Serbia, in its first solo appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest, took home this year's prize during Saturday night's competition thanks to Marija Serifovic's Celine-gone-drag-king "Molitva," a big ballad that teeters on the line between completely sappy and sorta dirgey. (The Ukrainian gender-bending entry finished second.) While nine countries gave "Prayer" their best-in-competition votes, even the presence of a pan-flute solo couldn't stop this five-month-old from falling into a full-on drool.
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The finals for the annual Eurovision Song Contest are tomorrow night, and the current favorite to win it all is the Ukraine's entry, a bit of Europop-folk called "Dancing Lasha Tumbai." The song is by comedian Andriy Danylko, who performs under the alias Verka Serduchka, a lot of makeup, and a cloud of drag-fueled controversy; we're still fans of Serebro, but on grounds of pure absurdity, we're hoping Verka takes the big prize—especially now that Switzerland's homage to vampires and Meat Loaf has been eliminated.
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I am from Ukraine (icq 455 06 80) a lot of our people didn't want Verka to participate in Eurovision. and at some moment even Verka herself decided not to go to Finland (because the words from her song "russia more »