Eurovision 2008: Germany

Tuomo writes: Germany, the second Big Four to participate in the televoting on the night of the first semi-finals, has been a member country since the beginning. And yet, with a couple of close calls and a lot of top 5 successes in the 1980s, actual victory and getting to host has been possible only once. Lots of bad luck and some years of displays of absolutely bad taste – that has been Germany’s legacy. So here’s Germany in 2008, No Angels, and Disappear:

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The singers display a lot of legs, and the boob factor is halfway decent? Check.
Immaculate arrangements and nice voices? Check (Spain, take note!).

What? This wasn't Sweden?! Oh dear... :-)

Innocuous and likable - and still a little blah. I hope this one breaks the "Big Four Curse" of recent years though by not placing in the bottom four, the places reserved predominatly for the Big Four in course of the past couple of years...!

Ironically, in the light of the wreck that Spain has submitted this year, Germany almost submitted this, performed in Spanish (!) and which could have been so much better - either for Spain - or Germany for that matter!!