This is an excellent time to mention my best friend The Eurovision Song Contest! It’s the longest running international music contest show and it gets hundreds of millions of views.
Croatia’s Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a real banger. It’s about the stress of moving to a richer country or city for work and losing your culture.
Italy’s La Noia is amazing. Angelina Mango’s live performances are stellar, and if she’s not huge internationally in a few years I’ll be super disappointed. Her new song (not part of the contest) Melodrama is exceptional too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF0MSpPcj8
Switzerland sent Nemo, who became the first non-binary person to win the contest. It was said that if he could nail the vocals from the video in the live performance, there would be no stopping them. And they did! Amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8cQpGNplc
I have so many recommendations, if anyone wants more!
Totally agree, and he performed it very well live! The story of the song is so good too. It’s about watching ESC as a kid with his parents, but more his parents have passed away and their old house burned down.
Eurovision got in trouble last year for allowing Israel to join. Israel is in the middle east of Asia, not in Europe. The only thing European about Israel is that white people are committing a genocide to steal land.
They didn’t get “in trouble” though there was definitely some drama. I would argue that Israel should have been disqualified under the rules requiring independent national broadcasters, the way Russia and Georgia were.
They spent years broadcasting the contest without a license and people loved it so much the state broadcaster even held voting just for fun. They only got an official broadcaster booth in 2012; before that they snuck their commentators in on press credentials!
In 2013 they submitted a short video about how much Australia loves eurovision that was played during the contest.
In 2014 they were invited to send an interval act, and they knew they had to really do it if it would get them an invite to the actual contest! They sent a good song and were invited to the 2015 contest! It was supposed to be a one off, but they keep getting invited.
More the hypocrisy for having denied entry to Russia while allowing Israel’s to remain.
The actual terms for entering are being a part of the European Broadcasting Union; which includes Israel and Australia, despite the “European” in the name.
This is an excellent time to mention my best friend The Eurovision Song Contest! It’s the longest running international music contest show and it gets hundreds of millions of views.
Here’s last year’s crop of music videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGULUJYEhh-EUa32rEcHuNXO7
Croatia’s Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a real banger. It’s about the stress of moving to a richer country or city for work and losing your culture.
Italy’s La Noia is amazing. Angelina Mango’s live performances are stellar, and if she’s not huge internationally in a few years I’ll be super disappointed. Her new song (not part of the contest) Melodrama is exceptional too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF0MSpPcj8
Switzerland sent Nemo, who became the first non-binary person to win the contest. It was said that if he could nail the vocals from the video in the live performance, there would be no stopping them. And they did! Amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8cQpGNplc
I have so many recommendations, if anyone wants more!
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Oh nice, I only knew about [email protected]. Subscribed
Yo just because Europapa was disqualified doesn’t mean it’s not a banger.
Totally agree, and he performed it very well live! The story of the song is so good too. It’s about watching ESC as a kid with his parents, but more his parents have passed away and their old house burned down.
I like the song, and this is a catchy backstory, but I’ve got to admit - the actual lyrics are actually pretty terrible 😅
Eurovision got in trouble last year for allowing Israel to join. Israel is in the middle east of Asia, not in Europe. The only thing European about Israel is that white people are committing a genocide to steal land.
They didn’t get “in trouble” though there was definitely some drama. I would argue that Israel should have been disqualified under the rules requiring independent national broadcasters, the way Russia and Georgia were.
Well, Australia is also in the Eurovision.
They spent years broadcasting the contest without a license and people loved it so much the state broadcaster even held voting just for fun. They only got an official broadcaster booth in 2012; before that they snuck their commentators in on press credentials!
In 2013 they submitted a short video about how much Australia loves eurovision that was played during the contest.
In 2014 they were invited to send an interval act, and they knew they had to really do it if it would get them an invite to the actual contest! They sent a good song and were invited to the 2015 contest! It was supposed to be a one off, but they keep getting invited.
Yeah, I love that story. To me, that’s what Eurovision is about.
White people committing genocide to steal land. Checks out. That’s the criteria for entry.
More the hypocrisy for having denied entry to Russia while allowing Israel’s to remain.
The actual terms for entering are being a part of the European Broadcasting Union; which includes Israel and Australia, despite the “European” in the name.
Israel being part of Eurovision isn’t a new thing. The only difference is that they’ve been going mask off on their genocide aspirations lately.
Will Ferrell did a Eurovision movie I enjoyed. Probably not everybody’s cup of tea, but it was fun.
It’s fun! Gotta say there’s not much Eurovision in the movie. Would have been fun to see more of the rules and semi finals and stuff.
Holy shit that Nemo song was so good
It is SO GOOD!
My inner city Philadelphia friends even like it.
Updoot for ESC and Melodrama! I’ve had some of Mango’s songs on rotation lately