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Eurovision 2011

83 replies

UnquietDad · 19/03/2011 12:12

Getting in early here..

Our song by Blue is, disappointingly, shit. As shame, as this year the UK has the right idea, teaming up songwriters with an established act rather than any of the combinations of choice which have been used in the past.

However, .

It has a choon worthy of the Pet Shop Boys, a pretty-boy in a cool jacket, and exploding glass. Give up, everyone else.

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AngeChica · 20/03/2011 20:49

DH and I love it. We have a YouTube playlist and loads of the last few years' entries on our iTunes. We even check out things like the Melodiefestivalen online (Sweden make a massive thing of their selection.

My money may be on Portugal this year. It's called "Da Da Dum". It's about saving the world. It's sub James-Blunt drivel but never mind.

chipmonkey · 20/03/2011 20:57

Well, I think the song is better than the Blue song.

mathanxiety · 20/03/2011 21:49

Kavanagh, obv...

mathanxiety · 20/03/2011 21:57

Chipmonkey, would you like to borrow my big brown bag? I love the grannies in the background at the beginning of that clip. They are so determined to win.

TottWriter · 20/03/2011 21:59

I've been ruined by the pre-emptive Charlie Brooker version of Blue's music video. I just can't take it seriously now.

nightcat · 20/03/2011 22:08

I also like Eurovision and have a CD or two, but - anyone knows what happened to Junior Eurovision? Saw it only once a few years ago, I thought some kids were brill, but haven't come across it since..?

DandyDan · 20/03/2011 22:23

Mika didn't write it, no.

saysithowitis · 20/03/2011 22:40

oh dear...

Perpetuallypregnant · 20/03/2011 23:23

Noooooooo dd4 is due on the 6th May... All my dds have been 6 days late - hoping she is a good girl and doesn't come during Eurovision!
I'll have to name her wogan or abba or something :o

omnishambles · 20/03/2011 23:48

I absolutely bloody love Eurovision - I never laugh as much or as hard as I do that night although now the semi finals are generally better Grin

Bucharest · 21/03/2011 06:13

Captain Barnacle- wow respec' you are right of course, 1993 My Croatian Sky!

Mathanxiety- ach,you should have said, I could have sent you 1984 Italy....(it's on my 4 volume officialbox set of cds which I have to hide from family and friends in manner of lowlife addict)

Lurved Niamh Kavanagh last year. And the Norweigian chappy. Diddly Hypen-Hyphen Somebody. Dreamt about having sex with him for weeks. Blush

Bathsheba · 21/03/2011 07:43

We have a massive eurovoision party every year. I've started listening to all the entries in the car so slowly getting to know them.

So far I quite like Poland, and Sweden and Turkey. Lithuania is the ultimate Disney Princess song...

Bucharest · 21/03/2011 07:45

Have they got butterfly wings???? Dd only votes for butterfly wings.

TheNinjaGooseIsOnAMission · 21/03/2011 09:33

oh, I've just watched blue and jedward, well, what can I say . . . umm . . . err . . . the uk won't come last this year Grin roll on may!

Raahh · 21/03/2011 09:50

I doubt it would make a difference if we entered Justin Bieber or Madonna- all the tactical/friendly voting means we will never winGrin
which makes it much more fun- to get all indignant about Cyprus always giving 12 points to Greece etc, is the best bit!

ooh...it is AGES away!!Grin

chicaguapa · 21/03/2011 11:10

I think the Blue song is ok. Very Euro-pop.

However, with all the latest goings on in Libya, we have no chance anyway. The rest of Europe already hates us for Iraq and would never give us anything other than null points.

Sorry to bring war and politics into a thread about Eurovision. Grin

PfftTheMagicDragon · 21/03/2011 11:42

We get an automatic place as a top 4 country because we pay for the fucking thing, not because we are any good!

Canella · 21/03/2011 12:15

agree with hopeforthebest - the same annoying german girl with the mockney accent is sadly representing germany again but with a rubbish song!

but i thought her song last year was crap and look what happened!

She is never off german tv - be glad she didnt come to much in the UK - she is the most annoying girl on tv!

but what do i know about songs - i thought the blue one was ok!! well - better than the german one for sure!

smallnotfaraway · 21/03/2011 14:26

There are no words which can accurately describe

Blondeshavemorefun · 21/03/2011 20:01

least blue can sing though, unlike most of the uk efforts Grin

bottersnike · 21/03/2011 20:14

Oh smallnot, that is quite dreadful. Like an advert for a village idiot competition from 1972. I have a sneaking feeling they're trying to be ironic. Eek.

sportinguista · 21/03/2011 20:47

note to smallnotfaraway. They are a comedy act and fairly political, mostly they tend to hijack PS (PM Socrates party rallies. It's actually hilarious if you understand portuguese. DH is going to vote this year and is quite looking forward to it all. They're meant to look like communist radicals circa 1974.

smallnotfaraway · 21/03/2011 21:14

I had thought they were being ironic, and I imagine it makes far more sense if you know Portugese (which I don't, unfortunately). :)

That's what makes Eurovision so watchable - the ironic acts right alongside the sincere ones...and then, of course, there are gems like Greece's 2002 entry,

Come on everyone, sing along! "Say (say say!) say the password!"

If I'm not mistaken, Greece have taken a similar direction in 2011, with Grin

Canella · 22/03/2011 07:53

oh i had to switch that greece entry off after 5 seconds - painful!!

sportinguista - it may be a comedy act thats funny in portuguese but since they cant vote for themselves and most countries wont understand it then they've kind of shot themselves in the foot! to everyone else it just looks bloody weird!

But i love eurovision!!