Everything ...στη Eurovision

Κοινό και κριτική επιτροπή αποφάσισαν κι η μουσική τους ετυμηγορία ήθελε το τραγούδι Everything σε μουσική Νίκου Καρβέλα και στίχους Άννας Βίσση να είναι αυτό, που θα εκπροσωπήσει την Ελλάδα στην Eurovision της Αθήνας! Στην ονειρική σκηνή του Βοτανικού, που σαν έναστρος ουρανός φώτισε τη βραδιά του ελληνικού τελικού, η κορυφαία Ελληνίδα ποπ σταρ ερμήνευσε με το δικό της μαγικό τρόπο τα υποψήφια τραγούδια: "A beautiful night" σε στίχους και μουσική Πήγασος, "Who cares about love" του Νίκου Καρβέλα, "Welcome to the party" σε μουσική Δημήτρη Κοντόπουλου και στίχους Dimitri S και "Everything" σε μουσική Νίκου Καρβέλα και στίχους της Άννας Βίσση! Η επιλογή ήταν δύσκολη, αλλά αναγκαία, αφού υπήρχε μόνο ένα εισιτήριο πρόκρισης για τη μεγάλη μουσική γιορτή του Μαΐου! Το Everything το κέρδισε και έτσι μαζί του θα ταξιδέψουμε και θα φτάσουμε μέχρι τον τελικό της 51η Eurovision, που για πρώτη φορά θα φιλοξενηθεί στη χώρα μας! Όσο για το show …ήταν πραγματικά ένα δυνατό πάρτι με πολύ κεφάτους καλεσμένους και εξαιρετικούς οικοδεσπότες, τον Γιώργο Καπουτζίδη και τη Ζέτα Μακρυπούλια, οι οποίοι ήταν πραγματικά απολαυστικοί και άφησαν τη δική τους σφραγίδα στην αποψινή βραδιά, γεμίζοντας το Βοτανικό με το κέφι και τη ζωντάνια τους!

Λαμπερή και κεφάτη βραδιά

Ο Γιώργος και η Ζέτα, ως πιστοί σωσίες των Ελλήνων τραγουδιστών που σημάδεψαν το διαγωνισμό, μας προσκάλεσαν σε ένα πολύ ενδιαφέρον ταξίδι στις σημαντικότερες στιγμές της ελληνικής παρουσίας στο Διαγωνισμό και μας έκαναν να θυμηθούμε, να συγκινηθούμε, να ξανατραγουδήσουμε παλιά αγαπημένα τραγούδια, αλλά και να διασκεδάσουμε με τις μοναδικές αναπαραστάσεις παλαιότερων συμμετοχών!

Μας έκαναν "Μάθημα Σολφέζ" και πριν προλάβουμε να πούμε οτιδήποτε μας φώναξαν "Στοπ", για να μας εξηγήσουν, πώς είναι όταν μπαίνει η "Άνοιξη" στα ξαφνικά και να μας υποσχεθούν "I would die for you"!

Εμείς τους ακούσαμε προσεκτικά και ξαναθυμηθήκαμε μοναδικές ελληνικές Eurovision στιγμές, που έχουμε αγαπήσει!
Βέβαια, πρέπει να τονίοσυμε, ότι το πιο θερμό χειροκρότημα το πήραν ο Γιώργος και η Ζέτα, ως Θάνος Καλλίρης και Βασίλης Δερτιλλής, ερμηνεύοντας το "Bang", την ελληνική συμμετοχή του 1987.

Ξεχωριστό τόνο στη βραδιά έδωσαν o Σάκης Ρουβάς, η "Number One" τραγουδίστρια της Ευρώπης, Έλενα Παπαρίζου αλλά και η μεγάλη κυρία της ελληνικής μουσικής, Νάνα Μούσχουρη, οι οποίοι βγήκαν σε ζωντανή σύνδεση και έδωσαν τις πιο θερμές τους ευχές στην Άννα. Τη δική της εμφάνιση έκανε και η συμπαρουσιάστρια του Σάκη, Μαρία Μενούνος, η οποία σε βίντεο που προβλήθηκε, μας τόνισε πόσο χαρούμενη είναι που θα συμπαρουσιάσει τη Eurovision.

