Eurovision Song Contest 2012: Baku, Azerbaijan

[Terence]

The grand final:


Final: 26 May 2012

01. United Kingdom - Engelbert Humperdinck - Love Will Set You Free
02. Hungary - Compact Disco - Sound of Our Hearts
03. Albania - Rona Nishliu - Suus
04. Lithuania - Donny Montell - Love is Blind
05. Bosnia & Herzegovina - Maya Sar - Korake Ti Znam
06. Russia - Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody
07. Iceland - Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget
08. Cyprus - Ivi Adamou - La La Love
09. France - Anggun - Echo (You & I)
10. Italy - Nina Zilli - L'amore è Femmina
11. Estonia - Ott Lepland - Kuula
12. Norway - Tooji - Stay
13. Azerbaijan - Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies
14. Romania - Mandinga - Zaleilah
15. Denmark - Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better
16. Greece - Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac
17. Sweden - Loreen - Euphoria
18. Turkey - Can Bonomo - Love Me Back
19. Spain - Pastora Soler - Quédate conmigo
20. Germany - Roman Lob - Standing Still
21. Malta - Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night
22. Macedonia - Kaliopi - Crno i Belo
23. Ireland - Jedward - Waterline
24. Serbia - Zeljko Joksimovic - Nije Ljubav Stvar
25. Ukraine - Gaitana - Be My Guest
26. Moldova - Pasha Parfeny - Lautar

[Popeatl]

My absolute favorite for this year is Iceland. Being a lover of symphonic (metal), I find this dramatic ballad pretty awesome and beyond competition. It's sad that it doesn't have many fans here.
I loved Finland too and it's completely unfair that it's not in the finals.
Serbia is decent, Sweden is really good. I like Spain, Italy and Hungarian boy is sweet (but not like the Iceland one )!
Norway is annoying, Russia even more... Greece has a professional presentation with a safe song but Eleftheria's weak voice makes the song sounds like a duet, this is actually funny. This song contest is becoming worst every year...

[loxi]

No love for Spain? It's by faaaar my favourite. Classiest performance on the whole thing. Hoping for it to be Top 10! Here's the second rehearsal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGvo5eqayc

[bubblingtrue]

interestingly Loreen's song is at 101 in the UK iTunes chart...quite strange since it has only been in the semi-final so far...normally all the ESC songs start charting on the Sunday after the final in the UK...just shows that people obviously watched it tonight and have already started downloading. If our 12 points don't go to Jedward, I am sure they will be going to Sweden!

[robert989]

Vote for me, PLEASE!! I'll bake cupcakes for you!

[robert989]

i know i streched the page but this granny deserves it

[heppolo]

Oh no, is this even legal posting granny on here?
Donny from Lithuania has become a bit thinner since National Final I think.
In the final I suspect televoting and judges opinion to be very much different.
Televoters top 5, I think will be:
1. Sweden 2.Russia 3. Romania 4. Cyprus 5. Serbia/Ireland
Judges top 5 though may be different:
1. Spain 2.United Kingdom (because of Humpedinck's name) 3. Sweden 4. Iceland 5.Italy/Estonia

[Tansike]

Good entries yesterday, it's a little bit sad that the netherlands didn't made it into the final...

My favourite songs of the final:

1. Sweden
2. Cyprus
3. Greece
4. Norway
5. Iceland
(6. Estonia)

I know this won't happen, but that are only my favourites and not my predictions

[DC34ever]

No one likes Germany/Roman Lob?

[Grybop]

^^ It's not bad, the more I listen to it, the better it sounds!

[Grybop]

This year's similarities:

Spain: Snow Patrol - Run
Estonia: La Bionda - There for me
Israel: ABBA - Nina pretty ballerina
Sweden: "Euphoria" lyric sounds like Celine's intro yelling (:p) on I Drove All Night
Slovakia: same style as Kix - Don't close your eyes

off the top of my head.

[Terence]

What about:

Bulgaria - INNA - all of her hits!!

[Grybop]

^^Definitely!!

[Terence]

I never knew 'There For Me', pretty good song there and I can see the similarities, but it left me cold.

[heppolo]

This year's similarities:

Spain: Snow Patrol - Run
Estonia: La Bionda - There for me
Israel: ABBA - Nina pretty ballerina
Sweden: "Euphoria" lyric sounds like Celine's intro yelling (:p) on I Drove All Night
Slovakia: same style as Kix - Don't close your eyes

off the top of my head.

