Winner: Russia - Eurovision Song Contest Final 2008 BBC One

[smuggedreflections]

Am the only one who thinks that Plushenko should probably avoid doing his own choreography?

[aimur55]

russians dont know how speak or sing at all in some other language and this song is most terribel in the eurovision

[tobiashero]

Horrible English :s

[WubZers]

For fuck sake, it's obvious the reason he won. Russia is the biggest and most imposing military country in Europe. All the eastern european countries voted for them out of fear. Countries like Ireland, Spain and Serbia are entering songs they know won't win just to say Fuck You to Eurovision.

[mimamasellamallilla]

Go Russia!

[121456798]

Dima you are the best I'm so happy when I remember that moment you are the best!!!! Anybody can say what he want but that don't change anything because you was you are and you will be the best!!! And people who think that he doesn't know opera it must be quiet like a mouse, because then try it by yourself and don't be so stupid, jealous and insult somebody because you don't like ballads and pop music!!! He was in the best music school. All the best singers support him one of them is TImbaland!!

[legolas35653]

its nevvr impasebal

[FifteenPens]

Oh....

.....

Wow, he's beautiful.

/stare

[vivicidalEMZYMES]

He won for a reason, dearies. If you're butthurt that your guy didn't win, don't watch this and fuel your little hate fest. They worked hard - just as everyone else did - and won for their hard work. End of story.

[froppe]

@vivicidalEMZYMES

He won cause of the country-friend-team voting.. Same shit every year!

[DAVIDOW244]

this shit guy not deserve to winning..i overrate for voice and Elnur&Samirs voice and song should win in 2008 not this birdbrain!!

[8vious]

Nice song:)

[MrStef21]

I think he is trying too much ...hahaha

[sopera123]

this guy's awful. ni glasa ni stasa...

[thequadlegend]

The Best goes to Plushenko, his skills take lots of talents and hard work to accomplish. Glad to see him helping his friend here....love him more!

[SaNBeanz]

Love Dima Bilan but this truly sucks!

[uri0606]

Horrible!!!!!

[ThePortfolirus]

СНАЧАЛО ПЕТЬ НАДО НАУЧИТЬСЯ, ХОТЯ ЭТМУ НЕ НАУЧИТСЯ, А ПОТОМ РИСОВАТЬСЯ. ДОСТАЛ СВОИ ПРОПЕДИКОВСЕИМ ПОВЕДЕНИЕМ/. ПЕДИК БЕСТАЛАННЫЙ. ЛЮДИ ПОПУТАЛИ СПОСОБНОСТИ С ТАЛАНТОМ. ЕСТЬ РОДНИК, А ЕСТЬ ЛУЖА

[serbiangirlNorge]

Russia <3 <3 <3

[JLoveGame]

he´s fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drakon245]

DeVyLgIrL13

FUCK YOU!!!!

[dfhnn]

завидуйте молча!!!!!!!!!

[DeVyLgIrL13]

Russia Sucks

[AnkoLightAngel]

oh,canta destul de bine dar e cam ingamfat >.>' but,i like him! ^^''

[alexislupeni]

te odio dima...

[simonchee1]

you hate him..he hates you too:))and i hate you too:)))

[xXDavidTennantXx4eva]

This song was the best!! :D Am so happy he won and i love this song so much!!! I can't stop listening to it and his other song that came 2nd Never Let You Go in 2006! He is just sooo AMAZING!!! :D I LOVE Eurovison!! Watch it every year it's the best!!! :D

[crybabe99]

oh pleaseeee.jesus christ that's groce

[progrsv]

ce nas are ala de patineaza. zici ca e partia de la azuga.

[Tatischatz14]

i LOVE DIMA BILAN♥♥♥

[CoiutzePoleiteCuAur]

ce-i cu RATATUL asta mah?=))) doamne cat poate sa fie de inculta loomea..cum plm sa votezi un NOOB d-ASta:))))??°°

[Torika3]

Mie mi se pare bun >.>

[Salviados]

The song is SHIT and NO VOICE at all !

