🇺🇦🇬🇧 Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom 🇬🇧🇺🇦

[River 105,937]

1 minute ago, bionic said:

im not sure what the way to avoid bloc voting is

the public do it (cultural familiarity?) and so they bring in the juries. the juries by and large still do it. maybe AI can give us some results next year?

Maybe to penalize the countries?

like the cyprus-greece situation is absurd, only this year they voted properly because greece was out..

I think the jury votes should just stop, it's useless and it's been proven every single year..

[bionic 43,251]

Just now, Not The Real Gaga said:

 

Bringing in a control group from outside Europe. Like 50 people.

 

lets say you bring in an american. what's to stop them defaulting to wherever they probably have heritage from? think how many proid "irish-americans" or "italian-americans" are out there despite none of the ancestors they've ever met being from those countries

[Born This Way 1,764]

Ok so my favorites were:
Finland
Sweden
Slovenia
Australia
Belgium
Germany
I love Serbia's instrumental so much but girl.

I don't think anything will get me as excited about Eurovision as Rise Like A Phoenix tbh.

[Juanlittlem 41,795]

13 minutes ago, Karl said:

Alessandra deserved better from the jury 

She had a rough performance yesterday so I guess she fell flat for juries. What I cant get is how Israel got so many great scores from the jury when she had a wardrobe malfunction and couldnt even do the beggining of the dancebreak properly.

[Magui 2,623]

1 minute ago, bionic said:

lets say you bring in an american. what's to stop them defaulting to wherever they probably have heritage from? think how many proid "irish-americans" or "italian-americans" are out there despite none of the ancestors they've ever met being from those countries

I say let them vote for their neighbors, I findin it funny it's like every year we are already expecting it, and when doesn't happen it's like a shock lol 

[bionic 43,251]

my top 5 of the night

1. Finland
2. Italy
3. Poland
4. Slovenia
5. Norway

[bionic 43,251]

Just now, Magui said:

I say let them vote for their neighbors, I findin it funny it's like every year we are already expecting it, and when doesn't happen it's like a shock lol 

yeah i kinda like it

at least it means your song has to be GOOD to break through

[Not The Real Gaga 7,483]

2 minutes ago, bionic said:

lets say you bring in an american. what's to stop them defaulting to wherever they probably have heritage from? think how many proid "irish-americans" or "italian-americans" are out there despite none of the ancestors they've ever met being from those countries

 

Well, you try to limit that by taking a considerable pool of people. An individual might take their heritage into account when voting, but that only has small effect on the outcome.

[bionic 43,251]

Just now, Not The Real Gaga said:

 

Well, you try to limit that by taking a considerable pool of people. An individual might take their heritage into account when voting, but that only has small effect on the outcome.

i personally think they should just ask me who wins and i decide myself

i have great taste after all

[Magui 2,623]

1 minute ago, bionic said:

yeah i kinda like it

at least it means your song has to be GOOD to break through

Yep, it's like a tradition we are already guessing where some countries votes go , I was like how the f*ck Greece didn't give 12 points to Cyprus ,  and already guessing Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark would vote between them. 

[AndiGaga 6,114]

Poor Germany

They were better than some boring mediocre pop songs

[bionic 43,251]

some country's juries have only 1 person on it

https://eurovoix.com/2023/04/17/the-euro-jury-2023-jurors/

payola

[WhiteHotForever 313]

Lena & Michael Schulte for ESC 2024 or we shouldn’t participate 

[Dennis 8,391]

Russia always tries to find new ways to become even more pathetic 
 

 

[StrawberryBlond 14,132]

So happy for Loreen, it was my second favourite of the night, a very worthy winner. I'm so glad that the public gave Alessandra some love as she was weirdly underrated by the juries even though she had some of the best lyrics of the night. Portugal did nowhere near as well as deserved and I was also shocked at how bad France and Spain did. Overall, quite surprised at what connected. I feel really sorry for my country, UK, she really didn't deserve to be second from the bottom, there were much worse songs there. My parents even said that they fact she didn't dance was why she didn't do better (!!!) and it's sad how so often there's a big love-in for an act one year and the next, no one could care less. I'd really like to know how many non-European votes there were as well and where they came from so we can see how much of an impact international viewers made.

5 hours ago, LoliLux said:

Finland and Austria are both my favorites. In addition to that I like Poland, though the Polish version doesn't feel unique, more like a "best of mix of previous hit songs". Finland because it is energetic and powerful and that's how I suppose pop music to be ideally, and Austria because it feels innovative, new and somehow sophisticated. I agree that the music flow in this songs is not systematic but it does not have to be that way. I guess tastes are different. Actually Strawberryblond, I'd have expected that you'd like the Austria entry b/c it tells a story about forgotten literature and you're so into that.

Less than 1 hour till it starts! Popcorn please

Norway was energetic and powerful with great lyrics and vocals. Finland's was using shock value for attention, had bad lyrics and was all about being controversial. Austria had bad lyrics, no vocal prowess, a weird storyline and an irritating beat. I'm not here for silly novelty songs.