Albania - Alyosha - Sweet People
Ireland - Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You

[theArmy]

What about:

Bulgaria - INNA - all of her hits!!

lol

I heard the first 10 seconds and I was like...Inna!!!?? is it Inna?? no

[theArmy]

This year's similarities:

Spain: Snow Patrol - Run
Estonia: La Bionda - There for me
Israel: ABBA - Nina pretty ballerina
Sweden: "Euphoria" lyric sounds like Celine's intro yelling (:p) on I Drove All Night
Slovakia: same style as Kix - Don't close your eyes

off the top of my head.

Albania - Alyosha - Sweet People
Ireland - Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You

Serbia: Nije Ljubav Stvar - Paradise (Coldplay)

I can sing the Paradise lyrics to the song, cuz it's the same melody

[Frederic]

Slovenia samples The Little Mermaid! No kidding!

http://youtu.be/5Ru-gDcVNyU

[Grybop]

Serbia: Nije Ljubav Stvar - Paradise (Coldplay)

I can sing the Paradise lyrics to the song, cuz it's the same melody

You're right!

[Terence]

Slovenia samples The Little Mermaid! No kidding!

http://youtu.be/5Ru-gDcVNyU

Ha haha You're so right!

Awww that brings me a lot of memories

[greek_boy]

Slovenia samples The Little Mermaid! No kidding!

http://youtu.be/5Ru-gDcVNyU

LMAO!

This year's similarities:

Spain: Snow Patrol - Run
Estonia: La Bionda - There for me
Israel: ABBA - Nina pretty ballerina
Sweden: "Euphoria" lyric sounds like Celine's intro yelling (:p) on I Drove All Night
Slovakia: same style as Kix - Don't close your eyes

off the top of my head.

wow you're right! OMG the Israeli song sounds exactly like the ABBA song!

What about Ukraine? Doesn't it sound like a bad copy of "When Love Takes Over"? EBU where are you?

No one likes Germany/Roman Lob?

I love Roman and his song! Germany deserves to be in top 10 again!

Good entries yesterday, it's a little bit sad that the netherlands didn't made it into the final...

My favourite songs of the final:

1. Sweden
2. Cyprus
3. Greece
4. Norway
5. Iceland
(6. Estonia)

I know this won't happen, but that are only my favourites and not my predictions

I agree that last night's show had much better songs, but the results were quite disappointing.

If you like the Cypriot entry, vote for it because Cyprus needs your vote, they rarely do well

[Terence]

My final rankings

01. Iceland
02. Estonia
03. Serbia
04. Cyprus
05. Italy
06. Sweden
07. Romania
08. Bosnia & Herzegovina
09. Spain
10. Norway
11. Hungary
12. Greece
13. Malta
14. Moldova
15. Germany
16. Russia
17. Denmark
18. Ireland
19. France
20. Azerbaijan
21. Turkey
22. Ukraine
23. Albania
24. Lithuania
25. FYR Macedonia
26. United Kingdom

[Frederic]

After having watched SF1 and SF2:

01. Ukraine
02. Sweden
03. Ireland
04. France
05. Romania
06. Norway
07. Greece
08. Italy
09. United Kingdom
10. Russia
11. Spain
12. Cyprus
13. Turkey
14. Denmark
15. Malta
16. Estonia
17. Albania
18. Iceland
19. Moldova
20. Serbia
21. Lithuania
22. F.Y.R. Macedonia
23. Azerbaijan
24. Bosnia & Herzegovina
25. Hungary
26. Germany

[theArmy]

After having watched SF1 and SF2:

01. Ukraine
02. Sweden
03. Ireland
04. France
05. Romania
06. Norway
07. Greece
08. Italy
09. United Kingdom
10. Russia
11. Spain
12. Cyprus
13. Turkey
14. Denmark
15. Malta
16. Estonia
17. Albania
18. Iceland
19. Moldova
20. Serbia
21. Lithuania
22. F.Y.R. Macedonia
23. Azerbaijan
24. Bosnia & Herzegovina
25. Hungary
26. Germany

poor Roman... but I guess, he'll end up 14th - 16th

[spiritboy]

I really hope Turkey won't enter top 10 because our national channel TRT won't allow a woman singer to compete They're a bunch of so called islam?c moralists, they deserve a grand flop.

I was rooting for Hande Yener to compete in this year's Eurovision. She's the only singer who have a slight chance of having a career outside Turkey. Here's a video of her, hope you like it.

Biraz Ozgürlük(A Little Bit of Freedom) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbOrnT_X6FA