Eurovision 2012: pretty much as expected

Last year, everyone thought it was silly that I would use a free online language course to learn Swedish. 'What will you ever do with Swedish?' Traffas ni i Stockholm nasta ar!  :D
Much like 2009, in the end it became a very predictable affair with the winners.

In fact, it was more surprising how the rest of the scoreboard went, with the biggest surprise, to me at least, being Norway's last place. As soon as this was revealed, I just knew he was the tiebreaker for 10th place in the semi final. I'm equally surprised that he was a tiebreaker with Bulgaria (an underrated entry). What went wrong though? Was is it that he was too much like Eric Saade from last year? The song was very much Eurovision, as it is recently, and being typical of current chart fare. So I'm gonna go with him being Eric Saade 2. Sorry, it really was hard not to notice it. (I hope, for the sake of humanity, that it wasn't because of  hateful white-supremacist articles about the notion of Norway being represented by a gay muslim.)

Other big favourites, in Ireland, Denmark, and the UK, also failed in the end to make an impression in the end. The UK doesn't seem terribly surprising, being performed first. Engelbert's failure is indicative though of the UK's wider detachment from the rest of Europe.

RTE, next year, no more Jedward. The reality is, they're just not that good. I mean, they're better, but they're still not great, and those outfits were ridiculous, and that fountain seemed a bit random. I mean, if you're going to get Jedward wet, this was what you should have gone for

I expect that Ireland will go back to ballad's next year. Ireland's just too conservative to do something really cool, and no one cool watches The Late Late Show, unless they have a nerd crush on Ryan Tubridy. *ahem*

To an extent, Jedward's loss was much the same as everyones. Loreen's victory soaked up most of the points, followed by Russia (WHY????), meaning what was left got spread among predictable blocs, so the non-bloc countries, like France (equal opportunities eye candy) and Ireland, just kinda fell to the bottom of the scoreboard.

And in the end, it was Trackshittaz that came last in the loltastic first semi-final, only managing 8 points.  And Belgium rightly came second last. I really hated that song. Slovakia came last in the second semi-final meaning that I don't know anything, and people aren't voting for a rock entry. Sigh.