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Eurovision Song Contest 2023

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    #1142
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I don’t regard them as a good band as they haven’t even produced an album as far as I know. They are just a tv band, and will come up with a song here and there to try to fit whatever is the current wokey agenda. Picture This are a bit of a tv band too, but they do make albums and are very good live, and their frontman has real charisma. Delorentos are much more at the other end, they are a seriously good band of musicians who are more music artists before being stars. The Thrills I liked too, they were so fresh and original, their last album Teenager is a modern classic. I hate the current wokey drivel music that is Hozier and Dermot Kennedy.



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    #1143
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    The Croatia song has been stuck in my head all day, it makes a lot more sense when you see what the song is actually about. Let 3 definitely won't be making friends with Russia or Belarus, won't be surprised to see it getting a good result Saturday



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    #1144
    Dazler97
    Registered Users Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    I'm a huge eurovision fan and although Ireland didn't get through I'm still gonna watch it tomorrow and Saturday, Finland to win though 😀



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    #1145
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    I think we're suffering from our own success in a way. The Eurovision "experts" in this country are all people who won decades ago. We seem incapable of letting go of the glory days. Our last win was almost 30 years ago. Our experts are the past winners and songwriters who lead to us being the most successful country in Eurovision history. They deserve praise for their achievements (and they have certainly gotten it) but the Eurovision they were a part of is no more. They need to step aside and let a knew generation take the reins. It's akin to letting your grandparents dress a teenager. They may have had style in their day but times have moved on. Yet these are the people heavily involved in selecting our entry and putting our staging together.



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    #1146
    maximus15
    Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭maximus15


    We have only qualified twice in last 10 years and both acts first names were Ryan so it's only right to give Mr tubridy a crack at it, seeing as he has abit of time on his hands in a few weeks . That gives him the guts of a year to get 3 or 4 singings lessons a week to sound anyway like a singer .



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    #1147
    delboy85
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭delboy85


    I'm still hoping for a Finland win on Saturday night but I thought his vocals were very ropey last night. They seemed so much stronger in the Finnish national final.

    Was also disappointed with the clip of France. I really like the studio version, and she seemed to have a bit of momentum recently, but her vocals weren't great on that performance.



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    #1148
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,928 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581441#Comment_120581441

    Yes they sing about "that little psychopath" and "moron" i.e. Vladimir Putin.



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    #1149
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,670 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Better than the original

    https://youtu.be/sviyg1iIu3o




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    #1150
    Ragwort and Stones
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Ragwort and Stones


    This idea that the band member being sacked and the twitter reaction brought about our demise this year is ridiculous. The idea that the millions sitting down across Europe who voted were informed! What do any of us know about the entries from similarly small, and fairly insignificant countries like Croatia, Serbia, Malta etc? Twitter isn't that all pervasive medium some think. Like a lot of things these days, a very small minority make a large amount of noise.

    I was chatting with 6 people on break in my office aged 22-63, both sexes, differing interests and backgrounds, none of us had heard about the story. We sent another light weight act, a forgettable one. Whether you like Loreen or not she took over the stage with no backing singers, vocals we can only dream of, brilliant staging and choreography. She put on a show, we just never own it like that.



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    #1151
    Sorolla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    Maybe it has become too much east-eurovision and I think we are disadvantaged on account of our location on the western edge of Europe


    maybe it is time to break away from the east-Eurovision and together with Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, we should form a „British Isles Vision“



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    #1152
    Sorolla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    Our 4 Dublin lads were seriously disadvantaged because the UK could not vote in our semi final



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    #1153
    Sorolla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    I have micro analysed this and my conclusion is that Dustin was right all along about the block voting


    because Dustin spoke the truth - we are still being penalized year after year.


    every time I am traveling in Europe and talk about music with my acquaintances they always tell me that they will never forgive us for sending a puppet to Eurovision


    one Belgian man told me that there is a „Mayo like“ curse on Ireland in Eurovision


    another man in Romania told me I should be ashamed of myself being Irish



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    #1154
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,437 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Not our fault Guv. As with all things RTE blame the lack of money.

    https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/music/rtes-head-of-eurovision-delegation-says-irelands-lacklustre-showing-down-to-chronic-underfunding/a1368940191.html



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    #1155
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users Posts: 6,406 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581675#Comment_120581675

    Well, Dee Forbes is his boss I suppose



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    #1156
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581662#Comment_120581662

    Christ almighty you need new acquaintances



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    #1157
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581658#Comment_120581658

    That sounds bleak



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    #1158
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581566#Comment_120581566

    I was wondering why they were saying a tractor so had to look it up about Alexander Lukashenko giving Putin a present of a tractor



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    #1159
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,753 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581384#Comment_120581384

    Did you listen to the lyrics of some of the other songs? Wokey much? You're banging a drum that has absolutely zero relevance.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1160
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,753 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581675#Comment_120581675

    Pathetic. Did he have less resources than Serbia, Croatia etc etc

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1161
    Expunge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭Expunge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581778#Comment_120581778

    Or little Moldova. A proper poor country. 18 appearances at Eurovision since 2005 - 13 appearances in the final.

