39 Reasons to love ESC this year......

Well the reviews of this years songs are coming in thick and fast now......and lets face it they have been coming for ages now.


Nothing we can say or do will change anybody's opinion about any of the entries for this year......so instead of doing a review we thought we'd do 39 reasons to love ESC this year......actually it's 39 descriptions of the various songs so bear with us.


Some of these are a bit negative, so we guess that they might not actually be reasons to love this year, but it's our blog and we don't care:)))
So on with the list.......if you reach the end there is a special prize which will be revealed in Oslo.


(and if you believe that you probably are one of the people that think Germany has a chance this year....OPA!!!!)


Oh just so we are clear these are personal opinions that we fully expect to be bashed about. Again remember who has the baseball bat so bring it on if you think you're hard enough:))


1. That sounds good to me. Lots and lots (we lie here) fought for this prestigious prize this year, will it be Turkey, will it be Spain, will it be that awful pile of rubbish from Slovenia.....all wrong for us this year it's all about Greece. Instant appeal, well staged, way better than last year's effort and our song that is on repeat at the moment:)


2. That sounds shit to me. Loving the fact that there is lots of choice for this one prize. But being honest, and really we hate doing the "that's rubbish" thing, but the only one we care enough about to award this to is Portugal:((((( Please bear in mind that there is an "indifferent" award later on.........and Portugal didn't get this:))


3. Best "live" performance.....of those we saw there were quite a few that could win this. Serbia was in with a chance, as was Lithuania, same could be said of Spain, and even Albania gave a good shot at wow-ing us way back sometime before Christmas. And even though it's a pet hate Norway does give a little belter of a performance. However we have to pick one and this is gonna surprise a few people BUT we really liked Belgium this year live. Simple, effective and does what it says on the tin:))


4. Worst "live" performance. A two way battle this one between Germany and Russia. Russia won.....it usually does in battles with Germany anyway:))


5. Song we will most likely LOL to on final night. Easy. UK. End of.


6. Song we secretly love but will bomb. Estonia, every-time its played I hear different things going on with it. Yes is has been compared to Depeche Mode, wrongly in our opinion, but its a nice little song and way better than the other "slit your wrists" song this year, Russia.


7. Country with the best promo. There are some quite good promos around this year. Spain (this is a recurring theme with us this year) is lovely, Romania is rather nifty, Lithuania is the best comedy value, Finland has something quite charming about it's promo but to be honest Turkey does it for us this year.


8. Country with the worst promo. Estonia. Which is a shame. The artwork was stolen from Six Feet Under and that is blasphemy in our book. They could have done so much more.


9. Male Hottie of the year. There are quite a lot of boys (and a few in-betweeners) this year, but we think that Mr Greece wins this......swiftly followed by Mr Bulgaria, and bubbling underneath are the boys from Israel, Lithuania, UK and Poland. Once we meet them all in the flesh in Oslo this will change:))


10. Female Hottie of the year. Without a shadow of a doubt Miss Georgia wins this hands down. Stunning. Second place goes to Serbia, and bringing up the rear are Miss Slovakia, The Croatian Girls and if only she'd kept the original hair Miss Albania. Once we meet them all in the flesh in Oslo this will change:))


11. Country we were most disappointed with. Ukraine.


12. Best Disco-dolly number. Albania. Nuff said.


13. Best Ballad. SHIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE. That's Georgia in case you were wondering.


14. Worst Ballad. Apologies to our hosts this year but Norway. Bored to death after about 3 notes.


15. Song that we publicly hate but that will do really well. Azerbaijan. And this is the only mention it's getting from us!


16. Song most likely to cause divorce in our house. Ireland. You can take a random guess as to which one of us two likes this and which one hates it:))


17. Best of the rock-gods. Though it's not really a rock song it kinda falls into that category. Yes you guessed it Turkey gets the Oscar here. We were slightly disappointed when we first heard it but it grew on us and now even Daniel likes it:)). And Bosnia's not bad either.


18. Worst of the rock-Gods. Macedonia. Vile. Sowwwyyy.


19. Song most indifferent to. Slovenia. It's just so bad that we struggle to remember it at all.:((


20. Entry that will most likely make us get up and dance in Euroclub. Lithuania. Fun fun fun all the way.


21. And the Euroclub toilet break goes to....Denmark. C'mon it really is a WTF moment from them. And we usually like their entries....a lot.


22. Delegation we most want to meet. Lithuania. Though we would quite like to meet Niamh as well.


23. Song we just don't get but that everbody else appears to love. Germany. Just can't see it to be honest, though ESC week(s) in Germany might be kinda exciting and full of promise:))


24. Song that reminds us of something else (but that we still like). Slovakia. It's just Nox remixed isn't it?


25. Best of the Former CIS countries. Moldova. What a great opener to the whole thing. Love the saxophone, will qualify for sure and might just surprise a few people yet.


26. Worst of the former CIS countries. Azerbaijan. Okay for those reading carefully yes it has now had 2 mentions from us. But is deserves them both:)))


27. Entry we know we really shouldn't like but just can't help ourselves. Netherlands. This is a hoot. It should be obliterated from the contest but every time it comes on we just sing along like a couple of demented smurfs on acid.


28. Best of the direct finalists. Okay this is soooooooooo easy that we really should have thought of another category but hey-ho it's (drum roll please) SPAIN.


29. Worst of the direct qualifiers. France. Please it's eurovision not some holiday theme tune from one of the Caribbean Islands. Vile.


30. Car Crash Moment on the night. Hummmm quite a few could get this but personally, even though we like the song, we think Belarus will struggle to even hit one note, let alone get the harmonies right.


31. Country that shocked us most with what they sent in the end. Sweden. not your usual thing from them. But that said we LOVE it. This should do well. Hopefully. Now watch it miss out on the final:)))


32. Folky-Flim-Flam skip round the room moment......Finland. We are perfecting hand-claps as we speak:))


33. Weirdest lyrics of the year. Latvia. Does Mr God know.....and if he does is he actually gonna tell us?


34. Country we bet most money on. This was a tie. Sweden and Romania, both perfectly perfect each way bets.


35. This years Dark Horses. See answer to number 34. And add Georgia to that:)


36. Who will get the UK's 12 points this year. Toughie to be honest. We would like to say Ireland but fear that it might just go where it normally goes....Greece or Turkey. That said the Welsh are very good at mobilising their votes in X-Factor programs so watch out Cyprus, Greece might not be the only country giving you 12 this year.


37. Countries that we think might give the UK 12 this year. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. none.


38. Song most likely to go from zero to hero during ESC week. Malta. I know, we know NOTHING:))))


39. Country whose party we'd most like to go to. Azerbaijan. Okay 3 mentions but they are throwing soooooooooooo much money at this year's contest that the party will at least have free food and drink. And the last Azerbaijan party we went to (Belgrade) was AMAZING. Best party EVER.


PHEW. Got to the end and here's the ones that never got a mention;
Poland,
Iceland
Armenia and
Switzerland,
So just for them. Here's your mention now:)))) There, they've been mentioned:)


Toodles:) and check back sometime for a top 10 from us:)