It came back!! After a clip show last year, we got a full song contest again! With traditional takeaway curry and spreadsheet of course. Scoring categories for me were song, voice, choreography, outfit, staging, and of course, novelty value (some years I’ve called this “Eurovisionosity”!), and as every, categories get weighted differently! Here are my top five this year, and below are my detailed scores!
Germany
Iceland
Greece
Malta
Russia
Last week you got my top 5, here are the 5 that didn’t quite make it!
John Lewis
I think the only reason this didn’t make the top five is that I feel like someone else did a really similar idea in the last year or two
Lego
Tesco
Coca-Cola
Barbour
I like the message this gives against disposable culture!
Gosh it was a tough one this year – I guess companies have had plenty of time to come up with decent advertising campaigns! I have managed to narrow it down to my five favourites below, some made me laugh, some made me emotional, it’s a good mix. Enjoy!
Walkers
Deliveroo
Aldi
Two videos because it comes in two parts!
Papa Johns
Well I’d happily back any company wishing to spend their money this way instead!
McDonalds
Inspired by Inside Out maybe?
Then I’ve just got to go through the rest of the list to sift out five runners up for next week!
So it wasn’t a Eurovision Song Contest this year, but on Saturday night, Rotterdam still hosted a 2 hour show with clips of all 41 songs that would have competed had the contest been able to go ahead.
There was a load of filler too, some better than others! Favouites included a message from Bjorn, a song from Netta, and buildings of Europe lit up while the Rotterdam Philharmonic plays Love Shine a Light. I’m a bit sad they haven’t put the interview with Graham Norton up – it was completely hilarious but he also got a bit choked up at one point, which was moving.
Because we only got 30 seconds of each song, scoring was a bit hit and miss, and probably didn’t do it as well as other years (even after removing some of my categories to make it easier!), but here are my five favourites from this year.
Iceland
Russia
Sweden
Ireland
Australia
Those that didn’t quite make my top five this year, but would be included if it was a top ten 🙂
Walkers
McDonalds
BBC
Asda
Very
As has become another tradition on here, here are my top five Christmas adverts in the UK this year – there’ll be a runners up list next week!
John Lewis
And of course, someone’s done a decent spoof as well!
Sainsburys
Aldi
Argos
Joules
On the Royal Baby/ies
(Three examples ‘cos they’re just so good!)
On a slow news day
Has a nap
Holding a ream of paper instead of an iPad
On the Dusseldorf plane landing in Edinburgh
There seemed to be a fair amount of serious songs this year, including ours and the winners, which was a shame, but these were my top five.
1. Australia
2. Denmark
3. Czech Republic
4. France
5. Spain
Also a honourary mention for the weirdest song this year for Iceland…..
Also need to share with you one of this year’s interval acts (not Madonna!). They got four of the most Eurovisiony acts from the last few years of competition and had them sing each other’s songs – outstanding.
I know we’re not meant to talk too much about the dresses because it’s much more about the actress’s skills, and this isn’t a very feminist thing to do, but there is a little girl inside me who loved the pretty dresses on Sunday night, and here are my five favourites!
Sair Khan
Lolly Adefope
https://twitter.com/sianldavid/status/1127667870530506752
Jodie Comer
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Daisy May Cooper – “If I wore a normal dress, that would cost a lot of money and I thought I’d donate that money to a local food bank.”
A selection of this year’s Christmas adverts that were good, that were maybe warm and fuzzy, but not strong enough to make the top five – in no particular order…
McDonalds
Intu
Vodafone
John Lewis
Asda
As an added bonus, this isn’t really a Christmas advert, but absolutely superb, possibly better than all of the above. Every year, when John Lewis release their Christmas advert, a man in the USA with the twitter handle @johnlewis is completely overwhelmed with responses (John Lewis’ actual twitter handles is @jlandpartners, used to be @johnlewisretail or something like that), so this year, Twitter worked with him to make this
