Eurovision less than a month away

And this....

And Diva

Severine Un Banc, un Arbe, un rue.

Winner 1971

And Celine wins in Dublin in 1988...she sings the hell out of the song.

Bring it fucking aaaaaaawwwwwnnnn!

Turkey 2003

Iceland 2020

Iceland 2019 😈

Abanabi

Hera Bjork Iceland 2010 Dami Im Australia 2016 Hoping our gay friends Vasil and Jendrik do well this year!

Will it be broadcast to the USA this year?

This is probably one of my favorite entries ever, since I saw it as a kid back in 1984.

2013 brought us a youthful Bonnie Tyler!

How do Europeans make that work and not vote for the languages they can understand?

R7 What in Sam hill was that? Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams wtf?

Love this guy Alexander Rybak

R14 most entries are in English since most countries have basic English understanding.

It’s a movie called Eurovision Song Contest, R15. The big song, Husavik, was an Oscar nominee this year. Or are you just joking?

Eurovision is the one thing that unites Europe.

Will/can Great Britain take part after Brexit?

R2o It's got nothing to do with EU membership.

R21 Well, it should! The nerve.

Yes and don't forget it's not YOUR song constest America. It's European.

Can we please see some of the adorably stupendously trashy entries?

Gigliola Cinquetti - Go.

Think this was from 1974 - head to head with ABBA’s Waterloo

Love this from Israel 1979

The last eurovision song that charted on the billboard hot 100 (till Arcade made the chart last month)

The first semi going on. 3500 people allowed to the arena.

I have to admit I like Lithuania’s entry more than I should.

This Irish bitch can’t sing

Oh, Måns will be performing at some point.

It’s 2008 and Gaga wants her schtick back, Cyprus

Where's the Official Viewing thread?

Ukraine is something you need to watch to believe it.

The first time i listened the song i thought what kind of crap is that. The second i thought you need to be on drugs to enjoy it, but after a while i'm starting to like it. It's so weird and bizarre

R34 I have also become a Ukraine fan. The song is wonderfully batshit.

In other kooky entry news, Iceland is out due to covid-19. Rather unfortunate as I was looking forward to their performance.

Embarrassing trivia: My parents used to host Eurovision parties when I was a child, and some of the adults would sit together and add up the scores for the different countries on a piece of paper. It’s so funny on retrospect, but that was before Twitter obviously.

Every year 75,000 people die from Eurovision side effects.

No way the UK should be allowed into this contest. Not after Brexit.

They have Britain's Got Talent. That's enough for them.

^ok, taoiseach ....

But Eurovision has nothing to do with being european but with being a member of the EBÚ.

Morocco and Lebanon could participate if they want

[quote]In other kooky entry news, Iceland is out due to covid-19. Rather unfortunate as I was looking forward to their performance.

I think they will show a recording of one of their rehearsals during tonight's second semi-final, so they're still in the competition

Reigning winner Duncan Laurence also tested positive and is forced to pull out from his Grand Final appearance

I guess I will have to watch the finale at the pub this year. I don't see a Eurovision cable broadcast listing in the USA.

I think the only way to (legally) watch it in the US is on Peacock (which I'm not familiar with)

To be fair, the level this year is pretty decent, there are a good bunch of nice songs.

And yes, Russia has a song about loving yourself and empowerment but for once doesn't seem a phony. She received a lot of hate (she is from Tayikistan and she had the never of being a feminist and speak in favour of gay right. So she has a lot of haters on Russia but people love her at eurovision (so no boos for Russia this year)

Thanks, R43!

The Vicky Leandros and Severine songs are outstanding. Ireland’s Johnny Logan has a terrific record, winning twice and writing another winning song - Why Me’.

Estonian guy is good looking, but his song is very 90s ballad.

R47 I believe he was voted the sexiest man in Estonia. Talk about low standards.

Oh yes r41! I should have clarified Iceland is unable to perform. I guess their dress rehearsal will do.

Greece’s dancers should have stayed behind the green screen.

Not feeling Greece's song at all...what a boring performance.

Queen M. gave interview.

She’s hot, so she’ll be straight through to the final.

Anyone want to start an official thread?

Flo Rida Hahahahaa

Moldova’s blonde had long last note. R52 you can do it yourself

I know I’ve been on DL too much because my first thought about Moldova was that the singer’s dress was a poor imitation of Mitzi Gaynor’s.

Iceland off stage because one of the members had positive Covid test result

I feel bad for Iceland...they're showing the 2nd rehearsal...

I liked Iceland. It was fun, like a song in the middle of. Pixar film

Why Eastern European women always look and move alike?

The Serbs look like Real Housewives

The amount hair extensions these chicks are wearing...the songs are all starting sound alike.

Ok Leonard Cohen

Georgia is singing off key. This song needs strong good voice.

Even Andrea Petkovic agrees with me...

The Serbians looked like hookers.

Yet another bad Beyonce

A little too dramatic Albania, but at least she sang in Albanian.

Portugal is ready for primetime!!!!!

A black woman in the body of a Portuguese man singing a Revolver-era Beatles song.

Finland has won only once. People celebrated in the streets very late at night. I remember seeing 70+ women yelling Hard rock hallelujah. So wonderful and weird.

DL Fave Ben Barnes singing in boy group Hyrise for Eurovision 2004. Why didn't this boyband succeed?

btw, he has a pretty good voice and looks damn cute dancing.

R71 It is well known fact only Abba and Céline became super stars and Céline’s success had nothing to do with ESC.

Latvia's singing is flatter than a pancake...she looked like she stepped out of the Flash Gordon film from 1981.

I love Denmark, beautiful country and hot men. The language is very difficult, easier to read but impossible to understand when someone is talking it.

