It's all Kicking off at Eurovision 2024

I've never watched Eurovision as I'm a music fan and other than ABBA and Lordi serious music seems in short supply there , there may be no such thing as bad music but Eurovision certainly pushes those bounds , Eurovision is a contest for a certain type of music fan.

Eurovision this year however seems to getting a bit spicy as Dutch singer Joost Klein has been disqualified and sent home over claims he made "unlawful threats" to a member of staff and Ireland's entry Bambie Thug missed the traditional Flag ceremony due to "a situation that needed urgent attention" , meanwhile the host of Norway's Eurovision TV show has pulled out citing the "inflamed situation in Malmo this year".

Just now it's being reported French act Slimane stopped his rehearsal to say "United by music yes, but for love, for peace" ... It might actually be worth watching for a change tonight. Handbags at 20 paces
news.sky.com...

Awful yet Brilliant.


Props to the drummer.

a reply to: gortex

I've never seen it either but it's been popping up on the news after becoming politicised.
Has it always been a parody of itself? It's like Salvador Dali and Willy Wonka had a baby and it took psychedelic drugs and wrote songs??

a reply to: gortex

Dutch singer Joost Klein.

Looks like Jimmy Savile's love child.

a reply to: gortex
Good lord that Irish person(?)looks like it just crawled out of the book of Revelation.

Ultimate rebelion against a traditional catholic upbringing maybe?

Odds the protesters attempt to storm the venue tonight?
50/50 I rekon.

a reply to: onestonemonkey

Just been down to the shop to get some popcorn , I'm ready.

a reply to: gortex

Always been a sh1tsh0w.
Talentless fools and tactical voting.
Akin with celebrity television.
Just keeps the masses dumbed down.

a reply to: gortex

in europe its pretty common to watch this entertaining nonsense. it's a trash show (some could say its a freak show but hey its just entertainment) but there are always some cool visual effects and sometimes there's a good song in there - but it's more about celebrating peace love and happiness (wont work this year). it'll be interesting to see who drops the mask tonight. the best part is the voting at the end, in about 3 to 4 hours from now on. i'm keeping my fingers crossed for israel.

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: gortex

I've never seen it either but it's been popping up on the news after becoming politicised.
Has it always been a parody of itself? It's like Salvador Dali and Willy Wonka had a baby and it took psychedelic drugs and wrote songs??

on point.(;
its a parody since the 90s. its just fun. most times.

Actual, real, talented musicians don't need gimmicks to sell their act.

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Panem et Circenses, nothing else. And it works, unfortunately.

At least here in Germany. But i am pretty sure the people who watch something like this here in Germany are the same Latte Macchiato with soy milk drinking and cargo bike/electric vehicle riding woke and "green" eco-hipsters who always asked for more corona measures and would have sent their own fellow citizens into concentration camps because of a "health catastrophe" orchestrated by obedient politicians and their ultra-rich puppet masters. Are the same people who would send the sons and daughters of others to Ukraine to fight (while these people themselves are sitting on the cozy sofa far, far away, preferably in a bunker) for "democracy" in that fascist and corrupt sh!thole. Who are happy that NS2 was blown up because it was "bad russian gas" anyway, while the rest of the world, including Ukraine and USA, still buy everything they want and need from Russia. People who believe they are anti-fascist while being the new woke, green and rainbow color painted, always pro current thing and nothing questioning picture-book fascists who showed us during the plandemic how it could work here with Hitler-Germany back then.

Let these people have their Panem et Circenses because such events are exactly created for the big, dumb, grey mass who floats always with the stream because trying to swim against the stream (and probably escaping the fish fabric which transforms all of them into "Iglu Fischstäbchen") is too uncomfortable and hell knows what others could think of against the stream swimmers anyway.

Let them be happy lemmings until they suddenly run with their feet in the air after going over the edge of the cliff like Roadrunners coyote and then it finally goes straight downhill for them because at the end these people will be the first victims of the agenda they are supporting now. For me it feels like somebody is somehow separating the wheat from the chaff, rolling out these "jabs" was only the first, one step of many.

originally posted by: AwakeNotWoke
Actual, real, talented musicians don't need gimmicks to sell their act.

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That´s why actual, real talented musicians would never go to the ESC, they would lose the respect of their fan base. That´s why only such comic like clown figures in ridiculous costumes are scurrying across the stage there. Mediocre and rather unknown local "popstars" which can simply be used up and replaced.

That whole thing is not about good music or music at all, it´s for people who vote against their least liked nations first and then for the current thing nations, the current thing nations get everything while all of the "talents" there are simply equally ridiculous and really bad when it comes to everything else than the cheapest kind of pop music.

I don´t even know which poor soul was send by Germany to that event (i believe Germany is last as usual xD) but i bet his/her career is almost over here now, i don´t know who "won" that thing and only knew it was happening again because of all the "scandals" the MSM "needed" to report about.

If there would be good musicians many million people more would watch the show but it's staged for a special audience and it's precisely this audience that's interested in it but no one else is.

I don't have much to say about the diabolical (in every sense of the word) event that was passed off as Eurovision last night other than, at this point I think ABBA's SOS is very appropriate to where Eurovision has degenerated to.

Nil point and nil rainbows
Jane

Norway didn't deserve to come last place, IMHO! This year I hoped that they'd win and that they actually had a fair chance of winning, but... nope. And as far as I can tell, they made no mistakes either, so... Why and how was this "the worst"? Here's 30 seconds of each song from the Grand Final.