Comments on: Andorre, null point, or… http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/andorre-null-point-or/ European Opinion Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sredna http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/andorre-null-point-or/comment-page-1/#comment-8202 Sredna Sun, 22 May 2005 22:33:34 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1351#comment-8202 Grave disappointment here in Sweden, as our contribution "Las Vegas", performed by Martin Stenmarck, only got 30 points and ended up at place no 19. Sweden will actually have to qualify to get a place in the final next year. How could this happen?!?! Well, considering that SWEDEN chose to enter a song about an AMERICAN city when competing in the EUROvision Song Contest, we shouldn't be too surprised that the rest of Europe wasn't too thrilled. Talk about missing the point... Next year we're putting ABBA back together and making them do "Waterloo". That's in Europe, by the way. Grave disappointment here in Sweden, as our contribution “Las Vegas”, performed by Martin Stenmarck, only got 30 points and ended up at place no 19. Sweden will actually have to qualify to get a place in the final next year. How could this happen?!?!

Well, considering that SWEDEN chose to enter a song about an AMERICAN city when competing in the EUROvision Song Contest, we shouldn’t be too surprised that the rest of Europe wasn’t too thrilled. Talk about missing the point… Next year we’re putting ABBA back together and making them do “Waterloo”. That’s in Europe, by the way.

]]> By: Tobias http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/andorre-null-point-or/comment-page-1/#comment-8201 Tobias Sun, 22 May 2005 07:58:41 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1351#comment-8201 Oh, the irony in the way the Germans approached the contest this year, starting with kicking off the national party on Hamburg's Reeperbahn with Melanie C's "next best superstar" while said "superstar" (Gracia, the German act, had come forth (I think) in the first series of German Idol) was preparing for another old European debacle in Kiew... Germany 4 points! I guess now she'll do exactly what her title predicted : run and hide ;). Maybe these 4 points answer the last remaining questions about why her producer had to buy her records for himself to ensure a chart entry for this song... even though parts of it reminded me strongly of the beginning of Linda Perry's 1993 hit "What's up" ... oh, and I bet Ralf Siegel had a wonderful evening. One of my favorite quotes about the Contest is from the Irish Times (1998): "Germans have a general, if somewhat unfair, reputation for humourlessness." Unfair. Exactly. And now we can even make fun of ourselved ;)... Oh, the irony in the way the Germans approached the contest this year, starting with kicking off the national party on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn with Melanie C’s “next best superstar” while said “superstar” (Gracia, the German act, had come forth (I think) in the first series of German Idol) was preparing for another old European debacle in Kiew… Germany 4 points! I guess now she’ll do exactly what her title predicted : run and hide ;) . Maybe these 4 points answer the last remaining questions about why her producer had to buy her records for himself to ensure a chart entry for this song… even though parts of it reminded me strongly of the beginning of Linda Perry’s 1993 hit “What’s up” … oh, and I bet Ralf Siegel had a wonderful evening.

One of my favorite quotes about the Contest is from the Irish Times (1998): “Germans have a general, if somewhat unfair, reputation for humourlessness.” Unfair. Exactly. And now we can even make fun of ourselved ;) …

]]> By: vaara http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/andorre-null-point-or/comment-page-1/#comment-8200 vaara Sun, 22 May 2005 05:29:54 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1351#comment-8200 One interesting trend this year was the increased use of national languages in many of the songs. Unfortunately, the winning Greek entry wasn't one of them. One interesting trend this year was the increased use of national languages in many of the songs. Unfortunately, the winning Greek entry wasn’t one of them.

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