We could foresee the future with this year’s Barbara Dex Award, and so it comes as no surprise that the Montenegrin superstar Slavko has come out on top. He may not have qualified to the Eurovision Grand Final (much to our dismay), but it was only natural that he wins something other than a place…
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It’s been a week since Eurovision 2017 concluded, and like many other Eurovision fans, we’re down in the dumps with PED: Post Eurovision Depression. We’re pushing through the PED with an in-depth analysis of the contest, starting today with our thoughts on what worked this year. The Opening and Interval Acts Over the years, we’ve…
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The Barbara Dex Award has been an annual award given to the Eurovision star who is deemed as the ‘worst dressed.’ It was named after Barbara Dex, who represented Belgium back in 1993 with a self-sewn dress, which safe to say didn’t look too crash hot. We love a crazy costume or two, so much…
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Over the last week, Eurovision fans have seen months of preparation all come to fruition with two incredible semi-finals, and then of course, the decider – the Grand Final. As you know, there can only be one winner, and that winner was unaimously decided upon by televoters and juries this year, which doesn’t always happen.…
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The second semi-final has now take place, where a total of 18 songs have taken to the stage to fight for the last 10 spots in the Eurovision Grand Final for 2017. The 10 qualifiers were: Bulgaria: Beautiful Mess by Kristian Kostov Belarus: Story of My Life by Naviband Croatia: My Friend by Jacques Houdek…
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The first semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is now complete, and we know the 10 qualifiers who we’ll see peform again in the Grand Final. The 10 qualifiers are: Moldova: Hey Mamma by Sunstroke Project Azerbaijan: Skeletons by Dihaj Greece: This Is Love by Demy Sweden: I Can’t Go On by Robin Bengtson…
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Attention one, attention all. It’s Eurovision week. This is not a drill. With the first semi-final only hours away, I thought I’d compile all the information in one handy place. So if you’re unsure how to vote, when the show is on, and how to watch it, keep reading! How to watch Eurovision 2017 Watch…
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It’s always an interesting dynamic when a song very early gets labelled a favourite. You get the hard-core fandom rooting for the song, adamantly claiming it’s a definite winner. Then you get the sceptics who claim it’s all just a phase. Italy this year has fallen into that trap, being labelled as a winner quite…
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There’s a lot of pressure as a host nation. For many nations, you’d want to be selecting a song and artist capable of giving the host nation at least a Top 10 position, but not so good that it will win for that nation two years in a row. In more recent Eurovision history, it…
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Estonia is a mixed bag when it comes to Eurovision, with some great results, and some not so great results. Since 2009, they’ve been in the final all but three times, which is not bad at all, and some of those qualifying songs cracked the Top 10 in the final. This year, two former Eurovision…
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