#birgit õigemeel

[cuboneprinny]

So starting off we have Eurovision 2013. That's pretty much the year I actively remember watching/paying attention to Eurovision even though I could only remember the song from Hungary.

My ranking of the 2013 finals would be;

1. You - Robin Stjerberg, Sweden

2. I Feed You My Love - Margaret Berger, Norway

3. Something - Andrius Pojavis, Lithuania

4. Tomorrow - Gianluca Bezzina, Malta

5. Kedvesem - ByeAlex, Hungary

6. Marry Me - Krista Siegfrids, Finland

7. It's My Life - Cezar, Romania

8. L'Essenziale - Marco Mengoni, Italy

9. Glorious - Cascada, Germany

10. Only Love Survives - Ryan Dolan, Ireland

11. Gravity - Zlata Ognevich, Ukraine

12. Only Teardrops - Emmelie de Forest, Denmark

13. Love Kills - Roberto Bellarosa, Belgium

14. O Mie - Aliona Moon, Moldova

15. Solayoh - Alyona Lanskaya, Belarus

16. Alcohol is Free - Koza Mostra & Agathon Iakovidis, Greece

17. Hold Me - Farid Mammadov, Azerbaijan

18. Et Uus Saaks Alguse - Birgit Õigemeel, Estonia

19. What if - Dina Garipova, Russia

20. Birds - Anouk, Netherlands

21. L'enfer Et Moi - Amadine Bourgeois, France

22. Lonely Planet - Dorians, Armenia

23. Believe In Me, Bonnie Tyler, UK

24. Contigo Hasta El Final - ESDM, Spain

25. Waterfall - Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani, Georgia

26. Ég Á Lif - Eythor Ingi - Iceland

And that's my personal ranking of the 2013 finals. Next time the complete list of all 2013 songs.

#Eurovision #Eurovision 2013

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010: 80 - 76

80. Birgit  - “Et uus saaks alguse” Estonia 2013

It is easy to write Birgit’s superhigh ranking off as my pro-Estonia bias, but I actually did NOT like “Et uus saaks alguse” until the semifinal aired. 🤭 You see, 2013 was the first year I followed preselections and i was SMITTEN by the quirky Lõhmus song Birgit beat in EL. You may have heard of “Päästke Noored Hinged”, and if you haven’t educate yourself now and return here once you’re finished. Ready? Okay, let’s continue~

Anyway, Birgit is just... so adorable? So charismatic? Such a soothing, likable presence? Her magical voice and hypnotic swaying was the exact medicine to treat my Paia ptsd. Before I knew it, I was humming the chorus without thinking about it twice, singing a self-made Dutch translation in the shower on a daily basis. In the end, Birgit won me over, which I think you’ll agree, is a stronger phrasing of words than “I fell in love”. A true example of an underrated gem who deserves more love and attention.

After the contest, Birgit gave birth to a healthy son, continued to live a happy life with her family, occasionally cropping up in Eesti Laul as a juror or in a hilarious collab with Tanja. This ending to her arc pleases me almost as much as “Et uus saaks alguse” did, because if there’s any europerson (besides Valentina Monetta and Ieva Zasimauskaite) that I wish all the happiness in the world, it is Birgit Õigemeel. 

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79. IVAN - “Help you fly” Belarus - 2016

If I can fly, then you can flyyyyYYYyyyYYYoyoyoohoyojojkoghkooo

With 330+ of read updates under your belt, it should hardly be a surprise to you that I LOVED “Help you fly” the second I heard it, because is there anything as timeless, as ethereal, as enjoyably dated as 80s electronic ska? NO I DON’T THINK SO. TAAAAAAAAKE OOOOOOOOOOON MEEEEEEEEEEEE  However, I don’t think anybody expected IVAN to reveal his true Crazy Person Colours in the months after his selection. 😍 The first inkling came when IVAN insisted “Help you fly”s uplifting message would only be done justice if he did it starkers AND flanked by REAL WOLVES. When the EBU was like “um no wtf you crazy man”, being, you know, the sane boring people we know them to be, IVAN resorted to high-tech CGI to get his ~artistic vision across~

