium is bad!

[Asiamaniac]

I just know the songs from watching the show. Right now Albania is singing.

My favourites so far are Greece and Iceland.

And well, the German contribution this year is not as dull as it was too often in recent years. Should not be worse than rank 15.

[Asiamaniac]

Should even be quite better.

[Schlauchen]

The notes I took during watching:

Lithuania 2 Points boring
Israel 4 points okay
france: sang like she had pain, and I didn't understand a work --> 3 points
Sweden: opera, strange dress, but it had a certain charme. I liked it, 7 points
croatia: boring, pain for my ears. 2 points
portugal: well, I can't say much about that song, I was chatting with ravestorm, but seems it was nothing special. 3 points because I'm so kind.
Iceland: also here I didn't notice much because of several chats, but I liked it a bit. 5 points.
greece: strange outfit, gay singer, commercial song, but I liked it. 6 points
armenia: I loved the song of last year, but this one was absolutely not my taste. 2 points
russia: of course all russia wants that we vote for them, but it was ************************ - 1 point
azerbaijan: my family hates it, I love it!!!! 11 points
bosnia: a good song to fall asleep. 2 points
moldova: erm.. I wasn't too concentrated, but they jumped quite a lot on the stage. Now, 1 min after their show, I don't even remember the melody. 3 points, was obviously not important
Malta: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm a bit boring. 4 points because I like ewri
estonia: I get more and more tired. 2 points
denmark: My mom loves the song. Obviously I don't like it then. 5 points
germany: not bad, not bad. But at the beginning Dita von Teese was almost not in the picture, what a waste of money. Though, 7 points
turkey: a nice difference to all the other good-night-songs. As I prefer up-tempo-songs: 10 points
Albania: Hm. Hm. Hm. Hm. A normal song, nothing else, nothing special, but not boring. 5 points
norway: Sorry, but not my taste. 2 points
ukraine: Also the irc-channel #eurovision thinks like I do: the song is awful, but the show and the girl are nice. 6 points
romania: really nothing special. 3 points for a lot of dancing
uk: I liked it! 9 points!
finland: cool rythm, but I still like azerbaijan better. 10 points
spain: normal pop song, nothing special, and looking at the fact that I don't like her haircut, I give her 4 points

1--> azerbaijan
2--> turkey
3--> finland

[Asiamaniac]

My votes:
Iceland 3 calls
Greece 1 call
Sweden 1 call

[soilian]

1--> azerbaijan
2--> turkey
3--> finland

Thanks Schlauchen!

[soilian]

My votes:
Sweden 1 call

That's awful! I'm sorry to say this but Sweden's entry was just something I wouldn't have wanted to qualify to the final.