Split votes

The EBU has released this year's votes in the Eurovision final divided into telecast votes and jury votes. Here are the most important findings in our opinion:

First semi final 

• If the televoters were to decide, we would have seen Finland in the final, but the jury could have kicked out Russia. Oh well, win some, lose some.
• Portugal was ranked second by the jury. WTF? Corruption!
• Estonia would have made it if only the jury were to decide. Makes us want the jury to stay with us for next year anyway. 

Second semi final:

• It was the jury that kicked Sweden out. Well done, jury. 
• Lithuania would have made it if only the televoters were to decide. What happened to the jury there? 
• The televoters would have made sure we missed that hideous Irish dress for the final. We now know to blame the jury.

 Final: 

• The televoters disliked Didrik even more than the jury. Not so surprising, as Didrik wasn't really trying to reach and please the audience outside of his performances.
• Spain is a lot higher in the televoting rank than in the jury voting. Probably a lot of votes of sympathy for the attacked there - and maybe some for Daniel's bright smile?
• Denmark was ranked lower by the jury than by the televoters. Well, at least the jury is a little bit smarter than the rest. 
• Israel was a lot more popular with the jury than with the televoters. We get that, because while Harel himself is an instant hit, the song kinda needs to grow on you.
• France was popular among the dancing televoters, while the party pooping jury even preferred knitted sweaters of Russia over hot asses of France. Choose a better jury next time! 
• UK ended up last in all lists. Poor little Josh. 

OK, sorry, but we don't think this made us so much wiser. Germany still won. We're still sorry we never got to see Lithuania or Estonia in the final, we feel sorry for the little Joshie thing and we're still not surprised Norway didn't do better.

Do we want to do a close analysis showing some political tendency or to make up our mind about the jury vs televoting system? Nope, no way. Because that would ruin some of the Eurovisional magic: The surprises that always show up and the predictions that are never completely right. We can't wait to see what happens next year. Keep on voting, folks.

Retro Sunday: Andorra 2009

Every Sunday we give you some of our favorite old entries to cheer you up a little extra and make you miss the glorious old days. Today we look back on Andorra's last appearance in ESC so far.



The Dane Susanne Georgi represented this tiny principality last year in Moscow and we love her to pieces. She is so charming and lovable both on and outside the stage and her catchy song surely deserved a better outcome. Fingers crossed for Andorra's return to Eurovision next year, and we wouldn't mind seeing Susanne again either!

Shop 'til you drop!

According to Norway's largest tabloid newspaper VG, it looks like Norway's national broadcaster NRK can get a smack on the fingers from The Norwegian Media Authority for breaking the strict rules against having commercial content in the coverage of Eurovision Song Contest. During the final, host Erik Solbakken casually mentioned that CD's and DVD's were on sale and this is apparently a big no no in a land of law abiding citizens like Norway.

Very well, we suppose that The Norwegian Media Authority does not pay much attention to a couple insignificant bloggers, so we hereby encourage everybody to treat yourself to a goodiebag of flashy, glitzy, meaningless and tacky ESC merchandise. Embark on your shopping spree in the official online shop. GEE are considering a Share the Moment mug for our daily coffee fix, and a Share the Moment pillow for sweet dreams (usually containing Harel in that fitted shirt).

Retro Sunday: Italy 1984

Every Sunday we give you some of our favorite old entries to cheer you up a little extra and make you miss the glorious old days. Today we bring you a classic from the country we miss the most in Eurovision. 



Dear Italy, please come back, return to the ESC stage! No other country can manage to win the Eurovision Song Contest with a love song for EU, or sing about trains in Tunisia with passion like this. And when the three matrons dressed in the same colors as the Italian flag, towards the end belts out a passage from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" in German (!), we almost start crying, it's so poetic, so beautiful and so Italian!

