[Nicky91]

Greece: hmm not too bad, very radio friendly song also thankfully not tooo much future nostalgia vibes

Switzerland: prefer this over his 2020 entry, lesser high notes anyway

[Nicky91]

North Macedonia: musical theatre delight, also intro similar to pure imagination from willy wonka and chocolate factory

nothing macedonian culture ofc, but it is better than his attempt last year with that generic pop trash You

[Nicky91]

Azerbaijan's song reveal possibly on March 15th

[Nicky91]

so after today/tomorrow we're left with Malta, Georgia, Azerbaijan


and perhaps a deadline extension for Belarus's chosen band, that is least what EBU can do in return to give them few extra days to come with replacement song (since EBU were the ones who pulled out their originally intended song tbh)

[Nicky91]

my top 10 currently

1) United Kingdom
2) North Macedonia
3) Portugal
4) Serbia
5) Netherlands
6) Greece
7) San Marino
8) Switzerland
9) Ukraine
10) Romania

[Nicky91]

Latvia has a great banger again, ugh Samanta delivering two iconic bangers in a row


also LGBTQ+ queen, few drags in the music video

[Nicky91]

Melfest Final tonight


and Iceland's song for Dadi & Gagnamagnio release ''10 years''

[Nicky91]

one of our hosts Nikkie has won a Kids Choice Award, for ''favoriete ster nederland'' (Favourite Celeb Netherlands)

[Nicky91]

sold out audience for Melfest tonight

[Nicky91]

amazing winner for sweden, BLM political message

[Nicky91]

regarding Belarus, we are just waiting on wether it will be a new song for this band, or a new act to be chosen

https://eurovoix.com/2021/03/13/alex...rovision-2021/

their teleradio company whom has conversations all the time with EBU, will answer questions when they have revealed the format of their participation


it will be a new song anyway (but not exactly sure yet if the band stays or not)

[Nicky91]

mid april is the day when decision will be made on live audience or not, physical eurovillage or a virtual eurovillage (with some livestream content on youtube, livechats to virtually socialize/''gather'')

so some time away from now i guess, hope we can all work hard to keep new case numbers down,


but as for audience, idk i rather have just artists in ahoy, and them cheering for each other for one year, if that is safest and that is also what i am kinda expecting, the special permission to travel for artists should be easy to manage, i mean if sportspeople can get this special permission, so can artists, and that staying in hotel apart from when attending official esc duties is good, wearing masks all the time apart from when performing also seems good, 1.5 metre distance in place all the time is also great

[ArgyESC]

sweden boring

[Shaun]

I haven't heard all of the songs yet but from the glimpses I've seen...

Cyprus - very good, will be interesting to see how she performs it though.

Sweden - I didn't really check out the Melodi contenders this year but... this won!? It's perfectly nice but SO boring and unoriginal.

Iceland - I might actually prefer this song to last year's? Very good either way.

Russia - I lowkey enjoy this? It's completely outside of the usual stuff they send... I'm not sure I actually like listening to it but I appreciate them taking risks.

Ukraine - we stan a futuristic banger!

Bulgaria - fell asleep

France - could not be more stereotypically French if it tried... I'm not getting it yet

Australia - who gave a Tumblr girl who can't sing the stage?

[Nicky91]

best line up in recent years

[Nicky91]

with few more to come

Georgia, Azerbaijan, Malta


and of course Belarus i am excited for what new song (maybe act) Daddy president Lukashenko is gonna give green light now

[ArgyESC]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

with few more to come

Georgia, Azerbaijan, Malta


and of course Belarus i am excited for what new song (maybe act) Daddy president Lukashenko is gonna give green light now

please stop being nice to l*ka*hen*o

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by ArgyESC

please stop being nice to l*ka*hen*o

i am nice to Lukashenko, Putin, Duda cuz they are not that bad



scum like Orban, Erdogan though are pure evil

[Black Dagger]

Pls stop pretending you know politics.

[Nicky91]

what a dumb mess the EBU has been, seems like belarus entry wasn't political at all, the lead singer of the band has come clean what the intention of his entry was all about

and he was surprised too the EBU pulled it out for being too political, it was never their intention


and this band will remain their act too for this year it seems (not sure if they opted for change of lyrics or a new song since lyrics editing feels tempting not much work to be done there)

[Nicky91]

HoD Meeting today


Azerbaijan song: hmm kinda disappointing, but maybe it can grow on me idk


we'll get Malta and Georgia later on


and since its HoD meeting i am expecting again some news on Belarus's format of participation, which option of the two they went for me, maybe some final decisions (more bc BTRC are constantly in contact with EBU)

[Legrand]

Finland is winning, a bop!

[Nicky91]

now only belarus's song left

[Nicky91]

on Belarus

nothing new on twitter, apart from one confirmation post that Galasy Z Mesta will remain their act for rotterdam if everything goes to plan, so i presume the new song is now more undergoing the screening process under BTRC/Lukashenko and EBU supervision very thorough i think too

wouldn't surprise me if we get the most sterile/PC song eurovision has ever seen


but hope all goes well, i'm among minority ofc, and they won't get high result but i hope they are still in, russian retro rock seems to make me very very happy and in a good mood so

[Legrand]

I'm pretty sure this is unpopular here but this year is complete crap.