Lol I often joke about the insanity found at Eurovision but IVAN might be insane for real, which... is really damn’ fucking awesome because it turned “Help you fly” in one of the best acid trips of all time, while also remaining a good song on top of that, and also ironic because “leave all the madness behind” is one of the few audible lines. 😂 So let us bask in the glory of this:

and this:

and this

It is often said that the line between genius and insanity is fairly blurred and IVAN is masterfully... avoiding that line by going all in. "Help you fly” is absolutely BONKERS and frankly, I can’t help being impressed. Of course, it is exactly like “Telemóveis” in that whatever underlying message it had has completely flown over the heads of the gobsmacked audience, and arguably IVAN himself <3 Every time an entry dismantles our expectations with mind-blowing awesomeness, it’s a blessing. Thank you IVAN for blessing us <3

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78. The Shin & Mariko - “Three minutes to Earth” Georgia 2014

MORE BONKERS ENTRIES <3 God, I remember EVERYONE losing their damn’ marbles when “Three minutes to Earth” was announced. NOBODY could make any sense of it whatsoever <3 It’s like... a bizarre amalgamation of different world music traditions without any discernible melody <3 A jam session not from this fucking planet. Of course, this made the vast bulk of the fandom HATE it,  However...  I was always intrigued and soon fell in love with its disarming avant garde hopelessness <3

Appreciation which bloomed into genuine deep affection once I realized “Three minutes to Earth” is a song about... ALIEN ABDUCTION <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 

TOLD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ALIENS!!!!!!!!! 

Which is... really fucking CLEVER, wtf? 

Like, if we assume, hypothetically, that a friendly alien race were find the Voyager and decipher how to use the golden records, a song such as “Three minutes to Earth” could very well be their interpretation of our music, abducting and indoctrinating a few random Georgians to share their message of peace and cooperation, with millions of people worldwide. That.. is conceptually the most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever written on this blog, and worse, I believe every word of it. PISS AND LIGHT EVERYWHEEEEEERE. 

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77. Hera Björk - “Je ne sais quoi” Iceland 2010

When in doubt, always bring the agressive euroschlager, and man, Hera Björk is such a force of camp nature. She provided more fire and buzz than the fucking volcano whose name nobody can pronounce (from memory, the name is “Eyjafjallajökull” ^_^) The Eyjafjallajökull mught have held all of the European airports into a chokehold, but in Eurovision it was HERA who ruled (for a brief moment).  

also take a moment to ponder on the fact she looks like Lady Tremaine’s cat. 

I mean, “Je ne sais quoi” has ~that special something, something just can’t explain~ just kidding, I can and I shall: "Je ne sais quoi” is shamelessly camp, with a cheesy francophone hook, pinging its status as homo-friendly eurotrash to all the gay people EUROVISION FANS that love shameless campy schlager. 

What I like the most however are the explicit references to aggressive love-making. “WHEN I SEE YOU FACE I WANNA FOLLOW MY EMOTIONS” Is this song about Hera getting the d this song is about Hera getting the d isn’t it. (“d” being dick or dildo, you pick the option that wets ur humourwhistle the most.) Well, I am happy! Obese people deserve all the happiness in life. Then again, I am saying this as a man big enough to have a cleavage, so maybe that opinion is a bit bias- OKAY MOVING ON.

