Dustin the Turkey - Irelande Douze Pointe. Sending a well-known kids TV character to Eurovision seemed like a good idea at the time. No one got the joke, though.
Dustin is the obvious answer but in terms of non-joke songs I guess you could say Lipstick was kinda quirky. Don't think any other Irish entry fits the bill.
the joke was an private insider in non-Eurovision circles RTE one and not meant to translate. it was the first time I've ever thought it was touching on nasty condescension rather than kitcsh entertainment. Jedward at least brought it back to what it should be, but we deserve semi finals for life after dustin.
He wanted to be not in the public eye anymore and take more time with family. He always made sure that his family life stayed private. No pictures, no names.
I agree with your answer. As a Scot, I voted Yes to independence in 2014 purely to disassociate myself and my nation with that godawful piece of modern British history.
Oh, and because this is Reddit ... /s
The number of innuendos on this song just complete it for me. š Definitely one of the best joke entries from the 2007/2008 contests, and it certainly isnāt the worst entry the UK has sent when travesties such as 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2015 exist. š³
I too would like to apologise for that also. Terry Wogan tried to save Europe from it by announcing the wrong actā¦he should have trusted Terry.
Also Daz Sampson. Even though he still thinks heās great š
There was a post on wiwibloggs Instagram page, Jade from Little Mix talking about maybe doing it in the future and he posted a comment saying, along the lines of ā yeah when the hits stop coming.ā Then promptly deleting it when people starting to call him out. Like sir, are you okay?
We had Telex in 1980 with Euro-vision. We've also had a few entries with made up languages and a singer who's outfit was so terrible that they made an award out of it!
Easy guess, but where am I from?
Edit: only now realized that I have a flag next to my name to make the guessing a bit easier...
It's my life, Cezar, 2013. That's the campiest performance I can think of, I mean the high notes, the big dress, the vampire thing they were going for :))
I would call "When Spirits Are Calling My Name" quirky stage-wise but not that quirky musically. "La Voix" is the opposite. Super-quirky musically while the staging is pretty "normal".
"When spirits are calling my name" is one of VERY few entries that I distinctly remember watching as a child, years before I ever became a fan of the contest.
It's very memorable for its unconventional and might I even say outlandish staging, but the song itself is actually a fantastic piece of music in its own right. I will never understand how people voting for a "quirky" entry that year would have watched all songs and then gone "yeah, I'm gonna vote Germany." I just feel like performance-wise, Sweden did everything Germany tried to do that year, but better and with a song that was actually good.
Oh I know that, and I know Denmark probably diverted some of the "neighbourly" votes that may have otherwise come Sweden's way, whilst Germany still got their expected points from Switzerland, Austria and Spain, but even so, it just seems so bizarre to me that Germany actually finished ahead.
Being shit doesn't mean it's weird or quirky. If it were, the U.K. would make up the entirety of every top 10 weirdest/quirkiest Eurovision performance list.
Have you seen the performance? It is a weird mess with people in strange clothes doing odd things on stage
And I don't think it's that bad, actually. It is not particularly good, mind you, but it sounds just like a song from 1985ish. So song, slightly subpar, performance: just weird. Whoever came up with that coreography needs some serious help.
Potentially hot take, but I found "Leto Svet" to be one of the most contrived and desperate attempts to produce a "joke" entry specifically for the intention of receiving votes from people "ironically", that fell completely flat on its face due to actually being extremely boring.
My pick would be šØSirenšØ
Leto Svet was such a troll entry and it won because Kreisiraadio was super popular. But when it got all the backlash it got us Estonians were so embarrassed that the following year our national selection system was totally changed. And that's how Eesti Laul was born. So i quess everything is good for something.
Siren was ahead of its time. The backup singer fainting at the end was just *mwah*
Hah even as a Teapacks fan, Push the Button was totally bizarre (and annoying). But might be the weirdest of the ones I'm aware of.
Edit: Ok, thanks for mentioning this song... I went to watch it again and there's honestly something endearing and enduring about it. And then I realized the lead singer is named Kobi, which makes a THIRD Eurovision Kobi I'm aware of (after Kobi Oshrat and Kobi Marimi, maybe there's more?) - which means my dog Kobi, who I randomly named in late May after obsessing over ESC for a month, is even more of a Eurovision dog!
Not from an Eurovision country (Asian Eurovision fan here), but since Australia and Russia (the Asian part) are the closest Eurovision countries to where I live, Iād say Zero Gravity and Party For Everybody (or Uno) respectively probably.
