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No. 386302
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>>386291Wonder what was the agreement
No. 386335
>>386058>What do you nonnies think, do you think this will impact next year's edition in any way?I think the only way the EBU will kick out Israel is if their contract with Moroccanoil ends this year and artists/their country’s broadcasters spend the summer still pushing them to answer for everything that happened this year.
They’ll definitely have to review how staff and artists interact with each other after Joost. Hoping we see a lawsuit from AVROTROS against the EBU this summer.
I think they also need to do a better job of vetting journalists and make clear boundaries for them. The behavior I saw this year primarily from Israeli journalists was appalling and completely unprofessional. Unprofessional behavior should lead to journalists being kicked from the venue/having their press credentials revoked
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>>386335Moroccanoil is confirmed as a sponsor for 2025.
https://eurovision.moroccanoil.com/ No. 386384
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I'm in two Whatsapp groups that are saying we should get tickets to her Halloween show
No. 386554
>>386550Hopefully by then the war will be over.
>>386549This
>>386551 (that's what happened with Russia too) and I'm starting to think that may become a real possibility given the shitshow partially caused by Israel behind the scenes this year
No. 386608
>>386605They don’t care about that. They love to play the triumphant
victim. They cry about booing and “bullying” then pay thousands to get their diaspora vote and get a top 5 finish for them to brag about
No. 386700
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how do they keep calling this ugly unstylish creature gorgeous sorry to that one anon that thinks he is cute
No. 386707
>>386706why can't they make him look at least a bit better kek
he was 5th in public vote so idgaf about baby lasagna losing to him. shit's rigged to its core
No. 387984
>>387881>>387930>I haven’t enjoyed the full show from start to finish since 2021I feel the opposite. Looking back like 10 years the quality of the songs and performances were so shit, I always used to be bored with 90% of the songs and at most like 2-3 songs. The last 4 or so years maybe I've loved the show so much, I've enjoyed watching all of it even if I didn't like all songs. And there's significantly more songs I do actually enjoy now. The political stuff is annoying of course, but I guess since I never really care who wins it's not too big of a problem to me.
I think one of the best ways to enjoy the show is to quit all social media, literally don't read any of it, and just watch it with your friends. If you hadn't checked social media you wouldn't have known about the joost stuff or that israel was booed by the crowd. It would just have looked like a nice fun show.
No. 387989
>>387981Nta. There's no evidence but strong suspicions. It's not like EBU is going to give us the facts on a silver platter.
>>387881It's been less fun to me ever since I discovered betting odds a few years ago and how scarily accurate they are. There's a few misses every year obviously but they're at least 75% accurate. The show gets largely decided before it even takes place.
That said the song quality has gone up sooooo much in recent years.
No. 388076
>>387881Samefag here
>>387984Tbh, I don't check out ESC shit before the finale though, because I wanna be surprised at the finale on purpose, so as to not get spoiled of the fun. I even only heard about the Netherlands during the show when it jumped from contestant number four to number six suddenly. But, like I said, since 2019 if not 2018, the show has lost me because the actual fun has been put on the back burner to use songs, contestants and/or moderators to send
insert whatever message that is mostly biased if not as vapid as Miss USA wishing "World peace" out there.
Quality is a question of perspective and that's another thing we can argue about. Admittedly there were some older editions with ballads that bored me to tears too. But there were also other contestants that brought the fun spirit of what ESC represents to me, as someone who started watching on the year of Epic Sax Guy.
Quality and fun are not necessarily mutual exclusive, but I find very little quality music every new edition as far as my personal tastes go, and I see no fun, only big performances that want to rival with Beyonce's Superbowl performance from three years ago (if not more) and I don't care for that shit.
So yeah, even if you were meaning well, whatever you said didn't exactly concern my case, I only ever check out social media after the shit storm of the results pissed me off again, to see if I'm the only one feeling that way.
But now I'm tired of being aggravated and deprived of a good night sleep because of a tedious hour and a half of a nothing burger.
No. 388124
>>387984>If you hadn't checked social media you wouldn't have known about the joost stuff or that israel was booed by the crowd. It would just have looked like a nice fun show.I know what you mean and it's 100% true but having known what was going on it feels almost like what you suggested isnt real like ones amusement would be based on a false picture,
i know this is true for a lot of things like when you find out one of the actors from a favourite film you had as a child was later revealed to be a sex pest or when you have a friend who you later find out is a shitty person, it makes you feel like the enjoyment was based on a lie
No. 388424
>>388191I'll agree on Estonia. Croatia I wouldn't consider "fun" but I looked up the Metal band that Baby Lasagna used to be part of before thanks to it, I would say the same for Norway. But that's about it.
I didn't have "fun" watching Spain, Netherlands I didn't get to see because I don't watch the selection rounds to not spoil the finale, same for Belgium, and Slovenia wasn't my cup of tea.
I've watched fourteen editions in a row and only truly found ten contestants from the different finales to have good and/or fun songs that I can still listen to now.
We can argue about what quality and fun means. Again. But that's moot because that's a personal tastes thing.
No. 388469
>>388193Idk I thought Switzerland this year and Loreen last year were pretty obvious jury bait
>>388424I’m curious. What are the 10 songs you’ve truly liked?
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Some very unexpected, but good news for all of us Jann stans. Obviously this changes nothing for 2023, but the transparency will be nice
No. 396885
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they really said a whole bunch of nothing with this
No. 397909
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Please please please please. I want all the microstates to join
No. 408015
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Montenegro is returning next year
No. 408026
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>>408017That "joke" was never funny
In other news since this thread got bumped, Joost is coming to the US. The fact he has tour dates for the US and not my country/a country close to mine is annoying kek.
No. 411077
>>408026It's just two dates but still an Eurovision act who doesn't even sing in English or Spanish making it across the pond on ESC clout alone is pretty wild.
>>409636How much you wanna bet Netherlands isn't participating next year now that he's officially proven not guilty?
No. 430824
>>430818kek why, details?
>>430811Netherlands will participate, they've confirmed it already. Apparantly Anouk (2013 I think?) wants to come back and people are big mad about it because she made a post on twitter with a picture of a used tampon and some anti-men-in-wigs statement along with it lol
No. 430827
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>>430824Samefag found it. Spoilered it because the picture is kind of gross but kek I love her
No. 430836
>>430824Oh my god I would love an open
terf in ESC! I'm sure depending on how woke the host country/audience is the audience would boo her though.
The ESC this year surprisingly had a live audience of mostly brits despite not being held in the UK, explaining why Israel got booed to hell while people of Europe actually voted for them enough to make it too the top songs.
