I wasn't expecting quite that level of heat for Martin Österdahl the Supervisor both times they went to him.
― nashwan, Saturday, 11 May 2024 23:30 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah, I caved and watched. The booing at times was intense, well done crowd. Pretty sure they piped in cheers during Israel's song to cover it up.
There was also definitely coordinated voting afoot. I guess it's technically not cheating b/c you can vote as many times as you want, but there is no way that a weaksauce song from a country people didn't want in the competition had a genuine groundswell of public support to that degree.
So relieved at the result, honestly. Would have preferred Ireland to win but happy for Nemo, they were super charming and the song wasn't bad.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 12:49 (three weeks ago) link
Israel getting maximum points from the British public vote but nothing from the UK jury isn't quite what I expected either.
― nashwan, Sunday, 12 May 2024 13:43 (three weeks ago) link
For some reason, this was streaming on Peacock in the U.S., so I watched some of it for the first time. Saw the first 40 minutes just to get a feel for it, then fast-forwarded to the winning song. Delightful. My favorite moment was during the Ukraine performance, when my wife and I were wondering where the other performer was, and I said, "Maybe she's going to come out and rap," and 10 seconds later she did!
― jaymc, Sunday, 12 May 2024 13:49 (three weeks ago) link
There ya go. And no ‘for some reason’ about it, Peacock has been the American streamer for the past few years now.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 May 2024 13:54 (three weeks ago) link
lol so many years being a Eurovision hater and yesterday I took my daughter to a brewery where they were showing it on the big screen for about 200 peopleit was pretty fun actually she and her friends have gotten into it pretty big
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 12 May 2024 13:57 (three weeks ago) link
If you ignore the absolute shitshow the EBU made of it, it was a good Eurovision year musically - lots of fun and weird songs in a wide variety of styles from folk to novelty to goth, a few semi-decent ballads to break up the chaos, some proper pop bangers.
Nothing I loved like last year (where many of the entrants made my EoY ballot) but I think it was genuinely well-rounded and would have been a contender for Officially Good Year if only I didn't feel so guilty for watching it at all.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 14:25 (three weeks ago) link
I didn't really like any of the songs much, though there was only one out and out stinker. I must be showing my age because I thought a lot of the songs sounded similar, or had similar sounds.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2024 14:35 (three weeks ago) link
What did you think the stinker was? My bet is on Germany.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 14:41 (three weeks ago) link
There were half a dozen with the calypso/reggaeton beat which seemed a little higher than in recent years but felt like at least half the entries were uptempo Eurodance redux. I probably liked the trad but fun Armenian entry the most as a result. The winning song is fine but didn't really deserve to dominate from the start like that (admittedly I say this p much every year).
― nashwan, Sunday, 12 May 2024 14:47 (three weeks ago) link
switzerland was my personal fav, followed by ireland and germany so i actually matched the results for the first time everprobably the closest total at the top that i can remember since the split voting came in?
uk getting 0 from the public was great too
― nxd, Sunday, 12 May 2024 15:57 (three weeks ago) link
What did you think the stinker was? My bet is on Germany
I think it was Estonia? A bunch of burly blokes shouting?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2024 16:04 (three weeks ago) link
There were half a dozen with the calypso/reggaeton beat
Yes, there was far too much of that. It was difficult to tell one country from another unless they went down the folk music route.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2024 16:07 (three weeks ago) link
“Shakira-core” was the description that went through my mindmy faves were ireland, croatia finland, switzerland obv, and i really enjoyed spain?the firefighter song was v funny to me in an unintentional way
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:50 (three weeks ago) link
Spain, Switzerland and Ireland were favourites in our party and Netherlands was my favourite from the semis but the public vote results left a sour note.
But when everyone from Toby Young, Andrew Neil, Lawrence Fox and Tommy Robinson is encouraging everyone to vote 20x, and this was probably replicated across Europe, it ain’t a surprise, just a shame that the voting system can get hijacked
― danzig, Sunday, 12 May 2024 17:56 (three weeks ago) link
If you ignore the absolute shitshow the EBU made of it, it was a good Eurovision year musically - lots of fun and weird songs in a wide variety of styles from folk to novelty to goth, a few semi-decent ballads to break up the chaos, some proper pop bangers.Nothing I loved like last year (where many of the entrants made my EoY ballot) but I think it was genuinely well-rounded and would have been a contender for Officially Good Year if only I didn't feel so guilty for watching it at all.― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 15:25 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 15:25 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
agree with every word of this
TIL about "anti-booing technology" (aka fake crowd noises for the TV broadcast) but apparently it's been around since 2015 when people were booing Russia
― that's that me: a Viking (seandalai), Sunday, 12 May 2024 21:01 (three weeks ago) link
“Shakira-core” was the description that went through my mind
Oh lord, if people thought there was a lot of that this year, you should've seen ~5 years ago. There were definitely a few that seemed focus-grouped for Eurovision this year but some years it just gets silly with the attempts to replicate 'Fuego' success.
