Russia 2010

Russia will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and will select their entry through a national final, organized by Russian broadcaster RTR and Russia TV.

A national final will be held on 7 March 2010 to select the Russian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, to be held in Oslo, Norway in May 2010. 25 acts will compete in the contest, with the songs selected from an open call for songs by Russia TV, as well as through entries internally selected by Russia TV as wildcards. The winner will be selected through a mixture of televoting, SMS voting, web voting and a professional jury.

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Dima Bilan is planning to compete in the NF with the song "White Nights" by Filip Kirkorov.

The demo was release/leaked of the song.




It is very obvious that Dimitris Kontopoulos wrote this song once again (or did production/helped like Kirkorov and others will claim. Just like "Shady Lady" -- But everyone knows that is not the case. )

In the intro for example you can here production ques from Elli Kokkinou's "Min Ta Paratas" and other Kontopoulos songs. And in the chorus you can actually hear some Greek words in between the "nanana's". You hear "kai niotho na me" very clearly once the chorus starts.

I don't think it's a smart idea for Dima to go to ESC again so I really hope the russian ppl doesn't vote him the winner in the NF

i listened to it, and i don't hear anything except nanana. everyone knows i like dima bilan. first i didn't want him to go to esc again, but now i have nothing against it. i don't care if it's a ripoff, if it is, ebu will disqualify it. and they haven't done that yet. and i know kirkorov has written it, i have heard on several sites.

lol ... even without the proper words the song sucks ... no chance to win again at all

He will go again to Eurovision?

lol
i'm against, but it's seems that Russian NF 2010 will be very boring without interesting songs.

Well I'm 50/50 I like Dima but I dunno if it's smart to go to ESC again... We'll see I guess
I want Russia to send Segey Lazarev!!! I think he could do great if he has the right song...and also he's really good in English

3 times in 5 years is to much.That would be also not good for his image.

Horgu13 wrote:3 times in 5 years is to much.That would be also not good for his image.

That's what I think 2...
That's why I think they should send Sergey insted of Dima I think he could get loads of fans from Eurovision, Dima already have lots of fans outside Russia so he will not gain anything on going to ESC again

i read that Lazarev is not gonin' to take part in ESC
but i also like his voice and some songs, especially Shattered Dreams

i won't stop listening to his music, that's for sure! even if he places bad.
the statistics are aginst your opinions, because a song written by kirkorov has never placed bad. unfortunately he is a strong song writer! he wrote shady lady, which placed second, and work your magic, which made belarus qualify for the final the first and only time!
i know if koldun goes again, he said himself he wanted to compete for russia.
i don't care if dima bilan goes again. everyone is sending crappy songs anyway. this year i'm not even sure i want to watch. i really hate ballads, and if more than 10 countries send that genre, i won't watch. there are only a few ballads i can stand.

Miranda wrote:i listened to it, and i don't hear anything except nanana. everyone knows i like dima bilan. first i didn't want him to go to esc again, but now i have nothing against it. i don't care if it's a ripoff, if it is, ebu will disqualify it. and they haven't done that yet. and i know kirkorov has written it, i have heard on several sites.

Why would the EBU disqualify it. It's not a rip off, all I said was that it borrows production ques from other Kontonpoulos songs. Right when the chorus starts, you can here Greek words in between the nanana's. I'm sure another Greek speaker can vouch for that too, but a lot of others have said so too on other sites. This is no doubt a Kontopoulos song again, just like "Shady Lady" was. It is no secret that "Shady Lady" was. In fact it was actually reveled officially after the contest, and then Lorak ended up working on her whole album with Kontopoulos. They just say its a Kirkorov song for the song to have "power" behind it.

That being said, the song is nice. But I feel like 3 times for Dima in 5 years is overkill. Let's see.

don't forget that Filipp is a king of remakes

there're some rumors that Dima didn't record his song in time and he won't take part

Radiowave wrote:don't forget that Filipp is a king of remakes

there're some rumors that Dima didn't record his song in time and he won't take part

haha , he is...

AlexP wrote:

Miranda wrote:i listened to it, and i don't hear anything except nanana. everyone knows i like dima bilan. first i didn't want him to go to esc again, but now i have nothing against it. i don't care if it's a ripoff, if it is, ebu will disqualify it. and they haven't done that yet. and i know kirkorov has written it, i have heard on several sites.

