Top 20 WTF Eurovision Songs
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2022
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Well, that was different. For this list, we’ll be looking at musical performances at the Eurovision Song Contest that made us all stop and ask what the fortissimo is going on here. Our countdown includes "My Słowianie - We Are Slavic", "Yodel It!", “Hard Rock Hallelujah”, "Sameach", and more! Do you have any songs that made you blurt out WTF? Sing them out in the comments.
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What about the song of Norway for this year? Give that wolf a banana, like WTF!
There is a current WTF entry in 2022! Norway is asking everyone to give a banana to a wolf!
@@QuaintMelissaK that's what I've said!
Slovenia 2002
Austria 2003
Iceland 2006
Israel 2007
Estonia 2008
France 2008
Belgium 2008
Belgium 2009
Hungary 2009
Bulgaria 2009
Lithuania 2010
@@andrackulateamshots501 it was more of a parody than a song... But most of it went over people's head, because it involves three languages - Hebrew, English and French...
Dschinghis Khan is still a hit on family parties in Germany, it's absolutely glorious :D
I like their song Moscow
It was translated into Swedish and sung by Christer Sjögren
There used to be a Brazilian version called Brazilian Genghis Khan in the 80s, but the main singer and dancer wasn't as skilful as Mr. Potgieter.
It sounds like an 70s/80s Dschinghis Khan Anime opening.
Ya, I don't think the North American audience will ever "get" Eurovision, actually I dislike them even knowing about our crazy song contest!
Verka is not WTF moment. He's an icon and a legend!
totally agree !! Legendary !
And she is the moment
That was the peak of eurovision, after that its been downhill
@@milosculibrk8222 if we talking about "freak" eurovision era then probably yeah that was the peak
He obviously is, but c'mon, look at them lmao.
I'm surprised they didnt mention Hatari. Ive been listening to them since 2019's ESC.
"Hatrid mun sigra!"
Thank you! And me too, love them
hatrid mun sigra is best eurovivion song for me
Didn't they get mention in another watchmojo video?
Me too! Went to see them live as well, they're great!
Silvía Night deserved at least an honorary mention. People HATED her.
Greece's "Alcohol is Free" chorus was actually pretty nice. Because the song included history, myths, geographic locations, and it was definitely not about alcohol, rather, I would say, stereotypes about how Greeks are perceived, the chorus was the only thing that non-Greek-speaking people would understand.
Lordi was my gateway drug into Eurovision when my wife (who's from Greece) showed it to me. Now I'm obsessed and regret nothing!
Έχω δει τους lordi live in Athens
Translation: I've seen lordi live in Athens
(Love from Greece)
Where are you from though?
@@xrc7445 U.S.
Witnessed a Lordi concert for the second time recently. Same place, too ( Revolver Music Club in Jesolo, Italy)
Since I arrived very early, I had the unique chance to glimpse Mr. Lordi in his daily life attire ( You would not believe how adorable and...shorty he is), and I had a BLAST during the concert!
The band is great, they are funny and Mr. Lordi is such an entertainer. He always interacts with the public and jokes a lot!
In both concert they brought plenty of creative horror props, such as the pneumatic wings, an air cannon, tons of blood red streamers and confetti, a flying horror doll...
Maaan, at least Gildo Horn's on here but Stefan Raab's "Wadde hadde dudde da" in 2000 was far more *WTF* worthy than Gildo's performance (especially regarding the lyrics) 😂 I urge everyone to check it out.
And considering Germany's mostly disastrous entries into the competition of the last many years (with very few exceptions), it was a remarkable success - and a genuinely fun and entertaining show. Very fond memories 😀
For some reasons if Stefan Raab is involved then Germany has a good position in the list. Either Guildo Horn, Stefan Raab, Lena, Max Mutzke etc. all of them had very decent spaces in the finales.
Guildo was genuinely unexpected. The performance was irreverent, fresh and funny. Stefan Raab, on the the other hand, was trying too, hard, and he was the only one who thought he was funny. It was an embarrassing performance.
i did once and wow. a whole five different words in the chorus I think?
Lordi from Finland was not only the most WTF-moment but also the best 😄
They're no Gwar.
2006 was one of the best ESCs hand's down!
Did she say they had pantera influences? 🤔
@@RainesProductions Yeah, they straight copied them, and their costumes aren't even close to being as good. Wack af.
