: The highlight of last night...
...moving on from the concert (which greatly exceeded my very modest expectations, and looks set to be the making of us rather than the breaking of us as I half-expected) to the Eurovision party at the Union pub, and a few songs later (we arrived just as Denmark started) came the Azerbaijan entry, and one of the music students was trying to work out how high it was, and then EM - remember her? - tried singing said note. Put it this way, I think it's the highest note I've ever heard her sing, and she's a classically-trained soprano. (I think it was suggested the note was B5...)
The Greek entry had a backing track that sounded like![[info]](http://www.iziblog.net/img/userinfo.gif)
daweaver would probably have liked it more than me, contrary to his normal opinion of songs from that part of the world.
Not too many complaints about the winner, no truly great song like the last two years meant that aesthetic appeal and good production of an adequate song combined with the perfect draw was a winning formula. I rated Iceland rather more thandaweaver, Wrong Kind of Shiny notwithstanding, but the pick of the bunch for me was Latvia. Or Serbia.
Spain offered the Silly, but with horrific Shiny too (and watching it in the pub, there was no truly safe angle to turn away, for the screens are liberally placed so everyone can see them). Probably second worst in that department behind Bulgaria, and I didn't catch any warnings on the Wogan commentary from what little of it I heard in that din...
...is it at all possible that the host broadcaster neglected to provide any strobe warnings? If that is indeed the case, then I would imagine that with a pan-European audience of tens of millions, last night may have been responsible for possibly several thousand seizures (given that the incidence of photosensitive epilepsy is around 1 in 5,000, and that one or more of the songs last night would surely have triggered a seizure in that population, and assuming that those with photosensitive epilepsy are as likely to watch Eurovision as the general population - and I can't offer evidence for a dramatically different assertion).
...moving on from the concert (which greatly exceeded my very modest expectations, and looks set to be the making of us rather than the breaking of us as I half-expected) to the Eurovision party at the Union pub, and a few songs later (we arrived just as Denmark started) came the Azerbaijan entry, and one of the music students was trying to work out how high it was, and then EM - remember her? - tried singing said note. Put it this way, I think it's the highest note I've ever heard her sing, and she's a classically-trained soprano. (I think it was suggested the note was B5...)
The Greek entry had a backing track that sounded like
Promiscuousto me. Given that, I suspect
daweaver would probably have liked it more than me, contrary to his normal opinion of songs from that part of the world.Not too many complaints about the winner, no truly great song like the last two years meant that aesthetic appeal and good production of an adequate song combined with the perfect draw was a winning formula. I rated Iceland rather more than
daweaver, Wrong Kind of Shiny notwithstanding, but the pick of the bunch for me was Latvia. Or Serbia. Spain offered the Silly, but with horrific Shiny too (and watching it in the pub, there was no truly safe angle to turn away, for the screens are liberally placed so everyone can see them). Probably second worst in that department behind Bulgaria, and I didn't catch any warnings on the Wogan commentary from what little of it I heard in that din...
...is it at all possible that the host broadcaster neglected to provide any strobe warnings? If that is indeed the case, then I would imagine that with a pan-European audience of tens of millions, last night may have been responsible for possibly several thousand seizures (given that the incidence of photosensitive epilepsy is around 1 in 5,000, and that one or more of the songs last night would surely have triggered a seizure in that population, and assuming that those with photosensitive epilepsy are as likely to watch Eurovision as the general population - and I can't offer evidence for a dramatically different assertion).