Eurovision Song Contest

Using English despite it not being their national language: Austria, Azerbaijan. Belgium, Slovenia, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Czechia

This is a recap of the final of Dora, the song competition that elects the Eurovision participant to represent Croatia.

I started watching the National selections of the countries that hold an event, and enjoyed them a lot.

Sadly, my favorite did not win, but I think this was one of the stronger Nationals I watched so far. I wonder if it is an effect of the Baby Lasagna results.

Vidbir, the Ukrainian national selection, was yesterday. Did you watch it? What were your favorite songs?

Full recording (4.5 hours with passable English translation)

Playlist of music videos

My favorite was Future Culture's Waste My Time. It's going on my new "Not good enough for Eurovision but good enough for me" playlist. (Inspired by the Eurovangelists podcast) I'll concede that it was unlikely to be chosen because it's not particularly "Ukrainian", which has been successful for them recently.

New banger song from Käärijä

Also on loops

https://loops.video/v/5f3p5LwM-e

Croatia's Baby Lasagna, who took second place at the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, says he is giving to charity the 50 thousand euros he will receive from the Government as an award for helping to promote Croatia and enhance its international recognition.

Rai has released a statement on the matter:

"Rai specifies that it was a technical problem following which some data - completely partial - were mistakenly highlighted in the graphics of the Italian vote."

"Rai promptly apologized to the EBU leaders and believes that this inconvenience does not affect the regularity of the final result. The published votes are in fact incomplete."

As there has been some interest in a live thread such as the ones on r/eurovision, here is the live thread for the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Sadly, I didn’t find any Lemmy equivalent to https://reddit-stream.com/. But as this community is still pretty small, I think refreshing the website once after each song should be okay.
Sort by New to see the newest comments or additionally click on the Chat button to break the replies apart and even show the newest replies.

Credits to u/UsernameVeryFound on Reddit

Two singers who performed as part of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden on Tuesday were reprimanded by event organizers for wearing pro-Palestinian symbols.

Opening act performer Eric Saade wore a kaffiyeh—a headscarf that can be a symbol of Palestinian solidarity—on his wrist during the show Tuesday. And Irish contestant Bambie Thug told reporters that same night that contest organizers “ordered” them to change their stage make-up before their semi-final performance because of its pro-Palestine references, according to BBC.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15157225

The musician was seen wearing a keffiyeh on his arm, a symbol commonly used to show support for Palestine.

In reponse, a representative of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said in a statement: “All performers are made aware of the rules of the contest, and we regret that Eric Saade chose to compromise the non-political nature of the event.”

Despite facing criticism for its decision not to exclude Israel and worldwide protests condemning the organizers' choice, the competition maintained its stance.

“Politics does influence the event from time to time,” said Paul Jordan, a contest enthusiast and researcher who was part of its communications team from 2015 to 2018, in an interview with CNN.

However, he noted, “the presence of Israel has become such a big issue (that) I think it’s going to overshadow the event.”

The news comes during Israel’s seizure and closure of the Rafah crossing in Gaza, which has raised concerns that already-scarce food and medical supplies will be further depleted and lead to a “catastrophic” humanitarian disaster.

Meme by u/aaronrodericus