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[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010s: 55 - 51

55. fusedmarc - “Rain of revolution” Lithuania 2017

[2017 Review here]

Who else? My love for Fusedmarc has become a BorisBubbles.tumblr calling card and come on, there’s no way I wouldn’t drag them this high. Two years later and I still cackle thoughout this song with the exact same vigor as I did two years back. 🤭 Now, I do understand that “Rain of revolution” is one of the worst 10 songs in this decade and... well, yeah, (yeah, yeahyeah NRG yeah yeah yeeeeaaah) that’s the entire point. If we lived in the universe where ESC entries can be compared to motion pictures, in which “Waterloo” is Citizen Kane and “A matter of time” is fucking Titanic, then “Rain of revolution” is The Room, for Viktorija and Denis posses the exact same endearing insanity, inscrutability and genius as Tommy Wiseau.  And honestly, this song should be shown in movie theatres because it turned inteptitude into an artform. Reminder that fusedmarc were the only 2017 act to refuse PBC:UA’s offer for stand-in rehearsals because they were afraid Ukraine would fail at getting their ~vision across~ 😂😍

Reminder that this resulted in technical errors DURING THEIR LIVE PERFORMANCE. 😍

Reminder that they song is punctuated by endless YEAH YEAH YEAHs 😍

Reminder that they only won Eurovizijos Atranka because a diehard vegan facebook group found out that fusedmarc were *also* vegan and urged their lithuanian members to vote for them, allowing them to beat Aiste 😍

Reminder that Victorija styles herself after Little My from the Moomins 😍

Reminder that her diction is equivalent or worse  to the English spoken in the Nekci Menij show. 😍

Reminder that Viktorija’s nail game is more on fleek than yours.😍

Remember that LIFE LIKE ROLLERCOASTEN, SPEENING MI ORAWND 😍

It’s all about MICKIN a start and let their light shine FRUUU U. So DANCE to the RIVEM of ur SOLE, chant ‘LIETUVA’ like that random woman does at the start of the performance (IS THIS THE SAME LITHUANIAN FRUMP who went all out during Belarus, because if so I may have found a soul sibling), end the reign of RevoLucian and look for the reason why hamster on the road. Life is like a rollercoaster and live it to the fullest.

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54. Tom Dice - “Me and my guitar” Belgium 2010

I’ll be honest: As a Belgian, Tom Dice has a lot of emotional value for me. The year was 2010: Belgium hadn’t qualified for a final for six straight contests, sending failure after failure. Neither VRT had, until that point, shown any idea behind what they were doing, consistently picking the wrong songs during the national selections. RTBF meanwhile, didn’t even try, sending novelty acts they knew would never qualify. So, imagine being Belgian and seeing Tom get announced, fedora perched askew on his head, with a tepid guitar ballad and you’re like “oh MORE of the same, well bye 😬", except SURPRISE Tom is naturally charismatic and has a great voice and turns his by all standards generic song into an experience. 

It’s the Todevska principle: Tom OUTSOLD. Is he the best entrant? No. Like many ESC alumni he entered the contest with his least good song. Is he the most exciting entrant? Far from it. 

However isn’t it fair to state that we, Eurovision fans from Europe, have always had at least one dark age in our history with the contest? Periods where our supposed “best” wasn’t good enough? Periods where we struggled being proud of whom we were and where we came from. For someone to come out of nowhere and put you country back on the map after years of adversity, be it an ABBA, or a Bobbysocks! or a Tamara Todevksa, that makes for a magical rebirthing experience. Tom Dice is Belgium’s and I am #Proud of it. 

oh and also the live owns dwi. 🤭

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53. Aram MP3 - “Not alone” Armenia 2014

WOD EEF EETS ONLE WAN KEES!

Long before ASMR became a popular thing, Armenia send an entry that is only enjoyable if the listeners plugs in their best airphones, clears their heads and lets the music sweep over them.

