Skip to main content

Euroviisut 2010 semifinal 3 live tonight




The third and last semifinal in Finland takes place tonight. Another 3 songs will qualify for next week's final and YLE will also announce the chosen wildcard amongst Bääbs, Boys of the band, Monday, Veeti Kallio and the two unlucky tonight. Superfavourite - unfortunately - Eläkeläiset is expected to qualify but after then the competition is quite open... The Swedish speaking population will propably vote Linn to the final just like they did with Twisted Sister last week. Fans seem to go for Osmo Ikonen while Maria Lund is also rather popular amongst the elderly generations. My vote goes for Kuunkuiskaajat, they could also be the black horse in Euroviisut 2010 and if not qualifying directly might be the wildcard?

THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO START 
The show has started but Jaana seems to be still sleeping......


Maria Lund - Sydän ymmärtää
Maria  has a very 50's look as does her backing group, dancers. White and blue are the colors. Maria dances along with her dancers proving she hasn't forgot all from Eurovision Dance Contest... She gives a very lively and humourous performance with the 50's nasal vocals included.
Jaana waked up after Peltsi shows a clip of 12 points Finland has got over the years...

Osmo Ikonen - Heaven and hell
Osmo starts the song behind keyboards and on stage he has three sisters and various cousins proving the family dynasty in music business is strong as ever. They are all dressed in white and black. Osmo's vocals are flawless as always but the song might be just a bit boring?

Kuunkuiskaajat - Työlki ellää
The girls are in white in the dark stage with a full moon at first, then we are treated to their backing group of two male backing singers and a female violinist. The guys get into some folksy dance in the background and it all comes across very happy and summery, like a midsummer festivities or something...  handclapping included! Would this do the trick? At least the audience love it!
After that we are treated to big names who have taken part from Nana Mouskouri to Julio Iglesias, from Cliff Richard to Olivia Newton-John, t.A.T.u, Alla Pugatsova and Patricia Kaas....

Linn - Fatal moment
Linn looks like Grace Adler from Will & Grace dressed in black leather. The start of the song's staging is dramatic but it falls flat soon after and Linn, Seb and the backing singers can't lift the song. This can't qualify - can it? If it does I blame the west coast! They already made her get this far from the internet selection, that should be more than enough!

Eläkeläiset - Hulluna humpasta
I would like to just write No comment here and ignore this bullshit but I guess I can't. The guys all are seated and dressed in a humourous way - I suppose - except the accordeon player that runs around. A big smoking crazy clock completes the act (Why?). I suppose also raping a keyboard on stage during the instrumental part is funny?
Interviews with the artists follow with the recap and now we just wait for the qualifiers and the wildcard! But before that we have to suffer yet another humour act: connection to Oslo.... :-(
Thank heavens it was shorter than before and we go on to watch some sexy, risky performances from Eurovision... Keti Garbi, Helena Paparizou, Kalomoira, Sakis Rouvas, Mando.... oh well...


The first qualifier is.... Kuunkuiskaajat!!!!  The second one is... Eläkeläiset... and the third one is... Linn.... :-(
And the YLE's wildcard goes to.... Maria Lund!

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Jan1964 said…
Well, if Amadeus wants to switch to English I hope Heli Kajo or Kuunkuiskaajat win and do not switch to English.
12:40
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SONGS OF THE YEAR 2015: #5 KRISTA SIEGFRIDS - ON & OFF

Krista Siegfrids is delivering nice pop tunes one after another and this one is particularly catchy and soon you will be singing along..... Hopefully her Melodifestivalen entry will be equally good!
Post a Comment
Read more

ESC 2016 WISH LIST: MARGARET FOR POLAND

Małgorzata Jamroży aka Margaret has also been tipped for Eurovision and apparently she did turn it down but she'd be perfect. She's got a look and persona you can't unnotice nor forget, she's got hit songs, she has been voted or nominated for everything from Trendy artist to the Hope of the Year, Fashion Icon and Glamour Woman of the year besides the usual best video, song, album, debut..... Oh she's also a fashion designer! She's very clever with social medias and would surely use it to her advantage if selected for Stockholm 2016. Her debut album is titled Add the blonde , do we need to say more? Except it includes mostly Swedish written pop tunes like Tell me how are ya , Wasted , Start a fire and Heartbeat . And of course her debut single and internationally noticed Thank you very much that you can enjoy below with all its anti-textil feel. I think she's Eurovision perfection, she's cheeky and fun, can we have her?
Post a Comment
Read more

ESC 2016 BELARUS: NAKED WITH WOLVES?

