Eurovision 2026 Final Thread 3

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Go.

You could google and look for the images?

I saw ads with my own eyes, multiple times, in the US.

Naysayers can nay all they want. I know what I saw. I was disgusted.

Our song is my earworm! And I haven't said that for a while about our Eurovision entry!

We need a selection in the UK.

Where different people sing songs and the public vote for it.

That's what used to happen before and we used to do much better then.

Rather than something getting picked by the BBC.

Let the public decide who represents us.

I agree send in a Welsh Male Choir. I don't care if we win but our songs are soooo shit.

Italy won just a few years ago and the group have become quite successful. Måneskin

The UK's songs don't stand out, or else they're just bad. Sam Ryder did well, and so did the Andrew Lloyd Webber song. It's not anti-UK at all. Other countries send better entries.

My recollection is that was a disaster. We always chose terrible songs that did badly, which is why they changed it.

i was locked inside a theatre with 12 children whilst Britain First were rampaging outside & banging on the doors.

then you had the Irish sectarianism too.

Racism was rife in the 70s too.

Yes, A Song for Europe- I agree with you

See, the Andrew Lloyd Webber pick did very well - top 10. As did Blue. Also top 10.

It's no shame whatsoever to come top 10 in a highly competitive contest.

This is part of the problem with the British approach - winning is seen as the object, whereas all the lefthand side of the board have done brilliantly IMO.

He already had a huge social media following too.

Like the song tonight that got 1 point?

I totally agree that a song in Welsh would be fantastic.

The UK has such cultural variety. It's a truly unique little island. I have no idea why it doesn't put forth something that represents it's diverse lexical heritage more.

The guy who presented the trophy to the winner.

Called her a bitch at least twice I think

I think a Welsh song might be good, would be different at least.

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It was probably banter but super unprofessional, eww 🤢🤢

Yeah I am always uncomfortable when a man calls a woman a bitch due to the loaded history of that word. I am sure that in his sub-culture he thinks its cute, but he is still a man using a slur to a woman that in the past has been used to precede harm.

Articles?

Or flat out, in your face, advertisements, urging Americans who might be supportive of Sweden as a political entory and as a society to vote for the Swedish entry?

There is a massive difference between articles and expensively produced advertisements.

I know why the algorithm sent those ads for the Israeli entry my way. I have no reason to believe I was the only person in the US to have checked the boxes I checked, or to have received those ads.

He was using it as a term of endearment but someone needs to tell him it’s got connotations when said by a man to a woman.

That is rather mildly put 😅

I’ll bow out now because I feel you are somehow making me into a racist which is what happens, I don’t know how you can misconstrued my sentiment that no one should be fighting anyone else. It’s is archaic that any human should be fighting any human no matter what colour, religion or nationality how can you find fault with the sentiment that in the modern world we should not be fighting each other?

We were in Turin, and as soon as people knew we were British, they started singing Space Man to us.

I bet against Finland because they didn't have that easy hook for people to sing as fans. Space Man was impeccably sung but also says to repeat. (I also got a personal fist pump form Sam when we were sat near the green room).

I'm so pleased the Juries recognised that carrying off something like BangaRanga requires technical skill. I raged a lot about the lack of recognition of the theatre of Cha Cha Cha - a song in the same bracket of novelty as Eins Zwei Drei, which pulled off the quirky humour much better.

Comedy and fun require just as much skill to get right as high notes and belt notes - it's about time juries recognised that.

Agree! Scots Gaelic would be brilliant too, and the musical heritage of Scotland is a completely unmined seam for British entries. I would hope any culturally diverse British entry wouldn't end up as a cringeworthy kitsch embarrassment though.

I agree... we have amazing music here. I don't even mind if we do something traditionally like Gate and come last, but apart from Sam Ryder the actual songs have been really poor even if the performances have been great. Last years performance was good, but the song was just not working.

We need a reset. At least try and make a song that the British will buy.