The Eurovision 2022 Thread

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It’s that time again…

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Hope Ukraine does get lots of votes, but rap doesn’t always get votes!  Loved the musical bits and novelty aspects.

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lorcan_nagle

This song is aggressively mediocre.

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Sandiedm, Dave

Chirst this is dull. Russia invading Germany is the only way this shite has a chance of winning.

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Rocket, Christian, Sandiedm, Ben, lorcan_nagle, Dave

That was okay, but not a winner.

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lorcan_nagle

Wait, he’s got “peace” on his guitar! I’d never have thought of giving peace a chance if I hadn’t seen it on that!

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Dave, Bruce

Well, that’s the new Bond theme sorted.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Ben, lorcan_nagle

Bold of Lithuania to send Shirley Bassey

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm, Ben, Dave

I unironically like this one.

Except the haircut maybe.

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Bruce, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Translated he lyrics into English:

So let’s sink another drink
And it’ll give me time to think
If I had the chance, I’d ask the world to dance
And I’d be dancing with myself, oh-oh

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm

Lithuania came here from 1966!

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Ben, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Yeah, I actually quite liked that one.

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Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

This isn’t bad, but it’s kinda bland. Very middle of the road and isn’t good or weird enough to stand out.

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Sandiedm

“He arrived as black foam”

Cue Confused Travolta GIF

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle

I’m cold and heartless, I want batshit crazy or it’s just Top of the Pops with sarcasm.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Martin Smith, Dave, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Yeah, I wouldn’t pick it to win, but I’d definitely check out an album by her (I say, never actually following through on that any year).

 

Oh good, Azerbaijan have gone for a sad man singing quietly. What a novelty. Actually this sounds like the end theme to an anime.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

I turned on late but all of this feels very same-y. Lots of very safe ballads. Have I missed the real nuts stuff (I caught the Banana Wolf and the leather clad rock band).

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Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle, Dave

Is that a Stargate?

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

When that piano started up I was expecting Wuthering Heights.

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm

Bruce wrote:

I turned on late but all of this feels very same-y. Lots of very safe ballads. Have I missed the real nuts stuff (I caught the Banana Wolf and the leather clad rock band).

Yeah, feels like there’s less of the fun/silly stuff this year.

Norway for the win.

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Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

Martin Smith wrote:

Oh good, Azerbaijan have gone for a sad man singing quietly. What a novelty. Actually this sounds like the end theme to an anime.

Can’t be, nobody is walking away from the camera slowly

Stairs are a health and safety nightmare. Not a handrail in sight.

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Rocket, Bruce, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Bruce wrote:

I turned on late but all of this feels very same-y. Lots of very safe ballads. Have I missed the real nuts stuff (I caught the Banana Wolf and the leather clad rock band).

Banana Wolf and France’s satanists have been the only properly mad stuff. Well, maybe The Rasmus for Finland at a push.

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Sandiedm, Dave, lorcan_nagle

They need to send LSD and mushroom to all potential acts.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Bruce, Dave, lorcan_nagle

This guy looks like he’s just come from painting his mum’s spare room

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Bruce, Dave

Dave wrote:

Is that a Stargate?

Indeed

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Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

I hope this lad returns those bleachers to the sports field he pinched them from when he’s done.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle, Ben

You could roast a turkey in that jacket

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Rocket, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle, Bruce

Well, he’s trying for the high notes at least.

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Poor lads just finished a marathon

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Dave

I know they pick the order of the entries at random but this concentration of shitty torch songs would make for a terrible mixtape

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Sandiedm, Bruce, Dave, Ben

Someone better jump in that water feature at the front of the stage before this show ends.

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Ben, Sandiedm, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

How many rolls of tin foil died to make that jacket?

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Rocket, Dave, Ian Smith, Martin Smith, Ben, Sandiedm

Belgium – is that a pyramid in this one?

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle

Attention, attention, Mad Bastard to the stage immediately.

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lorcan_nagle

Has any return to Mika ever been welcome?

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle

The outfits on the backing dancers make this look like the antagonist and his henchmen on an ultra-low budget Superhero show.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Ben, Bruce

I’d rather rub all the tinfoil from the last act’s jacket over my fillings than sit through more of this host banter.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

Kids at home asking what a DVD/CD is.

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Rocket, Dave, Bruce, Ben, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

I take it back, Belgium are the Bond theme.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

What is Mika wearing, love it?

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Rocket, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Seriously, how shit was the Irish entry that we lost out to Azerbaijan and Belgium?

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Rocket, Martin Smith, Bruce

Think Mikas skinned a teletubby

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Rocket, Dave, Ben, Sandiedm, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Sandiedm wrote:

What is Mika wearing, love it?

Whatever it is he better make sure he keeps it seperate from the whites when he is loading the washing machine.

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Rocket, Dave, lorcan_nagle, Ben

My god. Those poor chairs.

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Rocket, Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Ben

Oh… Another ballad…. Great.

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Dave, lorcan_nagle, Bruce

Is that a plastic see thru dress or is Greece cosplaying as Laura Palmer from the first episode of Twin Peaks?

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle

Bruce wrote:

Sandiedm wrote:

What is Mika wearing, love it?

Whatever it is he better make sure he keeps it seperate from the whites when he is loading the washing machine.

Definitely!!!  Also quite like her dress too, can’t decide which I prefer.

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Greece… quality again, but not mad yet

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Bruce, lorcan_nagle

No chairs were harmed in the making of this song.

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

Next up on songs inspired by the Belle soundtrack but nowhere near as good… Greece!

