Eurovision 2024

Yes the sequencing in the Swedish track was nice.

I tuned in for a bit of the contest to see if there was any chaos going on, there was not, thought the Norway song was terrific though and cannot believe it came last.

I also loved Norway, but I wasn't surprised it didn't do well. None of my friends liked it, either - apparently there wasn't enough of a song and it was a bit Evanescence, whereas for me the epicness was enough in itself and she wailed like Björk. Everyone else was wrong and I was right and I will maintain that until my dying day.

(Or until I forget, which will probably be tomorrow.)

Estonia was okay but I think the two? singers in the upper range weren’t quite powerful enough and were a bit drowned out by the music compared to their awesome growly baritone priest guy … i think it had potential to be great but was’t quite there

Norway was cool! but i do feel it needed more of a chorus to really bring it home imo.

shakira-core imo:
cyprus
greece
luxembourg
georgia
italy

and it’s a very loose categorization purely because of the um bap-ba-bap-bap beat which is always to me shakira “whenever wherever” even when it’s not that style?

The Greek one was giving me the strongest reminder of things like 'Con Altura' more specifically.

my votes:

best pop: Cyprus
best fun: Finland
best singing: France
best person: Bambie Thug

I’m glad they ignored the Palestinian call to boycott in order to make a statement so radical and uncompromising that Keir Starmer and David Cameron made it several months ago https://t.co/0XsCaq5erI

— James Greig (@jamesdgreig) May 11, 2024

When you're mad you couldn't rig the televote properly.

Shortly after the contest, Golan appeared on an Israeli talk show that mocked numerous pro-Palestinian contestants, including Marina Satti, Bambie Thug, Joost Klein, and Nemo Mettler. The skit featured Golan calming down and "forgiving" satirical and angry versions of the contestants because they "called for Israel to be banned" and were therefore kidnapped by Yoav Gallant, Israel's defense minister, for Golan herself to calm down.