Switzerland for the performance. The thing I liked about the French entry it was actually a song.
Are you fucking kidding me - the French song was like every other overwrought dull french song on French radio. Ours was shit but at least it wasn’t a cliché.
The French guy is an established star, but also as the only Muslim singer may be getting political benefit.
Funny how UK gets points from the likes of Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Australia, all countries we've had some sort of association with over the years.
Ireland and Australia are culturally similar to Britain. Look at the charts for the past several decades. Dunno about Iceland and Switzerland but singing in English probably helps.
Funny how UK gets points from the likes of Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Australia, all countries we've had some sort of association with over the years.
And bugger all points from the countries we've had to save from themselves. France, Germany....
Switzerland for the performance. The thing I liked about the French entry it was actually a song.
Are you fucking kidding me - the French song was like every other overwrought dull french song on French radio. Ours was shit but at least it wasn’t a cliché.
And are you fucking kidding me? Just about all the other contributions were clichés too. At least the French entry was a song as I said, which might be an advantage for a song contest. Not a particularly good song or well sung by any other standards than Eurovision and there we go.
We are just going to have to retaliate by banning these foreign jonnies from listening to the Beatles, the stones, led zep, dua lipa, Queen, Elton John, the cure, the cult, and of course Rick Astley until they sort out their music tastes.
I think I'm pretty happy with that result. A reasonably decent song actually won (bad my wife is pretty happy too lol) and Israel got huge public vote backing. Also my instincts that our song would do poorly with audiences was correct with that big fat zero with the public vote, Switzerland did the gay message properly and had someone who can actually sing.
I think I'm pretty happy with that result. A reasonably decent song actually won (bad my wife is pretty happy too lol) and Israel got huge public vote backing. Also my instincts that our song would do poorly with audiences was correct with that big fat zero with the public vote, Switzerland did the gay message properly and had someone who can actually sing.
There was a time when Eurovision could be a family viewing event - not sure what has happened
That's quite something for us to score ZERO on the weighted total worldwide public vote. Message there. Just a crap song doesn't explain that.
The song was crap, the artist couldn't sing and the stage was a recreation of a men's room at a bar in Soho in the 90s. It was never going to do well, zero is what it deserved. We're lucky that the juries took sympathy on the UK this time or it could have been 0 overall.
A bit embarrassing for a very established UK artist, admittedly with a poor song that was performed to appeal to a specific niche of the London gay scene.
If you don't believe me, one of his songs (under his 'band' name) has over 600m listens on Spotify.
That's quite something for us to score ZERO on the weighted total worldwide public vote. Message there. Just a crap song doesn't explain that.
It was too generic. It feels like the Beeb went for something that Euro audiences would like but it just blended in to the background.
The other issue I would say is expat votes. Brits in Europe tend to be elderly retirees who are less likely to watch Eurovision.
I think it's the opposite, if it was merely bland it would have got 50-60 audience points. The stage show was actively off putting for audiences, people don't want to see a bunch of blokes grinding up against each other in a recreation of a men's room you might find in Soho.
That's quite something for us to score ZERO on the weighted total worldwide public vote. Message there. Just a crap song doesn't explain that.
The song was crap, the artist couldn't sing and the stage was a recreation of a men's room at a bar in Soho in the 90s. It was never going to do well, zero is what it deserved. We're lucky that the juries took sympathy on the UK this time or it could have been 0 overall.
deserved to score zero- supposed family friendly viewing does not feature toilets - maybe the message is you can be gay but its a song contest not a soft porn contest
I bet on Israel but then regretted it. The issue was that music industry jury voters are more likely to be left wing, which limited the points Israel would get there.
That's quite something for us to score ZERO on the weighted total worldwide public vote. Message there. Just a crap song doesn't explain that.
It was too generic. It feels like the Beeb went for something that Euro audiences would like but it just blended in to the background.
The other issue I would say is expat votes. Brits in Europe tend to be elderly retirees who are less likely to watch Eurovision.
I think it's the opposite, if it was merely bland it would have got 50-60 audience points. The stage show was actively off putting for audiences, people don't want to see a bunch of blokes grinding up against each other in a recreation of a men's room you might find in Soho.
I'd take issue with saying the 'history never repeats' - I though the saying was that "history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce".
See the middle east right now. History repeating on an endless loop of intolerance and bloodshed.
If only it was a farce. Its so bleak I can’t bear to think about it
The best way of summarising the Israel/arab thing is Larkin’s line: man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf
It’s like the Holocaust inflicted such terrible trauma on the jews of Israel they are subconsciously forced to reiterate it endlessly, cf victims of abuse who often become abusers - or extremely kinky (which is much healthier)
Meanwhile the Palestinians are locked in their own psychohistorical nightmare, somehow and sometimes revelling in their own martyrdom, masochistically - in between bursts of brutal violence against the Jews
The only sane response to this awful and sordid spectacle is to look away. I sometimes wonder what might happen if everyone did ignore them
The holocaust is 80 years ago now. For most young people its ancient history. Many dont even believe it happened. Powerful words here. Rafah is completely blocked, israel won’t allow anything to enter, no humanitarian aid, no doctors, no help. Yet the idf are bombing us right now. THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO 💔NOWHERE WE CAN GO 💔
It doesn’t seem relevant perhaps, but I wonder how many votes Israel’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest will get.
The Israeli entry is very strong musically and it's not really possible to vote against an entry in the Song Contest so I feel like somewhere it'll comfortably qualify for the final and then finish between 6th and 10th place. Maybe if the IPBC had sent the same singer with a song of reconciliation like 2009 it might have even won.
It finished 5th but I'm still claiming it as a hit.
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France = 218
Croatia = 210
That's my hostage to fortune....
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All the songs sound the same. I am old so it's all just noise to me
Croatia 1.5
Switzerland 2.9
Ireland 22
Israel 34
France any price you like.
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Lolol
Can't imagine he'd be the only one.
Switzerland 2
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/special-bets/market/1.217824682
Punters wifes happy worldwide.
Croatia & Switzerland are bouncing around 2 (or even money).
First time since 1956??
Good to see Ukraine do well. Ireland sixth, not bad. Armenia, 8th, not too shabby. Those were my faves.
So fuck off BDS PSC Momentum Green Party etc
Eurovision is gay friendly but prefers camp to cottaging.
Norway came last too, not the UK
It's terrible
Bit cloudy here but there might be something. Off to get a camera.
And ... time for the best music of the night. Charpentier.
Worst result since Corbyn in 2019!
If you don't believe me, one of his songs (under his 'band' name) has over 600m listens on Spotify.
The other issue I would say is expat votes. Brits in Europe tend to be elderly retirees who are less likely to watch Eurovision.