Azerbaijan <3 <3
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Fire/desire/higher!
She p much hits her notes, though, I think only two or three have done so before her?
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
(Poland, that is)
bit sad that "can sing" is going to be enough to get these people through
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
most famous living Moldovan?
He has been working on that riff for nine years and is finally ready to unleash.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
Nothing wrong with Armenia but I miss Inga and Anush
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
I liked Armenia, but it needed to be bigger sounding, I think. Having said that, I think Armenia and Azerbaijan are the only two I'm that fussed about seeing go into the next round. So obv they'll both get knocked out.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
feel a bit churlish to write this but I'd like Latvia a lot better if they had a song
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
Could do with some decent Ukrainian pop as a palate cleanser tbh.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Expected rank according to Betfair markets, snapshot right after the reminders:
Top ten: SWE, ARM, POR, MDA, AZE, BEL, GRE, FIN, AUS, CYPThen: LAT, GEO, SLO, ISL, MNE, ALB, CZE
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
(To be precise, that is not necessarily the actual ranking order of the entries as such, but a ranking of the probability of going through. A ranking of the probabiliby of winning the semifinal might turn out slightly different.)
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
feel Sweden are due a DNQ maybe just wishful thinking
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
ISL has a decent shot I'd say
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
They can have the place of MDA, which I found pretty unbearable
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
Georgia should probably be ok.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
Jamala is so fucking good.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
The new one is very good.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
Yeah, definite highlight of the evening right there.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
Good god, Spain.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
Whoops, I missed POL in the market ranking. They were at #11, top non-qualifier.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
So market was 9 for 10, had Finland instead of Poland.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
These are intriguing odds:
Germany to give UK 0 points (Jury + Televoting Combined) 5/4France to give UK 0 points (Jury + Televoting Combined) 13/8Italy to give UK 0 points (Jury + Televoting Combined) 2/1
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
Would this have done any better for Iceland?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLp9nRmS7U
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Which is how it should have been.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Faves among qualifiers -- Belgium, Azerbaijan, Australia (with caveats)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
xps going for uk getting 4 from roi and 1 each from san marino and malta
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
From the clip they played during the "waiting for votes" section, I didn't hate the UK entry. Spain, on the other hand...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Spain not only needs to die in a fire, but drown.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
... in a fire?
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
Burning oil on water, whatever works.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
Okay, second semi in half an hour...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
TMI
― StanM, Thursday, 11 May 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
I have heard a rumour Ruslana is the interval act today, which would be great.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
It's all very well being sniffy about this, but in 1997 we nearly entered a song called Yodel In The Canyon Of Love https://t.co/o1abJEkHWe— Kit Lovelace (@kitlovelace) May 11, 2017
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
This is painful tho.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
That last one was good but I was too busy calling him 'Yahtzee Popeye' to notice what country it was. Any help?
― emil.y, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
Hungary
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Cool, thanks.
― emil.y, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
As a side note, given the direction the country is going in, it's good to see a Roma singer performing for Hungary. Decent song too.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
routinely check to see if ruslana has blotted her copybook in re the darkside of maidan (as a sometime MP etc), but so far she seems to be more or less on the side of good
― mark s, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Denmark: reliably awful
YODEL IT
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
San Marino: reliably Valentina
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Valentina in dgaf "what are you going to do, stop selecting me?" mode
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
And now Croatian Josh Gad.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
This is remarkable.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
Croatian Jekyll and Hyde: "I am an opera singer"/"I will put mustard on you and eat you"
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
Simultaneously the campest performer at Eurovision 2017 and "the biggest homophobe in Croatian showbiz".
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
Perfect combo! Uh.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Yeah, such a shame, I liked the Croatia song. Also quite liked the Switzerland one, tbh, though I'm not sure what makes it stand out from the other mid-tempo belters that I've been dismissing these semis.
