It’s that time again…
The Eurovision 2022 Thread
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Stay in your place Latvia, don’t play to the crowd. Just say your points and take your fascinator off.
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Let’s take a short break, because god knows we haven’t been here long enough tonight.
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He’s already giving his concession speech😂
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If the UK win #Eurovision the finals will be held in Rwanda
— Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera (@PantiBliss) May 14, 2022
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Disappointed that Norway are faring so poorly. That wolf is never going to get his banana at this rate.
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Sweden’s doing better than I expected. I thought it was a bit bland, but thinking about it, theirs usually are and usually do well.
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12 points from…France!?
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The new Mera for Aquaman 2
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What is going on – France gave us 12 points!!!
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12 points from…France!?
We’re in the Mirror Universe!
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I’m enjoying the weird sad-guitar-twang noise they make for each 12-point award, which rather than being celebratory feels like something you’d hear in a videogame when you try and select something in your inventory that has a quantity of zero.
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12 points from…France!?
We’re in the Mirror Universe!
Well, Sam does have a beard.
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Get on with it Linda!
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Slovenia is jousting with Spain later.
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Every year I wish they’d get Milan Frasz to announce the Slovenian votes.
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Are we sure it isn’t just that everyone in Europe knows our economy is fucked and want us to go into financial ruin hosting it?
The ultimate Brexit revenge.
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Croatia out to kill a snitch later.
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So given that this is just the jury votes, when the audience votes come in, can that just fuck around with the rankings altogether? And if so, what’s the point of sitting through all this bollocks?
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Finally, the purple trenchcoat comes into fashion!
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So given that this is just the jury votes, when the audience votes come in, can that just fuck around with the rankings altogether? And if so, what’s the point of sitting through all this bollocks?
To give some level of tension?
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So given that this is just the jury votes, when the audience votes come in, can that just fuck around with the rankings altogether? And if so, what’s the point of sitting through all this bollocks?
It definitely can. I think they don’t want to surrender the importance of the juries.
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AJ has killed Elmo!!
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It’s her off Strictly.
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Sweden rocking business mid-riff.
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Come on, Germany!
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Wait, we’ve had points from pretty much everyone except Australia?
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Wait, we’ve had points from pretty much everyone except Australia?
They’re salty because Ch five cancelled neighbours.
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Roland Rat for host of Eurovision #EurovisionPowerZone2022
— Al Ewing Writes Comics (@Al_Ewing) May 14, 2022
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“From Great Manchester! Get In!”
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Yeah, I’m sure all of Europe was thrilled to hear about the BBC moving their satellite link from London to Salford.
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France getting mugged again.
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Respect for Iceland waving a trans pride flag there though
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People loved the batshit Moldovans!
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Yes, some justice for Lithuania at least.
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Haha, fuck you Switzerland and your song I can’t even remember now.
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Haha, fuck you Switzerland and your song I can’t even remember now.
I remember it, it was awful
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Serbia’s Mystic Meg looking delighted at that.
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Haha. Sad boys don’t get phone votes, people!
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Only two points for Australia seems a bit harsh.
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Australia wondering why they get involved with this shit.
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These pauses are getting so long that it’s going to be time to start next year’s ceremony soon.
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These pauses are getting so long that it’s going to be time to start next year’s ceremony soon.
They had to remind us earlier that we were still watching Eurovision 2022, because it was dragging on so long.
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I reckon at least half of those points for Ukraine were for that hat.
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Amazing, the Serbs were the villains 25 years ago.
Geopolitics messes up even Eurovision!
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Get on with it!
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If Sweden win now, I’m going to be fuming.
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Aww, I though Spain had a real chance.
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I think this might be enough to push the UK towards all-out war with Russia.
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Is Boris going to authorise more airstrikes in Serbia? I mean it’s been decades but still…?
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And the prize to the war torn nation….Host a giant song contest😬😬
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Our phone vote is pretty solid. 7 to Lithuania, 8 to Moldova, 6 to Norway, 5 to Spain. But 10 to Poland?!
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The Andrew Cartmell that Graham Norton just name-checked as part of the BBC team isn’t the one off Doctor Who, is it?
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Ah well, if there’s one thing that the UK loves better than winning, it’s not-quite winning. We’re the best in the world at that! Well, almost.
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They just showed the guy taking his pink hat off backstage. Enigma ruined.
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How has it only just occurred to me that the hat coordinates perfectly with Mika’s suit? I want to see them together now.
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The Andrew Cartmell that Graham Norton just name-checked as part of the BBC team isn’t the one off Doctor Who, is it?
Probably not? It looks like he’s mostly been writing books and plays since Doctor Who.