Well played: Fabulous frocks

There were some fabulous frocks on display on the Eurovision stage this year. And if you show up representing your country with a grandiose and pompous ballad it's simply demanded of you to go for a glamourous prom dress. This can be all wrong with an up-tempo song though, and it's basically about choosing an outfit that matches both the song and your own personal style. So why 18 year old Sieneke chose to appear on stage looking like a frumpy middle aged housewife is better left unmentioned...

Sofia Nizharadze from Georgia looked absolutely stunning on stage. Before the final the Georgian delegation went to Paris to sort out the choreography and sent Sofia on a shopping spree in Milan to find the perfect dress. This really paid off in Oslo as the whole act was a sight for sore eyes, with Sofia as the centre of attention. GEE were skeptical towards the busy gymnastics routine in the beginning, but Sofia and her crew proved us wrong and pulled the whole thing off with style and grace. Well done!

Omg, who on earth will pay the bill after our party in the Opera-house?








Portugal's Filipa Azevedo was every 10 year old girl's princess dream in her beautiful evening gown. The scenography was a real princess worthy and she was just so pretty and her vocal was flawless. She kinda deserved a ticket to the final even though GEE fell asleep twice, both at the semi-final and the final during her performance.

Wake up GEE blogger girls, I'm singing my heart out here!






We did of course know beforehand that the prettiest girl in Oslo during ESC would be our very own Haddy N'jie. Regardless, we were gobsmacked from the moment we saw Haddy on stage in the first semi-final in a creation by Leila Hafzi. She filled her role as host to perfection and even though she would probably look amazing wearing a potato sack, her beautiful outfits were the icing on the cake. Haddy for President and a cherry on top of that!

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's prettiest girl here in the hall?
















Yup, that's me all right!

Well played: Some guys well suited

Eurovision 2010 turned out to be a suited competition among the male contenders. We're like ok, when did we enter the funeral of Mr USA? Not exactly Tom Ford all of those guys. But still, there are some bright stars on the tailored heaven. Let's take a closer look.

The well groomed pretty boys were fighting for attention in dark suits this year. As previously mentioned, Didrik went all accountant unchick for the big final. It's best left without further comments. UK Josh tried at least a little bit harder, but still, way too preppy and safe for our taste. And some of his outfits at other times just made us lose faith completely. We really do recommend Josh to stay away from light grey and his father's closet for the next twenty years.

Seriously, Josh, how can anyone respect you when you make an old woman in purple look better than you? No more grey and untailored for you, please.


One man, however, managed to nail us all to the wall. And thank you Didrik and Josh for showing us how hard suiting a suit could be. For Israeli Harel Skaat, stylist Gal Apple was all successful. We love the combination of an open shirt and a tight suit. It balances perfectly between relaxed and sharp. And the suit itself is just perfect and need we say very lucky, clinging to Harel's great body. He did indeed sound kind of proud of the design by Yossi Katzaw when we interviewed him the other day. And now we get it. There is really nothing more to say. Just keep watching.

Yes, man. This IS the way to suit a suit. And ripping off that shirt is very hard not to do.


Then there were a couple of more independently suited men. Spain's Daniel Diges decided to bring us something tiny in something shiny. Have to say this is not math class, so two bad things does not equal one good. The curly Spaniard fascinated us for some other reason: His ability to look absolutely amazing in photos while not looking very good at all in real life. We mean, of course we get the concept of being photogenic, but that was the extreme version. We kept holding the picture taken a minute ago up to his face to see if it really was the same person. It was creepy. Either we need glasses, or we need a class or two from this guy. Come pick him up, Tyra!

"Well, who cares how I look? Jimmy Jump is supposed to cover me"




Still, Daniel's suit didn't even look good in photos. Space age ended at least ten years ago, man, and how is it even possible to make such a shiny suit look so beyond casual? Please, get a new stylist and stay in the image. But hey, this was supposed to be about something good, and something good really did come out of Estonia this year. Malcolm Lincoln's Robin Juhkental really did know how to look fantastic while remaining true to his real self. Well, of course he wasn't even born in the 70s when this style was popular, but we do appreciate him bringing old glory into life. Everything is just so right about his velvet jacket, his purple scarf and his sassy loafers. What a fine dandy. Too bad we didn't see him in the final, but we're sure we'll see a lot more of him in the years to come as Malcolm Lincoln just released a fantastic record. How very suitable.