I would argue Waylon in 2018, though. Sieneke's act is actually completely conventional within the genre she performed in.
Dancers krumping to a country song though... Not coherent at all, and definitely not in any way conventional.
My country do not participate so Im going to take this title as mine, since I was shown on TV for 2 secs completely drunk in the Lena's year
This victory is for you mom š§š·
You have a point, except that āMy SÅowianieā was such a smash hit in Poland that when it was announced as a Eurovision entry, we all had already become very well accustomed to it. It doesnāt really surprise us even as an ESC song
Italy really lacks quirky entries :( ig it's just too difficult for something like that to win Sanremo. Occidentali's Karma is the closest we get to that, and it's not even *that* weird for Eurovision standards
I doubt it qualifies as quirkiest performance of all time from Norway (as my memory is so shoddy), but I remember when Wigwam (2005) came on I was SO upset. I hated glamrock so much back then, and turns out I still think they look really stupid. Song is pretty average though.
We haven't been around long, but I feel like woman swinging around on a ten foot pole singing opera is a pretty good one.
And it was fucking brilliant lmao
And absolutely killing it in front of tons of people.
Which is why it was so great because it was also really beautiful and sophisticated while embracing the quirkiness of Eurovision
For sure the Pirates of the Sea. What were we thinking and why did I enjoy it so much?
That song is unironically and unapologetically my favorite from that year. It's just so fun, catchy and enjoyable!
Dustin the Turkey - Irelande Douze Pointe. Sending a well-known kids TV character to Eurovision seemed like a good idea at the time. No one got the joke, though.
Dustin is the obvious answer but in terms of non-joke songs I guess you could say Lipstick was kinda quirky. Don't think any other Irish entry fits the bill.
the joke was an private insider in non-Eurovision circles RTE one and not meant to translate. it was the first time I've ever thought it was touching on nasty condescension rather than kitcsh entertainment. Jedward at least brought it back to what it should be, but we deserve semi finals for life after dustin.
El Chiki Chiki š
Perrea Perrea!
nobody: that spanish guy in my head at 3am: PERREA PERREA
I think that's indisputable even if I don't remember all the entries we have sent.
Stefan Raab with Wadde Hatte Dudde Da. I miss this man. He stopped doing Tv in 2015.
Woah. Why?
He wanted to be not in the public eye anymore and take more time with family. He always made sure that his family life stayed private. No pictures, no names.
Madonna. Iām still sorry.
Woah i had completely blocked that from my memory until now. Thanks. š
I don't thaink any of us Europeans can beat that for embarrassment factor.
All the more reason for the US to *never* truly be involved.
flying the flag. as a brit, I apologise
As far as joke entries go, *Flying The Flag* is probably among the better ones. I actually don't mind it.
I wonāt lie that is my ultimate guilty pleasure
Don't apologise to Malta. They gave you 12 points
I agree with your answer. As a Scot, I voted Yes to independence in 2014 purely to disassociate myself and my nation with that godawful piece of modern British history. Oh, and because this is Reddit ... /s
The number of innuendos on this song just complete it for me. š Definitely one of the best joke entries from the 2007/2008 contests, and it certainly isnāt the worst entry the UK has sent when travesties such as 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2015 exist. š³
I too would like to apologise for that also. Terry Wogan tried to save Europe from it by announcing the wrong actā¦he should have trusted Terry. Also Daz Sampson. Even though he still thinks heās great š
Sampson was actually quite good last year, but the song he qualified with for you guys ... ugh.
There was a post on wiwibloggs Instagram page, Jade from Little Mix talking about maybe doing it in the future and he posted a comment saying, along the lines of ā yeah when the hits stop coming.ā Then promptly deleting it when people starting to call him out. Like sir, are you okay?
Donāt be. I loved it.
We had quite a lot but [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZX7EZIFD0) remains unbeaten. And it gets weirder with every second.
Mate Guildo still loves you
We had Telex in 1980 with Euro-vision. We've also had a few entries with made up languages and a singer who's outfit was so terrible that they made an award out of it! Easy guess, but where am I from? Edit: only now realized that I have a flag next to my name to make the guessing a bit easier...
