In bed with a stuffy cold and the bf out with his mates, what better way to spend a non-alcoholic Saturday evening than to watch the Eurovision Song Contest?
The usual European bland pop, some nice-ish ballads, witty Wogan quips, lots of leg and bosom, some funny chanting and for the first time...some ROCK!
Finland won by a mile with their monster-dressing rock band, and I should have trusted my gambling instincts and put a few quid on Lordi to win.
Sweden take the Eurovision seriously (forever looking for another ABBA-type success) but these last couple of weeks, I didn't even know what the Swedish entry looked or sounded like, but I knew all about Lordi cos they were being interviewed by everyone wanting to find out about the weird Finns behind the monster-masks.
Lordi on Top of the Pops next? I wouldn't bet against that!
I spent a non alcoholic saturday evening watching it too.
ReplyDeleteWhen Lordi came on me and my husband thought it was brilliant. I said it would be great if they won thinking they didn't stand a chance in hell amongst what tends to be a pop contest.
We didn't watch the results, so when he told me on Sunday that Finland had actually won I thought he was joking!
I had a tenner on Russia who (I think) came second. The Swedish entry wasn't bad, actually - a proper euro pop stomper...
ReplyDeleteThe Sweedish entry sucked. Lordi were great, but I liked the Lithuanians better.
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