So, for some reason, this year I've got so ridiculously in to Eurovision it's untrue. I mean, I've always loved it before, but I've never purposefully watched the other countries' national finals before. But this year I'm going whole hog. Guess it says something about the state of UK television that the Albanian National Final is more entertaining than anything on over here at the same time.
Anyway, I figure why not go through all the winning songs of Eurovision and give my thoughts and do a quick ranking of them. I mean, I'm not expecting many people to care about this, but, meh, I have nothing else to do.
So, yes. 56 contests, 59 winners (LOL, 1969). Here we go.
#59: MARIE N ~ I WANNA
Latvia - 2002 Eurovision Song Contest
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Just, the absolute worst. I mean, let's get something clear. The early noughties were not kind to Eurovision. I mean, let's start with the fact that the stage for this year was pretty bad and nowhere near as spectacular as any of the ones that came after it, but that's more something to blame on Estonia than it is on Marie. But, oh, Marie. Presumably, the only thing that made this song win was the fact that halfway through it, she has her tuxedo ripped off her. Which, fair enough, but my lord that's something that Bucks Fizz did to win twenty or so years before her. Plus, at least their costumes made sense when they got it ripped off. She transforms from butch lesbian at a formal event to flamenco girl. Because that's a natural change, apparently.
The song is dated. It's basic. It's boring. I mean, seriously, it's terrible. I mean, the song that comes after this in the ranking is probably worse, but there's something just so annoying about this winning that I had to rank it last. To be honest though, the entire year was a bad, bad year for Eurovision. It says something about how bad I Wanna is too that it didn't even do well in the Latvian music charts. I mean, when the winning song of Eurovision can't do well in the country it came from, how the hell does it win across all of Europe!? Crazy.
Up next: Like I said, the early noughties were really, really bad for Eurovision winners.