Eurovision Song Contest Predictions 2008
by matt @ 1:28 pm. Blogged under Music, TV Shows
I’ve left my annual Eurovision posting a little late this year but better late than never… I’ve watched all of the song entries in short via youtube and my personal favourites include Germany and Denmark. There are some typically mad Eurovision entries which include a Spanish Elvis/Jimmy Hill, Latvian pirates on ecstacy and a Bosnia & Herzegovina entry which wouldn’t look out of place at the village pantomime. However, when did an entry’s insanity ever mean it didn’t win Eurovision? When did liking decent songs ever give them a head start? To that end I’ve ordered my 2008 top ten based on whether I think they might actually win Eurovision.
My predicted top 10 Eurovision songs at the end of the 2008 voting on Saturday night include:
- Greece - Kalomira | Secret Combination
- Armenia - Sirusho - Qele Qele
- Ukraine - Ani Lorak - Shady Lady
- Russia - Dima Bilan - Believing
- Sweden - Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
and Israel, Romania, Poland, Denmark, Germany. Yes the final two are my personal favourites which probably means they’ll both score nil points but I live in hope that a bit of sanity might creep into the heavily weighted and rigged Balkan block voting which we all moan about each year. I was especially pleased to see that the 2007 spoof Greek entry on youtube has been updated for 2008, a fine song and video which gives me as much amusement this year as it did before.
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May 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
We didn’t have a great song, but it should have scored higher than that. I may not bother watching the contest again, as the rigged block voting is just ridiculous.
Don’t we pay for this contest? We should pull out.