Eurovision Song Contest 2017

hmmm

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

They won because they look carefree with no special effects or dancing monkeys .

We love dancing monkeys!!!!

retro:electro

They should make out. For diversity innit

appledrop

Ah seriously lads this is crap. No one is going to download this. Now the Belgium or Moldova one you could.

Vital Transformation

Was his speech not a bit insulting towards other acts though? I dunno.

johnpatrick81

That was an absolutely bizarre winner

Ghost Train

Nice finish to the show with the duet

DebDynamite

I'm just glad Italy didn't win...dafuq was that all about?

This is lovely.

I'd have had different opinion on this as a song had it been a duet to begin with.

Andy From Sligo

bland ... boring song!.. meh! ... run out of other words ...

delaad

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

Wow, Eurovision going to Lisbon. Never thought that would happen!

Ella would have been honoured to sing it!

Panrich

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

A guy with a song and a mic wins. Hope for Ireland yet.

Nah! Too real for Louis and co. Needs to fit a formula and he looks like a man with that beard.

well Ireland can't use the usual excuse of political voting etc.

Go Harvey Go

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

That was an absolutely bizarre winner

More so than Conchita? :eek:

A super song. Well done Portugal- I'm off to book my hotel in Lisbon for next year

AndyBoBandy

ThisRegard wrote: »

****ing public, no wonder there's so many dictatorships in Eastern Europe, people can't be trusted to make the right choice.

How many are there? I know of one.

AllForIt

I didn't really care for the winning song but at least it was an attempt at a proper song unlike the rest of the usual eurovision trash.

Welsh Megaman

Mahony0509 wrote: »

We should enter a song as Gaeilge next year, that means we win, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FnJDsvjtMg

Eoin247

Beautiful song. To the misers in this thread in this thread who are saying it's boring or dull, don't worry you'll probably get a standard repetitive pop/dance song next year.

hmmm

I'm sick of these bloody Eastern European bloc voting winning with their hamster cages and pyrotechnics

leahyl

Vital Transformation wrote: »

Was his speech not a bit insulting towards other acts though? I dunno.

Why? He didn't mention any particular act, but what he said was true I think. I mean we all like the cheesy, catchy songs but it's nice to see a song like this win.

BorneTobyWilde

It reminds me a bit of when Michael Jackson sang in french

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-biUNFfuY

RobertKK

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Irl had better start praying to St Anthony & St Jude

lol yeah St Jude is needed for RTE.

Strazdas

Who did our televoters give the 12 to.....anyone catch it?

retro:electro

Where did Moldova finish

ThisRegard

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

How many are there? I know of one.

You think I have time to list all million?

murpho999

metrosity wrote: »

There is always a bit of politics - Greece Cyprus for example, but what's the point of the committees? Great songs from Belgium and Romania rose up (that would have otherwise been nowhere) and would have been higher without these dumb committees. Portugal would have still one.

Greece and Cyprus is the only pure political on as their juries vote for each other regardless of the song which is ridiculous.

The rest is not political as general public would always have a different taste/opinion to music than musical juries.

I would also expect the public votes to have more political voting than musical juries as it only became an issue when public voting was introduced.

snowflaker

Ha! I won! I had Bulgaria top 3 from the Semis!!!

retro:electro

Eoin247 wrote: »

Beautiful song. To the misers in this thread in this thread who are saying it's boring or dull, don't worry you'll probably get a standard repetitive pop/dance song next year.

I love slow songs. Just because I don't like that song doesn't make me a misery. I just don't like it. Imagine that.

Andy From Sligo

what a real letdown to the end of the show - quite deflating actually, you need a real quirky song to win and the crowd to go crazy .. not bloody cry their eyes out!!