As I said, I agree...
Don't know about what/who deserve to win, but swedish can be nice in songs too, so I wish he had sung in his own language, too.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015 |OT| Austro-Australovision
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SecretMoblin
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honestly, you can just go on eurovision.tv and go to the "web tv" section and watch the last several years for free, it's great!
the site also hosts a TON of the national selection contests of the various countries, which often feature better songs than the ones that make it on ESC
Red Arremer
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Well I posted my favourites from the last 10 years here. It's a mixed bag!
Also to add to what SecretMoblin said, you can find most of the older song contests (50s-90s) full on YouTube. I'm in the process of watching them, myself, actually.
Never watched the full shows from those old ones.DiddysKongQuest
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I genuinely think that Guildo had one of the best Eurovision performances of all time. Just insanely fun.
They apparently will also interview Ann Sophie shortly.
Awesome, thanks a bunch
Hoping for the return of goofball trash Eurovision next year.
I also liked :
Montenegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYmyTJ87vI
Georgia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWgDzQ0mWTg
Singing in your own language brings a very nice touch. Having South-Korea or Japan as a visiting nation is a really good idea.
Montenegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYmyTJ87vI
Georgia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWgDzQ0mWTg
Singing in your own language brings a very nice touch. Having South-Korea or Japan as a visiting nation is a really good idea.
CheDominik
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He was ahead of his time. He brought the crazy stuff to Eurovision before it became the norm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fgLrfi9JCI
Honestly (by far) my favourite German entry and probably my favourite Eurovision performance. Such an over-the-top, fun, slightly bizarre performance.
It helps that Guildo Horn seems like a genuinely nice person (in real life).
Wasn't he the first performer who left the stage during his performance?
DiddysKongQuest
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True that. How can you not love that song? Whoever won that year did not deserve it.
There's a legit chance it's never coming back and I'm kind of scared.
What was the goofiest entry this year? Slovenia? That wasn't even that goofy! Austria's burning piano was a goofy part of an otherwise non-goofy entry.
Mavromatis
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It is obvious that Big Five produces losers. Just get in the semi finals like the rest.
No one remembers who won for good reason.
ARD probably has Stefan Raab on the phone right now.
Fantastapotamus
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Übermatik;164969211 said:
I mean....it's a "big" deal.
I'd rather have zero points then 2 but I don't think our song was THAT bad.
But then again, I don't care and at least I can expect some great headlines.
We should just send Alf Poier next year. I mean, yeah, he is an asshole and seems pretty transphob but that would reflect Austria much better than Wurst.
There's a legit chance it's never coming back and I'm kind of scared.
What was the goofiest entry this year? Slovenia? That wasn't even that goofy! Austria's burning piano was a goofy part of an otherwise non-goofy entry.
Georgia was kinda scary. Like an audition for a part in Wicked.
MudoSkills
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Sadly, it's a risk singing in your native language. I remember Tatu entering when they were every much thing and singing in Russian, everyone was convinced that if they had sung in English instead they would have walked it.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TouzY3_yq0
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TouzY3_yq0
Red Arremer
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There's a legit chance it's never coming back and I'm kind of scared.
What was the goofiest entry this year? Slovenia? That wasn't even that goofy! Austria's burning piano was a goofy part of an otherwise non-goofy entry.
Moldova was the only legit goofy entry. UK was pretty goofy though. Azerbaijan's spazzy dancers were also damn goofy. And it was very goofy how badly San Marino's singers sang.
Germany won in 2010, Italy had good results in the last years, so it doesn't really matter. Send a good song and you will get points, it's pretty simple.
wait what? There are headlines about Eurovison in Germany?
DiddysKongQuest
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SecretMoblin
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relative to the rest of europe ESC is very big in the German-speaking world
Mavromatis
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We won that year with an English song and had the language discussion for years. Tried both ways and never got the same result.
Fantastapotamus
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Ho boy, you have no idea.
Germany is (or possibly was) REALLY into Eurovision.
Austria not that much, but after we won last year I expect people cared more than ever
Exactly.
Daria Morgendorffer
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Kind of disappointed about Sweden winning because I didn't really think the song was any good. I think from the top 5 I liked Russia and Australia the best.
I also really hope we'll have another guest country next year and that Australia will be allowed to enter again too.
I also really hope we'll have another guest country next year and that Australia will be allowed to enter again too.
Daniel Jackson
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I love Germany, great country. But going home with 0 points - I'm definitely feeling a bit of schadenfreude
Mavromatis
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If Germany, UK and France had their songs in Semi-Finals they wouldn't be in Finals. Thus no zero point fiascoes. If there is no competition for that spot there isn't much effort.
Due to ESC shops will be closed until Tuesday.
Melon Husk
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Oh good, they count the votes. Bring Canada in next time too, eh?
I really enjoyed Germany's performance. Poor Germany. She wasn't Lena but close.
Red Arremer
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From what I can tell, not really. Most people just scoff at it, and thought it was silly that Conchita won. There wasn't really much "pride" in the victory, I saw more disgust and shame at us sending a drag queen and only winning cause she stands for gay rights. Austria is not as open and modern as it tried to present itself this year. It still has fairly spartan LGBT laws, to the point of the EU having to literally force the Austrian government to adjust their adoption laws to reach EU standards.
That's a very bad reason for a win/loss, and it's one of the reasons I don't care for the results. Even if it's a risk, I think it's still better.
Beside, the "risk" for many countries would be to win the contest. Many countries simply don't want to win because it's costly...
Err...
Same in Austria.
MudoSkills
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As we're sharing great moments in the history of Euro-vis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ920cN2HmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ920cN2HmA
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