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Fuck I forgot about Lordi.
It’s funny because they’re the only ones I remember from the last 30-odd years
As a German person I doubt I will ever forget Lena.
She is still around and posting … interesting photos of herself.
What do you mean "... interesting"? It's a normal ig feed
She had a gig at a local festival near me.
She saw a guy throw a plastic cup of mud at his buddy and said smth like "wow you guys are SO disgusting"
Then the entire audience threw dirty cups and trash onto the stage.
Good times.
Especially hard to forget are her nudes.
tell me more
Maneskin were decent
I can't get over poland never winning. Didn't they have the suggestive milk maids one year ?
They did. Don't know how they didn't win that year.
https://youtu.be/syMhJMmGEIc?si=CnIZW2G_Oo5RGWb0
I loved that song. If I remember correctly, one of the judges said 'it had one too many pairs of boobs' in the video, or something like that.
So basically it was too hetero for Eurovision .......Makes notes for next year
Need to milk something gayer looking.......
I mean, Olly Alexander kinda had the equivalent this year and he didn't get a lot of points, they both looked ridiculous to me (sorry, songs were both good IMO).
But we did have male butts this year HAHAH, lots of nudity in general.
Even without the gratuitous cleavage shots, it's a nice song and video. I don't know who their competition was, but they should have been a contender.
Poland cannot into eurovision
Should've been Käärijä 😥
Lordi are cool
Didn't Dima Bilan (the singer pictured in Russia) end 2nd that year ?
He finished 2nd in 2006 but in 2008 he won.
Wait? They actually won? I found them by chance on Spotify and enjoy their music but I would have never guessed, that they actually won Eurovision once.
Same, hard rock hallelujah is just a banger
Eurovision peaked at that moment
Love portugal photobombing spain.
Got to see them as opener for Sabaton (along with Babymetal) last year
Dudes Ruled so hard that I completely forgot they hadn't even played Hardrock Hallelujah yet.
I forget about Conchita wurst 😭
Lordi slaps hard imo
I'm in love with a faiiryy taaaaleee eeevveeeennn thoooooooo it huuuuuuurts
cause I don’t caaaaaaaare if I lose my miii iiiiiiiiind I’m alreeeeeeeeaady cuuuuuuursed
Violin solo
One of the best Eurovision songs to date imo
I love nordic fairy and I hate dark witch!
Lordy, absolute legends
Saw them live a few weeks ago, and they've still got it!
France hasn't won since 77'?!?!
The Fatals Picards should have won in 2007. Fight me
J'aime beaucoup les fatals picards mais le titre proposé par les wampas était bien mieux.
Ps: c'est mon avis personnel qui n'a strictement aucune valeur.
As a french Patricia Kaas Amir and Slimane were only good singers I followed. The rest were trash songs with a no name bands that totally deserve the last place, due to the very poor choice.
Barbara Pravi was great
IIRC she also wrote songs for eurovision kids, which France won twice in a row!
No, because of shitty song, at every eurovision, we send the worst possible singer possible among our, except for 2019 maybe
Patricia Kaas, Anggun, Amir, Alma, Barbara Pravi, La Zarra and Slimane are the worst possible singers possible but Bilal Hassani isn't ? Lmao what a shitty take, you surely aren't biased at all
I confused it with 2021 sorry. and yes they were all bad. in france saying of someone that they could sing at eurovision is an insult
No wonder you keep losing with that attitude lmao. Maybe you should send interesting acts!
I liked the 2017 one. And this year was a good one too.
The reason I started watching Eurovision was Lordi, 15 yrs ago. Feels old, man
Spoiler alert, 2006 was 18 years ago 😬
I tought you were lying or playing jokes on us but no, they really won in 2006. 18 frikin years ago. I would have said they won like 6-7 years ago based on my memory, never 18.
2004 for me (Ruslana Wild Dancing). 2000s really was the peak of Eurovision to me, so many memorable songs
Best song of eurovision.
It's still played at parties sometimes, real banger.
