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345. Eldrine - “One more day” Georgia 2011

Despite being in one of my least favorite years, I always, ALWAYS forget how much I dislike Eldrine. "One more day” is weirdly unmemorable to me, but I do think it’s quite bad. I just don’t remember it as vividly as the other garbage 2011 had on offer.

So, the few times I do choose to rewatch 2011, I the “BAD ENTRY AHEAD. VIEWER’S DISGRESSION ADVISED. DIAL ‘A’ FOR ALCOHOLISM” alarms don’t trigger in my head and I’m hit full-force by this tsunami of LOUD toxic sludge. A tripple whammy of Ugly Song (White Guy Rapping + Metal = NO THANKS) / Ugly Singing (+ unintelligible diction) / Ugly æsthetics (I think it’s called ‘Chernobyl Chique’) ringing through my brain, good thing I will have forgotten about this song the second it has finished, huh?

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344. Michael von der Heide - “Il pleut de l’or” Switzerland 2010

A song about golden showers. Hard pass. ________________________________________________________________

343. Vlatko Ilievski - “Rusinka’ F.YR. Macedonia 2011

A song about fœtal alcohol syndrome. Hard pass. (RIP tho </3)

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342. Robin Bengtsson - “I can’t go on” Sweden 2017 

[2017 Review here] The concept of “Classy” has reached a postmodern nadir when a song whose message amounts to “OMG THIS GIRL IS SO HAWWWWWWT I CANNOT CONTAIN MYSELF I MUUUUUUUUST F*CK HER HARDDDD IN THE 👌” can be considered “classy” just because it’s sung by a handsome Swede in a suit. Btw who even uses ‘👌’ to describe the fuckability of other people? DOUCHEBAGS, that’s who!!!

“I can’t go on” just combines all of the worst characteristics of Robin Thicke (sexual lechery) and Bruno Mars (fratbroness) blends them together in a soulless package which OF-fucking-COURSE made it all the way to third in the jury vote because ~it’s professional and Swedish~ good grief DUNK Björkman and/or the concept of “Professional juries” in acid before the next cuntest plz (and replace it with a dioscopic jury, thx.)

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341. Trijntje Oosterhuis - “Walk along” Netherlands 2015

Oh dear, Trijntje Oosterhuis. The little engine that couldn’t. 😭

Okay, so, right after doing “Calm after the storm”, Hans Pancake was bloody untouchable and it was only a matter of time before one of his entries would ECHO ECHO and FLOP, amirite? Shockingly (but not so shockingly at all), it only took until the next year. 

Now, the aspect that stands out the most as “bad” about “Walk along” IS the Pancake staging of the continuous camera shot, the insipid veil, the even more insipid blacklighted letters on Trijntje’s hand and overall drab colour scheme. 

19 stories for Vlatko Ilievski. And it really got me thinking. Like, the people who wrote those stories must be hurting right now, right? I know if anything bad happened to Ermal or Fabrizio I would be devastated. Seeing this today made me think a lot about this. And these Vlatko stories aren’t all by one person, no, multiple people have written these. Some of them date back to 2013, some of them are from this year. And then I clicked on some of the stories and they are so wholesome and nice???

Wtf? In one he is a Pokemon trainer, in another the Skopje Fest people are all having pizza, and there's a really cute group chat set in Eurovision 2011. Then there's the strange ones, there's one where Sweden sends a group to Skopje Fest to protest Sweden being occupied by the UK, another where Vlatko is in Montenegro for a music festival with a bunch of other people and a meteor is going to hit the city he is in but Christer Bjorkman sends robots to stop the meteor (WTF???) But even in the strange ones it's really nice like????? And they are all rated Gen too????

And omg the chatfic thing??

Like these stories are all so innocent and happy and????

And some Eurovision fansite was talking about it years ago WOW

Vlatko Ilievski – Rusinka Çevirisi (Eurovision 2011 Makedonya Şarkısı)

Koža nežna, bela kako snegot nov, neizgazen. Oči sini, kako vedro nebo, vo niv sum zaroben.

Jas Makedonec, a ona Rusinka. Jas dobredojden kako muzika, muzika! Muzika, što ne ja razbiram.

Ni „kakaljin”, ni „kamaja”, ma, ništa ne ja razbiram. I „kakaljin” i „kamaja”, za nea se kje naučam. Ni „kakaljin”, ni „kamaja”, ma, ništa ne ja razbiram. I „kakaljin” i „kamaja”, za nea se kje naučam.

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Vlatko Ilievski with Rusinka or Russian Girl for F.Y.R Macedonia in 2011

Vlatko Ilievski - Rusinka