Belgrade, Serbia
Someone decided that it would be best, because of the world economic crisis, to try and minimize the Eurosong budget and let Goran Bregovic write three songs. Emina Jahovic-Sandal, Milan Stankovic and Oliver Katic were chosen by the audience as the three best candidates to perform these songs.
There’s a saying that goes for all the contests in the world and it goes – it’s not important to win, but to compete. Did I say all the contests in the world? Wrong! This doesn’t apply to the Eurovision contest, you poor naive thing. In Eurosong contests winning is
B92 made an interview with a passer-by and he summed up the ESC pretty good. So let’s hear what this fellow Sir Terry Wogan has to say: via Srdjan Mitrovic Also, what do you think about this year’s oppening by Ms Serifovic? Our TV presenters didn’t dare say much about
Three great play-by-play posts covering last night’s Eurosong contest: Nosemonkey, Douglas Muir of Fistfull of Euros and BBC’s Fiona Pryor. This sums it all up very well, even though thy don’t agree on all acounts. But the main thing is that the fun was there, the organization was great according
I tricked both fauna and flora With my favorite prank That life did not begin in the sea But of love The coolest lyric in the whole Eurovision competition this year did not manage to get into the English translation of the song – Pokusaj by Elvir Lakovic Laka –
There are few things one finds out about Eurovision when the competition is held in one’s city. First of all is that there’s a whole bunch of Eurovision blogs following every single move of the contestants. My feed reader is set up to pick up any mention of ‘belgrade’ at
When Borat did Kazakhstan some time ago, it was rude but it was funny. And it was clear why the Kazakhs didn’t like it. Now the Spanish comedian and late night tv host Andreu Buenafuente is trying to do the same thing with Belgrade: Andreu already made a mockery out
Another update: it seems that the winner logo isn’t the winner logo. It’s only one of a thousand combinations – but someone over at RTS decided to present the entire concept with the image under: plum, trumphet and hotlips. Ok, the damage isn’t that big in that case. But, please,
The bloc voting thing has been a major subject in the non-balkan blogs in the ESC aftermath. It seems as if the Western European countries finally realized for sure that it will take much more than an average Eurovision song for any of them to win or at least to
Marija Serifovic’s song really doesn’t do it for me. I don’t like that quasy pop genre, lyrics, her voice, looks, anything really. But apparently I’m in minority (what else is new?). BBC claims we have good chances of success (via Yahti), Reluctant Dragon says that her semifinals performance was one
Is Serbia in the EU?
I’m Serbian and I got the paper to prove it
Bojana Stamenov – she’s got talent
Dobrica Cosic Gets Fake Nobel Prize for Literature
Another Gay Pride Parade cancelled in Belgrade
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra stirs controversy
