Eurovision Song Contest 2016

BorneTobyWilde

A lot of people lumped on to Australia only for some crazy voting system to rob them of victory.
Bookies won

hmmm

Every song next year is going to sound like this now

wil

"Anonymous hacks Eurovoting" would be a very unsurprising headline on tomorrow's papers

PandaX9

I quite like the Ukrainian music. Hate the vocal acrobatics and the lyrics.

Will be interesting to see how they pull it off next year!

PeterTheEighth

Just listening to the lyrics of the Ukraine entry, I'm thinking Putin onlly allowed Russia to enter the competition with a view to denying Ukraine the opportunity to win and gaining more publicity for their very political song.

bloopy

What a boring song. Aussies were robbed.

screamer

road_high wrote: »

Most political song in years...sympathy vote. Russian Ukraine war played out in the Eurovision!

Yep and apparently we all support p!ss and love and bleeding ears.

RobertKK

murpho999 wrote: »

Why are so many here against the song. I thought it was very good.

They are not cultured :P

It was one of my favourites.

BlondeMoment

Thas it, im going to make a mix CD of Eurovision songs past and present for the car!

lisasimpson

A bit of a security issue for next year. Isnt there a war over there

Welsh Megaman

Bit of a downbeat end, considering Petra and Mans highly entertaining performance.

alchemist33

Russia going to sing in Kiev next year will be interesting.





Of course, Kiev will be in Russia by then.

Jessme

Hardly anyone on stage with her after - where did the happy clappy everyone on stage ending go to??

Xenji

I wonder if this will be a trend next year, it usually happens with people trying to copy the previous years winner, I am all for highlighting atrocities and crimes against humanity, but you know the Eurovision is meant to a bit uplifting.

murpho999

scudzilla wrote: »

How the fcuk did that just happen???

Poland jumped up from last with 7 points to 7th, Poles in every country voting for themselves, not fixed at all

And Ukraine jumping into first, how did they decide they get 300 odd points from the phones? Just allocate them enough to win, that'll do

Just because emigrants vote for their original country does not mean it's a fix you know.

100cent

murpho999 wrote: »

What are you on about , it's just a song contest.

I thought it was a good song.

A song eulogising a people who did Hitler's bidding in Western Russia.

Woodville56

Crimsonforce wrote: »

murpho999 wrote: »

How can you say that when it was the 2nd highest publically voted song?

Yep just adding her album to my iTunes account

So it's gonna b no 1 on iTunes by morning - Not ! Awful song , come back Lordi , all is forgiven !

KatW4

The message of the song won it I guess but my God it was such a terrible song!

Kenjataimu

So was the public vote the same 1 to 12 points per country but just added together?
I missed most of the voting.

wil

lisasimpson wrote: »

A bit of a security issue for next year. Isnt there a war over there

And some no fly zones, for very obvious reasons.

ShamoBuc

So, what we learned ?

The voting system is shít !
The voting system is brilliant !
The song was the worst ever to win !
Delighted Ukraine won !
Fúck Putin's Russia !
If Australia won it would be held in Europe anyway !
At least 1 Swede likes Anal !!

Strange show.

screamer

RobertKK wrote: »

They are not cultured :P

It was one of my favourites.

Yeah dude yoghurt is cultured too.....

leahyl

It's no Wild Dances anyway, le sigh

Harry Palmr

murpho999 wrote: »

What are you on about , it's just a song contest.

I thought it was a good song.

Its never just a song (see below)

100cent wrote: »

A song eulogising a people who did Hitler's bidding in Western Russia.

hmmm wrote: »

I'd say Graham isn't looking forward to the trip to Odessa next year

The UK can give it one more go with Steps (I'll get my baby carriage).

BoJack Horseman

lisasimpson wrote: »

A bit of a security issue for next year. Isnt there a war over there

Unless it's in the Donbass Arena, it will probably be fine.

sheep?

Lads we're forgetting the important message from tonight, regardless of the winner.

https://twitter.com/andyparmo/status/731600414462840832

Caoimhgh1n

Well, that was one of the best and worst Eurovisions ever.

Goodnight, see y'all next year.

Eugene Norman

100cent wrote: »

A song eulogising a people who did Hitler's bidding in Western Russia.

This putinbot crap is getting annoying.

