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Slovenia’s rejected entry, Mr. Nobody.
Slovenia’s humiliation continues. For the third consecutive year, Slovenia was the only one of the former Yugoslav republics not to advance into the Eurovision finals. Isn’t it time to call it quits, folks?
To be perfectly fair, Serbia & Montenegro also aren’t in the finals this year, but only because they couldn’t agree on a representative. They didn’t even compete. Apparently, an all-Montenegrin judging panel wanted to send an all-Montenegrin boy band (instead of an all-Serbian band) to Athens. Only problem: The audience at the time was full of Serbs. Another problem: They had bottles, and no qualms about launching them onto the stage. (The BBC has video of the poor boy band fleeing the stage on this page.) Of course, it’s also a very sensitive time for Serbs and Montenegrins right now, which obviously made things worse.
Anyway, the final is on Saturday. I’m really, really, really hoping that Finland wins.
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That so called Artist was a joke, where’s Big Ben when you need them!!
damn who does this poor man’s HAIR? pluse these singers when they sing in English, it’s pretty funny!
Oh dear God! This video scared the bejeezus out of me! There’s just something terribly unnatural about the whole thing. Plus he looks kinda psycho.
Like if you would (and of course you’d have to) beat the crap out of him, he would still find a way to scratch you with an infected nail or something and cause your slow and painful death.
Believe it or not, when the Finnish act came through to the finals, the commentators on Finnish TV seemed surprised, like there was any doubt. The same way Slovenian commentators are always disappointed when our guys don’t get through.
Dear, oh dear! So it was the Eurovision time of the year again, was it? I didn’t follow the contest for the past few years, just reading about it every now and then, but it seems that the quality of Slovenian entries gets lower and lower exponentially. How embarrassing! Luckily the Japanese TV only shows the finale so the people here will not witness this horror.
I think he did a great performance and I voted for him! Too bad the rest of Europe has such a bad,bad,bad,bad,bad taste in music. I mean to send sh*t like Lithuania,Finland and Ireland to the final when Slovenia should have been there:o)
The Finnish band was just what was needed. Them or the guys that sang something like “we will win eurovison” (was it like that??). Enough with those cheesy pop songs!! I only watched 5 songs this year, then I had to go vomit. I can’t believe how low has this contest ended. It used to mean something.
Finland seems to be everybody’s favourite underdog this year (me included, of course). I think it might actualy get pretty high on the OMG-I-never-knew-the-Finns-were-Klingons votes, but probably not enough to break the top five or so…
I, for one, welcome our new Finnish overlords. And Serbs throwing bottles at a boy-band has got to rank up there with beer-dispensing robots as one of my favorite concepts.
Poor Mr. Nobody,
has he really never heard of self-fulfilling prophecies?
Heh… haven’t seen the show, but its interesting what it say on that official eurovison web…
Slovenia is next. And Anžej Dežan, dressed in a white suit jacket that’s pure ‘Miami Vice’, starts to deliver a moving ballad. Within a minute, this has transformed into classic Eurodance and Anžej and his five dancers face the wind machine and strut their stuff, giving a really pumped-up performance. And that comment says it all… classic Eurodance song in a Miami Vice dress… :-)Still, Finland rules… though the song is a bit “soft” for their appearance.. hehe. And thats certainly no classic Eurodance song, and they surely don’t have Don Johnson’s jackets… By the way, Bosnia will go far this year, and they didn’t go wrong with Hari Mata Hari… I bet every ex-YU state will vote for them and give them douze point… Maybe we should send Laibach next year. Or somebody know in ex-yu. Lets say, Zoran Predin.
I just have to selfquote…
“I liked it, there was a lot of cleavage… ;>”
Hey, at least I’m being honest!
I hope that Finland wins as well, Lordi are probably the only band in the competition that writes their own songs. As for the Eurovision in general, to me it seems more like a Show-The-Best-Boobs-In-The-Country contest…well we (Slovenia) didn’t even have that this year.
Isn’t Bajo seeking asylum? I know I would be if I was wearing that suit. I’m sure he’d be available for next year’s contest as Slovenia’s representative. And what if he’s dead? Well, that can’t make matters worse as far as getting to the finals. Besides, novelty of the act is part of the judging process.
And don;t be getting down on the dead, my friend! They are capable of doing many things you’d think you’d have to be alive to do. Just check out Philly.
I think you are way to mean towards Anzej. Give him a break..he is still young and at the beginning of his career.
Finland…childish latex costumes and a BAD heavy-metal song. Had only the song been anything to listen to one might forgive their so-called costumes….
I thought Anzej was wonderful on stage (OK, he shouldn’t have grown a beard and his hair was kind of scary, but the performance itself was great), and I did vote for him yesterday.