Any discussion of Eurovision is incomplete without posting this classic campy performance.

Although Clodagh Rodgers did not win that year (I think she came in second), this is an especially famous performance in her native UK thanks to her extremely brief pink hot pants.

I love how into it the conductor is at the very beginning! He is determined to conduct the SHIT out of this awful song!

That dancer was hot as fuxk someone identify him stat

That tranny host would make a great quarterback.

I was a kid watching it and loved it.

Hot Spanish guy alert!

R79 Yes! He looked like midget next to that very tall host.

R76: he’s Ahmad Joudeh, a ballet dancer and choreographer. Apparently, there’s a Dutch documentary about his move from Syria to Amsterdam (after crowdfunding by the National Ballet).

Finland is in the final! Let's rock!!! Fuck all these off-brand Lady Gagas!

“Wunder Gibt Es Immer Wieder” by Katje Ebstein (1970).

Thank you r81. What a body. Imagine clinging to those thighs.

I can't believe those Serbian sluts and smelly-looking Finns qualified for the final but hottie Uku didn't...I think this will be the first Eurovision final ever without a single truly hot guy among the contestants (the Lithuanian frontman is kind of cute but his fashion sense is a yuuuge boner killer).

R85 he's also a vegan, which is a no from me!

Was it veganism that caused his hair to fall out?

R87 either that or unemployment.

R82 Yes! Very happy

My all time favorite ESC entry was Vicky Leandros’s L’amour est bleu in Vienna in 1967. She represented Luxembourg.

Until 1973, each country’s entry had to be sung in (one of) that country’s native languages. ABBA won with Waterloo in 1974, which they sung in Swedish to qualify in Sweden, but in English at the ESC.

Until 1999, only a live orchestra, conducted by someone selected by the country of the entry, could provide music. Personally, I think that ended the quaintness of ESC. Once prerecorded, well mixed music was allowed, the focus on vocal talent was lost to sound editing and stage production values.

The Finnish song is fucking awful and hilariously dated (it feels like listening to those douchebag-y turn of the millennium rock bands, a la Limp Bizkit). Just because it was the only rock song in the sea of cheap pop bangers doesn't automatically make it good.

R91 you'll be delighted to know that Italy is providing a great rock song performed by the hottest man on the planet.

Fun fact, Maneskin's song Torna a casa was used as a soundtrack in a gay Italian movie called Croce e Delizia.

I'm a bit indifferent about the glam rock offering from Italy. Their first place on betting odds is a bit head-scratching. As far as I'm concerned the only song that matters this year is Shum.

R93 a lady covered in seaweed over a hot half-naked guy?

R94 Hot guy?!

Even Ihor from Go_A is cuter:

R95 that dreadful long hair is gone. Thank God!

The Italian dude looks somewhat decent only from the front. Unfortunately he's got a hideous profile:

[quote]...the focus on vocal talent was lost to sound editing and stage production values.

That can accurately applied to the whole of the modern pop music industry in all its many branches. They are all now visual acts with sound created by an engineer.

The best of Eurovision. Then. Now. Forever. Israel won the contest that year, but Dschinghis Khan was a huge hit all over Europe.

Those Germans sure liked their disco

Love Eurovision! Ha.s any body here ever attended live?

That Israeli winner in 1979, “Hallelujah” really was quite the showstopper. The choreography was simple but extremely effective. The lead female singer was adorable. The lead male singer was hot as hell, if a teensy bit pitchy. The conductor/songwriter was a hot piece of ass who I gather tried to screw the female singer out of royalties for the song.

R102 I have. When Finland won next year’s final was in Helsinki. I got the ticket. The best was how many gays had traveled to Helsinki. It felt gay bubble where for short time the city center and the arena had huge gay majority.

Are you Icelandic r104?

It’s all about Shum

R104. Sounds fantastic. I think its quite difficult to get tickets now. Far more difficult than 10 years ago.

R105 a Finn R107 it was difficult back then, too, you had to stand in the line very early, and majority were sold to fan clubs around Europe

R103 That year was something special. Spain was the last to vote, they only needed to not vote for Israeel to win but they give then 10 points.

I think this is one of the most unpredictable years. I think France, Malta and Switzerland will dominate the jury's voting but probable Italy, Ukraine and Cyprus (or even Russia) scoring big on televote.

Anyway, Ukraine is a big uncertainty because i doubt they do well with casual viewers at least not with western viewers (but the song has a lot of fans between eurofans)

And i think unless the juries save the day for them like in 2018, this year will be the one of swedish debacle

I lived in Europe for several years, yet never bothered watching Eurovision...which is weird because I love Abba.

Eurovision is not for everyone (some people hated it, even some of them not for the right reasons).

And this year is pretty decent, but some years are absolutely terrible, with barely a bunch of decent songs

We're in Rotterdam right now and it's all about Shum, but it's a hard town and the locals think they play a little too slow.

The German guy is very sweet and charming. His song is lightweight but it’s fun and catchy.

Gjon's Tears from Switzerland is also a sweetheart and a cutie.

Spain 1973

r14 r17 Just in the last decade. Before, every country used their respective language, many still do so.

I love Shum because I used to dance to that song in Ukrainian School. It's a traditional folksong. Like if Florence Welch turns up next year and busts out with Down In The Willow Garden.

My faves are Armenia, Ukraine and Portugal.

R115 And the song is fantastic

R119 Armenia doesn't participate this year

Enjoyed listening today to Eurovision Top 50 on BBC Radio 2, voted by the UK listeners.

bump....how starts in 5 minutes. where is the official thread?

4 minutes. Our national tv just shows Céline’s victory song. She surely can sing!

*show

Yes, where is the thread??

Official thread