Gonna make up your mind?

Ohhhh you didn't.... You are lucky I'm busy as I love Bucks Fizz....

Conchita has a nice voice but yeah it was very generic. I wouldn't have placed her in my top ten to be honest and yes I looked right past the beard. She's a drag queen it really isn't the same as a bearded lady, the emphasis should have been the fact she was a drag queen not the fact she was a drag queen with a beard. It was a good song but if I'm honest it matched up with two or three others.

Then again I'm more for jumpy music. I love bands like Bowling For Soup who do a lot of happy songs (the Gay song for a start)and I never get why people love ballads so much. It was stacked high with such sad songs, yes the words were empowering and strong and the songs were good but I loved the bounciness of Iceland, the energy of Denmark and the cheeky happiness of Switzerland. I really enjoyed the more traditional sounds being brought to contemporary music with Poland (yes Poland) and Germany. And there was just something really strong and formidable about Italy. The voice on Norway's participant was gawjus and I'm shocked he didn't do much better, same with Azerbaijan. Both had much stronger vocals and a slightly wider range then Austria. I liked how the Netherlands went for a country song and nearly won! I think Austria were on par with Sweden and the United Kingdom for me. Good strong songs sang by wonderful singers but if you'd had all three one after the other it would have felt like one long song sang in three parts. It was all samey.

The only one I hated was that one near the end, I can't even remember who, the Running song.

You see I don't see what was wrong with the Cheesecake song, people seem to be holding the fact he used the world Cheesecake in it to show how bad it is but the tune was catchy and the lyrics were just as good/bad as anything in the charts just change the word Cheesecake to Darling/Baby/any other kind of nickname...

I don't know I think more countries should strive on being different. Ballads are what annoy and bore me in Eurovision, I like hearing different sounds and I like hearing happy music. I think Eurovision should strive to be more positive, yeah alright a lot of the lyrics were very positive but still I really do prefer the happier songs. And no I don't mean the funny ones (though it needs one or two of them!) but just happy upbeat songs that get stuck in your head not instantly forgettable.

I go by a few more then one.

The Song
How its sung
The performance
Whether its memorable or not

For me Austria was very much

Song : 6/7
Sung : 7/8
Performance : 3/4
Memorable : 1

The song was good, liked the lyrics, strong and empowering. Conchita has a good voice and sung it well. The performance was naff which it invariably would be with a ballad but by the end of the contest I couldn't remember the name of the song let alone the tune or any of the words. I vaguely remembered it was about a Phoenix but that was it.

In contrast Iceland

Song : 6/7
Sung : 4/5
Performance : 8/9
Memorable : 9/10

The song had good lyrics and actually was quite a bouncey tune that easily gets stuck in the head, the singer wasn't that great but it was very Hive-y feeling in the way he sung it. The performance made me laugh and added so much to it all and by the end of the night I was still humming away with it (as well as some others.) I went out to find out if I could download Iceland's song, not something I'd do with Austria.

Another example the United Kingdom

Song : 2/3
Sung : 5/6
Performance : 4/5
Memorable : 2/3

The song was alright but it was very bland. Molly is a great singer but she didn't really power through THIS version of it, I have no doubt on another night it could have been much better. The performance was strange and not in a good way, it bored me as well as for memorable? Instantly forgettable! She was the last one on and by the time she'd finished I'd forgotten the tune!

Last one? Switzerland

Song : 5/6
Sung : 7/8
Performance : 9/10
Memorable : 10

The song was catchy and quite sweet, he sung it wonderfully and has quite a nice soft voice, the performance was energetic and fun something you can really get behind and I'm still whistling along so its obviously memorable.

There were quite a lot that hovered over two different points (so instead of 9/10 I probably should say 9.5 etc).

At the end of the day as our two posts show we look for different things all the time, different people like different styles, I see some people that love it purely because it was Bond-esque kind of song and they want it to BE the next Bond song. I don't personally like Bond songs that much, they bore me so I wouldn't immediately like Austria's entry. Then again I dislike most rap music and was it Greece or Finland with the rap band but they caught my attention with the performance which got me more into the song which made me more sympathetic in the scoring for the song.

One mans poison and all that.

You should go and watch Polands they were definitely something. Churning butter for one.

That does seem like a really fair way of doing it, obviously everyone has differing opinions on what is good and not so it seems fair to give them an overall score. I think it is too hard to really do that on the night though, did you manage to do that on the night or in hindsight?