Glorious AND... German!?

16 days to go now everyone!

However, someone who you won't see until the actual final is Germany. As one of the "big 5" countries, Germany have automatic qualification. This year they are represented by Cascada and the song 'Glorious'.

Cascada is one of the biggest artists in the competition this year. And naturally, Glorious has turned out to be one of the biggest songs in the competition. The song is uber catchy and really modern. The lead singer of Cacada, Natalie, has a big voice - and so really everything about this is BIG. It will be played in all the clubs around Europe, and has already started to chart. By the end of Eurovision, it will be charting very well. This is just the type of song and performance that will be remembered at the end of the contest, even if it is performed first. UK fans will vote Cascada on name recognition alone and I feel that even though continental success hasn't truly happened in the rest of Europe, people will still know who they are (or at least who Natalie is). Germany are doing well in recent years - following the disaster of 'Miss Kiss Kiss Bang', they went on to win with 'Satellite'. Lena then took to the stage again with 'Taken By A Stranger' which finished within the top 10, a fate repeated by Roman Lob and 'Standing Still' last year. Glorious has success written all over it and fans should feel confident in saying this is a high finisher - and possible contender. The song is doing extremely well in the fans online polls and the rumours of plagiarism? Well lets be honest, they are ridiculous. Good Luck Germany! Will we being going there again!? It would be amusing. After competing in the contest since the dawn of time, they've won twice - 1982 and 2010. In a period of "bloc, diaspora voting" where "everyone votes for neighbouring countries" and it is all "soo political", Germany shouldn't have even won in 2010. Eurovision is changing - the critics need to accept it and move on. Well I say critics, I mean the miserable b******* in the UK who are insistent it's a waste of time (even though they are just fed up we've stopped being so successful).

Germany - 2012

Another one of the Big 5 countries! Germany this year will be represented by Roman Lob and the song Standing Still.

Roman Lob won a German Eurosivion song selection process (similar to A Song For Europe) and so the Germans like him. The song Standing Still has already reached number 3 in the German charts, which is pretty impressive. No doubt the neighbouring countries to Germany will have already heard of this man, and the song will probably already receiving airplay on the radios in countries such as Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and so on.....

Standing Still is ANOTHER ballad, but it's different. One, it's by a man, Two, it's not competing for the loudest note, Three, it's a little more deep than others, and Four, it's completely in English. Roman Lob follows on well from Lena, as just another young artist with real talent, who can compete on the music stage. Personally, I really enjoy this song. As mentioned in an earlier post, I have a Eurovision 2012 playlist with all the songs from this year on, but this song quickly made the leap on to a regular playlist, and I wouldn't usually think of this as a Eurovision song. But there is it's flaw...it's not really a Eurovision song. And probably, because I am English and this song is very western, that's why I like it so very much.

Germany have done well in the last 2 years with Lena, so let's not mention anything before that. I'm hoping for a top half of the table finish for Roman Lob, so Good Luck to him in Baku!

Oh and one more thing... PHWOAR.

Song rating: 8/10
Liklihood to win: 6/10

Current odds: 14-1                          (oddschecker.com)