EUROPE: WE HAVE A WINNER! LOREEN WITH HER EUPHORIA WAS THE QUEEN OF THE SATURDAY NIGHT!!
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| Loreen was the queen of the night and razed all the competition - the public was nearly unanimous in giving the victory, more than just, to "Euphoria" |
And is not that my predictions were right? The major threats to the victory of Loreen were Russia and Serbia!! But attention: I do not want to say that they deserved to be those threats.
I always tried to be impartial, but as I said HERE, 2nd place was very little for this true masterpiece. The Loreen had yesterday what she deserved: a landslide victory for a performance, that I only arrangement one way to describe it - perfect from beginning to end. Unfortunately, Sweden does not have many reasons to thank to Portugal, San Marino and specially Italy.
Being completely in love with this music and performance, I suffered a lot with the huge problems that Loreen suffered in the rehearsals, including the dress rehearsal where she choked on a snowflake in one of the most important moments in the music, and all the negative criticism that Loreen fell over, and even what shocked me most, the reaction to the fact that Loreen did not follow the official protocol proposed by the EBU to do a tour with members of the Azerbaijani government, opting instead to visit a shelter for women in need of various kinds of support. According to what she said if she had stayed in Morocco would be like her cousin 13 years, who is married to a man of 40. This did not fall very well in many stomachs, to the point of reaching emerging rumors of the possible elimination of Sweden from grand final. I only have one thing to say who was angry with this "rebel" attitude of Loreen: envy can not kill, but is bad for your health!
But back to the performance of Loreen: for me it was only in the final that Loreen of Melodifestivalen was back. The problem of hoarseness which for me was very visible in the semifinal (do not know how she got the 1st place in the semifinal), was practically solved, only noting the great effort that Loreen did at the end of the performance to get hit the hardest parts of music but that made it very well.
The cameras were much better, and got along with the play of light managed to create more immersive environment that we wanted for this kind of music.
As for the voting, I am sorry that Loreen has not broken the record of Alexander Rybak in 2009 by Norway, in number of points (but it wasn't by a very significant margin - 15 points), since this time Loreen earned more 12 points for each country that Alexander Rybak (18 versus 16). Unfortunately, if there wasn't the voting from Italy, who was the only country that did not yield a single point to Sweden, Loreen would have joined the (small) list of countries that have points of all countries.
And as this post is becoming too big, I'll just leave my comments here to the first half of the finalists last night.
Opening ceremony: let's start for the beginning. The opening ceremony had its grace but it wasn't anything special. I liked the traditional dancers and dancers in black: they really showed the Azerbaijani culture. As for the small performance of the winners of last year, it left me with the idea that something else was missing: the performance was very poor.
And since I'm talking about the winners of last year, one being a presenter, I will talk about these three characters. Was notorious the lack of experience and professionalism of the presenters. I've never seen an announcement of the finalists so uninteresting, and his lack of at ease was evident, although they have improved from the semifinals to the finals.
United Kingdom 25th place - 12 points: the United Kigdom has given us a unique theme, a very classic style that transports viewers to the Eurovision from other times, but could have much more energy and liveliness. All the music was a very monotonous rhythm and melody.
As I said in the message where I commented the choice of the UK, i could not even predict the fate of Engelbert Humperdinck in the contest. Certainly not the public would like much, but in the case of juries could be another story. However, the English song almost did not please anyone, placing the UK second to last. Since 2008, the participation of the United Kingdom is a real roller coaster. Last (25th) in 2008, a creditable 5th place in 2009, again a last (25th) in 2010, a 11th place last year and again this year a bad result (second from bottom). It is no longer news to anyone that the BBC is doing all efforts to ensure that the UK can receive again the Eurovision. To me it seems to me that like to take a break between each good bet.
Hungary 24th place - 19 points: After the disappointment of last year with much favoritism around Kati Wolf, the participation of Compact Disc did not bring so many expectations for this country from east. It is a band with an interesting style that brought a song with one of the richest messages this year. Were enormous the progress of the singer since the national final and even from the rehearsals. However, it not surprise me: they were competent but nothing more.
I disagree with those who defend that Switzerland should have passed instead of Hungary, should have passed both.
Albania 5th place - 146 countries: the big surprise of the evening was really Albania. When it was announced that Rona Nishliu would represent Albania, almost all the fans put her music in the last places. However, after the official release of the video, opinions began to change dramatically. It is obvious that juries liked a lot of this music, and for the 5th place certainly that the public also voted a lot on this song.
Indeed some parts of the song could be too hysterical, but Rona managed to hang on and went right on pitch.
Being alone on stage, all her charisma was broadcast to the public, and overall performance was very successful.
