ESC songs in odd meters?

[Fluke]

Unsurprisingly, there haven't been many ESC entries in odd meters. The most well known and recent is of course Macedonia's "Mojot Svet" from 2007, in 7/8 time:

Also, Greece 1996 was in 7/8:

What do you think of these songs? And do you know of any earlier examples?

 

[CC92]

I can't hear such things. LOL.

 

[LoveHate]

Are 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8 the "regular" ones, or what can be considered odd?

 

[Fluke]

I missed two obvious ones. Latvia's "Probka" from 2009, at least partially in 7/4 :

And a real surprise, though i've known about it for long, Norway 1966! In 5/4....

I wonder if there's any more examples from the "good old days" ?

 

[DanielLuis]

What exactly is that?

 

[Fluke]

Missed Serbia 2005, in a oddly slow 7/8:

Also the chorus of "Watch My Dance" has an "extra" beat in a weird place, you can consider it to be 9/4, or one bar of 4/4 followed by 5/4, i dunno if this is something common in Greek pop or why they did it!

 

[Mattan]

Missed Serbia 2005, in a oddly slow 7/8

That one had completely passed me by as a 7/8.
It does sound quite slow when you think about it like that, so it's not all that obvious because the song itself sounds quite energetic. Let's just say a disco bass incessantly thumping fourths wouldn't work in that song.

 

[Fluke]

Somehow i missed this gem, in 5/4:

 

[Fluke]

Sudden Lights - Aija alternates between 5/8 and 6/8, kind of messy and not really a convincing song IMO.

 

[Fluke]

Someone did a video on this now: