Moopyvision 2000-2009: Round 2 - Estonia, Germany & Poland RESULTS

I think Gerli’s problem is that her being a complete sore loser on that Estonian Eurovision documentary from 2002 is a LOT more memorable than her 2007 entry :D
 
Last call for votes girls! Results will start at 3pm after Diddy's ASIAN PERSUASION and I will accept votes up until then.
 
10th: Kreisiraadio - Leto svet (36pts)
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Just look at that photo. Is there anything worse than a mugging middle aged male comedian? Okay, probably famine. But maybe famine would be a little more forgivable if it just tried a bit harder to stop bullshit like this? Basically, what I’m saying here is that you never see UKRAINE lowering themselves to bollocks like this, so perhaps if the Holodomor had hit Estonia, then maybe 75 years later we wouldn’t have had to have this? Yes girls, you read that right - Stalin is CANCELLED!

The last gasp of Estonia’s original Eurolaul ('A Song for Europe') selection, this bombed so badly - getting just 8 points in its semi-final, rounding off a five year run of non-qualifiers for Estonia - that it prompted a complete scrapping of that format and a big rethink at Estonia’s broadcaster, which led to the birth of Eesti Laul (‘A Song for Estonia’), a format more focused on original, authentic reflections of Estonian culture. The payoff of which we’ll see a little later…

2 x 6 (ZenGiraffe, David 5000)
13 x 0 (auretz, Soldi, win_the_game, wurst, Apocalypt Flyer, Broomhelga, Jacques, Ill Advised, Pingu, Tetris-Rock, Kevin, Diddy, dmlaw)
 
I will be nice and say that that middle eight is a thing of real beauty, although it makes it all the worse knowing that they're capable of that and still decided to compose the rest.
 
There is always a little bit of a worry that someone from the BBC might hear about ‘Leto svet‘ and start looking for Jim Davidson’s phone number.
 
Weren‘t they all politicians as well?
 
I mean, like with Samantha Tina, it’s so bad it’s not even funny.
 
I had no idea until now that most of Leto svet was in Serbian (of sorts).
 
9th: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL - Everybody (71pts)
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:D at this 'Gareth Gates on the verge of being nonced by a potato' CD cover

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Commonly regarded alongside Riva - Rock Me, Marie N - I Wanna, and Charlotte Perrelli - Mitt liv as one of the worst Eurovision winners of all time, this one really does bear testament to how much 2001 was an utterly terrible year. Being NICE for once (I have to do this occasionally or my counsellor is threatening to have me referred for sociopathy), I will say that there is some winsome charm in this: the two clearly have some real onstage chemistry in their little exchanges in the verses, and the bridge and middle eight are genuinely lovely. It's definitely a cut above Andy Abraham, but that chorus is still fundamentally very weak sauce. Disco in not quite its lowest form, but really not far off.

As viewers of the seminal BBC documentary ‘Estonia Dreams of Eurovision’ will know, the two later fell out to such a degree over their post-contest direction (Tanel saw his future in rock :DAF:) that the only time they saw each other again after this was in the opening ceremony of the following year's contest in Tallinn for a quick reprise of the chorus. 2XL later joined Moopy as 'Tisch' and 'Iguana'

2 x 8 (Madison, Pingu)
3 x 0 (ButterTart, Queen of the Bay, ZenGiraffe)
 
Ninth seems harsh. Eighties Coming Back is a terrible, terrible song.
 
Official Eurovision Winners 2XL did compete in Eesti Laul a couple more times, re-christened as hip-hop act Soul Militia. Their entries are categorically not worth investigating.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry @Penelope.
 
9th: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL - Everybody (71pts)
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:D at this 'Gareth Gates on the verge of being nonced by a potato' CD cover

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Commonly regarded alongside Riva - Rock Me, Marie N - I Wanna, and Charlotte Perrelli - Mitt liv as one of the worst Eurovision winners of all time, this one really does bear testament to how much 2001 was an utterly terrible year. Being NICE for once (I have to do this occasionally or my counsellor is threatening to have me referred for sociopathy), I will say that there is some winsome charm in this: the two clearly have some real onstage chemistry in their little exchanges in the verses, and the bridge and middle eight are genuinely lovely. It's definitely a cut above Andy Abraham, but that chorus is still fundamentally very weak sauce. Disco in not quite its lowest form, but really not far off.

