Studio version, live shows, preparties... Today's performance by Croatia was his best ever. Totally nailed it.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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Some of the most creative uses of the stage by Finland I have seen. Fantastic
Because there are no rules.
It's fun, but could have been better. The whole "pantless" thing was a little cringe. And the song was a little weak.
The fact they even screwed up the pantless thing doesn't make it better.
Help what was UK 😭 The song was my second place beforehand but the vocals were really bad and the staging… I mean I'm gay and I like seeing handsome men on the stage, but it was… really much.
It was a gay bdsm party in the saw basement. Don't kink shame 🤣
I thought the staging was awesome. It's Eurovision, so you got to have shirtless men, right? And the "shifting gravity in a room" trick is a classic but was well done here. The vocals were indeed weak, but maybe they'll get better after this practice run.
"Even I voted for Finland". LOLZ
All the stagings have been so high quality so far! And the production quality is just insane! I know that the last years have not had the best quality, from the camera people to the stagings and such. And now it just seems so much better. I feel like Sweden just really has the ESC experience which makes it even much more pleasurable to watch tbh.
It also makes me like the songs more than previously / without the live performance.
Finnland really nailed the performance. It's silly, but it was pretty funny and refreshing in a way, I definitely enjoyed it more than the national performance.
Where ABBA?
Ikr :(
Oof, lead singer for Australia sounded real tired after the second high note. That’s unfortunate.
My tier list:
TOP:
- Ireland. Bambie Thug KILLS IT!! Outstanding song and choreography.
- Croatia. Hype song, fun costumes.
MID:
- Serbia. Generally don't like ballads but this one was ok. Plus I dig her "look"
- Lithuania. mid song but excellent performance
- United Kingdom. Weak song but inventive performance.
- Ukraine. The rapping is pretty good.
- Poland. Weak song but once more, the staging is great.
- Slovenia. Good voice. Song is ok.
- Finland. Fun performance, song is a bit weak
- Sweden. Hey, when school gets out, you want to go to the alley outside the club and do karaoke?
- Azerbaijan. Mid song though I dig their clothes and the one guy's ululations
- Australia. Ok song.
- Luxemburg. The best of the "mid" songs so far.
LOW:
- Cyprus. Not terrible, but unremarkable.
- Iceland. Umm... The background lasers were nice I guess...
- Germany. Lucky for them they already qualified lel.
- Moldova. Graphics reminded me of a screensaver. The end where she played violin and sang in a high pitch was good, she should have done more of that
- Portugal. The background dancers had some interesting moments in their choreography though
I am in the states so I have not been able to watch the performances yet. But from what I saw from their previous performances, your top tier matches with mine. I really like Croatia’s.
Yeah, either gotta find a friend with Peacock, or a friend with a VPN.
I ended up subscribing to peacock for a month to watch. It sucks that I cannot watch the stream from today though.
Oh is it bc of work? Last year for the first half hour I took a call while watching it in the background...
No because it was over and there is no option to watch it.
As long as it's not geo-blocked you can try the YT livestream. It's still available (for me) but don't know if it works for other countries.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dB5DuvK5UQU&pp=ygUVZXNjIHNlbWkgZmluYWwgMSAyMDI0
It is unavailable in the states. Which is why I subscribed to peacock thinking I could watch the stream afterwards. I will mess with my vpn today and try and get the YouTube working.
Too bad. German public TV still has it too. If it's available for you - click the three dots ... and under 'Sprache und Barrierefreiheit select English.
I got it working on YouTube with proton VPN, and then today Peacock had the replay available. Watching now, thank you for your help.
Glas it worked out for you. Enjoy!
The moderation this year is also really sympathetic and funny; I like it :)
(Edit: I meant the two hosts)
The german voiveover moderator was sooo cocky oh boy oh boy
Can you tell me some examples of what he said? I'm German (too?) but I'm watching the YouTube livestream because I wanna see it without moderation (and because I've heard bad things about the moderator, but that was the one back then, I think since last or this year we have a new one).
I feel like the new commentator is trying really hard to copy the style of Peter Urban.
I'll probably watch the next semi final without the German comments
He basically got a script written for Peter Urban, so that's why the style was so similar. I still have some hope it gets better once he gets a little used to it.
9 of the 10 songs getting through were in my top 10 :O
Only my 10th and 11th place got switched (and honestly I wasn't even sure in which order I should place the two).
Australia missing out is the biggest shame. But 9/10 qualifiers I agree with.
I'm still sad Mans isn't hosting 😭
Heard Croatia for the first time tonight and was... whelmed. For Eurovision rock songs it feels like a lesser good version of Måneskin.
Luckily there were some actually meh songs.
I liked Luxembourgh more than I feel I should.
I could sing a rammstein song to it. That chorus with the shouting is identical to Ich Will by rammstein.
Yeah I want to listen to the Luxembourg song again, I have a feeling it might grow on me.
Now it gets exciting :D
Luxembourg's entry was staged by Poland?
Big if true
Curious what/who decides which former Eurovision contestants are shown on the intro montage? Like for Finland, I fully expected Lordi since they won in 2006. I am not familiar with EV (esc?) overall to know which others were/were not former winners.
That's a really good question! I was wondering the same. I noticed that basically every postcard had one classic / older and one more modern / newer entry (the only noticeable exception being Australia for obvious reasons). I think the artist themselves might have selected some other things.
But because I got curious, I just looked it up and on the Eurovision website introducing the new format, they say
The Postcard will not only introduce the performers, but also the countries that each act is singing on behalf of. And this will also extends to the context of our participating broadcasters' most memorable moments at the Eurovision Song Contest. "We also added some public service – a graphic map to see where all the countries are located in the world. And then we wanted to celebrate the rich and incredible history of the Eurovision Song Contest by adding a couple of previous great entries from the Eurovision archives of each country."
It sounds to me like the EBU has a big influence and can determine how the selected videos should be. The national broadcaster might decide the specific country and ask if it's okay. But of course that's just my speculation.