Eurovision Song Contest

[caramelsilver]

It's Eurovision Song Contest time again, and this year it's Norway who's hosting it! Since we won last year with Alexander Rybak and his song Fairytale, Norway is hosting it at Telenor Arena which is coincidently the home field of my favorite football team. So if you are planning on watching the final on Saturday, look around the stadium and think "Huh, this is the place where Norway's most awesome football team usually play!"

I am what you'd call a closet fan of Eurovision. I mock it relentlessly, but really, I love it in all it's cheesiness. It's just a thing that I have to watch each year, bad costumes and awful English included. So on Saturday, I'm gonna make a bowl of popcorn and mix up some awesome drinks and me, my brother and his girlfriend are going to laugh, get drunk and have an awesome time. While also admiring NRK's great production. Cause we Norwegians are not competitive at all, but clearly, we do everything better than everyone else. /and people say we're obsessed with winning and being the best, *pissh*/

And this might just be my patriotism showing, but I watched the semifinals today and man... I think we might have a shot at doing well this year too. Our song is really good, our guy can actually sing, he's studying opera.(Link: My Heart is Yours) Not that we actually want to win, since dude, this hosting thing is rather expensive, and well- For the last three weeks Stabæk has had to play in Oslo because the Eurovison circus has been STEALING OUR STADIUM! We do not want that for next year, thank you very much!

If any of you Doctor Who fans out there wants to watch the Confidential's, give me a pm and I'll send you a link to the place I found. It's really great to see all that cool stuff that happens back stage.

Comments

[asphyxiational.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adored Fairytale, I was just listening to it earlier. I don't think you'll be able to top that this year, Norway♥

I don't like to listen to any of the songs/singers before Eurovision, as I don't like to spoil myself for the big night, heh. So I have no idea how terrible the UK's song is yet.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Hee! I did too, but don't tell anyone, it's kind of really uncool to like that song here now. I guess it got played so much that we grew tired of it. But it still makes me happy to hear it from time to time=)

And no, NO ONE will be able to top that, what with the serious ground breaking high score and everything. (And like I said, not like we really want too. I want my stadium back!)

I won't spoil you then. So cool to have someone on my flist that will be watching. =)

[han-corrupted.livejournal.com]

Rybak was great last year. Didn't he have some sort of Swedish ties? I might have dreamt that, but either way, I thought he was lovely and the win was definitely well-deserved.

Personally I'm not so much of a closet fan. I like dissing the acts, it's brill, but I don't usually sit in front of the TV for the ENTIRE thing. I come and go a little - Mom/sis watches it, though - and then come back for the recap and the winner announcement. :P

[13oct.livejournal.com]

I'm not a closet Eurovision fan; I'm an all out fan. *grins* How can you not love the over the top cheesiness?!! :) We try and have a Eurovision party every year where ever we are because it just calls for alcohol and a mocking. *giggles*