I'll cry if the UK win. I hate Andrew Lloyd Webber. He's such a dweeb and all he writes is soppy dribble.

They won't, she's horrible. :D
So that's the best Lloyd Webber can do these days?

Everything,
The voice, the style, sounds a bit like Russian. It surely don't sound like Nordic. Oh and the guy is Russian isn't he? I mean Russian-Norwegian.

Alexander Rybak (born in Minsk, Soviet Union (now Belarus) on May 13, 1986

( ok Belarussian, then )

His song is good and has the potential to get a lot of points from both the East and the West blocs. And judging from this and the Estonian entry it looks like folk might take over as the dominant style at the contest. Anything to get away from the ethnic disco, it's really starting to get on my nerves now.
Though I'm not sure how Estonia was allowed to participate after the Banana Splits" inspired" number they sent last year ( more like a copy note by note of the splits :p )

From that to this. Only at Eurosvision.

Hehehe, indeed he's Belarissuan and you can hear the influence from his home land (this wasn't why I asked what you meant by russian btw, hehe), but I personally think the song is very norwegian folky too, allthough very popped up. It's not something very new around here at least, and the fiddle is like taken straight out of a norwegian fairytale. :)

What do you think of Greece? :rolleyes:

The hosts haven't been announced yet, right? You should speak English and French, hmm, ta-ta, what about our universal weapon and friend, Sergey Lazarev? I would be sooo happy for him, huh! Together with Topalov... :D

No chance, it's Channel One! That's rather Sasha Tsekalo with Vera Brezhneva or Andrej Malahov with Anna Semenovich (she has two outstanding talents :lol: ).

i soooooo cannot wait!!! :)

Well, I know it's bloody Channel 1... Oh please, not Malahov... and can these two talents of Semenovich pronounce French numbers correctly? :coctail:

I hope it'll be Ivan Ugrant. He's so funny and... handsome.

Typical Eurovision. It's neither good or bad -> just Eurovision. LOL.

I haven't checked all entries yet but I liked Estonia so far. Don't understand all hype about the Norwegian dude. The song is so-so and he sings so-so too. A cute slavic guy with violin and confidence? Well, maybe. It's cute and people like when it's cute.

Female host has been announced.It's Milla Jovovich!

Her name has been spread for a month now and the channel told that they want to keep the hosts as a secret until the final, but obviously we will see Jovovich and Ivan Urgant there. The semi finals seem fixed too with Andrej Malahov and Alsou. Although I'm sure that Malahov will again embarass the whole nation, Alsou will certainly show her language competence.

...but so far I didn't find an official confirmation of Channel One - still some room for speculations.

is he the same guy that interviewed tATu and mischa barton in moscow ?

Yes, if I am not mistaken and he also must have been the presenter of this certain talk show t.A.T.u. vs. disabled people at the end of 2006.

thanks for the info little_polar_bear , so this must be a high respected guy? hehe Argos what has he done that makes u say that he will embarassed russia again?

1. English language skills. Whenever he leaves the path of well prepared sentences he's the cause of ultimate fun, stammering nonsense.
2. Blond women. From the moment he's near a blond woman his brain follows gravity and lands ... - well, you guess where! Maybe this is the reason why he will be accompanied by the dark-haired and absolutely boring Alsou.

Yesterday the General Director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst announced the hosts of the show. In the semifinals we will see Andrej Malahov (we were scared about that already) and the top model Natal'ya Vodyanova (slobber!). In the finals there will be Ivan Urgant (tasty!) and Alsou (meeh!)

Please tell me that Ivan Urgant has been involved in some kind of videotape scandal where he shows a hell of a lot of flesh.... ;) :chupa:

i found this on tatu.ru:

May, 10 and May, 12 t.A.T.u. will perform at Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow.

This has already been discussed here: http://forum.tatysite.net/showthread.php?t=12507