Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

While the acts in  semi-final two are having their dress rehearsals in Liverpool, which I am not really following in any way let's sit back and have a look at the Big 5  performances by France, Germany and Italy in the first semi-final. Or actually in its Monday evening's second dress rehearsal. How come this is so high in odds? I mean I like the song, and she's fabulous but here it's all very dark really, she does look dramatic rather than looking like she's enjoying the staging that much. Is it that her wonderful personality has enchanted the fandom? I don't quite see the European wide audiences voting for this more than barely Top-10 if lucky. I hope I am wrong. From Lordi via AWS to Hatari and Blind Channel and now Lord of the Lost. Songs in this genre (loosely) have had mixed fortunes but I have a feeling this one is going to end up with the happier finishes. I think fandom is pretty much sleeping on this. Friends and people I know, non fans who only watch ...

Here it is! The incorruptible, infallible and most reliable Blogilkar's Home Jury made of people in their teens, 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's, mainly Finnish and mainly those who turn into Eurovision only on that one Saturday night, enjoy the show and that's it. Most everyone heard the songs for the first time so this was a true first impression judgement. And thus they had no idea about the fan polls, betting odds and trivial information and expectations. And boy did they turn those pools and odds around mostly, sinking some major favorites and enjoying some real underdogs. I will countdown the full ranking day by day until we have our winner out just before Liverpool is in full swing. This year I publish very few comments or opinions. Just the average score (we voted 1 to 10). In short this year is considered a bit poor by the jurors compared to for example last year and it may show in the somewhat low scores. Anyways: Enjoy! 15. GERMANY - Lord of the Lost - Bloo...

Germany has chosen. Lord of the Lost with Blood & glitter has won the German selection. Rarely the international juries and the local public have disagreed this much on the ranking! We'll see how this ends. Maybe the shock value of Lords was fresh 20 years ago, not anymore?  This said, this is maybe the most interesting German entry since... well..... For a long long time! And on a personal note I can say my two favorites won both the televote and the jury vote, so I'm quite pleased.  Results (jury + televote) 1. Lord of the Lost - Blood and glitter (43 + 146) 189 2. Ikke Hüftgold - Lied mit gutem Text (10 + 101) 111 3. Will Church - Hold on (90 + 21) 111 4. Trong - Dare to be different (52 + 19) 71 5. Lonely Spring - Misfit (40 + 30) 70 6. Anica Russo - Once upon a dream (57 + 8) 65 7. René Miller - Concrete heart (54 + 8) 62 8. Patty Gurdy - Melodies of hope (22 + 34) 56 Jury votes: Final result: