Eurovision

There's something about the morning after Eurovision that resembles something of 'the morning after the night before' feeling: it's not quite a hangover and not quite as chipper as regular mornings. You wake up feeling like you overindulged in a cheesy, sugary marathon of Euro-pop and dodgy ballads. There are vague memories of believing that the Russian babushkas were the answer to the emptiness of British chart music and that the woman announcing the Swedish results was actually from Essex. There's another memory of announcing to your horrified housemates that this years' Eurovision songs were the best quality you've ever seen in the competition and that they would certainly become the soundtrack to your Summer. Another one is of me explaining the artistic reference of the Greek entry being scantily clad and dancing in front of a digital shell, singing 'I want your aphrodisiac' (the reference is Botticeli's The Venus, as Venus was originally Aphrodite, a greek-godess yada yada yada WHO CARES!?) This amidst the fancy dress, the face paint, the cute flag stickers and the score sheets, for which you gave most people 10 out of 10 for everything, equates to the rather bold outlines of an evening that you know you enjoyed, almost too much, and that you know you'll be up for again this time next year, but still can't help wondering...WHAT WAS I THINKING!?


By far my favourite - I love that they had cookies and were trying to rebuild a church that Stalin knocked down. 
They should have won. Will deffo be downloading this, even though it's awful!
Seriously, who took the girl out of Harlem and claimed she was Swedish? I know I'm basing this on 
outrageous stereotypes, but seriously, did you believe she was Swedish?
Botticeli's 'The Venus', for those who forgot, those who didn't know and yes, even
those who do not care (cultural philistines)

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  1. Ahaha girl out of Harlem

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  2. hehehe funny :)
    i loooove the song contest ... i don't know why ... i guess its a kind of childhood memory :)
    anyway ... i loved the rumanian song ... and i hate that the most songs are in english ... thats boring ...
    following now :) regards from vienna (the country below germany but also speaking deutsch ;) )

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  3. I know the girl who won for Swedish doesn't look like a 'traditional' Swede but not everyone in Sweden is blonde and there are lots of people in Sweden from various backgrounds, and not having blonde hair doesn't mean they are any less a part of our nation. And I hope you were joking about the Harlem comment!

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    1. Oh of course! I'm sorry if it came across in the wrong way. I just think it was interesting seeing as Eurovision is usually a circus of stereotypes, but this year it was just really different!

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