AMBUSH REWATCH: Riga 2003 (Sat 23 Oct, 20:00 BST)

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

This is such a lovely and innocent song. I don’t know why I don’t feel any kind of cynicism towards it because I normally would dislike this type of entry.

 

[Penelope]

69 Iceland

!!!!

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Brilliant opener

 

[Suomi]

Better than Madonna’s Open Your Heart

100 Iceland

 

[Kratz]

95 - Iceland

 

[Madíson]

!!!!

????

 

[Penelope]

Love Emma Bunton and HER on the backing vocals here

 

[Kratz]

This is jollier than I recall

 

[Suomi]

This Austrian song isn’t that bad

Who can honestly say they’ve never felt like this

 

[Madíson]

69 Iceland
19 Austria

 

[Penelope]

93 Iceland
14 Austria

 

[Kratz]

How things have changed for ‘never discounted’ Ireland.

 

[Kratz]

Iceland - 95
Austria - 30

 

[Penelope]

Oh Mickey Joe has made QUITE the living out of this since, despite it being a complete and utter rip

 

[Suomi]

100 Iceland
70 Austria

 

[Kratz]

Didn’t the UK give this 12?

 

[D5K]

Oh Mickey Joe has made QUITE the living out of this since, despite it being a complete and utter rip

You mean he's been heard of again?!

 

[GinAg (39)]

 

[Penelope]

He's kept it together SURPRISINGLY well

 

[Penelope]

100 Iceland
70 Austria

These scores already

 

[Madíson]

Don't we have an HQ version of this contest now (sans Wogan)?

 

[Penelope]

You mean he's been heard of again?!

He performs this at closing every Friday at a cross-border pub!

 

[Kratz]

What a wet key change.

 

[Penelope]

Don't we have an HQ version of this contest now (sans Wogan)?

Astonishingly it's been passed over by Eurovision Again every time

 

[Penelope]

93 Iceland
14 Austria
65 Ireland

 

[Penelope]

God this year really starts out STRONG and DOESN'T LET UP

 

[Kratz]

Iceland - 95
Austria - 30
Ireland - 55

 

[Suomi]

100 Iceland
70 Austria
00 Ireland our deliveroo order was wrong and this was the soundtrack

 

[Madíson]

Astonishingly it's been passed over by Eurovision Again every time

May 2020.

 

[D5K]

God this year really starts out STRONG and DOESN'T LET UP

I assumed they'd done it already!

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

That song was incredibly damp

 

[Penelope]

May 2020.

I thought that was just US

 

[D5K]

This was revamped from a dull pre-contest version wasn't it?

 

[Kratz]

The contest mix of this really saved it from being an also ran - the most extraordinary glow-up

 

[Penelope]

There really would never be a harder faced woman until Pastora Soler (although Mrs Lordi does run it close)

 

[Suomi]

The amount of arguing I did with gays over who did it first Sertab or Rachel Stevens

 

[Kratz]

Iceland - 95
Austria - 30
Ireland - 55
Turkey - 85

 

[Penelope]

93 Iceland
14 Austria
65 Ireland
96 Turkey

JAWDROPPING

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

Some of these background VOCALS are the definition of perilous.

 

[Madíson]

69 Iceland
19 Austria
29 Ireland
76 Turkey