Re: UKRAINE 2013
Actually I agree with him. They don't want to be other than 1st or 2nd. I believe that Ukraine won't enter the top-10 @ESC in Sweden. No matter what we send. Thus we should flop with Mattias so certain ESC fans could be happy :?
Unless you're making such prediction based solely on the whole Tymoshenko/political situation, I don't see any reason for it at all. Ukraine was in the Top Ten both in Norway and in Germany. And Top Fifteen this year. Quite frankly, I don't understand where these 'nobody likes us' conspiracy theories are coming from? I'm sure that are people who want Ukraine to fail simply because it usually does well. As I'm sure there are people who may for some strange reason not like Ukraine/Ukrainians. But overall, I've never noticed any kind of big anti-Ukraine movement. At least not here in the US (I'm sure it's somewhat different from Europe, but I can't see why it would be much different in this regard).
I've watched Gaitana's performance a couple times after the final and I can see why it didn't do Top Ten. It's kind of tacky tbh with all the colors, song, her dress, etc. She oversang it and it seemed people didn't even care for that song much to begin with. I don't think it reflects anything deeper than simply that people didn't respond to it. There are countries that barely/never qualify and I think very little of it has to do with 'people not liking them'.