And I mean, “Not alone” may be a mere Build-Up-To-An-Epic-Climax Ballad, but dear gods is it effective. You see, “Not alone” starts off quiet and solemn, a gentle piano tapping, punctuated with small drums... and then the orchestra comes in and builds and builds and builds until

at long last

WOD EEF EETS ONLE WAN KEES

DAT TERNS AL SIEDS INTO TRIZZ

DE STRONGEIST VIND INTO BRIZZ

OHPEN ALL DORS WIDNO KEEZ

and fuck, take my lifetime supply of hairpieces because that shit is awesome? The only real downside Aram has for me is that he requires a lot of set up: you really NEED to be in The Proper Mood to enjoy “Not alone” in its fullest glory. But when you are willing to take that plunge and be swept away by its rawness, you’re in for three minutes of catharsis. PS: Aram performing it drunk at the finale 😍 

being awesome AND being incompetent in two different performances, what a kraljic <3

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52. Ott Lepland - “Kuula” Estonia 2012

There are two reasons why “Kuula” ranks this high and neither is Estonia bias :o

The first is, obviously, the context. I’ve spoken widely about how terrible Baku2012 sounded as a whole, and how disappointment everything was. Well, “Kuula” was not only acoustically sound, it is actually the ONLY song that I was pleasantly surprised me. I had no opinion whatsoever going into Baku and he roses to my #3 of the year.

Which brings me to the second reason why “Kuula” ranks this highly. It is just... really fucking good, lol?

With powerballads such as these it’s REALLY important to suck the listener/viewer in and the combination of Ott’s great voice, adorable personality, the magical language that is Estonian (which also, conveniently, allows me forget “Kuula” has Deep Meaning and Touching Lyrics 🤗), and a great organic build up captivate me immensely. Even though songs like “Kuula” are far from what I normally love, it never fails to sustain me, proving tho every great rule they’re always a greater exception. 🤗

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51. Anouk - “Birds” the Netherlands 2013

~She slayed it from the outside~

Oh my god Anouk was such a rollercoaster. From my end, I was OBSESSED with Anouk from the second she was announced (as the first participant of 2013!!!) because hell yeah I LOVED “Nobody’s wife” and “Girl” and this expected ~High Voltage Rock OWNAGE~

What we got instead was... something just as great, if completely different. “Birds” may not have been an in-your-face rock song, but it never-the-less was a beautiful, mesmerising, unpretentious avant garde ballad. “If being myself is what I do wrong, then I would rather not be right” sticks out as an absolutely brilliant line that I often use in my daily writing. 😍 I LOVE how Anouk performs btw, on the satellite stage, in a sea of f(l)ags:

While also delivering distinctly Dutch diction. 😍 Paraphrasing:

“Burds follin daun de roeftops, aut of de skai laik reendraups, no eir, no praad.” 

Like ^ pronounced that in dutch and you literally have Anouk’s diction nailed. 😍

“Birds” was basically the “Me and my guitar” of the Netherlands, but there’s also the added bonus of  Anouk herself. You see, in contrast to her song’s ethereal demeanor, Anouk is KNOWN to be a huuuuuge abrasive confrontal bitch with zero filter 😍 and fragments of her diva personality definitely oozed into Malmö as well, from nonchalantly recording a gritty webcam vid for official channel’s preview vid (😍) to  flippantly pulling a hood over her face each time a journalist wanted to interview her. It ended, how else, with Anouk writing “Walk along” for Trijntje, and then cussing her out for being frumpy / talentless / sucking at life when she NQ’d. When Trijntje tried pinning them blame Anouk for writing her a bad song on purpose (lmfao), Anouk retaliated by stealing Trijnje’s coach seat on The Voice NL. PETTY QUEEN <3 We truly aren’t worthy of this irl Cersei Lannister. 😍

Also um, I just realized I ranked those two on opposide ends of the Dutch chart:

The 2010s marked wonderful renaissance for the Netherlands. I’m never ~OBSESSED~ with their entries, but they are a very solid Eurovision country, reliably delivering good music. I think they’re also the country that has the lowest amount of godawful entries on average (literally 2. Fuck you, “Without you” and “Amsterdam”.). If anyone deserved to win based on track record alone it was definitely them. 

[eurovisionopinions]

[sole-cuore-amore-e-droga]

eh... i actually thought they’d be similar... don’t mind me

[itsjusteurovision]

Day 4: Rehearsals II (03/05/2017)

[crazyilluminator]

Now I’m getting closer to you, Feel the rain of revolution! Now I’m getting closer to you, There’s no time for your illusion now, yeah yeah!

A doodle of Viktorija Ivanovskaja of Fusedmarc plus Lithuaniaball, created out of boredom in class.

