I don't think American music is absolutely terrible. And at any rate, I've heard they're setting up a Eurovision-style song contest in the States pretty soon (either this year or next year).
The funny thing is, I seriously doubt they would. Current fans absolutely hate the idea of the US at Eurovision and besides big names don't always perform well. For example Norway's Alexander Rybak is super well known in the community his song 'Fairytale' is super popular, his second 'That's how you write a song' attempt not so much. I would even dare to say hated on. USA would likely end low just like the UK.
I think americans would flip out over getting 0 points and absolutely lose their chill every time but yes we do have some good underground artists that would be nice to showcase? But agreed. We would never win and if we hosted it would be a mess (proudly the least patriotic person in the comments)
yeah we wouldn't do well bc of political reasons but the US is by far the most culturally influential nation especially in Europe. Music, movies, slang, whatever it is, no country comes close at least in the western world.
Only just found out we Dutch have won it 4 times....had a real WTF moment, my general perception of Dutch musical culture (especially the stuff in Dutch) is trash. Appearantly we are not as incompetent as I thought.
Israel aren't toooooo well liked by their nearest neighbours... and they are part of the European broadcasting society (or something similar for that). Besides, we let Australia in so it may as well be come one come all!
It's not. It is however in the European Broadcasting Union, which is one of the requirements to participate. The only one not following this rule is Australia, but they depend on invites.
There are negative things about Ukraine, let me point them out ____
(see how quickly that sort of sentiment gets ushered away in many avenues for discussion. I believe that would qualify pro-Ukrainian sentiment, such as charitably giving the country a Eurovision win, as being "politically correct")
There is a similar, albeit smaller, contest run by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (a similar organisation to the EBU) featuring entrants from countries around Asia and the Pacific.
For me the shocking thing is that the UK is in this list 😂.
Other European countries generally hate us (and did long before brexit!) and give us ‘nil point’. Although we did get second place this year so miracles do happen….
We used to do quite well, bafflingly as we would often send in the most entire rubbish. The UK is way out ahead in the rankings of second-place finishes, 16 I think, with the next closest being on something like 5.
For my money I'm not sure there's a single year that we've sent in the best song. Possibly 2002. Possibly. Hmm
1967! Puppet on a string. The rest were pretty much all dirges that year and Sandie Shaw got more than twice as many votes as the song that came second (Ireland of course!)
I genuinely thought Sam Ryder's entry in 2022 was the best song entered.
What I find amazing is that British people are completely convinced that we always do terribly at Eurovision because Europe hates us. When actually we have a decent overall record. We've been less successful in recent years, but all countries have ups and downs - look at Ireland for instance.
Unbelievable, considering how Eastern Europeans have clearly mastered the art of music and performance art as evinced here, to the extent that their live performances seem to be broadcast from far into the future. Take that, Elvis, Lennon, and Bono...
Eastern Europe has some great music, but sure, let's cherry-pick some crappy music video and make a sarcastic blanket statement implying they all suck.
That's true of course, but for whatever reason there used to be a strong voting bias against the eastern countries in the old days. Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Yugoslavia and Finland managed one win between them (1989) in the years before all the other eastern countries joined.
Sad they don’t have more Eurovision quizzes, it’s my favourite thing followed by geography :( Also, Sweden should be updated, they now have 7 wins with Loreen (my favourite song is tattoo now:)
I gotta say… I liked Rim Tim Tagi Dim way more than Nemo’s song. His reminds me of a 21 Pilots song. I guess Baby Lasagna reminds me of a Three Days Grace song. 🤔
Yes. For the third year running, the best song finished second, which is, i suppose, an improvement.
What went very wrong this year was the semi-final qualifying. Denmark should have waltzed through, and it is hard to see just how Australia and Poland got eliminated.
And, of course, the biggest cheer of all three nights came with the (slightly) unexpected appearance of Kaarija performing a slightly shortened version of his cha cha song. that is a euro classic that will be remembered long after this years winner.
Some person on reddit calculated the jury points the Netherlands would have received, since the complete placements of the juries are public (the Netherlands hadn't been officially disqualified at the time of the jury show).
I am Maltese and find this contest unfair. Malta should have won it on more than one occasion - "Little Child" 1992; "7th Wonder" 2002 and "Angel" 2005 - , but alas, for some reason (political, geographical) or other, we have not.
I remember reading a very in-depth statistical study which showed that "Angel" didn't win because of the regular neighbourly voting that went on at that time favouring the Greeks by enough points to give them the win (surprisingly the only year that the study showed neighbourly voting actually changed the result). Anyway it's Malta's own fault, you need to have more countries bordering Malta to get more votes. I mean, get with the programme
I am ETERNALLY grateful that the US doesn't perform in Eurovision. I was noticing tonight how chill they were hearing they got 0 and 42 points (UK and Netherlands, respectively 😔) and considering how us Americans would go insane and launch a full scale protest and appeal for anything less than 5th place, and that would be after us getting all of zero public votes. And also UPDATE FOR NEMO'S WIN PLEEEEEASE
Israel's numbers are likely inflated by political votes, but there's no real way to tell... 2nd place this year again, despite being nowhere as good as the top 5
I disagree, me and everyone who has voiced an opinion in my hearing (which is an embarrassingly large number of people) have thought this year was just a mass of equally rubbish songs. It just baffles me that this song gets hundreds of points and that one gets only 30. So ist Eurovision
Oh my God, you made my day!
You are not banned. Become a member of the European Broadcasting Union, then you can join.
(Geef mij je angst by Mirusia)
There are negative things about Ukraine, let me point them out ____
(see how quickly that sort of sentiment gets ushered away in many avenues for discussion. I believe that would qualify pro-Ukrainian sentiment, such as charitably giving the country a Eurovision win, as being "politically correct")
Asia: Turkey, Israel, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia
Africa: Morocco
Oceania: Australia
Other European countries generally hate us (and did long before brexit!) and give us ‘nil point’. Although we did get second place this year so miracles do happen….
For my money I'm not sure there's a single year that we've sent in the best song. Possibly 2002. Possibly. Hmm
What I find amazing is that British people are completely convinced that we always do terribly at Eurovision because Europe hates us. When actually we have a decent overall record. We've been less successful in recent years, but all countries have ups and downs - look at Ireland for instance.
Croatia was a really strong entry too of course!
What went very wrong this year was the semi-final qualifying. Denmark should have waltzed through, and it is hard to see just how Australia and Poland got eliminated.
And, of course, the biggest cheer of all three nights came with the (slightly) unexpected appearance of Kaarija performing a slightly shortened version of his cha cha song. that is a euro classic that will be remembered long after this years winner.