#Eurovision Song Contest 2015

[celestiallenchantress]

Me, in 2015 watching Eurovision and listening Petra sings "Love, Love, Peace, Peace"

Me, in 2024 watching Eurovision and listening Petra sings "We Just Love Eurovision Too Much"

[d-dormant]

if you fell in love with this lady tonight i actually need you to start streaming the hardkiss right NOW

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #905:

After winning Benidorm Fest, Melody will represent Spain at Eurovision this year. Her song "Esa Diva" earned 49% of the votes from the Spanish public.

Melody wrote her song with Peter Boström and Thomas G:Son (responsible for both of Loreen's entries in 2012 and 2023), Joy Deb (who wrote Måns Zelmerlöw's winning entry in 2015), Juan Sueiro, and Alberto Lorite.

[Source]

"Melody wins 'Benidorm Fest' and will sing for Spain in Basel," Eurovision.tv.

[aijamisespava]

Something Really Cool Happened!

Normally on my Eurovision blog, I don't really talk about the other songs released by competing artists unless they're a returning artist and their previous song holds relevance, or it's an artist I've heard of or am getting a first impression of. Tonight, I make an exception.

If you know (or don't), let me refresh some memories. My favorite Latvian entries were "Aijā" by Sudden Lights from last year and "Love Injected" by Aminata from 2015. Okay. Now. What if they did a song together? Because that's what happened.

It's called "Ataust rīts" and it's really good! Feel free to give it a listen!

[dianalandia]

look it's filomena cautela

and eurovision's professional guest måns zelmerlöw

[wardrobeoftime]

Hello! Thank you for your work on the eurovision costumes!! I checked the tag for ESC 2015 but couldnt find if you did it, but would you be able to do Nina Sublatti's Warrior (Georgia 2015) live performance costume, as well as La Zarra's Évidemment (France 2023) music video costume? I saw her live performance gif but not the music video.

Thank you! ♥

I'm surprised myself that I haven't done Warrior so far. Could have sworn I did but maybe I had only planed to do it and never went through with it.

I have indeed not done Zarra's music video so far.

I will add both to my list.

[lunlumo]

Round 1: 2nd bracket, battle 3. Lots of red, lots of love, lots of countries that struggle in eurovision

Love Injected - Aminata

2015 was great

anyway. Latvia's best result since...2005 oh dear. 4th best result in the entirety of Latvian participation...

I love this with my whole being but the lyrics man, don't look them up

the day, the night split together side, ooh

You care, you animate (not anime)

I'm safe into your hands

that pedestal dress was a great choice for the stage design, the whole construction is very round so it looks very nice

Llámame - WRS

this was 18th wh- shut. I'm God here and I'm correcting the injustice that was placing them dead 2nd in the final order combined with sun killing the visuals so we got hol- -ebe

HOLA MI BEBEBE intensifies (did the earworm get to you? did it?)

I love the lyrics man, all of them. we're so in loveeee 💖💗💘

all they've got were jumpsuits (with deeper cuts for the final obviously), each other and a 💫 dream 💫

"thank you Europe keep fighting for your LOVE AND FREEDOM" 🥺😭😭

bebebe deserved so much better...

[moonmoonthecrabking]

i hope that with loreen's second victory that eurovision doesn't become, for lack of a better word, swedified for the next 3 years. eurovision needs to stay fun and camp, and i don't know if it really did that for a while after 2012.

[weaversweek]

"Falling" and "Not my soul"

Two more entries into the #FearOfMu21c project, crowdsourcing the greatest singles of the 21st century. Here’s an index post.

Fallin' - Alicia Keys

"Fallin'" landed in the early days of autumn 2001, when we were all dazed and punchdrunk from the news. It's a straightforward relationship song, the love and the distance, the closeness and the moments when you just can't stand them.

There's gospel, there's a slow-building crescendo, there's a subtle sample from James Brown somewhere in the mix. And it's a great showcase for Alicia's skills - as pianist, singer, songwriter, producer. "The gospel fervour of lovesick righteousness", according to Entertainment Weakly. "Deep moments that come up and grab you", wrote the NME.

The album "Songs in A Minor" is almost flawless, follow-up "The Diary of Alicia Keys" might be even better. Alicia's continued to record and make great music; "Girl on fire" and "Underdog" exemplify her work in the subsequent decades.

Not my soul - Destiny Chukenyere

"Being in English, this song could fit straight onto a UK radio playlist. Being utterly brilliant, it won't."

Inspired by Beyoncé and Aretha Franklin, Destiny came up through Malta's many stage schools and young theatrical scene. With Matt Mercieca and Elton Zarb, she wrote a Motown throwback of extreme quality.

That voice! That quality! That presence! The song is simple enough to cut across language barriers - "they can take away good stuff, but they won't change me". Destiny owns the song every time she sings it. Inevitably, the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2015.

Destiny didn't rest on her laurels; between finishing her school exams, Destiny made the semi-finals of ITV's Got Talent, and appeared in the Senior Eurovision Song Contest in 2021; "Je me casse" was slightly stitched up by the producers.

