Welcome to my Eurochoice!

I hope you will enjoy your stay on my pages.
What and who is this about? A little introduction (instruction?) follows:

I’ve always been a fan of the Eurovision and among “normal” friends I’ve been known as a person with great knowledge of the competition. Just because I know some simple facts about stuff like “who was the international winner in 1980”. Well, any die-hard fan of the Eurovision will say that that is NOTHING.

My boyfriend can with no doubt be categorized as a die-hard fan. He introduced me to the wonderful world of national finals. And I feel instantly in love. Although I will never be able to remember all facts, I’m proud to address myself as a fan of national finals today. I love everything about it; great artists and music I would never have heard of else wise, all the different languages, the shows, the dancing, the clothes, different cultures and the amazing development in television, technology, eurosong-culture and music over the years.

Yes, I admit I’m a newcomer, and I won’t be blogging about things I don’t know anything about.

This blog is simply a survey of all the national finals we watch and mark with points. Small comments are added to some songs, I think it’s fun, but I’m not a great music-reviewer. I think the music is the most important, but I pay great attention to other things as well, like the outfits (which causes irritation watched in company of a man whose interest in music is beyond comparison).

Note that this is the national finals WE WATCH. Nothing else. It’s totally random, personally, uncategorized and unsorted. If you’re looking for hard facts and statistics, use other pages (google “national finals”! :-)).

So, what would the ESC look and sound like if my Euro-choice was the one to decide? I often agree that the best song is chosen, and give my douze points to the original winner. And even more often I don’t. I don’t understand what they were thinking, like; choosing a bad and boring ballad like THAT when there were so many cool and modern songs to pick from? Well, that’s Eurovision. It wouldn’t be quite as fun if the result was obvious, would it?

Enjoy reading my blog, and feel free to comment or even email me on claudiabeni@epost.no.