Eurovision Song Contest Bingo
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If you haven’t watched it already, I suggest you to go watch Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga[0] , a brilliant comedy movie that captures the Eurovision’s spirit very well. They also speak the truth about the voting: Nobody likes UK, so zero points :)
Jokes aside, Eurovision is a cringy but at the same time euphorically positive event, fetching 200M viewers worldwide every year.
Even Australia is now in the contest(didn’t make it to the finals but I think they should have made it, there are worse songs that did).
correction: Apparently Australia is in the finals! As they deserve.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest:_The_S...
Hey, Australia is definitely in the finals...
edit: phew, not all is lost.
I was listening to some commentary and the commentator said, "I don't like Australia because they aren't in Europe. Respect the fucking geography!!"
We was quite angry about Australia being in the contest.
Then the other guy called him out and said, "What about Israel" and he replied, "At least Israel is Europe adjacent!".
I should note that these were British commentators.
It was always gonna be Ukraine to win this year.
(Germany ended up at last place - #25, France at #24.)
https://eurovision.tv/story/eurovision-2009-received-prestig...
They had a large Scandinavian crew for the broadcast production though: https://m-m-pr.com/eurovision-diary-2009/ ... different times.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3052371875013875...
This year Ukraine should win and it helps that their entry is genuinely pretty good. Norway have fielded a song about feeding bananas to a wolf, riffing on Little Red Riding Hood, in errm yellow. Spain's entry sported a pretty close shave and manages to lose even more clothing - quite a decent song too.
UK (my homeland) are hoping for a decent result after taking quite a few beatings over the years - "null points". Our boy has absolutely smashed it on the socials so should be OK. [Greece have just ticked under 18]
Whatever happens, we have our Irish compere to get us through the night. Graham Norton and before him Sir Terry Wogan, have been the voice of the Eurovision SC in the UK for absolutely yonks.
My gosh what a hot performance... Romania was also spicy.
There is quite literally nothing else like the ESC.
Thankfully it was broadcast because it is a classic in my opinion. Mrs Doyle's ("Won't you have a cup of tea") mud and cocaine cake is up there in the comedy pantheon, along with elderly priest football and the milkfloat parody of "Speed".
Beautifully insightful parody without ever being cruel.
I went to a pretty posh school in Oxfordshire back in the day. The school priest (Church of England) made us watch "Life of Brian" by Monty Python's Flying Circus and discuss it in our "Divinity" studies - an O Level (nowadays GCSE - 13-16 year old).
One of the other Masters (teacher) intended and was going through the process to become a CofE priest and was massively offended by Life of Brian. Perhaps he felt he had to be holier than thou or whatever. He was my rugby coach and was once a player for the Harlequins a long, long time ago so a good egg in my eyes but a bit whizzed up over a comedy film. I will grant him that LoB is a pretty robust parody/critique of Christianity (and English/Britishness and more besides).
Oh and there was a band at my school called On a Friday - they played by the Cricket Pav at the end of summer term 1989 to a load of kiddies enjoying end of term relief and glorious weather. You'll know them as Radiohead. Funny old world.
But then they would be responsible for hosting the next games, which I think is a little bit too much to put that responsibility on them now.
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Also; I’m not a fan of the fact that the Eurovision Song contest is basically a popularity contest between countries.
EDIT: Apparently this is controversial (-2 karma), tell me why! Cowards!
EDIT2: -3. Aight. I don’t try to add new points of view to topics anymore I guess. It’s good manners to inform why you’re downranking, unless it’s trolling..
The UVSC is what it is and it beautifully reflects the state of the rather nebulous concept - "Europe".
This is what I found:
* Utah Valley State College (Orem, UT)
* Universal Visa Services Center (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
* Unadilla Valley Sports Center (Edmeston, NY)
* Used-Vehicle Sales and Certification Study (J.D. Power and Associates)
* Uranium Ventilation Scrubber Cell
And a cancer survivor charity.
Eurovision Song Contest.
It's basically a yearly world war in song and dance form. Reflective of the current geopolitical tensions.
If it was a simple talent contest, it wouldn't be worth watching on its own.
