Are you watching it to know what song to put as your ringtone next? -.-

Who's Lena?
I know some, but I'm quite certain they're not singers..

Yay.

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

What are "toe naits" and why does she paint them?

Greetings, Matthew.
Yeah me and my buddy dennis just watched the eurovision and normally we loose in place 20 or worse and then we drink beer to feel better. But perhaps we win and now we don't now what to do. OK, we knew the song was good(Dennis expected it in the top 10 , me in the top 5). And now we have do drive to Berlin for the next contest...you come along??

That's mainstream? Damn I thought it was metal.....Okay, we go to Berlin, hear that creepy song contest and then cut our hair to hear german folk music and jump into the spree with shoes made of 'beton'. Or better: Get drunk to 'ertragen' the horrofying music. Btw: I'm sure we can drink with my uncle.....(at least I hope)or my aunt or someone else of the guys I shall have a connection with. Did you know I'm the brother of Lena? No? I thought so......

At least they're hotter than Susan Boyle.

Yes, Wikipedia nailed it. And I think it pretty well explains the justification of the whole event. I didn't watch the final show this year, but I saw some of the performances in the semifinals. And they were bad. Among the bad ones were Sweden and Finland. And I did see some of the final performances. and they were much better. So I think the 2 stage system works.

To me there is well done music and there is poorly done music. I usually enjoy listening to well done music. I usually don't enjoy listening to poorly done music. For me the criteria for well done music are usually related to music theory, both in small details like proper using of chords or singing in tune, or in larger things like structure. Same applies to lyrics.

But then we have music that doesn't meet the criteria. It might be deliberately bad, like in punk rock. When it still turns out to appeal to me, I have a feeling that it would need its own theory. The music might also be unintendedly bad and it still might appeal to me, but this doesn't happen very often. It might be something completely ridiculous and terrible, like Florence Foster Jenkins. Or it might be a 3 year old kid doing the best he can and enjoying it. Or it might be a singer-songwriter doing his own songs with a voice not suitable for anything else.

Listening to Finland's and Sweden's artists and their songs, I found several faults that simply were faults that should have been done better. Weak singers, bad structure in the songs, faults that didn't turn out to be interesting and peculiar details that would have lifted the songs above the greyness.

I didn't really notice. The song was so terrible that everything else seemed good in comparison.

Most British people consider it to be an abomination. I don't buy Wikipedia's explanation. It's not "middle-of-the-road pop" it's foulest middle-of-wheel cheese.

I thought the contrast of cocksure bitch with hilariously chavvy sounding German accent to be almost endearing.

She seems cute. The singing wasn't bad.

You're not the first one to do that.