"Is he from London?"
"Nope. He's from, hold on, Estonia!"
"Well, from the 70s, then?"
"Nope, wasn't even born in the 70s"
"Looks like he knows how to dress"
"Yup, sure knows how to dress" 
"Well, GEE blogger girls should love him" 
"Yeah, you got that right" 

Well played; Sweden and Bosnia & Herzegovina

It really makes sense to us to have an award for the worse dressed participant in this competition. We don't mean to sound all negative here, quite on the contrary, we love watching men and women from all over Europe, belting out their sorrow or joy or love or whatever on the ESC stage, while being wrapped in what looks like Queen Elizabeth's latest stationery supplies or a wallpaper the Queer Eye guys could kill for. In fact, we wish there could be a whole range of categories so more than one contestant could win a Barbara Dex Award every year.

On the other hand, there are always quite a few contestants who look absolutely stunning on stage and we love watching them just as much. And after all it's better to get a "wow" from the audience either in admiration or disgust, than an indifferent... "meh".

A couple of those who receive thumbs up and a pat on the back from GEE are the rocker dude Vukašin Brajić from Bosnia & Herzegovina and rocker chick Anna Bergendahl from Sweden. Before ESC, there were much media attention in Norway on our very own Didrik's embarrassing attempts to pick up this sweet Swede. Well, who can blame him for trying, but he should have realized that boring and bourgeois is not Anna's cup of tea. Rebellious and red-hot are probably more Anna's flavors and she would make a cute couple with Vukašin.

Their laidback appearance matches each other perfectly and even though we did find both their songs to be ridiculously boring, we compliment these youngsters for their sense of style and for choosing outfits that fit with their personalities and their performances on stage. It looks edgy yet effortlessly cool, and Anna was brave to stand her ground and insist on keeping her worn out Converses, while there probably were plenty of stylists trying to convince her to go for a pair of killer heels or something more "presentable".

Looking sharp while presenting the latest weather report.

The sweetheart from Sweden is barely visible behind gigantic guitar.

Barbara Dex Award; Moldova and Russia

There are plenty of guys deserving a decent bashing in this year's ESC as well! Let's start with Moldova. And forget about the female tin foil cupcake. We didn't exactly expect Chişinău to be the fashion capitol of Europe, but to get reacquainted with the vest our old uncle John donated to aid Romanian orphans years ago, we did not see that one coming. We suppose it found its way to an overpriced ultra hip vintage shop in the above mentioned capitol somehow. As mentioned earlier, we praise Moldova for giving us valuable and hilarious contributions when it comes to costumes and props on stage, so it's nice to see that this tradition is being kept alive.

There is just so much material here, starting with the bloke in the front. Blimey...










Russian Peter Nalitch just couldn't be bothered to dress up at all. He and his friends showed up in Oslo dressed as a bunch of middle aged biology teachers on a field trip. But even tired and grumpy biology teachers shave and brush their hair when going to a party. So, it would have been nice if these lads had made the slightest effort. You don't need to go berserk with sequins and feathers to look presentable, you know.

"I'm looooooking at her photo!" Look what the cat dragged in, we'd say.









Yup, we could go on and on forever. We should of course have mentioned the lovely Eva Rivas and reported her to the fashion police for severe crime against humanity with that dress over jeans combo. And the Nevermind from Denmark probably had some serious welding work cut out for him while trying to weld on Eva Rivas' artificial hair.

And our very own car mechanic Didrik, trying to convince us that he had launched a new career as an accountant with that boring suit. What happened to the white waiter jacket he wore in the national final, not good enough for him? Come to think of it we have trashed poor Didrik at so many occasions by now, we're actually starting to bore ourselves. So he's off the hook. For now.

