The UK and France actually don't suck this year!!!!
SO WEIRD, I KNOW.
But anyway, for starters:
39. GERMANY
Cascada with "Glorious"
...let's take out one of the top contenders for this year first. Any tears, Germany?.
Every time an original song does well in the contest, there's ALWAYS at least one performer in the following year who tries to piggyback onto the original's past succes by just blatantly copying some of the elements without adding anything new. Glorious pretty much owns that market for this year's edition. Glorious is, to put it diplomatically, a blatant Euphoria rip-off. Don't tell me you can't hear it. Especially when the lead singer chants 'GLOOOOOOOORIOUS' all I can hear is Euphoria's Chorus, *slightly altered* to tiptoe away from the inevitable accusations of plagiarism.
It's not even an ~acceptable~ form of plagiarism. Cascada stole the music and some of Euphoria's rhythms and... added nothing new to it. Where is the great act? The uniqueness? The everlasting piece of art? Glorious possesses none of of the additional traits that made Euphoria so great, and is instead just a boringly competent/competently boring dance song. :-/
I would not have ranked Glorious this low if most people thought this way, but alas. Glorious is actually really well-liked by the snobby side of the Eurovision fanbase, those who watch Eurovision because It Is An International Singing Contest. And it really irks me because there are SO MANY good songs this year (and many of those can actually win!!) and the thought of Glorious beating all of them and winning both scares and disgusts me.
Additionally, many of Glorious' fans are just Cascada Fantards who like it JUST because it is Cascada... and that argument is just dumb imho. For all their fame, no one liked Engelbert Humperdink and not that many people liked Patricia Kaas BECAUSE THEY WERE SINGING BORING SONGS, like Cascada is this year(). (admittedly, i'm a HUGE hypocrite on that matter - You'll see once we get to the UK and the Netherlands). With regards to the copyright infringement claims, the Cascada fantards point to Denmark.... ok... *HOW* does the Danish entry copy from Euphoria and the German does not? I'll address this once we get to Denmark in like, mid-april, but it just goes to show how awful and narrow-minded the Cascada fantards are and I refuse to be a part of them. ^__^
Not to say that Glorious is a bad song per se; it isn't *bad*. But I hate it as an entry. It does NOTHING to me, and if it slays my favourites (and it will inevitably outperform a few of them) I'll be PISSED. And that makes it the entry i'm the least excited for, going in Eurovision 2013.
Projected placement: 1-10 ()
XXV. Hila Ben David with "Beautiful"
ISRAEL - finalist (6th place?)
Ok, so power ballads are usually hit or miss for me, and this one is just plain ridiculous. I love songs that just ooze *delusion* to the point it makes them unintentionally hilarious. The lyrics and the schmaltzy music slays me every time. I also think she REALLY believes she's singing something inspirational or summat. It only adds to the hilarity for me.
Bonus points for actually being able to sing the chorus with a straight face. u believe in urself, gurl.
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posted March 19, 2013 04:32 PM
oh and for the record: The israeli song is NOT israel's representative. it's number 25 on my should've been rankings (roman numbers and the names of the song/interpreter will be in blue instead of red/black/green) ^__^
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Oh gods that must be the worst Cascada I have ever heard.
On another note, a little optimistic dress for someone of her size.
That isreal is so plagiarism, it should be just kicked down to hell so it's rightly out of the contest.
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Quote:Glorious is, to put it diplomatically, a blatant Euphoria rip-off. Don't tell me you can't hear it. Especially when the lead singer chants 'GLOOOOOOOORIOUS' all I can hear is Euphoria's Chorus, *slightly altered* to tiptoe away from the inevitable accusations of plagiarism.
It's not even an ~acceptable~ form of plagiarism. Cascada stole the music and some of Euphoria's rhythms and... added nothing new to it. Where is the great act? The uniqueness? The everlasting piece of art? Glorious possesses none of of the additional traits that made Euphoria so great, and is instead just a boringly competent/competently boring dance song. :-/
Exactly what I was thinking while listening to this pathetic copycat/windrider song. Quite disgraceful actually to try to win using the last year winner's appeal.
Norway did the same last year with their Eric Saade wannabe. I did not even like Eric Saade's Popular, but the norwegians successfuly made it worse. Popular did not win and it was nothing unique but the intention with the norwegian song was painfully obvious... Norway Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Tooji STAY
Anyway, it will not matter how good the following nations songs are because I will automatically hate them for assassinating Sweden and Yohio. Especially Italy for being the only nation to not give points to Euphoria last year.
