The Maltese people are still shocked by the disastrous result obtained last Saturday at the Eurovision Song Contest; the worst result for Malta since its participation in the festival. The soul searching and finger pointing has started.
Sources in Athens told MaltaMedia that Fabrizio Faniello, who represented Malta with the song I do, cannot understand why Malta got just one point and placed last among the 24 participants. He insists he did everything in his power to have a good result.
Maltasong chairman Robert Abela shared Fabrizio’s feelings and commented that Malta should be "more adventerous and experimental in the choice of songs submitted for the Malta Song for Europe Festival" that selects the Maltese partcipant in the Eurovision final in May.
The results came as a shock because even though the bookmakers did not place Fabrizio in the top 10, at times not even in the top 15, no one expected the last placing.
The official Eurovision website had commented before the final that “Malta has never won the contest, despite several near-misses, but with this song it’s in with a real chance. ‘I Do’ is a high-energy dance track that Fabrizio sings beautifully, while four highly energetic dancers strut their stuff behind him. Sparks shoot into the air on the obligatory key change, prompting a chorus of whoops and cheers from the audience.” And yet, Malta garnered only one solitary point from Albania.
MaltaMedia's creative director Toni Sant invites everyone to wake up and smell the coffee after he had predicted that Finland’s Lordi would be the winners this year. His blog post Hard Rock Hallelujah posted in the early hours of Sunday after the festival reads a bold big font “I told you so!!”. This has already attracted numerous mixed comments with the general feelings saying that the song was hopeless and that Fabrizio sang terribly, that he was constantly out of tune and you couldn't understand a word he was singing.
Robert Micallef has summarised several remarks within the blogosphere. Some notable comments were that he was out of tune and that Malta's song was one of those prototypical Eurovision songs, cynically calculated to compete but not even remotely good enough to win.
Lanzarote was no less sarcastic in his comments stating that 2006 is the year the world started to love the Eurovision Song Contest and Malta started to hate it predicting that “after Malta's "1 point" last night and Finland's triumph, the next few weeks will be full of unlikely pundits clamouring for 'a change in formula'” or even clamour for Malta to simply pull out of the festival calling it 'a joke' and 'a waste of money'.
Fabrizio, the Maltese delegation and the few hundred Maltese fans were expected back to Malta on Sunday night.
For more detailed information about Malta's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest see EurovisionMalta.com.
See also:
Worst ever result for Malta in Eurovision
by MaltaMedia News - May 21, 2006
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