Enough about the Barbara Dex contenders, which outfits did we actually like? Watch out for follow-up blogposts!

Barbara Dex Award; Ukraine

And then there's rag doll Alyosha from Ukraine. The end is really near here, and we have a feeling it has something to do with the environment. You know, sustainable development and all that go green and save the planet stuff. Our theory is that this is actually recycled rags found in Chernobyl. And the shoes? Probably vintage, protective equipment worn by the workers at the nuclear power plant.

This is how sweet people looks like after shooting a music video in Chernobyl.

Barbara Dex Award; Latvia and Ireland

A far more deserving winner of the Barbara Dex Award would have been Aisha from Latvia. We are not exactly sure what happened here, but here's a few plausible scenarios. She simply forgot to change into her actual dress before she entered the stage. There just must be an explanation to why she unintentionally appeared in front of 130 million TV viewers dressed in a bathrobe.

After an even closer look we start to wonder if one of the hotel rooms at Oslo Plaza is missing a bedspread or perhaps a curtain. In that case she sort of takes raiding hotel rooms for "free" stuff to another level. We usually settle for shampoos, slippers and shower caps. And no, we don't wear the slippers and a shower cap while making an important presentation at work.

Before the performance in Oslo Aisha announced that there would be changes on stage from the national final. While we could hardly wait to see how they could manage to top the doing the laundry sequence it just turned out that Aisha would wear the fabric her backing singers worked so hard to clean while keeping up with the chorus. Disappointment from here to eternity.

"What for am I dressed like this?"

Guri considered to go Latvian on the big final night, but thank Gawd, she went for a proper dress instead.

Well, here's a lady who perhaps should consider taking fashion tips from Latvia. This snap shot is taken backstage before one of the dress rehearsals, and Niamh from Ireland looks all peachy and glamourous. She actually has a waist!








Instead she shows up on stage wearing this. We are lost for words. Almost. Or not really, here it goes. It looks awful!!! We read somewhere that she looked like a Cadbury cream egg ready to burst. And that it looked like she ate Ireland, rather than represented Ireland. That's just so cruel. But funny. And seriously, she is not that big, it's just the dress, it's so utterly unflattering. Just look at Hera Björk from Iceland. Far more junk in the trunk there, but she looked absolutely fab in her high waisted diva frock. Where is Trinny and Susannah when you really need them? This is a real fashion emergency!

Misplaced waistline missing. Last seen sometime during the mid 90's.

Barbara Dex Award

Earlier this week it was announced that Serbia's Milan Stanković was voted the winner of the Barbara Dex Award. Please allow us to take a moment here. What??? In our opinion he was one of the best dressed contestants this year. His stage outfit in the same colors as the Serbian flag and his marching band jacket was a perfect match for his ethnic styled, brassy celebration of a song. And yeah, we get it, his haircut was rather unconventional and his dancers came out of shower cabinets while being dressed in bubble wrap frocks, but c'mon, this is just not enough to win a contest where bad taste is refined into perfection.

We applaud Milan for his sense of style. During the ESC weeks in Oslo he appeared to be a true fashionista always looking fresh and clean. A bit freaky at times, but there's nothing wrong with spicing up the party just by being present. We find his style edgy, trendy and brave. He adds his personal twist to all outfits and he is not afraid to stand out and to play with his androgynous look. This picture is taken from the Serbian party and GEE think he looks super cool. Kudos!
(pic nicked from fab Sharleen from Australia)









Stay tuned on our blog during the next few days as we intend to present some of those, in our opinion, worthy contenders in this fierce competition. Buckle up, and prepare yourself for some fashion faux pas moments!

Retro Sunday: Israel 2005

It's time to enjoy some golden oldies again! Every Sunday we give you some of our favorite old entries to cheer you up a little extra and make you miss the glorious old days. Today we look back on eye candy from Israel.



We suppose it cant get much yummier than what Israel put on stage this year in Oslo, and Shiri Maimon must be Harel Skaat's female equivalent. It takes one smokin' hot body to pull off that dress, and Shiri does it with style and class. And she can sing too. Shalom!

