Eurovision Betting Odds: Olta Boka, Albania
March 25th, 2008 at 10:30 by Stuart Heritage
You asked for it, and here it is - the start of the fourth annual hecklerspray Eurovision betting odds season.
OK, to be fair none of you actually asked for it, but you're getting it anyway. Every day between now and the Eurovision Song Contest in May, we'll be profiling the songs, singers and betting odds of every last Eurovision 2008 contender. Every day. Until you're sick of them. And then for a couple of months after that, because chances are you'll be a bit sick of them by next Wednesday.
So let's kick things off with the Eurovision betting odds for Albania, with help from Paddy Power…
Albania - (pop. 3,582,205; a Mediterranean country in southeastern Europe): Olta Boka, Zemrn Lam Peng
We don't want to say that Eurovision songs are a reflection of the country that produced them, mainly because of the horrific things that says about the UK, but if it's true then Albania must be a truly horrible place to live. Year after year Albania's Eurovision entry is a miserable ballad, and the trend's continuing with Zemrn Lam Peng, which means We Gambled The Heart. Hopelessly overwrought and containing lines like "The snow of your voice on my heart fell and covered the last shelter of love," the songs sounds like Celine Dion getting concussed and starting to babble in tongues, and it appears to be Olta Boka's way of telling the male population of the world that if you even so much as fold up her laundry incorrectly then she'll run out into the rain, drop to her knees and start bellowing curses into the sky. And not in a good way, either. If at least one Albanian hasn't committed suicide to Zemrn Lam Peng by Christmas, it'll be an enormous surprise. Current Eurovision betting odds - 33/1
Tomorrow - Eurovision betting odds for Andorra. But if that's too long to wait - or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with - head right over to the Paddy Power Eurovision betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.
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March 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I asked for it…
March 26th, 2008 at 8:20 am
[...] ka per te fituar Eurovizionin me baladen e Olta Bokes? 33/1 po t’i besojme kesaj kritikes ketu. [...]
March 26th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I think that no body has the to right (as long as each a human respect him/her self) to write such as strange article
respect others to be respected otherwies you just increase hate to you
March 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I am albanian and I hate this song.It allways annoyed me when I hear it.we don’t have to cry about love.love isn’t like that.that is beautiful.anyway I totally agree with this comment in this page.it is a horrible song!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hee hee hee. Yesh. it’s allllll about respect.
Respectlerspray it is. Or wait, no, that’s a cleaning product
for fundamentalist kitchen workers
(to clean them, not for them to clean, I think).
Not since Nina Simone has a guy with such a weird
hair cut sent my Cringe-ometer well past its limits.
Eleventy-three on a scale of one to six.
Alba nia, Country of Woods, your song is crap.
Truly crap. But the hair style is something else again.
No, wait, actually it is exactly what it is. My mistake,
no, hold on, her mistake. Definitely her mistake.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I am albania too! This song we sing at chicken farm!
Makes chicken very sad. Sad chicken not knows how is loving.
Why he is sad. chicken. Horrible! That is how you say it!
Okay! Good night!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
this song is one of the best song in the 2nd semi final
April 9th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I should say that this young singer has a magnificient voice. Love is a very sublime feeling, it`s very ridiculous to say that we don`t cry for love. One that haven`t prove love can think like this. All the gold songs talk about love and are very popular all over the world. I don`t know where he finds the arguments when says : Albania Country of Woods, because Albania lies in the costs of Mediterean Sea and there are so many things to explore in its nature.
Anyway everyone has its opinion, but its more smart to give argues too!
I wish good luck to Olta Boka.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Shame on you Euclid and Mirela! If you like this song or not it`s not a problem, but you can not talk like this for Your Country.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Who are these people to judge our country or those who represent us in these event. You are nothing but a bunch of idiots, moreover no one of them is albanian. Kush eshte shqiptar nuk do ti shkruante keto budalliqe, ky eshte nje festival edhe jo nje arene per te shprehur urejtje ndaj nje kombi.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
this writer obviosly has no taste.
the song is so obviously
melodic that you couldnt be more
wrong as to the quality of the song.
the singer did a very good job in my opinion.