#i also remember seeing nox perform forogj világ and it was such. it makes me cry every time the memories and the whole..ugh

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My Personal Eurovision Winners (and then some) Part VI: 2000-2009

So I had a lot of shit to speak when I was actually watching the 2000s contests, but truth be told I actually don't mind the 2000s winners. Sure there's a few duds here and there, but for the most part they're actually pretty solid, and under normal rules I’d probably keep at LEAST four of them.

But I made a pact to have no real winners in this list so let's go.

2000- Sweden- Roger Pontare- “When Spirits are Calling my Name”

Insert unoriginal comment about Sweden being better back before they started whoring themselves out to the jury vote every year here. But also remove equally unoriginal comment about tHe SwEdiSh vErSiOn iS bEtTer because guess what the song shreds in both English and Swedish. It shreds both ways. I guess you could say it’s... bishredsual. ... I’ll see myself out.

2001- Israel- Tal Sondak- “En Davar”

En or ein? YouTube and Diggiloo Thrush can’t seem to decide. Hey, I can’t pick Estonia and I didn’t want to be a basic bitch and pick Denmark so fuck it you’re getting Israel. And yeah I probably would succumb and pick Estonia for this because 2001 really wasn’t all that great of a year and hardly anything stood out to me after watching it.

2002- United Kingdom- Jessica Garlick- “Come Back”

Ah yes the UKs last hurrah before they unceremoniously bellyflopped from grace. If they ever had grace to begin with.  But it was between this and France, I ended up tossing a coin to decide which one. I kind of like both of them. Emphasis on “kind of” because that basically means “the winner sucks, let me pick something I marginally prefer.”

2003- Poland- Ich Troje- “Keine Grenzen-Żadnych granic”

Me picking an idealistic rock ballad performed by a guy with the dulcet voice of a five-pack-a-day chainsmoker? There's a fuckin’ surprise. But I daresay this is one of Poland’s best. I flipflop on whether I prefer this or Pali Sie from last year, and I usually go with Pali Sie on the grounds that this is a little too idealistic and John Lennon-y for my tastes, but with that aside... I still really genuinely like this song. If I wasn’t doing my “no real winners” run of this, I’d have a genuine hard time deciding between this and Turkey, and Turkey ‘03 is one of my top ten favourite winners.  So yeah, go check this one out.

2004- Cyprus- Lisa Andreas- “Stronger Every Minute”

To be honest, I don’t actually like this song all that much. It’s just the only one I remember from 2004. Like I genuinely couldn’t name a single other entry from that year aside Wild Dances, that’s the level of awful we’re talking about. And this song isn’t bad per se, but there’s just like... a moment, about 30 seconds in which I thought initially was a flubbed line, since the contest is live and shit happens, but no, the song is just... written like that. Like it’s written to sound flatter than a glass of Coke left out all night after a party. And it sounds horrible. ... I got sidetracked.

2005- Hungary- NOX- “Forogj, világ”

Tap shoe noises in songs automatically make it 10x better, and that’s a proven fact. The 2019 Cats movie was made at least 5x less terrible by putting tap sounds in the Railway Cat song. Which is the best song in the musical, don’t @ me. But this isn’t about the mod’s hot takes on Cats, this is about the mod’s hot takes on Eurovision, and I honestly don’t know why I subjected myself to the entirety of 2005 when this song won the moment the tap shoes started.  And this was the first song, go figure. 

2006- Croatia- Severina- “Moja štikla”

I swear Croatia is just one of those countries where I barely notice their presence half the time, but when they send something I like it ends up being my favourite song of that year.  Anyways, 2006 was actually a pretty decent year. Not one of my favourites, but I remember a few songs I liked from it. But this one stood out overall because it sounds cool.

2007- Sweden- The Ark- “The Worrying Kind”

Now I knew I would like this song going in, like I’d seen pictures of the singer and people describing the song as glam rock and I just knew “Hell yeah, I bet that guy would have a killer song”.  And guess what, he totally did. How about that.

2008- Latvia- Pirates- “Wolves of the Sea”

Ah yes, my beloved trash fave. And I would say I have a good reason to pick this song out the murky insanity that was ESC2008 but honestly the only reason I like this song is because it appeals to my inner seven year old who just wants to charge around a disco at a holiday camp somewhere on England’s south coast. What I’m saying is, this song makes me very nostalgic. I just wish the live version was actually, yanno, in tune. But then again this is Eurovision in the mid-2000s, singing horribly off key was just part of the spectacle.

2009- Germany- Alex Sings, Oscar Swings- “Miss Kiss Kiss Bang”

Everyone told me 2009 was amazing and guess what it fucking wasn’t. But this song is. I feel like this is one of those Marmite entries, in that people either really love it or will refuse point blank to even listen to it. I for one love it, it appeals to lots of my barely-laid-out criteria for me liking a song, plus it livened up the whole ass year because like I said... 2009 sucked.

#eurovision #mod speaks #mod's personal winners #hopefully the 10s won't take so long lmao