It's theee ... EUROVISION THREAD !

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ok ppl, who are your favorites ? what do you think about your country's song this year ?

a big suprise for me this year was first time participant azerbaijan's entry. ok I know some of you will hate it but I'm a sucker for all these angel-vampire-devil crap. The song itself is not bad too, though I try not to hear the lyrics.

an interesting thing this year is the double semi finals. a measure to break the power of the eastern bloc it seems. I wonder how well it will work ?

another suprise for me was an alternative entry for azerbaijan. the end by unformal. This is a very very cool song, though I can understand why it didn't make it cause it's too heavy. But it's very original.

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for those of you outside of europe, you can watch the live stream here, the second semifinals should start in a few hours.

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spain is one of my favorites too

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france has sent a song in English ! A first in eurovision history I believe ! I'm impressed ! Good song too !

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greece has sent a nice song with combines hip hop (?) with traditional greek melodies ... nice one neighbor ! (cool chick too)

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who chooses the entries for UK folk ? do you vote for it or is it BBC job ?

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I think Andy did as well as he could and he deserved better. But we all know why UK performs poorly in the last years.

1 - No friendly neighboring countries (well maybe except from Ireland ?) If you guys participate seperately (like, wales, scotland, etc) you'll do better.

2 - UK being perceived as 'non-european' from central europeans perpective. So you can't even get points from western european countries.

3 - lack of interest in the whole affair. I'm not sure about this, but did andy promote his song in other european countries ?

unfortunately, yeah, eurovision is no longer a 'music contest' (for a long time actually) but I still find the whole affair entertaining