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm

Ben wrote:

Oh… Another ballad…. Great.

Better ballad than some, love the dancers!

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lorcan_nagle

[Ben]

No, no, god no, no, no, NO.

Can we get something with a bit of pace?

Edit – now they’re taking the mick

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Dave, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Bold of Iceland to enter the Dixie Chicks

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Rocket, Dave, Sandiedm, Bruce, Ian Smith

Some proper “about to bite your neck” smiles plastered on all three of Iceland there.

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Rocket, Dave, Martin Smith, lorcan_nagle

I didn’t think product placement was allowed in Eurovision. How has this Valium ad got into it?

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Bruce, Dave, Ian Smith, lorcan_nagle, Ben

I guess their mum made them include the brother in the band.

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Rocket, Martin Smith, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Ian Smith wrote:

I guess their mum made them include the brother in the band.

That worked so well for the Corrs

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Rocket, Bruce, Dave, Ben

Can we have the wolves back? I’ve got some bad bananas to get rid of.

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Rocket, Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Sandiedm, Dave

lorcan_nagle wrote:

Bold of Iceland to enter the Dixie Chicks

Definitely!

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lorcan_nagle

Reckon this lot are Fleetwood Mac fans

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Rocket, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

Come on Moldova, give us some crazy.

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Bruce, Ben, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Ben wrote:

Can we have the wolves back? I’ve got some bad bananas to get rid of.

Please please we need far more nutty-fied!!!

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Ben, lorcan_nagle

I take it all back, I want another ballad

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Rocket, Ben, lorcan_nagle

Thank God for Maldova!!! Eurovision is back baby!

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Ben, lorcan_nagle, Dave

Oh Jesus!

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Ben, lorcan_nagle, Bruce

Iceland is Fleetwood Mac crossed with Clannad!

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Dave

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Ben, Bruce, Dave

Martin Smith wrote:

Come on Moldova, give us some crazy.

Be careful what you wish for

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Rocket, Ben, lorcan_nagle, Bruce

I dont think the lad in the back is really playing those drums…

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Ben, lorcan_nagle

This is brilliantly bonkers. I think it’ll benefit just from being after the ballad block.

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Rocket, Dave, Sandiedm, Ben, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

This is a bold new direction for Busted.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

[Sandiedm]

Moldova – definitely more fun – elements of “Steps”!!!

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Ben, lorcan_nagle

Finally, we have a spiritual successor to Cotton Eye Joe

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Rocket, Ben, Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Sandiedm

Bold of Moldova to shoot the Ramones and Rednex at each other in the Large Hadron Collider and dump the mutated remains on stage here

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Rocket, Dave, Sandiedm, Ben, Martin Smith, Bruce, Ian Smith

Moldova! It’s a Multiverse of Madness!!!

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Rocket, Dave, Sandiedm, Ian Smith, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Look, I wanted one Mad Bastard on the stage, not six.

The crowd love it? OK then.

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Dave, lorcan_nagle

Ben wrote:

Look, I wanted one Mad Bastard on the stage, not six.

The crowd love it? OK then.

Typical eh? You spend ages waiting for a Mad Bastard and then six show up at once

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Sandiedm, Dave

Sweden thinking “shit, I have to follow that”

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm, Ben, lorcan_nagle

Bold of Sweden to send Tasha Yar

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Rocket, Dave, Bruce, Ben, Ian Smith

Kneeling in front of a Mercator Projection of Uranus is certainly a choice for stage act.

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm

Ballad-land again sung by The Doctor!!!

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Dave, Bruce

While this is very plesant I was hoping the show would keep the batshit Moldova momentum going.

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Ben, lorcan_nagle, Martin Smith, Sandiedm

This isn’t a song, it’s an epilepsy test.

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle, Ben, Ian Smith

Her hairspray is doing a lot of the work here

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Rocket, Bruce, Ben, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

[Ben]

Oh yeah, of course we all want to go back to Ballad Land….

Wait, is it picking up?

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lorcan_nagle, Sandiedm

That was okay but forgettable.

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lorcan_nagle

Props to Norway for sitting there with their banana-yellow wolf masks on for hours. That’s commitment.

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Rocket, Bruce, Martin Smith, Sandiedm, Ben

Swedish Adele is fine.

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle

Bloody Aussies. Could have dressed up a bit for the show.

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Ben, Sandiedm, Bruce, Dave

Bold of Australia to send Woodkid dressed as a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother

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Rocket, Todd, SteveUK, Bruce

I bet he was shitting himself that he might be embarrassed by someone else turning up in the same outfit

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Rocket, Todd, lorcan_nagle, Ben, Bruce, Sandiedm, Martin Smith

[Ben]

What the fook is he wearing?

Oh, another ballad.

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Sandiedm

WTF is Australia wearing?!

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Bruce

Bold of Australia to get MC Escher to design the stage for them.

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Rocket, lorcan_nagle, Sandiedm, Ben

“It was me, Austin!”

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Rocket, Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Ben

No we’re not the same…I’d never wear that.

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Rocket, Bruce, Sandiedm, lorcan_nagle

Ok… so Australia sent someone from the Bene Gesserit?

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Rocket, Bruce, lorcan_nagle, Ian Smith

Mike has enough songs for a medley?🤨

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Dave, Bruce, lorcan_nagle

Anything is possible, LIKE AUSTRALIA ENTERING A EUROPEAN SONG CONTEST

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Rocket, Sandiedm, Bruce, Dave

Colonialism!!!

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lorcan_nagle