Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

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Here are some sounds to fight PED. Enjoy! Jalisse covers another Eurovision veteran, Matia Bazar

Oh my, from a series You got one job. After Belarus jury was sacked when they leaked who voted and how in the semi-final someone messed the votes of aggregated votes EBU generated to replace the jury (the same way San Marino's televotes are being generated). Or in short: the votes were given backwards or the last one (in this case Israel) got 12 points, second to last 10 and so on.... And indeed, I remember wondering and laughing out for those votes in the live broadcast as they were simply rather insane and akward.  Now the votes have been corrected and even if there is no change in the top-4 after that it gets messy, and even The Netherlands lead to Italy is now only 26 points. The jury winner was North Macedonia instead of Sweden, but in combined results Sweden passes the televoting winner Norway and they change places; Sweden 5th and Norway 6th. Also North Macedonia climbs one spot passing Azerbaijan to 7th as they switch places. San Marino also climbs one place to 19th sw...

Remember Breath easy by Blue? It was released in Italy with Italian lyrics by Tiziano Ferro and went to #1 in Italy holding that position for 8 consegutive weeks and in the Top-20 for six months! Now another Eurovision veteran Il Volo have recorded it for their Musica album. Enjoy!

Now that The Netherlands won the Eurovision song contest again after 44 years wait all eyes turn to Spain. Their last win was back in 1969, 50 years ago. Malta is still waiting for their first win after 48 years. France has been waiting since 1977, that's 42 years. Cyprus ( 38 years) and Iceland ( 33 years) are still waiting along with Malta for the first win. But The Netherlands proved it is possible. Even more so the Eurovision underdogs Finland and Portugal that both finally won, after 45 and 53 years! Ireland is still leading the winner's table with seven wins (four of them in the 1990's) followed by Sweden with six, two of them in this decade. The Netherlands joined France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg in the five wins club while Israel has four.  A total of 25 countries are still waiting for the first win and 15 of them has never made the Top-3, with Andorra never even making the final.  In te last decade 39 countries have made it to Top-10, an...

It's been less than two days since Duncan Laurence sung his Arcade to the Eurovision victory and gave The Netherlands their fifth win after 44 years after Ding-a-dong in 1975. Already ten venues in eight cities have showed interest to host Eurovision 2020, added by the whole region of North Brabant.... later specified capital s'-Hertogenbosch's Brabanthallen as the venue.  The front runners are Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam but also places like Arnhem, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Zwolle and The Hague, the host of 1976 and 1980 editions. It's a bit like when Finland won all sort of Rovaniemi and Lahti wanted to be game and quoting Duncan "bidding is a losing game" for them from the start. Simply because they don't have a suitable venue to start with. or they do and it doesn't have a roof..... But then we have Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome (17.000) and Amsterdam RAI (13.000), already a host for the 1970 contest, and Rotterdam's Ahoy (16.000) with ...

Loving him wasn't the losing game Why I have a feeling they don't know what they're doing? One big Eurovision family One is very happy, the other.... not so much propably Everyone loves Mahmood Christer missed his first Eurovision final since... well.... 1991? Hospitalized and waiting for a surgery he's about to spent some extra time in Israel The day of departures.... .. and time to focus on 2020! Season 2019 has been a lot of fun, thanks for sharing! Zie je volgend jaar in Nederland!

Whoever got the idea of that backdrop is a genius! L-o-v-e! Last night's interval act included 1979 winner Gali Atari singing her entry Hallelujah joined by other Eurovision winners Conchita Wurst and Måns Zelmerlöw and runner ups Eleni Foureira and Verka Serduchka. (From 8mins 45) That was already third time the song has featured in the Eurovision final as also last time Israel hosted the show back in 1999 it was there, and even closing the show - the only time the show has ended with some other song than the winner btw - when then winner Charlotte Perrelli then Nilsson was joined on stage by all the toher artists to sing it for the memory of Balcan war victims (on video from 3h 10mins onwards) And of course it was also sun in 1979 contest when it won at home soil in Jerusalem. The song is a true classic with many meanings. 

