Eurovision Rewatch: Helsinki, 2007 (BST 20:00, 25.04)

[AGinAg (37)]

03 Bosnia
07 Spain
09 Belarus
01 Ireland
07 Finland
08 Macedonia
10 Slovenia
00 Hungary
04 Lithuania
06 Greece
09 Georgia
02 Sweden
06 France
05 Latvia
08 Russia
02 Germany
10 Serbia

 

[Raining on Me]

I feel like I'm ascending out of a lifetime of repressed misery and INTO THE HEAVENS with this

With lesbians, but you can't have it all

 

[Kala]

Though UP next is the song I was SURE was going to win

 

[VoR]

Found it.

NOT AT ALL A STEREOTYPE.

Bewilderingly, a #27 hit in Sweden.

 

[Soldi]

Oh now VERKA

 

[octophone]

Found it.

NOT AT ALL A STEREOTYPE.

Fuck my hat

 

[FetchFugly]

I remember being very MEH about that winning but I enjoyed that greatly.

 

[ButterTart]

I bet they needed wet floor signs all around their dressing room after that.

 

[COB]

Moomintroll definitely NOT terrifying at life size

 

[win_the_game]

That left me completely cold. Never understood the love for Molitva

 

[Beverley]

I'M ALREADY DEAD!

 

[Soldi]

Bewilderingly, a #27 hit in Sweden.

Where did it chart here?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

YAY VERKA

 

[Dark Carnival]

omg yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssss

 

[octophone]

Oh, it's Elton John.

 

[Dark Carnival]

DOUZE POINTS!!!

 

[AlgoAlex]

Okay didn't understand Serbia at the time but yes LOVE

 

[dmlaw]

One of relatively few that actually bothered to bring the vox.

 

[Penelope]

A sulky po-faced little 15 year old Penelope was about to be ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS at Verka this time in 2007 - how DARE this contest be despoiled with NOVELTY

Well FUCK HIM because he was A DUMB VIRGIN!

 

[Apoca]

And then the next year the backing singers returned to Beovizija with a song about Montenegro ALWAYS BELONGING TO SERBIA 4EVER in a controversional folklore painting get up.

 

[Kala]

The guy who is Verka is apparently a bit of a HOMOPHOBE

 

[octophone]

Fucking LIVING for lesbian Combat 18. I didn't really give a shit about this the first time around.

...and now we have the gay section!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

This must be one the most well known non winners.

 

[Alla]

Unpopular opinion: Verka is fun ONCE, but it gets tiresome. Very overrated. I said it.

 

[D5K]

Where was this one in the odds beforehand?

 

[Tisch]

EINS ZWEI DREI

 

[octophone]

Su Pollard should sue.

 

[ButterTart]

Verka looks like my Uncle John.

 

[Zu]

TANZEN!

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I still love it.

According to SOME QUEENS EVERYONE'S A HOMOPHOBE

 

[Dark Carnival]

The guy who is Verka is apparently a bit of a HOMOPHOBE

what?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

RUSSIA GOODBYE!

 

[COB]

God it's just such a moment

 

[VoR]

VoR FUN FACT: This reached #28 in the UK charts.

 

[Tisch]

Unpopular opinion: Verka is fun ONCE, but it gets tiresome. Very overrated. I said it.

Okay I was going to post a gif and I can't so I'll just say

WRONG

 

[ButterTart]

...and now we have the gay section!

Innit, it's like watching an anal prolapse wrapped in tinfoil.

 

[dmlaw]

I've never liked Verka. Shouting whilst wrapped in bacofoil is not a good thing.

 

[Penelope]

I'm having DISCO HEART PALPITATIONS! @Zu-Klara GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR

06 Bosnia
07 Spain
09 Belarus
07 Ireland
11 Finland
09 Macedonia
10 Slovenia
00 Hungary
08 Lithuania
09 Greece
12455 Georgia
09 Sweden
04 France
11 Russia
00 Germany
09 Serbia
11 Ukraine

 

[Lucille]

Yes but is he also eating a lasagne and smoking a cigarette like @Lucille?

Possibly, though I doubt he’s doing it with as much PANACHE.

 

[Apoca]

Where was this one in the odds beforehand?

Up there in April. Top 5.

When Switzerland was the oddsmakers' favourite.