As viewers of the seminal BBC documentary ‘Estonia Dreams of Eurovision’ will know, the two later fell out to such a degree over their post-contest direction (Tanel saw his future in rock :DAF:) that the only time they saw each other again after this was in the opening ceremony of the following year's contest in Tallinn for a quick reprise of the chorus. 2XL later joined Moopy as 'Tisch' and 'Iguana'

2 x 8 (Madison, Pingu)
3 x 0 (ButterTart, Queen of the Bay, ZenGiraffe)
A baffling winner in any decade.
 
8th: Ruffus - Eighties Coming Back (73pts)
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Get the FUCK OUT OF MY GAY POP CONTEST KEANE!

There's a strong case that Ruffus actually destroyed Estonia as a Eurovision nation. You wouldn't necessarily suspect it, but after their opening debut/relegation in 1994 and 1995, Estonia became one of the powerhouses of the contest from 1996 through 2002, hitting the top ten every year except for 1998 (still getting a creditable left hand side-equivalent 12th place result with Koit Toome in twink form) and managing three years in a row in the top five at the beginning of the 00s - the kind of performance typically associated more with the Swedens and Russias of the contest.

The curse of last year's host came back to bite here, and this presaged five years on the out with semi-finals being introduced the following year. A firm cautionary tale against ever entering piano pub rock into a contest gayer than a prolapsed purse :hitler:

1 x 10 (Madison)
5 x 0 (Penelope, Tisch, Dark Carnival, Kratz, Raining On Me)
 
7th: Suntribe - Let’s Get Loud (83pts)
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PICTURED: the full range of Suntribe’s emotions

Sadly nothing on J.Lo's presidential inauguration-shaking anthem, this likeable but fundamentally incompetent attempt at peppy early 90s power-pop shoots for early morning 'isn't it a lovely day!!!' alarm clock radio, but lands closer to the kind of early morning forced fun alarm clock radio that ends in a campus shooting by lunchtime. The revelation that Laura (later of Verona fame and part of Suntribe here) entered against HERSELF and came as a runner-up that year has been obliterating me for the last 24 hours - imagine the levels of PASS-AGG in that dressing room that must have come out of her constantly planning to try get shot of the rest of them and get the ticket herself! “Sorry girls!”

1 x 12 (Tisch)
1 x 0 (David 5000)
 
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Disney shirts and massively long pearl necklaces, what was the stylist thinking?!

Love the song though. 12 might have been a bit generous, but it made me feel good :D
 
Disney shirts and massively long pearl necklaces, what was the stylist thinking?!

Love the song though. 12 might have been a bit generous, but it made me feel good :D
I’m guessing that wasn’t the only time those girls were given a pearl necklace.
 
6th: Gerli Padar - Partners In Crime (92pts)
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Gerlu here - the sister of Tanel, and in keeping with his rock aspirations, someone who clearly models herself on Pink down to the boots and lesbian barfights - is evil, as is known to all viewers of seminal Moopy documentary 'Estonia Dreams of Eurovision', wherein she reacted to losing Eurolaul to our Swedish sweetheart import Sahlene with mocking, taunting laughter, and jeered the chorus of 'I Believe I Can Fly' to the tune of Runaway over Sahlene's victory credits.

With a face like a stung wasp and the attitude to boot, the India Ferrah of Eurovision took the long way around and won Estonia's answer to Strictly to finally get herself into the contest, where she was thankfully hated by Europe just as much as Estonia had done the first time around, thereby consigning her to a fate worse than death - an even less successful career than Sahlene

2 x 10 (ZenGiraffe, Raining On Me)
3 x 0 (Madison, Suomi, VoR)
 
5th: Neiokõsõ - Tii (124pts)
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The Miss Congeniality of the round here. I once saw a text message that read 'I am sorry, I could not turn up to work today due to being incapacitated by the substance “drugs”' and I feel like this is the full embodiment of the night before that impulse - a Proto-Indo-European Dolly Style, dressed in the latest burlap fashions of the time, downing a glass of hallucinogenics and yelling in public before sewing your mouth shut and sacrificing you on a funeral pyre to the Norse god VøRnir.

Alas, it barely missed out on qualifying, finishing 11th under the initial single-semi format which saw more than double the number of competitors chasing after ten qualifying slots - though probably a little surplus to requirements in the same year as Ruslana.

1 x 12 (wurst)
1 x 0 (Ag)
 
Are there any sexy Instagram updates that can save me from the ignominy of triple-posting write-ups to no response
 
Sorry to leave you hanging. I think we’re all just waiting to see which of the three big contenders have been paid the most dirt by ZenGiraffe.
 

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