Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

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.....

 Chingiz at the low point aka Dead Sea, looking forward for the high point  Pensive John.  will she be 22 or 18?  Mahmood's time to visit Jerusalem.  Netta's pyjama party.  KEiiNO met toy Netta.  Waiter, there's a fave in my cappuccino!  So much sadness in one photo. Bromance, Class '19

 Mahmood & co enjoyed a mudful day at Dead Sea  Sergey found the sign.  Tamara found Old Jaffa.  Wake up, meditation over, Eliot!  Kate the Copycat.  Strike a face!  Ding dong, Krista is everywhere.  Lake Mudawi.    Wallflowers Darude & Sebastian.  One big Eurovision family.    Fuego!  Take me to your doublechin heaven.  Home is where the doublechin is.  Proud display of a tongue. Jump!

We have seen it all at Eurovision over the decades. Or so we think until someone brings something unseen before to the stage. This year it is Australia. We've had people on sticks and monocycles, but never before the artist herself on a swinging pole. Thumbs up to Kate!  Little drummer boy brings us back to 2004-05 era. Heaven & hell told by a monk. Flying above it all.   From angel to beast in 30 seconds. Storm. Never a dull moment in this 2nd half, is there? Opens up like a flower. Pretty in pink, vol.2

From 16 to 54, that's the (known*) age range of this year's Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv.  Zena from Belarus is the youngest turning 17 in September while San Marino's very own Turk Serhat will celebrate his 55th birthday in October. Malta's Michela, Belgium's Eliot and Croatia's Roko are also born in the 2000's. The oldest artists besides Serhat come from the north: Finland's Darude (43) and Sebastian Rejman (41) with Tom Hugo (39) of Norway's KEiiNO. They're also the only artists born in the 1970's (and  Serhat the only one in the 1960s). Nineteen artists were born in the 1990s - 1994 being the most common year (Ester, Luca, Nevena, Duncan, Srbuk and Sarah). Thirteen were born in the 1980's with 1989 having the most (Katerine, Oto, Lake Malawi's Albert, Paenda, Conan and Fred of KEiiNO).  One could say it's a very youthful edition. And a very masculine one, too. It's also a year of masks, crowns and und...

Eliot has released his entry Wake up  written by Pierre Dumoulin for Belgium in Eurovision song contest 2019. It's a midtempo pop ballad maybe missing a proper chorus, but it's atmospheric and pleasant to listen to and doesn't sound manufactured Eurovision song. Well done. I like it.