Why would the EBU disqualify it. It's not a rip off, all I said was that it borrows production ques from other Kontonpoulos songs. Right when the chorus starts, you can here Greek words in between the nanana's. I'm sure another Greek speaker can vouch for that too, but a lot of others have said so too on other sites. This is no doubt a Kontopoulos song again, just like "Shady Lady" was. It is no secret that "Shady Lady" was. In fact it was actually reveled officially after the contest, and then Lorak ended up working on her whole album with Kontopoulos. They just say its a Kirkorov song for the song to have "power" behind it.

That being said, the song is nice. But I feel like 3 times for Dima in 5 years is overkill. Let's see.

overkill or not? who cares.....
i don't know who kontopoulos is, i think i have never heard of that person....but if you say they borrowed it, maybe they did, and that's fine with me. i don't care anyway. i will vote for him, if he goes. and just because i have been a fan of him since 2006.
you said shady lady, also has similiarities with a kontopoulos song, but now wym.
i'm tired of hearing that everyone borrows here from there, so i don't care anymore. it's no problem for me. like i said, everyone is sending crappy songs anyway. it has been the worst melodifestivalen so far i think. the first semi-final had songs that were like duhhh. and the second too. and i know i won't like anyone this year. hopefully koldun goes next year, that would save my year.

Miranda wrote:

AlexP wrote:

Miranda wrote:i listened to it, and i don't hear anything except nanana. everyone knows i like dima bilan. first i didn't want him to go to esc again, but now i have nothing against it. i don't care if it's a ripoff, if it is, ebu will disqualify it. and they haven't done that yet. and i know kirkorov has written it, i have heard on several sites.

Why would the EBU disqualify it. It's not a rip off, all I said was that it borrows production ques from other Kontonpoulos songs. Right when the chorus starts, you can here Greek words in between the nanana's. I'm sure another Greek speaker can vouch for that too, but a lot of others have said so too on other sites. This is no doubt a Kontopoulos song again, just like "Shady Lady" was. It is no secret that "Shady Lady" was. In fact it was actually reveled officially after the contest, and then Lorak ended up working on her whole album with Kontopoulos. They just say its a Kirkorov song for the song to have "power" behind it.

That being said, the song is nice. But I feel like 3 times for Dima in 5 years is overkill. Let's see.

overkill or not? who cares.....
i don't know who kontopoulos is, i think i have never heard of that person....but if you say they borrowed it, maybe they did, and that's fine with me. i don't care anyway. i will vote for him, if he goes. and just because i have been a fan of him since 2006.
you said shady lady, also has similiarities with a kontopoulos song, but now wym.
i'm tired of hearing that everyone borrows here from there, so i don't care anymore. it's no problem for me. like i said, everyone is sending crappy songs anyway. it has been the worst melodifestivalen so far i think. the first semi-final had songs that were like duhhh. and the second too. and i know i won't like anyone this year. hopefully koldun goes next year, that would save my year.

Dimitris Kontopoulos is a big-ish Greek composer. He also wrote Greece's song last year. You are mis-understanding what I am saying though. I am not saying that these songs are copies. I am just saying that Dimitris Kontopoulos had a hand in writing them. (It is well known in the ESC community that he wrote "Shady Lady" and not Kirkorov.) He 'works' with Kirkorov.

In fact here is a new article, including information on the lyricist:

Notable Maltese Lyricist Gerard James Borg who has been the person behind five Maltese entries in the past namely "Desire" in 2000, "7th Wonder" in 2002, "On Again..Off Again" in 2004, "Vertigo" in 2007 as well as "Vodka" in 2008 is collaborating with Russian superstar Dima Bilan on his next Eurovision journey with the song "White Nights".

It was only last month that Dima Bilan's producer namely Yana Rudkovskaya confirmed that Dima Bilan would like to give it another go at the contest to represent Russia for the third time and it seems like the before mentioned star is taking things to a very serious level because he has appointed Philip Kirkorov as his songwriter known for his entries for Belarus in 2007 as well as Ukraine in 2008 whilst also performing the 1995 entry back in Dublin, Ireland.

The Russian Press has already reported that "Kirkorov already guarantees 12 points from Malta, same as bank can guarantee you interest". One should note that in the history of music, this entry will be officially the third song to be written by Kirkorov himself because in most of his work he was assisted by notable Greek composer Dimitris Kontopulos who also has a say in this song. He has only endured one failure and that was with Angelica Agurbash who did not make it through to the final yet he managed to reach second place twice with Dima Bilan and Ani Lorak in 2006 and 2008 respectively as well as sixth place with Dmitry Koldun.