Την παράσταση, όμως, έκλεψε για μια ακόμα φορά η ξεχωριστή Άννα Βίσση, που απαστράπτουσα και σε πολύ καλή διάθεση μας χάρισε τέσσερις υπέροχες ερμηνείες! Μας ξεσήκωσε με τους δυνατούς ρυθμούς των τριών ρυθμικών κομματιών και άγγιξε τις πιο τρυφερές γωνιές της καρδιάς μας με την ατμοσφαιρική μπαλάντα!

Διεθνείς καλλιτέχνες στην ελληνική γιορτή

Το δικό τους τόνο στη γιορτή έδωσαν οι εκπρόσωποι της Μάλτας Fabrizio Faniello, της Τουρκίας Sibel Tüzün, της Ρουμανίας Mihai Trăistariu, της Νορβηγίας Christine Guldbrandsen και της Κύπρου Ανέτ Αρτάνι, οι οποίοι ενθουσιάστηκαν τόσο με τη γιορτή, όσο με την Άννα Βίσση αλλά και με τον κόσμο, που τους έδειξε με τον πιο θερμό τρόπο τι τους περιμένει τον Μάιο!

Το τραγούδι που θα ερμηνεύσει η Άννα το Μάιο επιλέχθηκε από το κοινό, μέσω televoting και την επιτροπή σε ποσοστό 60% και 40%, αντίστοιχα. Πρόεδρος της κριτικής επιτροπής ήταν ο Μίμης Πλέσσας και μέλη οι Αντώνης Ανδρικάκης, Δημήτρης Σταρόβας, Θέμος Αναστασιάδης, Χριστίνα Πολίτη, Ευαγγελία Πισκερά, Αντώνης Καρατζίκος, Ρένα Καπιτσαλά, ενώ μία ψήφο από κοινού θα δώσουν οι εκπρόσωποι των sites της EUROVISION Σίτσε Μπάκερ (ESCTODAY) και Φώτης Κωνσταντόπουλος (OIKOTIMES).

Η Άννα Βίσση τόνισε πως αγαπά εξίσου και τα τέσσερα τραγούδια και εξέφρασε την επιθυμία να τραγουδήσει την 20η Μαΐου ένα τραγούδι, που οι Έλληνες θα το γουστάρουν! Όσον αφορά στο νικητήριο τραγούδι, μας εξομολογήθηκε πως θα το τραγουδήσει με την ψυχή της και υποσχέθηκε πως θα δώσει τα πάντα για την Ελλάδα.

Τώρα αρχίζει η γιορτή!

Φυσικά δεν πρέπει να ξεχάσουμε τον κόσμο που βρέθηκε στο Βοτανικό για να γιορτάσει μαζί με την Άννα την πιο λαμπερή γιορτή της μουσικής στην Ευρώπη. Το κοινό χάρισε στην κορυφαία Ελληνίδα ποπ σταρ το πιο θερμό του χειροκρότημα και τη συνόδεψε με τον πιο ενθουσιώδη τρόπο στα τραγούδια της. Τι κι αν τα τέσσερα τραγούδια του τελικού ακούγονται λίγες μόνο μέρες… Οι πιστοί φαν της Άννας ήταν καλά διαβασμένοι και ήξεραν όλα τα τραγούδια στίχο προς στίχο, ενώ με τον ενθουσιασμό τους έκαναν την ατμόσφαιρα στο Βοτανικό ακόμα πιο… ηλεκτρισμένη!

Το θερμό χειροκρότημα έδειξε πως κανείς δεν ήθελε να τελειώσει το πάρτι.

Kαι αν τελικά τα φώτα έσβησαν για απόψε, σας καλούμε να μοιραστείτε μαζί μας τη διαδρομή μέχρι τη μεγάλη γιορτή της 20ης Μαΐου!

Συνεχίστε να επισκέπτεστε το www.eurovisionathens.gr για να μαθαίνετε όλα τα νέα για τη Διοργάνωση και ζήστε το ρυθμό της 51ης Eurovision της Αθήνας!





