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I genuinely love this horrible competition. I look forward to this every year and actually buy their album for it so I don't go in totally blind. Iceland was such a shock when I first heard it, shook me right out of my Eurovision doze nicely, I hope they place well, as I know they won't win cuz dumbs. The only songs I keep listening to this year other than Iceland are Spain, Cyprus and Malta. I do like Armenia's entry this year, but I can't say it's a top for me. Anyway, I'm looking forward to heavily drinking in the afternoon!
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b-minus1 posted:Is Eurovision rigged/outcome predetermined? Kind of but not as much as it used to be IIRC. The voting is split 50/50 between a panel of appointed judges and sms votes from viewers. The official panel always has the most boring taste and the sms votes tend to fall into regional factions. The national nominations that send the acts to Eurovision are often 100% rigged.
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I made a playlist of some highlights and lowlights (the true highlights) of Eurovision past. Nothing from this year is on it yet but obviously Iceland will be added after the performance. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Z_WldCQ2VzuSltsfCwV0Iavhhfo-0Qe
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San Marino is really going for the gold, huh.  That is some high quality Eurovision right there, my bingo card is already full. Hope they make it to the final!
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May 12, 2019 12:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6yOIC6ihI I miss entries like this
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May 12, 2019 12:52
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barbecue at the folks posted:San Marino is really going for the gold, huh. According to wiki there's a total of 33,344 people in San Marino. I guess every band in town gets to have a turn at Eurovision.
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May 12, 2019 13:30
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Grillfiend posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6yOIC6ihI Briefly thought it might be a Stiff Little Fingers cover Someone needs to do Alternative Ulster as a subtle dig at Israel
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May 12, 2019 13:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfo-8z86x80 The last unironic great Eurovision winner.
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May 12, 2019 13:47
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Belgium the last few years had very good entries imho, but this one is kinda bleh. Blehgium. I mean, listen to these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G48p8eNhnd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDBjhAGaeWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsCmChDYwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2cZE2gCfWg And a catchy Love Power to get in the eurovision mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg1pgtrrNuA
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May 12, 2019 16:47
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Lid posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfo-8z86x80 It's probably the best from the last decade, but the ones to win the last couple of years have usually been fine. Ukraine's maybe the only one I don't care for but politics played a big part there. This winning back in 2011 will always baffle me.
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Laughing Zealot posted:It's probably the best from the last decade, but the ones to win the last couple of years have usually been fine. Ukraine's maybe the only one I don't care for but politics played a big part there. true, this should've won 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD09ThCx4Cw
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May 12, 2019 17:35
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I will watch all of this. Always fun
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Iceland deciding to go for "people in PVC being weird" much like their 1997 entry, which I am an unequivocal supporter of, obviously. I am also liking the Portuguese entry this year. Weird Eurovision best Eurovision. The Netherlands is hugely favoured to win, tho. I don't find the song as interesting, but you can see his bum in the video, so there's that. I'm also into the Norwegian entry (the joik bits are the best, I unironically believe Norway was robbed in 1980), the Hungarian entry (it didn't strike me as immediately as his 2017 entry, but I quite like it after a few listens), and the Greek and Azeri entries (both with very Aesthetic™ videos there) Least favourite is the Czech entry, the accent irritates me more than the lyrics. Speaking of English accents, you can be sure that our entry this year is so perfectly inoffensive that all the voters will probably forget he's there. A fitting representation  Edit: Here are some other old Eurovision entries I like, in no especial order. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTOyzyDiEs - Denmark 1981 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlvQ6Ln9fc - France 2010 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSuCdNEy9w0 - F.Y.R Macedonia 2012 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsOOarxxzFY - Sweden 1983 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ENftFochg - Yugoslavia 1983 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8RvDQYFnk - Yugoslavia 1987 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4JS_EWiJo - Denmark 1997 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mVhtWfC7RF4 - Moldova 2005 (Zdob si Zdub's other entry, don't forget) I may post more later. Jollity Farm fucked around with this message at 18:51 on May 12, 2019 |
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Laughing Zealot posted:It's probably the best from the last decade, but the ones to win the last couple of years have usually been fine. Ukraine's maybe the only one I don't care for but politics played a big part there. There was a perfectly reasonable explanation for that. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...ns-8835367.html https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/06/eurovision-song-contest-vote-rigging
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May 12, 2019 18:45
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Does anyone have the drinking game saved somewhere? The site is down and my tradition might be ruined. 