[arivetti]

Fusedmarc: POWERPOP Host: What does it mean ? Fusedmarc: ....powerful....pop..

lmfao

[esc-poland]

Yesterday, our polish commentator started talking about Lithuania when it was time for Bulgaria. He kept talking about Fusedmarc while Bulgarian postcard was on, and in the very end when performance was about to start he finally noticed that and said  “... oh, it’s Bulgaria...I’m sorry”  

[itsburkibitch]

Unpopular opinion: I actually like Lithuania's song :)))

[lifeofafandomatic]

Eurovision Song Contest 2017 – Semifinals 2 Non-Qualifiers

(psst, click each gif for the country and artist name!)

[fleetwoodhag]

after seeing viktoria’s crazy unbrushed hair and angry performance, i REALLY NEED LITHUANIA TO GO THROUGH NOW 😂

[borisbubbles]

5. LITHUANIA

Fusedmarc - “Rain of Revolution” 39th place

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAAAAAAAAAH

 Donny Demontell sang it last year, but right now i’m feeling it. i’ve been waiting for this night. FINALLY I can express my ardent adoration for this crimson cacaphony. <3

As I’m about to start however, I don’t exactly know how to approach this entry and do it justice, exactly? “Rain of Revolution” isn’t really a song, as much as it is a never-ending sequence of tiny nuggets of unintended comedy gold woven into a trainwreck. You really have to be INTO this religious experience to appreciate it, like most entries in this genre (RENDEZ-VOUS ♥ QUIEN MANEJA MI BARCA ♥)

God, do I love this though. Everything, and I do mean everything about this makes me smile, chuckle, laugh, feel fuzzy on the inside etc. Likewise, this write-up will probably end up as a barrage of these funny moments, intertwined with longer paragraphs of text. Be prepared.

HERE ARE *ALL* THE GOODIES ON FUSEDMARC

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LIFE A ROLLACOASTA SPEENING ME ARAWD

WEE BEH GEDDIN FASTA WHEN IZ UPSAID DAWN

*screen slightly veers to the left*

(and then she does her little “TA-DAA” mannerism afterwards as if she’s Houdini and magically twisted Earth into and out of a titled axis <3 GODDESS)

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I have listened to this honkfest an unhealthy amount of times and I still have no clue how “Rain of Revolution”... happened? lol. I mean, I can guess (wodka, lots and lots of weed and probably all the shrooms from the One Hundred Acre Wood as well) but Denisas and Viktorija have such a poor grasp on the English language (as with well, everything else in life, really. Tards <3) that they really couldn’t explain it any deeper than “iz about LAV yes. LAV far yoo end ODDERS *crazy eyes*”  <3 It’s like a weird fusion of The Raspberry Reich‘s “THE REVOLUTION IS MY BOYFRIEND” mantra with Asshai’i shadowbinder realness. <3

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YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAAAAAAAAAH (revolution)

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Frankly, who cares *what* this song is about? “Rain of Revolution” was hilarious even BEFORE its performance began. Shouts to that random woman screaming “THANK YOU” in Ukranian before they start lmfao <3 (I bet it’s the *same* Lithuanian frump who freaked out during Naviband <3)

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They also taught me that when you’re in doubt about your styling choses, dress like Little My and put chopsticks in your hair.

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Omg remember how a *literally* second-rate Aminata song was the fave to win Eurovizija until the juries, like I would eventually, decided that “Rain of Revolution” is fucking hilarious, pushed for its win and succeeded? <3

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 FEEL DA REIGN OV REVALOOSHEN

(lmao @ her head tilt after this mome btw <3 “DID YOU? ARE YOU FEELING REVOLUTIONIZED, PUNK??” -- Dirty Vikki)

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I spoke about passion before, but what about passion so intense it merges with your bad English and causes you to slrrrrrrrr yrrrr wrrrrrds in an incoherent rambletangle of syllables as the energy ELECTRIFIES your into a shorter circuit?