Defeated, but not forgotten

It turned out to be Germany's turn this year and we say well deserved! Lena was one of our favorites from the beginning and we are confident the Germans will put on a massive show next year, we can hardly wait!

However, every year regardless of who takes home the victory, there will always be discussions around which country should have won. It might be the crazy disco act which finished second or the alluring ballad that keeps growing on you long after it finished seventh in the final. Do you remember who won in 1983? We can barely remember a lady in a pink dress wailing something in French, but the girl who came on third place sticks like glue to our brains!

Here’s our list with some of our favorite songs trough all times that didn’t win the contest but most certainly won our hearts!

1991 - France: Amina "C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison”
An excruciatingly exciting voting process ended with a tie break between Sweden and France. Amina came second with the smallest margin ever to spare to the winner, having received fewer ten points than the winner Carola. – But what an astonishing lady with a heavenly voice and an even sassier orange scarf than the one WigWam had. She owned the stage that night in Rome.

                                                              
1983 - Sweden: Carola "Främling"
Ironically enough it was Carola who snatched the victory out of Amina’s henna painted hands in 1991, but a few years earlier Carola had to settle for third place. Carola’s career path is somewhat similar to Michael Jackson’s: 1983: talented and wonderful, 1991: on top of their careers, 2006: freak show! We find this deeply disturbing….

1979 – West Germany: Dschinghis Khan ”Dschinghis Khan”
How come everybody remembers an act that came on fourth place in 1979? Magical!

2000 – Latvia: BrainStorm ”My Star”
During this beautiful evening in May one decade ago we realized that the Europe we used to know in our childhood back in the eighties had changed forever and no longer existed. This perfect pop song, with the most charming vocalist ever! Why did it only finish on third place? And why did the Pensioners Party from Denmark win?

1973 – Spain: Mocedades ”Eres tú”
The Basques sure know how to race a bicycle and to play soccer, but they also know how to make the perfect ballad! This song is commonly confused as the winner from 1973, even though the actual winning act was really strong that year.

1968 – United Kingdom: Cliff Richard ”Congratulations”
Sir Cliff looks younger today than what he did 42 years ago. Scary. However there’s no way getting around the fact that he nailed it with a classic and a massive hit when he came second that year. His contribution is especially loved and appreciated among those of us who loves birthday celebrations.

1987 – Norway: Kjersti Bergesen ”Go-go”
This entry didn’t even make it through to the international final; it finished on third place in the Norwegian national selection final behind Kate “Bad Hair Day” Gulbrandsen. But our Norwegian readers and Eurovision connoisseurs might remember that it beat strong household names like Sigvart Dagsland, Olav Stedje, Mia Gundersen and Finn Kalvik. Kjersti is not even close to sporting a decent singing voice, but the song itself is a perfect snap shot from the eighties, and the keychange towards the end of the song is priceless.

2005 – Latvia: Walter & Kazha ”The war is not over”
How can there be wars going on when cutie pies like this can make such wonderful music? Massive ”Extreme- More Than Words” factor going on and we immediately turn 13 again when we listen to this song which came fifth in Kiev.

                                                                                               
2003 – Belgium: Urban Trad ”Sanomi”
As if Flemish isn’t silly enough to begin with, the Belgians decided to sing in a sort of gibberish language this year. World music is usually not our cup of tea, but we didn’t mind if this entry had finished higher than second place in 2003.

1983 – Yugoslavia: Danijel ”Dzuli”
1983 was a really strong year with a weak winner. This number came on fifth place and became an instant classic. Balkanswing rules!

What’s your favorite runner up?

Lessons learned during Eurovision 2010

Believe it or not, GEE did manage to learn a thing or two during two crazy weeks in Eurovision Town. So if you ever consider joining the ESC circus next year in Germany, here’s a few helpful hints from our point of view.

