Moopyvision 2000-2009: Round 6 - Malta, Portugal, Bulgaria & Hungary RESULTS

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. You're right that there aren't any mega duds here; I'm just not sure the highs are that high though.

Counterpoint: the BOOM heralding the second key change in 7th Wonder.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Incidentally I was expecting to see sad old Thea Garrett in this Maltese line-up but she’s a year out. I remember somebody at the time saying that she would be back in Malta at her day job by the time the final swing round - it has always stuck with me!

 

[ADONK5]

Counterpoint: the BOOM heralding the second key change in 7th Wonder.

Well obviously that, but I did say highs.

 

[ADONK5]

After rewatching the Maltese songs I think Morena should have been given another go.

 

[ButterTart]

I am needing a palate cleanser between each Portuguese entry. Goodness this may be worse than Ireland.

Portugal had ONE listenable song, and even then it's absolute shit and I only enjoy it as a cheesy curio.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Do we think 2B we aware of the sound they were making (or not making) during that performance?

EY!

 

[ButterTart]

I must have missed something in all of this. The Maltese lineup was FINE but nothing to write home about.

Yeah, it's just a bunch of fairly watery pop songs. A couple of decent ones in there but absolutely nothing that I'd say would trouble any best-of lists.

 

[ButterTart]

Do we think 2B we aware of the sound they were making (or not making) during that performance?

EY!

That's the one I like

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

That's the one I like

It’s more a case that they seemed absolutely knackered after about 15 seconds!

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Nonstop (as WONDERFUL as they are) clearly hadn’t met before stepping onto that stage.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Nonstop (as WONDERFUL as they are) clearly hadn’t met before stepping onto that stage.

Or EVER AGAIN AFTER!

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

I take back everything I said about Portugal being almost as bad Ireland. Sabrina makes up for EVERYTHING.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

I always think Portugal is boring ballads (Amar pelos dois) or pretentious claptrap (Telemoveis), but there is the odd silly bop in there too.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

I always think Portugal is boring ballads (Amar pelos dois) or pretentious claptrap (Telemoveis), but there is the odd silly bop in there too.

This was my big takeaway too - Portugal were so much more FUN in the 00s!

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

This was my big takeaway too - Portugal were so much more FUN in the 00s!

Totally. I really misunderstood them, it’s been a pleasant surprise in many ways.

‘Senhora do mar’ is a genuinely great song.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

I’m sorry, I can’t with ‘Lorraine’

Bulgaria have basically gone full circle these days.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Marina Popova inflicted with the most focus-pulling dancers since Corrina May.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

‘Candlelight’ would have been a top 5 in our Chiara’s hands

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Realise I am just screaming into the VOID now

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

And on a final note, is that 75% of No Angels with Zoli?

Anyway, I am done. That was much more for fun post-Malta than I expected.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Realise I am just screaming into the VOID now

Some of us are keeping tabs, don't you worry

 

[ButterTart]

boring ballads (Amar pelos dois) or pretentious claptrap (Telemoveis)

One of the most accurate things I've ever read on Moopy.

 

[Diddy]

Nonstop (as WONDERFUL as they are) clearly hadn’t met before stepping onto that stage.

And those quasi-burlesque backing ‘singers’ at the back just doing the same move over and over! They were definitely being chased by security but ended up bluffing it on stage to avoid capture

 

[win_the_game]

I suspect Nonstop wrote their own Wiki page.

Songwriter and producer, Eliot Kennedy - who had previously worked with bands such as Spice Girls and Take That - once said "they are probably the best group I have worked with. Their voices are so good!"

 

[Diddy]

I do laugh sometimes - in that internet way where you say you’re laughing but you’re just sitting there dead eyed - when people always bring up that I hate Malta, when not so secretly I want them to win

 

[Diddy]

I suspect Nonstop wrote their own Wiki page.

!

 

[Diddy]

Even old GUFF like “On again off again” I sort of love

You can see they thought they were really fucking serving with the operatic bits, and I’m just enjoying the campery of it, while my fragile psyche is shouting soundlessly behind 6-inch glass “Noooo!!! turn it offffff!! You’re…. Killing …. Meeeee”

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

I suspect Nonstop wrote their own Wiki page.

I fully love that winning Barbara Dex is their highest accolade.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

I suspect Nonstop wrote their own Wiki page.

Oh my fucking god, this is like something @Suomi would write if he was in a girl group

 

[ZjermGiraffe]

Currently have the rest of these on during a lovely long walk, so this may be the first round that I'm marking based on audio alone.

 

[THEY CALL ME GAJA]

Senhora de Mar is the greatest Portuguese entry of all time. You simply cannot help imagining yourself as a wealthy widowed wife crying out into the Atlantic Ocean for your dead lover.

Interesting I think it’s a good example of how running order can make or break. Performed last in its semi it came 3rd - what a dramatic closer! But lost in the shuffle of the final it couldn’t go top 10 like it deserved.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Given we're missing quite a few regulars and as things stand we're down a quarter on last round's turnout (which was already down a quarter on the usual turnout we had in the first four rounds) and the last couple of days probably being quite busy socially for people, I'm extending the voting deadline by 24 HOURS to TOMORROW (Tuesday 28th) 4pm.

