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That's the theme for the next years ESC, and the logo for the theme (aka not the official logo) is all pink and lovely. I love it! Nothing can top Finlands theme though - true fantasy. I adore that theme. Anyway, good going Norway, just make sure you make a kick ass stage as well and we'll be proud, I swear!

Albania likes quantity more than quality, eh. No sorry, that was rude. Anyway, their NF - Festival i Kenges (or something similar) - will start on December 24th (like anyone outside of Albania would have time to watch it) and end on the 27th. It looks like Albania will be, once again, the first country to announce their song for Oslo.

I have no idea who the singers that are taking part are buuuuut Kejsi Tola, from this year, will participate again. Maybe she'll ditch the clowns and the lizzard man, if we're lucky. Although I'd have to admit that it would be sort of epic if she sang a powerballad and the clowns just appeared from nowhere. Ooooh, please let them be in the show! I take what I said before back. They're awesome.

No, I'm not talking about Davor Ebner... Ok, lame joke. SORRY DAVOR. I LOVE YOU. He does look pretty short though, eh? These posts will contain smaller updates so that we wont have to spam your sorry asses all the time. It's just really desperate, right?

• Finland releases songs online. You can listen to them here. I dont know though - there's not really a new Lordi in there, is it? Sorry Finland, no victory for you next year either.
• Our southern neighbours Denmark have announced the hosts for their NF next year. I'd write them all up but really - they're nobodies. You'd never know who they were.
• The leader of the betting odds in Ireland of who'll represent them in Oslo next year is no other than Niamh Kavanagh who won the contest back in 1993. If theres any real reason for this bookie success will be revealed sooner or later, wont it? Second on the odds are the Jedwards!! If you have no idea what I'm talking about... Just YT John & Edward X-factor. A-m-a-z-i-n-g.

As previously written, 'Father Abraham' (HAHAHAHHA I still love that name) will write the Dutch entry for 2010, and now more information about the selection process has been confirmed.

On January 31st the artists competing for the ticket to Oslo will be presented and a week later, on February 7th, a winner will be selected by the song composer.

As I've already stated.. Just don't send De Toppers and I'll be fine. Really! Just no De Toppers. 2009 was more than enough, okay?

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Back to business, ey? Rumors and speculations are surrounding Melodi Grand Prix 2010 - the national selection of our dear neighbours, and next years Eurovision hosts, Norway. There haven't been any confirmations so far about who'll participate (at least I haven't seen any but that could be that I haven't looked at the right places) but there's a list spreading around forums with rumored artists.

Some interesting names are A1, Maria Haukaas Storeng and Lene Alexandra. A1 are a british boyband (with a Norwegian band member) who were sort of big in the beginning of the 00's, which I had a huge crush on btw. I love their song Same old brand new you so I'm totally excited to see if they'll actually participate. Who wants to bet they'll actually win? Maria Haukaas Storeng will, according to this list, be returning to MGP next year. She participated in Belgrade with the song Hold on be strong that reached fifth place, a placing that people didn't think Norway would top in a while.. Well, the next year they won. Do I need to say more? And finally Lene Alexandra will apparently be back as well. She's the busty glamour model who participated in MGP in 2008 with the song Sillycone Valley and is now back to claim her title.

If this is accurate or not we'll find out sooner or later but I'm really hoping it is. A1, A1, A1, A1!!!

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Hahah, no. Not really. But almost.

Apparently Serbia is heading for an internal selection next year due to the past years scandals in their national selection for Eurovision, Beovizija.

I don't have all the information on the drama but if I remember correctly there have been corrupt juries (are we surprised?) and something about someone screwing up last year and making two qualifiers not qualify. Yeah, I know, it's a bit messy.

To make it a little bit more interesting, they seem to be leaning towards sending the rock group Negative to Oslo, which would actually mean that they once again step away from their sleeping pills ballads. We'll let you know when there's more information available!

And it's this really old dude named Father Abraham? HAHAHA. OMG. I love Eurovision. He has previously written the Smurf Song (it's gonna take me hours to write this with all the laugh attacks) and holds the record for best selling Dutch composer ever, apparently. No further information has been released by the broadcaster, however, the song will be performed in Dutch. Yay for that! I'm sick and tired of English in Eurovision, countries should embrace their languages and not perform in really bad English (this is mostly aimed at Russia and Ukraine though. Belarus has done well for themselves; their performances are generally in decent English -cough-cough-since 2008-cough-cough- even if the singer doesn't speak a word of it!)

Whatever you do, do not send De Toppers again. If you thought the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was brutal, you should watch De Toppers performance. Geez. I still haven't watched the whole performance to this day because I have to stop the video about 90 seconds into it.

Anyway, good luck the Netherlands! Hopefully the JESC win has recandled the spark for you.

At least that's what the big boys say! Apparently the semi-finals will start on Friday, and that means Mandy will have to watch it and report live since I. officially. hate. Belarusian. Webstreams. Yes! I wonder if Koldun will host it this year again? I love him!

If this is the case then Eurovision season started early. Hallelujah!

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Yes, you heard it. Montenegro has decided not to take part in the upcoming contest due to financial problems (read: they never qualified). Believe it or not, but I'll miss them and hopefully they'll be back in 2011.

(Does this mean that Semi 1 will start at #2 now?)

Yes, you heard me. We bring you these exclusive news from our exclusive source about this exclusive Eurovision country. No, I'm just kidding. We're not Oikotimes.

Bulgaria was the first country to announce their singer this year and we've been blessed with Miro's presence in Oslo. He's apparently a huuuuge star there (but then again, which singer isn't the biggest star in its country? The UK commentator tried to trick us into believing that every single artist in ESC 2009 was huge in the Balkans. Seriously.) but I think we all know that it's not a guarantee for the choice to be successful. Especially not when it's Bulgaria. I'm sorry, but after 2007, 2008 and 2009, I can't have an opinion about Bulgaria until they've performed in the semi-final.

But hey, I don't think it can get any worse than this year. The odds that Miro will dress up as a knight who so heroically stole Supermans cape are not too big, fortunately enough.