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Artist: Lord Of The Lost
Song: Blood and Glitter
Currently with bookmakers: 18th (100/1-200/1)
Place 2022: 25th and last in the final
Wins: 2 (1982 and 2010)


Lord of the Lost started as a solo project for Chris Harms and he has apparently tried to go to Eurovision with Lord of the Lost a number of times. The influences for Chris and the band include Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga, but listening to the song, the vocals have a definite Bowie influence, except when he screams. 

Blood and Glitter came 5th with the international jury in the German national final Unser Lied für Liverpool. 7 of the jurors gave the song a total of 31 points, however the Finnish juror, Joel Hokka from Nu Metal band Blind Channel gave Blood and Glitter the full 12 points. The public liked Blood and Glitter a little more than the jury and Lord of the Lost won the phone and sms voting and was second in the online to Ikke Hüftgold "Lied mit gutem Text", which had it made it to Eurovision would have been a Eurovision classic. Blood and Glitter also scored 7 times the amount of votes from the public compared with the Jury winner Will Church with "Hold on". Take that international Jury. 

From Rock to something completely different with a little peace. Germany has only won Eurovision twice and the first time was in 1982 with something that could not be more different from this years song if it tried. 

 

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Most Entries: Germany 64 (UK 63)
Most Wins: UK 5 (Germany 2)
Bookmakers favourite: UK 11/2 (Germany 400/1)



Malik Harris is the son of a German-based American TV presenter/cello teacher. Sam Ryder is a vegan who has worked for a decade to become an overnight sensation on tiktok. With followers like Sia, Justin Bieber, Alicia Keys and Elton John, Sam has the most star power. 

Malik's song sounds like it has come straight out of the 90s with is spoken section. Sam Ryder counts David Bowie as an influence and it shows in this song, it is very retro. Retro is pretty much a given for Eurovision

In the end nothing matters because everyone has faced that face that Ukraine, regardless of how average the song is, is going to win due to politics. Sam Ryder may be the second favourite to win, and it is good to see the UK actually trying, it accounts for naught. 

This round goes to... who gives fvck... ok UK then



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Selection: Internal
Wins: 2 (1982, 2010)
2020: Ben Dolic -Violent Thing
2021: Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate

Current bookmakers:27th



Jendrik has a youtube channel with 3 songs and two of them are this years Eurovision song. The third song was uploaded 4 years ago. Other than studying Ukulele and staring in productions of a few musicals, his bio is a bit thin but the lack of youtube is more telling.

Ben Dolic in 2020 had a dance number for Eurovision. To be completely different Jendrik has something completely annoying and that sounds like it should be in a kids show. The video is worse than the song by itself. Germany can do annoying well, and Texas Lightning are a great example. This year is not. They should have stuck with Dolic.

Germany does not have a history of doing well at Eurovision, and often it is just the wrong song. In 1965 it appears the range went too low for Ulla Wiesner to sing comfortably live. The recordings she was fine, but live it was weak. Even still it should have got some points, but it didn’t.
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Germany - 2 Wins
S!sters - "Sister"

Verses

Israel - 4 Wins
Kobi Marimi - "Home"



A song called Sisters sung but two unrelated women verses a song from the home town hero about coming home. The Israeli song features the line "Now I'm done I'm coming home". Hallelujah! I only wish he was done about 2 and a half minutes earlier. 



It is a change that the Diva is with Germany. The Israeli act thinks the world is like a Satellite going around him, which is also a role reversal. Not to Toy with anyone, because I cannot work out how to get  A-Ba-Ni-Bi and Ein bißchen Frieden into the general body of text. 

Kobi will be popular with the crowd, but the song has a bad 80's feel and is a bore. S!sters are only marginally better so I am going to go Germany. 