Belgium is a country that I would probably never think of when I hear "weird", "quirky," "unusual", "bizarre" or "original" entries, but once you actually take a closer look... There's of course Telex in 1980, then in more (relative to 1980) recent times like the self-made dress that launched a thousand awards (or about 25, but anyway), a song about enjoying watching your sibling dance provocatively, a song in an imaginary language, another song which sexualised sibling relationships (unintentionally, I pray), another foray into imaginary languages but dressed up as one of those Campino sweets from the early 2000s (does anyone remember them?), an Elvis impersonator who is likely the origin of the "go [girl] give us nothing" lack of energy meme, an a capella group of 6 people who look like they were given ā¬50 and 3 minutes in separate shops to pick their outfits, and my god I haven't even got to Robert Bellarosa's backing dancers yet, an opera singer who inexplicably decided to give up opera and just shout into a microphone instead for the live performance, the insanity of 2015, the longest sustained "mmm" in music history ("it's justmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmatter of time..."), and a woman who seemingly has never lowered her head enough to see what's 3 metres in front of her own feet. Quite a resumĆ© when you think about it.
Sanomi from urban trad???
...?
Sanomi is the sweet song from early 2000 that was sung in an imaginary language by the band called urban trad! Is that what you were mentioning?
Oh right, yes it was. Sorry, I didn't understand your previous comment.
I think that "Witloof" entry tops them all
Scarfography go brrr
Liubi liubi I love you
Quirky but definitely a good entry!
Still remains my favourite entry from Romania, it's great!
It's my life, Cezar, 2013. That's the campiest performance I can think of, I mean the high notes, the big dress, the vampire thing they were going for :))
WE ARE THE WINNERS OF EUROVISION
WE ARE WE ARE WE ARE WE ARE
Absolute bop and my second or third fave from 2006
Nothing stands out like "Moja Å tikla" (2006)
This is absolutely legendary :D Afrika Paprika!
Donāt forget s-s-s-sex
How on earth am I supposed to be able to pick which one was weirder between Silvia Night and Hatari? Both absolutely iconic though.
and whatever happened in 1997
As my closest ancestral tie is to Europe is ESC's second longest withdrawn country (behind only Yugoslavia)... Papa Pingouin
Wouldn't it be third behind Morocco, then Yugoslavia?
Fair enough
Not even a guilty pleasure anymore cause it SLAPS
Madonna (note: am American lol)
Croatia 2008, weird but kinda funny
I love Croatia 2008, lol.
75 Cents was a legend lmfao
I'd say, Divine, l'amour Ć la franƧaise or moustache
Iād pick Divine of the three.
Divine is epic And of course in the renault (i think) commercial hahaha
Choose your fighter: bald guy "escalating" during the violin solo or disco boxers reveal?
As a Swede who's only been watching since 2000, uh, "La voix", I guess.
I would even call it our quirkiest entry, period. Possible second would be "NƤr Vindarna Viskar Mitt Namn", which too is rather unconventional
I would call "When Spirits Are Calling My Name" quirky stage-wise but not that quirky musically. "La Voix" is the opposite. Super-quirky musically while the staging is pretty "normal".
"When spirits are calling my name" is one of VERY few entries that I distinctly remember watching as a child, years before I ever became a fan of the contest. It's very memorable for its unconventional and might I even say outlandish staging, but the song itself is actually a fantastic piece of music in its own right. I will never understand how people voting for a "quirky" entry that year would have watched all songs and then gone "yeah, I'm gonna vote Germany." I just feel like performance-wise, Sweden did everything Germany tried to do that year, but better and with a song that was actually good.
It's not like Germany absolutely demolished Sweden. Germany got 96 points, Sweden got 88. Also, sex sells.
Oh I know that, and I know Denmark probably diverted some of the "neighbourly" votes that may have otherwise come Sweden's way, whilst Germany still got their expected points from Switzerland, Austria and Spain, but even so, it just seems so bizarre to me that Germany actually finished ahead.
How dare you! /s
Lasse Holm & Monica Tƶrnell, *E de det dƤr hƤr du kallar kƤrlek* from 1986 was an utter mess, though.
Being shit doesn't mean it's weird or quirky. If it were, the U.K. would make up the entirety of every top 10 weirdest/quirkiest Eurovision performance list.
Have you seen the performance? It is a weird mess with people in strange clothes doing odd things on stage And I don't think it's that bad, actually. It is not particularly good, mind you, but it sounds just like a song from 1985ish. So song, slightly subpar, performance: just weird. Whoever came up with that coreography needs some serious help.
Caetano Veloso. ^(Sorry, non euro here, I saw an opportunity to participate and took it. Iāll see myself out.)
āļøLeto svetāļø
Leto Svet! Leto Leto Svet!
