Honestly; the UK just needs to turn to the Netherlands to see how to do better. Nearly a decade in the wilderness of the semi-finals.
Then they turned to an established artist who wanted to do it in Anouk. She made it cool for acts to do Eurovision for her country.
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So just to clarify: Lake Malawi could be representing Poland with a song co-produced by JOWST and co-written by Cesar Sampson, about one of the 2019 hosts.
This could only get more meta if Ermal Meta did the backing vocals.
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Admittedly if Eurovision is cancelled it’s probably a good thing for the UK, because a song called “My Last Breath” probably wouldn’t look great after all.
“Why does Sweden do so well at Eurovision? 😡😤😠”
Because I dare you to find a country or national final that treats its history of its acts as well as this - and on regular occasions. Respect and love for the contest.
#melfest
I’m truly torn by the UK result. Partially I feel vindicated because ultimately, I knew that was coming. But also Michael really, really performed well tonight. Unfortunately I sense that he wasn’t responsible for the issues with the way it all came across.
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Further thoughts: John winning the jury vote with a soul/gospel tinge to it the year after Cesar did the same probably means we’re getting a hell lot more of that for the next few years.
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I will say, Graham Norton's finest voting moment comes in 2014 when he just decides to fully show Conchita is his favourite and he starts working out her path to victory.
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But seriously: every single song Netta has released since Eurovision has been brilliant, and she deserves all the success she can get.
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I mean everyone saying "Poland won online voting where you can vote for yourself lol", but they finished like mid-table in the same format last year.
#JESC2018
Pride was cute and no I’m not posting these pics like four days late.
(I was reliably told this is called a “soft launch” or something like that. Look IDK I have a fiancé and a boy now and it’s all very good and happy but that means I have less time for knowing lingo)
Further notes on the UK: until the BBC starts putting funding behind Eurovision, absolutely nothing will change. And the likelihood is, given the cost cutting it has to do, that won’t happen for a very long time to come.
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I assume they didn’t want to let the 6 countries know they’d twigged them as well (and also potentially to see if they then shifted to any other countries from SF1/Big 5), hence why they let the juries and spokespeople be prepped for the final.
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"Team San Marino explain:
"Flo Rida has been a part of the production and is featured in the music video, but it's yet to be decided if he will take part on stage in Rotterdam. The rap part will either way remain."
We’ll have to wait and see!"
THE TEASE
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I feel like the big "issue" with so little ability to report / access the artists and the performances is the sheer amount of rumors/jumping to conclusion that seems to be going on.
Like we've gone from "Armenia have had to scrap their entire staging!" to a very planned setup.
I mean if anyone is the winner tonight it's LRT who managed to successfully host a NF with an obvious winner but not making it "rigged" in their favour, push a very credible 2nd place act for another go in 2022 AND rake in a load of televote money.
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#pabandomi
šnaujo
Which, all in all, is to say.
Please be nice. And if you wanted to subscribe, like, share, whatever you wanted to do...that would also be very nice.
There's a lot more to come, as early as the weekend, and it should be pretty fun ❤️
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Keep forgetting that we're going to see all the live-on-tape performances this weekend and getting a little excited again.
I can't imagine -many- of the performances being that different, but you never know...
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Also; thank you all so much for the messages and tweets. Honestly means an awful lot. I’m all good ATM, just need to not myself get caught up in things going forward. ❤️
I mean the *one*, very, very small good thing about the UMK result is that it means it's much more likely that Samanta Tina is going to the Eurovision final.
I don't know about any of you, but that was exactly what was needed tonight. A huge, huge, huge thank you to
@robholley
and the
@EurovisionAgain
and
@Eurovision
team for making these bloody last few months enjoyable on a Saturday.
Now who's ready for FiKmas!?
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Is there a way to watch the bikini contest tonight? I mean I feel like at this point it’s a pre-party event given the amount it’s being discussed
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