After a year without much of the ol' Paparizou, I thought I'd upload her discography... so here goes...
2003 - Aναπάντητις Kλήσεις (Unanswered Calls)
2004 - Tρελή Kάρδια (Crazy Heart)
2004 - Aντιθέσεις (Antithesis)
2004 - Kάτσε Kαλά (Just Sit Down)
2004 - Στην Kαρδιά Mου Mόνο Θλίψη (Sorrow In My Heart)
2005 - My Number One
2005 - Light In Our Soul
2005 - Mambo (Greenglish Version)
2006 - Υπάρχει Λόγος (There's A Reason)
2006 - Mambo (English Version)
2006 - Gigolo
2006 - Φως (Shine)
2006 - Aν Eίχες Έρθει Πιο Nωρίς (If You'd Come Earlier)
2007 - Mαζί Σου (With You)
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Eurovision voting changes
Here's my two ideas to change the voting in Eurovision.
1) Points given to each competing country from each competing country
OK, so pretty self explanatory really, but each country gives points to every other country taking part in order of how well each country scored in the televote. This would mean votes given out in the final of between 1 and 24 points from each country. The points 22, 23 and 24 could still be announced as 8, 10 and 12 are now, whilst the lower points flash up automatically on the screen as points 1 through 7 do now.
The benefit of this system is that it gives a fairer representation of the success of each competing country. It ensures that a country needs to do better across the board than get a few high points from a few countries to still do well.
2) In the semi-final, the qualifiers should be the countries with the votes from the largest amount of other countries, irrespective of their actual score
In this way, a country with votes between 8 and 12 points from eight other countries, wouldn't qualify over a country receiving votes between 1 and 10 points from sixteen other countries. Tie-breaks could be split by using the current points system (or the points system above). In the 2007 semi-final under this system, the qualifiers would have been:-
Serbia - 38
Hungary - 35
Belarus - 29
Latvia - 29
Turkey - 27
Bulgaria - 27
Slovenia - 26
Georgia - 19
Andorra - 19
Poland - 19
Portugal - 15
Norway - 15
Moldova - 14
FYR Macedonia - 13
Albania - 11
Iceland - 10
Cyprus - 10
Denmark - 10
Switzerland - 10
Croatia - 9
Netherlands - 9
Estonia - 6
Montenegro - 6
Israel - 6
Malta - 3
Belgium - 2
Austria - 2
Czech Republic - 1
It doesn't make a difference at the extremes of the table, but does stop some countries having an unfair advantage of qualifying every year.
What do you think?
1) Points given to each competing country from each competing country
OK, so pretty self explanatory really, but each country gives points to every other country taking part in order of how well each country scored in the televote. This would mean votes given out in the final of between 1 and 24 points from each country. The points 22, 23 and 24 could still be announced as 8, 10 and 12 are now, whilst the lower points flash up automatically on the screen as points 1 through 7 do now.
The benefit of this system is that it gives a fairer representation of the success of each competing country. It ensures that a country needs to do better across the board than get a few high points from a few countries to still do well.
2) In the semi-final, the qualifiers should be the countries with the votes from the largest amount of other countries, irrespective of their actual score
In this way, a country with votes between 8 and 12 points from eight other countries, wouldn't qualify over a country receiving votes between 1 and 10 points from sixteen other countries. Tie-breaks could be split by using the current points system (or the points system above). In the 2007 semi-final under this system, the qualifiers would have been:-
Serbia - 38
Hungary - 35
Belarus - 29
Latvia - 29
Turkey - 27
Bulgaria - 27
Slovenia - 26
Georgia - 19
Andorra - 19
Poland - 19
Portugal - 15
Norway - 15
Moldova - 14
FYR Macedonia - 13
Albania - 11
Iceland - 10
Cyprus - 10
Denmark - 10
Switzerland - 10
Croatia - 9
Netherlands - 9
Estonia - 6
Montenegro - 6
Israel - 6
Malta - 3
Belgium - 2
Austria - 2
Czech Republic - 1
It doesn't make a difference at the extremes of the table, but does stop some countries having an unfair advantage of qualifying every year.
What do you think?
Thursday, May 17, 2007
MUU & Being interviewed on Finnish TV
Kiitos Heli ja Tomi!!!
Also, for those who are unaware, I was also interviewed on Finnish TV twice in Helsinki, so I'm now something of a Finnish icon having sung Shanghain Valot at the top of my voice in a Finnish Karaoke bar. It was possibly not the finest hour of my life and sadly evidence of this exists on the internet, but you'll be hard pressed to get the website address from me.
Suffice to say it was broadcast on YLE extra. Oh dear!
They then invited me and Markku to the studio to film a segment of a chat show, in which I was asked about 6 questions to do with Athens and 2 about Helsinki! Go figure! This included the painful question "so which is nicer... Athens or Helsinki?" If ever an interviewer was gonna pick a dumb question this was the one to pick!! I think I just about held it together - well they weren't burning effigies of me in the street so we must've done ok... funniest moment having me singing Salvem El Món and trying in vain to get Markku to play the bongos on live TV.... only in Finland!!!
Quick plug for the muu café below!
http://www.muu.fi/eurovision2007
Pics of Helsinki
ME WITH ANONYMOUS FROM ANDORRA To view all the pictures I took in Helsinki click on the link below....
http://www.box.net/shared/kftm9ih666
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