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Barbara Dex Award

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Barbara Dex Award
Awarded for"Most striking look" in the Eurovision Song Contest
CountryVarious participating countries
Presented byThe House of Eurovision (1997–2016)
Songfestival.be (2017–2021)
First awarded1997
Last awarded2021
WebsiteOfficial website
RelatedYou're a Vision Award

The Barbara Dex Award was a fan-voted accolade awarded annually to the worst-dressed contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest. The award was created by the fansite The House of Eurovision in 1997, which hosted it until the site's closure in 2016. Songfestival.be presented the award from 2017 onwards, changing its criterion to the "most striking look" in 2019. Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, the award was succeeded by the You're a Vision Award, which was intended to carry a more positive connotation.

History

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Map of Barbara Dex Award recipients

The Barbara Dex Award created by Edwin van Thillo and Rob Paardekam, the founders of the Dutch Eurovision fansite The House of Eurovision, in 1997.[1][2] It was named after Belgian singer Barbara Dex, who represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 wearing a self-made, semi-transparent dress, which William Lee Adams of Wiwibloggs described her "looking like a lampshade".[2] The Barbara Dex Award was initially awarded to the worst-dressed contestants.[3] Malta's Eurovision Song Contest 1997 entrant, Debbie Scerri, was the first recipient.[4] After two years of deciding the recipient internally, The House of Eurovision opened the award to public voting in 1999.[5]

The House of Eurovision shut down after the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and handed the Barbara Dex Award to the Belgian website Songfestival.be and its founder, Jasper van Biesen. Van Biesen hoped that this transition would broaden the award's reach.[2] Starting with the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, the award criterion was changed to the "most notable outfit", refined to "most striking look" for the 2021 contest.[3][6] Songfestival.be noted that "this prize for the most striking outfit does not intend to say what is ugly and what is not and does not want to place the Song Contest in a bad light".[3]

On 13 March 2022, Songfestival.be announced that it would be ending the Barbara Dex Award, citing the negative connotation associated with it. Instead, the website would organise a new, replacement award for the "most notable outfit".[7] Following an online vote, Songfestival.be announced on 29 April that the new award would be named the "You're a Vision Award", adding that the new name would serve the purpose of promoting creativity, diversity and positivity in Eurovision onstage fashion.[8] Australia's Eurovision Song Contest 2022 entrant, Sheldon Riley, was the first recipient of the new award.[9]

Reception

In a January 2006 interview with ESCToday, Dex stated that there was "nothing wrong" with the Barbara Dex Award.[10] A 2015 poll by Wiwibloggs found Guildo Horn, Germany's 1998 Eurovision act, to be considered the worst-dressed of the previous award recipients.[11]

Award winners

Overview

Table Key
2
Second place
3
Third place

House of Eurovision

YearCountryArtistSongPlaceRef(s).
1997 MaltaDebbie Scerri"Let Me Fly"9[11]
1998 GermanyGuildo Horn"Guildo hat euch lieb!"7[11]
1999 SpainLydia"No quiero escuchar"23[11]
2000 BelgiumNathalie Sorce"Envie de vivre"24[11]
2001 PolandPiasek"2 Long"20[11]
2002 GreeceMichalis Rakintzis"S.A.G.A.P.O."17[11]
2003 Russiat.A.T.u."Ne ver', ne boysia"3[11][12]
2004 RomaniaSanda Ladoși"I Admit"18[11][13]
2005 MacedoniaMartin Vučić"Make My Day"17[11][5]
2006 PortugalNonstop"Coisas de nada"19 SF[11][14]
2007 UkraineVerka Serduchka"Dancing Lasha Tumbai"2[11][15]
2008 AndorraGisela"Casanova"15 SF[11][16]
2009 HungaryZoli Ádok"Dance with Me"15 SF[11][17]
2010 SerbiaMilan Stanković"Ovo je Balkan"13[11][18]
2011 GeorgiaEldrine"One More Day"9[11][19]
2012 AlbaniaRona Nishliu"Suus"5[11][20]
2013 SerbiaMoje 3"Ljubav je svuda"11 SF[11][21]
2014 LithuaniaVilija Matačiūnaitė"Attention"11 SF[11][22]
2015 NetherlandsTrijntje Oosterhuis"Walk Along"14 SF[11][23]
2016 CroatiaNina Kraljić"Lighthouse"23[24]

Songfestival.be

YearCountryArtistSongPlaceRunner-upThird placeRef(s).
2017 MontenegroSlavko Kalezić"Space"16 SF Latvia Czech Republic[25]
2018 MacedoniaEye Cue"Lost and Found"18 SF Australia Belgium[26]
2019 PortugalConan Osíris"Telemóveis"15 SF Cyprus Belarus[6]
2021 NorwayTix"Fallen Angel"18 Romania Croatia[3]

By country

WinsCountryYears
2 North Macedonia
  • 2005
  • 2018
 Portugal
  • 2006
  • 2019
 Serbia
  • 2010
  • 2013
1 Albania2012
 Andorra2008
 Belgium2000
 Croatia2016
 Georgia2011
 Germany1998
 Greece2002
 Hungary2009
 Lithuania2014
 Malta1997
 Montenegro2017
 Netherlands2015
 Norway2021
 Poland2001
 Romania2004
 Russia2003
 Spain1999
 Ukraine2007

See also

References

External links

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