Eurovision Song Contest 2022

lots of 70s vibes tonight

this grew on me

Lithuania, Ukraine, Netherlands, Moldova, Portugal, Iceland would be my picks

Albania
Ukraine
Netherlands
Lithuania
Portugal
Greece
Norway (by the skin of their wolfs teeth)

Love love love love this Eurodance classics interval but too bad they didn’t save it till Saturday.

I think I might be the only person who really liked Austria? They were cute and fun and enthusiastic.

I was very happy about how happy they were to be there

the disco / dance / edm intermezzo, for a second I thought we were getting (Eumir) Deodato here.

*had me confused…

for me Austria were the best of the worst, which means i want them to go through

“caress the moon”? #onethread

farewell Ronela Hajati 😥

Oh thank god, I don't have to listen to Austria ever again!

OOOPS I meant Latvia!

Here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8a7Gbci7CI

That was a BIZARRE result all around.

don’t know, all of the countries seandalai and I mentioned were voted thru, except Albania (and that was a highly divisive one to begin with) - plus Armenia and Switzerland, who were both solid (although not my thing). the six that were eliminated were all crap (very fun crap, in the case of Austria), again except Albania, which was robbed, looted and plundered, a truly unforgivable travesty of justice.

I think I might be the only person who really liked Austria? They were cute and fun and enthusiastic.

I really did as well! I guess main singer was a bit too off at times, though (agreed again) not for want of enthusiasm.

except Albania, which was robbed, looted and plundered, a truly unforgivable travesty of justice

This truth.

SERBIA SERBIA SERBIA SERBIA

(Also I am very ashamed but I enjoyed Georgia quite a bit)

Cyprus presenting a masterclass in killing your own quite decent song

I'm convinced Serbia aren't going to go through and I'm sad about it already.

I would be surprised if it goes through (but also very happy)

There you go, guys

Yesssss! The rest of the lot that went through today was pretty poor, I've got to say. They picked mostly the most boring ones.

Czech Republic was good!

Serbia going through made me VERY happy. Estonia was the 'most improved' for sure, credit to the guy and glad he went through. Beyond that mostly indifferent or unsurprised though I would easily swap out San Marino for Finland on that front.

And yeah, Czech Republic made up for some iffy performances on the promo tour by all accounts.

Czechia was good fun, yes. Not quite as fun as Austria if we're comparing cheesy dance entries, but I definitely approve.

None of my favourite Cyprus -> Ireland -> North Macedonia stretch made it through :( Serbia obv great, rest was mostly blah.

I am sad that my favorite of the lot (Cyprus) didn't go through :(

Was the performance really that bad? I haven't watched

Rooting for Czech Republic now

Cyprus was pitchy and the whole thing felt a bit flat.

I wish they could just do playback. It's a song contest, not a singing contest, after all.

I said this on twitter, but I think it also suffered from feeling behind-the-curve in general. I like that sort of sound a lot but it's kinda what Eurovision was full of pre-covid. Added to staging that failed to impress and a lacklustre performance, it was fairly doomed.

Just taking this off the official Eurovision site, for reference.

Grand Final Running Order:
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: We Are Domi – Lights Off

🇷🇴 Romania: WRS – Llámame

🇵🇹 Portugal: MARO – Saudade, Saudade

🇫🇮 Finland: The Rasmus – Jezebel

🇨🇭 Switzerland: Marius Bear – Boys Do Cry

🇫🇷 France: Alvan & Ahez – Fulenn

🇳🇴 Norway: Subwoolfer – Give That Wolf A Banana

🇦🇲 Armenia: Rosa Linn – Snap

🇮🇹 Italy: Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi

🇪🇸 Spain: Chanel – SloMo

🇳🇱 Netherlands: S10 – De Diepte

🇺🇦 Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra – Stefania

🇩🇪 Germany: Malik Harris – Rockstars

🇱🇹 Lithuania: Monika Liu – Sentimentai

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli – Fade To Black

🇧🇪 Belgium: Jérémie Makiese – Miss You

🇬🇷 Greece: Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord – Die Together

🇮🇸 Iceland: Systur – Með Hækkandi Sól

🇲🇩 Moldova: Zdob şi Zdub & Advahov Brothers – Trenulețul

🇸🇪 Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer

🇦🇺 Australia: Sheldon Riley – Not The Same

🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Sam Ryder – SPACE MAN

🇵🇱 Poland: Ochman – River

🇷🇸 Serbia: Konstrakta – In Corpore Sano

🇪🇪 Estonia: Stefan – Hope

It's fucking sadboi Eurovision this year.

wow at the Italy-Spain-NL-Ukraine sequence in the middle

..and the SWE-(aus)-UK-POL-(SER)-EST package at the end

those are the other big shots imo that are *not* my personal favs

well, SER *is* a personal fav, but I don’t consider it a contender. (and AUS is neither)

Ireland was awful. I don’t understand anyone who liked it. Dated af.

Moldova should make a strong showing on that placement. The train song is fun!

I'd much rather be watching dated upbeat pop than the raft of sad whining men that got through, so I supported Ireland. Also I liked the synth line that came in at times.

Am absolutely going to be voting for Moldova tonight, the video for the song is so great. Have yet to hear any of the big five but almost everyone I know is really excited about the UK’s entry?

Oh dear god the UK entry sucks so bad. I like France's entry, and Spain seems like a banger but a bit by-the-numbers. Don't think I've heard more than mini clips of the other two?

I think people are excited about the UK entry because he's tiktok famous so might not crash and burn? But we've had name recognition before and it didn't help.

I don't care for the UK entry, but have to say it is an improvement on the last few years, it at least has a memorable hook.

Also having a young fanbase across the continent will help.

it at least has a memorable hook

Does it, though?

I've heard it once, a couple of weeks ago, and can still remember it, which is my test.

Just looking at the full vote breakdown now. The following countries’ public votes gave Ukraine 12 points:

🇮🇹 Italy
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇪🇸 Spain
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇩🇪 Germany
🇦🇹 Austria
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇵🇱 Poland
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇲🇩 Moldova
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇸🇲 San Marino
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇮🇱 Israel
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇳🇴 Norway
🇫🇮 Finland

My beloved Moldova got 8 points from the UK public, proving my votes for them didn’t go to waste.

They got 12 points from Romania and Serbia, which amuses me because I saw a comment on YouTube by an excited Serb talking about how the video distilled the experience of taking trains in the Balkans and when I ran this by my Serb mate she was like “unbelievably otm” & “one time I saw a group take a suckling pig on the train”. Any other year, they’d be reaping in the end of evening drunk votes but they still did very well!

Obviously there were some Bizarre Voting Irregularities, Sharivari to thread etc

Turns out that you can loop the 32 bar acapella intro of "Stefania" all the way through the break in Madonna's "Hung Up" - the keys match perfectly.

(Fucking hell, wait till she realises. There'll be no stopping her.)