Today's funniest Eurovision related story comes from Belarus. Some sources claim Ivan wants to perform on stage naked and with live wolf or wolves. It surely would be a first on Eurovision stage! We have seen some forgotten underwear over the years, and some cardbox animals though..... Is it time to take things a bit further?  No, according the rules live animals are not allowed, and Eurovision being a family show nudity won't do either. (It seems to be ok to be half naked if you are a dancer though..... )
Post a Comment
Read more

GREECE: HELENA PAPARIZOU HITS AGAIN WITH HAIDE

Eurovision song contest 2005 winner Helena Paparizou has been enjoying Top-5 hits every year since 2003 with the exception of 2010 and 2014, this latest one being already her 27th! And Haide is charting also in Bulgaria and Finland, of all places. The catchiness of her hits has changed less over the years than her face....  Here's the English version , below the Greek version. 
Post a Comment
Read more

TIM SCHOU AND HIS NAKED GRAVITY

Tim Schou has a pretty good solo career going since he left his friends in London. He's travelling the world and relesing songs and videos. The latest one is a great track and comes with a steamy video that kinda takes away from the song really. But who's complaining. If you got it, flaunt it. Enjoy the video below. This post coming after the other Dane, Rasmus Seebach as wishlist for Eurovision. To think about it, Tim would do nicely, too. Maybe he should give it another go?
Post a Comment
Read more
Post a Comment
Read more

CONCHITA WURST RELEASES YOU ARE UNSTOPPABLE VIDEO

Just awhile before her debut album simply titled Conchita will be released Conchita Wurst has released a video to her latest single You are unstoppable . And yes, she does Loreen or goes topless. Beautifully shot in black and white the video once again provides some beautiful imaginary and shots. And she's off to Australia for promotion soon..... 
Post a Comment
Read more

SWEDEN: MEDS MAKES MÅNS ZELMERLÖW HARD AND NAKED

Earlier this year Måns Zelmerlöw invested some of his money into web pharmacy MEDS and now he's ready to bare it all for its advertising film, which is.... how to put it? The corniest thing I have seen for a long, long time perhaps? Supposed to be funny the way his Eurovision presenting stunts were I presume, but this falls somewhere between embarassing and uncool. Well, we get to admire some over acrting and a lot of naked Måns riding a horse and sporting a hard on at one point. Maybe that's enough to make MEDS a success.... Where's Edward af Sillen when you need him?
Post a Comment
Read more

CAROLA'S BOOBS STEAL THE SHOW, SVT APOLOGIES

Update! Another thing got Swedes talking last night: Carola's boobs when she was giving away an award. This is not the first time her boombs cause headlines; her misfortunate adventures in the 80's in Japan wer explained with her boobs being too big for Japanese market. Ok.... Or was it the song ? Anyways, Carola apologies and says she thinks the dress is stylish and elegant (even her friends said so) and she's a mature woman in her 40s, not a 16-year-old girl and looks like one. The Swedish Oscars, Guldbagge awards were given out last night. Carola was there as a guest star to sing Barbra Streisand's The way we were when honoring the movie stars who passed away during 2012. However, the cameras were too much on Carola, not on the stars showed in photos in the background and that upset many viewers as that part of the show was to celebrate them, not Carola. Oh well...  The producer of the show tells in Aftonbladet the part of the show was made the sam...
2 comments
Read more

EUROVISION 2025 PORTUGAL: NAPA WINS FESTIVAL DA CANCAO 2025

Portugal's Festival da Canção 2025 also reached the final after two semi-finals. The winner was chosen by 50/50 regional juries and televotes. For me once again one of the best and most interesting national finals, a true contrast to Melodifestivalen's polished boredom and playing it so safe also here it seemed beforehand a duel between two: for international fandom Josh vs national popular Fernando Daniel with Henka in for a possible surprise. And yes, Portugal did Portugal and unlike San Marino and Sweden where things went as scripted - except Sweden did the unthinkable finish against all odds - chose Napa that no one abroad saw coming.... nor in Portugal I guess watching those votes going everywhere and so different from the juries and televotes Napa (ex Men on the Couch) is a Portuguese indie rock pop band since 2013. Francisco Sousa, João Guilherme Gomes, João Rodrigues, Diogo Góis and  João Lourenço Gomes are from the island of Madeira. Switch from English to Portuguese,...
Post a Comment
Read more