Eurovision 2012(Azerbaijan)
 

I can't believe we're so close to 2012, years pass too quick:)

We can discuss about your countries' participations and songs.

We already have Ivı Adamou for Cyprus and Miro Smajda for Slovakia.

Miro's song called Baby is nice to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ifT5pSQhyw

France decided to send Anggun to Eurovision this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsqAKPjye4U

Great ! We will not win ! :D

No money to spend on Eurovision in France. :o

I found a new torture method.

It was not the right song to introduce her, shame on me:) You should know this beautiful song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXyPTmliNs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3-JT-8iDG0

Spain will send this beautiful lady with wonderful voice.

Argos, send Trackshittaz this time!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezwJT68jB_w

No chance, I guess. Their song is just average, not like last year's hit. Add the fact that Vienna's gay community decides who will represent Austria (and those guys hate rap and rock), and you'll have no doubt about their perspective.

9 out of 10 candidates are now known. You can compare their performances at their introduction this Monday here. The favourites are the first one, "!DelaDap" (made the best impression to me) and the last two, Valerie ( :bum: ) and Conchita Wurst ( :bum: :bum: :bum: ), the darling of the aforesaid community. The 10th competitor will be from rapper Sido's artificial band out of his tv casting soap opera 'Blockstars' (currently running on Austrian TV), with absolutely no chance, they are a hopeless case.

In summary, "!DelaDap" have the only decent song, but are like most Austrian candidates just for small stages, while "Trackshittaz" are the only ones able to perform on big stage, but with a song not even worth mentioning.

I think Trackshittaz is still pure fun! Worse than last year, I agree. This kind of weirdness from Austria went very well in 2003 and gave its best placement in last years, why can't it do it again?

And what about Russia, Argos?

Russia's candidates are usually introduced very late, and the selection will be on February 26, so it is a bit early for the question, but in contrast to the last years we have already some names in the media, although nothing is known about their songs. Polina Gagarina, one of Russia's best singers, newcomer Sergej Savin, who is protege of Alla Pugachova, Nastya Zadorozhnaya (Neposedy friend of Lena and Yulya), Buranovskie Babushki, the Ukrainian Quest Pistols and the rock groups Zveri, Haki and Fadeev's emo-band Kit-I are among of them.

But best of all, somebody out there (not in a tatu forum!) told that the only promising candidate would be Yulya Volkova - she has the voice of an opera-diva. :laugh:

Im not gonna be surprised if she appear there frankly :D

OMG I love Quest Pistols and I hope very much that they will be selected sometime!!!!

Yesterday I watched the Ukrainian decision, more to watch the next scandal than for musical reasons. Well, no scandal unfortunately, but quite a good competition. It lacked the really great songs and performances but the quality of almost all the songs and performances was at least above average, even the bloody amateurs were hardly any worse than the professionals.

The winner is Gajtana (Gajta Lourdes Essami her true name) with the song Be My Guest, by far not one of her best songs, but she showed as always a remarkable stage presence.

Second was Max Barskih with Dance. A good entry, but not exactly a winner song.

The opera singer Oksana Nesterenko became third, with a song from the German ESC-composer Oldie Ralph Siegel, Mondo Blu. Great voice and not a bad composition.

My personal favourite was Renata Stiefel with the song Love In Sunlight Rays, not only because it was written by Alyosha, who represented Ukraine in 2010. Unfortunately the young lady is practically unknown, so she didn't even have to expect a lot of SMS votes, however she won that part of the vote with huge margin. The professional jury obviously had a presentiment of that and voted her only at No. 16 of 21 contestants, the total result was No. 6 then. Seems very unfair, but it's understandable. Which neighbour country would vote for her in Baku, if nobody knows her?

My highlight of the evening was in the part during the voting with Zlata Ognevich's performance of One Day. Her producer composed the song for Eurovision, but after the nerve-kililing scandal of last year there was no way to persuade her for another ESC competition.

Max was way better than this shit.

Turkish entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYryT0w2XTc

Trackshittaz won the Austrian selection against all odds and Baku is spared the performance of the beard-woman. Anyway, the song contest will never be the same any more. The village disco rappers will change Eurovision forever with their "Shake your bum!" (Woki mit deim Popo!)

Their self-evaluation: "We don't meet the highest standards!" (Oh really? :D ). Whatever, The future of ESC is rural-proletarian! :coctail:

Romours say that Yulia Volkova :) has recorded a song with Dima Bilan for Eurovision.

Unfortunately it's not a rumour anymore. Dima's officials hinted that the song will premiere in two days.

