Fair to say we’re the outsiders … a result they got to this stage.
Cmon Voyager!
finland robbed for mine
parkway drive/david guetta fusion > ikea cher
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I loved Finland, Voyager did us proud.
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They did indeed. Our best entry for some years.
Did really well with the jury vote (top 6) but again very poorly with the public vote
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Not sure about robbed but the massive discrepancy b/w the jury and public vote is an issue for the competition’s credibility. He easily won the public vote and did only so-so with the jury. Norway another example.
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I’ve been a fan of Voyager for a few years now and was lucky to see them in 2017. Just amazing people and I’m so happy for them to showcase their stuff on the big stage. They all have proper jobs too!
Hoping Australia is allowed back next year and beyond, our “contract” is up this year.
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Delayed commentary:
The show intro indicates 80% of the competitors are all-time greats, or this is one seriously hot crowd. I’m going to assume the latter…
Norton presenting rather than commentating? Not sure that’s appropriate.
- Austria: WHO THE HELL IS EDGAR? That’s a credible silly banger, with good use of the back screen to circumvent the limit of 6 performers and a memorable finish.
- Portugal: now that’s a catchy beat. If this is one of the least crowd-loved songs this year… maybe my assumption above was wrong.
- Switzerland: competent ballad. “I don’t want be a soldier” is perhaps trying to match the zeitgeist… but it ain’t winning.
- Poland: competent, and a wardrobe change always gets a pop, but nah
- Serbia: the shirt is more distracting than the staging. Definitely not winning, but a good palette cleanser. LOL, at the end the Transformer is dancing.
- France: stop stealing our in-the-air gimmick.
Was that a real pop for Charles and Camilla, or an unrelated piped-in cheer?
- Cyprus: he’s very pretty.
- Spain: staging is good for TV, not for those in attendance! Yikes, those chunky heels do not suit the rest of that performance. She’s got some pipes.
- Sweden: big beat, bigger voice, memorable presentation, feel-good story of escaping. The nails may or may not be winners.
- Albania: The flip from wailing to dance beat is valid at Eurovision. LOL at the dead-face crowd response they cut to at the end.
- Italy: this is my first big “meh”. He’s good but it is instantly forgettable.
- Estonia: pianola! I bet there are stack of kidz who had no idea what one of them was, and just had their minds blown.
- Finland: crowd is ready to go! Great “shadow” work. Was going well till the human centipede and the hulking out. CHA CHA CHA.
- Chechia: the cult vibes are strong with this one. Also, I’m bored of Bianca Belair.
- ‘Straya: Geez, the intro even makes Perth look good. Crowd is ready for this. Old-school MR2! A rock band is a good contrast, but arguably does not go hard enough on that… Ok, the short guitar solo wins some points.
- Belgium: clothing, that certainly is. Hell of a voice, song loses momentum when he stops singing.
Eurovision is R-rated.
- Armenia: well, that was different. To itself, three times. Ah, she is on a ramp, those squats looked too impressive to be true.
- Moldova: the visuals held back on the little thing’s pipe vocals for a bit.
- Ukraine: do they just have to be half-competent to win again? We’ll find out, because it’s barely that.
- Norway: Camilla joke in commentary. Classy. The song is BIG, though. I feel like she should have done a 100kg squat at the end, though.
- Germany: Germany don’t do conventional Eurovision. Yeah, ‘Straya just got trumped on the overt rock band bit. Not as good as us, but worked the audience harder than us.
- Lithuania: you ain’t winning. Got pipes though.
- Israel: meh. I may be the wrong demographic.
- Slovenia: not enough rock, not enough whatever else, to win
- Croatia: ummm… this is more Germany than Germany ever is. Da fuq was that?
- UK: They inserted a bit for the locals to sing along with, and they barely did. Eek.
That is a sustained HOT crowd.
“gidday”
Jury votes:
- Italy gives Ukraine second-top votes. Yeah nah.