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The Sanremo list was released today
No. 444542
>>444535Okay I gave in and FUCK it's so good and cool!! I'm blown away, totally didn't expect this out of Albania.
Watch them revamp it into English and completely screw themselves over though.
>>444222Did you happen to watch the Albanian NF? I wonder what kind of songs it was up against because it doesn't seem like a song with the most broad/mainstream appeal, right?
No. 444804
>>444542I’m so glad you like it too!
>Watch them revamp it into English and completely screw themselves over though.Good news
nonnie, they’ve already said in interviews that they aren’t changing the language
>I wonder what kind of songs it was up against because it doesn't seem like a song with the most broad/mainstream appealThere were a few other songs that I liked too, but vid related was considered the biggest competition. A lot of the Eurovision fandom was acting like it was a sure thing that karnaval would win, but Zjerm ended up winning both the jury and the overall televote. Albania finally decided to take a chance on something experimental and I couldn’t be happier about it
No. 444836
>>444804I'm laughing my ass off, the way she entered the stage was so dramatic and made me think we were gonna get a dramatic sappy breakup song only for it to turn into a generic danceble pop song lmfaoo
Zjerm is the superior choice for sure
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>>446299Well they certainly won't be banned from participating
No. 446336
>>446325bjork
>>446322i don't care either but
>it changes nothingdo you remember how much drama it caused last year
No. 446341
>>446336imo it changed nothing except all the brits in the crowd were booing Israels song, which was filtered out so nobody watching on TV (which is like 99.9%) even knew it happened and the song did great in the rest of EU voting. That europapa guy getting banned was WAY bigger drama news everywhere I looked. Though I did predominantly mean it changes nothing about the war, nobody is more pro/anti because they went on ESC and it doesn't benefit them to be there or not imo.
Speaking of the British dominated live crowd, I think since 2022 there's been a very deliberate push to make the UK more interested in the ESC. They're already part of "the big 5" so it's beneficial for the ESC if they want to sink even more money into it. Otherwise it doesn't make sense that Sweden would randomly hold a 70% British crowd out of nowhere, it "should" be mostly local people or at least a mix of nationalities…
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceve4ww7n90oim very sad about what this poor girl went through but i am worried that based on what happened last year isreal are trying to politicise this year as well
No. 456130
>>456122I think she sounds better than the woman who won, but I don't like either of the songs.
Tbh I'm not enthusiastic about any of the songs so far aside from Albania
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kek thoughts? apparently Brazil, Cuba, India, China and others will participate
No. 457418
>>457354why would't it be?
>>457309I'd rather watch the occasional genderspecial in ESC than garbage from several muslim countries
No. 458085
>>457065>>457347This concept sounds exciting, there is potential for so many interesting cultural performances unlike modern ESC which is full of generic radio slop that all sound the same and never-ending tranny pandering.
>>457293Some of these countries are much larger than the entirety of Europe on their own, with the right marketing, it could be way more successful.
No. 458119
>>458085ESC had the chance to build it's audience and legacy over literal decades, this didn't. If they want to have any chance at competing with ESC they're going to have to deliver the same production quality right off the bat, where's the money and production knowledge for that?
I also think "muh culture" is overrated especially from most of those shitty 3rd world countries. Not all cultures are valuable, I'll take a ban for that.
ESC fans are kinds hypocritical about wanting/valueing "culture" in ESC anyways because they only want a specific flavour of "ethnic culture". If, say, Germany would send Schlager no one would vote for it because it sounds and looks dated and uncool. You all claim to want culture but only as long as it sounds thrilling to the modern ear and looks flashy and fits within a narrow box of culture that's exciting.
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>>458119>I also think "muh culture" is overrated especially from most of those shitty 3rd world countries. Not all cultures are valuable, I'll take a ban for that.It's not even that cultures are overrated, but that this mix clashes hard. Do we really think Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan etc would happily be celebrating other cultures like Brazilian dancers wearing bikinis and feathers? They look sluttier and more gay than anything in ESC by default! And do we think China would gracefully accept their national treasure singer getting dead last year after year because the other cultures are more similar and nobody voted for them?
No. 458206
>>458185Whatever slop Eurovision makes is gonna be leagues more catchy and memorable than whatever throat gurgling happens in some desert. They've had years of experience crafting Eurotrash radio pop. Also, looking at this list here
>>457347 I genuinely don't think all of the countries here care about each other enough to take the contest seriously. Eurovision works because its centered on European nations. That Soviet eurovison might work if it only included former USSR satelites but otherwise its just a list of 3rd world countries, some of whom already follow Eurovision anyways.
No. 458292
>>458286what were the better options in your opinion?
i voted for #2 even though i knew she wouldn't win. i loved the song, performance and the message. #10 was alright too and it'd be fun to have post-punk on ESC for once but the random awkward stripper ruined it for me. wtf was that
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>>457347>Brazil>Venezuela>Bolivia>Colombia>MexicoFestival de Viña del Mar:
No. 458449
>>457347This will flop so badly kek. Would watch for the drama and memes alone.
As for the songs, they'll just going to send traditional songs i assume with ugly moids, since most of these countries are strict and Muslim. And some of these countries consider music and dancing haram so it won't be that popular to begin with. And not have many female participants. They'll only support each other in the votes. Might even censor the women from other countries or not show them at all like they do in the Olympics here.
https://youtu.be/OcuomoJ3n0w?si=EIdA9K-6j4R511XQBut China there lol. I don't know. I'd be interested in an east Asian one with China Korea Japan Thailand Taiwan Vietnam Singapore etc.
Putin is so retarded.
I'd rather take the alphabet people version.
>>458290What an icon. They need to fix the backing vocals asap.
No. 458599
>>458489I feel like this is one of their weakest songs. It lacks a certain OOMPH, with everything merging together too well.
Something that actually utilises the traditional sound, such as Raganu Nakts, Guli Guli (this would be sick on stage) or Pāde would be better imo. Maybe it'll grow on me.
No. 460902
>>460878I really like this one
anyone wants to watch Armenia's NF together in the cytube room? It starts in 3 hours at 17:00 CET and it's streamed on the ESC YouTube channel so easily accessible. Not sure if it'll be any good, don't think Armenia had a national final in recent years.
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I've spent the last year referring to Nemo and the ESC as "the guy in an (ugly) skirt who won ESC" and I'm curious what the non-binary debate following that guy's win looked like in other countries and how it looks now that the next ESC is creeping in.
Here nobody who I've talked to have reacted or even flinched to me saying the above, everyone just goes "oh yeah that guy" using he/him without a second thought. One single time a girl got mad about it and "corrected" me kek she was of course very woke. A few times I've tested the waters and brought up things like how it's a bit strange that in 2024/25 it's still "progressive" to say a man wearing a skirt on a very gay stage is somehow ground breaking, or that a man wearing a skirt somehow makes him "not a man" anymore. Usually they go "huh, yeah that is dumb!" and laugh and then the conversation moves on.