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Appearances: 61
Wins: 2
Selection method: National final Unser Lied für Lissabon,
Vote: combination of public voting, a one-hundred-member Eurovision panel, and an international jury
Winner: Michael Schulte
Song: You Let Me Walk Alone



This song won all three sections of the voting of Unser Lied für Lissabon convincingly which is understandable because it is a pretty good song for Eurovision. My main concern is if Michael can carry this song off (predominately) by himself at Eurovision. His vocals at the national selection were a little wonky in places but the presentation and the song will likely not leave a dry eye in the house.

One of the songwriters who contributed to this was Thomas Stengaard who is 1/1 at Eurovision after co-writing the 2013 Eurovision winner “Only Teardrops”. Arguably this song is better but the best songs often fail to win this song contest. No one will ever be able to explain 2016.

Other than being a nice song, this selection has little about it that is interesting. The singer was n contestant on The Voice and finished 3rd in 2011. He has had very few commercial releases since The Voice but he has lots of covers on his YouTube Channel, and that is the main thing, his huge YouTube presence.

From a song about the death of ones father to Only Love lets us Live from 1972. It is a bit of a stop to from a ballad to something that sounds like evangelical Christian music, but that’s Eurovision


passionpop: (sweet and innocent)

Germany
Final
Artist Levina
Song: Perfect Life
Odds: $101

Word of the day
Drei - Three
it could well be three years in a row at the bottom of the table for Germany with this one.



According to Lavina herself, the most impressive facts about her is “My particularly deep voice, my long legs, and the fact that I started taking singing lessons at the age of nine”. That is not particularly impressive. It is interesting and perhaps a bit sad that she has to bring up a physical attribute to answer the question, but then most women would which says more about the state of society than Levina or her song.

This entry is perhaps the least interesting out of everything going to Eurovision. Even Plagiarism claims fail to make it interesting. The song is not bad but the entire blurb around it does nothing to pump up a little known singer. Even the song writers are not that interesting, a couple of American hacks best known for B-sides, TV soundtracks and follow up singles. Yes Lindy Robbins has had a few high selling singles and even number one’s (at least one) , but this is Eurovision and chart success means little. What means something is that the writers say this song predates the 2014 song it is accused of plagiarising. That means this song has been sitting in the reject bin for at last 2 years… or that the songwriters have lied.

From 2493 singers to 33 to 5 to 3 to 2 until Levina was the last one standing at Unser Song 2017, The German National selection. Germany could have given Eurovision Axel Feige singing Wildfire, but instead we get a song that will only serve to fill a space at the bottom of the leader-board

In 1974 Germany finished at the bottom of the table. It doesn’t appear they will fare much better in 2017

passionpop: (die bitch)
Germany
Previous Entries: 59
Wins: 2 1982 Nicole - Ein bißchen Frieden
            2010 Lena – Satellite
First Entry: 1956 Walter Andreas Schwarz - Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück
Most recent Entry: 2015 Ann Sophie – Black Smoke
National anthem: Deutschlandlied

2016:



Jamie-Lee – Ghost

Germany is sending a K and J Pop loving vegan to warble though a song that wouldn’t be that bad if it could be clearly sung. Yes the song is a little Rhianna in sound but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or something…

The bookmakers have this on the edge of the top 20, and seeing this is song is already in the final it means that the bookies think this is just going to be making the numbers. Making the numbers is what Germany usually does best but I think this song might do a little better than the bottom of the rankings. Sentimentality for Germany’s 60th Eurovision will possibly get a few votes.

I am looking forward to seeing this performed only for the outfit. Many performers look at great designers for an outfit, but Jamie-lee will be looking at Korea, a country she is obsessed with. She is going to love the Australian entrant Dami Im.

This year’s entry may win the Barbara Dex but most German outfits are more subdued like in 1957

passionpop: (die bitch)
Germany
Population: 80 716 000
Area: 357 168 kms2
Language: German
Eurovision attendances: 58
Eurovision Wins: 2 (1982, 2010)



Ann Sophie - Black Smoke

I can understand why this song came second in the German final because I don’t think it was good enough to win. I would love to know the real reason Andreas Kümmert (the artist who was voted the winner of the national selection) withdrew because his song was really good. I also hope the German broadcaster forces him to be their entry next year.