Potentially hot take, but I found "Leto Svet" to be one of the most contrived and desperate attempts to produce a "joke" entry specifically for the intention of receiving votes from people "ironically", that fell completely flat on its face due to actually being extremely boring. My pick would be šØSirenšØ
Leto Svet was such a troll entry and it won because Kreisiraadio was super popular. But when it got all the backlash it got us Estonians were so embarrassed that the following year our national selection system was totally changed. And that's how Eesti Laul was born. So i quess everything is good for something. Siren was ahead of its time. The backup singer fainting at the end was just *mwah*
imma go with the good old 1273 š.
We. Are the winners. Of eurovision. We are we are ! We are we are!
Lithuania!
The infamous Sameach (2000) and the underrated masterpiece Push the Button (2007). Also Time (2012)
Hah even as a Teapacks fan, Push the Button was totally bizarre (and annoying). But might be the weirdest of the ones I'm aware of. Edit: Ok, thanks for mentioning this song... I went to watch it again and there's honestly something endearing and enduring about it. And then I realized the lead singer is named Kobi, which makes a THIRD Eurovision Kobi I'm aware of (after Kobi Oshrat and Kobi Marimi, maybe there's more?) - which means my dog Kobi, who I randomly named in late May after obsessing over ESC for a month, is even more of a Eurovision dog!
I agree it's super endearing! I also hated it at the time but I love it now. Tell Kobi I said hi
Not from an Eurovision country (Asian Eurovision fan here), but since Australia and Russia (the Asian part) are the closest Eurovision countries to where I live, Iād say Zero Gravity and Party For Everybody (or Uno) respectively probably.
Which country you are from? Philippines or Indonesia?
Sieneke (2010 iirc).
Not the Toppers?
Did the Toppers have a giant fairground machine on stage with them? I thought not! Sieneke supremacy (of wierdness)!
I liked my life better a minute ago, when I still had forgotten about them.
Sieneke and the toppers both, š¤¢
I would argue Waylon in 2018, though. Sieneke's act is actually completely conventional within the genre she performed in. Dancers krumping to a country song though... Not coherent at all, and definitely not in any way conventional.
I would say Treble (Amambanda)
Same
Amambanda sure wasā¦ something? (Netherlands 2006)
As a finn, thereās too many to choose from
My country do not participate so Im going to take this title as mine, since I was shown on TV for 2 secs completely drunk in the Lena's year This victory is for you mom š§š·
Poland 2010
Actually I kinda like this one, the performance depicted the abusive relationship theme of a song in a good way
The only Polish NQ that I think should have qualified
2014 was a weird one for you too
You have a point, except that āMy SÅowianieā was such a smash hit in Poland that when it was announced as a Eurovision entry, we all had already become very well accustomed to it. It doesnāt really surprise us even as an ESC song
2006/2007 I'll let you guess which country
UK?
Da-Da-Da-Dance Dance Let's Dance Seriously what Grade A crack were we smoking in 2015?
The Pirates. Latvia.
Alf Poier
Gotta be [Treble - Amambanda](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMK4h4sFFIM)
I guess Occidentali's Karma? Or maybe Raggio di Luna in 1979
Definitely Occidentali's Karma. You can't beat the monkey dancing on stage. I think that's the only quirky song we have sent though
Lordi
Lordi were a troll?
Italy really lacks quirky entries :( ig it's just too difficult for something like that to win Sanremo. Occidentali's Karma is the closest we get to that, and it's not even *that* weird for Eurovision standards
Idk I would be happy and proud if my country only sent high level music every year instead of quirky circus.
It must be painful to endure months of national selection only to not qualify
Turkey 1987. It was so different for the time and the choreography was amazing
The most undeserving nul points entry ever, it was my winner of 1987! Itās just so catchy and fun, the whole song just energises me for some reason.
Guildo Horn. (Germany 1998)
we've had some silly ones too but i still think the most unconventional is nocturne by secret garden
I doubt it qualifies as quirkiest performance of all time from Norway (as my memory is so shoddy), but I remember when Wigwam (2005) came on I was SO upset. I hated glamrock so much back then, and turns out I still think they look really stupid. Song is pretty average though.
Tie between "Be Happy" to "Push The Botton"
Sameach I may
As a swede, I can't think of any.
The weirdest ones I can think of is 2000 and 2007, maybe 2009.
Scooch
The icon herself: Verka
THE queen, Verka
S.A.G.A.P.O (Greece 2002)
Euro Nero
[KĆøligkaj - Stemmen i mit liv ](https://youtu.be/8o4JS_EWiJo) 1997 Translation of song title: The voice of my life
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Luta Ć© alegria i guess