So Ukraine won the Eurovision show of this year, as many of us feared. And it is bad news because the song was simply mediocre: I wonder how many of the people who voted for it would be able to remember the tune today...
The song and performance by Jamala, compared with Måns Zelmerlöw's last year "Heroes", was like compraring JJ Abrams "Star Wars" to "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
Maybe Jamala's was not the worst song of the festival (although maybe it was), but surely there were many better ones.
Our favorite was the Australian song by Dami Im, "Sound Of Silence". Obviously, we loved its 80s-epic-ballad-like chorus!
But there were many other songs way better than the Ukrainian.
For example, the Swedish song, Frans' "If I Were Sorry", improved with every listening.
Also the French, "J'ai Cherché" by Amir, was much better than Jamala's.
Even the Spanish song was better than the winner! Something that we would have never imagined could happen... LOL
And then comes the Russian song... The great rival of the Ukrainian song. Sergey Lazarev's "You Are The Only One" was definitely not our favorite song, but the truth is that it was also better than Jamala's song, and the most Eurovisive of all. Probably that's why it was the favorite in all bet sites (Russia: 2; Australia: 6; Ukraine: 15; average from the 22 bet sites listed here).
The coreography was too similar to last years' winner (specially in the beginning), but you can deny it seemed that Russia wanted to win the show.
You can check the recap of all the contestants here:
Even the Finish and the Estonian songs, that didn't qualify for the final, were better than Jamala's song!
The song and performance by Jamala, compared with Måns Zelmerlöw's last year "Heroes", was like compraring JJ Abrams "Star Wars" to "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".
Maybe Jamala's was not the worst song of the festival (although maybe it was), but surely there were many better ones.
Our favorite was the Australian song by Dami Im, "Sound Of Silence". Obviously, we loved its 80s-epic-ballad-like chorus!
But there were many other songs way better than the Ukrainian.
For example, the Swedish song, Frans' "If I Were Sorry", improved with every listening.
Also the French, "J'ai Cherché" by Amir, was much better than Jamala's.
Even the Spanish song was better than the winner! Something that we would have never imagined could happen... LOL
And then comes the Russian song... The great rival of the Ukrainian song. Sergey Lazarev's "You Are The Only One" was definitely not our favorite song, but the truth is that it was also better than Jamala's song, and the most Eurovisive of all. Probably that's why it was the favorite in all bet sites (Russia: 2; Australia: 6; Ukraine: 15; average from the 22 bet sites listed here).
The coreography was too similar to last years' winner (specially in the beginning), but you can deny it seemed that Russia wanted to win the show.
You can check the recap of all the contestants here:
Even the Finish and the Estonian songs, that didn't qualify for the final, were better than Jamala's song!
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