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GET INTO DA CHOPPA posted:Does anyone have the drinking game saved somewhere? The site is down and my tradition might be ruined. There's a new link in the OP. http://crucialweb.net/eurovision/drinking/
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Kudos to Finland for finally giving the world what it wants and sending Darude but that song isn't nearly peak Internet enough to win.
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Well I watched all the videos for the first semi and here are my findings. Cyprus: A bit of Lady Gaga, a bit of Max Headroom, and a lot of viscous fluids covering two naked young men. Montenegro: Making your Eurovision entry both Disney ballad, ethnic song and '90s pop track feels a bit like cheating. Finland: While Darude's and Sebastian's self-awareness should be commended, I feel like muting the TV/stream would be more effective than looking away. Poland: These traditional Polish Stepford Wives would probably have more success if they brought their vaguely Garbage-esque music to a crowd of non-pensioners instead. Slovenia: A pretty good ASMR lounge remix, sponsored by Adidas. Czech Republic: Some nerd with a boner for English accents listens in on his neighbour (whom he last saw when she was 13) having sex and attempts to convince his girlfriend/wife that he's not aroused at all. Hungary: There's probably a good reason why this kid's lugging around a box all over Hungary containing a small Bat-Signal, but the video does not provide much clarification. Belarus: An okay pop song, mashed together with the intro to TLC's No Scrubs. Serbia: Nightwish/Within Temptation-lite, Balkan-style, and metal head crystals. Belgium: Mumford and Sons, in 2019, but this time with synths. Georgia: Slavic Jean Reno is freed from his cruel imprisonment on the beach. Australia: Certainly the best cyberqueen-with-5-meter-long-legs I have ever seen on the ESC, but as far as modern opera goes, it's not a patch on Cézar's monumental 2013 performance. Iceland: The Lament Configuration had an electro-industrial baby and in a wonderful twist of fate, hell dimensions permitted it entrance into Eurovision. Estonia: All I can say is that Victor's appropriately smug for this apparent climate-change denial song. Portugal: Baffling music, baffling costumes, baffling choreography, and impossible to sell to a large audience under any normal circumstances, so this will probably score pretty well. Greece: Katy Perry going through male puberty. San Marino: Imagine a bearded and extra-shifty Jeff Bezos making a not-half-bad career in pop music circa 2002.
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Agreed on 90% of the above ^^^ Malta's song sounds exactly like something already out on the radio but I can't remember who/what because I basically never listen to the radio if I can help it. Denmark is like budget Nora Jones or Lisa Hannigan. Iceland is actually interesting and solid for an industrial track (but not Lordi-type interesting) and accordingly will get no votes.
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Question Mark Mound posted:I made a playlist of some highlights and lowlights (the true highlights) of Eurovision past. Nothing from this year is on it yet but obviously Iceland will be added after the performance. This is a good playlist. By good, I mean terrible, but in the best way.
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Do it ironically posted:Wait how is Australia in a competition called Eurovision Read OP we go through this every loving year
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Question Mark Mound posted:I made a playlist of some highlights and lowlights (the true highlights) of Eurovision past. Nothing from this year is on it yet but obviously Iceland will be added after the performance. This is such a good playlist.
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Do it ironically posted:Wait how is Australia in a competition called Eurovision Eurovision has been broadcast on free-to air TV in Australia since the start of the 80's and it pretty popular here. Then we got let in for some reason.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Eurovision has been broadcast on free-to air TV in Australia since the start of the 80's and it pretty popular here. Then we got let in for some reason. Unfortunately, Australia has thus far missed the spirit of Eurovision and keeps sending actual songs/singers.
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May 13, 2019 10:22
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At least it seems Australia has embraced The Dress. On a woman, though. Baby steps.
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I don't know about this year's Eurovision Song Contest. I get the feeling like it's being hosted at Overlook Hotel.
