Eurovision 2007 (a little late)

I return to blog frivolity. I am deliberately avoiding posting about all the things that make me want to rant and rave because so many other people do that much better than I do, and right now, this blog is serving as a place for me to have fun as therapy.

We have American Idol, but Europe has the fabled Eurovision song contest. National pride is at stake! Spain was so upset at its lamentable showing last year, that they created a whole reality show/Eurovision contest to pick a better song. Unfortunately, the people's choice ended up in 20th place, and, as usual, outraged opinions about the politics of voting filled articles and the comments on YouTube videos.
Here we see why Spain's song fared so poorly (my daughter's expert opinion--it's the same stuff they always do):

And here is the wonderful parody video!

Finally, my daughter's favorite, the second place Ukranians who have got this Eurovision thing down! Gotta have a catchy beat, and outrageous costumes help.

Winner Serbia was represented by a ballad. Accusations of song plagiarism by Albanians were heard, but I'm more interested in the fact that gender bending was definitely a factor in several of the presentations (including Sweden's group The Ark with openly bisexual singer Ola drawing much love from the fans).