Eurovision Rewatch: Zagreb 1990 (20.00 21/11/20)

[lolly]

70 Spain
40 Greece
25 Belgium
50 Turkey
80 Netherlands
65 Luxembourg

 

[Madison]

60 Spain
30 Greece
20 Belgium
45 Turkey
55 The Netherlands
58 Luxembourg

 

[dmlaw]

Let's all get behind the UK's jailbait singer and ignore that her song is quite terrible.

 

[ButterTart]

Very clever of them to build a train tunnel into that tower. Good forward planning.

 

[Tisch]

Ouch

 

[Madison]

If only the people of Yugoslavia had listened to Emma.

 

[Iguana]

Not our best

 

[lolly]

Another example of why the UK developed such a sense of entitlement at Eurovision.

 

[dmlaw]

The conductor of the UK entry died before the year was out, possibly of shame.

I think I might have used this joke before, but it has never been more appropriate.

 

[Iguana]

At least they got a nice trip to Yugoslavia

 

[Madison]

Presumably this still did absurdly well on the scoreboard.

 

[Tisch]

I am reading she was 15 here.

FIFTEEN.

 

[lolly]

Look at that cunt in a waistcoat with a ponytail

 

[Iguana]

The conductor of the UK entry died before the year was out, possibly of shame.

There's no possibly about it

 

[Tisch]

From her wiki:

Years active 1990–1991

 

[Madison]

60 Spain
30 Greece
20 Belgium
45 Turkey
55 The Netherlands
58 Luxembourg
34 United Kingdom

 

[Suomi]

lol at that presenter after the U.K.



“....WELL”

 

[lolly]

Thankfully, Emma's hair was deemed illegal across Europe by the end of the year

 

[dmlaw]

'We are obviously having a great time in this hall.'

Yes, dear, of course they are.

 

[lolly]

70 Spain
40 Greece
25 Belgium
50 Turkey
80 Netherlands
65 Luxembourg
35 UK

 

[Suomi]

This feels like when I’m asked to make a presentation and I haven’t prepared so I just say anything

 

[Madison]

Helga was one classy gal

 

[dmlaw]

If they were watching this in the Soviet Union, they must have been laughing their arses off.

 

[lolly]

1000 million viewers? Did they just add up the population of every country where it is broadcast?

 

[lolly]

I'd quite like to see a GRAPH with the claimed number of viewers each year

 

[Tisch]

What a nice blazer Ellen put on the occaision

 

[Suomi]

This is like Milk and Jaymes Mansfield

 

[lolly]

I used to have trousers like that. I think we called them pegs.

 

[AlgoAlex]

Ah Schlager time

 

[lolly]

This is like Milk and Jaymes Mansfield

In a Drag On A Dime challenge

 

[AlgoAlex]

Love his hand dancing.
i keep expecting it to turn into Waterloo

 

[lolly]

70 Spain
40 Greece
25 Belgium
50 Turkey
80 Netherlands
65 Luxembourg
35 UK
55 Iceland

 

[Suomi]

This Norwegian one is one of my low-key favourites, it’s so sweet

 

[Madison]

There’s an extremely lengthy and good new write up of the contest on Eurovision.tv
https://eurovision.tv/story/eurovisionagain-1990-eurovision-unites-europe

(CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS UPFRONT)

 

[Madison]

79 Spain
30 Greece
20 Belgium
45 Turkey
55 The Netherlands
58 Luxembourg
62 Iceland

 

[Madison]

79 Spain
30 Greece
20 Belgium
45 Turkey
55 The Netherlands
58 Luxembourg
62 Iceland
67 Norway

 

[lolly]

70 Spain
40 Greece
25 Belgium
50 Turkey
80 Netherlands
65 Luxembourg
35 UK
55 Iceland
60 Norway

 

[dmlaw]

There’s an extremely lengthy and good new write up of the contest on Eurovision.tv
https://eurovision.tv/story/eurovisionagain-1990-eurovision-unites-europe

It does reveal the winner of the contest right at the start of the article, if anyone cares about 30 year old spoilers.

 

[dmlaw]

The Israeli song is being performed by @Rita. I didn't even know she had a solo career after the girlband.

 

[lolly]

I know it was 1990, but there's no way @Rita would have gone on stage with hair like that. Had John Frieda not invented Frizz Ease yet?