Eurovision 2023

I retract my comment about the Croatians!

Netta does not move like any human I've seen before

I’m glad they got Imagine out of the way first

The mirror father mirror performance of Whole Again I didn’t know I needed

Cmon, I Turn To You is such a banger, don’t John Lewis it :(

Moldova, you mean? it’s total Ukraine/Go_A core, and that is of course great
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 13 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Croatia

ah okay

The mirror father mirror performance of Whole Again I didn’t know I needed

Sonia's Better The Devil You Know, a reminder of 1993, when this fucking shit song was still one of the better ones in the competition.

No way

You'll never walk Alone getting the performance it deserves

Ruslana!

Now for the real #Eurovision2023 pic.twitter.com/uAQkIbVN0Z

— James Benge (@jamesbenge) May 13, 2023

This is the first year in living memory that I think the UK song is pretty competent. It's been in my head since I heard it (maybe alternating with the Polish one)

so loreen has won this hasn't she?

the televote moodswings can be wild, with huge margins. have a feeling Finland might do big things there

loved the Iceland linkup

Love too have solidarity for Ukraine and vote for...Israel

These jury votes are fucking shite. What the fuck is going on?

my sentiments exactly

one thing is that they’re based on friday’s dress rehearsal, not on tonight’s performance

come on voters, fuck things up

Lol @ UK getting 9 points from the public. Less than Germany.

ahaha go Norway

Spain got five points ugh

oh fuck off, haha

re Finland

At least one of the good ones got some points!

Bah, Finland wuz robbed

Fucking bullshit!@!

Nonsense

Ugh

Ban jury votes

Only beat Finland due to the jury votes and people remembering her far superior Euphoria #Eurovision2023 pic.twitter.com/rzxV1iqsIs

— Samplo Corvodina (@TreborRhurbarb) May 13, 2023

backed 2nd 3rd and 4th ffs, blatant match fixing by the juries

I agree with the outrage and Finland should have won of course, but the Sweden song is still good, sorry.

So near and yer so far. At least Loreen IS iconic, if it had been some more run of the mill singer I would have contemplated violence.

NEW CONSPIRACY THEORY JUST DROPPED https://t.co/C9Qan1Wynk

— Jay Hulme (@JayHulmePoet) May 13, 2023

Haha, my god, I literally just said that we should start that conspiracy theory to my Eurovision groupchat.

get your rewards new NATO members Sweden and Finland

#letsconspireaway

That's an interesting point, though a few good tracks got shafted and Eurovision tracks play with the edges of what is novelty.

The industry juries sometimes come away with different prefs to the general audience because they sit listening to all the songs carefully on recordings for a long time which most of the popular audience don't. That format makes ballads better and cheap novelty tactics worse

— hos and trichs 🆓 (@fireh9lly) May 14, 2023

juries mostly made up of boring conservatives, but sometimes act as a check and balance against public "voting for the narrative" trends, in short the voting is the boring bit of Eurovision i just turned off when the songs had finished

like watching an ILM poll work itself out in real time

don't really remember the details of last year but wasn't it the public vote that gave Ukraine the Eurovision Being Invaded Is Bad award?

Doesn't the narrative around various entries start at the latest several weeks before the contest? And aren't most viewers unaware of these narratives anyway? If there was a narrative around the Portugal entry for example I wasn't aware of it. This year both the public and jury votes were in accord regarding the winner and the act that came last. (German entry: glam + Rammstein = Glamstein? I'm not going to get a chance to make that joke again)

Missed it for once. Last year saw the demise of the usual whining about how everyone hates the British because

1. The Empire or sumthin'
2. Brexit
3. They're just jealous

So I wonder if it'll make a comeback in spite of Boris Johnson being canonised in Kyiv and the UK handing out missiles to the Ukraine like sweeties (and making sure everyone knows about it).

Why shouldn't the UK be handing out missiles to "the" Ukraine like sweeties?

take it to the rolling proxy wars thread

Finland was joyous - the true winner obv. The crowd shouting "cha cha cha" at random points throughout the night made it feel like a moment.

I wonder if there's any good writing about the effect of rules changes on songs and staging - e.g. those video effects that you can now do at the beginning, I don't think anyone really worked out how to make use of them; the introduction of prerecorded backing vocals seems to mean that the "six people on stage" budget is getting spent on dancers rather than singers hiding at the rear of the stage.

Good page for looking at stats: https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2023

There would have been plenty to complain about in a public-only vote too, but I'm still seething about Sweden beating Finland.

don't really remember the details of last year but wasn't it the public vote that gave Ukraine the Eurovision Being Invaded Is Bad award?

― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague)

This was a good thing, not a bad thing.

'Stefania' being actually good helped a lot

Couldn't understand the love for the Israel and Italy entries.