I am angry this morning.
When Eric Saade sang Popular in 2011, and hosted the green room in 2013, being a Swedish-Palestinian artist was about multiculturalism and how open and welcoming and diverse Europe is.
That wasn’t the message last night.
What changed, EBU?
🇬🇧 United Kingdom - First Rehearsal
"There’s a big room set on stage, lined with dirty tiles and shower heads. The camera angles keep changing so it feels like the room is rotating, backed by a spinning black hole graphics on the LED." (u/Eurovision)
#Eurovision
[📸 EBU]
One reason Fuego and Slo Mo worked so well is that Eleni and Chanel looked like they were having fun. They were great dancers, but the dancing served the song. In Unicorn, Noa just looks like she’s invited us to watch her finish her CrossFit workout. It’s not fun.
I’m angry at the EBU for coasting on “Eurovision is a postwar project designed to unite Europe and foster peace” myth for years and then not sticking to those ideals.
Much love to
@Conor_O_Donohoe
who is getting a torrent of abuse today. Wild Youth could have hidden behind PR but they've been standing up against a anti trans pile on. They're really backing up their song lyrics with action.
Look, here is what we know:
- This year was one of the most diverse at Eurovision
- Artists faced racial abuse prior to the show
- Artists of colour scored lower than predicted
Why are people tying themselves up in knots to deny that racism was a factor in this result?
UK press, you are now making Maneskin answer a question about why the UK does bad at Eurovision. PLEASE REMOVE YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR SELF-INVOLVED ASS
#Eurovision
Just got the broad results back from my dissertation and I GOT AWAY WITH IT AHAHAHA I EARNED A MASTERS DEGREE IN ART HISTORY WRITING ABOUT LET 3 AND KONSTRAKTA AND HOW THEY ARE CARRYING ON THE TRADITION OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN NEW ART PRACTICE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Folx, this
#Eurovision
season has ALREADY given us:
- Lolita Zero
- Raum
- ALL of San Remo
- Chaos in San Marino
- A giant boob
- Superman
- Moldovan gear grinding
- That Irish selection show
- The Finnish powerhouse
- SO MANY DISASTER BOPS
It's a pretty good year so far!
Sorry for the delay in tweeting this happened and now I am a ghost who has had to figure out how to use a touchscreen phone with no corporeal being
#LEP2019
I have thoughts which I am both too tired and not eloquent enough to express well, but I am so tired of living in a society where the end consumer -an individual with the least amount of power - is handed the moral responsibility for the decisions of the producers of a product.
That is a fantastic result for the contest but that does not change everything that went wrong with the contest this year, especially this week. The EBU can't just think that everything is OK because things ended well. Changes need to be made.
#Eurovision
Switzerland is YIKES. We don't need to see simulated bombing on stage. Going from Croatia which is satirizing Putin and his grip on Eastern Europe to this "boo hoo war bad" is a real whiplash and not in a good direction.
#Eurovision2023
I cannot believe that Latvia has hung Samanta Tina out to dry like this. Some weird graphics in the background? She should have pyro and a wind machine and a giant crown and confetti and fifteen glasses of wine she drinks while performing. She is a ball of chaos!
#Eurovision
HMMMMMMMMMMMM
"we've never expressly banned you"
Also
We haven't included you on the list of what's allowed in the venue
Maybe it's me being autistic, but if you don't put it on the list of what's allowed, that kind of means it's NOT allowed?
I appreciate the positive reply from
@EBU_HQ
regarding my concerns raised on the ban of the EU flag during the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
United by Music
United by our Flag 🇪🇺
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GO DAN asking about the nonbinary flag
Nemo - "I had to smuggle my flag in....this is clearly a double standard....I broke The Code and I broke the Trophy; maybe the EBU needs a little bit of fixing as welll."
#Eurovision
@KJP_Art
I was at the jury show, and they usually try to have the exact same show so they can swap in the footage. He wasn't there, so I don't think he's coming.
Two things are coming to mind right now:
1. Safeguarding/mental health has been swirling on the edges of this season - La Zarra's and Mae's tweets have raised this - and I'd really be interested to know what safeguarding/mental health measures are in place for (1/2)
Any Eurofan complanining about the ubiquity of Mans Zelmerlow needs to sit through a Eurovision season in the UK, where the only song that apparently exists is "Making Your Mind Up."