One should also note that the deadline for the applications passed and despite the fact that "White Nights" was not submitted in time, the broadcaster could receive it as a wildcard and this seems to be the case although final confirmation to be made when the list of finalists is revealed.

escmalta.com

Radiowave wrote:i read that Lazarev is not gonin' to take part in ESC
but i also like his voice and some songs, especially Shattered Dreams

I agree I love "Naydi Menya"

Well he should participate some year I think...but It really doesn't matter for me so I just think he could gain a lot from it

Glad someone wrote that Dimitris Kontopulos were a composer...cause when you say that he "write" songs it kinda confuses me cause I know that armenian guy wrote both the lyrics for Shady Lady, and WYM and I think he have wrote several ESC songs before like Dima Bilan's song in 2006. Please just don't confuse me again..
But I know Filipp has composed(?) Shady Lady & WYM but now I don't really don't know what to believe...
Cause if it was only Dimitris then they atleast should have written that he composed the music with Filip even though he didn't.


Miranda I kinda agree with you...this ESC seem to suck more than the last one and the last one were like bleh. And Melodifestivalen songs this year is BLEH. (haven't heard all the swedish songs yet but I doubt it will be any good ones...)

I really hope Sirusho will go for Armenia again soon cause that would save my year

When you write James Borg I only think about the guy who won a swedish idol called Kevin Borg and he is also from Malta I think

Btw the article is a little wrong cause it says Dimitris songs has reached a second place twice and he has never written a Dima Bilan song before except this one this year cause he didn't compose the music for Never Let You go neither did Filipp Kirkorov it was a famous russian producer called Alexander Lunev who did that...
And also it says second place twice which then is false

AlexP wrote:In fact here is a new article, including information on the lyricist:

Notable Maltese Lyricist Gerard James Borg who has been the person behind five Maltese entries in the past namely "Desire" in 2000, "7th Wonder" in 2002, "On Again..Off Again" in 2004, "Vertigo" in 2007 as well as "Vodka" in 2008 is collaborating with Russian superstar Dima Bilan on his next Eurovision journey with the song "White Nights".

It was only last month that Dima Bilan's producer namely Yana Rudkovskaya confirmed that Dima Bilan would like to give it another go at the contest to represent Russia for the third time and it seems like the before mentioned star is taking things to a very serious level because he has appointed Philip Kirkorov as his songwriter known for his entries for Belarus in 2007 as well as Ukraine in 2008 whilst also performing the 1995 entry back in Dublin, Ireland.

The Russian Press has already reported that "Kirkorov already guarantees 12 points from Malta, same as bank can guarantee you interest". One should note that in the history of music, this entry will be officially the third song to be written by Kirkorov himself because in most of his work he was assisted by notable Greek composer Dimitris Kontopulos who also has a say in this song. He has only endured one failure and that was with Angelica Agurbash who did not make it through to the final yet he managed to reach second place twice with Dima Bilan and Ani Lorak in 2006 and 2008 respectively as well as sixth place with Dmitry Koldun.

One should also note that the deadline for the applications passed and despite the fact that "White Nights" was not submitted in time, the broadcaster could receive it as a wildcard and this seems to be the case although final confirmation to be made when the list of finalists is revealed.

escmalta.com

why isn't he written as the author too? on esc it only said kirkorov. and i want to make it clear that i'm not partial in any way. this is my true opinions without any interference of any russian artist. just because i like russian artists, doesn't mean i like filip. i actually really dislike that guy, and i prayed for him not to write anymore songs for my favourite artists. i was pissed off when i found he composed the dima bilan song. i can't stand, because he is so into himself. he thinks it is all about him. at least that was the case when he went with koldun. so it doesn't matter for me who composes, as long as it isn't kirkorov.

Miranda wrote:

AlexP wrote:In fact here is a new article, including information on the lyricist:

Notable Maltese Lyricist Gerard James Borg who has been the person behind five Maltese entries in the past namely "Desire" in 2000, "7th Wonder" in 2002, "On Again..Off Again" in 2004, "Vertigo" in 2007 as well as "Vodka" in 2008 is collaborating with Russian superstar Dima Bilan on his next Eurovision journey with the song "White Nights".

It was only last month that Dima Bilan's producer namely Yana Rudkovskaya confirmed that Dima Bilan would like to give it another go at the contest to represent Russia for the third time and it seems like the before mentioned star is taking things to a very serious level because he has appointed Philip Kirkorov as his songwriter known for his entries for Belarus in 2007 as well as Ukraine in 2008 whilst also performing the 1995 entry back in Dublin, Ireland.