The winning entry is literally a rap song.
Maybe someone from the audience will jump on the stage again, that could "shock" someone.
Also... you can already see Ukraine will get a lot of votes just because of the war not because the actual song. But it always have been like this
This year, ukraine will probably get a lot of pity votes due to the war, maybe even enough to win.
Edit: fun fact - this was apparently the first ESC ever without a single entry in French - the French entry was sung in Breton.
100% the latter. Moaning about Cyprus is an integral part of the experience.
What happened yesterday was kinda predictable with all the "1 vote" = "1 thought and prayer" logic,but kinda ruined the voting and the end-results-suspense for me. I also didn't really like the song, also because it's not something I can see layed on non-ukranian radio stations, but yeah... politics.
You could argue "licensing", but I'm guessing you're going to be hard pressed to find a contestant band / manager that says "we're trying to keep this low-key/limit publicity for now".
https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=https%3A%2F%2...
NBC is not the "local broadcaster" in the sense that the BBC is the local broadcaster for the United Kingdom, or ABC is the local broadcaster for Australia. Broadcasting in the U.S. doesn't work that way.
That said, NBC does air American Song Contest, which is Eurovision production, and receives very poor ratings. Because of this, I surmise that Eurovision doesn't air in the United States because none of the broadcasters will pay for the rights if it's not going to bring in enough viewers to make up for the fee.
If Eurovision really wanted its program to be seen in the U.S., there is no shortage of small networks, cable/satellite networks, LPTV networks, or OTT providers for getting its program seen. It just has to offer the show at a reasonable rate.
I don't think this is a case of the usual HN cliché of "Evil company blocks me from seeing something for no other reason than to be evil."
NBC bought the rights https://eurovision.tv/story/peacock-eurovision
After that it's up to them blocking the Youtube stream or not and they did block it
>I don't think this is a case of the usual HN cliché of "Evil company blocks me from seeing something for no other reason than to be evil."
No it's the case "we bought the licence and we stream it on our streaming platform and you have to watch it here"
So, it's not "blocked" as in not ever going to be available. It's just going to be on Peacock next Sunday.
No it's the case "we bought the licence and we stream it on our streaming platform and you have to watch it here"
No different than in the UK where you have to pay a fee to watch it on BBC.
Is it broadcasting in NBC?
Just a note here: The Eurovision local broadcaster for Australia is SBS[1]. SBS is also mostly publicly funded.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service
Swedish but seems to work in the US if you don't mind Swedish commentary
As of this writing, youtube downloader sites are mostly not hosted in the US due to this same issue - so if you can get one to work, it works around the GeoIP block. (Note: I got one to work, but it quit 4gb into the 6gb download)
The better way - which I am happy to be patient for - is to wait until someone rips it. I like to a few weeks later see if I can find the UK broadcast (usually a torrent), since a few years Graham Norton was the MC and was lightly poking fun of everyone the whole time.
Edit: Seems like the juries are as well. 0 points after half the votes.
Edit: to Mariupol
• “Implied homosexuality”?
Are these supposed to be… noteworthy occurrences?
For the context, this is their actual music from 1979: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=___U9R8C2rU
(The disclaimer is that I haven't actually ever watched Eurovision except by accident.)
We seem to have lost the pariah of the world title. [Belgium - RLY?]
OK, this is weird.
(For those not in the know, the UK tends to finish near the bottom of the leaderboard every year.)
Yes, the English (part of the UK) and Georgian flags are very similar too.
I have no idea what is happening here.
This song (from Moldova) is like the essential/prototypical over the top yet catchy euro song:
https://youtu.be/qB3koZTz8Pw?t=71 (Timoteij - Kom)
This was the song that first introduced me to the ESC community:
Eric Saade - Manboy (Melodifestivalen 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK7lsAdBos
:)
It's not too bad. Loved the aesthetics of Spain this year too
fixed that for you ;)
2. Watch previous years, this year is definitely lower quality
3. I don't assume that, but I expect that considering an international broadcast (I'm from the EU, english is not my native language)
I remember previous years when it was in French.
I think that all of them manage a pretty decent English, especially the English bloke.