@@ericmoore5394 You didn't hear thrashy southern groove metal in that performance? It reminded me of something off of Far Beyond Driven myself. Definitely zero Gwar influence though.
My Słowianie was actually such a bop, I used be obsessed! 🇷🇸❤️🇵🇱
Verka Serduchka is a male, if you're curious. Quite progressive for that time🤙
An openly trans woman won 9 years before that. Eurovision is much more progressive than you think.
You should have used "Ok Happy End" of Serduchka's performance in the end! Perfect silliness :)
This was iconic ending ❤
Imagine if Germany wouldn't have blocked Electric Callboy from EuroVision
Fun theory: ”lascha tumbai” may be an intended mispronunciation of “Russia goodbye”
Now it is. In the interview with Andriy Danylko (Verka Serduchka) that was recorded soon after February 24, he mentioned that "mispronunciation" situation and stated that "from now on, it is ONLY "Russia goodbye"
Fun Fact: manyin Russia actually thought that and it was actively discussed on the media. Danilko explained that he didn't want to trashtalk Russia, as he was performing often there but it had an affect on him. Especially as he won 2nd place while Russia's "Serebro" got 3rd place.
In 2008 Russia attacks Georgia, so Danilko like artist laughed about that.
Can we talk about how this is one of the very FEW times where a channel making a recap of Eurovision songs has actually said that Rodolfo El Chikilicuatre was actually a comedic character? Thank you WatchMojo. And the same with My Slowianie, a lot of people take it way too seriously when it's supposed to be a fun song. Btw the narrator's pronunciation for most names is really good as well (for the ones I know how to pronounce at least).
yeah but baila el chiki was bad, My Slowianie was good
The positive takeaway from this list is that countries have started to take the contest a lot more serious again in the past couple of years. The 00s and early 10s period was absolute carnage.
Facts. The standard was so low, everyone viewed it as a joke and a lot of artists didn't want to be associated with it. The winners of 2001-03 were straight up awful and would never even qualify these days (03 actually was an ok song, but she performed it badly). 2004 and 2005 are both overated mid tier, i don't care what the stans say. Brief respite for 2006-07, absolute quality. Back to garbage for 08, Dima Bilan cannot sing. 09 is a meme. 2010 only won because the juries hated rock, and 2011 only won because Azerbaijan paid everyone.
If you want to include acts from this year, Latvia’s Citi Zeni, Serbia’s Konstrakta, and Norway’s Subwoolfer would have made this.
If you think Konstrakta is WTF you just don`t know shit.
Yeah, they didn't seem to include any recent acts, so I think this was just a re-hash of an old video.
Konstrakta is only wtf on the very surface level, it's poetry and social fight in a song
Croatia for this year please!
Rambo Amadeus is genius. His Songs are mostly exactly like Euro nerd. My favorite is “too old for rock and roll, to dumb for jazz”. The guy is solid.
And I think everyone knows about Lordi - less “WTF” and more a pop version of GWAR, I love their songs .. and their videos and concerts are top notch.
Verka is gorgeous legend! Not wtf! Just talent & beauty!
When my brother and sister in law first moved out into a massive share house with a bunch of friends, "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" was played all night at the housewarming party. Ever since then it became a tradition to play it at every party that was had, and usually the night ended with a bunch of twenty somethings doing a drunk rendition of just the chorus, as that was the only part of the song everyone knew. 😂
Fun fact: El Chiki-Chiki was a parody song that Spain send in protest. We were quite fed-up with all the political nonsense and neighbor-voting in eastern europe. Humor, parody and such are our bread and butter, so, when the time came, we just send this man. He was a character on the Andreu Buenafuente late-night show (the woman in the pink lycra dress is Silvia Abril, Buenafuente's actual wife and also former character of his show, The Child of Shrek...yes, that was her name XD). In fact, it worked better than we expected, and he's quite the recurrent thing to say when we don't like our Eurovision representative ("just send Chikiliquatre again!!").
The best part is, after the show, and due to the background of this character (late night show character, as I said), he announced his retirement, with the national newspapers saying that Buenafuente was going to kill him... He didn't, but Rodolfo (our pal, dear Rodolfo 9_9) left the studios in a hearse. XDDDD
that song was very bad though
@@Estonian4life I liked it^^
I really liked that song! Listened to it quite a bit to lift my mood xD
@@Estonian4life it was never the point to do a good song xD it's trashy, as it should be. Enjoyable as a joke.
