Eurovision Betting Odds: Olta Boka, Albania
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, Zemr‘n 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 Zemr‘n 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 Zemr‘n 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.
I asked for it…
[...] ka per te fituar Eurovizionin me baladen e Olta Bokes? 33/1 po t’i besojme kesaj kritikes ketu. [...]
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
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!
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.
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!
this song is one of the best song in the 2nd semi final
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.
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.
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.
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.
How can you write something like this for my country? That post is written by something so confused, it doesn’t know whether to scratch its watch or wind its ass. Your ineffective imitation of good posting style only serves to illuminate your lack of substance, good taste, and decency.
I used to think that you were a gibbering idiot. Now, after reading your latest post, I have a much lower opinion of you. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself on the Internet. Reading your post makes blindness a wonderful thing to look forward to. To quote Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
You light up a room when you leave it. No doubt your life is so dull, that you can actually write your diary one week in advance. You are like watching Amputee Field Hockey: pathetic, and very quickly disgusting. Maybe you wouldn’t come across as such a jellyfish-sucking mental midget if that pimple on your ass hadn’t turned out to be a brain tumor; if your weren’t so fat that when you walk down the street, everyone yells “Earthquake!”, or if you didn’t have a face that makes people ask: “Damn, is it Halloween already?” No, come to think of it, you would.
In conclusion, thank you. We were all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. Now get the hell out of here!
Goodness me Albanian, that was brilliant. Do you want a job here?
Jellyfish-sucking mental midget? Genius. I’ve been inspired and will go out tonight and bellow that to the skies.
Fenomenal comment on creative cursing, Albanian! Did you come up with all that by yourself, or you just got a degree on it? I don’t think that we can go anywhere by personally attacking each-other, rather than facing the fact that we are talking about two different things:
1. Albanian Song in Eurovision – you don’t need to like it, and you can say so
2. Albania, the most beautiful country in the whole world for me – you don’t need to like it, but beware if you try to lower it to the dirt.
Congratulations Olta
and wishing you good luck
greetings from london
this song is the most beautitfull song of eurosong!but it need some publicitet and albania dont do that!
GOOD LUCK ALBANIA!
GOOD LUCK OLTA!
This is a very beatifull song my dear Albanians, qe po harroni origjinen. I love the lirics, the music & voice. Per juve qe nuk ju pelqen teksti ndoshta jeni me suar te degjoni ato pacavuret qe kendohen sot kafenete e shqiperise (moj dashnore ku je ti, se pa ty do pi raki….).Sa te varfer paskemi nga bota shqirterore ne eshte per te ardhur keq.
Well all i can say is : Shqiperuso moji Dna lpar, pa dy crupiol proqurer mbolui atje hnogoi !
By the way, beautifull song and on the finals she actually looked very attractive. Go girl, Pjoi Njumr dhlamun !
I’m Marko and i’m from Serbia. I love the song and i think it’s the best one this year. unfortunately it didn’t go well on the final night