Make the most of it girls! If your name's in bold then I will be very disappointed not to see your votes this round, but I'd also love to see your votes if you're a queen who isn't in bold too (and also if you're someone who' I haven't tagged at all!). It's a rewarding 90 minute playlist girls - please join us x @Apocalypt Flyer @Reindeer On Me @PranceRJN @BlitzenGiraffe🎄 @Rhythmbaubles @Broomhelga @NUT ROAST @Feliz NavidAg @dmlawst christmas @ebenezer krang @Madison @Kevin7 @Kevin @ChristmasAddict @Alla @PopLife @Dark Carnoël @Tetris-Rock @Ludolph @Zu 2 @Jacques @lolly @Sheena @Cathy de Bourgh @HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Senhora de Mar is the greatest Portuguese entry of all time. You simply cannot help imagining yourself as a wealthy widowed wife crying out into the Atlantic Ocean for your dead lover.

This is so offensive to Deixa-me sonhar, the ORIGINAL track about being sad your husband killed himself because you're such a loser

 

[ZjermGiraffe]

Given we're missing quite a few regulars and as things stand we're down a quarter on last round's turnout (which was already down a quarter on the usual turnout we had in the first four rounds) and the last couple of days probably being quite busy socially for people, I'm extending the voting deadline by 24 HOURS to TOMORROW (Tuesday 28th) 4pm.

Make the most of it girls! If your name's in bold then I will be very disappointed not to see your votes this round, but I'd also love to see your votes if you're a queen who isn't in bold too (and also if you're someone who' I haven't tagged at all!). It's a rewarding 90 minute playlist girls - please join us x @Apocalypt Flyer @Reindeer On Me @PranceRJN @BlitzenGiraffe🎄 @Rhythmbaubles @Broomhelga @NUT ROAST @Feliz NavidAg @dmlawst christmas @ebenezer krang @Madison @Kevin7 @Kevin @ChristmasAddict @Alla @PopLife @Dark Carnoël @Tetris-Rock @Ludolph @Zu 2 @Jacques @lolly @Sheena @Cathy de Bourgh @HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid

(I don't think these are tagging correctly for people who've switched back to their normal names babe)

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

(I don't think these are tagging correctly for people who've switched back to their normal names babe)

I cannot begin to describe how much I despise everything about the Christmas name changes and how much bollocks like this needs to NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN with all the ways the current tagging functionality throws a strop over it at this point

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Given we're missing quite a few regulars and as things stand we're down a quarter on last round's turnout (which was already down a quarter on the usual turnout we had in the first four rounds) and the last couple of days probably being quite busy socially for people, I'm extending the voting deadline by 24 HOURS to TOMORROW (Tuesday 28th) 4pm.

Make the most of it girls! If your name's in bold then I will be very disappointed not to see your votes this round, but I'd also love to see your votes if you're a queen who isn't in bold too (and also if you're someone who' I haven't tagged at all!). It's a rewarding 90 minute playlist girls - please join us x @Apocalypt Flyer @Reindeer On Me @PranceRJN @BlitzenGiraffe🎄 @Rhythmbaubles @Broomhelga @NUT ROAST @Feliz NavidAg @dmlawst christmas @ebenezer krang @Madison @Kevin7 @Kevin @ChristmasAddict @Alla @PopLife @Dark Carnoël @Tetris-Rock @Ludolph @Zu 2 @Jacques @lolly @Sheena @Cathy de Bourgh @HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid

(I don't think these are tagging correctly for people who've switched back to their normal names babe)

Given we're missing quite a few regulars and as things stand we're down a quarter on last round's turnout (which was already down a quarter on the usual turnout we had in the first four rounds) and the last couple of days probably being quite busy socially for people, I'm extending the voting deadline by 24 HOURS to TOMORROW (Tuesday 28th) 4pm.

Make the most of it girls! If your name's in bold then I will be very disappointed not to see your votes this round, but I'd also love to see your votes if you're a queen who isn't in bold too (and also if you're someone who' I haven't tagged at all!). It's a rewarding 90 minute playlist girls - please join us x @Apocalypt Flyer @Reindeer On Me @RJNewYear @ZenGiraffe @Rhythmbaubles @Broomhelga @NUT ROAST @Ag @dmlawst christmas @ebenezer krang @Madison @Kevin7 @Kevin @ChristmasAddict @Alla @PopLife @Dark Carnival @Tetris-Rock @Lucille @Zu 2 @Jacques @lolly @Sheena @Cathy de Bourgh @HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid



THERE

 

[ZjermGiraffe]

It worked!

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Senhora de Mar is the greatest Portuguese entry of all time. You simply cannot help imagining yourself as a wealthy widowed wife crying out into the Atlantic Ocean for your dead lover.

Interesting I think it’s a good example of how running order can make or break. Performed last in its semi it came 3rd - what a dramatic closer! But lost in the shuffle of the final it couldn’t go top 10 like it deserved.

It is utterly, utterly brilliant. If it had been performed by Eva Boto or Knez, I would have been signing it into the mirror for the last decade.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

I just want to know what made Andrej Babić wake up one morning and think "I am going to export my template to one other country outside the Balkans and that country will be PORTUGAL"

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

PUBLIC SERVICE BABIĆ ASIDE: CANTA POR MIM!