Eurovision 2019

It's Bigger Than Us: slightly prefer Tandy's Kylie 'Golden' country pop over Rice's a generic anthemic Scandi synth thing that would have wowed Eurovision 2013.
Freaks: nice - very familiar - chord progression in the chorus but an unremarkable song, don't care either way.
Sweet Lies: the best song, I think. Leaning towards Kerrie Anne's Eurodisco comfort food over Anisa's ballad.

British public decides in a people's vote, what could possibly go wrong?

Mans Zelmerlow?

Listening link:

- http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23EurovisionYouDecide+2019

Such a sad quote from the entertainment commissioner. "Could finally get us on the left hand side of the leader board"? (Better than on the extreme right of the leaderboard..)

I think I agree "Sweet Lies" is the best one here – also the only song where the two versions are interpreted quite differently.

But it's hard to even imagine how a UK entry could do well anymore; nothing's been popular for 9 years. What would they have to change in the selection?

Fair play to Jordan Clarke for holding this face for 3 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjVSfSFk14

xp good songs? Good songwriters working on this? Seems relatively easy to me to get better positions than in the last 9 years, but the song selections have just been shit. It's not like there have been expectations "this is quite good, should rank high" - no, everyone's agreed the songs are bad and won't stand a chance. So no mystery here, really.

ouch

voted jordan clarke for the eurovision "look"

needs the classic "wink for europe" towards the end

xp good songs, well duh. How can they change their competition structure to get better songs? Given the BBC prob won't spend much money hiring the hottest producers or holding a UK Melodifestivalen. Should they approach a wider range of artists? Involve Radio 1/1xtra? Expand the judging panel? A longer public vote? Abduct George Ezra?

Songs matter less than getting someone to sing who is known in the rest of Europe.

Yeah I need to catch up on these but I've heard some snippets.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

good to see Darude stepping up for Finland

also happy about San Marino's continued commitment to recycling

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

OK, so it's not going to be bigger than us.

on now...
You Decide Which Of These Scarcely Famous Singers Gets To Come Near The Bottom Of The Voting This Year

OK, off to negotiate 350 points from China under WTO rules.

Songs matter less than getting someone to sing who is known in the rest of Europe.
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, January 26, 2019 9:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:-s Eurovision winners aren't usually well-known. (sometimes not even after they win!)

France's song for the final is "Roi" by Bilal Hassani:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJRigN2DmI

It was the French public favourite by miles:

- https://eurovision.tv/story/bilal-hassani-to-represent-france-at-eurovision-2019

The French show also used a 10-nation jury (which preferred other songs), similar to in the Swedish final.

Other news: Jack White wins Eurovision

- https://eurovoix.com/2019/02/06/israel-white-stripes-lead-singer-now-receiving-royalties-from-nettas-toy/

Netta's new (non-Eurovision) single is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1sjm9Lz_Q

(not sure if that's Salvador Sobral from 2017 in the video)

Stuff is going on in Italy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/11/italian-egyptian-mahmood-singers-victory-angers-matteo-salvini

Hmm, I wonder what these fascists' agenda is.

The Italian song choice - "Soldi" by Mahmood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22lISUXgSUw

This is shambolic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47357471

Ukraine has officially dropped out of Eurovision as they can’t find anyone willing to take the place of the nominee who wouldn’t sign the nationalist pledge.

Idiots but good for her standing up to it

into Iceland's EBM tribute to Azerbaijan 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CU-xnPsSHE

also here for Portugal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSbp8lwCQp8

Yeah that's a standout.

Word on a US broadcast? (logo out maybe netflix?)

Being Portuguese and knowing Conan is so weird/funny to see his name here at ILM.

this is a nice song, but my favourite of his is this one

https://youtu.be/HYCWK4IVlpM

hi!

Sandstorm ftw

Also I was impressed by the Czech 1975-core

Also Poland kinda gav3 me Knife vibes

it's this guy again!

The Czech entry is a friend of mine so I suspended my boycott for three minutes. He did well!

he looked very happy

He always does. He is like a puppy in human form.

Australia a bit Kate Bush?

AUS staging was good. Iceland next!

Ok Iceland is memorable. So far only Czech and Australia have been in what’s been mostly a disappointing semi

Estonia so grim it could be Denmark

But the entertainment value!

it's that guy again!

Things have picked up quite a bit in the last few things even enjoyed portugal’s weirdness

Well done, Albert!

Oh my god, Iceland's reaction.

Romania’s the first interesting one tonight

SF2 pretty dull. Norway/Albania/Azerbaijan were fine I guess.

No-one watching? What's with all the melodramatic over-the-top ballads?

barf

ah ha

The public have excellent taste.

Come on Sweden!!!

come on sweden

gonna be a good turnup for the swedes

or a turnip

Just give us the bloody points already!

OH FUCK OFF

Woah

boooo
(That was my intended joke tho)

The public have terrible taste.

That sucks.

what??

93 points????

Norway win the popular vote. Scrap the juries

Racism, I presume.

Bullshit way of presenting the scores.

that was a very american idol-esque finish, complete with flickers of racism

I like seeing the disparity btw the jury and public vote

Norway got 12 from UK voters! tt voted Iceland but her top 3 were the UK top three as well

The Australian entry from a few years back had a great jury score but the public only gave him 2 points & I absolutely thought that was racism

It's 2019 and people still like crap post-Britpoppy piano ballads. Fuck, man.

Why is he called Duncan Lawrence?

I don't think a black singer has ever won, right?

I thought Sweden won with a ... non-white singer?

I don't actually know what ethnicity she was though tbh.

Sweden track needs a better chorus. Fun backing vox though.

Britain giving max to Norway pop is reassuring tho

Berber iirc xp

Radio 2 now playing “Euphoria”. Now that is a song.

Loreen is of North African descent, I think. That's the only time a non-white person has won, right? Or does Jamala count?

Was listening to Loreen in the car today

...next year in Amsterdam?

Anyway, the last time the Dutch won:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjn_kTo2-yw

Belgium's going to boycott next year because the Dutch occupy part of the sea.

Dave Benton, winner in 2009, representing Estonia but from Aruba, not white.

(2001 not 2009, duh)

san marino woz robbed

I can't remember, has Norway or Sweden ever sent a Sami singer before to the contest? I know Finland hasn't.

― Tuomas, Saturday, May 18, 2019 10:21 PM (two days ago)

Late answer here, but OH YES INDEED, complete with references to then-recent Sami protests against hydroelectric development in northern Norway. This joik was sounding around the schoolyards for AGES it felt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSx4lUPX9KY

good final, only disliked about three entries

norway for me, just edging iceland

nxd otm

Norway were good, but lose points for me for the bald guy. Reminded me of that dude from Aqua.

Yes this was also noted during our viewing party, followed by interjections of “come on Barbie lets go party” throughout the performance.

The Israelies produced a great show this year.

Israelis

Israelites.

Madonna's been uploading videos of her performance up on Instagram, with vocals audibly fixed with autotune.

Eurovision 2019: UK's last-placed entry has score lowered

More heinous shit courtesy of Viktor Orbán:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/27/hungary-pulls-out-of-eurovision-amid-rise-in-anti-lgbt-rhetoric

The sooner somebody shoots that cunt the better