No. 463025
>>463018was scrolling fast and thought it was two of verka serdyuchka kek
>>461259I'm in Ukraine and I always call him a he, nobody cares (even well-meaning normies who call still him "they" don't mind it). the only people i've seen get butthurt over it are the turbo-sjw chronically online types on twitter. IRL no1currs
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This thing was made for awful character design thread
No. 464445
>>464199Apparantly it's designed by an art student? An ART student.
What does ESC even need a mascot for anyway
No. 466651
>>466219>>466556people are sending him bad comments and threats literally daily, even making petitions to have him step down from the competition kek
it was rigged as hell so i'm not surprised, his song literally got a bunch of jury votes out of nowhere. Recently some dirt on him has been resurfacing, eurovision fans can be pretty rabid and they're doing their best to bully him into stepping down which is not going to happen, but still, this is the first time i've seen this amount of hate and trashtalking
i also really wish the non boring entry was sent, would make eurovision more fun and chaotic to watch
No. 467330
what a mess lmao this is embarrassing for us croatnonnas
No. 467499
>>467321>>467374Oh kek so my intuition right after all. Gross. I'm surprised drag queens were on Serbian public tv, don't they lean more conservative?
>>467330Did he just have a terrible bad day? I feel like someone who knows they can sing well wouldn't put so much power and confidence behind the vocals.
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>>468198Speaking of Måns, he literally broke down crying after losing kek
No. 468360
>>468188It's genuinely a miracle kek
From what I've read online, apparantly it's kind of an upset win because the contest is designed to guarantee a win for a big name and kind of make it impossible for no-name to win
SAUNA
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>>468416It’s super male gazey and centers male pleasure despite claiming to be female empowering. The singer is s mega pick me who got her career started by dating an ancient schlager scrote, 50 years older than her, picrel. She also desperately wants to be another Kikka who was a popular racy pop singer from the 90s.
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>>468436Not as good as last year but still pretty decent imo. There's a lot of non-English songs.
No. 468795
>>467600… for that,
nonnie? Really? He looks like a rat (yes I know he sang with the rat mascot too)
No. 468805
>>468731Yeah there has been much complaits about them having voting power previous years. They have been less likely to vote for swedish and original sounding songs.
>>468536The only help I'm sending is telling you it's Bara Bada with A so you can sing a long correctly kek
No. 468829
>>468416i'm kinda happy she made it in because she got totally robbed back in 2020 with vid related, the one we sent from UMK was wayyy worse
but yeah agreed about the malegaziness.
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>>468795Hey! I can accept my taste in men being dragged, but leave Topo Gigio out of this!
No. 469275
>>468731All of Sweden is very vocal about hating the retarded jury system is the crazy part. Especially because the jury picks songs like loreen who then wins and all of Europe gets mad at us for sending her. We didn't want her to represent us and we didn't vote for her to win in the esc final, none of that was done by us! Especially because Sweden sees Finland as a close brother (there's a very big cultural overlap) so we were really rooting for them to win, giving them 12 points and käärijäs song being more popular here than loreens. Then social media reported it as "swedes are mad people aren't celebrating their win" but no we fucking weren't! We were just mad that käärijä didn't win! Also mad that the song the non-swedish international jury picked for us funking
won because that gives them fuel to go "see, the jury knows better than the people" and they keep the retarded jury.
It's also weird how everyone in discussion forums like this will shit on their own countries songs, going "ugh I hate that nepo baby trash, we will be dead last this year" but for some reason they still assume everyone else just loves their own country's song and artist. But any singer or band will have the most haters from their own country! 99% of the time I have literally no idea why people vote for Sweden at all because I think we send boring songs.
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Måns wife is divorcing him because he's an abusive, cheating asshole apperantly. Sweden really dodged a bullet this year. Also, someone in the comments of this reddit thread is saying that there are rumours of Måns paying to hook up with a troon prostitute last year, and claiming it was just to buy a trailer lol.
No. 471756
>>471675After his entitled, narcissistic Mello meltdown I'm not surprised this scrote was
abusive at home. Poor wife and kids. Extra glad he didn't win now.
No. 475915
>>475767I don't dislike the funny part but the ugly men part. Only men get to be as ugly or borderline repulsive as Kaarija (gag) or Joost or Tommy Cash and have it justified by their humour. A woman will never get to be ugly and funny and be applauded for it like those three are.
I also just don't want to look at ugly men.
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>>475915i've honestly never really thought of Tommy Cash or Käärijä as particularly ugly. They're styled weird, but other than that, they look pretty normal for Estonian and Finnish men. I do concede that Sweden's funny men from this year are more conventionally attractive, though.
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>>475915>A woman will never get to be ugly and funny and be applauded for it like those three are.Apologize to queen Netta rn, she literally won the ESC while cackling like a chicken
No. 476308
>>475938If Karijaa and Tommy Cash are the standard Finnish and Estonian women have to put up with then I feel sorry for them.
The Swedish Finns aren't attractive either but they're not ugly in that -want to look away-kinda way and they look groomed so I don't feel as strongly about them
>>475941She's unconventional but her face isn't ugly at all. She's not a female Kaarija
No. 476313
Speaking of Tommy Cash, I was scrolling on tiktok and got jumpscared by this.
No. 476399
>>475915Have you nonas forgotten all the Käärijä thirstposting that was done here on LC? Anons liked how ugly-cute he was. Sadly he has gotten fat now.
>>475941Thanks now I have the chicken song stuck in my head!
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>>476768nta but part of the issue is that… men just are uglier than women by default. It's super easy to find an ugly man, it's harder to find an ugly woman and even then she's still better looking than the ugly men. I really liked these two with their edgar allan poe song, they aren't ugly but they're chubby and not wearing tight sexy outfits, their song was funny and catchy!
No. 479490
>>475915I read this post and I almost started defending these guys because I find them hot but then I saw
>>476313. Holy shit, he does get hardmogged by his model girlfriend. You have a point, maybe moids do get away with being ugly more often than they deserve just because they are goofy.
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i feel insane, why is everyone shilling sweden as a favorite this year??? the song literally sounds like a grocery store ad jingle, it's just less annoying than espresso macchiato. is it that the year is too unpredictable so sweden is the safest bet or the only people left caring about eurovision are scandis?
