DUNCAN LAURENCE IS THE EUROVISION 2019 WINNER!!!

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 images during Eleni's Lasha tumbai, or was she only so energetic?

But for the rest a great show with wonderful interval acts. The Måns/Eleni/Conchita/Verka was great fun and Gali Atari joining in to do Hallelujah was a touching moment. Loved Idan Raichel, and the opening number with Ilanir, Guadj and Dana International.

Not a fan of Netta's new song but she warmed us up to Madonna's reggae tones with her reggae tones. Madonna's performance a bit random - was it my impression or wasn't the arena into her? On tv screen you didn't catch a big enthuasism really...
San Marino and North Macedonia scored their best ever while Spain, UK and Germany continued their string of bottom places while Italy once again confirmed being an Eurovision power nation, with 7th Top-10 in 9 years and 3rd podium. And Sergey finished 3rd again.

This is to Dreaming big, this is to music first! Always!

1. The Netherlands (Jury 231 + televotes 261) 492

2. Italy (212 + 253) 465

3. Russia (125 + 244) 369

4. Switzerland (148 + 212) 360

5. Norway (47 + 291) 338

6. Sweden )239 + 93) 332

7. Azerbaijan (197 + 100) 297

8. North Macedonia (237 + 98) 295

9. Australia (154 + 131) 285

10. Iceland (48 + 186) 234

11. Czech Republic (150 + 7) 157

12. Denmark (69 + 51) 120

13. Slovenia (46 + 59) 105

14. France (67 + 38) 105

15. Cyprus (69 + 32) 101

16. Malta (75 + 20) 95

17. Serbia (38 + 54) 92

18. Albania (43 + 47) 90

19. Estonia (38 + 48) 86

20. San Marino (16 + 65) 81

21. Greece (47 + 24) 71

22. Spain (7 + 53) 60

23. Israel (12 + 35) 47

24. Germany (32 + 0) 32

25. Belarus (18 + 13) 31

26. United Kingdom (13 + 3) 16

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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!

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?

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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..... )

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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.

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...

FINLAND: CONGRATS HANNA PAKARINEN - BABY IS COMING!

No more leave me alones as Eurovision 2007 veteran Hanna Pakarinen has published in her Youtube channel a video unboxing the Finnish state's maternity box aka layette set thus announcing she's due to have a baby later this spring. Congratulations!

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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?

ESC 2016 ARMENIA: IT'S IVETA MUKUCHYAN!

Armenian tv has revealed tonight the name of their artist for the 2016 Eurovision song contest in Stockholm. It's 29-year-old Iveta Mukuchyan. Born in Yerevan she moved with her family to Germany when she was 6. At 23 she moved back to Armenia and continued her music studies. She has taken part in the Armenian Pop Idol finishing 5th in 2010 and she also did The Voice of Germany . In 2012 she was voted the Sexiest Armenian. Armenian tv has made a call for songwriters all over the world to submit a song for her by November 13, 2015. Let's see which direction the final choice will go, Freak or her latest release that you can hear below.... Whatever it is it will be an improvement from last year's fiasco.....

Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

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