2:43 am - 02/20/2013
Greek Eurovision Final slayed, haters will deal
Last night was the Greek Eurovision Final, in which the audience had to choose between four competing songs the one to represent Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo this May. The final was also a special event because producers invited to the show previous Eurovision winners Dima Bilan, Ruslana, Alexander Rybak and Marija Serifovic, as well as Greek past winners Helena Paparizou and Vicky Leandros (who was competing for Luxembourg when she won in 1972). Naturally, there was a lot of broken English, a lot of lolz, but also plenty of awesomeness.
But first! The song chosen to represent Greece at this year's Eurovision is "Alcohol is Free" by Koza Mostra and Agathonas Iakovidis! It is a mixture of Greek old-style music called "rebetiko" and ska... so, um, yeah. We'll see how it goes.
The show's opening, with host Despina Vandi doing ~choreography~ with all the special guests:
Then they had each winner sing a remixed version of their Eurovision song, with other popular Greek acts. Before every performance there were some really sweet videos where the Greek guest artists remembered watching the specific song win the contest and what they thought of the winner.
Dima Bilan - Believe, featuring Demy (best performance of the night tbh)
Alexander Rybak - Fairytale, featuring Kostas Martakis (glad to see Alexander's moves haven't changed since 2009)
Marija Serifovic - Molitva (Destiny), featuring Melisses
Ruslana - Wild Dances, featuring Eleni Foureira (crazy hair dancing @ around 2:30)
Helena Paparizou - My Number One, featuring Vegas
Vicky Leandros - Apres Toi, featuring Helena Paparizou (this song was obviously recorded in 1972 lmao)
Other highlights included:
- the past winners trying to speak "Greece"
- Dima Bilan's Greek fan club going berserk with their screaming
- Ruslana being drunk out of her mind and shouting SEX SEX SEX during the sit-down interview
- Alexander Rybak telling us that he loves us even though we're broke, because we're sexy
- Marija telling us that if we want to take perfect pictures, instead of saying "cheese!", we should say "sex!".
Apparently everyone was really horny. For anyone who wants to watch it, the entire show has been uploaded on Youtube.
Source: my TV, Youtube
But first! The song chosen to represent Greece at this year's Eurovision is "Alcohol is Free" by Koza Mostra and Agathonas Iakovidis! It is a mixture of Greek old-style music called "rebetiko" and ska... so, um, yeah. We'll see how it goes.
The show's opening, with host Despina Vandi doing ~choreography~ with all the special guests:
Then they had each winner sing a remixed version of their Eurovision song, with other popular Greek acts. Before every performance there were some really sweet videos where the Greek guest artists remembered watching the specific song win the contest and what they thought of the winner.
Dima Bilan - Believe, featuring Demy (best performance of the night tbh)
Alexander Rybak - Fairytale, featuring Kostas Martakis (glad to see Alexander's moves haven't changed since 2009)
Marija Serifovic - Molitva (Destiny), featuring Melisses
Ruslana - Wild Dances, featuring Eleni Foureira (crazy hair dancing @ around 2:30)
Helena Paparizou - My Number One, featuring Vegas
Vicky Leandros - Apres Toi, featuring Helena Paparizou (this song was obviously recorded in 1972 lmao)
Other highlights included:
- the past winners trying to speak "Greece"
- Dima Bilan's Greek fan club going berserk with their screaming
- Ruslana being drunk out of her mind and shouting SEX SEX SEX during the sit-down interview
- Alexander Rybak telling us that he loves us even though we're broke, because we're sexy
- Marija telling us that if we want to take perfect pictures, instead of saying "cheese!", we should say "sex!".
Apparently everyone was really horny. For anyone who wants to watch it, the entire show has been uploaded on Youtube.
Source: my TV, Youtube
Edited at 2013-02-20 01:31 am (UTC)
Americans are so uncultured omw
/spanish major latin american studies minor.
I mean I feel like there are more useful languages to learn for that part of the world
I guess it's still just weird to me how English has become one of the sort of "universal languages" everyone learns to communicate with each other.
I've never traveled so if it's not obvious I'm a bit ignorant about how things work outside of America / for a non-native speaker :p
Like, for me, it'd make sense to learn Spanish because of Mexico being our neighbor and many Mexicans immigrating into America. While it would be a bit weird for me to learn, say, German if I have no intention of moving to Germany.
idk
i thought they got sold into sex trafficking to pay off their debt and their land was divvied up by zeus or some shit