Skid X

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Was looking forward to hearing the Bulgaria song again

I have seen the future for Royaume Unis

Something like this

murpho999

lisasimpson wrote: »

A bit of a security issue for next year. Isnt there a war over there

Only in the East.

The Eurovison was hosted in Dublin several time in the 80's and 90's whilst there was 'war' much closer in distance to Dublin then there is to Kiev.

bloopy

The winning song is not going down too well on other discussion sites.

thelad95

murpho999 wrote: »

How can you say that when it was the 2nd highest publically voted song?

Normally the winning Eurovision song is played on radio for weeks afterwards, that won't be happening in Ireland with this song, not a chance it's so depressing.

road_high

New format really shows the political
Nature of the voting...we or the UK don't have a prayer in this thing as we have no one living on the Continent- the ex pat factor is hugely bias towards the eastern bloc

RobertKK

From the Guardian yesterday: a song that laments Stalin's deportation of more than 240,000 ethnic Tatars from Ukraine's Crimea region during World War II. While her entry earned huge applause when it beat five other rivals in a live television show, it is unlikely to go down so well in Russia, to whom is a none-too-subtle rebuke for the invasion of Crimea two years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/11/jamalas-ukraine-eurovision-song-stirs-up-russia/

riffmongous

100cent wrote: »

A song eulogising a people who did Hitler's bidding in Western Russia.

Bull****

Capt'n Midnight

road_high wrote: »

I know...we need to get the UK to invade us again. Only way we will win this thing again!

No, we need Scotland, Wales and if needed NI to be independent so we can get a voting bloc going.

Lunger

Xenji wrote: »

I wonder if this will be a trend next year, it usually happens with people trying to copy the previous years winner, I am all for highlighting atrocities and crimes against humanity, but you know the Eurovision is meant to a bit uplifting.

Ireland enters an anti-Ryanair song.

Ponster

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

A lot of people lumped on to Australia only for some crazy voting system to rob them of victory.
Bookies won

It's been the same voting system now for 7 years now with the jury and public voting on the top 11 songs. The only thing that is different is that the votes are split up. If they had used the old system Ukraine would still have won but we'd probably have known 3/4 of the way through the voting.

BoJack Horseman

Jessme wrote: »

Hardly anyone on stage with her after - where did the happy clappy everyone on stage ending go to??

No time.... they over-ran badly.

Cienciano

murpho999 wrote: »

Why are so many here against the song. I thought it was very good.

I thought it was shíte. I don't thing a song should lose purely because it's not upbeat, or slow. But I just didn't like it. I thought Australia was the best song by a long way, but a weak eurovision this year

murpho999

100cent wrote: »

A song eulogising a people who did Hitler's bidding in Western Russia.

Do you think most people get that from the song?

Broken Hearted Road

Thankfully Swedan didn't win and Ireland still carries the most Eurovision wins.

Mr.Nice Guy

RTE are going to have Nadia Forde singing a song about the Famine next year.

wil

Xenji wrote: »

I wonder if this will be a trend next year, it usually happens with people trying to copy the previous years winner, I am all for highlighting atrocities and crimes against humanity, but you know the Eurovision is meant to a bit uplifting.

The trend seems to be the winner is very unlike the previous year.
Hence last years happy unpolitical feel good "Heroes"

road_high

100cent wrote: »

A song eulogising a people who did Hitler's bidding in Western Russia.

Yawn...it's only a song contest ffs...oh and you lost. Thank god

Eugene Norman

road_high wrote: »

New format really shows the political
Nature of the voting...we or the UK don't have a prayer in this thing as we have no one living on the Continent- the ex pat factor is hugely bias towards the eastern bloc

Yes. It probably was a mistake to break the public vote out.

Maybe juries is the future.

RobertKK

road_high wrote: »

New format really shows the political
Nature of the voting...we or the UK don't have a prayer in this thing as we have no one living on the Continent- the ex pat factor is hugely bias towards the eastern bloc

Australia don't either.

Fact is the bookies had the last 3 remaining songs as the favourites to be the last 3.

100cent

Eugene Norman wrote: »

This putinbot crap is getting annoying.

Study your history, dude.

Xenji

wil wrote: »

The trend seems to be the winner is very unlike the previous year.
Hence last years happy unpolitical feel good "Heroes"

I did not mean the winner, but the among all the 40 countries.

Rossi IRL

That voting would work if they didnt do the jury vote first.

Start everybody on 0 points.

Go through last till 3rd

Announce winner