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Eurovision mania has begun in Turkey Woohoo :)
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10.       *Carla Louise*
207 posts
 13 May 2009 Wed 03:07 pm

I´ve been listening to Düm Tek Tek for weeks and weeks, never mind if it wins or not (I hope it will I shall vote!), it still will make Türkiye proud I´m sure

I shall be having my own Eurovision party in my house, by that I mean I will sit watching it with a plate of cheese and a constant supply of coffee, whooping and cheering

Go Hadise! You can do it!

Anybody else think our UK entry is really bland?

 

11.       AlphaF
5677 posts
 13 May 2009 Wed 05:33 pm

The secret motive behind Eurovision song contest is to find the degree of prevailing friendship between various countries, on that day. It is only a damn national popularity poll.

 

The song itself or the quality of music/singer  makes no difference at all.....



Edited (5/13/2009) by AlphaF

12.       libralady
5152 posts
 13 May 2009 Wed 10:48 pm

 

Quoting AlphaF

The secret motive behind Eurovision song contest is to find the degree of prevailing friendship between various countries, on that day. It is only a damn national popularity poll.

 

The song itself or the quality of music/singer  makes no difference at all.....

 

 Ahhh but they have changed the voting system to try and stop this!  Part panel vote and part viewer vote............ but I bet it wont make too much of a difference........ and now Terry Wogan is not commentating on it (UK), it will be even more boringConfused

13.       *Carla Louise*
207 posts
 17 May 2009 Sun 11:59 am

I´m glad Türkiye did so well but I thought Hadise would win!  She was beautiful and gave an excellent performance I loved hearing the Turkish people in the crowd in Moscow chant ´TÜRKÝYE!" But I still can´t believe Norway won 

14.       melek08
429 posts
 17 May 2009 Sun 12:18 pm

The Norwegian song was great and a really great performance. A bit different from all the others.. girls singing pop

15.       tomac
975 posts
 17 May 2009 Sun 12:50 pm

Yes, it´s a pity that Turkey didn´t claimed at least 3rd place - but anyway, 4th place is really good I think .

 

And by the way - can someone translate the title "Düm tek tek" ? I know that "tek tek" means "one by one", but I can´t find a meaning of "düm". Is this kind of idiom or something else ?

 

(oh, no matter - I´ve just found it on Wikipedia quoting:

 

"Düm Tek Tek" is onomatopoeic for the sound generated by a drum; with "boom bang bang" being an English equivalent.)



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16.       libralady
5152 posts
 17 May 2009 Sun 02:39 pm

This year it was far more entertaining in terms of good songs and the new voting system seems to work with far less neighbourly voting <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'>  But hey Turkey, we gave you douze point so where was our douze point??  I will get you  Norway fielded a complete weed - Sakis Rouvas was the man for me............ blow the song the white trousers and ripped shirt did it for me Angel

17.       Irna
1 posts
 17 May 2009 Sun 10:22 pm

we had the greatest show this year i think!!!! i liked almost all the singers! it was one the strongest eurovisions´. I like the winner! but i absolutely didn´t like the chose of our singer.. Our Dima Bilan was much more better!

 

congradulations to all the participants and countries thx the show

 

hot kisses from cold Russia

18.       catwoman
8933 posts
 18 May 2009 Mon 03:11 am

 

Quoting AlphaF

The secret motive behind Eurovision song contest is to find the degree of prevailing friendship between various countries, on that day. It is only a damn national popularity poll.

 

The song itself or the quality of music/singer  makes no difference at all.....

 

couldn´t agree more... and the quality of the songs is going down every year!!

19.       TheVineyards
11 posts
 18 May 2009 Mon 03:21 am

From a purely musical point of view, the UK and France performances were a class apart. Nevertheless, they are not the kinds of songs you would want to hear at Eurovision.  The German entry was quite disgusting. I didn´t understand what was so special about the Norwegian entry. It was a pretty ordinary song reminiscient of the 70´s tunes. I liked Portugal. At least I now know what their folk music is like.

 

As most have already said, this year, most songs were at least listenable. It is also worth mentioning the lack of stupidity in the shows, no monsters, no zombies etc.

 

20.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 19 May 2009 Tue 03:55 am

I liked Moldova and Estonia. Don´t remember other participants. I do regret, however, that Eurovision no longer has the sing-in-your-mother-tongue policy. Most songs brought back Modern Talking disco aera that I hate, kitchy kitchy yah yah yah yeah Puking

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