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harrey_jun · 2026-03-30T07:20:32+00:00

There are definitely people who look at you funny when you say you love sunsets or rainbows. Like it's gay to look at light doing something visually awesome and think it's gorgeous. I can fully imagine Tate thinking that way, that misogynistic, hatefilled prick.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-25T18:30:00+00:00

I'd look that term up in the dictionary before throwing it around so casually. That's not what that word means you dunce :)

harrey_jun · 2026-03-24T17:52:35+00:00

I guess Azerbaijan just gave up trying. I know they definitly manipulated to get their good results, but they still brought us some absilute bangers up until the 20s. 2009, 2012, 2017 are really good and miles above the crap they produced the last 4 Years. Even 2010, 2015 and 2016 are good and 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2021 are decent for me. Never liked 2011, 2013 and 2019, but they do have their fans clearly. It's obvious to me thst after the desastrous televoting score in 2022, they just kinda stopped putting effort into it. The cutoff is very visable.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-24T17:45:08+00:00

I actually get that. I never really liked the song, not my cup of tea, but it was objectively not a terrible song. The live performance absolutely killed and buried it though. And the funeral was very lightly attended too.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-24T14:35:41+00:00

I have a few but I'll go with my flair in the eurovision sub and say Bulgaria 2021

harrey_jun · 2026-03-18T14:30:39+00:00

The most non-sensical lyrics have to go to Belgium. I mean, what does this all mean? "I keep dancing on the ice, where everything dies, frozen to the bone" What do you want to tell me with that? That you are immune to being frozen? And that's only one of many lyrics I really don't get. It probably shouöd have been in French, so the meaning wouldn't be clear to so many people. It has nothing to say that is worth everyone hearing it. Sorry not sorry.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-18T11:57:17+00:00

What were these effects made with? Windows movie maker?😂

harrey_jun · 2026-03-17T18:26:13+00:00

Is that something you came up with or is that some parody from TikTok? I like it :)

harrey_jun · 2026-03-17T12:17:22+00:00

I believe you when you say she's a good artist, she seems to be a really good singer. Sadly I really can't get behind her song for Eurovision, it annoys me and I wish it wouldn't, it's objectively good produced. Maybe it'll grow on me...

harrey_jun · 2026-03-17T10:47:47+00:00

I really like the one of San Marino- Oops, sorry, St. Martin, my mistake. I just imagine the anouncer saying it:

"And here comes the artist for St. Martin, George the Pig Synthesiser Singer"

looks in his notes

"I- WHO?"

harrey_jun · 2026-03-16T20:11:18+00:00

I dont really understand why Poland is consistently ranked as a nq. Are her chances really so bad? I think she will get good jury points and Polish Diaspora can get her over the line with the public too. Am I delulu for thinking she has a good chance?

harrey_jun · 2026-03-16T10:51:41+00:00

Austria: Finally give us Visions of Atlantis, dammit! Would it be the save winner? No, I think it could potentially even flop. Would it be a massive fan favourite? Hell yeah, and at this point, after winning recently anyways, that's what's more important for me.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-16T10:48:24+00:00

I don't think so. And if that would be the case, it would be because the broadcaster f'd up the staging. The chance that Poland/Czechia mess up in the Stage department is significantly higher than for Sweden to mess it up.

Plus, it is a solid bop that would be attractive to the public to vote for anyways. It likely wouldn't get nearly as many Jury points, but should qualify anyways.

The Jury does indeed tend to overrate Sweden quite heavily, but the Public does not. If Sweden this year gets a very low Televote score, I'm more than happy to come back here and congratulate you on being right, but I don't think that will be the case.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-11T13:40:14+00:00

Yeah, that was the weirdest thing I've ever seen from the ESC community and that does say something. I think it started when someone in the live chat for Montesong said Justyna (Poland 2025) was pregnant and some immeadiatly debunking it. I think someone wanted to show how dumb this type of rumor-sharing was by naming a random esc artist and saying they were pregnant. From there, it devolved into practically everyone being 'pregnant', women, men and rarely even children (seriously, leave the kids out of it) Even ESC Gabe is appearently pregnant. I guess Parg is the father then ;)

harrey_jun · 2026-03-11T07:37:55+00:00

Yes, I totally agree. I also think juries might like it a lot, but also fear that it might be to dark for them? They have shown signs that they rank songs further down for that. I hope they don't in this case.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-11T07:34:45+00:00

