We’ll be liveblogging the Eurovision Song Contest Saturday night, but in the preparation of this shining example of the -decadent West- popular culture, let’s take a history walk.
Here’s almost every Latvian Eurovision song ever.
2000 – the group Brainstorm performed “My star.” The group came in third, after Russia and Denmark, which won that competition held in Sweden. Not bad for a debut. Latvia was selected as the last 25th country to participate in the contest replacing Greece, which withdrew.
2001 – Arnis Mednis represented Latvia in the contest with a song “Too much”. Unfortunately, his performance was not found among the vast universes of YouTube. He came 16th.
2002 – Marie N (also known as Marija Naumova) with a song I wanna earned Latvia the right to host the next Eurovision Song Contest. She came first.
2003 – F.L.Y. performed Hello From Mars, which didn’t fair well among the earthlings on the European continent. They came 24th.
2004 – The rules were changed to accommodate more countries-participants. Latvia was represented by Fomins & Kleins with Dziesma par laimi, A Song About Happiness. Happy or not, the song didn’t qualify for the final.
2005 – Valters un Kaza sang The War is not Over. They came 5th.
2006 – Cosmos performed I hear your heart. Talented though they may have been, they came only 17th.
2007 – bonaparti.lv with Questa Notte. They came 16th.
Tags: EuroVision
Estonia didn’t advance… again. Meh. :S
Yes. I was disappointed because I really liked her. I would have liked to be her partner in crime….
Deepest regrets to Estonia.
My other surprise was Andorra. I thought they had a good song. Maybe because I was too accustomed to the punk rock music. But admittedly, on the video they were good. When they were singing live, they appeared nervous and didn’t sound so good.
I am a big fan of Marija Naumova. I love to listen to her album “Ma voix ma voie”, with all songs in French. I was very happy to see her win back in 2002, although the song was pure pandering to the Eurovision format. She did give a great performance.
Hei! Looks like you all are having a ball! I sure would like your kind of job!!
Irena