Iceland - top mention of the Faroe Islands lodged on the song!
Ours was very musical theatre but those harmonies are quite hard to nail, and they nailed them. Would be great in a West End show, not sure it's right for a Eurobanger.
ERIKA! Wow! She dropped to her knees so I hope everyone downed their drinks.
Finland was fun.
Speaking of Eurobangers! ICH KOMME! 😮
Ours just seemed like some random show song out of context, need some lessons from Spain
We deliberately don't follow the lead up to it , so it's all a surprise on the night.
Remember Monday....forgotten by Tuesday. Poland felt like Poundland Mad Max. I liked the Italian song a lot while Finland was clearly one for the dads. If she had dropped the mic, those poor stage hands would have been finished....
Remember Monday....forgotten by Tuesday. Poland felt like Poundland Mad Max. I liked the Italian song a lot while Finland was clearly one for the dads. If she had dropped the mic, those poor stage hands would have been finished....
Say what you will about the Swiss hosting the show.......but the flags a big plus.....😉
Spain, Holland and Italy have all pleased so far but Germany currently tops my list. I'll be turning the sound down for the French entry, I'm not sure why but it irritates.
Greece's entry is by Vector from Despicable Me......she has both magnitude and direction!
Denmark ftw!
“The internet and lsd…”
Nice
I think the crowd should win it for their rendition of Waterloo. ! Had they been briefed to learn the lyrics ? A bit like Reading when the crowd sang Merry Christmas
I’m struggling to pick a favourite. Sweden, Italy, Finland, Germany and so many others.
I’m loving the dance-off. I’m a bottle of red to the good and I’m here for this bonkers telly.
Eurodab. Now we are talking. Loved it
Finland have got the crowd going. Dab dab dab to some Ibiza type techno light. Most amusing.
Karija and Baby Lasagne just stole the show. That was epic.
Karija and Baby Lasagne just stole the show. That was epic.
My eldest child wondered in to the room when they were on, and then pronounced "these are two different acts from last year. That one came second..And this is banging!'
I mean, seriously? Who gives a **** about this stuff? But he just knows things about Eurovision from the last 4-5 years....
I just wish he'd start revising for his exams. 😁
I'd have definitely voted for the dance off gang. That was terrific.
I'm going for a bike ride tomorrow, don't think I can be bothered to wait up for the voting.
Second recap - Finland or germany.
This scoring is a disgrace.
Albania gives 12 points to France (not for the first time) and France gives 12 points to... . Not that this is a farce or anything.
See, it's that predictable.
Bit harsh.
UK zero points from audience. And who the **** voted for Israel ? I think we need Mossad to investigate.
zero points for Switzerland, the French commentators are working hard to stay polite.
Organisers must have been utterly terrified of the fallout if Israel had won.
And who the **** voted for Israel ?
Lots of people. Us included.
Oof. That was looking totes awks for a while.
Max points from UK to Israel is also interesting. Lots of households dedicating all their joint points to one country?
Austria wins and avoids a diplomatic incident.
Host nation with a not too crap performance gets zero points while Israel's unremarkable effort got the highest audience score by a country mile. Suspicious me? Just a bit.
There was a Eurovision on? Were ABBA on? I think that was the last time I actually gave a toss. I watered the garden then went to the pub.
Lots of people.
Or bots. Call it bad faith if you want, or bad taste, I just don't get it.
Thousands of eSIM cards in a bot farm can make a big difference in an event like this. Russia always did well in the public vote too
nah - **** it - deleted, no point raising an opinion and getting dogpiled over a song contest.
My suspicions are about the audience vote, theotherjonv. Three years ago they excluded the audience votes from six countries due to irregularities so it is a thing.
https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-voting-during-2022-shows
Re. Israel scores, Wasn't it the same last year?
Edit - yep. 2024, 52 jury votes, 323 public. 🤬
There was something off with that scoring. I just wish that every now and again all of the ****s in the world would have a night off.
Wasn't the Israeli girl a survivor of the Hamas attack? That won't have hurt her score, will it?
Go on then - why? Other than it's Israel therefore it must be a conspiracy why do you think a perfectly good EV song sung well wouldn't get a lot of support across many nations? Maybe even less surprising because every nation has a proportion of Israeli/Jewish population who may have been motivated to vote in support of a survivor of the October music festival attacks whose rehearsals and performance were disrupted by protestors....or are they included in the **** of the world?
Not everyone sees the situation as black and white as 'Netanyahu bad therefore anything any Israeli does is bad by association'. Plenty of Israeli/Jewish people are protesting inside and outside of Israel at the regime and genocide in Gaza. Equally, plenty of people can see that a vote for a decent song isn't the same as validation of Netanyahu's genocide.
It's a ****ing song competition.
This is hardly a conspiracy. Many people, Jewish or not, wish to express support for Israel, or proxy support for Jewish people generally who might be feeling a bit like outsiders at present, or otherwise just sub-consciously pre-disposed to like Israel's song. Even though (IMO) it was not at all special.
There was no single obvious banger which captured serious audience momentum and dominated votes. A small but significant bloc of people in each country voted for Israel, while everyone else spread votes across the large pool of all 26 countries. Remember there is no negative voting, and most people only vote once.
There is no need to start stories about vote rigging or bot farms. We didn't dismiss Ukraine's landslide audience win in 2022 as cheating.
Could have generated some real political ****-stirring on the audience votes if Palestine had entered though.