I can't help but note how incredibly sad I am that we're remembering a party in Tel Aviv when bombing is happening right now in Gaza. This isn't meant to be a political statement, but just a sincere wish for peace, which is what Eurovision is supposed to be about.
I have to resume normal life tomorrow and real people will tell me their opinion about what they say (because I "like Eurovision") and I will have to grit my teeth and smile politely and not say "Actually here are the 47 reasons that assertion is flat out wrong and a bad take"
Mae Muller is not going to win. HOWEVER, she has brought a fun and poppy song and a great attitude and is teaching the UK to have a good time in Eurovision without all the baggage of 'ugh Europe hates us'. It's not about winning, folks!
#Eurovision2023
I AM GOING TO EUROVISION! (Jury shows, which is what I always pick so I can see it live and on TV)
Now to find the Euro club which will actually be a Euroclub!
Edgar Allan Poe is a classic example of how a woman in an office feels pressure to claim *her* work is the product of a man's genius, rather than her efforts. In this essay for International Women's Day I will
#poepoepoe
i am too angry now but when the dust settles I feel like I might be writing a long thinkpiece about how female-fronted, high energy pop music is seen as less "real music" than male-fronted acts which do not have even a tenth of the choreography or staging.
#Eurovision
Okay, can we end the chatter about how Serhat took someone's place? He qualified with a song that was positive with a message of hope and affirmation for an audience that has traditionally been marginalised. He's also the sexiest fucking dentist on the planet.
#Eurovision
Seriously, the lyrics to Serbia are pure poetry - there's a verse where Konstrakta talks about walking her dog on a spring day, the skirts swishing against her legs, musing on the wonders of the body, and then moving to think about what happens when she gets sick
#Eurovision
Hey all - I realize the
#Songvakeppnin
results are disappointing, but please don't take it out on Hera Bjork. She's an icon of the Icelandic music industry and has been supportive of acts like Hatari. Blame the televoters, not her.
Okay, Iceland is coming up, and it's a chill country vibe, but offstage, Systur have been super vocal about LGBTQ+ activism - one is queer, and one is a mother of a trans child. We love them!
#Eurovision
Citi Zeni do not belong in Eurovision, where they are constrained by the 3 minute format. They need a Eurovision that will let them do a 10 minute funk remix with three sax solos and everyone yelling "PUSSY" in a conga line.
Eurovision is political. It has always been political. But there’s a difference between the smart power/national identity political, where countries use access to the world stage to introduce themselves and highlight their values and culture, to the large P political.
I don't care where you come from....
at the end of the day we are all human beings
my father once told me the world has no borders
these are the messages that are why I love the Eurovision Song Contest
these are messages I wish I were hearing from the official EBU this year
Serious tweet here: while we've been on lockdown, the virtual Eurovision community has been a lifeline, so thank you all on Twitter for making me cackle with your hot takes, and especial thanks to everyone who's laughed at one of my jokes.
No one is saying racism is the only reason why these artists didn't score well. Montaigne was live on tape. There were vocal hiccups across the board. But considering that people outright sent racist abuse to acts before the show, maybe we should be talking about racism?
I have an important
#Eurovision
related announcement:
I ran into Nemo and they said they loved my glasses.
(I then promotly lost my cool and shouted "And I love YOU")
Non-Eurovision friends, please stop asking who is going to win Eurovision because there are so many good songs and great artists and the only reason we want to know who wins is so we know where to reserve hotel rooms tomorrow
Can you imagine what a private concert with Samanta Tina would be like? I can't. And I mean, I can't. There are too many possibilities of what could happen.
Watching Gustaph get surprised by his students makes me want to see him in a gentle prank show. Like he shows up at a restaurant and the waiter messes up his order and then it turns out the waiter is Loreen in disguise and Gustaph does this:
I am still buzzing this morning - this was possibly the best Eurovision I've ever experienced. There was so much love and warmth and acceptance and thanks to every Twitter mutual I randomly accosted on the street being so nice.
Finland may seem like a joke song but Kaarijaa is singing about how you may feel like you need to drink to be comfortable enough to be the person you really are. The great thing about Kaarijaa is that he's just started being the person he really is
#Eurovision2023
So it turns out that it's not really a band-heavy year but we keep calling it that as an inept description for another trend, and all of this makes me sad and angry.