Where is france 2008
He had backup singers dressed as himself (including women)
He drove in on a golf cart
He used a helium balloon mid performance
Omg I need to see this!
Fun fact, the Latvian song Wolves of the Sea has been "adopted" by a metal band called Alestorm that uses the pirate theme on their songs
Europeans: "Americans are so weird and crazy!"
Also Europeans:
Lasha Tumbai is now performed as ( I want to see) Russia Goodbye..... and what I still miss in both your top 10 and 20 is Silvia Night with " Congratulations " for Iceland 2006.
“Flying the Flag” is so f*cking embarrassing 🤦🏼♀️ we really voted for that song to be our entry that year as well… wtf were the other songs like if that was our best one? 😭
i loved Rembo Amadeus) the same year i also loved the austrian band with "woki mit dem popo", they also didn't make the finals and also were a little WTF, but not enough comparing with montenegro xD
2014 had some really weird songs... or more so stage props.
Poland had a laundry lady of course, but Greece had a trampoline :D
And Ukraine had a man in a hamster wheel...
WTF stands for
Way
Too
F*ck*ng iconic
LT United was basically Lithuania saying "f it, we will never win anyway, let's just have some fun". If I recall we didn't even pick what was going to the Eurovision. There was a local show that was meant to pick out the contestant but everyone was so bad that it was just decided to group up the better known musicians and send a joke entry
And it ended up as the best achievement (6th place) for Lithuania at Eurovision so far... 🙂
For me it’s one of the best songs. Why? Because it’s one of the satirical song/joke done on an international stage.
Verka Serduchka's "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" imho is almost as iconic for the contest as Abba's "Waterloo" from 1974, "Mr. ESC" Johnny Logan or the chanson beginnings in black & white that seemed to come from a totally different universe. Did anybody notice the resemblance of the song's title to "Russia, Goodbye!"? What a fantastic, ingenious entry!
i love the russian grannies one. :D They look like they're having the time of their lives.
Lordi entered the right year. That year the ESC was known as the most naked Eurovision because so many countries had people in practically underwear dancing and singing on stage. People were fed up seeing that in a family show.
Lol, family show:)
No it won because all rockers finally had their genre represented. And it was the best song.
Also back in the days when the votes from each country was decided by people picking up their phones. Not by half people/half ”proffesional” jury.
@@mncdssctn9110 Yes, that meant a lot. I stopped watching when we got a panel of 5 judges counting for 50% of the votes in the Danish one. Not gonna bother with that show anymore.
Cause most people were fed up with Soviet states voting for each other
@@petesmart1983 Like the western countries were any better 😄 Rarely did any Scandinavian country vote 12p for any other than a neighbour. You can blame it on politics but it’s not so unusual that it’s just about taste. Similar culture often goes hand in hand with similar taste in music.
Where is Ja Ja Ding Dong by Fire Saga?
Oh wow, you girls did an entire Top 20, I'm so here for this.
Exactly what I'd expect from the list, but you COULD have used footage of Toy that was actually FROM the contest.
Watchmojo you MISSED Belgium 1980 ! He literally only says "Eurovision" all the time ! A huge WTF moment !
"Vampires are alive!" [S]
"So you finally got the news." [Romania]
The whole point of Eurovision is that it is bonkers. Sure, occasionally a half decent song slips through, but it is all about being silly and having some fun. No one would be remotely interested in watching it otherwise.
Eurovision has a bonkers quality and an artistic quality as well. Otherwise we wouldn't have songs like Zitti E Buoni, Soldi, Arcade, Heroes or even Euphoria competing.
The whole point of it, is having fun with music. Yeah, sometimes it is bonkers. But there have been truly great songs and artists performing or even getting their big break there. It works because everything goes, meaning you will see acts which would never get such a big stage in an often very restrictive music industry.
also Verkas song, that nonces was actulay supposed to be I want to se Russia goodbye, but it had to be changed becuse some complained about it
Where’s Silvia Night?
A WTF moment was the Icelandic song from 2019. It was good but strange too watch except you love SM
Missing "Wadde hadde dudde da" von Stefan Raab!
You totally forgot Stefan Raab's "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da" in the 2000 ESC for Germany. The intro alone is WTF twice over.. What TF and Who TF?