So far the almost sure (better known) candidates for next week's selection will be Karina Koks (ex-Slivki), Shinshilly, Elena Terleeva (yummy!), Buranovskie babushki, Bilan & Volkova (ouch!), Timati & Aida (help!), Ed Shul'zhevskij, 4Post, probably Pavla, Mark Tishman.

Alltogether - looks like a desperate crowd. Russia has again serious trouble to get interesting artists for the selection.

I like Ed Shulzevskij and Mark Tishman. Yul and Dima.. Hmm.. I don't think they will win but I guess it's good for their careers. Let's hope the song is not as shitty as aboy

I would love to see them in Eurovision. Would be a reason to watch but I don't have high expectations because it's a hard competition in Russian selection.

Ok, Russian selection on March 07, 2012 - the list of the desperados:

01. Lena Maksimova
02. Ksenona
03. Irson Kudikova
04. Group "The UPS"
05. Sardor
06. Group "4Post"
07. Efrosiya
08. Group "Unite It"
09. Katya Savel'eva
10. Ol'ga Makovetskaya
11. René
12. Duet "Farinelli Balls"
13. Polina Smolova
14. Chinkong feat. Karina
15. Marie Carné
16. Mark Tishman
17. Ed Shul'zhevskij
18. Elena Ekimova
19. Yuliya Volkova & Dima Bilan
20. Riff Action Family
21. Aida & Timati
22. Pavla
23. Duet "Syostry Syo"
24. Group "Buranovskie Babushki".
25. Group "Jet Kids"

This will gonna hurt for sure! Looks quite embarrassing. Some of the good people obviously retracted their submission, like Sergej Savin and Lena Terleeva.

Mark Tishman's ESC entry.

I don't honestly think that Dima&Yulia's song will be worse than this :)

It's written by our already well-known Swedish quintett, so definitely not a musical disaster (though not really creative, I suppose). What I heard so far from the possible entries of the others it seems to become very ...eh... hard to get used to. Buranovskie babushki or Dima&Yulya, that's what I would guess. With Dima and Yana very close to the leaders of the channel chances might be even better. Depends probably whether Yul can give a good live performance or not.

Made me laugh :D

Well if she has her "backing" singer :D

From the rehearsal.

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

Not bad! and Yulia could sing in tune:)

I can hardly hear her. LQ. Lets wait for tonight. So far I think I will like the song. I always liked these kind of ballads. And I have nothing against Dima. I even like his first couple of albums.

Julia Volkova ft Dima Bilan - Back to her future (live @ Russian eurovision final)

edit: I edited link with HQ one

What do you have to do as channel "Rossiya's" bosses, if you want Dima another time at the ESC? Let only the worst of Russia's showbiz perform against your favourite and wait for the people's choice - total shit or Dima?

On the bright side - Yulya did NOT blow it! She was a sexy and seducing partner for Dima and did her part well (within the limits of her vocal abilities, of course). Waiting for the decision...

...and the dental prothesis gang (horrible "song") won considerably ahead of Dima & Yulya and Timati & Aida. Sorry. wrong decision!

You were wrong argos. Buranovskie babushki won :D

...with their worst thing ever. That's something for a beer party, not for a song contest! By the way, besides the Bilan-Volkova performance I liked only the somewhat exotic entries (The Ups - ok, the singing wasn't perfectly clean, Farinelli Balls, Riff Action Family and the Syo Sisters). The rest was as expected - simply dispensable.

It's pure fun and totally understandable that Babushki have won. But Dima&Yulia would score much higher in the real contest. So no chance for Russia to win, I predict it will be out of top 10.

Yes, Trackshittaz and the hopping grannies, ESC is on the way to a monkey business :bum:

And with the latest British entry it's like retirement home...

(c) Julia on German entry. Eurovision 2003. Oh, how wrong she was!

BAHAHAHA too funny. But I did like their performance. Yulia looked nice! Too bad about the old ladies 0_0

Will it be more ridiculous than last year - if that is even possible?

It will really hurt this time! :bum:

haha, I'm thinking what it should be...
but it's like a car crash as they say, you can't stop watching

Hope we get at least something remotely decent this time around. The Greeks are sending a song this year at all?

Should be announced today.

Update: bueeeh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICn_l7yOrrw

she will be in a Sirinakis porn video before too long :lol:
you'd think the idiots would stop partying and think of their situation
But then again we'll get plenty of points - just make sure the camera angles are exactly the same for the final ;)
the second time you listen to it sounds boring already, so keep the camera low.


anyway thanks for the update, Argos