{"id":1182,"date":"2008-05-23T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/23\/eurovision-2nd-semi-final"},"modified":"2008-05-23T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:13:00","slug":"eurovision-2nd-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2nd Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More entertaining than Tuesday night with the added bonus that the UK got to vote for its favourite acts (hence Croatia and Latvia getting through).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the good, the bad and the SSOO bad it&#8217;s good!<\/p>\n<p>First off, I have to say I exercised my right to vote and voted for Turkey. A good traditional rock sounding song. They sung in Turkish but it sounded good. The music style was a but Manic Street Preachers. Quite good.<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/riMSxOc7ZyA]<\/p>\n<p>Something else not traditionally Eurovision was Bulgaria&#8217;s entry. I liked it, but I think it got a little lost in the mix.<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/MLLkumF7EkE]<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania was BAD BAD BAD!!! The guy looked like a cross between <a href=\"http:\/\/larelle.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/postie1.jpg\">Potsy from Happy Days<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lostcityproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/nick2.jpg\">Nick Cave<\/a>! He belted the song out like Meatloaf and a had a mullet that I haven&#8217;t seen since 1988!! Awful awful awful. BE WARNED!<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/NDz92qPVTsI]<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic did a song called &#8220;Have Some Fun&#8221;. Probably the most incorrect song title of the night. I won&#8217;t even tortue you with a video.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia got through to the final with a song sung by a blind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shout.ru\/index_garbage\/shirley_8.jpg\">Shirley Manson<\/a> lookalike called &#8220;Peace Will Come&#8221;. It was sung in English which (I know I shouldn&#8217;t take the &#8220;piss&#8221; out of someone&#8217;s grasp of English, but&#8230;) made the song title sound like &#8220;Piss Will Come&#8221;, which had me in stitches. Tiny things pleasing tiny minds and all that&#8230;<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/rVMFZu39tmY]<\/p>\n<p>At least the song had a political slant and wasn&#8217;t just another boring love song.<\/p>\n<p>Now the &#8220;so bad it&#8217;s good&#8221; category. This belongs to Latvia and Croatia. A haaaarrrrr me maties! Here&#8217;s Latvia&#8217;s entry! Avast!!! Pieces of eight, pieces of eight!!<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/zHLqfkU_0xA]<\/p>\n<p>Croatian entry. 75 cent, you rock!!!!<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/KkHL5tULoWw]<\/p>\n<p>Onwards to the final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More entertaining than Tuesday night with the added bonus that the UK got to vote for its favourite acts (hence Croatia and Latvia getting through). Here&#8217;s a rundown of the good, the bad and the SSOO bad it&#8217;s good! First off, I have to say I exercised my right to vote and voted for Turkey. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=1182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eurovision 2nd Semi-Final&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,201,244,311,337],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-television","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}