Eurovision Times Awards 2017 – Every year, the summer is the calm after the storm so it’s the perfect time to resume the “Eurovision Times Awards” to give prizes to the best in every category! After a week in this category, it’s time to announce the winner and hand out the Frida. So who will win?
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Delegation Awards
Best Backdrop
The
five entries nominated were:
- Belarus‘ folklore
- Bulgaria‘s videos and B&W
- France‘s destroyed city and swinging Paris
- Portugal‘s rainforest
- United-Kingdom‘s mirrors and gold
Former winners are: Hungary (2013), Switzerland(2014), France (2015) and Ukraine (2016). And the Frida goes to…
BULGARIA
“Beautiful Mess” was performed by Kristian Kostov. Representing Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, it was written and composed by Borislav Milanov, Sebastian Arman, Joacim Persson, Alexander V. Blay & Alex Omar. It finished 2nd with 615 points. Nominated seven times overall in ET Awards 2017, “Best Backdrop” is its third so far! Congratulations!
You can click here to look at the full recommendations and nominations from last week’s article! There were 75 recommendations for 22 countries in the first round and 150 votes were cast in an open poll, in exactly one week, among the 5 nominees. The complete detailed results will be announced once all polls are closed so in another week!
Now let’s watch the winning entry once more, for the visuals:
The Eurovision Times 
Imo the backdrop is the best part of Bulgaria 2017, and with the former Fridas it got, I’m not surprised it won. HOWEVER, this was so far the closest award as THREE countries are within THREE points (like esc 2003)!
My guesses : GBR and FRA ?
We’ll see!
but all 3 in the top 3 of this award lead at some point, Bulgaria seemed to secure a win but there was a late rush for an entry that lead it to… end a very close 3rd!
UK 3rd
FRA silver
I hesitated a lot as Bulgaria’s backdrop is my fave part but I genuinely think that, for all that was said against it, the French backdrop worked well and secured its top 10 in televote!
Again I prefer BGR :p
Sorry I clicked on “spam” on one of your comment, hope it didnt disturb anything for you lol
maybe with one extra day we’d have another winner :o
A weak one would have won then . Better this way!
Go Bulgaria !!! lol
I don’t want to sound dull but polls with Bulgaria seem to attract 30-40 voters more compared to the rest :P
We’ll see how other awards go!
So far: best internal choice and best top 5 and best entry don’t follow the pattern, as “best entry” is definitely the most clicked on award after one day, and “best internal” is less popular than many even with Bulgaria in it. We’ll see how it goes on. But I’m not seeing, YET, anything suspicious in those.
I think there are people who follow the FRIDA awards just to vote for Bulgaria.I don’t know why we should not mention the elephant in the room.
Not too many though (if that’s true). Around 20-40? In best backdrop the extra votes could come from Lucie’s fans too
how many for Selena? https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/p720x720/13323825_10100175559694165_7378319626304725760_o.jpg?oh=dd82f76905c5ea0c5d0926d16e5ed85c&oe=59DC42D4
I dunno. How many FB likes? :p
very little, I don’t have much friends and all of my fb friends don’t use it a lot… I think she got like 16 likes on that pic and it’s close to my record LOL
I give her a like too! :)
I can’t possibly know how many they are but that’s how i feel and this has nothing to do me not being its biggest fan.
btw, France, Italy and Netherlands are the only countries who won a Frida 4 out of 5 editions (France and Italy, all but 2014; Netherlands all but 2015); NL did come close from a full house getting second in 2015 for best spokesperson but was beat by the UK there.
This Frida smelled disaster for me from the very beginning.
Drama Q :P
I have no idea why but I rewatched Dk 2007 last night. Ugh… besides the blonde dancer, it had NOTHING! :o
one of my few 0/10s :(
You think so? :)
My two fav backdrops (Finland and Armenia) were ignored and I disagree with 4 out of these 5 nominations.
I understand you :(
Well to be fair the Fridas are always like this, we here on ET usually have a clear favorite and when our favorite doesn’t win we riot! haha, but idk it’s not really a disaster I mean there is a reason Bulgaria got second place after all :P
I meant this particular Frida category :)
I might sound very anti Bulgaria at times, the vocals he deserved, the styling was questionable, but this was not really that amazing tbh. Bulgaria had the whole package and the package was good dont get me wrong, but this was too sterile for my taste.
Whatever you might say about the French backdrop, that it was too dizzy or that you have a problem with only the eifeltower in it, does not take away that it was very well done and worked with both Alma, her choregraphy and the camerawork perfectly.