― emil.y, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
haha I knew that speech would get a reaction
― Odysseus, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
he's been ill
― mark s, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
viewers' vote was p good down-table (viz hungary)
― mark s, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
also i like the way it makes countries leap up the places, it's exciting
― mark s, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah, voting stage is much better than it used to be
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
Great to see Hungary coming through at the end. idk how Europe decided Australia was worse than Spain but Austria getting nothing was very welcome.
I had Isaiah at 11/4 to finish in the top ten and he just about held on.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
oh right the voter points are still based on the ranking 1-12 points
― kinder, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
I remember when I was first watching all the songs/videos two months back I was thinking that Portugal had the virtue of being thoroughly atypical compared to the rest of the field, if nothing else, and here we are. I do wonder how much the medical backstory played into a sympathy vote and all.
Great to see Hungary coming through at the end.
That one quietly grew on me over time.
My two real favorite results -- Belgium placing fourth (would have loved it to beat Moldova at least but I'll take the rest) and Spain getting so completely trashed.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
his backstory and portugal's -- and he sang it really well and the arrangement was nice (very 50s strings, like an eartha kitt record or something)
i fear it will create a tsunami of badness next year, assuming the second korean war doesn't take us there first
― mark s, Saturday, 13 May 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
As I said upthread, it reminded me of Harry Nilsson a bit, but it was a pastiche though, it kept threatening to turn into another song.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 May 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
So per this article on the winner:
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/television/2017/05/12/historia-erasmus-portugues-atiborro-alucinogenos-mallorca-favorito-ganar-eurovision/00031494588376440908522.htm?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twgen
...this Google-translated detail:
The Portuguese Salvador Sobral left his country in 2011 with destination to Mallorca . He did it with an Erasmus scholarship, with the clear intention of polishing his training in Psychology. The problem is that the Balearic night confessed to him, and as he himself acknowledged, he ended up walking on the faculty and cramming with hallucinogenic mushrooms and other drugs.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
This is not a complaint, mind you, if anything I'm all "Well, yes, sounds right."
Makes you wonder why the songs is so bad.
Then you find out his sister wrote it.
― Odysseus, Saturday, 13 May 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
women lol
― kinder, Sunday, 14 May 2017 08:18 (six years ago) link
So far, this is the only place on the internet that has any positive reaction to the winner.
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Has the word 'Politics' been mentioned this time around at all?
If not, good and hray!
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 May 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
Like Australia giving the UK 12 points, you mean?
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 May 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
I liked the winner! It stood out from the vaguely EDM songs, and also from the wilder ones. I tend to prefer whatever Eastern Europe comes up with, but this year they were pretty toned down (my family says that there were wilder ones that didn't make the finals). But yay Portugal, which I just returned from last night as it happens.
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 14 May 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
Latest discovery from Eurovision not-2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkiJlyXaGJI
Could imagine this turning up on a Finders Keepers comp
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 15 May 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
I vaguely know one of the Australian jurors and I am utterly baffled that she would have gone for the UK entry. She's a singer/songwriter/comedian and the bland UK entry is not what I would have expected would have tickled her fancy. Our jury's fondness for the UK's awful entries is a worry but at least we didn't give anything to Electro Velvet, but then again other country's juries' overfondness for our entry this time is a worry too - roundly rejected by the televoters, the juries propped it up to a bizarre extent for such a blah song (Dami Im was a blah song too but she sang the shit out of it to the extent that I would never bother listening to the studio version as the live version completely blows it away).
On the other hand, the Australian televoters once again did themselves proud and displayed their preference for fun songs, giving 12 and 10 to arguably the most fun songs in the final: Moldova and Romania. Last year our 12 and 10 also went to uptempo fun songs: Belgium's "What's The Pressure" and Bulgaria's "If Love Was a Crime". And in 2015, we went for uptempo Sweden and very fun Serbia in 1 and 3, and Belgium was 2nd (not uptempo but extremely high quality and too good to not be given points).
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Monday, 15 May 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
probably no need for a 2018 thread just yetbut whigfield has made it to the final 10 for denmarks entry
― nxd, Monday, 22 January 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
can't think of a better reason to kick off the 2018 season!
― ? (seandalai), Monday, 22 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link