23 points and last in its semi-final, third to last or 39th/41 overal if you count all the songs. That's a big slap in face to YLE and UMK who propably hoped they were 11th in their semi. Most remarkable is Finland got only 23 points when the second to last in its semi, Montenegro, got the double: 46. Finlang got points from the juries: Greece 4, Spain 2, Australia 2 and Poland 1.  And from televoters: 12 Estonia (and we all know these are mainly from Finns staying in Estonia), and 2 from Iceland. Not really worth celebrating, is it? How Finns voted? No surprise the televoters 12 went to Iceland, followed by 10 to Norway ( Monsters scandal well forgotten then, or was it because the past few days it was told everywhere and even several times during the broadcast that a Finn Henrik Tala is in it?), Estonia 8, Sweden 7, Australia 6, the Netherlands 5, Russia 4, Italy 3, Switzerland 2 and Slovenia 1 (!!!). Finns have no right to complain and talk about neighbouring voting. Th...

The Netherlands score their first win since 1975, and their 5th, with Duncan Laurence's Arcade. It was juries 3rd and televoters 2nd (Norway won that!) just by 8 points over Italy. Italy was juries 4th. The real surprise was North Macedonia that won the jury vote but was only 121th with the televoters. Sweden was once again juries favorite placing 2nd but televoters didn't buy it and had it only 9th. Sweden got 10 times 12 points, Italy, the Nertherlands and North Macedonia six, Czech Republic 4, Australia 2 and Russia, Serbia, Denmark, Israel, Greece, Azerbaijan and Cyprus one. Needless to say Greece and Cyprus gave them to each other, as did Russia and Azerbaijan. The Russian jury vote was the most random at first glance.  Iceland managed to provocate in the end sporting Palestine scarf when their televotes were announced... A lot of camera mistakes, and one of them during Estonian performance, as well as sound problems at least at my place. Also a lot pixeling i...

The show's about to star and it's going to be the longest one in recent history, we'll be nearing four hours after the longest voting window ever, apparently 57 minutes, the intervals by Netta, Dana International, Conchita Wurst, Måns Zelmerlöw, Eleni Foureira, Verka Serduchka, Gali Atari, Nadav Guedj, Ilanit, Idan Raichel, Gal Gadot and Madonna who will world premiere a new song Future with Quavo, and Like a prayer to celebrate its 30th anniversary.  The four hosts are Erez Tal, Bar Rafaeli, Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub in Expo Tel Aviv.  The juries voted last night during the jury final and tonight it's televoters turn. San Marino's votes tonight are generated by mysterious EBU way as it's a bit different to have televoting there as most people have Italian mobile phones and EBU hasn't agreed to the solution offered by SMRTV. But also Belarusian jury votes have been cancelled. They went public with their votes more or less that is of course forbidde...

Marcel Bezençon Awards 2019 have been announced and delivered just before the final tonight. The Marcel Bezençon Awards are divided into three categories: the Press Award (given to the best entry voted for by the accredited media), the Artistic Award (presented to the best artist voted for by the commentators) and the Composer Award (from a jury consisting of the participating composers who vote for the most original composition). Press Award - Duncan Laurence from The Netherlands Artistic Award - Kate Miller-Heidke from Australia Composer's Award -Mahmood, Dardust, Charlie Charles from Italy

Sergey's dropping in odds and takes example from Chingiz; show some skin and bulge up! Also KEiiNO are showing some muscle ahead of the final. Awww, little Arab boys.... ... enter Tamta..... Chingiz covered Harel finally. Netta Serduchka. Verka Wurst. Yet another Mahmood fan.... ... who got him do the doublechin. Zena the Flower Destroyer. Miki puts the cup on and ends the show. Oh, that's so cool. Go Kobi, my #2

Finland's Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman may have not made it to the final, but Finland is well present anyways. Sweden may have their songwriters, producers and dancers all over the place but Finland has its special effects, pyros and rains of fire. Oy Pyroman Finland is again behind most of all that, just like they were in Helsinki 2007, Belgrade 2008, Moscow 2009, Malmö 2013, Stockholm 2016, Kiev 2017 and now Tel Aviv 2019, and of course they were behind the most pyroesque performance ever in the Eurovision history, namely Lordi's winning performance in Athens 2006. But that's not all. The secret fourth member of KEiiNO from Norway is songwriter-producer Henrik Tala . A Finn.  And Ambra Succi , despite her name another Finn, is behind Malta's performance for Michela. She's no newbie either having done that for Jana Burceska, Poli Genova, Robin Stjernberg and most notably Loreen's winning performance. Among others. 

Eliot woke up and went to Dead Sea after defeat. Slavko's in town, too. Sovjet muscle beach. Don't be like Jurij. Use sunscreen! The wannabe and the Real Thing. National day in between rehearsals. I'm buying whatever he sells..... Chingiz Vs. Victor Victor Vs. Zena Vs. Bilal Tamta prepairing to go home... ... while Sarah rides to the sunset.....