[simonchee1]

haha don't be funny the song is perfect and he is good too and his voice is the best he had very very good voice and he can sings opera..so please don't talk stupid things about him:)))

[guliak]

You, guys, just so jealous and envyous to all Russians he. Nothing to do with politics.

[eva8maria8]

genial!!! preciosoo!!!

[Mathiastro]

Whoa, the ice skater (Evgeni Plushenko) goes mental in this recording. :-p

It was an alright song, though Greece and Serbia were good too.

[livethedream212]

God that was rubbish. Why doesn't the UK just pull out of the contest? I know Andy Abraham wasnt the most amazing person, but he was better than this!! I wouldnt mind so much if we werent paying thousands every year for this political nonsense. Other countries pay fuck all but have more chance of winning ...and have less talent!! It is like a slap in the face.

[videolens]

no singer from italy????

[liam4mail]

Why do you only show half the songs? BBC is the worst channel on YouTube!

[AnDrEjS1111]

Because it was rigged political voting and Latvia is great not this year but ussualy

[liam4mail]

Grow up.

[unico]

Europe...why did you let this guy win?

why?

[eae157]

This is a competition and according to the PRINCIPLE OF DEMOCRACY - majority wins , so wats the problem?!

Majority voted for him! If Scandinavian countries were the majority the would have won too (sewden votes for norway, norway for sweden , denmark for Iceland etc)

This contest just showed the real position of Russia on the continent! It is still BIG! GET IT!

[BouncealongInf]

eae157

I will let you in on something you possibly did not konw.

As you claim this contest is democratic, Sweden's Entry Hero got to the final entirely by Jury votes. It did not win a single televote!

It did not win the Swedish public's vote for it to represent them.

It did NOT win the semi final televote. According to that Bulgaria would have gone instead.

What is your view of that?

[blingblinguser]

whoever liked this son and the singer and every1 who live in russia should die kfnx.

errrrrm just upset that the WORST SONG EVER WON!

[BouncealongInf]

If you think this is bad check out Latvia 2002 which won. Fantastic stage perforance, wonderful strictyly type dancing. Amazinng gender bender strip dance routine. Appalling song.

Check out the UK (yes UK)'s entry that year Jessican Come Back 2002. It was fantastic really! compared to Latvia's. It came 3rd.

[blingblinguser]

erm Latvia was better then this, evrything is better then this. my ass is betetr then this.

[BouncealongInf]

"evrything is better then this. my ass is betetr then this. "

Check Out

Spitting Image The Chicken Song

NOTHING is worse than that. It is meant to be stupid.

[sanstep90]

agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[opopoplplplp]

Who gives a shit. russia and all the other countries would never dream of having half the musical talent UK has. Considering Eurovision is basically a politcal party, any of our decent singers/performers wouldn't come any-where near eurovision. It's innevitable, no matter how extravagent our acts are, we wouldn't win.

[eae157]

Exactly !! Dima Bilan is #1 in Russia, and UK participant well - as far as i know - is not #1 in Uk.

So - send better representative!

And btw - if u guys think that the competition was unfair , c'mon - ur singer got ONLY 1 rating, so....well...nobody actually liked him. So - be ready to loose. And relax - send a better singer next year to Msk!

[BouncealongInf]

Regarding UK chart entries, these have been high in our charts recently:

Mint Royale Singing In The Rain (no 1 for last 2 weeks)

The Ting Tings Thats Not My Name

Do you think they are better sensible songs than Andy's Even If?

[BouncealongInf]

eae157

UK got 6 from San Marino and 8 from Ireland.

Not sure what you mean about only one rating or do you mean a rating is 8 points or over.

[BouncealongInf]

Also if you want to check out a similar style of song by a British Ameature that won a talent contest check out (not it is NOT Leona)

Leon When You Believe

Leon is NOT one of our best singers but he is better than Dima in English.

Also check out

will young anything is possible

At least they can sing in English unlike Dima.

Sorry. But Dima maybe fantastic at singing it in Russia but he needs a good vocal coach.

[BouncealongInf]

Let's be honest. If he turned up anonymously onto UK X Factor he would be in one of those "truely awful acts" joke segments.

