#Eurovision halftime

[dargonjargon]

PLEASE INJECT BABY LASAGNA AND KÄÄRIJA DIRECTLY INTO MY BLOODSTREAM

[tinknevertalks]

Country two was Luxembourg?! Welp, now I know.

[riotdyke]

Americans treat the Super Bowl Halftime like Euros treat Eurovision and both and deeply obnoxious to me

[queen-mihai]

Random thought, but it might be worth saying since Tumblr is something like 43% users from North America:

I'm in Norway, and today is the superbowl. People here don't really give a rat's ass about the game. Some of them watch the commercials on YouTube or the halftime show if it's someone they recognize. But they don't follow teams like Americans do. In order for Europeans to understand the superbowl, and in order for Americans to understand that Europe DOES have something like this as well, we turn to the Eurovision Song Contest

Now, I have also caught eurovision on occasion as well, and it can be fun too. I'd put that on about the scale of the superbowl for the amount of attention it gets and how excited people are for following their "team".

With every country sending in a band or group or a performer and cheering them on? Oh and what's this? Advertisers KNOW that way more people are watching, so they put on much bigger and more lavish commercials during the song contest than they do the rest of the year? Oh damn. I guess we DO actually understand each other then, don't we?

As a very important side note: Eurovision is an important political time too. Which is why it's so, So SOOOOOOO disappointing that Isreal gets to perform and Palestine doesn't. Like Are. You. Fucking. Serious!?

For Americans to understand THIS;

Imagine the NFL fielded a team called the "School Shooters" and Let Them Play IN THE SUPERBOWL

I think that would piss you off too.

[alexstorm]

We in Europe attach great importance to what happens in the US, even things of little importance, sometimes they, but sometimes not even the news that can concern something bad or something important at a sporting level, for example, or cinema. Perhaps they don't have much money to send the journalists sent around Europe for example here we have envoys for each country who can sometimes be on the spot like in the center of Paris or London or they are in the television studios of the city of Berlin , Madrid for example or from Istanbul

They do have these journalists but again, they're mainly stationed in London, Paris or sometimes Berlin. It's more about interest. Those journalists are only there if something bad happens so they can report from the ground or when a global sporting event happens. Just think about how long it took them to discover the Eurovision. You knew Eurovision arrived in the US when Justin Timberlake did his "halftime show". lmao

[dargonjargon]

I am unreasonably happy for Gjon after the ‘will he won’t he’ about the high note last time, he fucking nailed that

[tinknevertalks]

Oh yeah, if you don't want my Eurovision thoughts, maybe put esc on the block list. This will be my personality until the halftime show (when I will go boil eggs for my picnic brunch tomorrow).

[luckybyler]

Just like sports tournaments have musical halftime performances, Eurovision should have a mini-football match as the interval act

[legolasofthewoodlandelves]

lbr here, if america wants in eurovision then they have to show the pure and utter dedication that australia showed for decades without a peep. they have to physically transport themselves to europe through willpower alone

[sister-pianist-chan]

And same in Inglis - (don't have time to translate verbatim, but I'll give y'all an idea.)

Basically, CCC was played during halftime at a Carolina Hurricanes game. (This is a team in the NHL for those who don't know Ice hockey. Lol) There were 19,000 spectators.

The Carolina Hurricanes has 4 Finnish players on the team. One of the players was asked if he knew why the song was played. He said that he didn't know why and maybe it's not that it gets people moving and it's popular.

Last year, CCC was played right after Eurovision (at a Dallas Stars game. The three Finnish players were also nicknamed Cha Cha Cha affectionately.)

I agree with OP. It's very sweet to hear that K's music is being played at Ice Hockey stadiums, especially because he used to play himself. 💚

NHLの会場でCha Cha Cha 🟢🟢🟢

北米の���ショナルアイスホッケーリーグNHLに所属し、米ノースカロライナ州に本拠を置くチーム、カロライナ・ハリケーンズ。そのホームゲームのハーフタイム中に、KäärijäのCha Cha Chaが流れているそうです。

詳しくないのでどの程度人気のチームなのかなどわからないのですが、記事によると客入りはおよそ19,000人。まぁまぁの人数のアメリカのアイホファンが、Käärijäの音楽を聴いていることになります👀

チームには4名のフィンランド人選手が所属しているそう。そのうちの一人に記者が、Cha Cha Chaがチョイスされているのはそれが理由？と尋ねていますが、彼は「それが理由かはわからない、でもふつうに盛り上がる曲でこっちでも人気だからじゃないかな？」といった感じで答えておられます。

ちなみに去年の5月、ユーロビジョン直後からすでに使われ始めていた様子。本人がご存知かはわかりませんが、彼のかつてのフィールドだったアイスホッケーの大舞台で彼の音楽が流れているのは感慨深いものがあります。

[missmarthanightingale]

am i hallucinating this orchestra thing? am i? i didn’t think i was that drunk??? i  thought there were more countries in europe?????

[zweedsanimatiepoppetje1]

People are reacting on Justin Timberlake's Halftime Show like we would react if a country sends a ballad to Eurovision

[iyeolie]

family culture in our house is you can’t use the shower if there is a färjestad hockey game going on

[nevermindirah]

setting my vpn to Marseille to stream Eurovision bc of my silly obsession with a silly fictional man and you know what I'm in great silly company with these neat people with their outfits, this is a delight, the Super Bowl halftime show could never

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

my understanding is the Super Bowl is how the u.s. elects the next American Idol who must then defeat the Eurovision Champion in a battle to the death thus becoming the next Emperor of Halftime, this is how politics are decided

[roskapanda]

I know I KNOW I share this every two months but hey, new international fans of ESC and Käärijä, have you seen the halftime show by Vesala on UMK last year? Yes, it was a halftime show, no it never competed. But it’s the quality we bring to the ESC table, especially being next to the Eurovision powerhouse Sweden. Just something different.