Eurovision

Now we have Loreen strapped to a chair.

there’s a long thread already on Eurovision

Swiss building up a hefty lead anyway…

Not far off. Heard one or two comparisons to Ballet tutus.

I thought he was a Greek soldier

I just noticed on YouTube that Bambie did a cover of Zombie. It already has 147k views. I think she has raised her profile so much that she will be very successful in years to come.

Eurovision was always a fun over the top camp television event. this year they had to have tight security around the venue to protect it from political protestors who don,t want israel to be allowed to have a singer on stage .

it was always supposed to be neutral and completely non political .it was an important cultural event for ireland in the past with the success of johhny logan and riverdance in the 90,s .it presented a positive image of ireland as it was shown around the world.graham norton and terry wogan made it more entertaining with commnentary.

A run on celebrity dancing island?

I think their 15 minutes of fame are pretty much over.

Bambie came 6th from the public, 6th from the juries and came 6th over all.

So, that's 666.

It was also watched an average 666,000 views.

Sort of interesting.

The Devil is in the detail.

The first words are a kind of translation of Abrakadabra that JK Rowling popularised, a certain section weren't too happy with their inclusion in the song, especially by a non binary artist

They got to the final by being one of the best. The real last place was Malta with 1 point in their semi-final.

As if being one of the best is not usually a curse in the Eurovision.

"You'd have to mad to listen to Dana"

"Father Bigley listen's Dana and he's not mad".

"why is he in that home then ?"

The worst song in the mind of the public was the UK. As one of the big countries they did not have to compete in a semi final. It would never have made the final if they did. None of the 35 other countries phone vote put the UK song in their top 10. That converted to zero votes. Norway was second worst with 4.

It was chronic bad. Since Olly was in It's a Sin (drama about HIV era) the BBC and ITV have been promoting him on various TV programmes (such as An audience with Kylie and a doc about The Pet Shop Boys) as a sorta 'lgbt celeb'. The end result is utter cringe as he swans around being as stereotypical as possible, as if that's how gay people want to be represented in the media. I can assure you my reputation is damaged by being represented by the likes of him. You will understand how happy I was to see his cringe gay act receive ZERO points. I laughed out loud.

A mystery then is why did some of the jury's give the act any points at all. It was the worst song easily. Bet they though oh jeez we better give the gay act some votes for fear of being accused of being homophobic and to appease the gay audience.

That had a lot more going for it though. Nemo is a real talent. That's technically a very difficult song to sing for anyone. Hitting those operatic notes while spinning around on that yoke made it even more impressive. The juries would love that as usually they are singers or producers themselves so would appreciate the difficulty and execution. The song was quite catchy too.

I saw a video a few days later of Nemo singing the Ukrainian song and showing it to the two Ukrainian ladies who were blown away - found it:

Did you read the entire article?

In the ninth round, Fury was arguably lucky not to see the fight waved off when Usyk hurt him badly. Usyk, 37, had Fury, 35, out on his feet, but the referee gave the Briton a strange standing count – potentially saving him from a knockout loss. 

It is doubtful Ukraine would have won that year without a sympathy vote… but then, it is Eurovision :)