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GET INTO DA CHOPPA
Nov 22, 2007
D:


I haven't seen a Eurovision 2017 thread around, so here goes.

Foreign Substance posted:

Semi-Final 1 is on 9 May, Semi-Final 2 is on 11 May and the Grand Final is on 13 May. Last year's thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773328

"gently caress you, I just want to get drunk."
Fear not! http://www.aleth.talktalk.net/eurosong.html

GET INTO DA CHOPPA fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Apr 21, 2017

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Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
gently caress eurovision

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
I've been getting more and more into Eurovision because my boyfriend is a massive Eurovision nerd :3:

He not only watches the final contest, but at least half a dozen of the various countries' national finals in the lead up. February through May each year I hear so much eurotrash at home, its seeping into my brain

I'm going a little bit Kreisí (:hfive: if anybody at all gets that reference)

Crash_N_Burn
Apr 19, 2014

Aw poo poo its time to listen to some weird-rear end music

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

hell yes!! when is it on, i feel like that is important info that should be in the op and that i'm not going to google for myself

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Orkin Mang posted:

gently caress eurovision

:eyepop:

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Is Australia in it again this year?

You know, the Australia that is like totally in Europe.

The General
Mar 4, 2007


^^Australia is a forever thing for what I have heard. I hope more countries join. Need another semi final.

I have been waiting for this thread.
I am super pumped. I love eurovision and I cannot wait till the semis. I like to go in blind so I can be drunk as gently caress and having hilarious good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV3xp5ZXSYA

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Orkin Mang posted:

gently caress eurovision

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

australia is in it again but im pretty sure we're sending some shithouse boring ballad this year ffs

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
oor oh vee zion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USa0zUMmqI

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

BrigadierSensible posted:

Is Australia in it again this year?

You know, the Australia that is like totally in Europe.

Notable european destination Israel is in it too. Eurovision transcends national borders

I.C.
Jun 10, 2008

Bogan Krkic posted:

hell yes!! when is it on, i feel like that is important info that should be in the op and that i'm not going to google for myself

It's not until May, but now is a good time to prepare to be excited.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Last year Russia tried to put on a live music video to win. What'll they do this year?

The General
Mar 4, 2007


I'm surprised Russia didn't say they won because Ukraine is part of Russia.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

does Britain get to go after the brexit, i hope not, we never win

Foreign Substance
Mar 6, 2010
Grimey Drawer
Semi-Final 1 is on 9 May, Semi-Final 2 is on 11 May and the Grand Final is on 13 May. Last year's thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773328

LordArgh
Mar 17, 2009

Nap Ghost

kecske posted:

Notable european destination Israel is in it too. Eurovision transcends national borders

israel is in it because they're members of the european broadcasting union

Default Settings
May 29, 2001

Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe
And never forget, kids: The Song Contest is and always was a completely unpolitical event. :gifttank:

And let us not forget the REAL host of this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjHJneVonE

GET INTO DA CHOPPA
Nov 22, 2007
D:
I haven't seen a Eurovision thread around, and like everyone else I've been eagerly awaiting the yearly thread.
I wrote the OP because this year's thread was missing. Feel free to tell me to kill myself what other info you want in the OP.

Adnachiel
Oct 21, 2012

RandomPauI posted:

Last year Russia tried to put on a live music video to win. What'll they do this year?

Fill the airtime where they would normally broadcast it talking about how mean and bad Eurovision is and how they totally would have won... I guess.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/eurovision-song-contest-2017-russia-not-taking-part-yulia-samoylova-a7683761.html

The former Soviet bloc countries are going to be so lost this year. Who will they give their yearly 12 point tribute to? (Probably each other.)

Lord Zedd-Repulsa
Jul 21, 2007

Devour a good book.


The person who usually makes the Eurovision thread does it in late April or early May, so you just got a little impatient.

The General
Mar 4, 2007


Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:

The person who usually makes the Eurovision thread does it in late April or early May, so you just got a little impatient.

Oh hey, you're right. Last years wasn't posted till like 2 days from now.

Val Helmethead
Apr 24, 2009

Pittsburgh is stored in the balls.

A couple of actually fun songs this year, but nothing that just jumps out as amazing.

Closest thing we have to peak Eurovision is a guy in an ape suit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6tVGKzfhU

Edit: I suppose Montenegro has some potential. And Moldova has RETURN OF EPIC SAX GUY.

Val Helmethead fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 21, 2017

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

It's okay to watch Eurovision ironically if you're drinking.

The General
Mar 4, 2007


Grevling posted:

It's okay to watch Eurovision ironically if you're drinking.

What if I watch it unironically while drinking?

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

The General posted:

What if I watch it unironically while drinking?

It's not okay then.

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide
Italy winning this year, calling it

The General
Mar 4, 2007


Cake Smashing Boob posted:

Italy winning this year, calling it

Italy didn't win 2012, they're not winning this year. Though maybe I'll change my tune after I hear Italy's entry this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8PB8eIy50

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

I'm really liking the UK's entry this year. Feels like the first time in decades that we figured out that sending a decent song instead of some novelty/X-Factor loser/exhumed corpse might be a strategy.

Sadly this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xo_ua6sfbM won't be gracing Eurovision this year.

Clyde Radcliffe fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Apr 22, 2017

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot

Default Settings posted:

And never forget, kids: The Song Contest is and always was a completely unpolitical event. :gifttank:

And let us not forget the REAL host of this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjHJneVonE

Hell yeah that's catchy.

This is also the most European thing ever in human history.

Fearless_Decoy
Sep 27, 2001

You shall all soon witness the power of my Tragic 8-Ball!
Moldova is sending Sunstroke Project back to Eurovision. They're the group with Epic Sax Guy and Neon Violist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvaLAs9cex4

It'll be hard to compete with Romania's Yodeling Shakira knock-off, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJw_CLQCUw

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Guess what band is back this year?

:eurovision:

RandomPauI posted:

Last year Russia tried to put on a live music video to win. What'll they do this year?

withdraw because their singer was banned from entering Ukraine after she illegally entered Crimea

The General posted:

Italy didn't win 2012, they're not winning this year. Though maybe I'll change my tune after I hear Italy's entry this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8PB8eIy50

I like the horns backing track. The singing, eh, not so much

If Italy wants to win, they should pay Talco to remix St. Pauli for Eurovision




e: everyone in Finland that voted for their lovely rear end ballad is retarted. Y'all won with Lordi of all bands. Do more of that. It works. Its different. Its a winner. gently caress YOU

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Apr 22, 2017

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide
Italy has the best song, but Sweden's entry puts on the better show, I think. So it's going to be between them for first, probably.

a glitch
Jun 27, 2008

no wait stop

Soiled Meat
Dont forget the second most important part of Eurivision: pissing off other countries.

Here is a good example from Sweden.

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

I hope the hosts will keep mentioning Crimea throughout the ceremony and that a war will start because of Eurovision.

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
If Australia doesn't send tism this year I am going to personally fart in molly meldrums face

anatomi
Jan 31, 2015

Unironically upset that this guy didn't win the Swedish finals. He's got a nice voice and is supposedly a former criminal or something, so that sort of makes up for not putting on a spectacle.

Edit: this off-brand Cillian Murphy sex doll won.

anatomi fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Apr 22, 2017

Raged
Jul 21, 2003

drowned in pussy juice posted:

If Australia doesn't send tism this year I am going to personally fart in molly meldrums face

We are send yet another loving X-Factor/idol idiot


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiXEMYUqa3w

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Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




The Sweden entry is the most homoerotic entry and I also really like it

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