Cyprus
France
Iceland
Italy
Croatia
Malta
Spain
Great Britain
Germany
Ukraine
My first reaction to this song was: OMG this is sooooo terribad. And then i realized it was my own country's entry and instantly stopped laughing.
Seriously though, this goblinoid nincompoop somehow won the Walloon version of The Voice and was selected to represent us at the contest and even my VERY low hopes where SHATTERED once I heard the first live version of Luv Keels (sic). I wasn't the only Belgian who hated it though. EVERYONE DID.
So Roberto went to FINLAND to re-record his song and promised he would deliver a gem... Well, you can't polish a turd, but at least he tried and got rid of those awful key changes/gheybeat, I guess.
Even in its enhanced form though, Love Kills still sucks. Lol @ his diction still sucking. alol @ how HEAVILY autotuned it is, still. Roberto's claim to fame is probably that he'll be our Josh Dubovie or Michael von der Heide... and that just isn't something to be proud of.
In other words: the only thing Love Kills is our eardrums.
Projected placement: 26-39 (in the small chance it qualifies I can EASILY see it get last in the Finale
37. MACEDONIA
Esma & Lozano with "Pred Da Se Razdeni"
Imagine if you are promised a The Incredible Hulk Doll for Christmas, and you get it... and then must swap if for your sister's Ken Doll painted green. That's how I felt when Pred Da Se Razdeni was revealed.
Seriously though, this song is TERRIBLE and there's no reason for it to be so!!! Esma is a superstar obviously, and Lozano is cool too and they had a great song in IMPERIJA. Unfortunately, they had to change it because some idiots complained about it (Imperija is on the Should-Have-Been list and i'll elaborate when we get to it)... and then we got this as a replacement... talk about infuriating DOWNGRADES.
Dammit. We were SO robbed a good song (and Imperija was awesome) and instead we were given something rly terrible that just... doesn't even feel like a song to me, y'know? There's no consistency and it's painfully apparent that this song was just jumbled together in like... less than five days. It's kinda like.. the gypsy version of Watch My Dance, which I LOATHE -___-
I had hopes that Macedonia DELIBERATELY wrote such a terrible song to force the public to beg them to sent Imperija after all (and it certainly looked like that as a sudden WAVE of Imperija Love erupted from Macedonia hours after Pred Da Se Radeni's release )... but the deadline has passed and this is still the official entry, so now i can only curse the Macedonians for the weakbiatches.org they are.
ONE good thing though: Pred Da Se Razdeni is such obvious fodder that it will prolly get another of my many random favourite from semi 2 to the finals that otherwise wouldn't have made it. So there's that ^__^
Anjeza was the VERY first Albanian participant in Eurovision and the most successful one too until last years Grimhild Craterface beat her record of sixth place. But ever since 2004 (aka the first year i started to watch eurovision *INTENSELY*) i've been a fan. Love isn't nearly as great as Image Of You but it is nice and pretty and I liked it ^__^
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posted March 19, 2013 10:02 PM
Oh god, you have a really bad entry this year Lex, that's like, below the regular level of britain.
Anjeza!
Totally loved her back in 2004. Not that good of a singer but look at her go! So true to herself, that joy when on stage is overflowing. Looks like she still has it. But boy the years haven't been kind to her have they? You wouldn't believe she's 25 looking at that.
PS. I have no idea what they did to her in the finals to make her look like she did. If you compare her to the semi-final or the original you go like, wha? Must have been a plot to sabotage albania in the finals.
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Thanks for sharing all this european music with us
Yeah, the Belgian song is lame. Typical radio pop. But I actually like Glorious. Sure, it's a bit generic but it makes me happy and doesn't sound like Euphoria to me. I'm also a bit horny when it comes to Slavic languages so I really enjoyed the Macedonian entry. I like that kind of music.
I know a tranny that look like the albanian singer.
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posted March 20, 2013 03:12 PM
36. LATVIA
PeR with "Here We Go"
Holy crap. Ok. I honestly forgot about this being *that* terrible. Rest assured though, only four songs are *BAD* this year and we'll be done with all of them once we've dealth with this update
I mean, it's almost hilarious how awful Latvia is @ Music in general, but i think they really outdone themselves this time. Here We Go is just... embarassing. The rapping, the out-of-tune "singing", the dubstep beats, the outfits... Honestly, nothing about Here We Go is good. So how could a song like the be selected for Eurovision? Via a televote. Scary....
