Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Question

I am not interested in who the winner may be as I am sure it will be awful. I am interested in the fact that I am sure England will get more votes than Spain. Mind you, at least Spain had the courage to sing in their own language.

What's your opinion. Will England beat Spain?

hehehe :) - cogumela, May 14, 2011

I don't know what's that. :) - Dakie, May 14, 2011

Answer 1

We had a blast watching it in a bar last night. A few guys from Ireland were quite excited! If you take it as frivolous fun, it is quite enjoyable. Remember, without Eurovision, we would have never had ¨Waterloo.¨ Jejeje.

Answer 2

I watched the song contest too. It bothers me to know from the beginning who is going to vote for whom. People in my country do that too and I think it's unacceptable.

Answer 3

It's funny to see how does each country vote yeah, we won't see top artists on eurovision but still it is in its characteristic way etentertaining.

Pibosan, i believe that even when they sing in their native languages the lyrics are without any deeper sense

LOL !! I know! But at least when it's sung in a language I don't know very well, I just let it flow over me. - Pibosan, May 15, 2011

Answer 4

I enjoyed the show, as I do every year. It is a shame that they mostly now sing in English. I do wish that they get a native English speaker to look over the lyrics. Some of them are just meaningless strings of words.

It will be interesting to see how they stage it next year.

Ah, I agree about the proofreading, Pibosen! - chris126, May 15, 2011

Answer 5

Azerbaijan win Eurovision contest with Running Scared

Now who would have bet on that?

I didn't even know it was in Europe

Answer 6

Oooohh

B the way, in what language has England sung?

hehe. We only know English. - Eddy, May 14, 2011

Answer 7

It's a close thing at present. Halfway voting results

England - 62 points

Spain - 12 points

Answer 8

Ireland came in 8th, woo! Go Jedward! Lovely kids.

I'm happy for Azerbajan as they haven't been in it very long and people tease them a lot about not being in Europe, as if there's something wrong with them being part of the European Broadcasting Union ( :( )

Some people take the contest much too seriously (Terry Wogan for example!), it's just a bit of fun and a way for countries to forget about politics and all sing together on the same stage. So nice. Feels like we're all united in frivolity one night a year. It doesn't matter who wins.

Some old Spanish entries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuElHwNLgOw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMRzZcSou8&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ARdR61Umw&

Answer 9

Final Points Total

England - 100 points

Spain - 50 points.

Mind you Spain did extremely well at the end. At one point they were last.