Barbara Dex Award – This year’s winner of the annual Barbara Dex Award has been announced. The award is for the worst dressed representative(s) from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and is now hosted on its home of songfestival.be. Check out now who won…
The winner was…
Portugal’s Conan Osíris
The top 5 were as follows:
- Portugal – Conan Osíris
- Cyprus – Tamta
- Belarus – ZENA
- Belgium – Eliot
- North-Macedonia – Tamara Todevska
There were a record number of votes, with over 4,000. Did Conan deserve to win?
Source: Songfestival.be
The Eurovision Times 
Portugal and Cyprus were certainly not the worst dressed…
Tulia should have won this in a landslide. This top 5 doesnt make much sense imo.
I think I am one of the very few who really liked Tulia’s outfit.
It was by far the most tacky and tasteless imo. The only one coming kind of close would be Belarus (especially these awful boots).
Don’t see a problem with Belarus either. Especially liked the two male dancers.
Cheap cheap cheap and tacky. If that was an homage to the 90s it was a bad one imo.
I liked them too. In fact, I liked everything about Poland this year. :)
Me too.. :)
The only one making sense is Belgium. All the rest were OK at least.
I agree, Belgium should be there the other ones were fine, but I think I would give it to Austria, how is this one not even in top 5 ??
I voted Austria too. That outfit was utterly a bad idea
Probably because Paenda’s clothes were barely visable during her performance. The clothes were black, the background was black. Her costume didn’t stand out in a positive or negative way.
This is utterly ridiculous … just like every year. The BD should go to people trying to look hot/trendy but failing like Tamta or Eliot this year.
And I think that Tamara is only there because some silly euro trash fans are still angry that she did as well as she did. Sad … as some would say …
I dont see anything wrong with her dress either.. Very safe choice
It’s such a pity that fantastic Tamara went for such a safe song but it probably was a wise choice result-wise. The juries would probably have reacted less favourably to sth like ‘Brod sto tone’. :(
I meant the dress was a safe choice I would not pick that shade of green though.. I like the song, just my type of a ballad😉
I know that you were talking about a dress and I took the ‘safe’and translated it to the song. :)
I voted for Croatia and that horrible white leather jacket.
OI don’t think Tamara got those votes because or salty fans. From what I read on most sites, forums, etc, everyone is very happy for North Macedonia. I agree with the voters however that her dress was horrible. Green is rarely a good choice. And the cut, the fabric, almost everything was wrong with that dress.
Green is my least favourite colour (except in nature) but I really liked Tamara’s dress. It looked regal. :)
Tamara didn’t need to look regal. In 2008 she also had a very questionable black dress.
I like her 2008 too …
Exactly.Her auntie-in-a-wedding dress was a bad choice.
Maybe only Belgium should be there!
As much as people disagree, the top 2 makes sense. Conan chose an outfit that made him look like a dinosaur in a kindergarden and Tamta looked like a prostitute even televoters didn’t fall for…
Belgium is rudiculous of course, my personal vote here. I can see why Tamara’s evening gown didnt really connect with the message of her song. Nothing wrong with Belarus imo, perhaps a bit 90s?
Tamta was singing about a booty call so it was very normal, no? 😛
As I said, when even televoters dont fall for such outfits, something goes wrong…
Honorable mentions :
Paenda’s yoga outfit
Swedish trousers
Nevena’s jewelry extravaganza
I love Nevena’s jewelry. I wore similar stuff in male version in my wild days. There was great stuff to be found on many of the London narkets. :)
I can’ t inagine you in those 😜
There would have been more worthy winners this year, people trying to look good and failing miserably. But still Portugal’s choices when it comes to outfit were horrible imo. That colour combined with the fabric were very unpleasant to look at. (North Macedonia had nearly the same colour and the same shiny fabric). At least Conan was smart enough to open the top of his outfit, because in the rehearsals he had no neck. Even Joao looked awful In that skirt.
I can’t believe that horror from Albania (not just the dress but the matching jewelry as well) did not make it in the top5. I guess Portugal is the “worst” one because the whole concept sealed the fate of the song? As for Belgium, I would have worn this coat as well, I just don’t know why anyone would perform in a coat.
