Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Shakey_jake

Quite enjoyed that, gutted for France

Vital Transformation

Just tuned in for the end of the results and winning song. That's possibly the most forgettable Eurovision winner I've heard to date.

Fair play to the Dutch getting done more or less on time.

Italians will be surprised waking up tomorrow winning a competition they generally know nothing about.

I likes the song.

I watched a bit with my six year old at the start and she was hooked.

RobertKK

murpho999 wrote: »

So you really think even non EU countries (of which there are many) did not vote vote for UK because of Brexit?

Don't forget because of the border, Brexit makes more news in Ireland then the rest of Europe.

The Netflix movie said everyone hates the UK :pac:

Cienciano

Speakerboxx wrote: »

Delighted Switzerland didn't win. He was a cocky singer who thought he had it won before the public decided.

His face every time a big public vote came in was hilarious. "Can they do this?"

Italy won because of the performance. Finland rocked up the chart because of the performance. The French came second because of the performance.

The Switzerland song didn’t do as well as the jury vote because of the performance

It's the Rage similarities which I'm drawn to in the song. Yer man doesn't sound like Zack De La Rocha, but the music is highly derivative of RATM. That riff has Tom Morello all over it.

Larbre34

Lads they have to figure out a weighting system that doesn't stick the knife in like that. Like theres no way in hell the UK and the others got zero phone votes at all from anyone. Brits in Ireland would have phoned, no question.

If you get the lowest volume you should get maybe 20, 30 and up to say 400 for the highest public popularity. Zero is just sadistic.

AndyBoBandy

Capt'n Midnight

fvp4 wrote: »

Germany got 3 points and 0 from the popular vote.

Still infinity x 2 times what the UK got.

YellowLead

YellowLead wrote: »

Time for them to bow out given they gave the two fingers to the rest of us (Europe) with their Brexit we are better than you BS

I'd thank this twice if it was possible

Hurrache

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

They basically ripped off Rage against the machine.

Are ye, and those that agreed, tone deaf?

archfi

They cut the bloody end off

Well, I'm watching Eurovison since 1973 except for most of the 00's (don't ask and no I wasn't sectioned because I saw it since 1973 either) and that is one of the top winning songs in my time.

The voting drama is fantastic - that has to be kept.
I'm off to look at the insane UK Digitalspy Eurovision forum after the UK's humiliation- and they are totally nuts there ;-)


Thanks for the thread

Mike Guide 69

Italy song had. a Janes Addiction vibe to it but it’s a class rocking song

Daroxtar

Ripping off an anti piracy advert... Irony?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

murpho999

YellowLead wrote: »

Time for them to bow out given they gave the two fingers to the rest of us (Europe) with their Brexit we are better than you BS

The Eurovision song contest is nothing to do with the EU and there's an awful lot of non EU countries in it.

supernova5

Italy,
glam rock revival in appearance, Rage against The Machine rip off

Quantum Erasure

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Linkin Park more like.

No that was finland

Flaccus

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

What height is the blonde in the purple?

Or are the other’s pygmys

6ft 2in
Nikkie de Jager

Furze99

Has anyone figured if the Italian lads were actually singingðŸ§

Say Your Number

Surely RTE have to get on the phone to Keith Fay now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ1TxisBbDM

MrMusician18

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

What height is the blonde in the purple?

Or are the other’s pygmys

If you read Nikki de Jager's Wikipedia article that might explain why she is so tall

archfi

Cienciano wrote: »

It was a good song but the guy was a creep. Well, gave me a creepy vibe. Glad they didn't win. Nazi gold pricks

:D:D:DComment of the night

Speakerboxx

Larbre34 wrote: »

Lads they have to figure out a weighting system that doesn't stick the knife in like that. Like theres no way in hell the UK and the others got zero phone votes at all from anyone. Brits in Ireland would have phoned, no question.

If you get the lowest volume you should get maybe 20, 30 and up to say 400 for the highest public popularity. Zero is just sadistic.

I thought the same. Its doesn't add up.

Looks like my 40 votes were all Bulgaria got off the public.

breezy1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I tuned in late so am just hearing the winning song now. Yer man could be singing away there about a door for all I know, but it's a rockin tune.