In fairness, he does have an accent and is russian so we should not laugh too much and be fair. He also does seem to sing well in Russian.

But his singing in English is not that good.

Compare his singing with another russian selection song (which was rejected):

Sergey Lazarev - Flyer (Live Rus. Eurovision 2008)

watch?v=Qu9T-4eD41w

[BouncealongInf]

However in fairness as I said Dima does sound good in Russian. Check out:

Video Clip Dima Bilan Lady Flame Russian version

watch?v=iSuQWPKVkyY

This is the inferior English version

Dima Bilan - Lady Flame

watch?v=tn9e8MCCHsE

So far the Russian version of Lady Flame is the only song I like by him.

I'm UK.

[bcoy1para]

katteyk , i think uk should pull out totaly!!!!

[katteeyK]

to be honest 2008 singer was really good. he didnt deserve to come joint last. its all political, countries voting for their neighbours. Why should the UK take it seriously any more?? because its not a singing competition, take 2006 winners!

[lisenokTX]

The best way to test the Political Voting theory is by sending good singers/songs to the Eurovision. I don't like this song or Bilan, but I can see why he won (it was pretty much cheating, everyone loved him in 2006). However, the last 3 UK entries were complete joke, which is surprising, considering UK has so many excellent singers. May be UK should take it seriously too... I liked Ukraine, Israel, Norway. Latvia cracked me up. IoI

[bcoy1para]

love to know who would really win if there wasnt political voting!!

[BouncealongInf]

bcoy1para

There is a eurovision fanclub which did a similar vote from different countries.

They are music enthusiasts as the variety is far greater

Type in

sechuk

into a web browser to find out more.

They placed this 10th, Sweden 1st, Switzerland 2nd, but the UK still did very badly.

These people voted uk 2nd with Cyndi in 2nd chance. The Revelations will res UK this yr for that.

[bcoy1para]

yes obviously political voting , uk doesnt need to prove anything in this contest , we have the largest most sucessful music industry in europe! if not the world.

[mudzingwa17]

lets face it they are all shit they cant even sing well,u cnt understand a word there sayin and they all take it to seriously and there all to cheesy england will never get anywere in da eurovision as they all hate us but they still want to be part of the euro and cum to our country take our money ,jobs and houses its a joke.

[ChaoticDestiny360]

the guy playing the violin looks like he is faking it :P

i mean, what the heck is dima saying??!

he may sing well in russian, but he is terrible in english.. they must have threatened many people to win..

This is really bad..

[BouncealongInf]

From a UK perspective this Russian rejected selection song would have been more popular with UK.

Sergey Lazarev - Flyer

watch?v=Qu9T-4eD41w

It is an uptempo dance tune.

It would have been popular with UK i think.

When you realise Russia rejected that perhaps you can understand why Even If did not do so well.

Flyer is not perfect, but would have been more popular than Believe in west.

[etch8989]

this is crap Israel was best.

[elinaki2008]

SHIT!!!!SUCKS!!!!!WHAT IS HE SAYING!?i CAN'T UNDERSTAND A THING!!!lol!!!!SUCKS!

[poowerpuff]

skridskopojken, haha! rofl

[SweetSoundOfViolin]

They was great ^^ Edvin and Evgeni :) Dima have bad accent but he have good voice and lyrics of the song was beautiful !!!

[Taytocrisp11]

Oh god this is shite

[SkullCandyoo]

shit

[SkullCandyoo]

shit

[SkullCandyoo]

shit

[SkullCandyoo]

shit

[RuBaNoK777]

yankeee go home!!!!!!!!!

[BouncealongInf]

BTW UK did this type of thing first on one of our shows, Dancing On Ice.

If you like Leona Lewis and would like to see a British Olympic Gold Medal Ice Skating Partnership (man and woman) skating around her while she sings go here

watch?v=Lxb6LdRNcyM

This was done before Eurovision.

What do you think?

[BouncealongInf]

In absoloute fairness the reason why the UK did not like this song is this theme has been repeated over and over in our talent show winners songs e.g.

