Vampires are alive

This is the 2007 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest CD. The contest itself was organized in Helsinki (Helsingfors), the national capital of Finland. It was a *very* bad year in Eurovision history. Most of the 42 songs are filler, some being downright embarrassing, such as Ireland's "They can't stop the spring" or Britain's "Flying the Flag". Others are funny, at least if you get the humour: Verka Serduchka's "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" from the Ukraine, performed by a drag queen that really looked like Crazy Frog, flanked by some kind of disco-Nazis?! I suppose DJ Bobo's "Vampires are alive" belong in the humour category, too. If you don't get the rather strange Euro-trash humour, well...

Among the better songs was the obvious winner, Serbia's "Molitva" featuring openly lesbian singer Marija Serifovic. Unfortunately, her choir spoiled the rainbow fun by making Chetnik greetings in front of reporters after the win! Russia sent a hetero version of Tatu, the band Serebro and "Song #1". Belarus had a surprisingly good entry, "Work your magic", featuring one Koldun, but the dancers eventually proved better than the singer. And yes, Sweden tried to bring the house down with The Ark, a kind of pseudo-gay rock band.

Swedish media actually expected The Ark's song "The Worrying Kind" to win, and went bezerk when this failed to materialize. One bizarre theory was that the French entry (performed immediately after the Swedish) looked like a parody of The Ark, and hence made people laugh at the Swedish band?! (I admit that this speculation is plausible, LOL.) A Swedish songwriter who had composed the much-maligned Latvian entry "Questa Notte" was branded a national traitor by the Swedish media, when the poor man's song got more points than The Ark. And so on...

Well, you can't win *every* time, can you? :D

Despite a few good or comic entries, overall this CD is so weak, that I only give it two stars.