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76. Maraaya - “Here for you” Slovenia 2015

Okay, I will be first to admit that “Here for you” slapped SO MUCH MORE in studio version. Arguably the best song Slovenia have ever sent to Eurovision? Definitely the best between Sebi and Cvet z Juga. And the yes, the live didn’t *entirely* live up to the hype... However, a slightly less good “Here for you” is still fucking awesome? LEGIT CHARTABLE SONG THAT ISN’T BORING <3 AIR VIOLIN REALNESS <3

However, you all know that I LIVE for the small moments of incompetence and weirdness, and Marjetka provides two big ones BY HERSELF: There’s of course the hilarity of the headphones & lace dress, but what I’m getting at is the chronic headbobbing: seriously, is this a tic:

This reminds me of 1968 BorisBubbles fave Claes-Göran Hederström and his incessant lip-licking. 

(Most lubricated lips in the herstory of Eurovision 😍) 

Of course, Marjetka’s persistent headbobbing also had a hilarious impact on her voice, giving her a stuttering vibrato, as she were cycling over a cobblestone road while singing this song. 😍

After doing Eurovision and showcasing their talent to everyone in Europe, Maraaya went back to Slovenia, becoming their Sven Lõhmus and loyally delivering a slew of trashy semi-chartable shitsongs into EMA every year since, winning with none of them. 😍 

#Eurovision #Eurovision Song Contest #Slovenia #Iceland #Georgia #Belarus #Estonia #Birgit Õigemeel #IVAN #Aleksandar Ivanov #Help you fly #Et uus saaks alguse #The Shin #Mariko #Three minutes to Earth #Hera Björk #Je ne sais quoi #Maraaya #Here for you

[keehaag]

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #esc2013 #esc 2013 #escestonia #esc estonia #eesti laul #eesti laul 2013 #birgit oigemeel #birgit õigemeel #et uus saaks alguse #winny puhh #meiecundimees uks korsakov laks eile latti #meiecundimees üks korsakov läks eile lätti #relatable teen post

[unofficial-estonia]

Estonia and Eurovision 101

Estonia has taken part in Eurovision 25 times

Estonia has won once, finished last once and has never received 0 points

Estonia’s best era in Eurovision was from 1996 to 2002, where it finished in top 8 six out of seven times

Estonia’s 1996 entry which got 5th place was the first time former Soviet country finished in top 5

Estonia won Eurovision in 2001 with  Tanel Padar’s, Dave Benton’s & 2XL’s “Everybody” in Denmark

Dave Benton was the first person of colour and, at the age of 50 years and 101 days, the oldest contestant at the time to win the contest

Estonia was the first former Soviet country to win the contest and the second Eastern European country to win

Since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004, Estonia has failed to reach the final on nine occasions

Estonia has reached the top ten in Final four times: in 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018

Estonia’s total of 10 top ten results, is more than other Baltic countries

Estonia is placed in the Nordic voting block, due Estonia often giving points to Norway, Sweden and Finland

Estonia and Finland are apparently the only countries to have translated subtitles for every song.

Estonia has been represented by non-Estonian four times (Aruban and 3 Swedes) in 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2019 respectively and by Estonian-Russian twice - in 2014 and 2018 respectively

Estonia has sung in Estonian 7 times, in Võro language 1 time (2004), in Serbian, German and Finnish 1 time (all in 2008), in Italian 1 time (2018), in English 14 times

Estonian entries from 2000 to 2019 (bolded reached the final):

2000: Ines - Once in a Lifetime, 4th with 98 points

2001: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL - Everybody, 1st with 198 points

2002: Sahlene - Runaway, 3rd place with 111 points

2003: Ruffus - Eighties Coming Back, 21st with 14 points

2004: Neiokõsõ - Tii (in Võro language)

2005: Suntribe - Let’s Get Loud

2006: Sandra - Through My Window

2007: Gerly Padar - Partners in Crime

2008 Kreisiraadio - Leto Svet (in Serbian, German and Finnish)

2009: Urban Symphony - Rändajad, 6th with 129 points (in Estonian)

2010: Malcolm Lincoln & Manpower 4 - Siren

2011: Getter Jaani - Rockefeller Street, 24th with 44 points

2012: Ott Lepland - Kuula, 6th with 120 points (in Estonian)