Fair enough if you think this was the stinker - I'm usually quite into the "messy" Eurovision tracks (I like silly, weird & amateurish) but Estonia's attempt at that this year did not do it for me, so I'm not going to get pissy about it. Would still rather that track than Germany's bland-ass bollocks.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 21:15 (three weeks ago) link
This was my first time watching Eurovision - Ireland was my favorite overall performance, Czechia was my favorite song, Finland was the funniest. Switzerland didn’t really do it for me during the show but listening to it today, I do see why it won - the hook is really good, his vocals are great, it’s a very crowd-pleasing hype number.
I thought Estonia was good but their green room seating get-ups were comedy gold.
VG otm RE “Shakira-core”; I said the same thing to my husband after the 5th or so of that performance style.
― just1n3, Sunday, 12 May 2024 21:16 (three weeks ago) link
I'm interested to know what songs people thought fit in that style - for me it was only really Cyprus and Georgia (neither of whose songs were particularly interesting), maybe Luxembourg? You could stretch it to Italy (it's not, but the cumbia influence could make it read that way?) and really really stretch to cover Greece (imo absolutely not, that's K-pop and trap influence mixed with Greek traditional). I thought there was a lot more of a techno influence this year - even boring stuff like Sweden had some nice bass sequencing, and obv WE WILL RAVE (which ruled, will hear nothing against this epic tune).
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 21:58 (three weeks ago) link
Yes the sequencing in the Swedish track was nice.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2024 22:00 (three weeks ago) link
I tuned in for a bit of the contest to see if there was any chaos going on, there was not, thought the Norway song was terrific though and cannot believe it came last.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 May 2024 22:05 (three weeks ago) link
I also loved Norway, but I wasn't surprised it didn't do well. None of my friends liked it, either - apparently there wasn't enough of a song and it was a bit Evanescence, whereas for me the epicness was enough in itself and she wailed like Björk. Everyone else was wrong and I was right and I will maintain that until my dying day.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 22:12 (three weeks ago) link
(Or until I forget, which will probably be tomorrow.)
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 May 2024 22:13 (three weeks ago) link
Estonia was okay but I think the two? singers in the upper range weren’t quite powerful enough and were a bit drowned out by the music compared to their awesome growly baritone priest guy … i think it had potential to be great but was’t quite thereNorway was cool! but i do feel it needed more of a chorus to really bring it home imo.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2024 23:05 (three weeks ago) link
shakira-core imo:cyprusgreeceluxembourggeorgiaitalyand it’s a very loose categorization purely because of the um bap-ba-bap-bap beat which is always to me shakira “whenever wherever” even when it’s not that style?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2024 23:08 (three weeks ago) link
The Greek one was giving me the strongest reminder of things like 'Con Altura' more specifically.
― nashwan, Sunday, 12 May 2024 23:22 (three weeks ago) link
my votes:
best pop: Cyprusbest fun: Finlandbest singing: Francebest person: Bambie Thug
― that's that me: a Viking (seandalai), Sunday, 12 May 2024 23:49 (three weeks ago) link
I’m glad they ignored the Palestinian call to boycott in order to make a statement so radical and uncompromising that Keir Starmer and David Cameron made it several months ago https://t.co/0XsCaq5erI— James Greig (@jamesdgreig) May 11, 2024
― Murgatroid, Monday, 13 May 2024 00:09 (two weeks ago) link
When you're mad you couldn't rig the televote properly.
Shortly after the contest, Golan appeared on an Israeli talk show that mocked numerous pro-Palestinian contestants, including Marina Satti, Bambie Thug, Joost Klein, and Nemo Mettler. The skit featured Golan calming down and "forgiving" satirical and angry versions of the contestants because they "called for Israel to be banned" and were therefore kidnapped by Yoav Gallant, Israel's defense minister, for Golan herself to calm down.
― nashwan, Monday, 20 May 2024 21:52 (one week ago) link