Katrina and the Waves in 1997? The Walking on Sunshine band? Wow.
The Uk only have 2 real finishing positions, second and last.
Everytime Ireland win, the UK are either the runners up or the hosts.
Actually Ireland have never won in the UK but the UK’s last two wins were in Dublin. The UK has, however, come 2nd 18 times, the last in 2022.
I too was surprised
I always assumed Eurovision was up-and-comers...not bands with massive hits everyone knows.
Not that I know. But big stars don't want to participate because there is nothing to win and much to lose. Imagine that Ireland sends U2 and they end in the 18th position.
We could ask them to go, as long as you don't send bono back. Deal ?
They sent a member of Westlife one year, it didn’t work out
The UK mainly trying to find a "solution" to winning, they found it a few years ago with Sam Ryder but then promptly forgot it.
The UK has way more artists everyone knows than the rest of Europe. They are bound to send someone famous every once in a while.
Olly Alexander is the singer of Years & Years which has had a few hits too.
Picked a terrible song this year though, and the performance was flat and cringy.
I’m not so sure about that. In both the U.K. and in Ireland the Eurovision isn’t seen as something for serious acts. You could risk being categorised as a ‘Eurovision act’
I know there have been exceptions, but the if you take Ireland for example, the big winners mostly just remain famous for just being in the Eurovision. They generally haven’t gone on to more interesting careers, and I’m not aware of any serious act that’s been platformed by the Eurovision here.
It is seen as a bit of a tackfest and isn’t really taken very seriously.
I think our Irish entrant this year, Bambie Thug, may well use it to launch themselves into a bigger career, but they’re an exception and they’re also rather a niche act that few were aware of.
The biggest success story of the Eurovision here by far was Riverdance, an interval act. That really didn’t have any public association with the song contest though and just grew very rapidly.
The Ukrainian artist Ruslana, who won in 2004, had actually sold more records than Madonna but was still unknown in the western world.
This year's UK entry Olly Alexander has had a nr1 hit across Europe and the US with his band Years n Years before with the song "King". In 2022 Finland sent the Rasmus, which had a huge hit with "In the Shadows" in 2003. In 2021 San Marino sent US artist FloRida and in 2019 Finland sent Darude, who's famous for "Sandstorm" and there's more examples that I can't think of rn
Thats a rule set by some nations during selection process but its no a requirement for the ESC itself.
Lol what nations exactly? Because I know quite a few that have sent repeatedly some of their greatest singers to try and win it. (Like Greece sending their no.1 most famous male singer in 04 and when he failed to win they sent their no.1 female singer in the next year that did win).
In Italy the rule is "whoever wins Sanremo", Sanremo being the national music festival held in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. Sometimes up-and-coming artists win, while other times more established artists win (and sometimes really baffling songs win).
The only restriction is that the song has to be in the Italian language, so you probably don't know any of the artists or the the songs anyways.
Nah it's quite often big stars, but usually a big star in Slovenia is precieved as an unknown by the rest of Europe.
Like Slovenia in general.
don't look up 1988 winner
Never heard of her, but i hear her heart will go on.
The fact that Norwegian winner is actually a Belorussian and performed his "Fairytale" in Russian a few months later.
Norway also famous for one of first ever "null points".
Was suprised that it's Norway too
Central Europe is hugely underrepresented. I am wondering why?
Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary have only participated a few times.
Poland has participated quite consistently but got unlucky I guess.
Though Ukraine has already won three times and came close to winning several times (verka serduchka unforgotten)
Poland keep sending shitty songs. They will snap out of it some day. Kinda like Spain.
As a Spaniard, our performance is just so frustrating. We had one fun song in 2022 that got us 3rd place and instead of taking the hint that that's the kind of thing we should be sending we immediately went back to sending shit that ranges between boring and embarrassing like we've always done smh
It's especially strange because Spanish music historically has been pretty top tier
The 2023 entry was great and unique though? But it also clearly wasn't intended to be accessible enough to win.
Zorra was good I thought.