Sod off :p
Absolute horror
Queen Jonida of the Nile!
I hope the crocodile gets her but he will probably have all that jewelry stuck in his throat.
Correction: I could have worn Elliott’s coat minus the bits dangling from the waist which are terrible.
Looks great imo minus the excessive golden ornaments 😛
But there is nothing BUT excessive golden ornaments!
True.. Still I love the cut and color.
It’s not really stylish but it did enhance her fiery and passionate performance.
Yes I can see that perhaps.
I agree for Albanian dress….it really wasn’t good.. :(
I started to like song and performance later, but not the outfit..
Top 3 all make sense to me – crazy person on subway, desperate housewife and child prostitute. BEL was terrible but at least it made him Look as if he was older than 12 which made it less uncomfortable- dont have a problem w NMAC.
SWE, ESP and AUT all lacked color and looked like they had slept in their clothes.
But Miki looked good in it.
We will never agree on Miki lol.
I dont like when a concept beats trying to look classy or hot and ending up ridiculous. But when a concept fails like Portugal (which nails the coffin of a great song) or to a lesser extend Greece (but look at its televotes) I do get thet’d do well here. After all Iceland did not make it to the Top 5 here and that’s a relief!
The winner makes sense. He looked like turtle ninja. Belgium would be my other choice.
In other news: Did you know Hatari’s Matthias and Klemens are cousins? Matthias’ dad and Klemens’ mom are siblings.
BNT’s new management will be elected on July 5 and afterwards they will decide whether Bulgaria will not take part in next edition.
Almost everyone in Iceland is related. They even have an app to prevent inbreeding.
Hopefully Bulgaria returns next year. I’d like to see Slovakia and Bosnia back, too.
B&H <3
Yeah, but they're not just related.They're family.
That explains why they’re so tender with each other :)
I did not vote in this award and I have said why in the past. I did vote today, though, and I had to wait for 20 minutes, which is rare in this election. Alvalade (area of Lisbon where I am registered to vote) voted with joy today. :)
Ppl in the UK vote on today elections or not?
The UK and the Netherlands voted last Thursday.
Bringing the majority to Farage’s lunatics
They do (did).
The first results are looking good for Europe. :)
In France the left is FOUR parties that together would be first… three of them are Top 6 but behind top 2 of Macron’s center second to Le Pen’s far right (that already won the 2014 elections with actually more votes than tonight)… good news the ridiculous Right has fallen to 8,5% behind the Greens!
Far right 23%
Center 22%
Greens 12,5%
Right 8,5%
Socialists 7%
Far Left 7%
Smaller parties are below 4% including another far right one and the Communists at 2,5%
Plus a Socialist dissident got 2% smh such a dickhead!
I don’t even dare think how the French would vote if they had to go through something like the Greek crisis.
Scary :'(
However, it’s true that the Far right has never won a major election here and all the other parties have and that’s why they’re often worn out coming to these elections, where there’s a very low turn out (51% when our presidentials rise to around 88%) and where the anti-European sentiment helps the far right to win. Le Pen’s party already won in 2014 and by a bigger margin! They actually lost % since then…
Apparently VOLT won a seat in Germany. :)
And PARTEI, which has one MEP atm, will now have two. It’s a party of popular political satirists.
Good for VOLT. My vote helped them :)
I really enjoyed reading Martin Sonneborn’s book. I hope to see them wreaking more havoc in Brussels than before.
In the end I voted Green again. I am such a boring man … ;)
I can tell you’re not. If you’re feeling comfortable with voting the Greens, then do it. I supported them for a long time until Löhrmann damaged NRW’s education policy.
Green fades, it’s almost yellow…
“Green fades, it’s almost yellow…”
SWR has just reported that the Greens have won local elections in BaWü’s 3 main cities Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. :)
Here in Frankfurt Greens seems to be in the lead, too.
In my hometown Düren – as expected – CDU won the elections *sigh*
Will probably be the same here in LuBu but we’ll see. No results are known yet.
I returned to Greens as well – I had left them for a while because they had become an arrogant party for the well-off but they’ve embraced their social roots in addition to environmental issues.
