Eurovision 2020 (now featuring Eurovision 2021)

I can’t I see this. And nor should you. pic.twitter.com/pSZ3ODSyWX

— Attitude (@AttitudeMag) May 22, 2021

heehee

I will give Moldova points in the category of 'chorus rhymes with country name'

lol

Wow Moldova were amazing #Eurovision pic.twitter.com/XwaHkFfBUY

— george (@georgegriffiths) May 22, 2021

Germany going down the Fathers Crilly and Maguire route.

Russia, Iceland and Finland so far

Germany's Jendrik followed by his edgy Finnish older brothers Blind Channel.

back up back up what you gonna do now

Germany genuinely one of the worst things I've ever heard / seen at Eurovision, an achievement of sorts.

I had the exact same thought.

Finland sounded like a PWEI b-side.
but hey, in the grand scheme of things, thats a bonus.
Germany was dreadful.
Enjoyed Iceland a lot.

What does this bulgaria one sound like?

Telex failed to win in 1980 so it only seems right that Iceland should win in 2021 with a song that sounds like Telex in 1980.

Lithuania = Butlins Fischerspooner.

It's taken me all evening but I've worked out that the three little notes just before each song sounds a bit like Wow by Kate Bush

Really liked Lithuania and France, Ukraine is still getting my vote though.

Finland was generic sports metal from 20 years ago, completely unremarkable in every way.

smh at Graham Norton's continued insistence that the Finnish and Italian entries are somehow both 'heavy metal'.

Feels like France have been sending songs like that to Eurovision every year for the last 50-odd years, not sure what's so different about this one?

Remember the days when putting subtitles on would give you the English translation? Technological backward steps etc

xp I mean yes, but they are usually very good and that one was particularly, won't win of course.

https://media.tenor.com/images/4e0464d1324b3c31d359bbfcf1dddbe0/tenor.gif

LOL UK. We're shit and we know we are.

European public OTM.

LOL crying Italian goths.

This was top 5

Also:

when a european couple on vacation ask if you want to swing and you’re like, shit maybe https://t.co/TYVKAt12Ki

— international gender champion (@AliceAvizandum) May 22, 2021

They love their slightly heavy rock in Eastern Europe so maybe the UK can look into going down that path in next year's contest.

Ukraine did better than I was expecting them to, so that makes me happy. But the Italian song is not really much of anything, not sure why they were so incredibly popular?

Ah that was great. Zero problems with the Italians, from when I saw their original video for it I was all "I like these trash rockers, bring it." And totally happy with Iceland and Ukraine top five.

My 86 yo mum shouted "SHITE!" when one of the juries gave Malta douze points lol.

She'd had two vodkas.

Malta got rooked in the popular vote I thought -- a winner no, but that final total should have been higher.

They love their slightly heavy rock in Eastern Europe so maybe the UK can look into going down that path in next year's contest.

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UK will continue to send nice acts doing serviceable songs in a competent way, as they represent 'Britain' in the way that any decent British music does not feel the need to.

And will still lose embarrassingly and people will moan about politics, as if its the same countries that win it every year.

Think of every winner over the past ten years, and consider which alternate universe contains a reality where any of those songs could conceivably have been the UK entry.

brexit may be a factor in the UK's popularity ?

more precisely the UK's inept uselessness at EV lo these 40* years is a cause of brexit

*im a katrina and the waves truther, this was a bad boring song and shd not have won, 1981 and buck's fizz was our last solid victory

on twitter max tundra is angling to write next year's song but i think we shd adopt the ukrainian model and deliver some sinister microtonal neo-folk, david tibet can't be that busy

I hated the song that won. My least favorite this year (perhaps tied with the German entry).

Combine it with the proven Lordi template and mask it a costumed folk-horror band. Sinister mummers and Morris dancers, the whole thing. Song by Julian Cope and Stock-Aitken-Waterman.

Liking these ideas. Rather have Rose McDowall than David Tibet though.

Bill Bailey offers to represent UK at Eurovision 2022 https://t.co/xwJif7KwQY

— The Independent (@Independent) May 23, 2021

lordi wouldn't cut it any more as proven template, it was a weak poprock song played loud and gruntily w/grebt costumes which cut thru via novelty and gumption

the italian song had strong guitar parts, an actively unusual feature in an EV song*: johnny thunders and sylvian sylvain can't be that busy

*also it reminded me of the (very good) themetune for SUBURRA: BLOOD OF ROME aka sex, drugs, violence and ZONING (and the wickedest of these is zoning, my son)

bill bailey barred for using the detestable phrase "throw my hat in the ring"

Yes, even the 'rock' songs on EV, like the Finnish song, don't usually have much in the way of rock guitar.

the portuguese song had more of a guitar solo (= unusually much of a guitar solo in this context) (but not in a horrible "the darkness" way) (i did not take the portuguese song to be camp and retro-winky btw)

there's no good reason to like graham continuity-wogan in this role obv but his irritating repeat joke abt metal as "angry music" was especially smug and dullardish (i enjoyed how crestfallen and disgusted he was at the outcome for the UK, it quite took the joy out of his perky-cheeky shtick lol) (good)

Norton sounding crushed was almost as fun as the Swiss lad looking crushed

swiss lad had a genuinely gorgeous impressive voice spoiled by an over-fey (tho probably sincere) performance and a not-great song gussied by by production melodramatics

probably unrepeatable but the points reversals as the popular vote came in were genuinely amazing theatre (as well as a sustained passage of rubbing salt into the uk wound lol lol lol)

i'd like to think if you could vote for your own nation the UK would still have finished nul point

there are 39 juries and 39 countries of popular vote. That means that in 78 different races, the UK didn't manage to score 10th place or better in any of those. That's actually quite an achievement.

xpost Waiting for the first negative points entry from them.