Ann Sophie looks remarkably like Germany’s most recent Eurovision winner, Lena Meyer-Landrut. Maybe she is Lena the repeat offender and she has written a fake bio and changed her name so she can enter again. It would not be the first time someone has lied about their personal information to get to Eurovision, right Belgium…

To quote Pricilla she’s ‘a bloody good little performer’, etc. The bookmakers imply that it would not make the final if this song was not an automatic qualifier and I agree.

In other bridesmaids, Wind came second at Eurovision twice, the second time in 1987

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SPOILER ALERT: if you are yet to watch the semis, this is a list of the running order of the final, so the 11 non-qualifiers are not listed. if you don't want to know who qualified, stop reading now.

Other than an update  on the odds, this is mainly a copy and paste of what I wrote earlier in the week, mainly because it is not fair to base Denmark and the big 5 on their rehearsal and the 20 acts that qualified from the semis on their polished performance complete with gimmicks and effects, but Romania was pretty awesome in the end

Final running order )
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The semi performances will be the same in the final for those that make it. There are 6 that have already made it though to the final, most because they pay to.

The big 5 are German, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain and they are the the biggest financial contributors to the EBU. Denmark also Auto qualify for the Final because they allegedly sent the best act last year, they were at least determined to be the winner of last years contest.

so these are the other 6 rehearsals.

Auto-qualifiers for the final )



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Germany has tried many styles of music to win Eurovision including big band and country, but they have only come out with two gongs. This year they are not trying.



Artist: Elaisa
Song: Is It Right

To answer your question, no it is not right, it is wrong, very wrong. I mean are they trying to put the sexy back into piano accordions? Can we bring back relegation and ban Germany from Eurovision for this shit?

OK when it gets to the bit before the chorus it improves slightly, and a good performance could make this song interesting at least. When the song starts though, I keep thinking it is leading into a Zorba's dance. Maybe that's what they could do...

The bookies don't rate this and neither do I. I think Germany will be in the bottom ¼ of the results, though they should be used to that by now

There has been many accordions featured in Eurovision according to the internet. One to block out of your mind was Latvia in 2001. This finished the night 18th out of 23. How?

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Country: Germany

History...
Debut: 1956
Previous Appearances: 56
Wins: 2 (1982 – Nicole 'Ein bißchen Frieden', 2010 – Lena 'Satellite')

2013...
Artist: Cascada
Song: Glorious



this clip has taught me two things. The first is that if you stick excessive amounts of glitter on your arms, it makes you look like a bear, not a good look for a chick. The second thing I learned was that if you wear a corset and don't pull it tight at all, it looks quite ridiculous.

This song is a gay/dancefloor anthem and that's all it wants to be. I doubt Cascada care if they don't win because every mardi gras for the next 12 months will feature this song and that will make them enough money, thank you very much.

This will do average to well in the final depending on what else gets in, that is my prediction.

I would say definitively that this wont win but Wunder gibt es immer wieder

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Performer: Roman Lob
Song: Standing Still

OK, I am so over all the performers who were born in the 90's. I REMEMBER THE 1990'S I watched my first Eurovision in the 1990's. Eurovision is beginning to make me feel old. 

The first couple times I listen to this song, I was like 'Meh'. it sounds like alot of the songs that have come out over the last decade. It has grown on m the more times I have heard it though. I still don't like the line near the end 'when summers dead and gawrn'. I believe the word is 'gone' not 'gawrn', but I am being nitpicky.

Germany gets an 'A' for effort, and though they are realistically on of the few countries that could host the 2013 event, and hell their bailouts of other countries as got to get them votes, it will get close, but no cigar. I like this more than the financial favourites, but it needs an awesome performance and that will be hard if he is standing still.... 

A reasonable song, as this is, can be ruined by a poor performance. Switzerland failed to qualify for the final in 2008 with Era Stupendo because the act was crap and near the end he was so off pitch. So a performance is need, but Roman needs to also be standing still. If you are not standing still you could have a routine like Germany's 1977 entry.

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