I guess I *should* have ranked it last but I decided against since 1) it's not from my home country, thank god 2) the other songs in Latvia's preselections weren't any better - trust me on that one 3) It's obvious fodder, so who cares. Which is why it outranks Belgium, Macedonia and Germany for me, but no one else
Projected placement: 36-39 (and that's being rly generous)
35. MONTENEGRO
Who See with "Igranka"
ok the last TERRIBLE song of this year is Montenegro's. But I don't dislike it nearly as much as Latvia's since
1) Montenegro's hilariously nonchalant and uncaring about the contest and throws it every year. (for examples of nonchalance/carelessness that isn't hilarious I point towards ITALY.)
2) There's a good chance this will be staged well (making it more hilarious than bad), and in that case i'm willing to ignore Igranka being completely inaudible and join on the I'm An Ironic Fan bandwagon.
Idk what else to say about Montenegro, rly. Despite a favourable draw (with Croatia *AND* Slovenia *AND* Serbia in the same semifinal) I don't expect them to qualify and i'm fine with their role as fodder... for as long as they fullfill it
Projected placement: 27-32 (not making the finals... but they'll be close to making it, i'd wager)
XXIII. Diandra with "Colliding Into You"
FINLAND - 3rd place.
One of the most frustrating things about following the preselection procedures, is that you sometimes have TWO songs you really love and you know one of them will be inevitably robbed. Finland was the first of those heartbreaking selections, and while I don't (at all!!) disapprove of their choice, we had to miss out on Diandra's sensuavetional song.
Meanwhile, you have countries that elect to send tripe like PeR and Roberto Bellarosa to go down the annals as some of the worst entries ever, while decent-to-good music is lost forever. This sidelist hopefully mitigates some of this injustice ^__^
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posted March 20, 2013 03:28 PM
Meh, Diandra is just a complete copy of the current fad in music. There's no originality there. Just plain lame.
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The Belgian song isn't the worst I've heard but I wouldn't call it good. Albania and Finland are OK, the rest range from meh to bad.
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i blame stupidity overall for degeneration in todays music. mostly the pop one.
but then again I'm talking to a spoiled liberalistic ignorant child, so explaining this and pointing out my arguments would be more successful to my drywalls.
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posted March 20, 2013 07:00 PM
First ever permission for a rock concert in soviet union was in Tallinn for a finnish band, they played an encore and were banned for life. ____________ DON'T BE A NOOB, JOIN A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E.
the heads of ussr were afraid of rock music for some reason. they didn't even allowed The Beatles to perform, although you could buy their records in the countries of USSR. just a little example.
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And yet they allowed the pop artists to have concerts in Moscow though, just weird.
Basis of modern music for Russia.
Not to diminish Sabrina, I think her production is quite entertaining but doesn't really surprise me that the current music industry still sucks.
Fixed the link, didn't take a miracleworker for that
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Still I think that why the soviets were afraid of rock is because it could ignite a lot of patriotic bands from the occupied countries who'll in their songs would encourage people to give the soviets the finger. But that is purely my opinion.
I've got a chance to explore some of Lithuania's metal scene not a while ago. most of the bands (save for the Latvian one) of the biker organised concert I've been sung about love to your motherland and the oposition of cosmopolitan motherbeeprs who wish to eradicate our national identity. overall, a time well spent. a complete opposite of the "mainstream" scene with dumb blondes, gypsies and fake gays dominating the pop genre which sole purpose is to dumb down and idiotize the public.
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posted March 20, 2013 07:56 PM
The thing is they didn't allow any foreign band to hold shows in the Soviet for a long, long time.
Then they started having concerts in Moscow for all the big names of the era in the late 80s. And yeah, "missing most" of the stuff from all the years before affected it pretty much. Most of russian rock sucks.
Uriah Heep is the first of the big names to have these concerts. They didn't really have a competing industry in music for the western influences, it was a sweet cruise for total domination. It was western pop music for the new generations, imitated from the western pop artists.
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which was a funny thing too. specnaz blocked the voters inside the voting areas and didn't allowed to exit until they voted for gorbachiov.
and this is not bull. the source is pretty reliable, an ex CK operative. the secret service of the political bureau was more powerful than KGB.
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posted March 19, 2013 01:20 PM
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u believe in urself, gurl. 
And then i realized it was my own country's entry and instantly stopped laughing. 
Finland was the first of those heartbreaking selections, and while I don't (at all!!) disapprove of their choice, we had to miss out on Diandra's sensuavetional song. 