And here we see why the American Song Contest was such a snooze. Only Wyoming and Portland understood the assignment (and Oklahoma and Kentucky's songs were nice, at least).
The only time anyone in my family voted in Eurovision was for Lordi to win. My brother, both our parents and I voted on all our mobile phones and the house phone xoxo
I loved Lt United 🤣🤣 you missed moustache by twin twin .it's a gem .😁
Maaan, those songs from Romania are two of the most iconic of all time from the country. Yes, the kiss from Yodel It was akward and fun, but the song was catchy and unusual, and the same can be said for Cezar’s song. Moreover, in Eurovision you have 2 options: A good song that can touch a lot of people in 3 minutes( like Portugal in 2017) ,or a song that is completely unusual and funky and makes you wonder some thing(Like Israel from 2018).
Our country Lithuania sang the song for a joke not even thinking that they would be in a high place
Yodel it is one of my favourite songs from Eurovision.
Verka Serduchka is the best 😁
You forget Sunstroke Project - "Run Away" (2010)
Iceland 2019: *exists*
WatchMojo: *includes Israel 2000 which nobody remembers*
But Isreal 2000 is known as "the worst esc song" so yeahh we know it
@@MrMrjack18 Pretty sure UK 2003 or Switzerland 2004 come to mind before that one when it comes to worst song in ESC history.
@@lucasgoncalves7774 Horrible songs but no song is worse than Isreal 2000 ! super monotonous too repetitive, very annyoing horrible vocals, horrible instrumental
It's called Eurovision and they include Israel? Sure makes sense, huh. I guess Israel is somewhere in Europe. 🤡
@@PhilipMarcYTAustralia is in the eurovision. So is Azerbaijan
Now we deserve a Top 20 best performances.
More Eurovision videos please!!!
Verka's Lasha tumbai nonsensical lyrics were actually intended to sound like Russia Goodbye without making political statements.
some good choices from this year would be Georgia and Norway of course, maybe San Marino, but also SERBIA!
bit bit bit biti zdrava!
I unironically love all of these
Come on where is Wadde Hadde DuDeDa by Stefan Raab
Yes, we all miss it - also as an honourable mention
Wait, where ist "Wadde hadde dudde da?" by Stefan Raab?
My thoughts exactly 😭😭
The eurovision song contest has always been cheesy, kitsch and camp as hell.
It's basically a grand old time for the gay crowd which for whatever reason is incredibly fun for everyone watching. Many of those watching from outside of Europe will have no idea what's going on half the time but again, that's all part of the fun.
Not always. The contest was classy in its early decades. Now it's a giant gay fest with cheesy entries each year, but it wasn't like that at the beginning.
Verka is legendary!
Expected Slavko Kalezić to be here, a real wtf legend
Yodel it is one of my favourite Eurovision songs of all time.
great vid
I’m a huge Dustin stan, so I clicked on this just for him. One of Ireland’s best comedians. His cover of Fiels of Athenery is just *chefs kiss*
This is the first time I knew Wolves of the Sea wasn't written by Alestorm I'd only ever heard their version and it doesn't have (cover) next to the title on the CD.
I really liked "We Are The Winners."
Whether they really did think that approach would work or they were just pranking everyone... it is in the spirit of Eurovision (at least that particular year).
Alcohol is free had me going” ok what the fuck was that”
Lasha Thumbai was meant to sound like Russia goobye ;) ...so they are basically singing "I like to see Russia goodbye" - it was quite a controversy thus the whipped cream explanations :D
Given that this was made the day after SF1 for ESC 22, you could have included Eat Your Salad by Citi Zēni
And Trenuleţul by Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov
I've never heard of Eurovision. What channel is it on?
Depends in which European country you are , but you can watch it live on You Tube as well.
You can watch the live stream on their youtube channel
Netta used chicken bawking cause that was the sounds her bully used to make.
Bro, imagine being called out in front of 300m+ ppl as a Bully💀
Good timing xD
You should also make top 20 (no, top 200) beautiful songs performed at Eurovision that everyone should hear. The thing I love the most about the contest is that artists get to perform songs in their native language. This year we have songs in Lithuanian, Breton, Icelandic, Serbian, Ukrainian etc. How wonderful (and not wtf at all) is that?