- Latvia 12 votes to Estonia
- Moldova another outlier with 6 votes to their immediate neighbour Ukraine.
- Ireland throw the UK 2 pity votes.
- Sweden racking them up.
- San Marino give 12 to Italy
- I guess Austria is an immediate neighbour to Italy, with their 12 votes.
- The juries must not be my demographic either, re: Israel
- Finland 12 to Sweden — they dudded Norway though.
- Portugal 10 to Spain — but I forgive them for giving ‘Straya 12!
- Croatia lots of neighbours including Italy 12 — as I said, he was legit good but won’t get the public vote
- Estonia say FARK YOU to Lithuania with just 1 vote
- Romania throw neighbour Moldova 7 votes, after 19 other countries had given them a total of 5
- LOL Iceland: extracting the urine with a series of masks but give us 12 so OK.
- NO GREECE OR TURKEY OPTION FOR CYPRUS.
- Norway only gave Sweden 10! BECAUSE THEY GAVE 12 TO FINLAND
- Hosts doing an excellent job at controlling the crowd.
- HELLO POSSUMS! We gave zero to Israel, yay my demographic.
- Denmark
for 8 to Finland , 10 to Norway , 12 to Sweden
- HI GRAY-HAM!
- Israel foolishly giving 12 to Sweden. Will they regret that?
- Sweden not quite perfect, but 8 to Norway and 12 to Finland gets a
- This is a yobbo crowd
- Georgia 10 to Armenia
- Czechia 12 to Ukraine: yeah nah.
- Slovenia another neighbour of Italy presenting 12
- Crowd boos when they see Greece only gave Cyprus 4 votes
- Lithuania only gives 5 to Estonia
- THEY LEFT THE DOCTOR WHO COMPANION FOR LAST
So the jury vote is:
Sweden 340
Israel 177
Italy 176
Finland 150
Estonia 146
‘Straya 130
…
Germany 3; juries clear on who won the rock band comp!
- Well, at least for a second Germany haven’t come last. The proper German (■■■■)show of Croatia then gets >100 public votes to blow them away.
- Our commentatory team totally mis-read the potential public vote for the UK. Looks about right to me.
- Albania are sad
- Norway do very well with a 206kg squat.
- France gives the TV the middle finger for just 50 public votes.
- Ukraine get a decent sympathy vote (189) but they’re yesterday’s heroes.
- LOL, Spain gets 5 public votes.
- Boooooooooo as Austria’s Edgar gets just 16.
- Belgium a mediocre 55. There are a lot of votes left.
- ’Straya kicked in the balls with 21. They looked like they thought they had a chance. The crowd laughs at/with us.
- LOL, no one is getting votes… until FINLAND. 376 points for the CHA CHA CHA.
- OK, so I got Italy a bit wrong. Not totally forgettable.
- Phew, Israel is ultimately not the right demographic.
- HERE WE GO!
- Whooooooa, Sweden win. She really thought she was dead there.
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eh they kind of need both the jury and the public though. they’re never going to see eye to eye.
without a public vote it will just be a music industry circlejerk no one will care about, and with a pure public vote you just get the block voting problems you had in the 80s and 90s.
Finnish bloke was robbed.
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Still reeling tbh. I like Loreen and Tattoo is comfortably a top 5 song, but for the jury to rig it so far in her favour so Eurovision could have an ABBA wankfest in Sweden next year would feel soulless any year but it’s especially criminal given that Finlands entry was not only the best song but would of been one of the most interesting and original Eurovision winners in years especially as a native language tune. Oh well, at least UK came near dead last which is almost as satisfying as Collingwood winning the spoon.
I thought the Netherlands “Burning Daylight” deserved better.
Best work Steven Tyler has done in years
Wow. Our song this year is about a man’s “Milkshake”…
oh my god a pop song with innuendo how is the world going to cope with this brand new concept
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no real standouts this year. i reckon it’ll be the most hectic voting we’ve seen in a long time
Pipped at the Finnish line, one would say!
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How is Australia part of this competition again?