Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Singing in Dutch, that's brave.

That last one is growing on me weirdly

The Dutch song gains an expansiveness halfway through that gives it something extra. Odd how the crowd sound like they're singing along a lot more than usual.

Ukraine...is actually quite good.

It’s not a patch on last year’s though

Yes, it's nothing special.

I'm glad it's passable as it would be really annoying if it was a shitty ballad and won anyway.

Destroy Germany.

Pretty sure this German sadboi can get to fuck

Oh good, a spoken section, that’s never cringe

Well at least it's not only the UK entry that's included an awkward reference to the pandemic in the lyrics.

Oh, subtitles are the lyrics in English...

"He arrived as black foam" ???

thats how i arrive so shut up

Lithuanian was one for the horny dads

So many lost boys tonight

So bored with these stop/start ballads that get really really quiet then REALLY REALLY LOUD.

Belgium was ok after a not so promising start.

Seemed like he had a good enough voice to carry something more than a Timberlake knockoff

So bored with these stop/start ballads that get really really quiet then REALLY REALLY LOUD.

As if on cue.

that sucked

Shoulda kept it stripped back imo

“He is also Iceland’s answer to Jim Corr”

My mind went to conspiracy theorist before it went to brother, sorry to say.

This was my second favourite!

That could have been from any Eurovision in the last 30 years.

Now I've heard these turgid ballads I can see why people are enthusiastic about the UK entry.

Going to vote for this Moldovan one about a billion times sorry now, FROM BUCHAREST TO CHISINĂU

Moldova is really good.

Moldova is exactly what I come here for. Finally.

Glad to have a song that doesn't start out all whispery and almost inaudible before bursting into a bombastic chorus and then back to simpering and so on.

They had an incredible entry maybe ten years ago with So Lucky but this one is even better and it wakes you up after all those dirges

That's the stuff. It'll do well in the voting.

Bonnie Tyler should've sung this in 2013

Some vague Andreas Jonsson vibes off that one

Destroy Australia

Unintentionally funny.

I liked it! I didn’t in the semi!

Viera

This is like another country’s entry, which is a compliment. I could see this doing well

He looks like one of the Allman Brothers. But, yes, this is much better than the UK have managed for a while.

Yeah, I was a bit lukewarm on it before but it sounds good compared to the patchy offerings we've had so far.

Well the last time the UK won it was a song sung by an American. So maybe that's the key to winning.

(xps)

Iiiiii don't wanna fall in love/I would wait a million years

I love going from that banger straight into LET ME TAKE MY BODY DOWN TO THE RIIIIIIVER

Leave him in the river

So many gloomy depressive songs this year.

A lot of the staging for these entries seems to consist of "how fast can we get these hundreds of white lights to flash?"

His dad is an opera singer iirc

OK Serbia has just rescued the entire contest.

What is the Serbian song about?