Eurovision is not only about "wtf" songs and performances. Videos like this one make it look like it is. There is nothing wrong with this video, but you should also show the other side of the contest. Thanks in advance, I am sure you're gonna do it😉 (although I know that mocking something is more interesting for your viewers... which is sad and topic that could be discussed for days).
P.S. Enjoy the 2nd semifinal of Eurovision 2022 tonight 🎶❤️🏆
Eurovision is just horrible. And I still don't understand how it should deserve "euro" in its name. Please stop it 😭
@@jp299 That's just your opinion and you have every right to express it politely🍀💚
@@jp299 I fully disagree. Eurovision can have all kinds of performances, wtf ones , but also many touching, fun or simply amazing ones. It enables you to discover tunes, languages, cultures and artists from so many different countries. This year's contest for example was a very strong one in my opinion.
Croatia will soon be added after 2023 Eurovision is over. The song is comedy!!
How weirder it is, how better it is, love Eurovision :P
Whoever wrote this doesn't know much about Eurovision. Spain 2008 placing 16th and Poland 2014 placing 14th is actually very respectable for those songs are.
Interesting list. I'd like to add a few facts here:
- Verka Serduchka's song, written by Verka's performer Andrej Danilko, actually caused controversy in Russia, because they thought "I wanna see Lasha tumbai" sounds too much like "I wanna see Russia good bye", something Danilko never wanted to sound, as it is just nonsense without offending anyone. Apparently for some time his performances in Russia were limited at that time. But it was actually discussed in the after-show with Andrej Malakhov on First Russian Television.
- Guildo Horn is indeed a parody Schlager singer but to add a little extra: The song was written by comedian, songwriter, creative director etc. Stefan Raab under the pen name "Alf Igel", which is a parody reference to songwriter "Ralph Siegel", the one who wrote many songs for the ESC, who created "Dschinghis Khan" and wrote the first winning song for Germany, "Ein bisschen Frieden" by Nicole, back in 1982. Ironically Stefan Raab produced the second winning song for Germany, "Satellite" by Lena Meyer-Landrut.
- Ralph Siegel also wrote a song for San Marino called "Facebook Uh oh oh", a song that didn't made it into the finales but also was not allowed originally due to commercial names in the song, which is not allowed. Therefore it was changed to "The Social Network Song". Which didn't really make it better.
“give that wolf a banana” isnt on there or “Uno” could’ve also hit this list i guess.
But what i noticed is that you guys didn’t use the “Toy” from when israel won but the Toy from when she performed it again in israel a year later.
Jedward Lipstick????
It was a bit disappointing to not see “Congratulations” by Silvia Night for Iceland in 2006 not gonna lie 😭
Where's Hatari?!?
Dancing Lasham tumbai was very popular that year. The esc is hard for non-Europeans to understand because others just don't have the culture or ethnic background or history etc.
Elton John is awesome but he’s so weird at the same time, LMAO I love em 😂
2007-08 were strange times
Where is Leto Svet it was a real WTF moment
Great list. I’m sure Alf Poier was an honorable mention.
Tbh, I LOVED most of these acts (most of the ones ones I was old enough to remember lol)
Dancing Lasha Tumbai became a hit in Israel for no reason. We grew up on it and it still plays in parties
Definitely missed “Leto Svet” (Estonia) from 2008.
Yes definetly ! what a weird.... weird song ! AND Belgium 1980 song called Eurovision, another huge WTF moment !!!
They didn't qualify
Ahhh. My country in second place. :) How sweet.
@WatchMojo can you please make a "most iconic ESC-Songs"-List?
Like Konstrakta - In Corpore Sano this year, Go_A - SHUM from last year, of course Verka or Fuego?
Top Ten Most Used Songs in TV Shows
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Too bad you didn’t add “Eat Your Salad” from this year.
Or 'Give That Wolf A Banana'...
@@dimidrugg9592 or “Stripper”
@@dimidrugg9592 lol
Where's the one with the hamster wheel and flamethrowers. That one was the best
Switzerland , with dj BoBo: *appears *
me, swiss: oh no
Whole Eurovision is WTF
I love Lordi ever since I got shown a video by a friend of them performing in Eurovision. Also for this years (2022) song contests should be worth of a mention who’s IMO are Serbia, Norway, Latvia and Moldova.
and San Marino
Netta was so powerful and legendary song
idd 👍
Why haven't you seen the 2008 Estonian Eurovision Song Contest "Leto svet"?