Instead of doing something more useful, I’m poking around the internet looking for insightful commentary about the Eurovision performances. I haven’t found any, but this one was kind of funny, especially this part:
“Russia – Terrible. Half the song is performed on knees. Are they disabled? Is that a theme this year after the blind one? Oh god. Here’s a bloke pissing about on ice-skates.”
The “bloke pissing about on ice-skates” was Evgeni Plushenko. You know, the gold medalist in figure skating at the last Olympics? His presence was supposed to have helped Russia secure the Eurovision victory, as was the presence of violinist Edvin Marton (and his very expensive violin which wasn’t even actually audible during the performance), who is Hungarian, not Russian, but whatever, right?
I think that Russia should have pulled out all the stops and filled the stage with famous people – they could have had Maria Sharapova hitting tennis balls into the audience, and the whole of Zenit (St. Petersburg’s football/soccer team and the UEFA Cup winners) running around the stage, and you know, Grigori Perelman scribbling equations on a blackboard (actually, they could have had Sebastien Tellier stand in for him, they kind of look alike), and a famous chess player (but not Garry Kasparov because he’s become an opposition politician and we can’t have any of that during such a patriotic event) playing giant chess. Maybe then the performance would have been interesting enough to vote for.
3 comments
26 May 2008 at 10:02 pm
Вадик
When we’ve been on the rehearsal of the semi-final and saw this “star team” in act we decided that if they win, next year we’ll see entries with calisthenics and heavyweights:)
28 May 2008 at 8:32 pm
Mari
I didn’t get to watch the final because a gig of my favourite band at the moment was that very same night :-/ But I did watch the semifinals, and I don’t think I missed much. I was amazed that Russia won. I can’t say that I like anything in that song or the performance. I do like ice-skating, and Jevgeni Plushenko seems nice, though….
28 May 2008 at 9:23 pm
Vadik
In the 1st semi-final Bilan took third place. Greece was the first