No. 484065
>>484027half of this list is boring, i don't know why people are betting on them
>swedenfun but not winner material
>austriabetter than the code, i think it will win
>francebad
>israelbad
>netherlandsbad
>finland too porny
>belgiumbad
>estonia bad
>czechiabad
>albaniacould be a dark horse
No. 484287
>>484255yea, as catchy as advertising music can go. look, i get that it'll do well in germanic (and some baltic) countries but winning? 100% not happening unless jury will throw points at whatever comes out of melfest
>>484065>>austria>better than the code, i think it will winagree, actual contender to win, tho i'm a bit uncertain about the televote, i think people are kinda done with the opera shtick after the code and rise like a phoenix for now
i can see netherlands going up, france hard to say, jurybait for sure but i think it'll be overshadowed by israel if vocals are a thing to go by, estonia and belgium are out of top 10 though in my opinion
i do hope albania and ukraine will blow up, those are really good songs
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>>475943ayrt and i'm extremely late to reply to this but i think the middle one is genuinely good-looking. he's got the same sharp-faced finnish man phenotype as Sam Lake.
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>>488411nonna i'm sobbing, this is just how finnish men are
Our ESC2022 entry was this band, even the one woman looks slightly like some kind of a fantasy creature now, which I assume is just due to exposure to the three men, I swear she looked totally normal back when she did music solo
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>>488418why do all the moids look wonky and fucked in the face, the lady just looks bad because of her hair dye but jesus
>this is just how finnish men areyou must do the needful
No. 493387
>>493219I'm also going blind and, since I'm not from the EU, I don't have a favorite yet.
My sister and I have been watching Eurovision since 2016 as a family tradition and this year won't be the exemption!
Hopefully my nephews won't get bored kek
No. 493762
>>493228congrats nonna you've stepped into the weird bit of finnish swedish relations where finland kinda got colonized for a thousand years by the swedes and then became its own country a bit later after a brief stint of being subjugated by tsarist russia and both left some marks on the country but we're generally not too salty about that even though some might be.
those guys are partially descended from people who at some point called themselves swedes, but they definitely don't themselves identify as such. they'll usually call themselves fennoswedes, or just say they're finnish. but i've never seen a fennoswede call themselves swedish.
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>>494315Happy Eurovision time nonas! So excited for the first semi tonight!
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I'm so excited I've been distracted all day
No. 494357
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Dropping the semi final lists, here's the one for tonight
No. 494359
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and the second semi final on thursday
No. 494405
>>494361I think it would probably constantly sway the vote at the lower end of the results in favour of countries with more allies. Like of course a song like Tattoo with that staging is going to qualify no matter who sends it. But on the lower end you don't need that many points to qualify. Like on average you only need 40ish points to just barely qualify in 10th or 9th place. Those lower end spots would then always go to a mid song with 5 voting allies and never to a mid song without voting allies even though they were equally mid songs. So countries with fewer voting allies would always have to send better songs to stand an equal chance at qualifying and you'd get less diverse finals.
But that's just my theory.
No. 494547
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Glad to see non-english songs dominating this year, although the lack of women was a shame.
Also my list of favourites made it though!
Albania CHECK
Italy CHECK
Portugal CHECK
Switzerland CHECK
Sweden CHECK
Ukraine CHECK
No. 494548
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thanks eurovision
No. 494568
>>494547>the lack of womenIs semi 2 better?
>>494566I thought Azerbaijan's vocals were unlistenable tbh. Also lol at Azerbaijan not qualifying AGAIN, their golden era is truly over.
No. 494583
Well, that was fair enough. My favorites are all in. Iceland and Poland were strong opening acts, Justyna absolutely delivered.
Albania is also in the final, absolutely deserved, I hope either they or Poland win, but realistically it might boil down to Sweden vs. Austria. Sweden was fun but not sure if it'll actually win given how quirky it is.
Azerbaijan was a clear NQ from the moment he tried to hit these high notes in the chorus and absolutely blew it, not that the song was that good to begin with.
Estonia honestly made it only in as a gimmick song, he can't sing all that well, he's just in for the meme.
Portugal is not that bad, kinda boring, but it definitely is outshined by other entries. Netherlands was kinda boring too IMO. Ukraine was a safe Q anyways, staging was underwhelming and what the hell were these costumes.
I'm a bit surprised San Marino made it in, though. The song is catchy, I'll give them that. Norway is eh I guess, I personally don't care too much for it.
No. 494597
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Anybody else got weirded tf out by whatever Italy's song was? What kind of aesthetic is this man going for? He looks like Troy Baker in Death Stranding 2
No. 494786
Even though I would like Cyprus go go to the final as I love the song, I knew that it wouldn't be that good live. Same with the Belgian guy.
>>494597It's less about the glam look but more about him looking like he is about to die from starvation. He is only 31 and looks so haggard and sickly
>>494634I hated this dude since I saw him with Kaarija. He tries his best to be as disgusting as possible. I can see why he was voted since he only showed his quirky side live. Hate how an ugly woman doing something similar wouldn't go to the final but a "funny" moid did.
No. 494854
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i would die for them
No. 494855
>>494854This woman is so beyond gorgeous and I loved their performance. I'm very happy they made it to the finals!
>>494634I genuinely hate this porn rotted man so much.
>>494853Agreed, I love how fun their song and stage show are. Also the guys seem very genuine and kind in all their interviews I've seen. I can't believe I'm rooting for Sweden..
No. 494906
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Are you hosting/going to a Eurovision watch party this Saturday nonnas?
No. 494908
>>494893A televote landslide + a handful of jury points and juries being divided over the actual jury bait songs would be enough for them to win without any significant jury points. I do think juries lean slightly biased towards Sweden but to imply BBB couldn't win without that bias… Nah
I think there's a misconceptions what juries like, they don't just vote for boring ballads with excellent vocals. Croatia got 200+ from the jury last year (about the same as France), that rock band from Australia a few years ago got into the top 10 on jury points alone etc. So I don't see why points from the jury towards BBB couldn't be justified other than by bias.
No. 494931
>>494908Compared to Rim Tim Tagi Dim or Cha Cha Cha, BBB isn't much an engaging song, that's the thing. Yes, technically it's well polished but so are many other entries such as Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Albania, Netherlands, UK… The other jury's criteria is that pop hit song quality, which BBB also doesn't have but Norway does. So, I can't see the juries being generous to this year's televote favs for any other reason than being biased.
As a side note televote landslide also isn't a given, since from what it seems Espresso Macchiato is gaining a momentum right now. Add to that Israeli voters, Ukrainian refugees, Polish diaspora and numbers Finland is going to pull, Sweden's odds just start to crumble
No. 495003
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why is this thread seething about him? it could not be more obvious that he is simply an edgelord having fun, it's all for attention. he also probably won his semi.
