A personal view on the Eurovision Song Contest
“Ow, semi 4 already?” I thought to myself while going all Sheldon and demanding my own spot on the couch, getting ready to follow what has to be the worst live stream since I started following MF in 2004. Time sure goes by fast, a cliché some of the contestants in Malmö can attest to, whether they want to or not…
Continue reading “Eurovision 2013 – MF semi 4 – Det gör (lite) ont.”
“What do you mean, you’ve never seen Melodifestivalen?!” Jasper and I are on our way to a staff meeting of local Eurovision website Eurosong.be we both write for, and with eyes full of disbelief I stare at the self proclaimed Diva in my passenger seat. “As Eurovision fan you’ll think MF is delicious, sometimes it’s even better than Eurovision itself” I utter enthusiastically. Jasper solemnly swears he’ll give it a chance someday.
Continue reading “Eurovision 2013 – MF semi 3 – Sorry, Jasper, I’m ever so sorry.”
Right, the beginning of February! That usually means a truckload of semis and yet the only one we have written in stone on our calendar would be Melodifestivalen, getting preference over MGP’s & UMK’s anytime. But why exactly? Sure, this year would have that extra something as the Swedes have got a title to defend but in the meantime other broadcasters around Europe are finetuning their national selection and upgrading it to MF level. So why bother?
Continue reading “Eurovision 2013 – Melodifestivalen 1 & 2 – Dead fish & Japandrogeny”
I have to admit I wasn’t always too keen on the German music scene, or at least the part of it that reached my ears through various channels without going out there and seeing for myself what they have to offer. Which means their national finals weren’t exactly troubling my schedule in the past couple of years and I wasn’t exactly planning on finding out on which digital channel they put ARD over here until Mother Nature decided otherwise. Doctor’s verdict: three days of strictly staying at home, varying between couch and bed with a viral infection to the digestive system. Enough to welcome any kind of distraction, including a German NF.
They were fully at it up north, the past couple of weeks, weren’t they? Two weeks of not posting anything on here and suddenly we’ve got 4 Scandinavian entries for Malmö. Time flies, you say? You are not kidding, my friend!
Who pressed the FFWD button? Suddenly it’s fracking January and Eurovision’s on season is back! After quite the crappy second half of 2012 (in my private life, no details necessary), which led to a lack of energy which led to a lacklustre attitude towards my blog, I am now forced to take the glove back up again as NRK kicked off the Scandinavian search for participants in Malmö. Thank god my 2013 started off way better than 2012 ended!
Continue reading “Eurovision season 2013 kick-off: MGP semi 1 review”
One week after the Big event I think I’m about ready to have my opinion written in stone – well, put in writing anyway. I started this blog little over a year ago which means this is the first review I publish right after the Contest took place and I have to say I’ve seen it a couple of times already, just to make sure my view on things is aligned with the reviews of previous Contests – some of which I know by heart already. Good thing I did, the excitement of last Saturday kind of blurred my vision a little! But here it goes!
Continue reading “Eurovision Review – 2012: Simply Euphoric”
After a brilliant show with a lot of quality we got the exact result we’ve been predicting for months now: Loreen gave a cracking performance and walked with it in the same way as only a certain señor Rybak did before her. She completely obliterated the competition! The reprise of the winning song in the Crystal Hall was nothing short of Amazing (pun intended) with Ictimai pulling out all visual stops one last time. I had Loreen at the top of my personal and prediction list so I’m over the moon really! I’ll pull a review out of my hat in the upcoming days – stay tuned! And in the meantime: let the overanalysing begin! Stockholm, here we come!
It’s finally here people!! Eurovision night! With a diverse field like the 2012 one it’s extremely hard to predict who will win – so we didn’t! We expressed who we’d like to see taking home the trophy and here’s the verdict of the Dimivision televote!
Continue reading “Voting for the ESC 2012 poll closed – here’s the result!”
Having had a good run on predicting Semi 1 it was already quite clear before the start Semi 2 would be a much harder nut to crack. Not only was the field far more diverse but there’s always… The Dimi Curse. Ah, karma!
Dimivision 