May 14th was the best day for Britain! - for us to cringe and bring up how crap we do in competition as it was time for Eurovision! This year the United Kingdom were sending ex-chart topping boyband "Blue" with their song "I Can", with a bye already to the final I decided to tune into the second semi final 2 days before to watch our rivals and music's answer to Marmite - Jedward representing Ireland, that's right JEDWARD!
Jedward took the stage with their song "Lipsitck" and the crowd loved them, Europe agreed and sent them into the Grand Final competing against Blue, the fight between UK vs Ireland was on!
I tuned in on the Saurday and watched the entire programme, the openeing I believed was fantastic as the presenter and last year's victor - Lena of Germany sang a jaunted up version of last years winning song "Saterlite". Jedward took to the stage sixth and the rest of country braced themselves for what the outcome with be, surprisingly they were better than their semi-final performance, although their dancing is out of time, but to be fair most of the dancers in all the countries were. Blue took to the stage 14th and did themsleves and us proud, for once I was not embrassed by our entry and thought we were going to be bottom of the leaderboard.
The competition was hard as so many countires stepped up their game and any country could've taken the title, but once the voting started, it got all the more exciting. After 4 countries Britiain were joint top with 30 points after a strong start with 10 points and then a whopping 12 points from Bulgaria, unfortunately they were our only times in the top three of the voting countries and slowly faded off pace, just as Jedward began to pick up steam and became a force as they recieved back-to-back 12 points from Britain and Denmark and raced up to 4th.
At the halfway stage Sweden had the lead with Denmark and Ukraine in close contention, but that all changed, Italy and Azerbijian slowly racked up the points and took the top spots, with Azerbijian pulling away, this was one of the cloest votings in years. But after all the points were totaled up, Azerbijian, one of the favourites emerged victorious with 221 points, then I had a thought - Azerbijian aren't even Europe! but oh well all-in-all it was a good night, with the only downside being Ireland beating the United Kingdom was we took 11th place and Jedward came 8th - a great year and looking forward to it all over again in Azerbijian (in whatever city they use to host things events)
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