    Whether you like their offering or not, creativity is happening there while back in Donnybrook Mr. Kealy appears to be picking his hole.

    More money? The neck of these people.



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    #1162
    techman1
    Registered Users Posts: 739 ✭✭✭techman1


    I heard a good suggestion that they should have the selection in a different venue like Whelans or Vicar Street rather than RTE, that's what they used to do with national song contest. Even if they get it out of RTE campus it would add a new dynamic. The rot really started when they broke from the national song contest and started faffing around with x factor formats and then the LLS. If it wasn't broken why did they change it



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    #1163
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 30,753 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581942#Comment_120581942

    It's an interesting angle but I think it needs to be something more reflective of the Eurovision. If you look at Whelans or Vicar Street they are intimate venues. Eurovision is the opposite of that now.

    To argue against my own point, when it was X factor format that was on a big stage and wasn't a success either.

    But yeah, get it away from the LLS and make it more of a song contest.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1164
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,690 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Still Sweden by a country mile, or ‘land mil’ if you will (although Finland have closed the gap).

    I wonder if Ukraine will get another huge public vote again.


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    #1165
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,929 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581785#Comment_120581785

    The lead singer there is now the drummer and the lad on the keyboard is the lead singer ?



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    #1166
    squonk
    Registered Users Posts: 9,274 ✭✭✭squonk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581785#Comment_120581785

    Someone said he broke his arm and was sitting at the piano. Couldn’t get past 45 seconds of that. Thought the song was ok at first but your man sounded very high pitched. Sounded a bit rough around the edges but I’d say Rte had some of the blame there.

    still, not a band that would instantly top my bands I wish we could send to Eurovision list. So I think we sent an average, or else polarising band with a generic song so the outcome isn’t surprising.



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    #1167
    Melina Orange Visitation
    Posts: 0 ✭ Melina Orange Visitation


    RTE seem to just see it as a Late Late segment and an opportunity to make a few quid on the tele polling for the national competition.

    I suspect they’ve absolutely no desire to actually win and have to host it.



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    #1168
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,586 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582111#Comment_120582111

    This.

    The LLS show has become absolute drivel during the Tubridy years, and anything that will fill a show for them is 1 less show where they actually have to find interesting guests, or interesting topics to talk about..

    The LLS Valentines Special

    The LLS Country Music Special (times 2-3)

    The LLS Eurovision special

    Every one of these type of shows is 1 less 'regular' show where they actually have to try (and fail) to make it interesting...


    I'm reminded of the time in the early days of Covid where they had all the Aer Lingus pilots on who were flying to/from China bringing back dodgy PPE.. So pilots who essentially were at a loose end, who were doing their job (and getting paid) by flying planes, had an hour long segment dedicated to them like as if they were some sort of heroes who were saving the country...


    The Late Late Eurovision special, that's not one they'll want to give away too easily otherwise thats a whole show where they'll have to think up who from Dancing with the Fair City cast should be on to promote whatever new RTE show their doing...

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


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    #1169
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 26,484 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581658#Comment_120581658

    Nope. Our songs are just sh1t it's nothing to do with the east.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120581771#Comment_120581771

    Eurovision is gayer than a pride parade so anyone obsessed with this "woke" sht is really in the wrong place. It's just the usual people trying to turn every thread into CA/IMHO.



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    #1170
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,690 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Looking forward to Belgium’s performance tonight, as well as Germany’s on Saturday. Most of the stuff I’ve heard from Lord Of The Lost is really good.


    :)



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    #1171
    The White Wolf
    Registered Users Posts: 5,203 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582030#Comment_120582030

    They have a song called Can't Move On which this guy is doing vocals on, and it's quite good, but based on that Late Late video I imagine he could have a bit of trouble translating it to a massive live show like Eurovision.

    Still, he would have been a better choice to lead them on vocals broken arm or not. I can only guess they thought the other bloke was the better showman. That song I mentioned has a bit of quirky offbeatness that could fit the Eurovision so they are capable, instead all the wrong choices were made.



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