Eurovision Song Contest

So to repeat my earlier question: Common snark and comment discord for the finale tomorrow? ^^

Sadly, I already have plans for a discord session with other folks in another website.

Fair enough. And I agree: may there not be many ballads in the final.

edited 12th May '17 1:10:01 PM by Quag15

Man-Horse on a ladder. Not what I was expecting to type today.

Oh god Croatia, its the Opera version of Two-Face

edited 13th May '17 1:03:37 PM by 3of4

Spain is dead last according to the betting sites. We never fell so low. Maybe we should send anothr chiquilicuatre...

edited 13th May '17 1:56:11 PM by pepimanoli

That's what happens when you send wannabe surfer dudes trying their hands at the most bland white reggae possible.

I am still conflicted about Romania.

On the one hand, Yoddeling.

On the other hand, she was hot.

I liked both the yodeling and the girl...

Anyway, the Spanish lame surfer was extra embarrassing because not even Spanish voters wanted him. He was chosen by a "professional" jury who voted against popular vote.

I liked Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Belgium. On the yodeling I'm sort of on the edge.

Holy shit, we're on the lead!

EDIT: Now it's time for the popular vote, after the jury vote, iirc (or is it the other way around?)

HOLY SHIT WE FUCKING WON FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! After so many years of failures...

And Spain is last

edited 13th May '17 3:40:42 PM by Quag15

I'm struggling to remember a worse song in the history of the contest. Granted, I've only been watching from about 1995 or so, and seen only the winners of earlier years, so it's quite possible a worse song has been submitted to the competition before. I just don't know of it.

Just goes to show that while I'm European, and I like the Eurovision song contest, my taste in music is very different from that of Eurovision's European fans.

Congratulations to Portugal for winning it. I just hope it doesn't result in another surge of boring ballads (which is what happened in 2007-08 with Serbia and Russia and so on).

I'm happy we got just enough points to end up before Spain.

edited 13th May '17 3:43:52 PM by DrunkenNordmann

My favourite in this year's Final was Moldova, but my favourite over all was Estonia.

I suppose I shouldn't complain. Sweden, Denmark, and Austria won with songs I liked a lot. I even like Germany's Satellite. I hated Ukraine's song last year and the winner from Azerbaijan. This year's winner was even worse than those two, though. Ugh. I just hated it so much. But I suppose that's part of Eurovision.

Congrats to Portugal. I'm sure a lot of people there hated our song the one time we won it, too, so we're in the same boat in that regard.

'Sup guys. Sorry I couldn't be around to comment this year. I'm in uni now and busy with exams.

It might have been for the better, though. Seems like I saved myself the embarrassment. God damn.

Congrats to Portugal, though. About time our neighbors finally won after so many years.

Your mixture of hate for the song and the congratulations bit sounds so whiplash-y, Best Of.

Don't worry. We've been at the bottom quite a few times. You'll recover.

Man, it feels so surreal that our guy won this. Granted, his sister (who wrote the song) is a composer and singer (the poppy type of jazz music) in her own right and has a career of her own, which helped, but still...

Also, thanks for the messages, everyone.

edited 13th May '17 3:57:38 PM by Quag15

I think it helps that it was a very different kind of song, style-wise. At least in my opinion.

Eurovision often suffers from pop ballad overload, so I'm thankful for every singer doing something different.

edited 13th May '17 4:04:44 PM by DrunkenNordmann

Holy shit, we really won! Both jury and televote! And we did it with a nice typical Portuguese song, too. I couldn't come up with a better scenario for a victory!

First the Euro, now Eurovision. What kind of Gods have we appeased?

(My condolences to Spain who got 0 from the Jury, and Austria who got 0 from the public. Harsh)

Congrats to Portugal!

My favourites this year were Romania, Hungary and Sweden. I liked Portugal and Italy too. This year germany 's performance was very lackluster and I didn't like Norway.

Anyway, no comments on the guy who showed his arse to half the world?

edited 13th May '17 4:17:56 PM by pepimanoli

I mean, I hate the song and I wish Europe would stop voting for songs that just stop the show and make me want to turn the TV off until something interesting comes up, and even for a Eurovision ballad, I think this was the worst I've ever heard in my life. I can't help it, that's my opinion of that song.

The other side of it is that Portugal has been in the competition for ages and never won it, and I'm sure you've had some really good songs in it that deserved to win. (Not that I can recall one off the top of my head, but statistically, in so many years there must have been a few at least.)

I know what it feels like when your country fails year after year after year, even if every once in a while you think their song actually deserves to get something. Finland rarely makes it through the qualifiers, and granted, 9 times out of 10 our song is absolute shit but sometimes we've got one that I feel deserves to place near the top (for instance, Waldo's People in something like 2009) but it gets 0 points or something like it. When a country like that wins, I'm happy for them.

I also know that for people who like that sort of music, Portugal's song must've been very good. Fair enough, enjoy it. It's just not for me, and I'm worried that its success will just make next year's Eurovision worse than it would have been if a Moldova or a UK had won.

Incidentally, I thought the UK got absolutely robbed. It wasn't a great song, but the performance was by far the best of this year's competition. (I thought maybe Croatia or Sweden had the second best performance, but neither was anywhere near the UK.) I didn't expect the UK to do well, though, because no one likes to vote for them and there's also Brexit now.

But yeah, congrats to Portugal even though I hated your song more than any other song I can remember hearing in the contest. If any country deserved to win with anything, it was Portugal.

It occurs to me that I'm going to have to listen to that shitty song in next year's competition, as well. I hope Portugal make up for it by putting up a better show than Ukraine did this year. After Denmark and Sweden treated us to some absolutely wonderful performances as host, it's probably impossible for anyone to match that level, but still, Ukraine's hosts and most of the half-time acts and such were awful. The only funny or entertaining bit was the one with Mån Zelmerlöw. I expect better from Portugal.

When the streaker made his little cameo during the performance by Jamala, I told my girlfriend I could've know the guy was Australian even if he wasn't wearing the flag. She asked me how I could tell. I said because the guy's arse was out. If you think that's offensive to Australians, you can forward your complaints to the streaker. (If it turns out he wasn't Australian after all, credit to him for portraying the character so realistically.)

I partially suspect that many countries don't want to win so they don't have to put money into hosting Eurovision.

That may explain Germany's performance in the last few years

I've always thought that only about 10% of the participants actually want to win it.

Twitter is having a field day with the Spanish representant. Other popular topics are the gorilla and this. ◊ ^translation  beautiful homage from Ukraine to the "thing" (the famous Cristiano Ronaldo's bust)

edited 14th May '17 6:12:10 AM by pepimanoli

Kind of an underhyped Eurovision.

I hated Sweden's entry, and I'm not just saying that because I'm contractually obligated to say that. I think it might genuinely have been the worst of the show.

Yes, even worse than the acoustic cod reggae the Spanish contestant performed.

Well done Portugal.