Good man. :)
Why didn’t he use something more casual???!!! :)
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:)
Damn it! Wind machine would’ve secured him a place in the final. 🎶 Fangad av en stormvind 🎶
It’s a trick that never fails 😉
He’s the gift that keeps on giving – much better than Dustin the Turkey whose shtick never changed.
Greece(projected results)
Conservatives: 33%
Syriza: 25%
Social Democrats: 8%
Communist party(whatever) 6%
Golden Dawn: 4,5%
A ridiculous right wing party: 3,5%
DiEM 25(another rofl result) 3,5%
How about the River?
Unfortunately, it sank. Around 1,5% :( It’s a party that seeks compromise and it’s not populist.
Oh…. Not even with my vote? 😁
And again the voters forget the meaning of the award….
The first exit polls are out here: the Socialists are projected to win. The big surprise is coming from PAN (the Party of Animals and Nature, literally), that may have attracted 7 percent of the vote.
Correction: PAN – People, Animals and Nature.
Are PAN the Portuguese Greens?
Sort of. They come across as centrist greens, popular with the people who would never vote for the Portuguese greens that have joined a coalition led by the Communists.
Thanks. The Greens have been centrist here in Germany ever since the Schröder coalition.
❤️ I voted PAN!
I though about it, but I voted for the EPP for practical reasons.
EPP? What’s EPP?
The European People’s Party, which means that I voted PSD or CDS in Portugal.
Ah, ok… Even with those 2 leaders? 😁😂
Pragmatism.
… as long as you didn’t vote PS, I’ll still be your friend 😂
I never voted for the Portuguese Socialists. :)
Wise words! Half of it should be behind bars!
Results in Poland
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość 42.4 %
Koalicja Europejska 39.2 %
Wiosna (Progressive/ Greens) 6.6 %
Konfederacja (worse than PiS) 6.1%
Kukiz’15 (even worse than PiS and Konfederacja) 4.1 %
Lewica Razem (Lefties) 1.3 %
The first one if Kaczynski’s party i suppose
Unfortunately, yeah.
All this talk about elections make me really sad about America’s political system. I think we’re all very tired of having only two parties to choose from but there’s nothing we can even do to change it…
We thought that about the UK too …
Swedish EU votes svim against ze strim. The social democrats and liberal conservatives go forward in Sweden but back in Europe, the greens and liberals go back in Sweden but forward in Europe.
My vote went the same way – I voted for the EPP.
My vote would never go that way. I’d rather have my hands cut off … ;)
:)
The problem with both Conservative and Social Democrat parties is that they are parties of compromise. Normally I am all for compromises but you can’t compromise with nature. Those are physical and chemical processes that will do what they have to do no matter what you say. And once we have reached a certain point, things will become irreversible. :(
They will have to learn that.
… probably when it is too late. :(
Hopefully not.
Extremely dissapointing results at many parts of Europe unfortunately…From France to Greece to the predicted results in Italy to Hungary and the UK things do look dreary for progressives…And very bad results in Flanders as well.
On the other hand Portugal provided some hope same as Germany and Denmark. And FvD did not have the breakthrough it expected in The Netherlands.
Finland is better than expected too!
sadly, in France, pro-European parties and the Left are together in majority… But when you have SIX! parties divided…
10 minutes here until the results start coming in, bracing ourselves for wall to wall coverage of Farage tomorrow. Urgh.
Most English media seem to be part of the Farage campaign. It’s quite embarrassing to watch. I’d rather watch Channel 4 but I can only access Sky News live online here in Germany.
How did Change UK do?
I expect them to have done dismally. I expect the LibDems and the Greens to have picked up most of the remain vote.
The LidDems are the voice of reason atm.
… as are the Greens. I love Caroline Lucas. :)
Cyprus elected its first Turkish Cypriot MP in the Eurepean parliament.
Which party?
AKEL, the left party. He has studied in Bremen and is a university professor in Cyprus:
https://gr.euronews.com/2019/05/26/kypros-euroekloges-o-prwtos-tourkokyprios-stin-eurovouli-niyazi-kizilyurek?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2kKw2D4ADPW9paqWKcrvkAvd6a_mi76Xw81LcZYb5zuGrxncbzjAmmj8E#Echobox=1558903010
That’s good news then in my books. :)