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Compilation videos: All the winners, 1956 - 2018: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpCyPhtE_M Or, if you prefer, all the last places: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eD5AU1UEMKo Also, I have decided that the Swiss entry this year reminds me of Despacito. I am a cloth eared buffoon tho 
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By popular demand posted:To all the participant countries in Eurovision: ESC is cool but boycotting it this year due to Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories and continual crimes against the civilian population of Gaza is much cooler.
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Israel's contribution to Eurovision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uy4ggnLzKI
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Reminder Australia was robbed in 2016 and the totally-not-politically-motivated song from the Ukraine was poo poo tier. I haven't actually done my pre-watch for anyone this year. I was thinking about doing it before the semis but I think I may just go in blind this year for a the laughs. I hope Sweden's sent some slick motherfucker again; I've been loving just how smooth their entries have been for the last few years and I want my Petra in my life. Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 14:20 on May 13, 2019 |
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Gridlocked posted:Reminder Australia was robbed in 2016 and the totally-not-politically-motivated song from the Ukraine was poo poo tier. Sweden's entry is quite good. Even if you're not into that kind of gospel type thing normally, it's still quite an impressive example of the genre (though, as I say, I am a cloth eared buffoon). Last I saw, the odds have them coming third. Though last time Sweden came third (2014) they came first the following year, so there's that. Regarding Australia 2016, that's one of the times a song did better with the juries than the televoters. Just something to consider when you hear that the televoters have better taste - not always the case.
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Jollity Farm posted:Sweden's entry is quite good. Even if you're not into that kind of gospel type thing normally, it's still quite an impressive example of the genre (though, as I say, I am a cloth eared buffoon). Last I saw, the odds have them coming third. Though last time Sweden came third (2014) they came first the following year, so there's that. The televoters that year was just Ukraine vs Russia as a proxy for the war. Both were bad songs.
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+ 1 team Iceland That said I'm finding a fair chunk of this year's entries genuinely good, which is a nice change of pace Montenegro seems to be the only real cringe-inducing dud of the lot, unless you're allergic to Serhat.e: forgot about Croatia. That one's pretty cringe too Aphra Bane fucked around with this message at 14:54 on May 13, 2019 |
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Jollity Farm posted:Sweden's entry is quite good. Even if you're not into that kind of gospel type thing normally, it's still quite an impressive example of the genre (though, as I say, I am a cloth eared buffoon). Last I saw, the odds have them coming third. Though last time Sweden came third (2014) they came first the following year, so there's that. I will never stop being salty about 2016. Also Sweden sent gospel? Rip, I wanted guys in suits again. Bring back Robin Bengtsson, that guy was the slickest motherfucker on the planet with his suit and sweet 90's boy band dance on conveyor-belts.
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Oh my god I can't wait to get blasted and watch this. Eurovision Season is the best time of the year Also Iceland is like, a song that would actually work in the real world. Can't wait for Montenegro to win! Sombrerotron posted:Well I watched all the videos for the first semi and here are my findings. qft
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/13/hate-will-prevail-icelandic-bdsm-band-put-eurovision-and-israel-in-a-bind
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Gridlocked posted:I will never stop being salty about 2016. My favourite thing about 2016 Eurovision was that the Polish entry was something like second to last with the juries, but third with the televoters. I think that might be the biggest difference ever between juries and televotes. I mean, I have no especially strong feelings about the song itself, but that's still quite impressive imo. I dare say it was political or something, but still. The Polish entry this year is quite good. Reminds me of something that might have been played on the Evening Session (BBC Radio 1, mid-nineties indie show) if they had ever played a Polish-language tune. I'm always on board for some nineties retro - my teenage years were mostly godawful, but the music was good. (not wholly sure I agree about Robin Bengtsson tho, he looks like Mike Cernovich to me)
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Jollity Farm posted:My favourite thing about 2016 Eurovision was that the Polish entry was something like second to last with the juries, but third with the televoters. I think that might be the biggest difference ever between juries and televotes. I mean, I have no especially strong feelings about the song itself, but that's still quite impressive imo. I dare say it was political or something, but still. The juries vote during the final dress rehearsal performances and apparently during the rehearsal his voice cracked on a high note or something.
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