But I’m really shocked about the results - how in the world could Ireland have got in with their 20-years-past-the-expiry-date song, but not Iceland [yes, so I liked Silvia Night, and I’m not ashamed to admit it], Belgium, Monaco [right, so maybe it wasn’t the best vocally on stage, but the studio version is cool] and Slovenia? It’s atrocious! (I mean, how can anyone not share MY taste in music? Horrible, I tell you!)
I’d put these four in in place of Ireland, Macedonia, Bosnia&Herzegovina and either Turkey or Armenia.
Severina is my favourite. Plus Finland, of course. Whereas Anzej Dezan… Does anybody remeber Duo Platin? They went from hell to heaven and back and today they are back at performing at village parties. Anzej may be young and everything but one would have thought that the lesson with Omar Naber and Duo Platin was quite enough. We deserve to have dropped out.
What the heck was the established Kate Ryan doing in this ‘competition’??
Scoring points - like everybody else
I think that many great songs including those from Belgium, Netherlands and Slovenia didn’t manage to come to the finals, not because of their bed performance (which wasn’t the case), but because of the people who are voting for their home countries’ representatives instead of the best songs.
Do you think that this is really a song contest???
Well I don’t think so.
WTF? Who’s the Finnish Klingon?
I say next time Slovenia should send one of their best accordeon players, with the funny little hat they wear sometimes. Keepin’ it real and stuff. Fo sho, etc.
BTW the Finnish army should dress like that rock guy. That would totally kick.
Finland better win, as the eurovision must die. We must put an end to this eurotrash competition once and for all. I was deeply disappointed that Sweden got through to the final, as they (we) sent that creepy, hyper-religious cult member Carola to the competition again. Please don’t vote for her on Saturday. If you’re mental enough to watch the event in the first place, that is…
I’m almost ashame to say this, but actually I’m glad he didn’t make it into the final… This was the first
time I thought the Slovenian song (and the performance) was so bad that it deserved a clamorous defeat. So, next year we’ll think twice about sending an average next-door-gay-morron (I have nothing about gays, but come on!…)
The only thing than can be rescued from that video is the editing job
@Cecilia: ROTFL!!!! :)))
just testing…sorry about that, but the filter doesn’t like my name and doesn’t let me publish if I signed in. ka-ma
Just one thing - didn’t we (the people of Slovenia by democratic telehone vote) chose him to represent Slovenia? So why criticise him if we don’t understand the rules of the game.
I’m listening to the songs of this year’s Eurovision-impaired contest for the first time and…
WOW..they suck. Kate Ryan’s song even sucks. But wow..Slovenia’s sounds like totally gay. Croatia’s is horrendous. Turkey’s is super annoying. Sweden’s is annoying. Bosnia’s too. Poland’s is..err.. actually one I can tolerate! I’m stunned. Spain’s is listenable also.
Mr. Nobody didnt advance? Gee, weird.
@kassepette: Don’t say “we”… Just because some record company mustered enough votes for its latets would-be star, it doesn’t mean that the whole nation has to take the blame. It is THEM who voted for Mr. Nobody. And who profits? The record company of course, who sold a hefty number of CDs which probably consist only a couple of tracks:
Plan B
Mr. Nobody
Plan B (DeeJay Time Mix)
Plan B (karaoke version)
Oh and BTW:That same record company, while promoting Mr. Nobody, in the mean time hit it really big with Neisha. Now that’s what I call good pop music.
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"we"(televoters in slovenian EMA song contest) have chosen Saska Lendero, if my memory hasn’t let me down.
Anžej was chosen after combining the votes of "us" and those betrayers of the nation who always mess with out EMA winners, infamously named strokovna žirija.
Let’s face it, Anžej can sing, but this time his song was bad so I am not suprised that nobody liked this Mr. Nobody. I hope those who already declared themselves as the winners win, for the sake of their optimism.
“We” (the royal plural) felt amused when We saw Duo platin for the first time and rooted for them simply for their incredibly high cheesines factor. “We” felt betrayed by the meddling professional votes for actually pushing the Couple from Hell forward, and felt disdain at the televoting populace for not realising the genius that was the violin wielding wenches, who should have gotten sent to the contest. “We” have therefore alienated ourselves from the whole spectacle this year and the year before it, and quite frankly couldn’t care less if the televoting public chose this platinum bimbo or that one. Furthermore, “We” feel that the vote for more democracy in the election process has only brought anarchy and victory to the worst possible candidates through this couple of years, and “We” feel that a return to an enlightened autocracy in matters Eurovision would be the right thing to do.
