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[magic]

We have 2 concerts on TV in last 2 weeks to made up list for Latvian final. Here's something I can point out lol

This is one of my fav Latvian songs:


Soooo funny I want it to win and go to Baku lol I haven't seem their performance but I've seen pics that solist looks like Merilin Menson with all the make up. There's also somebody that looks like Pet Shop Boys from their video Go West. I will post their performance as soon as they will add it in the net.



One more one of my fav songs:

It's a beautiful song with a beautiful meaning



This is one of my LEAST fav song from national contest

[Sharon007]

Wow Latvia are early choosing there songs. I like the second one very romantic . In Ireland we haven't had a competition for ours yet. They often have about 5 to choose from and whoever gets the most votes gets put through to the Eurovision. There are rumours that the same act that was in last year will be going again this year. Its not confirmed yet tho.

[magic]

We always have our in the beginning of the year.

Here is the video I promised. They performed it yesterday. Take notice in the end a guy as Lordi is coming out of piano like ballerina from Dima Bilan's performance As I've read the 2 or 3 guys in the group is current or ex opera singers.



The singer had cold so I guess that's why he couldn't sing the song properly. But in he said it will be ok in the last concert that we will have next weekend. Then we will know the winners.

[Sharon007]

Does the Latvian public vote by phone or sms for the winner?

[magic]

Sharon007, on 15 January 2012 - 09:52 PM, said:

Does the Latvian public vote by phone or sms for the winner?

We have professional jury and audience to vote as well. Their votes are counted together. Audience can vote by phone but they can also send sms which would give 5 (I think) points and it's more expensive than a call.

[Sharon007]

We have a professional Jury too but the audience is made of people who wrote the songs that are performed and other music people. The audience dont vote. Juat members of the public around the country and they call into the various regions to get the votes. I think theres about 4 or 5 acts to vote for.

[magic]

Sharon007, on 16 January 2012 - 06:12 PM, said:

Juat members of the public around the country and they call into the various regions to get the votes.

They call random ppl in Ireland? That's... interesting lol

[Sharon007]

No its not random people . There are two parts to the judging process. The first part is the Jury vote. There are 6 jurys located around Ireland on the night of the vote. In the following cities across Ireland Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Dublin.

The spokesperson for each jury is called by video. They give the points for each song. Minimum number for a song is 4 then 6, 10 and 12. The maximum points that a song can get is 72 points. The songs that the public vote for also goes to the jurys.

[magic]

So they don't watch the show live? Our professional jury is there during the concert.

[Sharon007]

magic, on 16 January 2012 - 07:31 PM, said:

So they don't watch the show live? Our professional jury is there during the concert.

Oh they do watch the show as it goes out on TV but they also have to gather all the sms and phone votes from there cities. When they have all the votes collected then the spokesperson gives the result from that city.

[soap]

We have an international jury this time. From Azerbaijan, Germany, Norway and Russia.

Then we have the people and a pro jury.

[magic]

soap, on 16 January 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

We have an international jury this time. From Azerbaijan, Germany, Norway and Russia.

Then we have the people and a pro jury.

I didn't know international jury is allowed cause it is national contest for international final. Are they all famous ppl from those countries?

[soap]

They are all famous.

You can read the article here: http://www.eurovisio...ernational_jury


The four juries
Take a look at the line up of artists and music professionals who will make up the international juries. The Danish jury will be announced shortly.

Azerbaijan

• NIKKI - Foreman of the Azeri jury. Won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011 together with Ell and the song Running Scared.
• ELL - Won Europe's favourite TV show with Nikki.
• ISA MELIKOV - Music producer behind big music shows in Azerbaijan.
• DILARA KAZIKOVA - Pop princess and previous participant in the Azeri national selection.
• AYSEL - Singer who represented Azerbaijan in 2009 with Arash and the song Always.

Germany

• OCEANA - Foreman for the German jury. R'n'B-Funk-Soul artist and TV presenter.
• RÜDIGER BRANS - Lead singer of the rock'n'roll band The Baseballs.
• PETER BERGENER - Music journalist and known Eurovision Song Contest fan from Wuppertal.
• ROGER CICERO - Represented Germany in 2007 with Frauen regier\n die Welt
• MIKE RÖTGENS - Music producer for amongst others Kylie Minogue and Tom Jones, and the man behind Infernal's hit, "From Paris To Berlin".

Norway

• ALEXANDER RYBAK - Foreman of the Norwegian jury. Winner of Europe's favourite TV show in 2009 with Fairytale.
• VENKE KNUTSON - Singer with a number of top-10 hits and previous participant in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix.
• OMER BHATTI - Pakistani-Norwegian hip pop artist and close friend of Michael Jackson.
• KJELL PETTER ASKERSRUD - Works for Universal in Oslo and is one of the best known veterans of the Norwegian recording industry.
• BJØRN JOHAN MURI - Norwegian singer and previous Melodi Grand Prix participant with the most sold single in Norway in 2011.