No. 495044
>>494908>I do think juries lean slightly biased towards SwedenHonest question, what makes everyone say this? Like on one hand I see people saying "jury bait", but then sweden literally just sends normal pop songs like every other country most of the time and doesn't win? Except for like loreen but that was honestly a cool performance (at least to me) and I'd rather every country sent something cool and artsy like that instead of just some bland sparkly performance. And then people
don't call the nemo troons song jury bait when at least to me THAT was actual jury bait because it was literally a low effort troon singing about "breaking the binary code" after just putting on a skirt?
No. 495062
>>495049Nahh that makes no sense, EE juries wouldn't deliberately vote themselves into countries they can hardly afford to go to on their EE incomes and broadcaster budgets. Doesn't make sense ego-wise either.
>it's been 14 years since a eastern european country wonUkraine won in 2016
No. 495101
>>495058>>495044I've been wondering about the juries. They're appointed by each country's broadcaster (since it's technically them and not the actual country or song competing) so are we saying they all get together and decide who to vote for? And is it even the same juries years later? It really feels like at least someone would have spilled the beans or at least hinted at it by now if they were truly cheating the system and not just picking who they actually like. Sweden is also the third biggest music export in the world despite being such a small country so doesn't it make sense they make good technical songs that industry people like then? Why would they lower their production on purpose just to match other songs with worse quality to not be "jury bait"?
>>495049>it's been 14 years since a eastern european country wonWhich eastern european country do you think should have won nona? Which songs were good enough to win in your opinion? Actually curious because I can't remember many songs on the top of my head, but usually when someone says like "the UK hasn't won in 28 years" it's like… yeah they've literally only sent shit songs so of course they didn't win kek
No. 495204
>>495033Eww that was gross. Well he ain't winning anyways, first semi was crap anyways his song was the least crappy from the rest.
I still can't get over how Portugal passed.
No. 495344
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>>495338I'm going to be so upset if Latvia and Lithuania don't qualify.
No. 495424
>>495113>I mean 2023 was a good enough proof that juries do in fact band and handpick their winner just so a song like Cha Cha Cha could never win It just doesn't really add up to me that it would be rigged. Tattoo was still the second most voted for song by the public too, because people did genuinely like the song/performance. And the jury gave cha cha cha the 4th highest score too, so it wasn't like they tanked the scores on that one either. If anything Norway (queen of kings) is the country that got cheated by the jury because they gave it really low scores when it was the third most voted by the public and has since gone on to be one of
the most streamed ESC performance of all times, ahead of cha cha cha. At a glance at least a few other songs seemed to have 100+ points in difference too that year. While I still hate that there's a jury at all and I badly wish they'd be removed the "conspiracy theories" behind them seems exaggerated.
No. 495451
>>495441>getting fewer points than expected from the jury that year? That just makes me think even more that they don't all just band together, the fact that people make what they think are "obvious" predictions due to those songs being "jury bait" and the jury then doesn't actually vote for that seems like a positive thing for me. It means the supposed jury baiting doesn't actually automatically work and they still vote for what they actually like.
I don't like that a few individuals get so much voting power, but it's still imo not at all proof that those nearly 200 jury people per year (most also get swapped out every year for a new jury) would band together to choose a winner. Also, a lot of the jury members are previous competitors/writers/producers of the local ESC auditions who failed to win, or even previous ESC winners/competitors. I honestly really think someone would expose it all if it was all a planned scam. Especially the people who are big in their own countries, they don't really have anything to lose from spilling the tea.
No. 495497
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Am I ovulating or was he kinda hot
No. 495553
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Some of these were such unexpected picks.
>>494547Faves for part 2:
Latvia (not biased) CHECK
Finland CHECK
Greece CHECK
Georgia …
France CHECK
Lithuania CHECK
No. 495559
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She's so damn based idc what anyone else says. I hope she wins.
No. 495574
>>495564The bros, it's a macho bro fantasy. Staging was cool tho, one of the few OTT stagings that still managed to sound good
Bonus
>I'm a survivor>Stay aliver No. 495580
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just found out the austrian singer is an actual moid and not a cute butch or a tif. it's so over for me nonnas…
No. 495635
>>495555>ireland deserved that spotthe shitty song about a real dead dog that humans killed on purpose? no thank you.
>>495589i was thinking of trisha the whole time too kek
>>495621you'd think finnonas would be happy now that sweden is sending literal finns but alas the seething must go on
No. 495639
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KAJ are the hottest guys this year. Especially him. But I like them all.
No. 495652
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>>495639I've been going through their old content and now I'm kinda crushing on Axel…
No. 495792
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>>495787I honestly think they look pretty similar
No. 495800
>>495497RIP sweet prince… I will rememeber you.
I was thinking abiut Germany last night. The song is catchy but the absolute lack of stage presence and energy will kill them again. I know there's this ''countries send bad songs because they don't want to win" theory but I feel like they're actually /trying/, so why can't they make it right?
No. 495875
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grand final running order. sweden has a pretty good spot tbh
No. 495879
>>495878I believe they call that spot the death spot. That or the 2nd spot not sure.
I'm sad Lithuania is so early, really like them
No. 495899
>>495891I think they're probably moving towards an all-producer choice show tbh.
Anyway does it really matter? I just want a good show
No. 495900
>>495885hmmm, but i don't think casual watchers are going to vote before they see all the entries. then again casuals are less autistic and might send their vote for the song they like while it's still performing live
really curious how it'll work out in practice
No. 495910
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>>495791Nonna, you took it pretty seriously but I really recommend you look up history a little bit. It's not all swedes but we should really stop pretending the "our little brother" thing isn't kinda offensive and like there isn't blatant racism against Finns even these days. I was pretty shocked to see what swedish hockey players had to say about Finland during 4 nations… And return the skulls, please. I'm sorry for complete ot, it was really meant as a joke originally.
No. 495924
>>495815He does have a real nice body.
You should visit /g/ sometime if horny nonas surprise you.
>>495910>racism against FinnsKek come on. Both Swedes and Finns are white and nordic. How can they be "racist" to each other.
>>495791This definitely a LC thing, never seen it anywhere else.
No. 495930
>>495910>like there isn't blatant racism against Finns even these daysI've literally never seen a single thing of it ever in my entire life. And I say this as someone with a about 1/3 finnish family living in sweden. If anything it's Denmark they shit on.
>hockey playersI don't associate with hockey hooligans to be fair, I don't know why you do either. Men who are hardcore into sports literally go out and beat the shit out of each other "for fun", they're not exactly average citizens and are actual degenerates.
No. 496009
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after yesterday's semi i really wish latvia scores BIG with the jury but these mfs are always so biased
No. 496308
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>>495497armenia was infinitely hotter.