Will Young - Anything is Possible

Michelle McManus - All This Time

Shayne Ward - That's My Goal (romantic overtones)

Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This (with some slight romantic overtones)

Leon (not Leona) - When You Believe

Also

Brian Harvey - I Can Eurvision2007 selection.

So us Brits are a bit fed up of it...

[springfieldfetti]

russia is the wrong winner

[otteee]

iceland should have won, they had the best song..

[elliedramaqueen]

russia wtf? what you doing man? u must of made either alot of threats or bribes to win this year my friend coz a cat being shot made better music than that guy.

[barnaulishe]

ye but Britain wouldn't sing if its life depended on it!!!lol

[jcmaclir]

Wow.. how wretched was that!? I love his dramatic hands.. gimmie a break! Throwing out your hands and clutching them every five seconds does not make a song more dramatic. YUCK! And the iceskating.. for the love of G-d.. WHY!? Russians.. such nerds.

[barnaulishe]

you cant talk... American i mean i mean look at you ur race, it is one of the ugliest in the world!

[jcmaclir]

"American" is not a race.. ignorant moron.

[MiggeS]

yeah yeah keep crying 987felix ;P

[987felix]

This is crap, sorry. The song could be worse but that ice-skater, WTF?

It shouldn't have won. It only managed it because all the surrounding countries are scared of Russia.

[xoxsnowqueenxox]

987felix :You wrote wrong,must be:It had to won. It managed it because all the surrounding countries loved Russia.

[xxsazumexx]

not trying to put the winner down..but the only good thing about his performance is actually the skater!!! evegni pluchenko is awesome..and i think that's why they've got so many votes..because he was there..otherwise..I love Israel, Spain, UK and of course Portugal song's..And the Czech song (the tango one) was damn good :D

ESC 09..maybe we can hope for a different story :P

[moggytutorials]

You can tell Eurovision is no longer about the music, and about politics and geography - not because of it being Russia, but because the songs so SHIT! Hahahahahaha

[Earthy17Angel]

Don't be JEALOUS! We r waiting for all of u here in Russia on Eurovision 2009!

[barnaulishe]

am Earthy17Angel you must admit... the Russian song was kinda shit...better than Greece though! ¦)

[nintendolad]

Don't expect the UK to be there.

[Earthy17Angel]

OMG! Ok then.

[Dashkasweet]

are crazy?

hitlewr kaputt

haha

[xxrosie95xx]

russia only won because it has the most countries next to it voting for it england have only got ireland

[luvinthatspecilguy]

to true and like england is a lil cuntry so no one votes it n were not in erope so none 1 votes us part from irland yeay lol

[Clairerobbo85]

i find it hard to believe that this song won eurovision...i wud rather ave voted for andy abraham...crap

[andragor12]

Dima Bilan - Vsyo V Tvoih Rukah (Believe in Russian)

/watch?v=lDHK9EHPgcE

Beautiful. He really should sing it in Russian.

[rondamon674]

don't you think the ice dancer moves like the starwars kid?...lol

[veryvickers]

hahahahahah! (rondamon674's comment)

i totally see it now! good for noticing it.. give that ice skater a lightsaber

[eae157]

hahaha- but he still won ;)

[RadenMan]

haha omg how could you see that ?

When you say it I totally see it to :-)

Go russian starwars kid!

btw, the song is awful..

//Raden

[tnawrestlingking]

IM SCOTTISH AND I LOVE IT

[laiffi]

SO BAD!! DON'T LIKE IT!

[xXxN0t0ri0usxXx]

lol i love it how u idiots say "hes a shit singer coz hes got an accent" dont any of u dumbasses realise that english is his second language, so he is BOUND to have an accent. i wana see any of u haters try to sing in another language =D

very well deserved win =)

[myliegrove]

if he's really practiced he could still have got it right. Lots of other acts did. If you think about it, words are just loads of sounds and he could have worked out the right sounds to get the words sounding right. If he couldn't, he should have sung in Russian...he would have won anyway, seeing as it isn't actually a music contest.

[eae157]

u say the others sang in good english...well that may be true, but - i guess - u havent been to Russia, which means that u dunno that Russians dont speak english, say, like swedish do (they dont need - the country is too huge). So his accent is not bad.