"Everything" for the ESC

Both the viewers and the panels of judges reached a decision and their music verdict elevated "Everything" into the song that Anna Vissi will sing for Greece in the ESC Athens 2006! The Votanikos Club dream stage lit up the Greek final like a starry night sky and the ultimate Greek pop star performed the four candidate songs in her own magical way. Just to remind you, the four songs were: "A Beautiful Night," music and lyrics by Pegasus, "Who Cares About Love," music and lyrics by Nikos Karvelas, "Welcome to the Party," music by Dimitris Kontopoulos and lyrics by Dimitri S and "Everything," music by Nikos Karvelas and lyrics by Anna Vissi. It was a tough call to make, but absolutely necessary, as one song alone could make it to the ESC final. "Everything" amazed both viewers and judges and was chosen to represent Greece in the 51st Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Athens! As for the show, it was a true party with amazing guests and even more amazing hosts, Giorgos Kapoutzidis and Zeta Makrypoulia, who really put on a spectacular show to amuse us all! Well, they did it!

Sparkling Night

Giorgos and Zeta invited us to a very interesting trip back in time, back to the most important moments of Greece's participations to the ESC, making us remember, relive and sing favourite old songs, as well as have fun watching unique reenactments of older participations!

We listened closely and remembered unique Greek Eurovision moments we loved so much, like "Mathima Solfez", "Stop", "Anoixi" and of course "I Would Die for You"!

Sakis Rouvas, "Number One" European singer Helena Paparizou, as well as the great dame of Greek music, Nana Mouschouri, gave a special note to the Greek final, as they wished Anna Vissi all the best through a live link. Sakis' co-host Maria Menounos, who appeared on video, stressed how happy she is to be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest.

However, unique Anna Vissi stole the limelight once more, when she appeared on stage to perform four unique songs! Dazzling as ever, she made us dance to the beat of three uplifting songs and touched our hearts with her atmospheric ballad!

International Artists in the Greek Final

Turkish participant Sibel Tüzün, Maltese participant Fabrizio Faniello, Norwegian participant Christine Guldbrandsen and Cypriot entry Annette Artani marked the show in their own unique way by performing their songs. All four of them were clearly thrilled with the show, Anna Vissi and the people, who uplifted them as a small indication of what awaits them in May!

"Everything", which Anna Vissi will perform in the ESC in May, was chosen by the audience (through televoting) and the panel of judges by a 60-40 percentage respectively. The panel of judges consisted of Mimis Plessas (President), Antonis Andrikakis, Dimitris Starovas, Themos Anastasiadis, Christina Politi, Evangelia Piskera, Antonis Karatzikos and Rena Kapitsala, while Sietse Bakker from ESCTODAY and Fotis Konstantopoulos from OIKOTIMES shared a joint vote. It should be noted that ESCTODAY and OIKOTIMES are independent websites dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Anna Vissi stressed she loves all four songs the same and her wish was that Greeks would choose the song they liked the most! Regarding the winner, "Everything," she underlined it is a song she would sing from the heart and give all her best for Greece.

The Party Just Got Started!

The Votanikos Club was packed with people, who wanted to share an amazing night with Anna Vissi. The audience gave the ultimate Greek pop star its most warm applause and joined her in a most enthusiastic way, when she performed the four candidate songs. What if these songs are only aired for a few days. Anna's fans had learned the lyrics by heart and gave the Greek final a unique atmosphere of fun!

Their warm applause indicated that they did not want the party to end!

What if the lights were turned off for tonight. We invite you to join us all the way to the great celebration on 20 May 2006!

You should have seen what happend on a contest for song that will represent Serbia & Montenegro. Best songs from both federal units (people's choice, voting by SMS) were played before Belgrade audience. Jury of 8 music experts (4 from Serbia and 4 from Montenegro) was supposed to pick the winner, but judges from Montenegro did not give a single vote to the best songs from Serbia! So, in the end won the same Montenegrin band that represented the country last year and that didn't even win in Montenegro (it came second there by people's vote). It was such an obvious political setup, because winners are close to the Montenegrin regime.

People at the event ware so outraged they didn't allow winners to play their winning song at the end of contest and chased them off the stage by throwing bottles. Audince was calling for the best Serbian song for about 20 minutes, and the band finaly came on stage and sang their song "Crazy Summer Dance" twice. In the end, everybody in the room was dancing, all performers and audience alike, it was incredible. It's still unknown which song will represent our contry.

Thats a really crazy, or should I say political story!