Those shoes are not made for walking 
As glamorous as we might look to you, we have to admit: Walking around in our various set of heels every night for a couple of weeks is kinda hard on our baby feet. Because Eurovision is a lot of walking, especially for GEE girls who can't stop mingling when there are stars around. Now it's hello ballerinas for the rest of the summer, and who wants to carry us around next year?

When photographed, bend your knees and put your glasses on
We took a lot of pictures with a lot of good posers this week. It was such a joy to learn from all their glorious little tricks so that we could look a little bit more shiny ourselves. While the Finnish chicks taught us how to bend our knees for a better posture, the golden boy of Switzerland taught us to always have our glasses ready to put on when someone takes their camera out. The Polish hint on putting an apple in our mouth we kinda ignored. Thank you everyone for helping us look like ESCs next top models.

Someone just knows everyone. This someone is Mads Rogde
We have been doing a lot of networking throughout these Eurovision weeks. But someone did it even a little bit better than us. No matter who we befriended on Facebook, for instance, they were already friends with this fabulous producer slash party fixer Mads Rogde. And we don't blame them for a second. We're happy he's our friend as well and hereby make him our networking guru.

There is always need for a welding team at every ESC party
When so many large constructions have to be made for so many events and parties, someone should take some serious welding responsibility. Thomas N'evergreen from Denmark happily accepted the role this year, as he was walking around with his welding glasses on. Although his attitude was kinda cocky, we do applaud him for taking some time off to join our party while always being ready for emergency welding. Guess his Eastern European connections taught him that.

It pays off to make nice with GEE
In GEE we are not critical wannabe objective journalists from newspapers no one reads. Being bloggers has its definitive perks! Meaning we get to share exactly what we think with exactly who we want. Also meaning if you make nice with us, we most certainly will reward you. People like the A1 boys, Marcin Mrozinski, most of Azerbaijan, the bird bloke of Malta and Daniel Diges certainly got a lot more credit than expected out of us just from being nice. And Club Latter must have gotten more visits both from us and other guests due to their fabulous door hostess, who greeted and welcomed everyone like they were superstars and VIPs. In the end we learned there are some fab people in the ESC world. Don't we just love them all.

You can in fact get an email from yourself asking you to your own party
We were a little bit surprised by the fact that we one day received an email from Good Evening Europe inviting us to our own fabulous Good Evening Europe-party. Did Astrid write it? No. Did Guri write it? No. Whatta fuck? Then we remembered last night when we, while standing in the same place for a record of 10 minutes at Euroclub, were approached by several people wanting to take our photo, interviewing us for TV and thanking us for our blog posts. Wow, we're stars, we realized. And stars don't write their own mail, of course.

If you give up eating and sleeping, you will have time for Eurovision and all your fabulous outfits slip on perfectly
Well, that one is self explaining, but just so we will remember for Hamburg next year: You have to prioritize. Eating and sleeping is not for Eurovision. Glamorous dresses certainly are.

Most embarrassing ESC moments

This year it was all about sharing the moment. Join us for a quick recap on the most embarrassing moments we experienced during ESC. We had moments where we cringed in embarrassment and other moments when we almost cracked our hips as we fell on the floor laughing our heads off.

Norway running out of champagne
GEE had a fab time at the Official Opening Reception in Oslo City Hall. Who wouldn’t love to stroll up the pink carpet, squeezed in among the delegations from Azerbaijan, Poland and Belarus? It was however quite embarrassing to find out that Mayor Fabian Stang and his crew ran out of pink champagne nearly one hour before the party was supposed to be over. Snappy head waiters shouting at their assistants as well as at the prominent guests who were trying to elbow their way to catch the last drops didn’t make it any better. GEE had to execute major damage control by telling international guests that this is what happens when you offer Norwegians free booze. Speaking of, we do however suspect that the Butterflies from Belarus were also partly to blame for this situation…

Being robbed at Euro Café at broad daylight
GEE hung out at Euro Café one afternoon trying to recover from previous night’s party and getting prepared for yet another night of more partying (Yeah, ESC life’s a bitch, we know!). We are still in shock after having paid 78 NOK for a coke and a bag of potato chips. And we didn’t even get a full bottle, we got whatever was left in a small bottle that was first opened God knows when! And the bag of chips was tiny! Yeah, we get it, Norway is an expensive country, but this is just ridiculous. We can reassure all international readers and fellow guests at Euro Café during ESC that it is indeed possible to treat your hangover at a much more reasonable price than this just about anywhere else in Oslo. Shame on you, Euro Café.

