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What do you think, would we have been better off with one of the following songs at the ESC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNjG22Gbo6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afl9WFGJE0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSAqTdc-Y2g

You are really a political genius, i assume you are rich now, so what will you do with all the money now? Obviously you knew a long time ago that Ukraine would win here?

Just because you want to lighten up your mood, you dont have to post it here, this song should have been banned long ago ...

Its her style, no one dressed her up ... Just watch her blind audition at the Voice of Germany. The song might be boring, but she clearly has a better technique/voice than pretty much all other participants and thats why she shouldve finished much better.

The system isnt fair, but you should try to understand why we have this system. A final without countries like Germany would have clearly less people at home watching, so Germany is guaranteed to always reach the final. For the same reason Germany got a wildcard for 2015 handball world championships and for the same reason Russia wont be banned from the olympics. Its still funny that Turkey tries to buy everything with money, but when this system doesnt work in their favor, they complain about it and act as if they only want to fight for a fair system ...

Ukraine only won because they had an anti-russian song, last year there was no song like that, so Sweden, a "neutral" country won. Sweden isnt doing anything at an international stage, so no one has a problem with them. If you want to win this contest, you should select a political song or some weird artist like Conchita Wurst or Lordi, please dont tell me that those are good singers ... Even Lena is a horrible singer, but she had a funny song and was good looking, which was enough to win. You just have to look at the british entries to know that this competition isnt about music really, otherwise GB would win this competition with their best possible entries every year.

German result has nothing to do with the performance, Jamie-Lee is at least among the 5 best singers here, clearly better than the guy from Russia or the ukrainian girl, but this contest isnt about music.

I agree about everything, i was shocked that Poland got so many points from the people at home, but in the end its not too surprising. 3 eastern european countries got the highest scores from people at home (Poland, Ukraine and Russia), i dont think its a coincidence. We have 11 points more than last year, but still last, i dont think that we can do anything to get a better result, this competition is 100% politics. Even the german jury decision seemed to be 100% political, Israel was pretty bad but we still gave them 12 points and our jury said that they also liked Belgium very much, i guess they just have a different taste. I would be really happy if we would leave this contest and save our money, we shouldnt finance this contest anymore.

Yeah sure ... Thats also the reason why algeria didnt win, american people didnt want algerian music to become too strong, so they didnt allow Algeria to compete ... In addition to that i dont think that its possible to vote against someone and i dont think that many american people cared enough about this contest to vote ...

Haha good joke, i guess Australia was only so good because of political reasons, the same was true for Ukraine and Russia. Some people voted for Russia for political reasons and some people voted for Ukraine for political reasons, but without politics everyone wouldve voted for Bulgaria ... Bulgaria was better than Ukraine and Russia, but Australia was better than all of them, i think top 3 wouldve been a fair result for you.

What are you actually trying to say? You seem to be completely confused ... Israel, Azerbaijan or Armenia are also part of european sport organizations for example, so you cant compare those nations to Australia, in addition to that those countries for example dont have a completely different time zone and their are many more reasons why those countries are seen as "more" european than Australia. When did Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel become part of ESC and when exactly should i have complained about their introduction? What a joke that Ukraine won, their song was horrible ... This contest is 100% politics, its really disgusting. Its also interesting that 3 eastern european nations (Poland, Ukraine and Russia) had more votes from people at home than all other countries ... I guess those were just the best songs ...

So this contest wasnt planned for european nations only? You do know that this competition was created to unite Europe again after the second world war?

We are on a good way to finish last, is that good or bad news for german music?

Who the hell invited Australia? Sorry, but Australia winning EUROPEAN song contest is just ridiculous. Who will be next? Maybe we should invite China or Brazil?

Who will finish last, Poland or Germany? Maybe we should have competed with the armenian girl, she seems to be pretty popular, but even with her we probably wouldve finished last ...

I hope that Australia will win, her song was among the best. I hope that Germany will decide to leave this contest, we cant win anyway, no matter how good our song is, so we could as well just leave and save the money. Belarus gave 12 points to Russia ... This contest seems to be really fair!

Are you serious? He sounds absolutely horrible, like a dying cat ... Is he the only german artist you know? I think Robin Schulz, Felix Jaehn or Zedd have tons of songs that are better than the best song Grönemeyer ever produced ...

Which song did he originally select? Sadly i am too late to participate, i dont like the german song at all, i think there wouldve been tons of better songs, even a song by Jan Böhmermann wouldve been a better choice in my opinion.

Its ok for her to sing in french, but why does Austria select a song that 99% of austrians dont understand? In addition to that it should be difficult to win with a song that almost no one in Europe understands. My top 5 are Spain, Germany, Australia, Cyprus and Bulgaria. France was also decent.

I know, i forgot that the world cup was reintroduced this year, otherwise everyone wouldve known what i am talking about ...

Spain was pretty good, hopefully they will finish top 5. I know that the ukrainian song has a pretty meaningful text, but i didnt like the sound at all and she was overacting in my opinion, hopefully people wont give her points just to vote against russian politics. Great show by Georgia, back to the 80s ... The austrian girl sings in french? Sorry, but how stupid is that?

Tobias Rieder will miss the rest of the world championships, he was one of our best players ... In the end this probably wont change much, we should finish 4th in this group even without him and even with him we wouldve been chanceless in the quarterfinal.

I hope that Australia will win, although the performance was pretty weird. The german song and the australian song are the only 2 songs that i would listen to on Youtube. I know that we wont win, so i will cheer for Australia, but their problem is that they dont have any "neighbors" who will always give them points, this might be the biggest advantage of Russia. I hope that Russia/Italy/Sweden wont win, Australia and even France would be ok for me. Overall the quality is really bad, most songs are very "average" and will be forgotten in a couple of weeks.

Very "good" opinion about the german entry! Probably the best "summary" i read/heard, most people are only talking about her style/dress, which is annoying. The lyrics is probably too "average" to finish top 10, but we should be somewhere in the middle, 15th to 20th hopefully. Maybe some people give her a few extra points because they find her cute or like her dress ... She won The Voice of Germany 2015, here are some other performances of her: Ghost live: Berlin (by RY X) at The Voice of Germany: http://www.the-voice-of-germany.de/video/513-jamie-lee-kriewitz-berlin-clip The Hanging Tree (The Hunger Games theme song) at the Blind Auditions of The Voice of Germany: http://www.the-voice-of-germany.de/video/51-jamie-lee-kriewitz-the-hanging-tree-clip

So far from Germany only Anne Haug is qualified, all other athletes have to finish top 8 in Yokohama if they want to qualify. German women who can still qualify: Anja Knapp, Rebecca Robisch, Hanna Philippin, Sophia Saller, Laura Lindemann German men who can still qualify: Gregor Buchholz, Steffen Justus, Justus Nieschlag, Franz Löschke