Sample dialogue: “MKIN ASTA MKIN ASTA. MKIN ASTA ENDLED DALUV SHYFRU MMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIII”

Sample miming:

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omg remember that “Rain of Revolution” basically has all the makings of a Nill Points Last Placer the likes of “Sarkim Sevgi Üstüne” or “Nuku Pommiin”? Yet in a year which had FOUR of them, fusedmarc not only weren’t one of them, they somehow collected a whopping 42 points making them the highest scoring Second Last Placer ever ♥ DEITIES  ♥

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DANCE

TO THE

RHYTHM OOOOOOOF

~YOSOUL~

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omg remember how this received AS MANY jury points as Estonia and Latvia did COMBINED <3 so much ownage it BURNS BURNS BURNS like Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Omg imagine if the Lithuanian diasporia/professional juries had pulled through just hard enough for a 10th place and qualification. It didn’t happen, but the sheer IDEA of hearing “and the next final is... LITHUANIA O__O LA LITHUANIE O_O_OO__O” and watching everyone melt -like the nazi’s in “Raiders Of The Lost Ark”- into puddles of goo due to the consternation still leads to tears of laughter rolling down my face <3  (not that I don’t LOVE their role as a willing cushion for Naviband, which is just as good, if not better)

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LOOKING FOR DA RAISIN... HAMSTER ON DA ROAD....

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Omg remember how the Ukranian broadcaster designed every act (which is why they were so basic lol) EXCEPT FOR LITHUANIA’S because Fusedmarc were terrified that Ukraine wouldn’t be able to GET THEIR VISION ACROSS (ROTFLMAOI’MDYING <333333) So they designed everything themselves and this not only caused “Rain of Revolution” to be even MORE weird than normal, but also fall apart at its seams during the live show. <3 <3 <3  Remember that random camera crew lol?

and here’s the thing in motion

(”NOTHING TO SEE HERE, JUST PASSING THROUGH”)

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Incidentally, I also post on an rtv message board about Eurovision and the posters there have grown to love Fusedmarc SO much that they put them above SALVADOR in the post-season popularity poll LMFAO. (fairly high too, they were 17th overall) So much ownage <3

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At some point, Viktorija also did this (I'm not sure if this is in fact my fave ESC2017 moment, actually?)

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Fittingly, the hilarious beginnings of fusedmarc (however many there were. the composition, that they beat Aisté, the screaming woman in the audience and the thunderclap which introduced the screaming woman on the stage all count as one each) and raging intensity of the live performance call for a lowkey amusing end. Viktorija closes the performance by waving the mic over the flabbergasted audience to capture their uproarious screams of disbelief, unaware, like always, that this actually ISN’T a good sign lmao <3

(btw i love how those impractically long be-nailed fingers can’t even close around a wee microphone <3)

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In sum, BEST LITHUANIAN ENTRY EVER!!!!! *throws heart-shaped confetti everywhere*

Decade Rank: 43/324

THE 2017 RANKING SO FAR:

-ADORE- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Lithuania (43/324) 6. Hungary (47/324) -LOVE- 7. Moldova (55/324) 8. Italy (61/324) 9. the Netherlands (63/324) 10. United Kingdom (67/324) 11. Finland (68/324) 12. Estonia (71/324) 13. Azerbaijan (84/324) 14. Latvia (87/324) 15. Israel (93/324)

-LIKE- 16. Bulgaria (100/324) 17. Portugal (105/324) 18. Croatia (115/324) 19. Austria (119/324) 20. France (138/324) 21. Poland (154/324) 22. Armenia (158/324) 23. Romania (164/324)

-OKAY- 24. Iceland (174/324) 25. Ukraine (190/324) 26. San Marino (203/324) 27. Albania (217/324) 28. Denmark (228/324) 29. Spain (237/324) 30. Cyprus (240/324) -DISLIKE- 31. Germany (258/324) 32. Montenegro (263/324) 33. Sweden (270/324) 34. Serbia (275/324) 35. Australia (280/324) 36. Switzerland (286/324) 37. Czech Republic (288/324) 38. Malta (291/324) -HATE- 39. Georgia (301/324) 40. Greece (303/324) 41. Slovenia (307/324) 42. Ireland (312/324)

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[sole-cuore-amore-e-droga]

a random Fusedmarc gif dump

seriously, Denis doesn’t have enough gifs to show off how much we appreciate him too

also how could we forget the drummer guy from one of the liveshows

[12p4se]

Me, watching Lithuania: What.

[itsjusteurovision]

Day 7, Rehearsals: Fusedmarc (Lithuania 2017) (x)

[arabela25]

Eurovision Song Contest 2017 countdown: 19 days left!

Rain of Revolution - Fusedmarc, Lithuania        [x]