well, not to be stereotypical, but.... :lol: that explains it all! And on the other hand, my parents like tATu .. and Antique :lol: ..that's not to say that they dont have plenty of ABBA cds as well, but i think that goes with the generation, though they would always go for a Russian 'retro HIT' than ABBA :heh:

forre, actually now that i really listened to the songs - I think The Roma is a bit 'too boring' for me, so I might actually go 'wild' and chenge my vote for the 'Butterfly/80s' song :D sang by the B-Boys

Fair enough but then the same rule applies for the Joey/4 -Non Blondes comparison. But if you isolate some parts of "Las Vegas" and "Hit the Road Jack" and compare them they sound exactly the same but on a different pace.
Didn't think that some people would have the nerve to copy a Eurovision song only a few years apart. That one was funny.

Any more suggestions?

Bosnia=Chain Reaction. There might be some reference there. Shakira: Ojos Asi = UK?
ok, more of a remote comparison that one...

Maybe if I only heard Chain Reaction. :)

coolasfcuk, You are right, anyone out of those 3 could do better than Las Vegas. No, none of the 3 were even in the National final, so imagine the taste of swedes. They seem to loose the touch with Eurovision.

I saw Swedish voting result in this year's semi-final. So top 4 countries they voted 4 were:
Denmark
Norway
Finland
Iceland

Hi-hi .. after that they blaim another nations voting politically! :bum:

:laugh:
they blame others? :lol: the Balkans, eh?
OMG, such hypocritical calm and honest swedes! :flag: Here's an advice for you, just stick to your 'privacy' custom, and dont put your nose in others people's business, that is our job - the barbarians from the Balkans! :heh:

Here

Do I hear "fornicates" in the Bosnian song? Maybe it's just me :p
But you can't really accuse them of "plagiarism" cuase those old songs are so much better than the ESC ones. There's a difference in class there.

It was "all it takes", not "fornicates" :eek:

That is a big misconception actually. Lets all cast our minds back to last year's Euro match between Sweden and Denmark :p

You actually can as the songs are built the same way. They have a key for the verse and then used the same key for the refrain + tone up and further tone up in the second part of the refrain. The tempo differs a lot but if to run Dina Ross song in the 120 bieats/sec., you'll see that the songs are the same.

Verdict: "Call Me" by Feminem is a PLAGIAT! :bebebe:

Zdob si Zdub ( the Moldovan entry and possibly the only original act to appear in the final ) copied the riff from one of their older songs for Boonika Bate Toba. Well, not exactly plagiarism but a good riff nonetheless.

Zdob & Zdub theme song:

sunny do you know what the "casa mare" is? :confused:

well spy, I doubt this can be called actually copying with Zdob & Zdub.. its just their stye they r known for and no wonder they repeat themselves at times lol
Song u posted is the first one I herad of theirs I think.. was a big hit here. But when it comes to lyrics, u should ask Killa I guess :p I heard only 2 songs of Zdubs in russian.. their cover for Vedeli Noch and Ty Menya Ostavila =) rest are in anything but russian. moldovian or romanian.. i never know such things.

Moldovian does not exist as an individual language. its just Romanian spoken with a russian accent and with some regionalisms. So in Moldova they either speak Russian or Romanian. Actually it would be more fair to say that they speak mostly Russian and try to re-learn Romanian.

spy, this is what i said too a few pages back: they copied an instrumental part from "Zdubii bateti tare", their first song (the one you posted), for "Bunica bate toba".
and "casa mare" = "the big house"

Yeah I've got the album from a p2p. It's mostly rap metal, except for that bit,which is more ethnic, the direction they took ever since. Haven't checked their other albums yet.

I wanted to say that, in retrospect, my favourite song from 2003 was Norway's: Jostein Hassegaard - I'm Not Afraid To Move On. Not that it makes any difference but spy's favs for this millemium are:

2005 Moldova now ;)
2004 Cyprus
2003 Norway
2002 Romania ( I'd put Greece again but I'd be biased plus the song flopped ;) )
2001 Greece
2000 Latvia

half of them ballads :eek: