[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Well deserved.

I do love my espresso

[Vanessa]

Finland should have finished higher. It was brilliant

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Well deserved.

Oh they were one of my Sweepstakes, yay

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Well deserved.

Originally Posted by Livia

All the other countries sent people who are famous. We send three unknown girls who, although they were decent singers, did irritating selfie poses all the way through the quite average song. Either send another Sam Ryder or let us withdraw gracefully.

The UK has some of the best singing talent. But those acts probably don't want to go to Eurovision sadly.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Finland should have finished higher. It was brilliant

I was honestly expecting it to be top 5.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

I was honestly expecting it to be top 5.

Definitely. I was dancing to it

[Vanessa]

Poor Switzerland zero votes

[Vanessa]

I need to watch the voting results after work. I was so tired yesterday I did make it. Lol

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bots

i downloaded the app with the intention of voting. I then realised that each vote cost a phone call so immediately deleted it again

Proper Scot

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Israel received the most votes from the public, 297, out of any of the 26 finalists

and I think we in the UK gave them the highest proportion

That's brilliant.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Proper Scot

But you don't have to vote 20 times. You can just vote for your favorite and it's only 15 p

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I think people just didn't vote for Switzerland because they won last year and no one really wants a repeat winner. Any other year it would have done pretty well

Not watched it for years properly only the voting if Ireland are in it, I did love Eurovision as a child probably because there was no other channel to watch but typically the host country does well so its odd for a host country to get zero votes or at least that is how it used to be

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

But you don't have to vote 20 times. You can just vote for your favorite and it's only 15 p

Yeah I voted 10 times.

Albania x 5
Finland x 3
Lithuania x 1
Latvia x 1

[jones89]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

The UK has some of the best singing talent. But those acts probably don't want to go to Eurovision sadly.

I feel like next year we should go with a huge ballad.. i vote for Jessie J doing it

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by jones89

I feel like next year we should go with a huge ballad.. i vote for Jessie J doing it

Really?

I just can’t abide that woman !!

Plus she’s a nobody nowadays ..

I saw something a while back explaining why shy was an irrelevance nowadays but I can’t recall why

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I could see the merits however to removing the public vote.

Nah get rid of the jury vote, public vote only!

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

BBC presenter and Eurovision stalwart Graham Norton has caused
controversy among viewers thanks to his remarks about Israeli singer Yuval
Raphael.

The 24-year-old singer, who survived the Hamas attack on the Nova music
festival on October 7, 2023, was fourth up on Saturday and sang her ballad
New Day Will Rise, which was inspired by the ordeal.

Raphael was one of just 11 survivors from a group of around 50 people who
took refuge in a concrete bomb shelter during the attack, using dead bodies as
a shield for eight hours until she was rescued.

Meanwhile introducing her Norton said: "She only began singing professionally in 2023, and you can see why; she has an extraordinary voice, and it's a big, powerful ballad. Also, very nicely staged."


no mention of her ordeal or what inspired her -

If he had mentioned it, people would whinge that he didn't also victim-blame explain how Israel provoked Hamas.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Nah get rid of the jury vote, public vote only!



If he had mentioned it, people would whinge that he didn't also victim-blame explain how Israel provoked Hamas.

The public vote appeared to be fatally flawed though

[bots]

they brought in the public vote because the jury vote was so obviously flawed

We had an act that finished 2nd a few short years ago, so there is nothing wrong with the public vote

[joeysteele]

The public vote has only been in place around the last quarter of a century +
Plus it's gone from lines being open only a short time to unfortunately now all through the hours of the running time of the contest and a bit beyond as well.

Before that it was the juries, plus the contest had run for 4 decades virtually that way too.

There's probably faults on both types of voting but if I would prefer one to go, it would be the public vote I'd prefer to see go.
I could live without that easily.

So it's not going to happen anyhow but for me, dump the public voting.
Keep the all Countries jury voting.

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

i downloaded the app with the intention of voting. I then realised that each vote cost a phone call so immediately deleted it again

It cost about $1/vote here after exchange rate, which I think it can be done online. I literally found out about the show last minute so wasn't about to put my credit card info into it

[Crimson Dynamo]

The jury's are rammed full of captured woke mind virus eejits - id scrap them

I mean look at the weapons on the UK one

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Cherie

We flipped over and watched the snippets of the songs just before the vote opened, I am unsure how anyone sits though hours of this dirge, as for the Spanish Beyonce lookalike ... appalling no originality at all

There's so much irony in that, because for me the music in Spain did what was on point for me for Latin music here. And Beyonce is from Houston, so she's almost certainly taken the Latin influence with her to her career, which is huge here... so for me, it's like oh we've come full circle back to actual Spanish music, then So many artists around the time Beyonce was coming up were so heavily influenced by that Latin catchy vibe.

I rewatched her final though and yeah, her dress is very default Beyonce (I didn't even notice it tbfh). I liked her National Final much more and I think the Eurovision Final was missing some of that vibe and there was too much hype in that performance/choreography. But other than that, I love her artistry... it doesn't have to be completely original in the sense that her music is carefree and doesn't worry about being completely brand new, which is also fine. I'll take fun vibes over some of the contrived art projects we saw this year...

Austria I think won because they straddled the different sides of the aisle in many respects... fun visuals (lots of buoyancy and boats are fun, obviously), changes in energy across the song and yet still maintaining a sense of gravitas... all being very artistic at the same time... I didn't "enjoy" the song, but I think it's music trying to be an art piece. So many of the entries felt like museum attractions to me.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

no mention of her ordeal or what inspired her -

Maybe because it has absolutely nowt to do with her singing or a song contest, I dunno. Then again I still maintain that the people acting like Israel topping the public vote and coming 2nd was because of the actual song must know they're talking out their collective arses - it was middle-of-the-road and totally forgettable.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Maru

It had the best video of them all (well of the popular ones that came into my feed), I think. Like LT said, everything made more sense with the visuals... but was it my own preference? No.

I just felt like our entry was just awful.

Even in other years I've normally felt like we've been underscored compared to some entries, but this year I firmly believe that our entry was the worst by a country mile.

I honestly am trying to think of another entry on Eurovision that had awful lyrics, generic Music, and poor vocals all in one entry?

And I know that I'm sounding hateful, but we could've sent a song forward that was way better than what felt like a song that was rejected off a Little Mix Album.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I really liked Austria, it was well out the ordinary and he has an incredible voice.
It is a really good winner in my view anyhow.

I loved Lithuania, it's a kind of music I like and hoped it would do better.

I actually enjoyed the whole thing, there were very few I didn't like at all.
Looking forward even to watching it all again, being able to fast forward over all the chatter

I agree with you on Austria and Lithuania.

It was nice to see that to some extent that the public and the Juries were trying to make sure that the talented acts were getting at least some points this year.