Lena Meyer-Landrut was crowned last night as the winner of the 55th Eurovision Song Contest, and in my opinion, rightfully so.

The nineteen year old, if you were watching, won the competition for Germany for the second time with her excellent, and very simple pop track “Satellite“ which sounds like a crossover of Lily Allen and Kate Nash, spiked with a clean, crisp edge. The song itself was a nice, cheerful breath of fresh air to the contest, which in recent years, due to it’s expansion of contestants, was plagued with an onslaught of “bloc” and diaspora voting, which hindered and affected the results. However, I think this may be a thing of the past.

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Two words:

Lena. Germany.

See you in Deutschland, next year.

Full Eurovision post tomorrow.

[Edit: I had to edit this post due to people kindly stating that it was in fact, originally, more than two words. Thanks, Curley]

photo credit: Daniel Kruczynski

We’re already at the second Semi-Final, which will determine the final 10 acts who will battle it out on stage at the Telnor Arena in Oslo this Saturday to win the title of winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

This is, in my opinion, a challenging semi-final to call accurately, as there are far more stand-out artists and performers, which will no doubt lead to a close round-up of votes for the acts. As Ewan Spence, a fellow Eurovision commentator stated in his podcast today, there are about 13 strong songs that will be in play tonight for those 10 places for the final on Saturday. For these reasons, it’s very difficult to get my head around, with as much ease as the last day, to who will fly through. (more…)