Eurovision, the Dubstep Year

Eurovision 2013

First Semi-Final: May 14th, 9pm Central Europe Time (3pm EST)
Second Semi-Final: May 16th, 9pm Central Europe Time (3pm EST)
Final: May 18th, 9pm Central Europe Time (3pm EST)

Eurovision 2013 is almost here! For those of you without TV or in America, it can be watched for free on their website ESC TV. Right now, only recaps of the national competitions and previous Eurovisions are up.

This year is not quite as fun as last year, but there's a couple of good gimmicks. Dubstep has made a big entrance into Eurovision. As far as I remember, there were no dubstep songs any previous year, but this year has a couple of fully dubstep songs, one half dubstep, and a bunch of other songs with unnecessary dubstep interludes. I'm not particularly happy about this, although a couple of these songs made my list.

Here are the 10 most interesting entries. Intriguingly, two of these videos involve men being kidnapped.

10. Malta - In a world full of dubstep, one country dares to bring a ukulele
9. Romania - Wait for it...
8. France - Blues, that's what Eurovision is missing
7. Sweden - He's just so happy!
6. Switzerland - Big band, small car
5. Hungary - Video shows lyrics, which is useful if you know Hungarian
4. Greece - Fun little protest song
3. Latvia - The keytar is arguably not the most ridiculous thing in this video
2. Montenegro - Montenegrin rap is surprisingly fun
1. Finland - It's like Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock somehow got onto Eurovision