In the official video for her Eurovision entry “The Social Network Oh Oh Uh Oh Oh,” Valentina Monetta gets drawn into the lusty world of online dating. As she says in the song, “Do you wanna be more than just a friend/ Do you wanna play cyber sex again?” Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers [...]
Holland’s Joan Franka has released her official preview video of “You and Me,” and she’s sticking with her guns. And yes, we are referring to to the guns in her ongoing game of “cowboys and Indians.” Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
SVT, Sweden’s state broadcaster, has revealed that it will alter Loreen’s performance in Baku significantly due to the differing rules between Melodifestivalen and Eurovision. At Melodifestivalen, artists can pre-record back-up vocals. That allowed Loreen to take centre stage in Stockholm and do all the singing herself. In Baku, she will rely on three veteran back-up [...]
Officials behind Eurovision in Concert—the biggest pre-Eurovision event on the continent—have confirmed that Cyprus’ Ivi Adamou has withdrawn from the concert just two weeks ahead of show time. Although they did not elaborate on the reasons why, an investigation by WiwiBloggs.Com suggests that financial hardship led to the withdrawal. Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers [...]
Elena Ionescu is the perma-tanned star of Romania’s Mandinga. Tulisa Contostavlos was the star of British hip-hop group N-Dubz. But is it possible that these two starlets were separated at birth? Wiwi feels like we’ll soon hear Romanian on British X-Factor, and rap in the middle of a Mandinga song in Baku! Take a look at these [...]
What do a woman taking a pregnancy test, a homeless man, and a struggling artist have in common? They each appear in Sofi Marinova’s official Eurovision 2012 video. The rather bizarre video is meant to convey the power of love, and the trauma of being separated from those important to us. As the lyrics tell [...]
Last year Hungary’s Compact Disco—one of Eastern Europe’s most successful electronica bands—earned an MTV Europe Music Award for Best Hungarian Act. In recent days they’ve flexed their mainstream muscle by releasing seven re-mixes of their Eurovision entry “Sound of Our Hearts.” The Wiwi Jury previously skewered the group’s entry, suggesting it was so dull that [...]
It looks like a case of “the I’s have it.” Over the past few weeks Italy’s Nina Zilli and Iceland’s Gréta Salóme & Jónsi have really won over the bookies. After releasing glossy preview videos, they’ve watched their odds of winning ESC 2012 narrow significantly. Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe [...]
The Wiwi Jury—our international panel of music un-professionals—has now completed half of our reviews for ESC 2012. As such, it’s time to review the standings, and to reflect on all the music—and short skirts—we have encountered thus far. Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell [...]
Jedward—the world’s most famous set of identical singing twins—know how to manage publicity. In the run-up to Eurovision last year they gave countless interviews, appeared on numerous television shows, and posed nearly naked in a gay magazine. After Eurovision they went on to launch their own TV show, performed for U.S. president Barack Obama, appeared [...]
Rambo Amadeus, who describes himself as “one of the most prominent cult figures on the ex-Yugoslav music scene,” has a knack for provocation. Amadeus—real name Antonije Pusic—made a name for himself serving up witty lyrics and crude satire. He has, at times, mocked everything from local politics to ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia. As part of [...]
The team at WiwiBloggs.Com loves a hot couple: it’s a matter of double our pleasure, double our fun! So you know we were excited to learn that Anggun, our favorite contestant of Asian descent at ESC 2012, has teamed up with Danish hottie and 2009 Eurovision contestant Niels Brinck to release a special duet of [...]
The team at WiwiBloggs.Com love when one song reminds us of another—and the latest example shows that folk and rock can, in fact, overlap. Gloria—one of Wiwi’s more observant readers—recently noticed similarities in Zeljko Joksimovic’s 2012 Eurovision song “Nije ljubav stvar” (Love Is Not a Thing) and A Friend in London’s 2011 Eurovision song “New Tomorrow.” The [...]
This morning the Wiwi Jury—our in-house panel of music unprofessionals—gathered in Wiwi’s dreary basement to review Romania’s cheery Eurovision entry “Zaleilah.” Some of us got up and danced. But one of our critics had to leave the room to find some painkillers. Uh, oh. Scroll down to read the reviews that tore the Wiwi Jury [...]
Read the lyrics and English translation of Mandinga’s “Zaleilah.” Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
The Wiwi Jury—our international panel of music un-professionals—calls London home. That made us extra keen to review Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Love Will Set You Free.” But we don’t play favorites on WiwiBloggs.Com, so we sharpened our claws, pulled out our pens, and gave The Hump the same treatment as everyone else. Here’s what we had to [...]
On March 15, Albania’s Rona Nishliu howled her way to the top of the Wiwi Jury’s unofficial Eurovision rankings. Sweden’s Loreen subsequently knocked her down to #2, but Rona definitely enjoyed her moment in the sun. And why wouldn’t she? It inspired the Generic Logo Company—which we recently discovered online—to give Rona her very own [...]
In recent days, fans of Zeljko Joksimovic have inundated Wiwi’s comments pages with messages of support for Zeljko’s ESC 2012 entry “Nije ljubav stvar” (Love is not a thing). He’s also on the bookies’ list of potential winners, and currently in a tight-race with Loreen to win our annual polls to determine who will win the final and the second semi-final. That encouraged Wiwi [...]
If any of you readers have children in the room, please ask them to look away from the screen now. That’s because the Wiwi Jury is about to review Austria’s ESC 2012 entry “Woki mit deim Popo.” Woki means something like “shake” and “deim Popo” refers to “your ass.” Shame on Austria for giving Eurovision [...]
In the two weeks since Wiwi last reported on Betfair’s betting market for the second semi-final at ESC 2012, the bookies’ five favorites—led by Sweden’s Loreen (“Euphoria”) and Serbia’s Zeljko Joksimovic (“Nije ljubav stvar”)—have held steady at the top. But there has been some reshuffling in the lower positions. Bulgaria’s Sofi Marinova (“Love Unlimited”) has [...]