Yeah, I checked and the spelling’s different. Just an odd name to hear then.
Have to hand it to Ukraine, this song is actually pretty good. I’m liking it more on this listen than the first. So it’s not just a pity vote.
Great fun again this year everyone. Here’s to Eurovision 2023 in… erm… TBA.
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Well, another year done…Im off to rewatch the Spanish entry.
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Great fun again this year everyone. Here’s to Eurovision 2023 in… erm… TBA.
Pretty sure it will be in 2023.
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Don’t sprain anything.
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Yep, fun night as ever. Cheers all.
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Norway was fucking robbed, but I’d actually have voted for Ukraine even if there wasn’t a war on. They were the only ones who were really dishing out the ethno-kitsch, and doing it in the best way, too, which is making it bizarre by combining it with rap.
Also, German guy was bland, but didn’t deserve zero points. Poor dude.
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Delighted to walk the kids into school this morning and see a big crowd of ten-year-olds enthusiastically dancing and singing the wolf/banana song.
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It’s all a bit weird because I think we all know barring the invasion sympathy vote the UK would have won it.
Did people actually vote for the song?
The UK has worked overtime for several years now, being absolute pricks to all and sundry, to ensure that nobody in Europe would ever give them a political vote. Maybe none of that matters as the guy singing was a big hit on Tik-Tok apparently.
Al would approve of that at least.
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I was kidding slightly but yeah I think it is a huge aspect in the phone vote that the UK entry was already a semi celeb from social media.
It’s so random really to define every year what is the ‘best song’. I genuinely adored the Ukraine entry for 2021, I posted it somewhere here as the best tune and would have voted for that and it ended up 19th.
I mean this is an absolute banger:
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Did people actually vote for the song?
I did! Loved the nix of corny traditional and bug-fuck crazy in the Ukranian one. I don’t watch the ESC for catchy pop songs, those can fuck right off as far as I am concerned.
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I saw today that Eurovision have had conversations with the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. It has a retractable roof which when closed makes it the largest indoor arena in Europe. Typically Eurovision books around 10,000 capacity venues, this is 74,000 standard capacity and potentially much higher with fans on the pitch area.
It would be a radical change but you know I’d be pretty confident they’d sell that out.
I did! Loved the nix of corny traditional and bug-fuck crazy in the Ukranian one. I don’t watch the ESC for catchy pop songs, those can fuck right off as far as I am concerned.
I agree with that sentiment to be honest, I like them crazy too, I do think realistically though Ukraine wouldn’t have won without the solidarity vote. Which is fair enough, they are in a horrific situation and if a bit of nonsense can lift the gloom for just a little bit it’s as good a thing as the contest has ever achieved.
It is pretty unrealistic they could host next year, I would hope though that they defer one for when hopefully things approach normality, wars eventually end.
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I do think realistically though Ukraine wouldn’t have won without the solidarity vote.
Nah, probably not. But then, I’ve never managed to predict the winner (well except for this year, which, you know). Every time I thought the votes would go for some song it turned out to be something else people wanted to win.
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Very true, I actually have no idea how the pundits who make predictions get to that place. I think in the 60s to 80s anything that had a catchy ‘la la la’ chorus had a good chance but nowadays it’s very hard to know. Now it could be heavy metal or a ballad and anything in-between.
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Yeah, it seems every year there’s one song that Norton means as being “tipped to do really well by the juries” or whoever that ends up making no impression with both the phone-vote audience and the judges.
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Classic DavidM quote.
I am never in sync with Eurovision voting.
Eurovision should branch out and do a Nostalgic version. bring out the 70s pop tunes, the prog rock songs that will have the audience screaming for them to leave the stage after 10-15 minutes, and the psychedelic hits that can give all the stage crew and hosts contact highs.
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I would be all for a prog Eurovision spin-off. It wouldn’t have to be nostalgic, there are hundreds of great bands writing new prog right now. It’s especially big in Europe.
There would have to be some different rules. Remove the length limitation, obviously. Sure, there have been some great sub-3-minute prog songs, but it’s musically limiting if you have to write that short. You should probably also allow instrumental pieces as well as songs. And remove the limit on number of people on stage, so larger groups could play live (though you should probably also allow backing tapes, to cater to the one-man multi-instrumental studio projects who can’t play live).
The only down-side to the idea is that the Netherlands would win every year
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There would have to be some different rules. Remove the length limitation, obviously. Sure, there have been some great sub-3-minute prog songs, but it’s musically limiting if you have to write that short.
Just as long as the show is over in time for next year’s show to start.
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And with enough time to replenish Norton’s wine crate.
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This is because you can’t have Ukraine without Uk.
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