Ooh Aah | Dana for president!
Monday, 19 September 2011 16:16
News Round-up of the day. Now wouldn't that be something, a Eurovision winner as president for the country that won the contest most.
Most of the 12points crew was in Munich this weekend, that's why we have a bit of Eurovision catching up to do, now. We weren't there to check out the host city of the 1983 Eurovision as such, but for a bit of local tradition: the Oktoberfest. Apart from hearing Er gehört zu mir by Marianne Rosenberg a few times there is not much Eurovision to that.....
Ooh Aah | Without you!
Tuesday, 04 October 2011 17:59
News Round-up of the day. Ben Cramer (Netherlands 1973) tries to get a ticket to the Dutch national selection with the song Zonder jou (Without you). He said this in a interview with RTL Boulevard.
540 songs were submitted to UMK, the Finnish national selection. This is a new record. The highest number of songs submitted was in 2005 whit 503 songs. Last year 277 songs were submitted.
Ooh Aah | MTV award for Lena?
Monday, 24 October 2011 18:04
News Round-up of the day. MTV has announced the nominees in the Worldwide Act Category of the "2011 MTV EMA".
The five global finalists are: Britney Spears (North America); Lena (Europe); BIGBANG (Asia Pacific); Abdelfattah Grini (Africa/India/Middle East); and Restart (Latin America).
Ooh Aah | Dana International #1
Tuesday, 01 November 2011 17:37
News Round-up of the day. In the annual so called Homo Top 100 in Flanders, Dana International climbed up to the first place.
Last year Diva didn't mange to come higher than a 4th position, this year it beat Bart Kaëll (Belgian national final 1983/1987) that got the top spot last year. Other eurovision entries in the top 100 include Soldiers of Love (Belgium 1987) on # 8, Je t'adore (Belgium 2006) on # 27, Liefde is een kaartspel (Belgium 1996) on # 65, Gelukkig zijn (Belgium 1975) on # 73, Je ne sais quoi (Iceland 2010) on #82 and Ooh Aah Just a little bit (UK 1996) on #85. Would there be a link between Eurovision and being gay, we wonder?
Ooh Aah | I mina drömmar
Monday, 07 November 2011 18:06
News Round-up of the day. First Melodifestivalen 2012 entry has been selected.
Today the first stage of Melodifestivalen ended. Through an open internet selection the song I mina drömmar (In my dreams) has been selected. Maria BenHajji recorded the demo that participated in the so called webbjoker contest, but SVT is entitled to chose another artist to perform the song. According to SVT's rules the song is not available anymore untill a day or so before the Melodifestivalen heat it is in.
OA | Like the Finnish songs!
Thursday, 08 December 2011 18:00
News Round-up of the day. 40 songs in Finland are still in the race to become the country's hope in Baku.
You can listen to all songs here. Among the most liked songs, a jury will select 12 songs that will get a propper radio version. Liking is easy, just press the Tykkään button underneath the clips. The Finish final will take place on 25 February in the Helsinki Ice Hall.
Swedish in Finland
Sunday, 26 February 2012 09:40
For the first time since 1998 we will hear a song in Swedish on the Eurovision stage again. From Finland this time.
Pernilla Karlsson won the final of UMK, or should we call it NMT from now which would be the Swedish abbreviation. She will sing När jag blunder in the first semi final on 22 May. Only once before Finland got represented by a song in Swedish, which is the second language of the country.
OA | Racist comments in Ukraine
Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:54
++ Line up Spain complete ++ Amnesty International critical about Azerbaijan ++ Talking to Charlotte tonight! ++ ..
There is the general prejudice that non-white artists don't get too many votes from eastern European countries. Recent examples are Norway's entry last year and the Netherlands in 2007. This year Ukraine almost seems to have made a statement against this prejudice, selecting Gaitana to represent the country in Baku. Gaitana is partly Congolese but she was born and raised in Ukraine. Apparently this now hasn't turned out to be accepted generally in the country anyway. In Ukrainian press Yuriy Syrotyuk, of the Svoboda party, said that "Gaitana is not an organic representative of the Ukrainian culture." "Eurovision is our chance to promote Ukraine," "We need to show our originality," he told Kyiv Post on Feb. 21. Such a pity!
OA | Poor Bernard Krasnic!!
Friday, 27 January 2012 19:16
++Croatian Nina Badrić plans no sex till ESC++ ABBA is back! ++ UMK is the word in Finland tonight ++ Vive La France ++ ..
Four times Nina Badrić tried to get a ticket for Eurovision already. Now that she finally managed to get the chance to represent Croatia, she will make sure she is ready for it! "I've decided to prepare myself in the best possible way. Therefore, there is no sex before June," 39-year-old Nina Badrić told Croatian daily newspaper Vecernji List. We feel sorry for Bernard Krasnić, Nina's husband.
OA | Unser Star continues
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:22
++ Lucia Moon for Armenia? ++ The Spyro or Jessica Wolff for Finland? ++ The legedary Eurovision Night is back in the Netherlands ++..
Tonight the second half of the German artists will be presented in Unser Star für Baku. Last week 5 out of 10 got through to the next stage, tonight five more will be eliminated. The show starts at 20:15 and can be watched on ProSieben.
