It might be fun to hang out on the forum while this is going on, so we can talk about this weird ol’ Europe-wide contest and revel a little in the silliness and spectacle of it tomorrow night.
If I might propose a couple of general rules of thumb:
This is often a very silly evening, and there is likely to be plenty to mock about it, but let’s not get carried away and respect the rules of this forum as a friendly and inclusive place.
In particular, because these are things which I can imagine coming up on a forum in the context of Eurovision: no hating on countries, body-shaming, anything that could be interpreted as transphobic, ableist, etc etc. Hopefully this doesn’t need to be said, here
I will be watching, as we have some family heading over, but doubt I will be able to get on here. There were some interesting performances in the semi-finals so who knows what the final is going to bring.
I consider it a good “gut check” - see which countries have major beefs, and see just how much everyone hates the UK for Brexit. I expect many of the close neighbours will nul UK into oblivion, and some of the smaller ones will give points, but I always care the most to see which Nordic nation has gone full-on “fuck this - hold my beer”.
Well, the UK we haven’t had decent points for YEARS now, and honestly that’s mostly to do with our by-the-numbers entries (oh, and that one time we were completely out of tune)
So I have a hard time imagining this year will do much to move the needle (though admittedly I haven’t seen our entry as I like to save it for the evening). And even if it did, I wouldn’t blame 'em. I wouldn’t vote for us either right now
Yuuuuup. I genuinely don’t get how we didn’t see Lordi enter and go “oh shit, we could totally send ANYONE”. Or, for that matter, how the BBC isn’t running an X Factor competitor every year to make a new artist to enter.
Yeah, although I fear that a popularity contest might also end up producing the blandest/safest artists. Not unpleasant, perhaps even good, but nothing to stand out in the crowd of entries.
Unless the voting public got into the spirit of voting for weird/different.
I’ll probably float between here and Twitter while I’m watching it. Nobody else in my house is willing to watch it, so I need somewhere to complain about my Fave not doing as well as they should.
I can’t wait till Scotland gets its own Eurovision place and we just send up the Proclaimers every year to do their slight variation of a version of 500 Miles. We’ll be hosting every year.
This is a short way to say I had forgotten about the implications of Brexit and it’s going to be incredible to get us idiotic people what’s coming to us. Of course the Daily Mail will spout “SEE THEY HATE YOU” nonsense on its front page.
Anyway, I’ll be watching as per usual. I haven’t seen it but I’ve been told not to miss Portugals entry.
As a very, very pro-EU Brit, I’m quite looking forward to watching the rest of the Union totally shaft us for Brexit to be honest. Aside from that, I’m all about Moldova and Italy this year, still pretty gutted Montenegro didn’t qualify because their entry was ridiculous.
The story I heard (and I think this came from Radiohead themselves) was similar… that they thought it would be really funny to do Eurovision, but when they looked into what would be involved a little they realised it was harder to become the Eurovision representative than they thought, so they baulked
