Eurovision Malmö 3

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Let's get a result...

I wonder if Graham just CBA anymore with the pep he’s supposed to display 🤣

Were Katrina and the Waves American?😧

Proof?

On which bit?

They were indeed.

He'll have been given his orders to say nothing.

Seriously, stop projecting. I disagreed with the 300 something points for the song and I have not commented on anything political. You are going out of your way to invent intentions here.

https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2024#croatia

Break down of votes here. (This links to Croatia but you can get to other countries from that).

Anglo American. Katrina and the other founding member was American. The band line up changed from time to time. I don't think it's unusual for singers from one country to compete for another. Celine Dion (Canadian) sang and won for Switzerland.

His tongue biting tonight was a study in restraint, I thought.

Which highy political issues are present in Switzerland's and Ireland's song?
Now, to plan for next year's contest!

I live in Ireland and I voted for the UK.

Well I live in the UK and I voted for Armenia but presumably no one else did, or at least not in large enough numbers to register on the popular vote, which is what's required. I guess the same thing happened to your Olly vote.

Spot on !

It said on the news that the Irish singer had some sort of ceasefire message on her costume/body decoration originally, but had to remove it for the final.

The Swiss song about being non binary is political insofar as LG/BTQ+ rights issues are very much so at the moment.

I see😲

Which leads me to question why America doesn't have it's own song competition among all the states, including maybe affiliated countries like Canada, Mexico some of the other South American/Carribbean countries...

Because it would be fucking carnage, probably.

There were adverts in Times Square and on YouTube encouraging voting for the Israeli entry. There was certainly an effort to raise awareness of the competition and voting that I don't believe other countries were engaged in - that may have helped Israel get votes from people who wouldn't otherwise get involved with Eurovision (especially in the Rest of World votes). I wonder if other countries will follow suit next year. There certainly seems to have been a rise in pre event promotion in recent years - at least I don't remember so much promotion in the 90s/00s but maybe it passed me by. It kind of seems to be heading the way of the Oscars where you need a big campaign to get votes.

Ireland - 'Bambi' stripped down to a trans patterned bikini. Switzerlands song was about being non-binary.

The LGBT bollocks is politically, yet was given the green light?

I’ve seen Years and Years (back when it was a full band and not just Olly) a few times and they were absolutely fantastic- really greater than the sum of their parts. Olly doesn’t have a powerful voice though, and when he wobbles or goes flat there’s just no disguising it. I’m not sure he really has what it takes to succeed with it as essentially a solo project, and this certainly will not have helped!

Me too. Gotta throw the Uk a vote from Ireland - it’s tradition! I thought it was a good song but he didn’t sing it well and it felt a bit ick with the toilet setting and the leather penis covers 😅. Not deserving of 0 public vote though. The brexit effect?

I don't know @DysonSphere . I saw a programme a few years ago about how the USSR had its own version of a Eurovision style competition amongst the different states.

Anywayyyy... is nobody going to focus on the fact that the right act won, for once?

So the entire public vote in the uk went to Israel? That tallies with public opinion of course

Just popping my head around the door to say yes it tallies with most people’s opinions I know. Also friends/family voted for Israel tonight (as well as a few other acts) so no please don’t blame ‘bots’ for voting for Israel, we are real people.

You do know a few hundred people marching every Saturday don’t represent the silent majority’s/public opinion, don’t you?

Anyway fwiw I liked Switzerland’s song 😀