It looks like Norway or Greece - both tipped on here.

Too early to say. These days, I make no predictions until I have seen the live stage performances at the venue. Also, there is no way of knowing what effect the introduction of professional juries will have.

The outcome of the the Junior Eurovision was surprising to say the least. The Georgian winner was, in my opinion, the most horrific three minutes of unbearable noise pollution I have ever had the misfortune to suffer. I would post a link to this, but have no desire to inflict misery on the general public. If that is an indicator of the juries' influence, I dread to think what could happen in Moscow.

tipping the first and second favourites, really jk i had expected something a little more adventuresome from you
norway has eurovision written all over it, and the greek song is eurovision by numbers
i hope with the juries there will be a surprise winner, may be even the uk

I don't like either of them much as explained in another thread, but they do seem to be favoured in another bad year.

the problem is what will the juries be looking for ?
musical content or may be anything from the west

JK2006 wrote:
It looks like Norway or Greece - both tipped on here.

Greece is dire

I'd say Azerbaijan or Spain so far

Norway is my tip to be yet another favourite that doesn't reach the final

Georgie have been forced out for upsetting Russia with their song.

Here is Spain

i hope you are right as i have already backed both spain and azerbaijan
i quite like bosnia and as it is a very poor standard this year it probably won't take too much winning

If Sweden make the right choice tonight we will finally have a song deserving of winning this year



You can watch the final from 7pm live here

svt.se/

Malena Ernman with La Voix will be the favourite come Eurovision night if selected and deserves to be.

Not for me I'm afraid.

It has just been selected as the Swedish representative despite a poor jury vote score it won the public vote and overall.

Good call, Mr. Hitmaker. It won, and it has a bit of drive and melody to it, which is more than I can say for the rest. I don't love it, but compared to the other bunch of songs ranging from lacklustre, contrived, boring, weird, to downright awful, it is definitely my personal favourite.

Hitmaker wrote:
If Sweden make the right choice tonight we will finally have a song deserving of winning this year



You can watch the final from 7pm live here

svt.se/

Malena Ernman with La Voix will be the favourite come Eurovision night if selected and deserves to be.

JK had a far classier operatic track in the 2000 song for europe contest. "Aria" which somehow appeared on a tipsheet CD a long time before ! Perhaps it went back in a tardis ?

The vocalist of that song,Helen Horlyck, had a range that this woman cannot hit and we are going to have the "Drama Queen" of 2009 as it fails to get to the final.

This is referred to as "fanwank" and that is what it is. She won't be anywhere near a favourite. Not that being favourite means anything. Ask DJ Bobo and Anna Vissi.

This kind of song really does appeal to the worst excesses of gay taste and nothing else.

On second thoughts, Mike, you could have a point about Sweden. I liked DJ Bobo and Anna Vissi, though it has to be admitted that for one of the few ESC fans who isn't gay, my tastes can reach high camp at times.

she does look like a drag act, i am not convinced about her performance either as a singer or a woman

Anthony wrote:
On second thoughts, Mike, you could have a point about Sweden. I liked DJ Bobo and Anna Vissi, though it has to be admitted that for one of the few ESC fans who isn't gay, my tastes can reach high camp at times.

I didn't realise so many Eurovision fans were gay. The majority I have met seem to be completely A-sexual anoraks.

Sweden did a similar song with "Invincible" the year Lordi won it. That year Malta sent an Erasure impersonator (Fabrizio Faniello).Malta this year have entered a Celine Dion soundalike(Chiara). The ESC would be dead without its gay following. I rather like this song but its style is too much like the Sarah Brightman dance mix from a few years back. And for that reason it doesnt stand a cat in hells chance.