Eurovision Rewatch: Kyiv 2005 - 20.00 GMT tonight (28/3)

[Beverley]

I need booze :-(

 

[D5K]

@VoR - is this the same stadium as 2017?

No

 

[Dark Carnival]

I remember reading about this on moopy!

 

[Beverley]

People are ahead of me

 

[Penelope]

At least the crowd are happy

 

[D5K]

God I FORGOT how quickly these used to start

I long for a return to those days.

 

[dmlaw]

Was this the year that we seriously contemplated sending Katie Price? I wish we had gone through with it just for the laughs.

 

[Beverley]

Those Indian drums REALLY don't sound like that

 

[D5K]

I remember thinking we'd do quite well with this

 

[Alla]

Maybe because of a friend being OBSESSED with it and telling 1.000 times it was gonna win. Well it didn't.

 

[octophone]

"Poundland Beyonce" would be a compliment.

 

[Beverley]

The dancing is really the pits

 

[VoR]

Possibly unpopular opinion - this is such joyless, ersatz, pandering shite.

 

[Alla]

She should have released her nipple here too.

 

[Penelope]

Was this the year that we seriously contemplated sending Katie Price? I wish we had gone through with it just for the laughs.

Literally TWO WEEKS AWAY from giving birth if she'd got the ticket

 

[Beverley]

I love slutty ol' chavine

 

[win_the_game]

The dancing is really the pits

As is the styling. And the vocals.

 

[Alla]

Was this the year that we seriously contemplated sending Katie Price? I wish we had gone through with it just for the laughs.

Just vote for me!

 

[Dark Carnival]

I remember thinking we'd do quite well with this

Well honestly, this gives almost everything I've seen from the UK during the 2010s a run for its money!

 

[octophone]

Oh, it's a rewrite of those first couple of Holly Valance singles, innit?

 

[D5K]

those mirrors in the background are giving me a headache

 

[VoR]

Possibly unpopular opinion - this is such joyless, ersatz, pandering shite.

... it also goes absolute nowhere after the first 30 seconds, does it?

 

[dmlaw]

And this is the woman who everyone thought was deliberately kept out of Girls Aloud because she was a guaranteed solo success.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Not bad the UK!

 

[Penelope]

Imagining if that was Sarah Harding instead

 

[octophone]

Possibly unpopular opinion - this is such joyless, ersatz, pandering shite.

20 writers and no melody. Classic '00s problem.

 

[lolly]

Possibly unpopular opinion - this is such joyless, ersatz, pandering shite.

Why would that be unpopular?

 

[Beverley]

I felt so sad when her voice packed in towards the end

 

[octophone]

Imagining if that was Sarah Harding instead

No, NOX were on first.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Ukraine land of fire(fighters)?

 

[Penelope]

... it also goes absolute nowhere after the first 30 seconds, does it?

Yes but it's still BETTER THAN EVERYTHING WE'VE SENT SINCE

 

[win_the_game]

I reckon this could be Chiara's year.

 

[Madison]

Drink a shot if she winks

 

[Dark Carnival]

Is this the same bitch from 1998?!

 

[octophone]

More faux ethnic flutes! Thank goodness this isn't a drinking game...

 

[FetchFugly]

Touch My Fire started ok but felt incredibly long for a three minute song and her voice had obviously gone to pot by the end.

 

[VoR]

Hungary 8/10
United Kingdom 4/10

 

[Penelope]

Goodness me, I never appreciated QUITE how much she piled it on between 1998 and 2005

 

[Alla]

Ready for Chiara's WINK

 

[lolly]

I'm sure Hattie Jacques wore that in one of the Carry On films.