Russia

• ALEXEJ VOROBJOV - Foreman for the Russian jury. Represented Russia in Düsseldorf last year with Get You.
• LERA MASSKVA - Russian popsinger who was nominated as the best singer at the MTV Russian Music Awards.
• YURI MADIANIK - Known classical musician who plays the piano and harmonica.
• ANNA KULIKOVA - One of Russia's up and coming singers that isn't very known as yet.
• MARIO DURAND - Well acclaimed singer and violinist as well as a tango expert.

[magic]

Latvian Eurovision contest is happening now and I am also watching it together with funeral. One of my fav songs from two We Can Change The World is sang in Latvian now and I know now definitely that my fav now is Music Tief cause now it sounds weak. Music still is good but lyrics now is stupid "Black is black and No is not Yes". Thank you for telling that, I really didn't know that

[magic]

This is the Latvia's entry for Eurovision song festival in May. Do you like the song?




The singer singing the song is a bit weird looking. Especially her eyes. The eyes looks so big as they're gonna pop up lol She became famous maybe 6 years ago in some music reality show. But she didn't make big singing carreer in Latvia. She went to USA (I think). I don't really know what she did that, but as far as I know she probably was learning singing. With this song she is returning to Latvia.

[Sharon007]

OMG look at her hat and then those other two women are dancing funny. Are they lesbians?

[magic]

dancing, I think is ok and the hat is not worse that hat of the Queen anyway

I don't know, I still like Mad Show Boys better They got the third place. I wrote them in Twitter that I liked them and it's too bad they didn't win. They got less points from professional jury which is why they were only the third after professional jusry votes and public votes. Profesional jury placed them in 8th or 7th place but public votes took them to 3rd place. So I told them that public voted for them and that is very important. They retweeted my tweet

[magic]

The group I liked Mad Show Boys probably will sue either contest organizers or somebody who spread rumors about them and affected their place in the contest. When they talked with two professional jury members they revealed that somebody in jury room spread information that if Mad Show Boys win, Latvia would face charges in plagiarism so jury were told to give low points to the group. In open letter the group asked organizers to reveal the person who spread rumors about them in jury room as it may be also connected with any of other contestants.

And the jury ratings really were weird. Cause they were one of favorites between contestants. Not only most of the public liked them but also bookmakers predicted their winning or some other group's. But suddenly 9 jury out of 10 gave the group from 1 to 3 points, not more. So on jury ratings they were only on 7th place. But on public telephone voting they were first which got the boys in 3rd place but it wasn't enough to win.

The song author said he is very shocked that jury can be so influenced about something that somebody has said which even wasn't checked if it's true. He said that he wrote the song entairly. There were some snippet used from ex Eurovision winner Rybak but in the same time he changed as much notes in the snippet so it would be good with laws. He also followed every rule of the contest and he didn't break any of them. He put time and a lot of money in the song and the performance.

I think that jury votes was really weird. Cause suddenly the group from everybody's favorites became unwanted. It would be ok if few wouldn't like their performance or song but not all. There were only one jury member, popular Latvian athlete who wasn't anything related with show business and more represented common ppl in jury, and he was the one giving MSB all 12 points. Besides, there were jury members who were connected with contestants and it is not right to rank somebody that works for you or that your worker represents. I already wrote them in Facebook profile that I think jury votes let down the group cause they would win. So I believe if somebody wouldn't spread rumors about them, they would win.

[soap]

That sounds weird. Corrupt jury.

[Sharon007]

Ireland has chosen its Eurovision Entry and its Jedward singin

magic, on 21 February 2012 - 01:05 PM, said:

The group I liked Mad Show Boys probably will sue either contest organizers or somebody who spread rumors about them and affected their place in the contest. When they talked with two professional jury members they revealed that somebody in jury room spread information that if Mad Show Boys win, Latvia would face charges in plagiarism so jury were told to give low points to the group. In open letter the group asked organizers to reveal the person who spread rumors about them in jury room as it may be also connected with any of other contestants.

And the jury ratings really were weird. Cause they were one of favorites between contestants. Not only most of the public liked them but also bookmakers predicted their winning or some other group's. But suddenly 9 jury out of 10 gave the group from 1 to 3 points, not more. So on jury ratings they were only on 7th place. But on public telephone voting they were first which got the boys in 3rd place but it wasn't enough to win.

The song author said he is very shocked that jury can be so influenced about something that somebody has said which even wasn't checked if it's true. He said that he wrote the song entairly. There were some snippet used from ex Eurovision winner Rybak but in the same time he changed as much notes in the snippet so it would be good with laws. He also followed every rule of the contest and he didn't break any of them. He put time and a lot of money in the song and the performance.

I think that jury votes was really weird. Cause suddenly the group from everybody's favorites became unwanted. It would be ok if few wouldn't like their performance or song but not all. There were only one jury member, popular Latvian athlete who wasn't anything related with show business and more represented common ppl in jury, and he was the one giving MSB all 12 points. Besides, there were jury members who were connected with contestants and it is not right to rank somebody that works for you or that your worker represents. I already wrote them in Facebook profile that I think jury votes let down the group cause they would win. So I believe if somebody wouldn't spread rumors about them, they would win.

That's very strange. So the winner won because someone in the Jury chose them?