Eurovision 2017

me too

she validated my entire life's commitment to eurovision

Onuka!

This is unexpected!

what is this, I enjoy

Her song Vidlik from last year was a banger.

she validated my entire life's commitment to eurovision

I've never needed any validation, I'm Eurovision till I die.

And here it is. xp

This is brilliant

Look away, mark s, it's a bellowing child.

Belgium is good! Azerbaijan also ok. Didn't mind UK. Unfortunately, I can see Sweden or Croatia winning. The Croatia and Romania were a little bit batshit, so there's some typical Eurovision.

her dress is astonishingly hideous :0

everyone is being very wogan abt hungary which was excellent

Yes, absolutely otm.

An Aussie just mooned during a live performance. I hope it was KBP

See what happens when you invite them to appear in Eurovision.

It paid off

Ten to midnight and 42 points reveals to go...

lol, San Marino only gave 5 to Italy.

dot worry. we know what will happen with cyprus and greece

oh go away portugal

wth Norway

ugh Portugal

Fuck this, I'm watching the football.

Wonder who will get 12 points from Greece...

haha

Croatia is getting very few points which can only be due to the singer's fucking horrible personal opinions. I think it'd score high otherwise.

portugal fuckin sucks

still no points for Spain

I always wondered what happened to Hinge & Bracket

We Send Australia our crims and they give is 12 pts haha

Brexit, Trump and now this.

Jesus, Australia got next to nothing,

An Aussie just mooned during a live performance.

fucking hell

how do they assign specific numbers of points from the votes? it wasn't like this in my day

I hate the viewers vote.

Everyone pissed off Portugal won?

I think it's quite good considering they've never won it. Crap song tho..

OMG, Rockism triumphs at Eurovision.

Portugal guy speech belongs on /r/lewronggeneration

haha I knew that speech would get a reaction

he's been ill

viewers' vote was p good down-table (viz hungary)

also i like the way it makes countries leap up the places, it's exciting

Yeah, voting stage is much better than it used to be

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.

oh right the voter points are still based on the ranking 1-12 points

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.

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

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.

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.