Katsuya

I think if Patricia Kaas, who's sold well over 10 million albums in her career, can participate in Eurovision then I'm pretty sure anyone can. Only problem is, whereas you have acts like Kaas, maNga etc. representing countries like France and Turkey where doing badly isn't a kiss of death, in the UK if you don't do well then you're pretty much screwed. When Tatu tried it in 2003 it didn't particularly work for them, but it still gave Russia a very good result.

Oh fuck, Belarus. Also, yes Sweden boy.

The UK *always* gives points to Greece, and usually somewhere in the big group. Germany have won it now, I believe.

Seems like it's going to take a few like, 3-4 points to Germany and then a big load to Turkey each time for them to catch up. Doesn't look like it'll happen though. As odd as she is, I still like the song so she's a good winner in some respects.

Norton is doing very well again this year, particularly making fun of the crappy hosts. Polish woman was awesome. Germany's heading the way of a win, I think. Interesting to see one of the "Big 4" go on and win it for a change. No surprise to see the UK do so god-awful.

Denmark!? Belgium!? What the fuuuuuck?

I actually think that was the best Eurovision intermission since whenever Apocalyptica did it (2007?)

Ireland, Turkey, Iceland, France, Romania, Armenia, Germany. Any of them winning or doing well is an acceptable result for me.

I'm going to assume that they let the original guy on by accident, thinking he was the other singer. The fact he was dressed - to some degree - like the other dancers (well, the face paint was) probably helps that.

...is this like, the cheaper version of sending James Morrison & Nelly Furtado out there to do Broken Strings again?

Eh. Israel need to bring Dana back, they've managed to send god-awful songs for the past 3-4 years now. Apart from whenever they had the crazy guys singing about Ahmadinejad. Dunno who I want to win right now, it's picked up a bit but there's still been a whole load of crap.

How did I know that opening shot would get you all happy? >_>

Alright, this one definitely is designed to cause suicide. It's not even good. Like, he's just whining and making something resembling noise.

...huh, this is actually quite...catchy. I hope it does fairly well, since the majority of this year's songs have made me want to slit my wrists >_>

Niamh Kavanagh's had a dress change?

So...yeah, it seems that right now Eurovision is between Ireland and Turkey, because they're the only ones with any real sense of being "good" about them. As such, I'm expecting a win for someone like...I dunno, Bosnia >_>

Yay, maNga! About time we escape the crap >_>

Oh dear God, make it stop. Also, he looks like a poor British Jack Swagger.

That Irish song was 10x better than it was on Thursday. Like, it could be top 5 easy now I think...

Spain gets a second go? Really? Huh, fair enough. So long as it's not that Serbian disaster again... 1 - Moldova 2 - Belgium 3 - Azerbaijan 4 - Bosnia & Herzegovina 5 - Spain 6 - Cyprus 7 - Serbia 8 - Norway

Yeah. It's like they've got half a good song, but it's all a bit messed up in amongst there. 1 - Moldova 2 - Azerbaijan 3 - Bosnia & Herzegovina 3 - Spain 4 - Cyprus 5 - Norway

See, here's the thing. At this rate we're going to have another Eastern European washout, but that's because they're actually putting out the best songs. This Welsh-Cypriot dude looks like a slightly older Ray Quinn >_> 1 - Moldova 2 - Azerbaijan 3 - Spain 4 - Cyprus 5 - Norway

Good ol' cheesy Europop from Moldova. Crazy fiddler and sax players make it even better

This Norwegian guy is singing worse than Jemini did. That says something. The irony of all this is the fact that Azerbaijan is currently my favourite on virtue of sucking the least. 1 - Azerbaijan 2 - Spain 3 - Norway

...what the fuck? Did some randomer just run on the stage? I'm confused...