Posted on 05/11/2018 2:20:25 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Eurovision Song Contest has completed its lineup of 26 contestants who will face off for this years crown, following a second semifinal.
Performers from Serbia, Moldova, Hungary, Ukraine, Sweden, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia and The Netherlands earned enough votes Thursday night to reach the Grand Final.
Missing out on Saturdays headline show were Russia, Georgia, Latvia, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino.
Half of the votes were cast by a professional jury and the other half remotely by viewers.
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For the third consecutive year, one of the biggest spectacles in popular music, the Eurovision Song Contest, will be broadcast in the U.S. exclusively on Logo. The Viacom network once again will carry live the Grand Final, which will run commercial free on both coasts on Saturday, May 12 at 3PM ET /12PM PT.
A new study suggests that when a nation takes part in Eurovision, it has a 13% chance of higher "life satisfaction" among its population compared with those who don't.
By an interesting coincidence, that group that got its start by winning the Eurovision contest in 1974, ABBA, just made its first visit to a recording studio in a couple of decades and has two new songs coming out.
Finland’s Lordi had the best performance in the Eurovision contest ever.
In recent years they’ve aimed more at the homo/trannie market.
More details: First trannie competed in 1998; first trannie won in 2014. (The 1998 one represented Israel).
I could only get 19 seconds into that one before my breakfast started to come up on me.
I believe this is a contestant from around 1970.
OK, she has a decent voice, but the winning song, in the words of the younger generation, seriously sucked.
Israel’s Netta Barzilai was the Grand Final winner for her song “Toy.”
Next year’s Eurovision song contest will be held in Jerusalem, Israel.
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