After Eurovision '21, Destiny stepped back from showbiz to concentrate on her studies, which is perfectly understandable. We hope there is more to come from this talented young lady.

[babolat85]

Molly Sterling - Playing With Numbers (Ireland) - LIVE at Eurovision 201...

I've been salty about this not making the final since 2015

[white-eyed-girl]

Between Loreen, Pasha, Marco and Monika this ESC year has shaped up to be a pretty consistent revival of the 2012-2015 period

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #521:

Monika Linkytė got the chance to go to Eurovision twice. The first time, she performed with Vaidas Baumila in 2015 with the song "This Time." Then, in 2023, she competed as a solo artist with the song "Stay."

In 2015 she placed 18th overall, and in 2023, she placed 11th in the Grand Final.

[Sources]

Participants of Liverpool 2023: Monika Linkytė, Eurovision.tv.

Lithuania, Eurovision.tv.

[robascoltayoutube]

Måns Zelmerlöw - "Heroes" [2015]

[aijamisespava]

2015 Field Trip!

Well, two weeks ago, I came home from school for my winter break, which gives me time to rank a few years in Junior Eurovision so I can go back to school with more Eurovision experience and have some fun during my break (because I work a lot).

Today, I looked at Junior Eurovision's 2015 event. Malta would win with Destiny Chukunyere and the song "Not My Soul." The name might sound a little familiar to some Eurovision fans as she would go on to win Semi-Final 1 and then finish 7th in the 2021 Eurovision Grand Final with "Je Me Casse" for Malta.

Upon ranking, my winner was Australia's "My Girls" by Bella Paige, which finished 8th in the contest.

[dontmakemewake]

“sing me something beautiful,

just make it stop”

- “a monster like me”, mørland & debrah scarlett

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

ABBA - Waterloo 1974

"Waterloo" is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA, with music composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics written by Stikkan Anderson. It is first single of the group's second studio album of the same name, and their first under the Atlantic label in the US. This was also the first single to be credited to the group performing under the name ABBA. The title and lyrics reference the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, and use it as a metaphor for a romantic relationship.

In 1974, "Waterloo" represented Sweden in the 19th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton, winning the contest and beginning ABBA's path to worldwide fame. The song differed from the standard "dramatic ballad" tradition at the contest by its flavour and rhythm, as well as by its performance. ABBA gave the audience something that had rarely been seen before in Eurovision: flashy costumes (including silver platform boots), a catchy uptempo song and simple choreography. It was the first winning entry in a language other than that of their home country; prior to 1973, all Eurovision singers had been required to sing in their country's native tongue, a restriction that was lifted briefly for the contests between 1973 and 1976 (thus allowing "Waterloo" to be sung in English), then reinstated before ultimately being removed again in 1999. Watch the performance in Swedish here. Sveriges Radio released a promo video for "Waterloo" that was directed by film director Lasse Hallström, whose first notable English-language film success was What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993. ABBA recorded the German and French versions of "Waterloo" in March and April 1974; the French version was adapted by Alain Boublil, who would later go on to co-write the 1980 musical Les Misérables.

The song shot to number 1 in the UK and stayed there for two weeks, becoming the first of the band's nine UK number 1's, and the 16th biggest selling single of the year in the UK. It also topped the charts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway, and Switzerland, while reaching the Top 3 in Austria, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. Unlike other Eurovision-winning tunes, the song's appeal transcended Europe: "Waterloo" also topped the charts in South Africa, and reached the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, and the US (peaking at number 6, their third-highest-charting US hit after number 1 "Dancing Queen" and number 3 "Take a Chance on Me"). In 2005, at Eurovision fiftieth anniversary competition Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, "Waterloo" was chosen as the best song in the contest's history.

"Waterloo" is featured in the encore of the musical Mamma Mia!. The song does not have a context or a meaning. It is just performed as a musical number in which members of the audience are encouraged to get up off their seats and sing, dance and clap along. The song is performed by the cast over the closing credits of the film Mamma Mia!, but is not featured on the official soundtrack. It is also performed as part of the story in the sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, by Hugh Skinner and Lily James.

The Australian film Muriel's Wedding (1994), features "Waterloo" in a pivotal scene in which lead Toni Collette bonds with the character played by Rachel Griffiths. The film's soundtrack, featuring five ABBA tracks, is widely regarded as having helped to fuel the revival of popular interest in ABBA's music in the mid-1990s. "Waterloo" features prominently in the 2015 science-fiction film The Martian. The song plays as the film's lead, played by Matt Damon, works to ready his launch vehicle for a last-chance escape from Mars. In "Mother Simpson", the eighth episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns plays "Ride of the Valkyries" from a tank about to storm the Simpson home, but the song is cut-off and "Waterloo" is played, to which Smithers apologizes, advising he "must have accidentally taped over that".

"Waterloo" received a total of 89% yes votes!

(the video is posted by ABBA's own account, not Eurovision's = safe to watch)