Lithuania 14th place - 70 points: Another of the big surprises of this edition. Far from being the most favorite for eurofans, turned out to qualify in third place and finish mid-table. It was a curious song, but nothing that aroused much interest to me.
However, I recognize the effort that the singer has done to enrich this music. As much as I see from different perspectives, the singer's performance after having removed the blindfold, it seemed more of a comedian than a singer in a musical competition. But that, of course, brought a certain charisma to the music.
Bosnia and Herzegovina 18th place - 55 points: do not know if Maya Sar is religious, but may well thank all the saints and some more to be representing Bosnia, because if she were representing another country without the weight of votes that Bosnia exercises, it was race just to the last in the semifinal. It was one of my favorite songs of the Balkans (with Slovenia), but its performance disappointed me a lot. It is true that wasn't not very deep ballad, but the stage and the performance of Maya Sar were too simple and boring.
Russia 2nd place - 259 points: say what you want, they were the Divas of the night! Although this is a music contest and despite vocal problems they had, especially in the final (we noted the fatigue of the group) was the more animated moment of the night! Since I couldn't also count with the animation of Austria, I contented myself with this group of women who fell into the good graces of the public and juries, to have been in 1st place in the semifinal and have achieved 2nd place in the final. I believe that if we had no Loreen, or if the only voting was based on the public vote, they could perfectly well have won the Eurovision.
Despite all the love that these ladies could convey, the truth is that this should be more than anything a music competition, and there were better voices that were much penalized because of this group. And face it: if they were to represent another country with less power to influence the vote, probably never would come out of the semifinal.
Iceland 20th place - 46 points: For me it was one of the negative surprise of the night. Iceland was named one of the strong candidates to victory and was among my favorites. The performance was superb and worthy of a soundtrack for a movie.
I thought that the criticism about the lack of charisma of Greta Salome and the low quality of their performance exaggerated. Perhaps a lack of emotion of Jón Josep must have hurt the chances of Iceland.
Deserved more than 20th place.
Cyprus 16th place - 65 points: another country considered one of the favorites to win, and in the top 10 of the OGAE associations, finished mid-table.
I found Ivi more comfortable and her voice was more in keeping with the tone of the music than in the semifinal. It was more pleasant to hear, but vocal problems remained. So, certainly received more public support than the jury.
France 22 place - 21 points: another negative surprise of the night, given that France was also highly scored by OGAEs. Congratulations Anggun to the beautiful voice and charisma that remained throughout the song. Unfortunately, it was noted that she was nervous and shaky voice was in very important parts of music.
And a really negative note to the voices of the chorus: for almost all the music seemed robotic voices. And I ended up not liking the participation of the gymnasts.
Italy 9th place - 101 points: Another disappointment, though not as big as the previous ones, although for me that Italy deserved a place worse than what it got. It was the 2nd most voted by OGAEs and had everything to please the judges and to please more to pubic than the music that brought Italy last year. Nina Zilli and the choir were much better than in the rehearsals. They managed to convey the message of the song. But everything else was awful: they could have used the background image and the rest of the stage to enrich with various elements as the song allowed it.
Estonia 6th place - 120 points: Another surprise of the night, in this case by positive. Estonia could thus the revenge for the injustice suffered last year. Otto had a near-perfect pitch. A example of Albania was a involving song. One downside to the lady who did voice choir.
Nothing special to add.
Norway 26th place - 7 points: the biggest negative surprise of the night. Tooji was very punctuated by OGAEs and highly regarded as a strong contender for the TOP5 by most bookmakers. I can not understand the last place in the final and also the 10th place in the semifinal. Indeed, in the semifinal he had the same points as Bulgaria (two performances that can never match), and Tooji only qualified thanks to tiebreakers.
I think that the constant comparison with Eric Saade who represented Sweden last year (compared this exaggerated), must have taken both the juries and the public to penalize what they deemed to be an imitation of Eric. Still does not justify the low result obtained by Norway: is that not the neighbors of Scandinavia helped him - only Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands have given points to Norway.
I confess that before the results of voting occurred to me that could happen to Tooji the same happened to Alexey Vorobyov, the Russian representative last year: 7th place in the televoting, but last place in the courts. But I see that the Norwegian case was much worse.
The low result is due almost certainly to juries, but I'm eager to see what place was in the televoting.
Azerbaijan 4th place - 150 points: for me one of the big positive surprises of the night. Since the official music video you could see that Sabina owns a great voice and great beauty. And last night did not disappoint anyone. All other elements were also on stage as well.
Performance very charismatic and engaging, with a final apotheotic but, unlike others, was not exaggerated.
Deserved 4th place (even deserved more), and do not believe that was favored to be the host country: there have been enough cases of host countries whose songs are forgotten (almost) at the bottom of the table.
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