Eurovision 2024

BillDL

I "liked" the Cyprus entry but given some of the other weird and shite shite I saw I would hardly volunteer to listen to it again.

Philly_Q

I'm sure the Modmins will merge the threads at some point.

Shrews

I like Eurovision normally but this was as poor as I can remember. I liked the Armenia song, but nothing really stood out even though they all seem to be trying to outdo one another with the novelties.

It's all just got a bit too big for its boots and says something when the best song on the night was the winner from 50 years ago. 

darthed1981

Did anyone else feel the big lass from Ukraine probably has a necklace of teeth at home from Russian soldiers she had captured then executed?

snowblind

All seems to have gone a bit 90s techno. The Georgia entry would have benefited from some heavy guitars but overall, who gives a 541t? UK getting zero from the popular vote. Outstanding! 

sev112

I quite enjoyed it as an event and a load of diverse music .  Tunes were ok mostly and I didn't think there were too many gimmicks compared to recent years.  

My wife and I thought UK was quite a good pop song on radio (and better performed than on the night) but the performance was what ? And stopped him singing well.  Clearly the European public have similar thoughts as we were the only country with zero votes

There were a lot of sobgs however that followed the formulaic fast beat for 70% of the time, then slowed down single voice , followed by energetic finish.

I quite liked Austria, thought that might have done a bit better

Sporky

I felt it was all a bit tubeless. I wonder if that's a bit down to the mixing - prioritise the drums and vocals. 

equalsql

They should rename it The European Pyrotechnic & Dance competition cos the 'songs' were absolutely shyte.
They need to get rid of all that crap and get back to an 'actual' song competition.

euan

Philly_Q said:

I'm honestly surprised Estonia haven't got any points (yet).  And Finland doing really badly.

Even Sir Terry Wogan (RIP) would have trouble making a case for political voting this year*... although both Ukraine and Israel got big public votes.  I'm quite surprised by the latter, I have to say.

(* I wrote that before the public votes were announced.)

There was quite extensive social media campaigns world wide to vote for Israel. You could pay to get 20 votes. 

prowla

Well, I got the winner right; it was amusing when Norton said don't break the trophy and he then did!

(Incidentally, I thought Rylan did a better job in the semis than Norton did in the main show.)

I figured there had to be some coordination for Israel to do so well; good on the audience for letting their views be known both for that and the EBU/Netherlands fiasco.

Israel aside, on the matter of "political" voting: it may simply be that the neighbouring countries songs get local airplay leading up to the competition so people are familiar with them, as opposed to any overt bloc-based coordination.

Show-wise, I could do with less male buttocks on display; it's not really my thing and the two acts who overdid it (Spain and Finland) didn't fare well in the scoring.

GSPBASSES

Definitely not a song contest anymore, the dance routine at the end of the second Doctor Who episode would have won it easily.

ICBM

ICBM said:

I’m going with Croatia as a possible winner.

Closer than usual for me!

To this day I regret not putting a large bet on Lordi when everyone was laughing about them beforehand.

rze99

It’s more like a Pride Vision thing with political agendas based on the 45 mins to an hour I watched with my wife. I’ve never watched more than about an hour so it’s just a snapshot. 

dazzajl

rze99 said:

It’s more like a Pride Vision thing with political agendas based on the 45 mins to an hour I watched with my wife. I’ve never watched more than about an hour so it’s just a snapshot. 

It’s been camper than Millets since day one, so there’s no reason it’s going to have changed. Whether you loathe or adore it, it feels like exactly what it’s supposed to be. 

Picking the winner at the end of the performances is not nearly making up for being the only person to have missed the aurora though   

Kurtis

I've obviously seen bits and know what it's about but can't say I've ever knowingly watched it. 

Gassage

Kudos to the French bloke for wearing a head toe trauma bandage to perform.

I actually like Cyprus best. 

Poor Olly- career smashed

goldtop

tony99 said:

Used to be good, gone a bit too gay soft porn now

If you didn't notice the far higher number of scantily dressed women onstage, you may be struggling with something.

For me, France deserved to win - a proper stripped down vocal performance. Pleasantly surprised that witchy Ireland did so well. Didn't like Portugal's song, but would love to hear her sing in a small fado venue. 

Olly suffered because the Swiss act was his act but turned up to 11 in every area, from song-writing to performance.

Philly_Q

euan said:

Philly_Q said:

I'm honestly surprised Estonia haven't got any points (yet).  And Finland doing really badly.

Even Sir Terry Wogan (RIP) would have trouble making a case for political voting this year*... although both Ukraine and Israel got big public votes.  I'm quite surprised by the latter, I have to say.

(* I wrote that before the public votes were announced.)

There was quite extensive social media campaigns world wide to vote for Israel. You could pay to get 20 votes. 

Maybe if they had paid me, I'd have considered giving them 20 votes.

darthed1981

Israel were apparently selling "Where's Hamas?" books outside the venue.

They are a bit different from the old "Where's Wally?" ones - instead of identifying the one Hamas guy in a crowd, you just drop a 2000lb JDAM on them, killing them all and probably getting the Hamas guy at the same time.

Sporky

prowla said:

Show-wise, I could do with less male buttocks on display; it's not really my thing and the two acts who overdid it (Spain and Finland) didn't fare well in the scoring.

It did seem raunchier - well into lewd at some points - than normal all-round.

I'm fine with it being silly and overblown and camp in places and only somewhat about the songs, but the UK choreography was a bit much, and the Slovenia singer was basically just wearing a net curtain with light-up undies.

For me, Finland and Spain were funny enough that they got away with it.