Just realised I haven't heard half of these and it's already time!
Israel is fun and deserves a Loboda-level stage show...3/1 is ridiculous odds though.
France's tonally strange ode to the Mediterranean refugee crisis still sounds like the winner to me.
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
wait why is this on ILE?
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
Someone at the EBU likes to troll - Russia and Ukraine are both in the same semi (Thursday’s).
Strongly recommend the Popbitch guide which is always fairly great:
It’s here. The annual Popbitch Eurovision Guide – filled with 60 pages of my dazzling(/dipshit) insight – is out now, in time for the first semi-final tonight... https://t.co/VmQDgf8ByH pic.twitter.com/BnMFPnBIMi— Kit Lovelace (@kitlovelace) May 8, 2018
Cyprus is favourite atm but I don’t realky understand why. Rubak’s song is like the shameful pleasure and cultural worth of picking your own scabs. He’ll probably win.
Tonight’s semi final has some of the better/higher rated entrants and Ireland, who are muck as usual.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
but it's *our* muck
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
i'm rooting for australia and estonia this year
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
i imagine netherlands will be the most disliked here ha
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
jfc at my many typos, it was not worth editing that sentence for that.
Netherlands is the racist one right? Nb I don’t acrualky know anything about it besides what’s mentioned in the guide.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
oh is it?i listened to it once a couple months ago and just hated it
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
here we... here we... here we go!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
Azerbaijan = cool hostile architecture on the set, meh song.Iceland = nononononononononononononononononononononono
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
Iceland is probably going to be that one inexplicable one that goes through.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
I can't remember icelands which one was it
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
Male crooning.
Belgium my favourite so far but not 100% sold on it, would listen again though.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
Wow @ Israel, that was fucking great.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Our household is divided over that one. Her vocals were a bit wobbly but you’d still fancy it.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Estonia is like Emma Shaplin with all the fun goth bits removed - though probably the least offensive thing so far.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Croatian lady seems just a teeny bit too method for my liking.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Greece and Finland = thumbs up from me.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
yeh i like finlands
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
Finland ++++
This feels like a pretty even SF, only a couple of obvious non-qualifiers. Nervous for Israel.
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
Inexplicably taken by Iceland's 1997 revivalism.
Portugal sounds pleasant this year.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
Ireland wtf
Pour one out for Greece.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
yeah Greece was robbed
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Belgium was my fave not to go through, Greece was solid. Ireland coasted on the staging.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
Greece definitely the one I'm most bummed about. Cyprus was good, though!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
Phillip Kirkorov is going through even if Russia aren’t.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
^ correct
Russia was awful, Moldova was fun enough.
France is pretty good.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Georgia was nice :( Norway and Netherlands the worst qualifiers of the whole lot.
Amazon Web Services emo franchise is growing on me.
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
I liked Slovenia (banger) and Serbia (gothy ethno-dance). This round was generally poor, though. Pleased Hungary got through, just to add a bit of a difference. Netherlands = wtf @ that garbage.
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
Would have preferred Malta over Serbia but otherwise main faves today made it through, Slovenia, Australia.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
Oh and Ukraine for the 'what if Phantom of the Opera, but Marilyn Manson?'
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link
Apparently like three ppl on twitter got upset over the Attenborough parody that was broadcast as part of Eurovision, the Daily Express picked up the story and now it's all outrage and "it's POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD" over on the Portuguese social media landscape.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 May 2018 09:32 (six years ago) link
Ireland is up to third with the bookies! This is getting out of hand...
― gyac, Friday, 11 May 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatantCollusion between countries has increased tenfold in 40 years
https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800-width/20180512_WOC501.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
Decades are a meaningless basis for the analysis. Even 2007-17 covers multiple voting systems.
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Love this heavy psych chanson entry from Luxembourg 1977:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaXvi1XXcM8
― A Box of After Dinner Comics Shipped to Your House Each Month (seandalai), Saturday, 12 May 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
Here we go and fuck the Beatles...
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
First two songs were a bit eh whatever but this entry from Slovenia is more like it.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
that bit in the middle was a misfire though
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
#Eurovision That legendary guy from Ireland going 'WHAT'??? pic.twitter.com/ZUUebfo2ta— Sam Overton (@Pieterwolfe) May 12, 2018
― gyac, Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
Austria deserves to do well imo but I suspect it won’t.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Estonia sounds better the second time as well.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
That Estonia dress! I don’t think I’ve seen anything with actual artistic merit on Eurovision before
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
wtf just happened?
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Stage invader yelling about Nazis?
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
jings that was dramatic
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
I initially thought, "Oh no, they haven't put in a rap section have they" LOL. Seriously.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
props to surie for pulling that off
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
Ha, so did I. xp
Stage invader yelling about war, I think.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
lol, tom otm
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
Hungary are the rawk ones. This is like the theme to a cheap Skyrim animated movie.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
Even Asgard has a boyband.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
the pillage people
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Now then..
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
always good to dress your backing singers like bondage nazis imo
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
The Bulgarian chorus sounds like they're singing "baaaaaaaaalls!".
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
oh my
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
okay moldova you have my attention
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
‘the rhythm is driving me wild’, they sing over the most lumpen mambo no 5 thump imaginable
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
...and then they got thrown out of Ikea.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
A key change. Heavy metal doesn't do key changes.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Eurovision doesn’t really do them either these days. I quite like them.
I hate the Israeli song with a passion but it’s nice to see the innovative use of Novation Launchpads.
This performance is a bit less grating than the semi final one.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
this is a pretty infectious performance from israel here
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
somewhat taken aback by the netherlands, i must admit
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
I want to hate it on principle but it’s really quite well done for what it is.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
This Netherlands song is awful anyway, but following Israel it sounds like the worst thing I've ever heard
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
Re Israel song I felt that Norton had hyped it up too much, was just okay in the end.
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
Eurovision without key changes, it's a different world. Good riddance to 'em, I says.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
cyprus lady’s outfit looks like something cher might have worn in her 80s imperial phase
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
oh italyjust no
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Italy: your pointless wars
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Tell it to the Abyssinians.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
... the veteran Jamaican vocal group, that is.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Is Cyprus going to be one of those ones where it wins and I have no idea why? It didn't stand out at all.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
I was shocked Cyprus made it to the finals
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
They are the favourite on betting sites
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
If Israel don’t win this I blame Corbyn. #eurovision— Max Tundra (@MaxTundra) May 12, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
Backstage interviews are even more painful than usual. Austrian guy has zero charisma.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
What is happening. This is crazy.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
starting to think the uk might not win this
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
I blame Russia.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
OK so Israel win
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
gotta be
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
time for a celebratory sodastream beverage
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
Damn it.
Had an e/w on Austria though.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Ha, brilliant, Mr "let's go back to real music" now has to hand over the trophy to Netta
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
psyched for next year’s event from noted european capital *checks notes* jerusalem
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
They'll have to pay Jack White for this surely.
― kraudive, Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link