Eurovision 2020

[not-bono-ever]

the annual eurovision thread ( couldnt find another)


UK entry is meh

Little Big

Punk-pop-rave group Little Big was formed on 1 April, 2013. The collective consists of 4 members – Ilia Prusikin (frontman), Sonya Tayurskaya (frontwoman), Anton Lissov (MC) and Sergey Makarov (DJ).

eurovision.tv

russia pulling out all the stops here...

 

[ska invita]

UK hun?



public werent trusted to pick a winner so some "music experts" made that happen lol
quite catchy tbf

Go Little Big

 

[bimble]

I didnt want to start a thread but may have watched Iceland's entry more than once because it is really quite good.

 

[bimble]

its cancelled.
Iceland was the winner.

 

[dessiato]

 

[ruffneck23]

its cancelled.
Iceland was the winner.

The UK came last

 

[dessiato]

The UK came last

Again

 

[MrCurry]

They will surely find a way to run it this year, even if it has to be prerecorded music videos rather than the live show.

The swedes picked their entry a few weeks back via the Melodifestivalen contest, which is a huge event in itself. I’m not so keen on the one which won, the Mamas “Move” (below). I actually thought the one which came second should’ve won.

 

[MrCurry]

Well I got that wrong then! It’s been canned.

I’m amazed they couldn’t just run it as music videos with a phone vote. What will happen to all the acts which have been selected for this year’s competition? By the time next year comes around the public will be bored with the songs which are already out there and they’ll want new ones.

 

[wtfftw]

I suspect complicated rules mean new songs.

 

[hash tag]

For this year, can they not show an old one which Britain did well in?

 

[dessiato]

For this year, can they not show an old one which Britain did well in?

Ancient history?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It truly is the End of Days

 

[Reno]

The silver lining is that Eurovision and its audience won’t be exposed to these homophobic cunts:

Russia's Eurovision entry mocks LGBT+ people with vile homophobic comments at Belgian Pride

Footage shows band members of Russia's Eurovision entry spewing degrading insults at LGBT+ people and calling for heterosexual rights during Belgian Pride.

gcn.ie

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Well I got that wrong then! It’s been canned.

I’m amazed they couldn’t just run it as music videos with a phone vote. What will happen to all the acts which have been selected for this year’s competition? By the time next year comes around the public will be bored with the songs which are already out there and they’ll want new ones.

It would have been lovely if they could run it like that as it is so well loved and would be a great morale booster. I guess there are just bigger things to think about.

 

[MrCurry]

A lot of the ESCs are on YouTube in full, so you can always console yourself by choosing a random year you don’t remember the result from, and having a substitute Eurovision party. Or just watch them all on consecutive nights.... I don’t think you’ll be pining for this year’s contest after going through that!

 

[rubbershoes]

Can't get better than this for a Eurovision song.

Cracking dancing too. It's worth watching once with the sound off so you can focus on the dancing

 

[ska invita]

The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest are looking to stage an alternative to the cancelled event, in the form of a television show or through its online platforms.

The Eurovision song contest is one of the world’s largest television events and had been scheduled to take place in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on 16 May.

The European Broadcasting Union, which made the decision to cancel the popular event on Wednesday due to the coronavirus crisis, said it was “exploring alternative programming, but not a competition”.

The organisers said:

The EBU is very aware of how much the Eurovision song contest will be missed this year.
It is our intention to honour the songs that have been elected for 2020. To help unite and entertain audiences around Europe during these challenging times.

a new level of shitness might yet be reached

 

[MrCurry]

I’m sure Jon Ola Sand is limbering up his awkward-smirk-to-camera face, just in case.

 

[bimble]

look! its the self isolating version of the iceland song

 

[MrCurry]

Undaunted by the cancellation of Eurovision 2020, the Swedish state broadcaster SVT will press ahead with a week of Eurovision shows, beginning May 9th with a 2 hour special at 21:00 CET presenting all 41 songs. Swedish TV viewers will make use of a mobile app to choose their 25 “finalists” to go forwards to the May 14 final show at 21:00 CET called “Sweden’s 12 points”.

The final show, hosted by the redoubtable Eurovision veteran Sarah Dawn Finer (aka Lynda Woodruff), will unfold in a similar fashion to a full Eurovision competition and viewers will vote for their Eurovision winner to be announced at the end. I suppose it’s possible these shows might be available to stream from outside Sweden via the SVT.se website, but I suspect they will make it accessible only within Sweden. Eurovision fans elsewhere who don’t mind a lack of English subtitles could always use a VPN service to temporarily get a Swedish IP address and tune in.

Quite apart from this “don’t let a little pandemic rob us of our beloved Eurovision” effort from the Swedes, the Dutch broadcasters will produce a show honouring the Eurovision 2020 acts, but without a competitive element (as first mentioned by ska invita further up the thread). This will be shown in many European countries on May 16th at 20:00 CET (not sure if UK will show it).

 

[MrCurry]

All 41 songs in under fifteen mins. (Snippets, at least).

Am I hallucinating, or is that an English language entry from France? Has that ever happened before?

 

[moonsi til]

So as there no Eurovision this year we are doing our own. We have been given a country that we have to choose a song from any year, send to organisers then listen via zoom on night then score. We got Austria.

 

[WouldBe]

For this year, can they not show an old one which Britain did well in?

Year with Gina G.

Otherwise it's null point for everyone. Mind you that would mean we come joint first.

 

[moonsi til]

We actually had Lithuania not Austria!

It was held last night via zoom & was absolutely fabulous. Friends who organised got us to pick a number which gave us our country, we then had to submit to them with a link. They then created a Eurovision You-tube thing with all the entrants songs with flags in-between so we listen to first song then pause on the next flag , make notes. We then had to score our top 5 in a Eurovision style. Germany 1st then Portugal /Russia. We came 6th.

There were 1st, 2nd,3rd trophies which my friend 3D printed.

I bought some Krupnik to drink for the event.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Songs being played in SF order, from 8pm (same deal on Thursday for the second 'semi final').

 

[Lord Camomile]

Wow, Sweden coming out strong.

 

[MrCurry]

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[Indeliblelink]

So there is still some form of Eurovision show on the BBC tonight with Graham Norton. It says they will "honour all the 41 songs", I'm guessing they won't have time to have all of them played in full?

Eurovision: Abba's Waterloo voted best song of all time

Abba topped a BBC show's poll, before the contest's producers marked the show that might have been.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[MrCurry]

So there is still some form of Eurovision show on the BBC tonight with Graham Norton. It says they will "honour all the 41 songs", I'm guessing they won't have time to have all of them played in full?

Eurovision: Abba's Waterloo voted best song of all time

Abba topped a BBC show's poll, before the contest's producers marked the show that might have been.

www.bbc.co.uk

yes, the EBU are producing a show which runs from Rotterdam and which is being shown live in something like 40 countries apparently. I don’t think they’re going to have time to show each song in full, so I guess it‘ll be 90 seconds of each, plus some blather from the hosts but no voting. There’s already been two 90 minute “celebration shows” streamed live via YouTube this week (tues & thurs), which are still there on the ECS YT channel if you want to see the songs in full:

Eurovision Song Contest

Welcome to the official Eurovision Song Contest channel on YouTube!

www.youtube.com

I have that damned Cleopatra song stuck in my head now For me the three top songs are Denmark (ain’t she pretty?!), Russia (kooky and funny) and my personal favourite Italy.

Bookies favourite Bulgaria and Iceland (who won the vote in the Swedish mini Eurovision comp earlier this week) leave me cold. No accounting for taste I guess.