Eurovision 2022

[motodraconis]

Fuck me... this video, it's a tear jerker. (I'd heard that the band are returning to the front line in Ukraine now.)

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There has been the odd comment of..."well of course Ukraine was going to win." (Implying that the song itself was not good enough.) I confess, I am personally not a fan of the rapped bits but the other vocals are haunting and mesmerising which I utterly loved, and they were great on stage too.

For those who do not know how points are given, the scoring is more significant than at first glance. You see, half the points are given by a team of judges in 40 countries, and Ukraine got average points overall. It was only when the peoples' votes came in that Ukraine won by a landslide number of points from the phone ins. A political message? Certainly, but not a bad one, the people of Europe support Ukraine, albeit the sort of people that watch Eurovision. That is actually a more subtly powerful message than might be imagined at a cursory glance.

Comments

[kirundo]

I totally wanted to watch it yesterday and I kinda fell asleep which really annoyed me, watching it back without the live twitter feed makes no sense. Love the political scoring part, from what I heard Austria hasn't given the Ukraine one.single.point....

[motodraconis]

I added an infographic to the post after you commented, and it looks like Ukraine got the top mark from the phone in of Austrians. So yeah, while the Austrian judges were stingy, the Austrian public where not.

[kirundo]

I see :) that's not that bad then. Since we got kicked out for a really really bad song Austria didn't even bother to report it in the news, at least not the print ones I read. Strange times. Conchita wouldn't approve.