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2012 - final

originally posted 6/11/20

United Kingdom Objectively not a bad song. In fact, I'd even call it almost nice. Staging's alright too. The thing is, I think senior citizens should not sing about love in such a manner, like Engelbert is just creepy and so I kind of hate the song because of him alone. France In terms of song alone this is one of my favorites. Echo is just... it's good, it's so good in studio and it's not entirely lost onstage either. Staging was, as it always was in 2012, a little all over the place, but I liked parts of the staging, even though I maybe would have made some different costume choices. Italy Nina Zilli is one of those artists who's really performing on the Eurovision stage and I admire her just for that. It's a good song, seductive, and was subject to the same 2012 stage curse of all the other acts, enough so that when I originally ranked 2012 years ago this was my top song. I don't think I'd place it that high anymore, though; the key change between the verses and chorus is kind of disorienting and makes me lose some of my enthusiasm.

Azerbaijan Remember how I referenced making some a cappella covers of ESC songs in a previous post? Yeah, my When The Music Dies cover went the fuck off. It's such a beautiful song and Azerbaijan is the only other country besides Sweden who actually used the stage well. No wide shots! Ever! At all! Like, this is seriously so well done, so lovely, I think it might be one of my favorite Azerbaijani (Azeri? Which one is it?) entries. Spain Pastora's power vocals sell so much of the song for me. Quedate Conmigo is of course a strong song as it is, with good staging, but omg, her voice... it occurs to me that the autoqualifiers this year were for the most part really strong. Germany This is probably the most radio-friendly of the 2012 entries... not that that's a bad thing! It's nice to just listen to, and not bad to watch either, the staging actually isn't so bad. Something about the setup makes the stage feel a little smaller. My top 42

North Macedonia

Denmark

Sweden

Lithuania

Cyprus

Estonia

Azerbaijan

France

Spain

Israel

Germany

Norway

Serbia

Italy

Moldova

Iceland

Latvia

Malta

San Marino

Slovenia

Belarus

Hungary

Greece

Ukraine

Bulgaria

Ireland

Georgia

Russia

Switzerland

Belgium

Romania

Austria

Portugal

Croatia

Finland

United Kingdom

Albania

Turkey

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Slovakia

Montenegro

Netherlands

Voting/intervals I don't totally get this "superpostcard" thing. Like could they really not be bothered to do anything more interesting than just show all the postcards again with different music this time? (Yes, I know that's exactly what Israel did in 2019, but that was in the semifinal, this is the final y'all gotta step it up.) Lmao love how they introduce the interval act as being Emin and then Emin doesn't sing for like five minutes. Eastern countries hosting b like: this Eurovision can fit so much patriotism in it I mean other countries do this too but with Azerbaijan and Israel it's just... so much Thoughts after watching 2012 marks the start (or end, depending how you look at it) of a serious dip in quality that I think started around the mid-aughts. From here on out my rankings are gonna get WEIRD. That stage. Seriously. It killed so many songs that otherwise could have been very good, and the only two countries with genuinely good staging (Sweden and Azerbaijan) were those who never showed the scope of the stage at all.

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