2013: Birgit Õigemeel - Et uus saaks alguse, 20th (in Estonian)

2014: Tanja - Amazing

2015: Elina Born & Stig Rästa - Goodbye to Yesterday, 7th with 106 points

2016: Jüri Pootsmann - Play

2017: Koit Toome & Laura - Verona

2018: Elina Nechayeva - La Forza, 8th with 245 points (in Italian)

2019: Victor Crone - Storm, 19th with 86 points 

#esc #eurovision #estonia #eesti

[escunited]

Eesti Laul 2019 Semi Final 1 - Reaction & Fan Favorites

#Birgit Õigemeel #eesti laul #eesti laul 2019 #sandra nurmsalu #tanja

[olucaslab]

New music saved on Spotify! Please listen: "Et Uus Saaks Alguse" by Birgit Õigemeel https://ift.tt/3uHns8v

#IFTTT #Spotify

[blastikmusik]

Richard Cheese Wham! Lucy Dacus Luxar Erdmöbel (Weihnachten) The xx (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge) Scala And Kolacny Brothers Le Cassette Assembler Birgit Õigemeel & Uku Suviste Frank Turner Luna Lee Florence + The Machine (Live From BBC Radio) We The Kings Postmodern Jukebox Split Cascada Roberto Blanco Kymaera Leo Moracchioli Wham! (Pudding Mix)

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#music #mixtapes #mixtape #christmas #Last Christmas #weihnachten #noel #navidad #xmas #x-mas #advent #Adventkalender #adventcalendar #adventskalender

[miafi]

Im glad I’m not the only one that rewatches old escs. Im so sad that it got cancelled 😔 (I mean, I understand why, but it’s still sad). Who’s been your favourites from the last couple of years?

Hiya, Anon!

It is sad, I was looking forward to all the new songs! And especially I was interested how our Czech song would do. Benny deserved a chance, he's a great guy. (Listen to Kemama by Benny Cristo, thanks!)

My favourites from last years? In no particular order:

Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes

Dima Bilan - Believe (I'm still not over the whole performance)

Frans - If I Were Sorry

Ryan O'Shaughnessy - Together

Loïc Nottet - Rhythm Inside

Mahmood - Soldi

Bilal Hassani - Roi

Nicky Byrne - Sunlight

Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale

Ott Lepland - Kuula

Birgit Õigemeel - Et Uus Saaks Alguse

Stig and Elina Born - Goodbye to yesterday

Luca Hänni - She Got Me

Carl Espen - Silent Storm

Pernilla Karlsson - Nar jag blundar

And of course, the shiniest gem: Petra Mede and Måns Zelmerlöw - Love Love Peace Peace

What about you, Anon? What are yours?

#sorry for the ugly formatting #i'm on mobile #long post #mia answers #mia talks music #anonymous

[eurovision-austria]

Heute in Estland: Das erste Semifinale von Eesti Laul 2019!

Heute in #Estland: Das erste Semifinale von Eesti Laul 2019! #EestiLaul #ESC #eurovision

Heute in Estland beginnt Eesti Laul 2019 in Tartu!

Im ersten Semifinale von Eesti Laul 2019 treten 12 Kandidaten an. Darunter auch Sandra Nurmsalu, Tanja und Birgit Õigemeel (The Swingers). Sechs Kandidaten werden sich für das Finale am 16. Februar in Tallinn qualifizieren.

Live Stream: Ab 17:00 Uhr MEZ auf ETV.

Teilnehmer des ersten Semifinales

The Swingers – High Heels In The Neighbourhood

Rane…

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#Eesti Laul #NF 2019 #Voting

[borisbubbles]

ESC2019: Preshow: #35

35. ESTONIA Victor Crone - “Storm” SemiFinal 1, #14

Last Summer Estonia announced that they would, very sadly, reliquish Eesti Laul’s indie vibe by allowing foreign artists to enter.

