Should win? not really sure but some of my faves were.
Turkey
Sweden
Portugal
France
Ukraine
Will win:
Probably Ukraine and Russia’s Dima Bilan will end up runner up like two years ago.
Eurocheese winner:
Bosnia (Latvia not far behind though)
Is this “Eurovision Does Ketamine” year? Much oddness is apparent. Bring on the voting blocs!
I just can’t choose!
The entertainment during the vote couting is ‘wonderful’ as always. It just wouldn’t be the same without the folk dancing.
Whoa… Greece is leading with a song that would have been at home on Christina Aguilera’s or Jessica Simpson’s first album…
And as usual, I turn on just in time for the scoring.
My brain has been saved for another year.
Second to last! Come on UK!
Well, looks like Russia has won it this year.
I wonder if we can hold on to last place though 
Joint last.
We were robbed!
AngelicGemma, and CatInASuit, if it weren’t for the Bulgarians and their douze points we’d be leading the field from the rear, so I’m happy to join you for last place! I’m off now to download the French song off iTunes, I quite liked that one.
… hey, at least it was not “null points…”
The Irish entry this year didn’t even make it to the finals… and so my own mortal embarressment to be called Irish was at least limited.
We sent a turkey; I mean, we sent A TURKEY- Dustin The Turkey, a long time kids tv puppet that has over the years become sort of a more grown-up form of puppet mockery; think Spitting Image, or Triumph the Insult Dog.
Would Americans let Triumh represent them in any form of competition?
Would The uk let Gordon The Gopher or Basil Brush represent them?
No, but the Irish were arrogant enough to send the most novewlty of novelty acts, under the impression that hey, it’s the eurovision, it’s become a competition for freakshows and crazy eastern europeans; they’ll lap this shit up. It’s in the bag.
Of course, the europeans hated it, and we didn’t even make it past the qualifiers. Hang your heads in shame, whoever thought it was a good idea.
Here in Australia they took off Top Gear to show Eurovision.
Again, they took off Top Gear to show Eurovision.
Well at least you got to watch something more-or-less as it happened rather than old Top Gear episodes. We, on the other hand, had to miss Doctor Who. Damn your eyes BBC!
I think that some background explanation is needed regarding the Spanish entry for this year… 
Some months ago, Spanish Television set up a contest to select the song that would go to Belgrade representing Spain in the contest. In retrospect, it obviously was their fault that they had the hubris of naming the contest “Salvemos Eurovisión” (Let’s Save Eurovision).
Well… The guy who actually ended up going is a comedian who appears, as a supporting actor, in a late-late night show in Spanish TV (think the David Letterman Show, or Saturday Night Live, or something similar). And he decided, for a lark, to enter that contest, in character, with the most (on purpose) stupid song imaginable, as a way to mock and protest the idiocy that is the Eurovision Song Contest.
One thing that the organizers of the “Salvemos Eurovisión” contest did not take into account was that they had allowed the general public to vote, in order to decide who would end up going to Belgrade. This comedian entered the contest (they were forced to take him; he fulfilled the necessary conditions)…
… and he WON. He got massive support from voters, which did it either as a joke themselves, as a way to protest against the kitsch that is the Eurovision Song Contest, or because they simply didn’t care and thought it was good for a giggle.
The organizers of the “Salvemos Eurovisión” contest looked hard and long for some way to prevent this guy from going to Belgrade, but there was no way out. They had to send him.
And that is how Spain ended up sending to the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest an entry that was, in essence, a HUMONGOUS joke/raspberry/two-fingered salute in the face of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Just my 2 eurocent!
I wonder how badly the French entry was hurt because of the lousy camera work. Is it that hard to follow the artist and not his feet or the wall behind him?
I really wanted France to win this - instead we got an Eastern Europe powerpop ballad. Again.
Allow me to be the first to say:
In Soviet Russia, Eurovision Song Contest Wins You!
I’ll get my coat.
Seriously though, I love the Eurovision Song Contest. Half the countries actually take it seriously, with varied results ranging from amusing (Yes, you, Germany) to quite respectable (that would be you, Serbia) and the other half (Spain, Latvia, and France I’m looking in your direction) realise the whole thing is a colossal piss-take and are out to see who can come up with the wackiest shit and still get people to vote for it.
Next year in Moscow, I say!
It looks as though dirty tricks are not new where this contest is concerned. It’s been alleged that back in 1968 General Franco fixed the contest so that his country’s entry would win :- news story
For me, the real WTF moment in that article was:
Hey, other than the ocassional appearance from really unusual, unexpected entries like Finland’s from a couple of years back, and the obvious-joke entries, you notice it’s virtually ALL either powerpop ballads or neo-disco (remind me again: Europe’s the one that’s supposed to be more sophisticated than America, right?). Or even better, you start as a powerpop ballad with strings and wind machine and then at the bridge bring out the dancers and segue into neo-disco. Quite a few of the countries send their winner of the local equivalent of Idol and the format tends to create convergence.