So I say meh to this award :P
Agree 100%.
Imo it was the best part, and the only award I did expect them to win!
Bulgaria 17 is the rightful heir of Australia 16. Very well done, but completely uninteresting.
Didn’t they do a similar thing with hands and special effects?
I agree but I find both Dami and Kristian likable. I know I’m in a minority on this, but I do think the way fans reacted to both is harsh on them. They’re not ARTISTS and their delegations want the WIN, so we have to hate them, right? Wrong!
Funnily enough, the ESC is a competition, so obviously there are delegations who want to win…
‘Jantelov’, as we call it in Denmark?
Further explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
However I like Kristian as an artist doh and I think he is gonna end up in my top 5 post ranking and thats actually an improvement from my pre ranking. Dami im and Kristian both deserved the vocal praise, however I dont remember Dami winning anything else :P
This season however I think that Portugal is even more of an ET darling then Ukraine ever was last year and that can effect people like me to lash out. I’m not saying it’s right, just an observation :P
Btw I also felt kinda alone last year as I was the only one having Dami Im as my favorite pre and after contest.
Even though for best backdrop I would have Belgium and Hungary by far. But among those here, definitely France. It’s a pity Belgium isn’t here because I don’t think they have won anything this far and this was rightfully theirs. The backdrop, the lights, everything was perfect.
I voted for Balerus but for once I won’t get into a rant because the backdrop is not about Kristian. LOL
It’s generic and inoffensive and if that is what the majority likes, good for them. :)
I’m glad my nomination for Belarus got its supporters!
We came dead last methinks. LOL
Each time I propose a daring choice I get last and I take it personally: like Armenia for best male vocals in 2013 :o
I hope that you stay strong. ARM13 deserved the nomination imo. The problem is that some people can not see/hear the difference between a song and its vocal execution.
I actually voted for Armenia in 2013. I later changed my mind on the song though, it began to sound boring. Don’t remember anything particularly outstanding about the vocals, so I don’t think I voted for them in the Fridas back then. But there was nothing wrong with the singing.
I don’t like the song at all but did find the vocals really strong!
Bulgaria’s backdrop was my favourite too, glad they won! :)
Cold and clinical as the song, but expected.
To put things in a perspective, Bulgaria have had miserable results in this competition until very recently (except for the 5th place in 2007). Now they are finally tasting success, and last year they earned a well deserved 4th place with a very strong composition. Now they are doing even better, and even though I am not fond of the song myself for several reasons (I’m glad it didn’t win – for musical reasons), I have no bad feelings about Kristian doing well in the Fridas.
Don’t even remember if I voted at all in this category. The five backdrops didn’t really seem particularly interesting to me except for the French one which got me dizzy. Watching the Bulgarian backdrop once again, I don’t think there is anything really outstanding about it. His moves grab more of my attention than the backdrop tbh.
Thinking about it, Armenian vocals have been really strong lately!
A result of the disaster in 2011?
I think so yes! 2013 onwards they were all quite strong in that regard!
Aram Mp3 seemed very nervous though. It affected his vocals somewhat. I don’t think Iveta did her best performance either.
Offtopic: I have time tonight for it, so I’ll finally do the BoNF scoreboard and results if anyone’s itnerested!
first vote: https://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/612426201701.png
second vote: https://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/707225201702.png
it’ll get more exciting than that I promise lol
Is this a test for ETSC7?
no?
I like the design.
I’ll try better for ETSC! For the full results: https://eurovisiontimes.wordpress.com/about-5/morgans-stuff/bonf/bonf-2017/
full results are out! we have a winner!
ESC 17 ruled suppreme minus one flop (no spoilers :P)
Im sorry I did this so late! but with these results in my hand, you know why I predicted what I predicted before esc lol
Great studio version, weird live = No winner in real esc !
yes! also the small flop of one of them could be seen here!
It’s not as if the song in itself would have won ESC even without the weird live…
I had it as my #1 before the live :)
I know. But it finished 14th not 4th. So the live probably wasn’t the only problem.
yeah it was definitely more of a niche than “Running scared” that’s for sure
“Running scared” was pretty much a default winner though. I don’t know what exactly happened that year with the weird all-over-the place voting, but in the following edition they silently scrapped the ability to vote throughout the show…
I voted for Portugal. I liked the Bulgarian backdrop, it could have been better but it was good. I hate those animations but that doesn’t count as backdrop ;)