Well, it was no gossip. On their web site the channel made the announcement. The song is called "Get You" and has been written by RedOne. It will be presented for the first time on March 12th at the premiere of the show "Star Factory - Comeback" on Channel One of course.

Good for Russia!! Will come back to top 5 again!!

my question is....why the hell is Redone producing for Eurovision? Isnt he a bit past that?

He isn't producing for ESC, he is doing it for an upcoming international career of Alex Sparrow, for whom the contest is a good starting point. He allegedly wrote the whole album with him, which comes out in May (coincidence?).

Here is the Russian song, actually in English :)

Alex Sparrow - Get You
http://www.zshare.net/audio/874454767928ef39/

I like it, easy listening and catchy at the same time. Russia sould come back to top 5, might even win the whole thing.

Hey thanks! I can so imagine him stepping and stomping around - could be fun.

UK entry. Blue - I can
Song is typical boy-band-love-song structure thing. In this case I like it. And I love blue. Reminds me of teen years. :)

To me it's Albania's worst entry in Eurovision along with the 2006 one.

And I think Azerbaijan song is very good again but Blue or France could get the whle thing.

I owe you the first performance of Russia's entry a few days ago in 'Star Factory - Comeback', you know - the birdman...
Get You
Really not impressed - village disco - pffft!

I predict a top 5 position for Russia. Good looking fellow and an average song plus the country is Russia.

I agree that the 2006 entry was the worst. This song is in the same style, but I like it much better. I hope It will make it to go to the final night :ill:

Among this year's songs I like Latvia's song the best. I also like Poland(Robbie where are you? :D), Germany, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Russia, France, UK(Blue's song is not that impressive but a clear favourite),Azerbaijan,Denmark,Estonia and Ireland comes after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVH8lwmeQF0

Here comes the Eurovision week, tomorrow night is the first semi final! Let us know which countries will pass!!

For the first semi I think these will make it.


1. Poland Jestem Magdalena Tul
2. Norway Haba haba Stella Mwangi
3. Albania Feel the passion Aurela Gaçe
4. Armenia Boom boom Emmy / Էմմի
5. Turkey Live it up Yüksek Sadakat
7. Russia Get you Алексей Воробьёв
10. Finland Da da dam Paradise Oskar
14. Iceland Coming home Sjonni's Friends
18. Azerbaijan Running scared Eldar & Nigar
19. Greece Watch my dance Loukas Giorkas feat. Stereo Mike


From second semi this is my prediction before the show


1. Bosnia & Herzegovina Love in rewind Dino Merlin
2. Austria The secret is love Nadine Beiler
8. Sweden Popular Eric Saade
12. Israel Ding dong Dana International
13. Slovenia No one Maja Keuc
14. Romania Change Hotel FM
15. Estonia Rockefeller Street Getter Jaani
17. Latvia Angel in disguise Musiqq
18. Denmark New tomorrow A Friend in London
19. Ireland Lipstick Jedward

Mostly agreed, although some of them showed quite weak vocal performances. I was positively surprised by Russia, a far better performance than his TV premiere. And Georgia, despite the thin voice of the singer looked quite good too. Greece showed a very good act too, unfortunately their rapper was weak.

Overall there was a huge sea of mediocrity. None of the participants showed themselves as possible winners. Albania, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Hungary and Greece made the most positive impression on me. The Rotten Tomato goes to Lithuania. That was cruel, as well as Serbia, especially the outfits of the ladies.

edit:
the finalists are:

Serbia
Lithuania (oh horror!)
Greece
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Switzerland
Hungary
Finland (meeeh....:bum: )
Russia
Iceland

No Turkey, who were not bad at all, no Albania with a very good singer... :(

I cannot believe that Norway didnt get in.

Watching the rerun on the BBC -as I missed the live coverage earlier- and it looks cheap, where are the big productions, the big dresses, the big performances of bygone years? The songs were always crap but there was something interesting to watch on stage at least. But this year it doesn't look good so far. Looks unimaginative. Mediocrity is indeed the word...hopefully things will pick up for the final.

I thought Albania was good compared to what I heard so far, surprised they didn't make it...as for Norway I think African music doesn't normally cut it in the contest.

I liked Azerbaijan, Turkey, Greece - for which I didn't think much of before but compared to others it was a standout performance - Albania -shame that it didn't qualify, very poor decision; mostly the ones that didn't make it. Iceland was ok for that style but Finland wasn't. Serbia was terrible, especially the faux 50's concept. Russia, well, the performance was ok but it's not my kind of song. Lithuania was something like a poor Celine Dion from something like 30 years ago. :bum:
There were lots of rubbish pop songs, overall, much less variety, the folk/ethnic element seems to be disappearing altogether which is a shame.

So France is like the huge favourite to win the contest?, I haven't even listened to their song. I have been particularly slow in catching up this year. I only listened to Blue and the Greek song before tonight :o

So if France doesn't win this year who's gonna be? Every other song gives fantastic odds for betting, for example the UK pay 11/1 and they're 3rd favourites! Azerbaijan 2nd favourites, 9/1. Any predictions?

and can somebody tell me why is Italy back in the contest with a song sung in English (ENGLISH? Italian is THE language for song... are they insane? )
And how can Germany send the same girl who won last year - is that even allowed?

Eurovision has surely gone mad!

PS.

wow, I can't see how France will lose this year, the guy is like the new Andrea Bocelli. And Corsican sound pretty much like Italian. The bookies always know where to put their money on.

As for Lena from Germany..I thought the first 30 seconds were weird and then it was boring after a minute or so...not good, if one can't tolerate the 3 minutes of a Eurovision song which is supposed to be lighthearted material...she will finally be exposed for the mediocrity that she is this time around ;)

Everyone should be happy that Turkey is not in the final :)