He actually is singing about a door

"Mo’ li prendo a calci, ‘sti portoni"

jeoun

Semi Final results are in - Ireland finished last (16th place) with 20 points!

Kermit.de.frog

LordBasil

Ireland came last in our Semi final

What am I gonna spend my €15 on?

sReq | uTeK

Thought France should have won

goose2005

Skid X wrote: »

It's a melting pot now

Good songs have a chance, great variety of genres at or near the top

Neighbourly voting has been diluted by the number of participants

It is a stronger contest now than it ever was

it's all the east europeans voting for each other, which is why eastern european countries have won 1 of the last 12 contests

breezy1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What am I gonna spend my €15 on?

Red leather pants

BorneTobyWilde

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1396237173674975239

gmisk

LordBasil wrote: »

Ireland came last in our Semi final

Well deserved

rodge123

gmisk wrote: »

Clueless...

It's zero to do with their population....it's to do with them pumping the most money into the competition.

Should these same countries get free entry to the European and World Cup soccer tournaments also seen as their broadcasters probably generate the most amount of broadcasting rights tv revenue for uefa/fifa also?

breezy1985

jeoun wrote: »

Semi Final results are in - Ireland finished last (16th place) with 20 points!

20 more than the UK

Necro

UK get no points from anywhere yet get automatic entry next year

Germans get 3 points from 'professional' juries and get automatic entry next year

Spain get 6 points and yet get automatic entry next year


There's a simple solution but the countries will hate it

End auto qualification for everyone but the previous winners, make every single country have to earn their place in the final

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What am I gonna spend my €15 on?

Domino's

gmisk

rodge123 wrote: »

Should these same countries get free entry to the European and World Cup soccer tournaments also seen as their broadcasters probably generate the most amount of broadcasting rights tv revenue for uefa/fifa also?

Eurovision isn't exactly related.....what a bizarre question.

Deeper Blue

Thought that was a thoroughly entertaining Eurovision myself.

One of my biggest takeaways is that I need to get the BBC for next year. Marty is the drizzling ****s and seems to do his best to spoil the night with his drivel.

Say Your Number

That was a load of enjoyable bollox

See ye again next year

breezy1985

rodge123 wrote: »

Should these same countries get free entry to the European and World Cup soccer tournaments also seen as their broadcasters probably generate the most amount of broadcasting rights tv revenue for uefa/fifa also?

They don't actually pay for the World Cup the way they do this.

And all their UEFA/FIFA money got them a ton of perks like seeded qualifiers

Furze99

It’s obvious that the UK etc got public votes but statistically when factored back into the scoring they were less than 1. Notable difference between jury and public on many votes, Lithuania got little from juries and jumped way up the board with the public vote.

Deeper Blue

jeoun wrote: »

Semi Final results are in - Ireland finished last (16th place) with 20 points!

Thoroughly deserved, it was an atrocious performance on the night.

goose2005

deisedude wrote: »

None of the top 3 songs were in English. I wonder has that happened before

probably not since they got rid of the rule that countries had to use their official languages. In 1991 the top 3 were not in English

RoryMac

LordBasil wrote: »

Ireland came last in our Semi final

Probably too high to be fair

Busi_Girl08

Won a €1.50 profit from Switzerland coming 3rd so small victory for me

Sickened for UK but fair play to him for being such a good sport about it.

Absolutely love the voting set up. Nail biting to the end.

Was gutted for Switzerland but was really happy for Italy.

My fiance hated Ukraine and was shook when the public vote bumped them up.

Nearly as surprised as Flo Rida was about San Marino

Overall an epic night full of surprises.

Until next year in Rome!

jeoun

Deeper Blue wrote: »

Thought that was a thoroughly entertaining Eurovision myself.

One of my biggest takeaways is that I need to get the BBC for next year. Marty is the drizzling ****s and seems to do his best to spoil the night with his drivel.

I watched the whole show on Youtube with no commentary - so much better than having to listen to Marty or even Graham.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

What am I gonna spend my €15 on?

A flight to eastern Europe.