No. 496328
>>496044Also a Balkanfag, I'd say despite the history between the countries which a lot of people nowadays don't care about as much anyway, people are hoping a neighbour would win as much as we root for our own country (and oftentimes we don't like our own song as much as some of the others), ofc you'll find the history fanatics everywhere, but those are rarely watching the esc anyway kek
Tbh I'm sad to see less and less Balkan/exyu/Slavic countries participating, I feel like a lot of countries get snubbed out of the votes in favor of the nordic countries, Sweden could send a literal garbage can to the stage and they'd still qualify.
That being said, I don't care about the Austrian moid and I hope he loses, I love Erika, Latvia will get robbed by the judges, Swedish song can win ig but I wish it was not Sweden again.
No. 496400
>>496399I don't personally think there can be a huge horrible robbery this year since there isn't one real clear fan favourite like Käärijä or Baby Lasagna.
Israel will totally get a shit ton of votes due to the campaign their government has put up for the competition, but probably not enough to win. (i hope)
No. 496403
>>496399I hope the jury will split it's points between austria, france and switzerland this year and avoid another jury landslide
Tbh tinfoil but I'm think the juries deliberately landslided Nemo last year to prevent an Israel win.
>>496400It wasnt enough for them to win last year when Israel support was at its peak so its definitely not happening now
No. 496411
>>496403I usually think the jury rigging tinfoils are retarded but I fully believe that's what happened last year.
>>496404I can't stand Austria's song, it feels so inauthentic and the lyrics are cringe.
No. 496419
>>496417I wanted to bring up the same point but decided against it, so I'm glad you posted this. I wonder if the new tech is the reason behind vocals sounding so bad and muted for most contenstants that didn't do a ballad.
I will be forever seething that Australia didn't get through because of that.
No. 496438
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Well I for one am excited about tonight, noonnies!
No. 496448
>>496442I actually want ICH KOMME to win because it has an energy of its own league, but I also loved Latvia's entrance, but it's way too artistic for most people sadly.
>>496417Nonna I've noticed it too, I was rewatching previous years performances and the crowd was going mental with some artists, this year everything felt a bit too quiet.
I mean, listen to the cheers for Europapa and the claps, granted, it was one of the best performances, but still, even other entries for last year felt much louder than this year's
I wanted something with this level of hype this year.
No. 496453
>>496403>Tbh tinfoil but I'm think the juries deliberately landslided Nemo last year to prevent an Israel win.I believe this 100 times more than them making tattoo win. A good performance winning is just "nice" because it's equally fine if a mediocre song wins (as we see 99% of the time kek). But a shitty controversial political song from a war country winning is
actually detrimental to them.
Imo Nemo actually stole the win from croatia, because his song and performance was shit and wouldn't have gotten half as many points if he wasn't a gendie in a skirt, while at least tattoo was actually cool and artistic and from an already famous and popular artist. That was a bitter win (for a kaarija fan anyway), but it didn't feel fully undeserved or fully political like nemo winning did.
>>496417>awful audio mixing; not sure if other nonnas noticed but every performance's crowd noises are completely gone, and are replaced with generic cheers.I find generic cheering ok, but the actual song mixing feels off to me and I don't like that. Though I don't think it's the crowd muting that makes it off, I think that's separate.
>>496376>Is it just me or is this year not feeling as exciting as the previous years? Probably just my personal tastes, but I thought last year was a lot stronger and this year is very mid. Last year had so many songs and performances I thought were great or interesting. This year there's barely any, nearly all are boring and the "fun" songs are just gross coom shit and the coffee guy can't fucking sing at all which ruins the whole song (well him being a degenerate does too, but pretending like I didn't know that it's still bad). But hey, I don't think any country sent a gendie this year so that's a big improvement! I was fully expecting a billion of them trying to replicate nemo's win.
No. 496504
>>496499Kekkkk tbf it's impressive
>>496502They were funny, sounded better than in the semi too
No. 496531
I hate Malta
>>496526Absolutely, makes me wanna go there
No. 496574
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kaarija looks disgusting with his huge gut out, but this act was the hypest shit
they both should have won their contests
No. 496583
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Wtf was that
No. 496605
>>496603UK was cringe by even the jury's standards I think. Probably 0
I have such a crush on Hazel btw, she is so cute in the backstage segments
No. 496673
and fuck everyone who voted for estonia stop giving these tiktok bait songs that will never get jury support votes
>>496669austria
No. 496711
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Genuine question nonas, do you like that there is a jury now that they prevented Israel from winning? Or do you think they should just let Israel win by public vote instead (even though that's most likely rigged)?
No. 496715
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they did her wrong
No. 496732
>>496715and the jury ofc had to pump their votes to sweden, netherlands and france
they even gave fucking germany more points than to her
No. 496736
I really wanted Latvia to succeed. Käärijä should roll up his sleeves and go to a gym.
>>496642It was terrifying and disgusting.
No. 496740
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So we're just going to have to deal with Israel hogging up all the televotes from now on? Very cool!
No. 496749
>>496737sweden got too many points for nothing special, albania and ukraine deserved more
>>496739i know, but swedish bias is real anyway (italian too to some extent but volevo essere un duro is a decent song at least)
No. 496753
>>496740>So we're just going to have to deal with Israel hogging up all the televotes from now on?It's so clearly cheating and they need to figure out how to stop it or fucking ban israel already
>>496746>Nemo's song was something like this too eh?They are SO similar and both are boring as fuck.
>what the fuck was this psycho act with this wighe was genuinely so fucking ugly and disgusting that whole performance, moid ego knows no boundaries
>>496749>sweden got too many points for nothing specialit's the most played and streamed song from ESC this year, people like those meme guys
No. 496754
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Spanish broadcasters are based
No. 496758
>>496734No, I am talking about his speakkng voice, countertenors doesn't have high speaking voices often,
plus it reminded me of an imfamous tif of my country who is bragging about being a countertenor (being a woman of course) which is pretty much scammy
No. 496760
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sorry this is from 4chan but KEK(polshit)
No. 496776
>>496757It took cha cha cha 10 days after the ESC final to hit 50 million streams.
Bara bada bastu now, night of the final, is at 45 million streams.
No. 496778
>>496711Honestly, Israel's song was mid and outdated. A few years ago, everyone would have voted for it. She had great vocals though. I saw the girl’s Nova interview and tbh, it broke my heart. Hiding under corpses and waiting 8 hours for rescue to come. Especially the voice calls with her dad. Her dad telling her, “Close the phone and play dead,” and when she said, “Dad, they’ll probably have to amputate my leg, but there’s no way I’ll survive this anyway, so it doesn’t matter.” Then, after rescue wouldn’t come, you could hear it in her voice that she was giving up and telling him, “I don’t care anymore, I can’t take it, let me just die, I’ll stop hiding.”