And yes - he won EVEN DESPITE HIS ACCENT. Coz he sang with soul. Admit it. UK 's song was not THAT bad, but it is incomparable to Believe.

[Inertia666]

He's a shit singer 'cause he's off pitch, is using a ridiculous over the top forced vibrato on every word he can, and the accents he feels the need to put on every word that can possibly be stressed are hilariously bad. (And I mean accent in terms of stressing words/syllables.) The language accent just makes it worse.

[eae157]

I find his accent very hot!

[eae157]

and that's not a language competition. It s a song competition. The accent is not noticed by the others. It may be noticed mainly by english ppl, so ...yeah - it didnt matter at all.

[baraJagoDu]

ofcourse, it got what u mean, but i sing at english as good as i sing in swedish u know

[eae157]

Countries like Germany and UK would have won if they sent decent singers (not a garbage man) + Why are you so angry ????? Norway for example got 6pts from Russia: it was a good song and they got their 6 pts.

What can you do when Armenia, Ukraine and Russia did have very good songs and great performance/

Advice: next year send adecent singer and you will win. UK does have a great ShowBiz, so - show it off then/

[dentdaletom]

What a crap song!

[melissasmith94]

i'm english and i really like it

[FantaTennis]

for god sakes he cant even sing? listen to his english FOR FUCK SAKE eastern europe voted for eachother this is why this awful singer won fack head. just cause hes sexy fgs LISTEN HE CANT SING the lyrics are good but oh dear god his voice i have to cover ears.

[eae157]

His voice is really good!

[wellyuk2001]

lets start a campaign toget the bbc pull the funding out off this eurovision political contest

[HumanNature1961]

1) stop taking our trade

2) stop living in our houses

3) stop using our benefit system to fund your country's

4)stop asking for aid

5) if you think its about politics vote for us too say thank you for all this, if its not about politics vote for the UK cus we can fucing make good music and you fucing cant.

[HumanNature1961]

Oh here we go it cant be about facts some idiot has to go to the race card and the soddin war and all that shit, wars are fault by governments not the people so stop fucin going on about it being OUR fault. this was a crap song and this political craps getting on my nerves. Europe takes our money our trade, so if its about fucin politics say fucing ty next time and vote for us, and stop coming over here to live if its so fucing good there.

[page3boy]

andy dicked on this guy!

[dim432]

i aggree go to number 10 downing street and do a riot and tell them to stop block voting

[Stewartp]

Russian is going gay!

[dazippo]

this is just wrong ...

and the show sucks as well

[burtyjim]

god this show sucks now its so set up there dont vote for the songs just for the place

[caiz1]

RUSSIA RULE THE WORLD !!!

[justcallmesoso]

this kind of sucks....big time..Sweden is gonna leave this bogus "contest".

[gaiogan2]

be friki.

Chiki chiki.

[bigbossanticristo]

WTF!!!!! Chiki chiki is the best!!!

You suck!!!

[beanminion]

umm... is that skater actually skating at all or just hobbling around and waving his arms?

i can't believe another eastern eouropean country won again!!!

not.

[Funnyaddictions]

UUUMMMM!! What do u say to that one, eeemm!! didn't like it!!!

[brapsherpa99]

Why is he trying to sing in English? BBC please withdraw funding for this show ruined by politics

[danzz]

dam right, agree with u totally.

[pavcnik88]

some 1 needs to visit a terapyst

[Bighairyfart]

HAHAHAHAHAHA U ARE STUPIDDDD, WHEN I SEE UR MOM I TAKE the 'THE' OUT OF THERAPIST

[AbNormall]

Amazing Song!!!

[Bighairyfart]

RUSSIA RUSSSIA BRITAIN IS SHIT WE KILL U HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, now where is the victory vodka!!!

[ladiezzy]

What The Fuck Is Wrong With You ?

[Bighairyfart]

my juciy booty when i feel like a fruity tooty, ooty yooty u want to suck my bum!!!!