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It seems that Serbia & Montenegro will not have a representative in Athens. Two sides were not able to reach compromise and there seems to be no other solution.
This was one of the most despicable moves of the Montenegrin lidership so far! They have obviously setup the content so that their favorite would win. Plus, it has now come into the open that their band was supposed to perform in Athens wearing "Independant Montenegro" shirts, just two days before the referendum that desides wether we stay one contry or not.

This is a sad ending of a dirty political game. There are many thing to regret.

First of all, this means the end for the talented Montenegrin band "No Name", which you might remember from the last year's Eurosong. After this episode, they can kiss their careers goodbye. No one in Serbia will ever listen to them again, nor will they have a concert here. They may remain popular in Montenegro, but Montenegro only has about 300 000 people. They've let themselves be manipulated, poor kids.

Second thing I regret is that Serbian song "Crazy summer dance" by "Flamingos" will not be played in Athens. Song is excellent and would probably win the contest easily, but I can't make any guarantees without listening competition from other contries. "Crazy summer dance" was by far the best song we ever had for this contest and here is why:

1. It's a tra-la-la song. Without much artistic value, it an easy-going song with catchy rythm that makes you want to dance (think Macarena). Balads usually don't win this contest, happy songs do.

2. Song is technicly perfect. It is simpy made for winning the contest. Lyrics were mixture of Serbian and English, and such combinations worked many times so far. It starts with "Kalispera" and couple of lines in Greek, just to heat up the audience in Athens. Then go verses like
"Paris, London, Lisabon
Copenhagen, Prague and Rome..."
Foreners should like that.
Then come the female vocals that were done flowlessly, and it is all finished by an episode by folk singer Luis, who has such a strong on-stage presence. Tune is so catchy and familiar, whole Europe would dance to it for months to come.

3. Contest is in friendly Greece, which should make the audience react well to our song, and that should affect people who watch it on TV.

4. Just sheer number on Serbs living in other European contries will always guarantee us a place among top songs as long as SMS voting is used. Same goes for contries such are Turkey and Bosnia.

Thats really sad to hear!
Well, I hope that a solution could be found in the end!

And by the way:

I have to agree with you! I did hear the song and its really good, good enough to win the contest!

i read the story about Servia today at the newspaper and watched some short video in the news....

the most alarmingfact is that only one day after the Eurovision contest held in Greece there will be a Poll about Montenegro 's independence right ?

this could be the first politic decision after a song contest ( there has been a war after a football match between Nicaragua & San Salvador in the past )

Πως φάνηκε ότι στο Everything είχε βάλει το χεράκι της η Βίσση....Η ερμηνεία της μου φάνηκε υπερβολική, αλλά Βίσση είναι αυτή... Αν δεν πήγαινε στη Eurovision με κομμάτι του Καρβέλα ή δικό της με ποιανού θα πήγαινε.....

Τέλος πάντων, σας άρεσει το Everything? Εγώ δεν τρελάθηκα, αλλά με την πλύση εγκεφάλου που θα γίνει μέχρι το διαγωνισμό, μάλλον θα αλλάξω γνώμη

Για να δούμε τι θα κάνουμε φέτος....


P.S.: Morbius, I saw on TV what happened on your song contest. It's very sad, that Serbia & Montenegro will not have a representative in Athens... Hope things will be better next year..

so there will be no representative from Servia ?

Des Morbias

Well if u ask me, who the f.... cares about Eurovision? I don't. Because there is no good music, no good artists, just group of bad singers with bad music...
Maybe i'm wrong, but i don't see why should i be so excited with Eurovision? And i'm glad because SCG does not have any representative, they suck enough already...

Nope, because they behave like children. So if they want to behave like children it's better to stay like it is - no representative.

i still remember the fantastic song by Servia & Montenegro 2 years ago, when Greece with Sakis Rouvas finished 3rd, this song was 2nd and Ukraine 1st

Serbia had always nice songs in the eurovision!

Its really sad!

Since we are having bad results in all the sports that we used to be good in (basketball, waterpolo, handball...), maybe Eurosong contest would go our way...
Or who knows, maybe we won't do so bad in football this summer. We never had much luck in that sport.

football has mysteriosu ways : just stink of all the talent brought by Jugoslavia and yet, it was small Greece full of misery, criticism and disappointments that got the Euro... these things happen only in football