 “Ah!🤔” Stig Rästa must’ve thought “I can now try to fulfill my biggest dream: create the Estonian Aviicii”😁".

For this he needed a few ingredients: A cheesy song with a catchy but basic track sheeple can dance on and a mouthpiece to perform the song. Said performer would of course have to be Swedish, preferably with no real discernible personality or career and just about desperate enough to enter Eesti Laul over Melfest. Singing Talent if any, was not a requirement, conveniently attractive looks a plus. 

Enter Victor Crone.

Entry Analysis

Every ESC hits us with grower songs, songs which you don’t care about at first, but which get better with every listen. “Storm” is... not one of those lol. At this point I doubt whether I even have any remaining *energy* to point out all of the cliché’s, which is basically... all of “Storm”: it has your run-the-mill pseudo-inspirational but inherently meaningless lyrics on a dope beat that sounds like every dance track ever made. It really does not get any more basic than this (sorry; than thiiiIIIIiiiiis)

I mean obviously, it’s Estonia so I had *some* inherent goodwill at the start, but now that every song has been selected, I am now VEHEMENTLY AGAINST Estonia qualifying for the final. Every time I listen to “Storm” I dislike it more and more, as I’m reminded what a cliché clunker it really is. It’s the opposite of a hit, it’s just... shit. 

Victor himself irks me too though, don’t worry, the personal attack you’re anxiously awaiting is about to start: Put a limp noodle with zero personality in a leather jacket and give them a guitar and you still have a limp noodle with zero personality, only in a leather jacket and with a guitar. Even Victor’s Lisa Rinna hair (seriously what an awful haircut for a maaAAAaan liiIIIiike thiiiIIIiis) has more personality than Victor himself. Also, lmao @ his “vocals”. I wasn’t aware a song liiIIIIiike thiIIIIiis could crack a voiiiIIIIiice liiIIIike thiIIIIiis.

NF Corner

Did Estonia have options other than “Storm”? Well, yeah, they did, but none I particularly cared about actually.😬 I went down my usual trajectory of pulling for lovable randoms because I did NOT love any of the realistic options. Inger was not my cup of tea and Stefan was probably the only one I liked less than Victor 😷 Having said that, I did have a strong preference for ONE of the contenders:

Even with Kirkorkov’s Dark Mark clining to it, “Pretty little liar” would’ve easily been the best option for Estonia, both at ESC and at this ranking (I enjoy how lowkey trash PLL’s melodrama is. “YOU PRETTY LITTLE LIAR *YOU*” <3). If Estonia wanted a conventionally handsome robot in a leather jacket, just go for Uku Ceviche, wtf???

But there are other fun songs I wouldn’t want to deny you. There is of course, the EPIC collab between Tanja & Birgit Õigemeel: 

Embarrassing ElectroSwing sensationalism, YES <3 It wouldn’t have stood a chance in ESC, but I’m happy it graced my internet tee-vee screen with its presence.. 

There’s also THIS hilarious s*cat* anthem which cured my just about my loneliness, anxiety, depression  😻😻😻😻😻

Fulfilling its destiny of finishing last with exactly 1 point. 😻 (not last overall though, because there were *two* songs in the other semi which managed to get 0 points somehow lmfao 😻<3) 

My personal fave however was something different: meet MEME QUEEN INGA

Good Estonian indiepop isnt dead, it was just burried underneath of layers and layers and fucking LAYERS of garden-variety radio pop. "Miline päev” did have a certain ~Je Ne Sais Quoi~ about it (You know it has that special something!) that I enjoyed. Maybe it were the iconic trousers or the iconic dancing or perhaps both? Bask in the radiant warm glow of QUEENGA’s surpreme dance mewvs: 

💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

Qualification Odds: Borderline (Disadvantaged)

