{"id":1494,"date":"2006-05-20T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/05\/eurovision\/"},"modified":"2006-05-20T21:06:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T21:06:40","slug":"eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/eurovision\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m loving the Lithuania entry. Broadly speaking, the entire song’s lyrics were:
\n“We are the winners… of Eurovision” and “Vote for the winners”
\nI think there were a few boos in the audience in Athens though. I guess that some people take the competition a bit more seriously than I do.
\n[UPDATE]\nOh look. The official site has their lyrics<\/a>.
\nAnd this study<\/a> on collusive voting is fascinating…
\nNow we just await the Finnish entry…
\n[UPDATE 2]\nWow. That was worth waiting for.
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\nAnd I just wanted to check… was the UK entry a real one? I mean, isn’t “Daz<\/a>” some kind of Armando Iannucci or Paul Whitehouse creation that they just haven’t let on about yet?
\n[UPDATE 3]\nI found it strangely difficult to turn over during the Ukraine performance. Terry says that’s it’s going to go “big in the Baltic.”
\nAnyway, I’ve just had a look and it’s a choice of Ben Elton, a bunch of retards (and I use the word advisedly) locked up somewhere in Elstree, a film I have on DVD or CSI. And CSI is always<\/em> on.
\n[UPDATE 4]\nWhat’s with these countries that have the temerity not<\/em> to sing in English? Still put on Ceefax 888 to read the enlightening English translation of the Croatian lyrics<\/a>. Sample:<\/p>\n

Oy da da oy da oy da da da
\nOy da da oy da<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Terry’s annoying me now by talking in the middle of the songs. Still Ceefax has just referred to Munster<\/a> as Monster. And Ireland has entered a singer I’ve heard of. That’s not what we do in these islands. Didn’t RTE nearly go bust a few years back when they kept having to host the competition as repeat winners?
\n[UPDATE 5]\nSweden’s got a ringer in Carola. And she’s won before. And she’s a favourite. And she’s singing in English.
\nTurkey has too many tattoos. But I reckon I know the Turkish for “superstar” now. You probably do to.
\nArmenia finishes it off with something very targeted indeed.
\nTerry’s excited about the use of the word “amazing”. The best bit is happening now. It’s the voting process. William Hill has Sweden as favourite. And they’re running live voting.
\nI may turn over while Nana Mouskouri sings.
\nHmm. ITV’s basically running a telethon with Ben Elton presiding. I thought I caught a glimpse of a somewhat mystified Prince Charles.
\n[UPDATE 6]\nThe voting’s changed this year, with more countries. They’re only reading out the top 3 songs, so there’s less opportunity for each country’s host to mug for the camera.
\nCurrently it’s looking good for the Finns, but there are plenty of countries to go…
\n[UPDATE 7]\nFinland are running away with this. And whenever Lithuania get points the Athens crowd continue to boo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m loving the Lithuania entry. Broadly speaking, the entire song’s lyrics were: “We are the winners… of Eurovision” and “Vote for the winners” I think there were a few boos in the audience in Athens though. I guess that some people take the competition a bit more seriously than I do. [UPDATE] Oh look. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}