We're so buggered.

What the hell is this? I'm so confused >>

I never heard of Eurovision before coming to Greece! :O
That's what I get for not watching TV!

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I live in Cali, and this is just wierd.

"bah barra, bah barra, bah barra bah barra. We're flying the flag, and I don't know this song...
bah barra, bah barra, bah barra bah barra."

That's just all they do in the song.

Kind of creepy,but nice music.

Uh... no comment.

Wait, some of those countries listed as contestants aren't even in Europe...

The non-European ones are allowed in because they're in the European Broadcasting Union, which covers Europe and the Mediterranean.

>_> Yea thats mighty crazy. I'm confused nonetheless.

i can't beleive i'm saying this, but this years entry was BETTER then last years. what were they thinking of with the schoolgirl thing? o.x;

urrgh, we had some good potentials and the people had to go and choose the cheesy airplane singers. they were so miming on their TV appearances.

Explanation here (can we get a better hyperlink colour, please?).

The entry criteria for Eurovision is formed by countries which fall between a particular set of parallels - which is why countries like Israel can come in, even if they're not actually part of Europe itself.

I'm waiting for the year that Iran and/or Iraq decide to take up their entry rights - that should liven up the debates about politically tactical voting.

The problem the UK has is that we don't take it even remotely seriously (unlike the rest of the entrants) and keep submitting songs like that, which would probably have no market outside of Eurovision itself.

I agree with the people saying that it was better than last year's entry (link); but I still felt serious pity for Justin Hawkins (former lead singer of The Darkness, who submitted a solo effort for selection) - losing the selection final to something like Scooch on his birthday must've stung.

(I'm hopefully not name-dropping when I say that I've been out for drinks with the guy, so I know exactly how seriously he takes his music. Personally, I'd have chosen a better springboard for my solo career.)

Last year's overall winners were fun, though - meet Lordi (link).

The number of contestants was supposed to be reduced by implementing the system of disqualifying some of the lowest scoring countries from the following year's contest, but we're still left with 26.

I don't even think there is a word for how creepy the "last year's entry" is. And the winning one was kind of funny!

Ahh I see thanks for the link Sam. That's pretty nifty. Why isn't the Western hemisphere that cool? lol

I actually rather enjoyed the Lordi entry from last year. It was pleasantly mad.

My brother even went out and bought their album.

For the record, since no one seems to have mentioned it, Serbia won this year.

Personally, I think the runners up, Ukraine, were better, if only for the bizarreness factor. Click link for vid.

That was rather bizarre!