Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Blech. The winner is the most annoying little kid ever sent to the Eurovision Song Contest. Maybe they might consider renaming it the Eurovision Shout Contest, given his, erm, vocals.

My vote went to Estonia's Urban Symphony, for a beautiful song and excellent show. They got disgracefully few votes!



As it happens, I thought the best song by far was Anastasiya Prikhodko's "Mamo", the Russian entry. However, when they did the song in the finals I thought it went very badly, and above all, the beautiful Anastasiya was wearing the most hideous "dress" of the whole evening. It was really sad, because as I said, I do think theirs was the best song of the night.



Of course, the most beautiful woman in the Eurovision Song Contest made her only, fleeting appearance in the first semi-final: Julia Volkova.


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Of course, Finland and Waldo's People came dead last. I didn't actually think we were going to do that badly, but given how awful the Finnish time machine back to 1989 was, no-one should be surprised. I'm just going to say that Signmark wouldn't have come in last! It's disappointing but unsurprising that after Lordi, Finland has returned to the tried and true line of picking ridiculous artists who have no chance of even doing well. First Teräsbetoni, now this.

Of course, the post-ESC highlight of the year will be in the British media. I can't wait to see how they explain why their awful, hideously boring song didn't win because of bloc voting, corruption, Godzilla and global warming. Until then!