A-men to that! :)))
like to add; Mr Nobody he will remain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HARD ROCK ALLELUJAH
Congrats to klingons and orcs… hmmm sorry, congrats to Finland… Ok, in Slovenia Finns can’t compete with extremly bad performance of Severina and good Hari Mata Hari, so we gave them “only” 8 points… Televote is still a televote. And if Sasa Lendero wins here, its not surprising that Severina gets so many votes… But still, Lordi deserved to win. Just to shake up the “eurovision”. So, thats a new trend. And Sasa Lendero will get a surprise win next year. So, who was the winner of the last talent show at Mario’s???
A classic eurosong
The result just proves that the stupid eurosong competition is 20 years behind the times. For crying out loud, shit like this was all the rage back in the 80’s. Still, it’s a nice strong kick in the swollen head of the eurotrash song competition to have these jokers win.
People love slagging off the contest (and I agree with them) However its a telling statistic that there have been 39 replies to Michael’s Eurovision piece and only 6 (2 from MM himself)to his very interesting and informative Living In Sin article the other day. Eurovision clearly means more than you are letting on. I’m also intrigued how a group of countries who have physically or verbally kicked the living shit out of each other over a number of years can so readily give each other douze points.
I watched the whole competition and I must say the things turned out to be better than I expected! My favorites won - go Lordi!- which is also a result of how should we work: public must choose! In Finland, for example, didn’t make such mess with choosing the right candidats for Eurosong. People chose and it was obvious Lordi won. They knew what to choose: someone with good music, true to themselves and of course, good looking as well
I looooove the Eurovision. It´s one of the highlights of TV every year. And all those that loath it so (but anyway seems to know all the songs)..there is an option for you: 100+ other channels to look at!!!!
And Luka, If you have nothing against gays..why even write in the fashion you do?
Finland! w00t!
I have no complaints whatsover over their commanding victory. in a regular heavy metal crowd this would be the tackiest thing ever but in this competition consisting of girls in summer dresses and guys immitating Don Johnson from the 80s these “rockers” look like bad-asses. To be honest though… the lead vocalist can’t really sing… that’s why he’s going all macho growly voice on us, but the song is such an Alice Cooper throwback you just have to like it. Total Poison rip off ” Desmond Child’s gonna demand royalties I’m sure. This is the first Eurovision in years where I actually agree with placing of all top 4 entries.
Regarding Anžej Dežan: he wasn’t as strong vocally as was some hoped he’ll be. There were some rough spots in his performance, but generally an okay enough showing. What bothers me is this numbness in Slovene music sceene where the same composers make Eurovision songs year after year, following the same retarded, uninteresting bluepring which will never work in actual competition. Did anyone watch the national preselection earlier this year? Same bloody composers since the late 90s… and they do songs for nearly all contestants. VlaÅ¡iÄ?, GraÅ¡iÄ?, GraÅ¡iÄ?, VlaÅ¡iÄ?, VlaÅ¡iÄ?, VlaÅ¡iÄ?, GraÅ¡iÄ?… and their works are obviously greatly admired by the so called professional jury, cause they always get picked… it’s a vicious cycle and the first thing we should do is get some new fresh composers writing songs.
We shouldn’t give up though. Look at the eternal losers Finland. Every dog has it’s day. One thing though - I think we should go back to using our own language though. I’m not being natinalistic, or even geenrally against the usage of English as lingua franca. It’s just that I feel we have a chance achieving a credible result using Slovene. Why? Dunno, just a gut feeling. I’m frequenting many foreign forums everyday and one thing I hear constantly is that if any country will win in it’s native language it’ll be the one with a slavic language. Okay I reckon they’re probably targeting Serbocroatian or Macedonian/Buglarian but hell… we’re speaking a slavic language as well, aren’t we? A South Slavic one, no less.
Well congrats Mike for calling this one! ooooj!
AT least BiH didn’t do REAL bad. Still I wanted Hari to win!
Bajo should seek asylum the combination of that pimp suit and his face makes success unlikely though
For the most hilarious Eurovision roundup I recommend:
shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2006/05/20/the-pop-apoclypse-part-three/
anzej rulez!…
but i’m happy that finland won hehehe
i think he’s great hehehehe
oh dear….now, I’m a fairly patriotical gal, but Anžej’s video made me feel ashamed of being Slovenian….or rather of him being slovenian…and he seemed such a harmless wannabe, singing on Mario….
never mind the insanely silly song…but what’s with the outfits & makeup?the guy is just 18-ish years old, isn’t he? he probably hoped he could get away with it on youth alone, but that dracula-wannabe outfit is just over the top…
Anžej,why would you want to do that to yourself???
rene. I agree with you. On local radio they they have show wich song listeners doesent like to hear any more. I don’t need to mention which artist and song it was.
lordi sucked and so did anzej dezan. actually there is rarely a good song on eurovision. i mean i’m from britain but i hated daz sampson! silvia night was the best lol!