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What are your favourite guilty pleasures of the ESC?

Iker

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You know what a guilty pleasure is I assume. Belarus appears 4 times on my list, wow! Somehow I couldn't find a similar topic anywhere here which did surprise me.

For me
:lv: 2012 'Beautiful Song'
:by: 2011 'I Love Belarus'
:by: 2015 'Time'
:by: 2014 'Cheesecake'
:by: 2019 'Like It'
:md: 2010 'Run Away'
:lv: 2008 'Wolves Of The Sea'
:ie:2008 'Irelande Douze Points' - I for once found Dustin the Turkey really funny, the song itself though is not something I wpuld listen to on my own without the visuals.
:ua: 2009 'Be My Valentine' - the staging ticks all the boxes of over the top ESC cliches and I am living for it here, lol.

honorary mention:
Iceland 2008 - 'This Is My Life' - because it does not get more 2000s Eurovision than that in my book.
 

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:fr: 2014 Moustache
:uk: 2016 You‘re not alone
:pl: 2021 The Ride
:no: 1990 Brandenburger Tor
:dk: 2021 Øve os på hinanden
:uk: 1991 A message to your heart
:fi: 2019 Look away
:ch: 2007 Vampires are alive
:mk: 2015 Autumn leaves
:bg: 2013 Samo shampioni
:bg: 2010 Angel si ti
:fi: 1994 Bye bye baby
:be: 1996 Liefde is een kaartspel
:de: 1996 Planet of blue
:pl: 1995 Sama
:cy: 2007 Comme ci, comme ca
 

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:fr: 2014 Moustache
:uk: 2016 You‘re not alone
:pl: 2021 The Ride
:no: 1990 Brandenburger Tor
:dk: 2021 Øve os på hinanden
:uk: 1991 A message to your heart
:fi: 2019 Look away
:ch: 2007 Vampires are alive
:mk: 2015 Autumn leaves
:bg: 2013 Samo shampioni
:bg: 2010 Angel si ti
:fi: 1994 Bye bye baby
:be: 1996 Liefde is een kaartspel
:de: 1996 Planet of blue
:pl: 1995 Sama
:cy: 2007 Comme ci, comme ca

Why :pl: 1995 is a guilty pleasure for you? I don't see anything wrong with liking an avant-garde masterpiece. :) And it was well ahead of its time. Back then 50% of ESC songs sounded like something that could have been written in 1978, seriously.
 
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some of these don't sound like guilty pleasures? :lol: applying to both of you

mine, by far, is:

 

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I will put these by the year (from 2020 to 2010).

2020:rs:
2019:by:
2018:ch: and :mk:
2017:no:
2016:be:
2015:ge: , :sl: and :es:
2014:ch: and :sl:
2013:gr:
2012 - (really I haven't have any guilty pleasure on that year)
2011:sk:
2010:sk:

Edit. I added :es: to year 2015.
 
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one and only

This is the gayest ESC entry of all time for me but not a guilty pleasure, more like a torture in my perception. More Gay than Hungary 2009 (Dance With Me). It is quite ironic considering the country.
 

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:mk: 2015 Autumn leaves

Nooo, why did you have to remind me? The original is one of the most beautiful songs in the 10's and even the English revamp was pleasant. And then the live performance came around and ruined everything ... :cry:

 

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This is the gayest ESC entry of all time for me but not a guilty pleasure, more like a torture in my perception. More Gay than Hungary 2009 (Dance With Me). It is quite ironic considering the country.
well I'm not gonna deny that In The Disco is bad, but it's so bad it's hilarious :lol:

oh well I'd forget my favorite k-pop s-pop singer:


i cannot stress enough how guilty i feel for unironically liking this
 

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Nooo, why did you have to remind me? The original is one of the most beautiful songs in the 10's and even the English revamp was pleasant. And then the live performance came around and ruined everything ... :cry:


I know right?! This exactly! I can’t get over on how they ruined the live performance. The original song is soooo beautiful!
 

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well I'm not gonna deny that In The Disco is bad, but it's so bad it's hilarious :lol:

oh well I'd forget my favorite k-pop s-pop singer:


i cannot stress enough how guilty i feel for unironically liking this

Oh yes, this went from „what‘s this abomination to what the, this songs rocks as hell“. Top 10 by the time of the final.
 

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well I'm not gonna deny that In The Disco is bad, but it's so bad it's hilarious :lol:

oh well I'd forget my favorite k-pop s-pop singer:


i cannot stress enough how guilty i feel for unironically liking this
It's a catchy song. But the way he looks, my eyes ... lol. It is actually one of the few songs from that year at the ESC that I vividly remember. I recall that there was a lot of expressed disgust all over the internet regarding Serbia that year ... huh.


And wow, I have only now realised while rewatching it that the song was written by Goran Bregović!
 
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And wow, I have only now realised while rewatching it that the song was written by Goran Bregović!

believe me or not, I only realised this today as well, when I looked it up on youtube :lol: Goran is truly a genius

I keep remembering all those gems one by one, I looked up :md: 2005 (but I realized I'm actually not feeling guilty about it) and then realized there is another great piece of music Moldova blessed us with 10 years later


i was pretty disappointed when he did not qualify lol
 

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oh well I'd forget my favorite k-pop s-pop singer:


i cannot stress enough how guilty i feel for unironically liking this

Outside of ESC fans, I never got the impression that it's a guilty pleasure :lol: My older brother for example became a huge fan of Milan after seeing him that one night on TV haha
 

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believe me or not, I only realised this today as well, when I looked it up on youtube :lol: Goran is truly a genius

I keep remembering all those gems one by one, I looked up :md: 2005 (but I realized I'm actually not feeling guilty about it) and then realized there is another great piece of music Moldova blessed us with 10 years later


i was pretty disappointed when he did not qualify lol
That staging of Romanyuta was over the top and kinda tacky, lol. The song itself was a very catchy pop number but like 10 years dated. I was not surprised at all that it did not qualify to the final. I can see well why it would be a guilty pleasure. Apparently it would have qualified under the new system though.
 
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I just remember, also :es: was my guilty pleasure in 2015. Edurne was robbed at the Grand Final.

 
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