Its the final countdown! Oh geez… did we nick that material? With just 3 days till we learn the winner for Eurovision 2013, the press are hotting up with the latest gossip, news and any old way of predicting the winner. Once again ESC Insight brings you the best of the headlines across the contest world for today.
Jeremy not so good
Good ol’ Jeremy of the Maltese song aint so good. Turns out he liked a rigorous routine – of stalking, and ahem, other things. Whilst we all believed that he was fictional for the song, this piece makes it feel we were led astray.
Read with tongue firmly in cheek on Bisserjeta
The winner takes it all
According to a Microsoft project manager David Rothschild with his new software PredictWise, Denmark has a 50% chance of winning the contest this Saturday. The figures are based on current betting odds, which currently indicate the song will in fact win by a landslide bigger than that experienced by Rybaks’ Fairytale in 2009. Will Only Teardrops really take the record as well as the win? 3 more days till we find out.
reports further on the Microsoft Eurovision model
Only Love Survives
For Ryan Dolan, he may not conquer the contest come Saturday, but the Irish news are reporting that his Eurovision relationship may survive past the week with rumours of a romance blossoming between him and Russian entrant Dina Garipova. To us though, it just seems like a cheap way to drive media coverage on both the acts.
Judge for yourself on the Irish Independent news
Loreens’ got the power
Our 2012 winner will be back on Saturday for the final as our interval act, performing her brand new single ‘We Got the Power’. Could this song be potentially better than the winner selected from the field? Judge for yourself.
Check out the audio sneak peek from Loreen here
Americans love Eurovision?
We all know that Australia loves Eurovision, and the contest is constantly bleeding further into pop culture beyond the shores of Europe. Now its Americas’ turn to get into the contest in a big way (and not just our contibutor Samanatha). The Washington Post examines ten reasons why the US of A needs Eurovision.
Find out the ten reasons online why the Americans should be tuning in
How to host a party
The local English-press in Malmo has interviewed Petra Mede in the lead up to her hosting duties for Eurovision. Petra says that not everyone has to like her. But we do. Particularly those little history skits. We just reckon she should re-think the semi 2 dress.
Learn how Petra got the job on TheLocal.se