Moopyvision 2010-2019 Round 9: Australia, Cyprus & Lithuania (1 Viewer)

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Apologies for the delay. Let's have a slightly shorter round this week with Eurovision's BRIGHT NEW STARS, plus a revitalised Mediterranean nation sniffing around for their first win and - at last - the Sweden of the Baltics. :disco:

Please submit your votes in the indicated scoring formats by no later than 12.00 noon on Sunday 1st March.

Australia
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Do Australia even go to this school? Who knows? Who cares! In the five years since they set Geography-obsessed gay nerds into a tutting frenzy, Australia have played Eurovision with a real competitive spirit. The result? An admirable record of 100% qualification and only one dip below the top ten threshold so far.











2015: Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again
2016: Dami Im - Sound of Silence
2017: Isaiah - Don't Come Easy
2018: Jessica Mauboy - We Got Love
2019: Kate Miller Heidke - Zero Gravity

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Spotify playlist (2015 missing)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4g7ynUqdcgWWpNWgjyoOsx?si=Tk6OCy60RHuLJd2aRY6Ejw
 
Cyprus
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For much of their Eurovision lifespan, Cyprus have been doomed to play the poorer cousin to Greece. However, somewhere around this decade they finally developed a real competitive spirit. There aren't many MAJOR hits here, aside from the obvious, but there's a fairly consistent sense of a country that's genuinely engaged, yet admirably free from obvious desperation.

No 2014 here, they were one of several countries to sit that year out after the financial crash hit them hard.



















2010: John Lilygreen & The Islanders - Life Looks Better in Spring
2011: Christos Mylordos - San Aggelos S'agapisa
2012: Ivi Adamou - La La Love
2013: Despina Olympiou - An me thimasai
2015: Giannis Karagiannis - One Thing I Should Have Done
2016: Minus One - Alter Ego
2017: Hovig - Gravity
2018: Eleni Foureira - Fuego
2019: Tamta - Replay

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Spotify link (missing 2010-2011)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1JTPau0cMuhw0i9GvALqWO?si=qXfTmULsRXKK-qvOUTaJyw
 
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Lithuania
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The only Baltic nation still waiting on their first victory, ironically Lithuania's greatest Eurovision success remains 'We Are The Winners' which finished 6th in 2006. They had a mixed decade in the 10s, qualifying slightly more often than not, but only cracking the top ten again once.





















2010: InCulto - Eastern European Funk
2011: Evelina Sašenko - C'est ma vie
2012: Donny Montell - Love is Blind
2013: Andrius Pojavis - Something
2014: Vilija - Attention
2015: Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila - This Time
2016: Donny Montell - Ive Been Waiting For This Night
2017: Fusedmarc - Rain of Revolution
2018: Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We're Old
2019: Jurij Veklenko - Run With The Lions

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Spotify playlist (missing 2012, 2014)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7IfNeceDkyC6X4JI4IbaO7?si=VIjlJlliT_-dZZVcF7Okpg
 
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There are five songs from the Lithuanian set that I’d willingly listen to out of choice - can anyone beat that? :tongueout:
 
I don't even need to play the Australia songs to rank them, good. However, I don't think I remember a single entry from Lithuania, great. :zombie:
 
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The saddest thing about all of this is that I couldn't even give Rain of Revolution my NUL POINTS. I'd erased an even greater Lithuanian atrocity from my mind until VoR just reminded me of it.
 
Good god Lithuania really is the WORST NATION OF ALL TIME

And I never noticed how TATTY the Union Jack in the Oz flag is :gross:
 
IKR. And what’s with the randomly plonked STARS? Or is it the mystic CONSTELLATION OF IM? :disco:
 
Actually there is ONE Lithuanian entry which I genuinely like but I’m not saying which one :)
 
Actually, didn’t the Rain Of Revolution quite literally rain all over Get Frighten’s chances of causing a Eurovision revolution by randomly getting picked as Lithuania’s entry that year? :D

I seem to recall internet gays (ie myself) WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVING Get Frighten at Eurovision could have actually happened at one point :(
 
On the FLAG front, I don’t think I would have recognised that as the Lithuanian flag. It brings to mind that horrifying South African mess except much more tidy and without all the colours and in fact completely different :tongueout:
 
@sewerynsven As someone living across the border from Lithuania, do their entries sound better to you than they do to us, or are they universally regarded as a load of old bollocks?
 
My bottom Cyprus and bottom Lithuania are two of my least favourite entries EVER - one of them actually makes me feel physically SICK! (Because of motion sickness, I have always suffered terribly. Even during Statements I wish she would have stayed in one place with a solitary flag)
 
Lithuania were interesting. I do wonder if they'd be better recieved here with less accent.
 
Actually, didn’t the Rain Of Revolution quite literally rain all over Get Frighten’s chances of causing a Eurovision revolution by randomly getting picked as Lithuania’s entry that year? :D

I seem to recall internet gays (ie myself) WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVING Get Frighten at Eurovision could have actually happened at one point :(
Nah, that year was all about Greta Zazza.
 
As far as Australia goes, I'm reminded of a quote by the legendary critic Kala B. Liken: "Anyone with a penis has no business making music."
While it's not a mantra I'd normally hang my hat on, it very much applies as far as the Australian entries are concerned.
 
Australia really have been such a solid addition to the contest.
 
I assume that the seven hour results extravaganza on Sunday will be as spectacular as ever.
 
I’ve only just noticed that Donny Montell I mean what self-respecting Lithuanian is called DONNY MONTELL had the audacity to represent Lithuania TWICE!
 
Did CYP and AUS today but I need extra energy to do Lithuania, I'll try tomorrow because seriously, it's too much :square:
 
Donny Montell really WAS all there was worth writing home about for Lithuania this decade. I'd have traded YOURS for a blast of BLESSÈD LOLITA during that SHOWER :zombie:
 

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