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It was good – very good. NOX, Hungary’s 2005 Eurovision entry with Forogj Világ (“Spin, World!”), did strange things with dancing and whirling about – she sang very well and in tune. You can see it: red stage, good choreography…
At the time of writing, on 16 May 2005, I thought this would definitely get out of its semi-final section. Whether it was worth 5th or 6th place in the final was debatable. That was a pre-contest opinion, of course: NOX went on to perform 15th in the semi-final in Kyiv and qualified in fifth place with 167 points.
In the Grand Final, NOX opened the show and finished 12th with 97 points. So the qualification prediction held up rather better than the uncertainty about the final result. The performance was led by Péter Szabó Szilvia, with Tamás Nagy as the other principal member of NOX, and brought Hungarian folk-influenced music, dance and staging back to the contest after Hungary’s six-year absence.