What she went through was fucking terrifying, and she’s honestly very lucky she lived. If the person who came to rescue them wasn’t an Israeli soldier looking for his daughter, but another Hamas moid, she’d be dead for sure.
But I fucking hate Israel for how they’re treating this poor girl. They’re basically exploiting her. She seems really sweet too, and I admire her courage, I could never do what she's doing after such a traumatizing event. I’m still scared to use public transport for example because I got molested, and yet here she is singing and had people booing her, threatening to rape her, that it's a shame she lived and some even tried to attack her during her performance.
I don’t care what country she’s from, they’re throwing all their hate for Shitrael at this poor woman who’s just trying, even though they exploit her.
Just look at her eyes, so…dead. Devoid of any emotion. And I felt that, because I can imagine the pills she must be on after what she’s been through. They make you look like this.
But again, this isn’t a pity contest. The juries made the right call, because what would’ve won was either this or the Estonia sex pest that couldn’t sing shit.
Still, over voting songs the audience didn’t even like, like the UK or Switzerland that got 0 audience points, but jury over voted for them. Sweden, Albania, Greece, for example, there was at least some kind of balance. They really need to fix that.
I might have disliked Austria’s song, but he deserved points. He could sing, and the ship black and white theme was at least interesting and new, and not recycled from previous performances, see Spain.
And honestly, this whole boycotting Israel thing isn’t working, and instead has the opposite effect, as you can see. Trannies and faggots are dumb. If they didn’t give a fuck, and just ignored Israel and it's song and didn't shitpost on twitter muting it or making misogynistic comments about it, it wouldn’t have gotten even in the top 5.
No. 496784
>>496781and yet estonia's 2nd in the public vote
i really don't get bbb "popularity" since it's nowhere near the hype cha cha cha and rim tim tagi dim had
No. 496789
>>496778I voted for her just out of spite tbh and no I don't regret it.
The moment I saw comments like
>bitch should have died or gotten abducted and raped by Hamas I was already voting for her. Not for her shitty country but for her specifically. Supporting another woman>>>>>>anything else. If it was a moid instead though, lol that's another question.
No. 496791
>>496788because jury hates eastern europe, that's why
>>496749poland getting crumbs was sad to see too
No. 496798
>>496796I can tell you our top public votes Germany
12 Israel
10 Greece
8 Albania
7 Poland
And I think we gave 4 or 3 to Ukraine
No. 496802
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I disassociated the moment I saw Nemo. I didn't care about Israel almost winning, the squeaking faggot rigging winning or anything else after that.
WTF WAS THAT PERFORMANCE. I'm not watching this shit next year or ever again.
No. 496803
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>>496796mixed public/jury but whatever
No. 496813
the real underrated performance btw
>>496809azerbaijan is very famously an Israel ally, Turkey is on/off and not very campist. Israel is helping Azerbaijan invade armenia.
No. 496818
>>496799Man that's so unfair for Poland and Albania.
The 0 points to the Swiss girl is the revenge for Nemo.
No. 496819
>>496813>>496817Can't break the 0 tradition now! /jk I felt bad for them too, in general single points voting is sad.
If Erika had better staging she could have won tbh.
(integrate) No. 496835
>>496833Thank you nona!
Lol meanwhile Ukraine didn't give them shit.
No. 496838
>>496836Ok tip for eurovision 2026.
Tell to the Israeli delegation that their contestant is nice and polite to get 12 points.
No. 496845
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>>496833it makes sense, as a Greek I am not surprised. our government's position on Israel changed drastically sometime in the late 2000s/early 2010s thanks to Turkey.
I still think the public opinion in general holds unfavorable views towards them however, posts of people working in hospitality and having to deal with Israelis go viral every now and then.
No. 496866
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>>496825lol people are not having it. there's a bunch of "uwu so stunning n brave!!!" but at least half the comments are fucking brutal.
No. 496867
>>496861Agreed to everything. I think Ukraine was my favorite all things considered, I loved everything, especially that filter!
I know some anons didn't like it for a lot of reasons but enjoyed it so much I've it on loop since the final ended.
No. 496875
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kajsisters, how will we ever recover? they should have WON and i was sure they would… i don't know what went wrong.
No. 496878
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So is Nemo coming out as AGP tranny with this song or what? I guess being nb is not in fashion anymore
No. 496879
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>>496875I don't care that they didn't win the whole contest but I'm so mad that Pissrael and Tommy sexpest got a higher televote score.
No. 496881
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what the hell just happened
No. 496948
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>>496866The comments are killing me, even the supportive ones kek
No. 496951
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>>496403Samefag…. Well I take my words back. I didn't stick around for the voting results last night and I wake up to a god damn Israel in second place? I genuinely did NOT see that coming, how did they get so much higher than last year? It's not like they didn't have an ad campaign last year.
Honestly I think this result is ruining Eurovision more for me than last year's Netherlands DQ and Israel shenanigans did. If future editions are really going to come down to Israel fanatics hijacking the televote to attempt to landslide Israel and juries landsliding whoever has the best voice to counteract it, it's no fucking fun anymore.
I'm honestly not even 100% convinced the juries deliberately landslided Austria to prevent an Israel win but the juries landsliding the winner multiple years in a row is too much power and no fucking fun anyway. God damn ESC is cursed.
At least Albania got top 10…
No. 496971
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>>496970I'll stop spamming but the comment section keeps on giving
No. 496977
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Semi final 2 voting results (remember the semis are televote only)
No. 496978
>>496875They will always BBB in our hearts. It's a massive win that they won Melfest despite making a silly song in swedish, the boring english trend has been broken.
and you could always imagine yourself as the trophy if youre into that stuff>>496971kekkk
No. 496994
>>496992In a way I would have loved to see Israel win and see EBU shit their pants. They should have disqualified Israel already last year and having it come back to bite them in the ass would have brought me great amounts of joy tbh.
If they actually won, I feel like a lot of countries would have pulled out of participating.
No. 497005
>>497002they changed it after 2014, before the change jury votes and public votes were lumped togeather
iirc when poland won the public vote in 2014 by a landlside but came last in the jury vote there was a massive uproar
No. 497021
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>>496994I didn't want Israel to win but now I see your vision nona. Hundreds of thousands of people coming into a country actively at war to huddle in an arena to watch and perform at one of the biggest shows in the world? Great missile attack target for Hamas. So what is Israel to do to avoid it? They have one year…
The diplomatic fallout of Israel winning would have been without precedent. And the problem is that with the way things are going, it's only a matter of time before they do.
