Israel was better last year, it's a bit dull this time around. But that means it'll probably do better as I've found what I like and what Eurovision voters go for are completely different things most of the time.

I'd totally forgotten Montenegro before this post, and alas, I'll probably continue to forget them. That performance video is pretty hilarious, though. The backup singers look rather uncomfortable.

estonia is wiggy-wiggy-wack!

@4: They say they do it to show the stupidity of Eurovision (but then why do they enter their national preselection?), but I think they mainly do it because it usually gets countries in the top 10. Verka Serduchka came second. A few years back Lithuania sent a hilarious song called "We are the winners (of Eurovision)" and they came sixth. Alf Poier in 2003 (he of the cardboard animals) also came sixth. Then again, the UK did nothing last year... but that might have been too er...refined campy.
If you want to do well, you've either got to send something incredibly good, incredibly ridiculous (but catchy!) or have great neighbours. And the odds that you're sending something incredibly good are usually not that great. So it's a safer bet.

None of these three had a key change - what's up with that? Hopefully the next batch should set things right.

The UK song last year wasn't camp; it was painfully trying to be camp, and failing miserably. The whole mess was "written to win eurovision" - they even brought in Andy Hill, writer of the Bucks Fizz winner Making Your Mind Up - to work on it. A good example of a design by committee if there ever was.

Verka Serduchka, on the other hand, achieved high camp not by trying to be camp, but instead by being really good at being Verka Serduchka. (Contrast with the Dutch entry, also a drag act, albeit a somewhat tired one, which didn't even make it past the semis.)