Belgrade, Serbia
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
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
Maybe two weeks ago, there was a huge debate about what our Eurosong winner Marija Serifovic said about Finland and Finns in the local (and some global) press. She was acused of having said something in relation to Finns that could have been considered racist – making a comment about
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
Probably you remember the articles about Ganja March, Stormfront forum, the hooligans and the internet fights. Instead of a recapitlation on those articles, it seems that i will rather have the unfortunate opportunity to see all those cultural groups at the same place tomorrow – Republic square, Saturday 5th of