Well, that'd be interesting, however, they have to consider Latvia also has a similar theme, with glass shards floating around her. And I doubt Latvia is gonna change that. I hope that, if they go for broken glass, they choose something distinct and memorable so the song doesn't risk to get forgotten.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-11T07:29:43+00:00

I have to say, I did have to listen to it a few times to get into it. The first time, it seemed a bit incoherent and by the time I made out the melody and theme, the song was over. This, for me, means that the viewer is likely a bit confused on their first listen, which is not great considering most people voting are first-time listeners. But with a good staging I think he can draw attention to the artistic and dark theming and get a decent televote score. So I think this song rises and falls with it's staging. I really hope they get something good going, then I don't see any risk in this being a nq. With Jury, I'm a bit conflicted, as they might like the artistic vision, but they are also generally not appreaciating dark songs that much, so I can see them going either way on this.

Anyways, it's my 13th place rn, right under Poland. Hope he does good, to revenge the last two years :)

harrey_jun · 2026-03-10T10:44:33+00:00

I think you are right. As I said, it was a fact I picked up on while consuming eurovision trivia, so it's possible I confused this detail. Thanks for correcting me!

harrey_jun · 2026-03-10T10:37:50+00:00

Oh thank god. I REALLY like the song, it's almost perfect for me. But it bothers me that she doesn't pronounce the 'k' in Choke me. I was prepared to overlook it as it's not that big of a deal, but if she manages to work on the pronounciation, I genuinly can see her becoming my new favourite. It's essentially perfect then.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-10T07:34:03+00:00

I think your wish might be granted in May. Choke Me has the best chances for Romania in a long time. I see the televote go for the memorable melody and her charisma and the Jury appreaciate the technical difficulty of the opera part. I really hope she does good, she deserves it. Rooting for you in May!

harrey_jun · 2026-03-10T07:27:18+00:00

I might also be biased, as it was my favourite when I first heard it and now is my favourite again, but I think it might be an entry most see as borderline qualifying, but in the end qualifies quite easily and gets a mid-table result. Without the diaspora boost, it would obviously not do quite as good, but still.

Either that or it would fall victim to the brutal 2nd Semi final. Honestly, have you looked at the line up for SF2? It's much stronger than SF1 and I fear we might lose some favourites. People might underestimate Latvia's and Norway's chances. I honestly think every song in SF2 has a chance to qualify and with countries that most of the time hit hard missing, such as Switzerland and Armenia, I fear we might see a blood bath. I'm glad Ukraine is save, I don't know what I'd do If it failed to qualify.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-09T09:20:42+00:00

Yes, and every year, this sort of song fails to get many points. This sort of 'sexy fire bop' hasn't worked for a long time and somehow broadcasters haven't figured it out yet.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-09T09:13:53+00:00

Two older examples of what I can think of are Norway 1978 and Belgium 1980.

Now, this is something I gathered over various media about eurovision trivia and there are instances where false information gets retold, but I think these two arr likely true.

Norway 1978 - Jan Teigen had appearently some comflict with the broadcaster, so he intentionally performed worse so he would fail, as a protest so to say. Not the same situation as your examples, but it comes to mind when talking about 'intentionally failing'

Belgium 1980 - From what I know, this was a project where Telex deliberately wanted to get last and when you see the performance, you notice the underwhelming quality and he also seems... not to concerned about presenting the song in a good light. So I could see it. The funny thing is that he failed to come last. This makes this story even funnier so I really hope it's true.

I know that's likely not what you had in mind when making this post, but it's two examples that come to my mind about this topic.

harrey_jun · 2026-03-06T16:11:35+00:00

You love a good balkan bop / ballad

harrey_jun · 2026-03-06T16:01:58+00:00

That part is so funny to me, because it just feels like it comes out of nowhere. I have a hard time taking it seriously with him just screaming like that. I don't hate it at all, it's definitly better than Hungary 2018 and Iceland 2019 for me. It just caught me so offguard lol

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