No. 497023
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channers had a field day with this win(/pol/ shit)
No. 497025
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I know it's just a music contest but ESC has been a big part of my life since I was 5 and the current state of the competition makes me so fucking sad. Fuck the EBU and fuck Israel.
No. 497030
>>497025I feel the exact same way, nonna. It's cheesy, but it really feels like a moment for all of Europe to come together and share the joy of music, our culture and have a good time together. Europapa style.
The past two years have felt so shit with the inclusion of Israel, the rigging and all the protests and whatnot.
The boycots as well seem to only bolster Israel up even more.
No. 497036
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Amerifag who doesn't care about Eurovision in the slightest, just here to say I'm happy Shitrael got BTFO'd. Also happy that the country of my grandparents, Slovenia, opposes them.
No. 497042
>>496768>>497023IDs are missing. It's /int/ not /pol/
>>497021Israel can do their turn in the US. It's expatriate territory
No. 497043
>>497037i mean, it is the largest song contest in the world, winning it in front of 200 million people watching would be really good publicity. europe is a valuable ally and sending in these "oh woe is me" ballads helps garner pity from us, but they keep fucking it up with the aggressive ad campaigns, obviously rigged voting and the fact they keep forgetting that europeans can and do read the news and are aware of the shit they're doing to civilians in the west bank.
also
>>497031 there was a video posted in the last thread that said something about the ebu being formed to "keep out eastern european influence" out of west european media during the cold war, so it's been fucked from the start.
No. 497070
>>496626ah yes, a handful of nonnies saying that they like his song = lusting over him
dumbass
No. 497155
>>497150I feel conflicted because while obviously I don't agree with death threats towards her, this sentiment
>Poor girl its not her fault, look at her she survived a massacre!!!is
exactly why they sent her.
No. 497161
>>497156Israel literally uses the contest for propoganda, don't be naive. She's even financially backed by the Israelian government's department for foreign affairs. Literally pumped a fuckton of money into it for a huge ad campaign. Why would they do that if it wasn't for improving their image? Azerbaijan and Russia have a history of doing the same thing. Russia in particular sent cute teen twin girls singing about world peace the year they invaded Crimea so they looked like the
victim when they were rightfully booed.
Don't pretend like a massive show with 200 mil viewers couldn't possibly be used for soft propoganda.
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Sure the jury saved us from an Israel win but they're still tasteless retards.
No. 497755
>>497751I think it's more that their governement is now completely open about ethnic cleansing and wanting to annex what's left of palestine. they're not even pretending it's abour hamas anymore. makes it harder to ignore for other governments
>>497399albania was ROBBED. but i guess they prefer uwu ballads sung by high-pitched queerios. bleak
No. 498144
>>498136It has a bigger population than San Marino, I don't see why not.
>>498143I'd love to see them try squeeze the whole event into the Vatican.
No. 498180
>>498171Wym anon Australia has been participating for over a decade without missing a single year lol
>>498165Afaik Australia had a decades long history of airing the contest so they eventually just got invited, EBU saw a chance to increase the market I guess
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Based
No. 498502
>>497751I think now that it's a clear pattern that they're cheating so well they not just place good but can actually definitely win people are more upset.
>>498343I love käärijä and BL, but I thought that was cringe and their song REALLY sucked
No. 499646
i wonder where are ukraine's "pity votes" and "sympathy points" everyone was talking about. it's funny how we sent a non-political optimistic song about hope, finished 9th and got just as much (if not more) hate as previous years. pissrael with their blatant public vote manipulation placing 2nd is right there but retards on twitter won't stop screeching about us "ruining and politicizing" the contest. sure
>>498509>Ukraine sends a quirky bangeri hope so. i think we need to let loose and send something dumb and fun
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So stunning and brave.
>>499905All "art" trannies create is about dysphoria and self pity. Really makes you think.
>>496822It's so painfully obvious he's trying to copy SOPHIE, it's not original at all.
No. 499977
>>499930>reminds me of Go_A.Say no more nona, I clicked so fast.
>>499912>All "art" trannies create is about dysphoria and self pity.That is TIF art, TIM "art" is usually about their fetishes or hate towards terves.
No. 500094
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We should have a eurovision music playlist: farmer's favorites edition.
No. 500103
>>499646>i wonder where are ukraine's "pity votes" and "sympathy points" everyone was talking aboutAs a swede i kinda feel the same when everyone is mad just because we won once when loreen beat käärijä one year and the other recent years we've been placed 4, 9 and 14 which isn't even on the "winning podium" (not even this year when social media loved our meme sauna song) and feels pretty average to me. Even if it is pity points and it only leads to an average placement then who cares, it didn't really affect anything in the end. Imo Ukraine has sent songs that were really good/interesting the last couple of years.
>>499905>Fucking tired of retarded faghags and handmaidens defending this shit as "art" because "it's supposed to be shitty on purpose".That's troons in a nutshell though. Making themselves ugly and disgusting on purpose, thinking if they do it first then people going "ew that's gross" they can then go "ha gotcha, I actually meant to be gross so you can't hurt me by saying that". I'm so sorry to all swiss nonas that they sent him out to represent you, we know you're better than that!
>>499919Troons forcing themselves into places where they don't belong and aren't invited to just to scream and throw a tantrum that grosses out everyone else who was forced to watch it… it's just too on the nose!
No. 500286
>>500241I love her!
I am still listening to this very fun song from Estonia last year. I don't understand shit but the energy is so intense. The fact that they said "You're welcome Europe" at the end makes me kek to this day
Last year had so many good songs, this year it was really dry.
No. 500826
>>500094dont know if suggesting multiple songs is allowed but:
>Trenulețul (Moldova 2022), hey-ho to the nonna in moovie room who mentioned it ♥>Oniro Mou (Greece 2018), admittedly not the best staging/music video but i really love the song's mystical folk vibes>In Corpore Sano (Serbia 2022), final verse goes hard>Gravity (Cyprus 2017), on the generic side but shit its catchy >Spirit in the Sky (Norway 2019), viking background vocals are a nice touch more well-known recent favorites of mine include baby lasagna's rim tim tagi dim, go_a's shum, kaarija's cha cha cha. i feel like those are all popular with most nonnas in this thread though so it might be wise to include them on the playlist anyway kek. also seconding
>>500286 as a great song, and ntayrt but thank you to
>>500570 for introducing me! by the way, if any nonnas have recs they think would align with my tastes, id love to hear them!!
No. 501087
>>501083samefag to say the esc performance was really cool too, it really captivated me as a kid back in 2007
bless princess diana 2.0