Eurovision VOTING!!!

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Can we try a dancing dog next year?

This is not sour grapes. Honestly because I really didn't think we stood a chance, poor old Hump, before he was announced as our entry I didn't even realise he was still alive. But I don't see what was so great about the Swedish entry. I can only assume that familiarity has helped,i.e. the more times you hear a song the more you like it - within reason. And it has been released and become No 1 in several countries.

For sheer devilment I would have liked the Russiona grannies to win

But for the song i actually liked the best it would have been Italy

You would only look as if you were copying the turkey. And look what happened when you copied our trick of dragging Niamh Kavanagh out of the nursing home a few years ago...

Aww I loved Lordi Dp and I may have voted that year more than a few times that was the best eurovision ever.

How come we won with Katrina and the waves then? it wasn't that great a song, were the rest super crap that year?

I think there are shitloads more Eastern European countries now.

The voting dynamics are different.

The year Katrina won was the year 300 million people discovered the joys of Danish rap iirc.

Ahem. Small point about "English Eurovision". What's that please? I thought it was the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Agree with Maryz final say on previous thread.

Norway has the most Nill Points in Eurovision history!

This is actually the first year Sweden has given us any votes (as far as I can remember!) It is a long standing Joke in Norway that Sweden NEVER give us any votes.

Personally, I think Tooji (Norwegian entrant) was awesome. It is PROOF it is a country popularity contest, it has nothing to do with music. It is sad.

We voted:
Sweden
Germany
Norway

in our house. Good job we had 3 phones!

Not sure why Sweden won. It is true it sounded like any club anthem.

The hump was awful wasn't he. I quite liked France and Germany.

Am I the only one to think that we need to stop trying to put an artist on to represent us that we think suits the Eurovision and put on a artist that we actually think is good.
The British public seem to think we need to put a cheesy artist on because that's what the Europeans will like, it's so arrogant! If we just put on someone decent we'd have a chance to get off the bottom of the board!

uk needs to pull out anyhow

I have a headache this morning. I blame you lot.

Maryz

I agree we would still probably not win BUT at least we would be seen to put on a decent act, rather than patronisingly putting on an act we wrongly think that Europe will like.

I remember a few years ago, when they had that competition to choose an artist, there was a fab singer who was up to date, looked good and an amazing voice. But the British public choose that awful group who did that camp airline thing! Why, because we arrogantly think that's what Europe like.

It's not 1975, Europe has moved on and we haven't noticed.

What I meant to say was at least we would be giving a platform to a new artist who was good.

I don't think it's about being arrogant. I think that eurovision is taken totally differently here as opposed to the rest of Europe. Britain sees it as a bit of fun but other European countries are totally serious about it.

I agree it's not taken as seriously here but people still get annoyed when we come bottom of the board.

I do, however, think it's arrogance. Many Brits think there is a type of song that 'Europe' will like and their opinion is stuck in the 1970's. Hence that awful airline song being voted as our entry a few years back. British people seriously thought it was very Eurovision and had a chance. It is therefore arrogant to think that a song we class a ultimately 'crap, cheese' would be liked by Europeans. As I said there were other credible artists in that UK sing off to represent us.

Here in Sweden Eurovision starts with Melodifestivalen in Feb/March. This is 8 weeks of heats with each winner going through to final. All of the performers are big, successful artists in their own rights. It's the time when they all launch their new albums/latest singles. We are not choosing from a pile of poo cobbled together by the bbc sung by someone nobody's ever heard of. It's the equivalent of choosing the latest song by Robbie Williams, Oasis, Lily Allen, Queen or Coldplay.

People in Britain don't realise that other countries are sending their best. Whereas Britain continues to scrape the bottom of the barrel and everyone knows it. That's why they always come last.

I totally agree with you UN member.
I think part of the problem is that well established top artists in the UK are unlikely to go because it's got a dated image over here. I do think we could find an unknown who is brilliant though who would be more willing to go and use it as a platform.
We simply don't need to choose the cheesiest artist because we think that's what Eurovision is about.

Why do we even bother? Its not ever 'Euro'vision and where was the entry from Portugal? There are not 42 countries in Europe by any stretch of the imagination!

There does seem to vbe 'we vote for you because we like your oil, ta'. I thought Graham Norton was spot on a lot of his preditictions and seemed to be getting more pissed off and funny as the voting went on.

If I was giving the UK votes, I would say 'you bunch of gits, I'm only voting for proper European countries, so that's only half of you, and in fact have decided that since you never vote for us, I am sending my votes to New Zealand, so eff off the lot of you'. Then flick the v sign and blow a respberry.

Can't we just send in Adele? She'd cream them all!

It doesn't have anything to do with being a European country and never has had. The 'Euro' in Eurovision refers to European Broadcasting Union which is based on international broadcasting areas. Any country in the European Broadcasting Area is eligbile to join the European Broadcasting Union and then they can join in Eurovision. The European Broadcasting Area goes as far east as Iran and also covers Saudi Arabia and north Africa.

The entry from Portugal got knocked out in the semi finals.

There are not 42 countries in Europe by any stretch of the imagination!

Completely aside from Eurovision, there are officially 50 countries in Europe.