Semi 1 - Estonia

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Estonia

Leto Svet
Kreisiraadio

Marianne:

I was in Tallinn to see Eurolaul where this piece of crap was chosen, and it was a huge pre contest fave. Estonians were sulking over the fact that Eurovision has become an event where neighbours are voting each other, and which is ruled by joke entries and half-naked dancing girls. So what was their answer? They chose to send a joke entry featuring half naked dancing girls, with part of lyrics in Finnish to attact neighbourly votes.

Sorry, but this tired joke just does not work for me. Neither does the song. Unfortunately I still can see plenty of my fellow Finns falling for the trap. Luckily we'll be just about the only ones though.

Cal:
I really cannot stand and hear the whole song not even once!!
1/10 for the song
20% to qualify

Frank:
Hi de hi, hi de ho, these ugly men may steal the show!

Harrow:
Not bad for a joke entry, the music is good at least. 5/10

Alexander-NL:

Every year there’s this song that scares me. You know, that song you can’t stand, but there’s this feel about it that could get so many people up looking for their phones. Weirdly enough, out of all the entries that are intended to be funny, this is the only one that comes close to bringing a smile to my face because of the laughing man. But that says more about the others really. I’m not counting on this to make the final, but I’m fearing they could surprise us.

2/10 (41^st)

Stefan:
Universal nonsense has a history of doing well in the contest. So this catchy tune may shock everyone by qualifying, despite the nasty guys performing it - it's so ridiculous, there's no need to understand it. Be afraid. 2/10.

Boog:
Those of you who remember ‘The Banana Bunch’ will remember this tune fondly. Very ‘lad’ish stag night stuff with the guys mucking around having sunk a skinful of beer. Backing girls straight out of a car magazine and there you have it, the straight middle age male vote sewn up. As we all know, this doesn’t constitute much of the audience, and those that are forced to sit in and watch the bl**dy thing by their girlfriends and wives (possibly both if they’re French *wink wink*) aren’t going to be so uncool as to actually pick up a phone and vote, but , if in a drunken haze they decide to do so for a laugh ( oh what a titter!), this is what they’ll go for. Estonia once had a seriously good-looking decathlete.
Personal score out of ten (2) and Winnschans (0%)

Tore:
It’s the first novelty/joke entry in the semi final. Two cousins of Olsen Bros. dance a little and make funny faces to this plain and straight forward eurotrash entry. Surrounded by dancing bikini girls one wonder if this most of all is a tribute to the late Benny Hill. Estonia has failed to reach the final ever since the semi final was introduced. I’m afraid we won’t see them this year either. Chances of qualifying: 20%

Ade:
The only thing worse than a joke entry (apart from colonic irrigation and chatty hairdressers) is an unfunny joke entry. Is this a supposed two fingers held up to Eurovision or a desperate attempt to jump on a soon departing bandwagon? It's tired, like a wedding guest that hangs around for the christening. Possibly the worst on offer this year. 0/10

Lobo:
Listened about 30 sec. Sounded like hell, actually.

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