Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow

[Anton_91]

Well, I'm happy for Norway. xp Guess he deserved it.
But seriously, sweden at like 22th place?? Totally undeserved
And Ukraine should be much higher up dammit! ><

Anti-climax voting I must say

[Kanki]

Iceland got jipped!  Iceland was better than all of them. WTF Norway? WTF.

[~Dan~]

Hahaha what a hilariously crappy winner! All the Harry Potter fans were voting en masse.

Haha, I thought he looked like Harry Potter.  One of the other countries singers looked like Kelly Osbourne.

[daigong]

VIDEOS!!!   Jacked em if y'all want some HQ action. I'm going for Germany and thosse booobbs

credits: Ari19

 

[Sev]

According to google Norway is (was a week ago) the favorite to win. Looking at online hits etc. I think that guy pretty much sucked, lol.

Google was right... again.

This is the song with the biggest score to win ever if I'm not mistaken. Hilarious when it's the worst winning song to win ever too.

[Tuffty]

I quickly saw Azerbaijan's entry yesterday um, I mean the girl of course, not the guy

I liked how Germany thought they could buy their way into the competition with boobs

[marktobias]

I'm amazed at how everybody I've spoken to has agreed Norway's song was at best "nothing special" and yet it won by so many points! I actually put money on Iceland to come in the top four at pretty good odds, quite chuffed
Love that Iceland song so much!

Is there anyone here who watched it in the UK? We were mostly talking over Graham Norton so I don't really know how well he did. Definitely not as good as Terry though because at no point did we actually stop because he said something funny.

[almond]

This was my first year watching. I saw the finals live online and I remember thinking Norway was weird and kinda boring. He kinda... shouted rather than sang through most of the chorus. The only thing I enjoyed about the performance was that one of the backup singer/dancers looked vaguely like Lover Cindy from The L Word and that cracked me up. 
I liked Iceland a lot, but most of the others I enjoyed ended up at or near the bottom. 

It was very interesting and fun, though. I can't believe how many of the damn songs were in English, though. wtf.

[~Dan~]

Is there anyone here who watched it in the UK? We were mostly talking over Graham Norton so I don't really know how well he did. Definitely not as good as Terry though because at no point did we actually stop because he said something funny.

He did ok.  The best part of Eurovision was always Terry Wogan taking the piss out of everything, Norton managed a similar type of pisstaking although I'd have preferred Terry.

Apparently Eurovision rules say that the vocals have to be sung live by someone on the stage so did anyone see Romania (Elena - The Balkan Girls) where they got around the rules (cheated) by having the woman providing the vocals stand right at the back of the stage while someone else lipsynced to her voice.  Cheats!  I wonder why they did it?  Very weird.