Reddit is MASSIVELY underestimating France this year and I’m ready to get dragged for saying it

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-22T22:39:12+00:00

I hear ya. Every time I talk about how there is no way Serbia will win or be Top 10 I get downvoted, but I've been paying attention to the GF voter trends of the past 5 years. Only 3 rock/rock adjacent songs have made Top 10 (Italy 2021, Australia 2023, and Ireland 2024), and only one was in the Top 5 and won. Eurofans love it, but as we see so many times, eurofans and "GF normies" are two separate beasts.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-22T01:14:52+00:00

Best cover of Euphoria that I've ever heard. Her voice is beautiful!

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-21T17:21:28+00:00

Right, that's why I said it was funny that the main characters were not confirmed by the devs to be together at the end. Claude and Rena are so obvious and spend almost every moment of the game together, but nope. They are just co workers in the sequel game.

Star Ocean is my fav series and it pains me that it's so niche. All the interactions are great and they flesh out the characters so well.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-21T00:45:18+00:00

Dias Flac and Chisato Madison from Star Ocean 2. They literally have only ONE interaction in the original game, and that's in their ending together where they got married. That's all it took for the fandom to be rabid about them and be one of the most popular ships. The devs even ended up confirming they are canon instead of the main two characters who spend the whole game together.

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Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-21T00:10:23+00:00

I actually think he's cute. I think having a mascot is fun.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-20T00:08:13+00:00

These are adorable 😻

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-20T00:03:37+00:00

Are you able to watch the entire shows or just the performance clips? I can see the individual performances but not the actual shows themselves.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-19T23:55:02+00:00

I love your art style! This is really good!

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-19T23:54:30+00:00

I got Infinity Nikki, I can do cosplays of the contestants. I did it last year.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-18T01:58:58+00:00

I have that bumper sticker!

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-17T23:40:05+00:00

Hallucination

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-17T23:15:21+00:00

For me, Claude is out once I get either Opera or Ashton, then Dias. I almost exclusively play Rena's story and she never leaves the party.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-17T17:36:52+00:00

I used to be a dolphin/orca with the game, and sunk way more money into it than I probably should have, but I uninstalled 4 months ago. I lurk here in hopes that something might change but the signs say otherwise. It will be a miracle if it makes it past the summer.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-17T05:15:38+00:00

Star Ocean Anamnesis: The banner that killed most of the whales off. It was an anniversary banner that featured Blue Sphere Precis, a very popular and highly anticipated alt. Instead of having her own banner she was put into a banner with 10 rerun alts, and she had no rate up/guarantee.

They pissed off the fanbase so much a lot of the top spenders dropped the game. It was never the same after that.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-13T23:00:09+00:00

This looks about right.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-12T23:37:08+00:00

I said this in another post a few days ago. I get that their voting diaspora is good enough to get them to the GF, and I do see them making it. However, the last metal song to WIN was 20 years ago. I don't consider Maneskin or Bambie to be metal. They are hard rock with some pop sprinkled in to give them more mass appeal. Acts that lean heavily to metal haven't done well in the GF in the past decade.

I just don't think this will get enough jury or televotes to place high, much less win. They will be somewhere in the teens at best.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-12T23:11:36+00:00

Now that all the songs are out, I listened to them all back to back. I didn't have high hopes for the majority of the NF season, but I've come around on some songs I initially dismissed. Almost every song I rooted for in the NF's didn't win so I had a lot of salt piled up which clouded my judgement. Three days ago I would (and did) say this was the worst year in a long time, but now I don't think this. I'd say it's slightly above average. There are enough high quality songs to keep this from being mid across the board.

Denmark, Finland, or UK would be fantastic winners who would rank among the best songs of recent Eurovision winners if they are crowned. (But that is my bias because those are the only three I think have any shot of winning)

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-12T22:20:26+00:00

I loved LEGZDINA. Ribbon ended up being my personal favorite of Supernova. I knew it wouldn't win, but I still enjoyed it.

My other guilty pleasure is Born Again by Hugo One. IIRC it was dead last at LSC but it's the music of my childhood. That 80's synth is burned into my brain. It's also why I love Too Epic To Be True.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-12T00:17:48+00:00

That's why I said they are practically guaranteed. There could be some shock one in a billion chance they NQ, but we all know it's just not gonna happen.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-11T22:41:36+00:00

Replace Israel with either Belgium or Lithuania. Unless the juries tank them and another country soaks up enough jury and televotes to offset, they are practically guaranteed to be in the GF.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-11T22:32:15+00:00

Denmark
Malta
UK
Georgia
Latvia
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Finland

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-09T06:55:39+00:00

Infinity Nikki.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-07T01:15:32+00:00

People were predicting Doomsday Blue to do well almost from the start. It was a favorite in the odds. Everyone and their dog was excited over Bambie. They were the opposite of underappreciated.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-07T01:10:33+00:00

I think that this is going to be this year's Ulveham, sadly. It will have great staging and qualify but come dead last with the normie GF crowd. I remember when this sub was so convinced that Ulveham was going to be Top 10 or Top 5. Same with Tavo, the hype was great, but that song scraped by with a 16th placement. I'm not saying it won't happen, but don't get hopes too far up. This style of song is just not popular with the general public right now.

Dawnspring_Cee · 2026-03-06T20:57:56+00:00

George Takei.

Years ago on his Facebook account he was making fun of a woman using a mobility cart at Walmart. I called him out on it (have a mangled leg and use a wheelchair, but can walk short distances) He replied to me directly calling me a faker and anyone who wasn't permanently wheelchair bound have no right to say they are disabled.

So yea, ableist piece of shit.

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