Belarus' Butterflies being too drunk to sing
Need we say more? This actually happened at a gig they were supposed to perform at a week before the final. How very professional of them, and how funny for the rest of us!

Didrik + Per Sundnes = car job
Oh, we are trying really hard to think of what is the MOST embarrassing thing about the Didrik and Per relationship, but there is just so much material! Guess the worst part, anyway, must be the fact that Per Sundnes' husband decided to give Didrik a vintage car that has been in his family for a long time. Ok, so Didrik is a part of your family now, Mr. "supposed to be kinda neutral self acclaimed leader of MGP"? Please, people, stop courting.

Picking your audience more carefully
During the final in Telenor Arena, GEE was sitting next to a man claiming to be able to predict the votes from the different countries. He proudly showed us pictures on his phone of all the five ESC celebs he had met recently (GEE acted all surprised and impressed) and predicted that Israel would give Germany 12 points and Armenia would give 12 points to Azerbaijan. We recommend him to start reading newspapers (and our blog!) and maybe redo 3rd grade history before sitting next to us again.

Harel Skaat inviting people to lipsync him
While many of the contestants this year have been very good with their use of social media in marketing, Harel Skaat and his gang spent most of their time on their so called lip sync competition. AKA send in your video where you lip sync Harel's song. We were too embarrassed to watch the whole videos, but please take a look at one of them, at least for amusement. The PR people of Israel really wanted us to market it on our blog, so now we did. You're welcome.

Someone trying to trash Lithuania
Trying to trash Lithuania in the face of some of their most dedicated fans wasn't such a good plan. The Dutch TV commentator, who we by the way loved very much, tried to tell us Jurgis from InCulto was arrogant. Nope, you really missed something elementary there, we thought, and decided to introduce them to each other. Never heard more about that. When will we be hired as your PR agents, InCulto?

Moldova behaving kinda tacky
Grabbing GEE bloggers' asses turned out to be a hit, especially among Moldavian contestants. Have to say it's not the smartest of moves among blogger girls who, surprisingly enough, are no fans of groping, yet love to trash people in public.

No one came to Didrik's party? Go figure

Today the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet brings an interview with Didrik Solli-Tangen, stating no one came to the party he decided to host in his own hotel room straight after the final. Apparently Didrik went around at the official party at Plaza asking people to join him in his hotel room, but none of the participants from the other delegations came. Poor little thing. We would like to give him a little piece of advice in case he would ever be in this position again:

1. If you don't go to anyone else's party, they won't be in yours
2. If you are the host at the grand party, you don't go around asking the guests to move to your private gathering somewhere else. 
3. If you behave like an ass, not talking to anyone, not recognizing anyone, not liking anyone when you're supposed to be the host, chances are they won't come to your party.
4. If you party and work for a long time, you will be exhausted. The rest of the delegations actually did work, you see, AND they showed up at the previous parties because it was a part of their representational work. Kinda like the host nation should be doing.
5. Representing your country is about being present where you are supposed to be present. That is not in someone's hotel room, but in the official parties.
6. If you explain the lack of people in your hotel room with the winner not drinking, you are even more stupid than we think.
7. Telling the newspapers you are hungover and that your hotel room looks like a whore house is not cool, just pathetic. 
8. If you need a mentor, we'll gladly recommend just about any other Eurovision participant this year. The are way ahead of you.

Eurovision is over now, Didrik. You did a lousy job, but at least you got a car out of your sugardaddies. Now stop whining and go back to school.

(Picture: Dagbladet.no)