Azerbaijan s Eurovision entry Efendi
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We might not be able to travel round Europe just yet, but thankfully the world’s most bonkers music competition is back, bringing with it the idiosyncratic tastes of our close neighbours. Here are some of the most striking entrants competing in tomorrow night’s Eurovision grand final - including the UK’s James Newman.
Best and worst Eurovision 2021 songs
Lithuania
“Let s discoteque right at my home/It is okay to dance alone.” Well, talk about the song of the pandemic. But when you were dancing at home, you probably weren’t wearing a Minions-yellow pantsuit, nor wiggling your fingers behind your head like a flirty chicken. Nevertheless, The Roop’s energetic Discoteque is both weird and weirdly irresistible.
Norway s TIX (Andreas Haukeland) performs during the Eurovision Song Contest dress rehearsal in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Image: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
This Saturday, May 22, on or around 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, you may sense a diffuse but palpable shift in the global marketplace of finite resources. At that time, vast stockpiles of sequins, lasers, dry ice and fireworks scattered around the world will dry up spontaneously only to reappear all at once,
en masse, on a stage in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Yep: It s Eurovision time.
The Eurovision Song Contest pits 26 European nations and sometimes Australia (long story) against one another in a three-hour display of pure, exuberant, insanely catchy and/or just plainly insane songs, painstakingly engineered by teams of professionals to worm their way into the ears and hearts of an audience numbering in the hundreds of millions.
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Norway s TIX (Andreas Haukeland) performs during the Eurovision Song Contest dress rehearsal in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
This Saturday, May 22, on or around 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, you may sense a diffuse but palpable shift in the global marketplace of finite resources. At that time, vast stockpiles of sequins, lasers, dry ice and fireworks scattered around the world will dry up spontaneously only to reappear all at once,
en masse, on a stage in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Yep: It s Eurovision time.
The Eurovision Song Contest pits 26 European nations and sometimes Australia (long story) against one another in a three-hour display of pure, exuberant, insanely catchy and/or just plainly insane songs, painstakingly engineered by teams of professionals to worm their way into the ears and hearts of an audience numb
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