The Russian Press has already reported that "Kirkorov already guarantees 12 points from Malta, same as bank can guarantee you interest". One should note that in the history of music, this entry will be officially the third song to be written by Kirkorov himself because in most of his work he was assisted by notable Greek composer Dimitris Kontopulos who also has a say in this song. He has only endured one failure and that was with Angelica Agurbash who did not make it through to the final yet he managed to reach second place twice with Dima Bilan and Ani Lorak in 2006 and 2008 respectively as well as sixth place with Dmitry Koldun.

One should also note that the deadline for the applications passed and despite the fact that "White Nights" was not submitted in time, the broadcaster could receive it as a wildcard and this seems to be the case although final confirmation to be made when the list of finalists is revealed.

escmalta.com

why isn't he written as the author too? on esc it only said kirkorov. and i want to make it clear that i'm not partial in any way. this is my true opinions without any interference of any russian artist. just because i like russian artists, doesn't mean i like filip. i actually really dislike that guy, and i prayed for him not to write anymore songs for my favourite artists. i was pissed off when i found he composed the dima bilan song. i can't stand, because he is so into himself. he thinks it is all about him. at least that was the case when he went with koldun. so it doesn't matter for me who composes, as long as it isn't kirkorov.

Totally agree with you I don't like Filipp either

well, Filipp has good voice, but i don't like he as a person.

I really don't like Filipp I think he's so fake

Lucy wrote:I really don't like Filipp I think he's so fake

He is not credited on the song because Kirkorov paid him. During ESC, they did officially say though that Kontopoulos helped with the production, and that the song was recorded in Athens. (And he is credited as a producer officially) But if you ask anyone familiar with Eurovision, they know that Kontopoulos is the one that actually composed the song. In fact, Lorak actually admitted that it was written by Kontopoulos later, and then worked with Kontopoulos for her last album. They just put Kirkorov's name behind it instead for the song to have more "power".

Regarding the article, it says that two songs supported by Kirkorov have gone to second place, not Kontopoulos. :p

Alexandr Panayotov's submitted entry "Maya Showtime"

AlexP wrote:He is not credited on the song because Kirkorov paid him. During ESC, they did officially say though that Kontopoulos helped with the production, and that the song was recorded in Athens. (And he is credited as a producer officially) But if you ask anyone familiar with Eurovision, they know that Kontopoulos is the one that actually composed the song. In fact, Lorak actually admitted that it was written by Kontopoulos later, and then worked with Kontopoulos for her last album. They just put Kirkorov's name behind it instead for the song to have more "power".

Regarding the article, it says that two songs supported by Kirkorov have gone to second place, not Kontopoulos. :p

Kirkorov maybe supported Russia in 2006 but he has nothing to do with the song

• Алена Roxis
• Александр Панайотов
• Антонелло Кароцца
• Вячеслав Терехов
• группа "Аляска"
• группа "Бурановские бабушки"
• группа "ЁЁ"
• группа "Нано"
• группа "Сценакардия"
• Джем Шериф
• Дуэт "Пара-беллум
• Екатерина Фролова
• Елена Есенина
• Муз. коллектив Петра Налича
• Наталья Терехова
• Наталья Дамас и группа "L'brand"
• Олег Безинских
• Павла
• Петр Сухов
• Полина Кожикова
• Эд Шульжевский
• Юлика
• Юлия Войс
• Alissandra
• Ana
• Fay Stever
• Petya Palkin project
• Princessa avenue
• Rene
• Miusha
• группа "Blondrock"
• группа "Jet Kids"
• группа "Los Девчatos"
• группа "Plazma"
• группа "Z.I.M.A."

those are Russian NF members
but Dima still can participate, cause it isn't final list

sooo, Russia 2010
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it is NOT a joke

Radiowave wrote:don't forget that Filipp is a king of remakes

I think he'll make a remake of this post soon.

See what a malakia some guy wrote in YouTube:

EUROPE, WE RUSSIA DIDN'T VOTE FOR THIS SHIT! IT IS A JEWISH SONG WITH JEWISH SINGERS. Mass media in Russia, as oil and gas is controled by jews.all oligarhs in Russia are jews. They take russian names and shame us in the world and tell everybody, that they are russians.This song and group was chosen by jewish tv channel with jewish jury. RUSSIANS DIDN'T VOTE FOR THEM! It is a corruption in Russia, what was made by jews.

I think i saw the words "jew" or "jewish" OVER 9000 times on this quote.

LOL Fernando!

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