Same issue as with Denmark: The bookmakers claim Estonia will advance, but I don’t knoooooooow about thaaaaat -- Sandra Diaz-Twine. The first issue is the live voice: Victor can barely sing “Storm” in tune EVEN WHEN SINGING IT OVER THE CD-TRACK WHICH FEATURES HIS OWN AUTOTUNED VOICE. In a format such as ESC where *all* of the voices MUST be live, there no way he’ll sound good.  Secondly, um the song is boring and shit and generic and trash and STANDS OUT as those things compared to the other songs in the SF. AND Victor’s draw puts him behind Hatari’s sado-mascochistic punkfest and Conan’s savant garde fado fable. You need to be fucking ICONIC to stand a chance between those two and honestly, name a human less deserving of being refered to as “iconic” as Victor Crone. Third of all, it’s Estonia. Estonia is all about being overrated by the netizens. I fall for it every year, because you know, this feeling of wishful thinking is REAL (DAYUM -- Alen Chicco), but not this time!! In all fairness, given how open SF1 is, I would not be too shocked if Victor DID qualify, but “Storm” feels more like a song that juries would like due to the Lowest Common Denominator (but less so than normally because juries do NOT like Estonia for some reason) (jealousy) and I believe the audience will largely ignore “storm” due to its lack of memorability. The only trump card Estonia have is the augmented reality gimmick and it’s hard to gauge how effective it will prove to be in a SF that, you know, features anti-capitalist bondage, live re-enactments of Edward Scissorhands and deepthroating contraltos dressed up like John Waters characters. 

Projected placement: 7th-15th in the semifinal. If he qualifies, bottom 10 in the finale. 

Link to the masterpost

#Eurovision 2019 #Estonia #Victor Crone #Storm

[womenofesc]

#birgit õigemeel #birgit #esc estonia #esc 2013 #Eurovision

[emmadeforests]

Kat's ESC Discourse S4 E15: Let's Get This Show On The Road 11 -- Birgit Õigemeel, Et Uus Saaks Alguse (Estonia) This song is so lovely and calming. I love Birgit's presence and this song just screams classic eurovision to me. Without the bass guitar it could have won in the 50s or early 60s. 10 -- Dorians, Lonely Planet (Armenia) Not a lot of people like this song but it's very my kind of music - you know? This is my style of music, I like it a lot, and something about their performance - Birgit's too, really - seemed very honest in a way that even Emmelie's kind of wasn't? Their presence wasn't as manufactured as some of the other acts.

#kat's esc discourse #ked s4 #ked e15 #birgit õigemeel #dorians #et uus saaks alguse #lonely planet #eurovision

[allthingseurovision]

Ott Lepland does an Estonian version of Birgit Õigemeel's "365 Days"

#so good #ott lepland #birgit õigemeel #365 days #eesti laul #eurovision #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2012 #eurovision 2013 #esc 2012 #esc 2013 #music #video #europe #estonia #estonian #language

[unofficial-estonia]

2017 isn’t first year Estonia has released it’s Eurovision song in multiple languages, having done so in both 2012 and 2013. You can listen to them here:

2012: Kuula (Estonian, original) | Hear me (English) | Слушай (Russian) | Escucha (Spanish) | (performed by Ott Lepland)

2013: Et uus saaks alguse (Estonian, original) | New Way to Go (English) | Allting börjar om (Swedish) | Светлое начало (Russian) | Volver a empezar (Spanish) | (performed by Birgit Õigemeel)

#estonia #eesti #esc #eurovision

[lovingmusicandmore]

Music video > BIRGIT - Lendame Valguskiirusel

#birgit oigemeel #birgit #birgit õigemeel #eurovision

[fyeaheurovisionsongcontest]

Okay it's been a little late (this post is 3 months overdue) but I think we should all still give a welcome to Birgit Õigemeel's baby.

It's a boy (biologically), and his name is Simeon. To him, welcome!

#eurovision #birgit õigemeel #simeon #baby