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So tonight see the final of the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. 25 countries will be competing for the glory and the right to host the contest next year. So who is in the Final? (In running order)
- Lithuania – Sasha Son with “Love“
- Israel - Noa & Mira Award with “There Must be Another Way“
- France – Patricia Kaas with “Et S’il Fallait Le Faire“
- Sweden – Malena Ernman with “La Voix“
- Croatia – Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea with “Lijepa Tena“
- Portugal – Flor-de-Lis with “Todas As Ruas Do Amor“
- Iceland – Yohanna with “Is it True“
- Greece – Sakis Rouvas with “This is Our Night“
- Armenia – Inga & Anush with “Jan Jan“
- Russia – Anastasia Prikhodko with “Mamo“
- Azerbaijan – AySel & Arash with “Always“
- Bosnia & Herzegovina – Regina with “Bistra Voda“
- Moldova – Nelly Ciobanu with “Hora Din Moldova“
- Malta – Chiara with “What if We“
- Estonia – Urban Symphony with “Rändajad“
- Denmark – Brinck with “Believe Again”
- Germany – Alex Swings Oscar Sings with “Miss Kiss Kiss Bang“
- Turkey – Hadise with “Düm Tek Tek“
- Albania – Kejsi Tola with “Carry Me In Your Dreams“
- Norway – Alexander Rybak with “Fairytale“
- Ukraine – Svetlana Loboda with “Be My Valentine (Anti-Crisi Girl)“
- Romania – Elena with “The Balkan Girls“
- United Kingdom – Jade Ewan with “Its My Time“
- Finland - Waldo’s People with “Loose Control“
- Spain – Soraya with “La Noche Es Para Mí (The Night Is For Me)“
I am not going to predict anything tonight as the Final is near impossible to predict, but I will give my top 5. In no particular order:
Norway
Alexander Rybak is favourite to win, but I think its all hype. They will do well, but will it be enough to bring it to Oslo?
Germany
Germany have a fantastic entry this year with Alex Swings Oscar Sings. They also have Dita Von Teese dancing with them, so it will be a great perfromance.
Portugal
Portugal’s Flor-De-Lis did fantastic on Tuesday night and could do really well. Portugal has been in the Eurovision since 1974 and has never won it so its about time I think!
Ukraine
Svetlana gave a great performance on Thursday and its a good song. Could do well.
Malta
Will Chiara make it third time lucky for Malta? Its a nice song could do and got a good reaction.
Sean has also listed who to watch on his blog.
Who do ye think could do it?
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thanks for the mention!
i think that norway probably will win or else greece although its a terrible song!!
I like Iceland – Yohanna most of all. Please vote the beautiful girl!
Hmmm… I don’t seem to have a favorite song this year, well one I’d listen to outside of the Eurovision anyway, its a pity. I think there’s a few good ones that should do well but nothing that takes my fancy. Like I mentioned before, I like the Icelandic song (and singer heehee
but its not something I’d listen to.
German song reminds me too much of that Sam Sparro tune “Black and Gold”. Norway tune is infectious in nature. Funniest song goes to Romania. Those little Balkan thrills in between the choruses crack me up lol Borat has almost ruined Balkan music for me forever :p
I’ll save the rest of my comments for my live blogging of the event later.
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I called it! I figured Norway would win, Iceland was going to my personal winner, Azerbaijan had the sexiest bitch, and the Uk might win if amazing shit happened. They were the top 4. I can safely say, I am the Eurovision king!
Well done Gamma!
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I was impressed by the way that Rybak could run around stage and still play the violin
Nomad, All string instruments are mimed on the ESC Stage.