I review two very different songs in this edition: Armenia’s rock song “Lonely Planet,” which was co-written by Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, and Serbia’s high school talent show act that found its way into a strip club, “Ljubav je svuda (Love is everywhere).”
Spoiler alert: neither of these songs are likely to win, and we have some fun at their expense.
Check out the original videos: “Lonely Planet,” performed by Dorians of Armenia, and “Ljubav je svuda,” performed by Moje 3 of Serbia.
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Your link to the Moje 3 song send you to the much better Krista Siegfrids’ Marry Me.
Well, poopy. Both links were incorrect. They’re fixed now.
Um. Wow, Serbia, wow. That is some of the worst acting I’ve seen in a long time, I mean the dancing was better, and the dancing was also really bad. I think the video only barely missed overshooting “So bad its good” into “So bad its terrible.” Still props for trying to represent the rejection of good/evil dichotomy in an effort to establish personal identity with a dance routine set to a song about fish food.
This is disappointing from Serbia. In 2011 they delivered one of my favorite Eurovision songs of all time, a wonderful 1970s girl group number:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWvXKxjCs8
C’mon Serbia, you can do better!
Y’know Mark, I must say that as OTI’s resident shredder, your mistaking of TONY Iommi’s name is vaguely disappointing.
Oof. Sorry about that. And in the video where I criticize others on their imprecise usage of the English language, no less. What can I say, except that we’re still working out the kinks of this whole video thing.
The Ireland video will be the only Eurovision video in the world that doesn’t reference Father Ted, I’m predicting.
Am I the only one who liked the song from Serbia? Granted, I didn’t watch most of the video and just focused on the audio but not knowing what any of the lyrics mean, I thought it was fine.
This is now my ranking: 1. Norway 2. Cyprus 3. Serbia 4. Finland 5. Malta 6. Armenia 7. Albania 8. Azerbaijan 9. UK 10. Bulgaria 11. Latvia 12. Belarus