The fever dream that is Eurovision wraps up with cheers, tears, and fears

"Fairytale" has also become my new favorite song; just downloaded it from iTunes!

I've paid him copious hommage on my blog

 

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Eurovision is (sadly) the highlight of my year. I spend the month leading up to it listening only to Eurovision songs, it drives my friends nuts. So for me, my favourite will always be Sakis Rouvas. In 2004 he almost won with 'Shake it', in 2006 he hosted the Athens Eurovision, and this year he entered with 'This is our night', I've still got that song stuck in my head. Plus he's built like a greek god, which does help when it comes to votes.

 

Sakis is Eurovision royalty and there are so many reasons to enjoy every muscular inch of him. He did a great performance on a conveyor belt this year - lots of ab shots, a flash of a nipple and several crotch grabs. Oh it helps if you know he used to be an Olympic gymnast (or it might have been diver - either way, whatever he wore, it was skin-tight). There are so many rumours that Sakis is a big ole' mo' that I really want to believe them. A couple of years ago, the very gay Dutch guy who presented the Netherlands' votes overtly propositioned Sakis live on air in front of several hundred million people. Sakis dimpled soooo prettily. Underneath that perfet tan, he might even have blushed.

Of course, he was given a close run for the beefcake money by the Hungarian entry in the semi-finals (who didn't make it to the main competition). He couldn't sing for toffee, but I'm guessing he's spent most of his life being told to shut up and just look handsome. Perhaps only being allowed to agree that yes, he could wear tighter trousers - or perhaps he could take them off for you?

Other than that (apart from lovely twinky winner Norwegian-Belarussian Alex, who spoke up for gay rights), it was mostly a diva show. Svetlana from the Ukraine was glorious (and she mortgaged her house to pay for her stage set). I hope it pays off for her because gay nightclubs everywhere need her act - even if they don't realise it yet. Sweden made the terrible mistake of actually putting in a good singer - an operatic mezzo-soprano with a perfect voice who could hit notes so high only dogs and squabbling drag queens could hear them. The song was terrible, but she spent thousands on her frock, so her heart was in the right place. Turkey produced another great, sexy diva who had a fairly mindless, but terribly catchy euro-disco offering that'll be re-mixed endlessly in the Balleric Islands this summer. And even the UK's entry - which featured a horrible dirge by Andrew Lloyd Webber - was presented to near perfection by diva Jade who managed to capture all the drama and passion despite almost being punched off stage by a rogue violinist. If she gets a good song to sing, you'll probably hear her in the US sometime in the future.

Apart from all the politics, I'm glad you enjoyed Eurovision, Snicks. Once you see the annual offerings of great and ancient European cultures, doesn't it make you proud to be an American? Still it's compulsive gay viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NTxyZg6lRI

Alexander is adorable and I loved his performance.

Eurovision is my new obsession

Fabulous

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common." (Dorothy Parker)

OMG, Snicks, I thought I was the only one with the complete DVD box set of Pink Lady and Jeff. Their rendition of "Play that Funky Music, White Boy" could've, somehow, been the inspiration for Glambert's song pick. Or -- much more likely -- not.

 

 

The blog can sing phonetically also. Please return the pearl.

Snicks, I have no idea how you missed out on the camp insanity that is Eurovision but now that it is on your radar I have to point you toward, one, the bat-sh*t Sylvia Night, a singer from Iceland who almost started World War 3 (Iceland vs. Greece), and two, the interactive musical satire of Eurovision, Eurobeat.  Both are side-splittingly camp and AMAZING.

Alexander Rybak looks so cuddly and adorable. His song was truly the best of all these other horrid lyrical Europop songs. Iceland's entry which finished 2nd was not half bad either; a countryfide song if I ever heard one which could really cross over here. But I can't stop playing Fairytale over and over either! the best part of the video is when the two back up singers appear to float in wearing pink frocks and chiming in to add the etheral back up to Alexander's impish lilt. I can hear those pink sirens even now...