[ladiezzy]

Haha You make Me Laugh You Such A Fool xD

[Stewartp]

It's nice that Russia are being tolerant to gays at last (and Serbia to bull-dyke lezzers!) but this song and singer are totally shitty. But if my gas was going to be cut off I'd vote for him too.

[amendonca]

What's the point of the figure skater?

[andreasmartin85]

Россия как всегда всех порвало молодцы так и надо

[natalenka72]

да не порвало, а прорвало вам...канализационные трубы Почитай комментарии на аглийском shit wins european contest - и это еще деликатно сказано

[derkurt1]

shit happens shit wins the european song contest.

poltic wins again.eurovision song contest was and is a politic

[wiliux19]

Is he singing in English? Cuz all I can understand is "Believe"... Or is it just me...

[lilkelza7]

i think its in english lol its just not very clear

[Luchik33]

If this is purely political, then why is it Russia's FIRST win in 14 years?! Why is it that back in the 90s Russia came in LAST a couple of times?! Why is it that when Eastern European nation wins its political, and when West Europ. nations wins its cause its deserved?! Why nobody mentions the fact that Ireland and U.K. won the most, 7 and 3 times?! Is it cause they are so great musically, or maybe its political?!

[JDORUS89]

I'd rather harpoon my bollocks to the wall than here this shit ever again.

[84lana]

Amazing song! Dima Bilan was fantastic! Looking forward to next ESC in Moscow. I am sure they will be great next year, too. I am lovin' the ideas the russians always have to impress other countries. They can take a leaf out of russians book! Keep at it! I am proud of this country - RUSSIA ;)

[albinho12]

Guys. This aint american idol or something. There are better singers of each country but they trying to get the best new song and probally new artists. Sweden have alot of good singers but they dont show up here. Why? Because this aint for them. This is for like noobs but still not. U cant expect people like Mariah Carey sing here. Its just not right.

[xalyzax]

for crying out loud! gud song buh wat a crappy singer! wow they have a frickin skater! andy was much beta bosnia & herzogovina was shiyt and so was spain omi daze this was produced by timbaland!!

[KillaCaliAZNboyz]

this is fake.He would never make it to hollywood if it was American idol

[Luchik33]

I think everybody at Eurovision sucked..he sucked the least

[ZarekFinland]

in any case this is the worst piece of crap i've seen in years. he really knows how to extend his crappiness. legendary in the book of crap.

[playornotplay]

what a boring song, how ever

[ZarekFinland]

looks like every year some religious shithead wins after lordi :D believe.. wasn't the last year's winner named believe as well?

[namashivaya36]

wow. really bad. sorry. i wanted to like it, but the singing is really bad. nothing to do with where the guy's from or anything else. it's just a badly sung song. the musical arrangement was bad, too.

[cutecaty16]

dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan dima bilan

is hot

[oceancoloursubsea]

Definately political voting, nothing to do with the music. The only reason over 9 million people watched it in the UK is for Terry Wogan comments and NOTHING else. We should pull out!!

[lukasmandel]

so ein scheißlied.

geht ja garnicht, diese russische kacke, oder ?

[ka2pa]

sad...eurovision is nothing.

[SDbeacon]

That ice skater is such a spazzz. This permormance would have been much more tolerable without him

[PhatPantom]

This sucks, chiki chiki ftw.

[liebesromanfreak]

The Eurovision song contest is the best comedy event of the year. "Impassibal!" hahaha

[timonline2000]

Would Dima have won if he didn't open his shirt, or didn't have an ice skater dancing around him?

I doubt it. Opening his shirt is a cheap way to hide his bad English.

[sahauola]

Although this song is boring, it is not very smart to chriticise a Russian becuase of his bad English. I guess his English is still much better than your Russian.

Eurovision is not a fair game, but are their any??

[timonline2000]

Well, I learned Russian for two years. Either way, I'm not being paid to sing in front of millions of people in a language I can't sing in.

His English was terrible, and I'm not ashamed to say so. You don't have to be able to speak much of a language to be able to sing it well: ask any professionally trained singer.

[lilleaske]

not ESC.. but EESC..

[char1090]

he sucks, that israel guy is the very best

[lilleaske]

totally agree