The EBJ Eurovision Excellence Awards 2011: PART 1
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 2nd Annual Eurovision Excellence Awards – no tuxedo/ballgown required. You don’t even have to leave the house! Just sit back, relax and enjoy Part 1 of the 2011 edition.
Tonight, I honour the best and worst of this year’s songs, artists, vocals and costumes. I highly doubt you’ll 100% agree with me, and I’d love to hear why not, so comment, Tweet or Facebook me with your own EE picks.
Okay, the orchestra is starting up, everyone is seated, and the sequinned envelopes are in my hands. So here they are…
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THE SONGS |
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| AWARD | NOMINEES | WINNER |
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Song most likely to qualify…that did |
Denmark, Russia, Sweden |
Sweden: It was anything but Haade for Saade to leave most of the competition in his dust. |
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Song most unlikely to qualify |
Belgium, Malta, San Marino |
San Marino: It wasn’t the worst song of 2011, but it just didn’t have the ‘oomph’ to progress. |
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The song that sounds suspiciously like another |
Denmark, Norway |
Norway: La Coco-Dance (Monaco 2006) did just as well at Eurovision as its twin Haba Haba. |
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The song most likely to end up as a fan ringtone |
Armenia, Ireland, Sweden |
Ireland: Speaking of twins…this is already my ringtone. What about you? |
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THE ARTISTS |
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| AWARD | NOMINEES | WINNER |
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Hottest He |
France, Greece, Sweden, UK |
Sweden: Need I say anything? |
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Hottest She |
Germany, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia |
Slovakia: Daniela and Veronika can admire themselves without looking in a mirror. |
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Mr. Congeniality |
France, Ireland, Malta, Russia |
Malta: Glen Vella was the life of pretty much every party in Düsseldorf! |
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Miss Congeniality |
Armenia, Norway, San Marino, Serbia |
Armenia: Emmy doesn’t walk away empty-handed. She’s more bubbly than a bathtub of Coca-Cola. |
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THE VOCALS |
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| AWARD | NOMINEES | WINNER |
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Best vocal performance |
Austria, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia |
Slovenia: No One would be Nothing without Maja’s voice. Maybe people will call Christina Aguilera the American Maja Keuc now… |
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Worst vocal performance |
Estonia, Ireland, Portugal |
Portugal: What did we expect from an improv comedy troupe? |
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Singer most carried by their backing vocalists |
Ireland, Sweden |
Ireland: But who really cares… |
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THE COSTUMES |
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| AWARD | NOMINEES | WINNER |
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Best dressed |
Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia |
Serbia: Taking the 60s theme and running with it, Nina and her backups looked groovy baby! |
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Worst dressed |
Hungary, Portugal, UK |
Portugal: Unfortunately, the 70s don’t translate so well on stage. I think HDL might have been on a trip to the Anchorman set at some point. |
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The one who should have packed their national final costume instead |
Estonia, Norway, Poland |
Estonia: Getter swapped an amazing geometric dress for Minnie Mouse’s nightgown. |
Whew! That concludes the first part of the ceremony. Stay tuned, because Part 2: The Performances and The Results, will be up very soon. There are a few more countries who don’t have to remain empty-handed, and then some who’ll collect yet another prize to stuff into their cabinet.
See you then! x
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2 Responses to “The EBJ Eurovision Excellence Awards 2011: PART 1”
I totally agree with you 🙂
I would add for best dressed Ukraine and Denmark. As for singers most carried by their backing vocals, even UK may be in the list 🙂
What about Ukraine’s beauty – it seems that you ignored her…
Among songs most unlikely to qualify I would say Lithuania, Macedonia.
And there’s room for another category – Songs most likely to qualify…that didn’t – Turkey, Armenia, Israel and Albania.
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Hello, thanks for your comment!
When I did the awards originally I wanted 1 winner and no more than 3 runners-up (which are now the “nominees”!), so while I had loads of countries to choose from for each category, I narrowed them down on my opinion. Mika was definitely in the good-looking category in the beginning, I just didn’t want to overload people.
I do actually kinds sorta agree with you on the UK, but I loved it so much I couldn’t bring myself to put them down…and I think Lee was the main problem. They didn’t need as much help from the backing singers with four of them I guess.
PS – I have an award for ‘the songs most likely to qualify that didn’t’ in the second part of the awards…for some reason I filed it under RESULTS instead of SONGS…I have no idea why =P
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