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Easy, if you send a lifted middle finger to the contest, you get a lifted middle finger back in response.
Brits liked to say that one can’t perform well with serious music. I am glad about Australia.
We’re literally less popular than an ethnostate that is committing war crimes live on streaming.
Well, it probably doesn’t help that Graham Norton comments the Eurovision every year. And makes fun of it. Used to even openly mock it.
Maybe entertaining to watch, but gives completely different precident to the show that other counties have.
If you’re taking something as a joke, you shouldn’t be surprised you come in last.
That being said: Fuck EBU. From disqualifiying the Netherlands last year to keeping double standards all across the board.
It’s not about songs or nationalities any more. It’s only about money.
Sam was a bold choice to represent the UK at ESC - and I think the general public just is not prepared for nerdy retro music, played on equipment self built by the performer on his modular synthesizer.
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I read similar things in Germany about the whole procedure. And surprise - we’re fighting UK for the last place almost every year.
I thought it was part of their strategy to ensure they don’t have to pay to host the thing?
They paid to host on behalf of Ukraine, and the BBC is the biggest financial contributor.
It was supposed to be read tongue-in-cheek, I know the UK is part of the big five that carries the largest financial burden of the ESC. :)
Correct
I thought the bit in the lyrics about £ feeling fake and he wanting € to counter would get more appreciation from the continent but I guess I think too politically.
Dude, UK was in my top five.
Just watched the highlights Israel against that banger from Bulgaria and Ukraine nowhere to be seen. I love Sam’s channel, but his music isn’t great still total props for sending the DIY eurorack over yet another record label test paper. Not that the actual song really matters in Eurovision.
Yeah Ukraine had the song,the politics, and the theatre, jokes
Isn’t it because the UK entry is chosen by committee? Have a national contest where the winner is chosen by popular vote. Problem solved, no?
No, it’s because any UK act decent enough already has access to much better publicity than the ESC.
Lame excuse. Australia doesn’t
Eh… ESC is how Celine Dion got famous. Obviously doesn’t happen every year, but clearly it is seen as a possible launch vehicle for careers.
Dutch entry is chosen by a committee and they tend to score much higher as the UK (at least the last decade or so). So maybe just switching to a different committee would be enough. But i’m all in favour of national contests, sounds awesome.
Right? Cheap content for the BBC too
Should be asking why they were even attending it in the first place. War crime enablers.
