Programmer's Notes » Life http://programmersnotes.info Notes on the web-development and artificial intelligence. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:45:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Eurovision 2009 – My Impressions http://programmersnotes.info/2009/05/17/eurovision-2009-my-impressions/ http://programmersnotes.info/2009/05/17/eurovision-2009-my-impressions/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 10:18:55 +0000 Konstantin Mirin http://programmersnotes.info/?p=195 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’m not a music fan, I don’t usually watch this, but yesterday my girlfriend had birthday and she likes such things, so we were watching Eurovision together from beginning to the end. And I don’t regret it! :)
As for me, the show Russians prepared, was not excellent, it was mega-excellent(I’d even say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious;)) – the show, the scene, all effects were so cool! I can’t compare with previous ones, but my girl says Eurovision never had such beautiful show. Russians showed they can do things good if they want to, which I’m very proud of :) I really liked the acrobatics and the girls in the shallow water above. Dima Bilan’s initial song and his show was somewhat philosophical, at least it seemed to me so.

So, the songs. What I really liked about all the songs (except Ukraine) is that every song reflected the style of the country in some way. It’s really nice to see singers from different countries, each country has it’s own ethnic style, that is reflected in the show and the song. The only country that didn’t fit this tendency was Ukraine, I didn’t like it at all, although I live here :) In my opinion, Eurovison is mainly the song contest, not the strip show and acrobatics. Yes, it was nice, flashing lights, the tricks, that guys in the Roman legionnaire’s costumes… But I didn’t see anything Ukrainian (except the flag) there! By the way, I didn’t like Russian Anastasia also – she wasn’t singing, she was shouting and Russians could make it more impressive (they can – you saw the show!)
Final results actually reflected my impressions, Norway was really the best. However, I also liked:

  • Albania – The girl was nice and the song also seemed good to me
  • Island – Nice girl, nice song, but my girl disagrees it was so good to get 2nd place :)
  • Turkey – Nice dance, nice girls, good style
  • Greece – VERY nice dance and song
  • Armenia – really, really good style and song
  • Azerbaijan – I like Arash, I liked the style, the song, the dance and the overall show
  • UK – Great voice, nice song, but I didn’t like her dress.

(sorry, didn’t find yesterday’s videos for UK and Armenia :( )
And I really liked Alexander Rybak. The Norway style, great acrobatics, really good song and an interesting mix of Slavic music with some Norway motives resulted in excellent impressions. When I just saw him on the scene, I thought – what that guy is doing there? But when he started singing, I immediately changed my mind – he was doing really good! I entirely agree, that he got his 1st place because he deserves it. However, he got 387 points and the 2nd place – around 200. I don’t think he was twice as good as Iceland :)

Anyway, I’m thankful to my girl who made me see this great show, I liked it all.

And what did you like there?

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