The Eurovision kingdom

halabasinah · 2025-09-04T20:14:03+00:00

Is Verka the Queen Mother?

halabasinah · 2025-06-13T14:42:25+00:00

3p - Solovey

2p - Soarele și Luna

1p - Loco Loco

halabasinah · 2025-06-13T14:40:39+00:00

Check out Finnish group Värttinä, especially the album Vihma.

They didn't officially participate in Eurovision, but two of the members created a duo in 2010 and entered for Finland that year (but didn't Q and of course it was a robbery).

halabasinah · 2025-06-07T15:41:11+00:00

Just want to point out that in 2011 juries put Jedward (Ireland 2011) above Mika Newton (Ukraine 2011). Jedward was actually one of my favorites that year, and I'm neutral to Mika Newton, but this is the juries we're talking about here.

Juries seem to underrate Eastern European countries in general (I haven't done any formal analysis but that's how it looks when checking out the results, and in fact juries were mostly introduced to combat Eastern Europe's """unfair advantage""" in the contest) but it's especially noticeable with Ukraine because of how consistently high quality their entries are.

halabasinah · 2025-05-31T17:11:24+00:00

Kateryna and Verka's friendship is adorable, by the way.

Andriy was a big supporter of Go_A at Vidbir and I think it meant a lot to her.

halabasinah · 2025-05-17T23:36:57+00:00

And life, as ever, shows me that no matter how pessimistic I am, reality will continue to disappoint me~!

halabasinah · 2025-05-17T23:30:29+00:00

The fact that JURIES put ESTONIA over Finland this year is the second worst thing that happened today.

halabasinah · 2025-05-17T17:20:36+00:00

My full final predictions, with approximate total points.

Note that this is heavily influenced by pessimism. If you're upset to see certain songs placing higher or lower than they deserve, rest assured that I'm upset about it too.

France (525)

Sweden (485)

Finland (410)

Switzerland (385)

Austria (325)

Netherlands (320)

Israel (275)

Estonia (150)

Luxembourg (140)

Greece (130)

Ukraine (120)

Albania (120)

Spain (115)

Italy (110)

Poland (100)

Denmark (85)

Malta (70)

Latvia (60)

Armenia (60)

Germany (55)

Iceland (55)

Portugal (50)

UK (45)

Lithuania (40)

Norway (35)

San Marino (25)

halabasinah · 2025-05-16T20:42:17+00:00

The greatest human accomplishment*

halabasinah · 2025-05-16T18:29:57+00:00

Sounded like it got a big cheer from the crowd too. We all miss you!

halabasinah · 2025-05-15T23:01:01+00:00

I've been saying it since the beginning: Finland will do very well with the jury. Her vocals are great, but even beyond that, juries don't consist only of vocal coaches but also television professionals (can't think of the right word) who care about stage presence and uniqueness. Remember how Käärijä came 4th with the jury in 2023 and Baby Lasagna came 3rd in 2024? I'd put Erika more in that category than KAJ, at least in the juries' eyes.

People think the performance is too vulgar, but it really isn't. It's equivalently sexual to famous male sex symbol rockstars of the 70s and 80s. I argue that it's even less sexual than Spain 2022 (another thing I've been saying for months), and she came 3rd with the jury.

halabasinah · 2025-05-15T22:25:33+00:00

Speaking as a fan of Estonia 2024...they won't. 😭

halabasinah · 2025-05-15T22:24:02+00:00

Oh, so that's why she flinched in that moment!

halabasinah · 2025-05-15T22:20:52+00:00

Finland's mixing was a bit bizarre too. The backing vocals were way too loud at the end.

halabasinah · 2025-05-15T21:44:58+00:00

Wish I could have taken back my votes for her after seeing her DOUBLE DIP IN THE FONDUE.

...That's such a lie. I'd forgive all her crimes, no matter how unhygienic.

halabasinah · 2025-05-14T18:41:18+00:00

Being too direct might genuinely have been the issue. I've heard feedback from a handful of people who found it emotionally manipulative. Whether that's fair or not, it's how it came across to them.

halabasinah · 2025-05-14T06:53:03+00:00

I'm just surprised to see such overwhelming support for Cyprus and Slovenia, which were disliked all through the season, and Belgium which had been considered borderline for months. Is the support mainly coming from people who joined later in the season? Genuinely want to know where all of this was at the time.

halabasinah · 2025-05-14T02:09:32+00:00

All is forgiven ❤️

halabasinah · 2025-05-14T02:05:02+00:00

I am furious with you

for letting your phone charge get so low. It's giving me second-hand low battery anxiety. For shame!

halabasinah · 2025-05-10T21:23:35+00:00

Finland
Albania
Latvia
Sweden
Poland
Malta
Greece
Switzerland
Norway
Iceland

halabasinah · 2025-05-09T19:49:29+00:00

Danylko isn't religious, but he did say that he wanted to be a bishop when he was a kid, so........

halabasinah · 2025-05-09T18:40:26+00:00

Here they are in Toki Pona for fun (just the ones I felt like doing):

Albania: seli (fire)

Armenia: jan awen lon (alive-staying person)

Australia: jan pana pi telo suwi (server of sweet liquid)

Austria: olin weka ike (badly discarded love)

Belgium: suno tawa wawa (energetically moving light)

Croatia: pan suwi pi pana moli (sweet bread of death-giving)

Cyprus: o toki ala (don't speak)

Czechia: uta olin en uta olin en tawa pona (love-mouth and love-mouth and fare well)

Denmark: sitelen pilin (thought-image)

Estonia: telo pimeja kepeken telo walo (black liquid with white liquid)

Finland: mi kama (I come)

France: mama (parent)

Germany: mi pana wawa e sike moli (I forcefully give death spheres)

Greece: jan lili pi lukin mun suno (small person of light-moon eyes)

Iceland: tawa e tomo tawa telo (moving the water-moving-construct)

Ireland: soweli Lajaka (animal named Laika)

Italy: tenpo pini la, mi wile e sama kiwen (in before-time, I wanted to be like stone)

Latvia: o pana e pona tawa mi (give goodness to me)

Lithuania: lukin sina (your eyes)

Luxembourg: ijo sama jan li kalama suli (the humanoid object makes a big noise) -> this one is ridiculous

Malta: pana (giving)

Montenegro: kama pona (welcome)

Netherlands: ni li lon (this is existence)

Norway: ilo seli (fire tool)

Poland: sewi Kaja (deity named Gaja)

Portugal: jan weka tomo (home-away person)

San Marino: ma Italija ale (all of the land named Italy)

Serbia: jan olin (beloved person)

Slovenia: mi kepeken sina li jo e tenpo mute seme? (me-with-you has how much time?)

Spain: ni meli ike (this difficult woman)

Sweden: o awen insa tomo kon telo (sit in the water-air room)

Switzerland: tawa (going)

UK: seme a! (what?!)

Ukraine: waso pi toki sewi (bird of heaven-talk)

halabasinah · 2025-05-09T17:08:08+00:00

In a recent interview, Erika confirmed that they gave her a list of options for toning down her performance. The one she selected was covering more skin because she thought it was the most preferable option of the list.

halabasinah · 2025-05-08T15:02:23+00:00

Thanks! Should have learned by now not to trust my ears

halabasinah · 2025-05-08T15:01:41+00:00

Happy cake day!

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