Eurovision 2013

     The Eurovision this year was held in Mälmö in Sweden. There are six countries which automatically get through every year, they are: UK; Germany; Italy; Spain; France and the winner of the previous year's Eurovision. Other than that there are 33 countries which take part in the semi-finals on the Tuesday and Thursday before the final (Saturday). Some of them were fairly uninteresting but a few really stood out, the Greeks, for example, had a song called 'Alcohol is Free' which was probably one of the best songs to get into the finals. Whereas Finland had this fairly atrocious song called 'Marry Me' but it got votes because of the twist at the end, which was actually kind of nice. But the song itself was fairly awful.
     One of the most interesting songs to get into the final, though, was Romania, with their song 'It's My Life', it had almost naked men, and one woman, a male opera singer who sung higher than any girl I know can and he was in a dress, he only got 65 points overall though and was stuck down in 13th place.
     I feel the need to talk about both first and last place because they must have been a special sort of something to have gotten that result. In first place was Denmark, who had won before all the votes had been counted, so you'd think they were fairly amazing, right? They really weren't, they were the typical Eurovision type of song without quite being Euro-Trash and that's why they won. They entered with a song called 'Only Teardrops' and got 281 points, only two of the 39 countries voting didn't give them anything. Here in Ireland we gave them 12 points. Ireland on the other hand were the definition of Euro-Trash, we had shirtless men beating drums and dancing around, all with identical Celtic tattoos, our singer, Ryan Dolan, was dressed almost head to toe in leather and we had a female background singers, who really weren't concentrated on. Our song was called 'Only Love Survives', cheesy as hell, only got us a total of five points. The fact that England, our only neighbours, gave us one point proves how bad we were. We were kind enough to give them seven points anyway.
     My favourite song in the entire competition, though, was the Montenegrin song 'Igranka'. It was a hip-hop song, which is to be honest one of my least favourite genres of music, but in Eurovision it's all about the show and they had a pretty amazing one. The band 'Who See' consisted of three people, one woman and two men. The woman was dressed fairly normally, for Eurovision that is, while the men were in space suits. The entire show was pretty amazing but, unfortunately, Montenegro only got 41 points, and came twelfth out of the sixteen in the first semi-final. Here's the official video, not quite the same, but you get the idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BmHI_57vJk
Goodbye my munchkins,
Ruska