#it’s only a music contest

[the-pulp-almanac]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

My brain at any given moment: Nyt lähden tanssimaan niikku cha cha cha enkä pelkääkään tätä maailmaaaaahaaa...

[guardianwallace]

give us a proper wallace contest performance pokemon

[nb2000]

"They can't cut the flag parade from the Grand Final, it's traditional!" Flag parade only started in 2013.

"They can't take away the slogans, it's traditonal!!" Slogans only started in 2002.

"The results are supposed to be chosen by the public!!!" Public voting was introduced in 1998 and the split Jury/Public system introduced in 2009.

"They should just cut down on the result announcements if they want to save time so badly!!!!" So, the one thing that can go is the one thing that has always been a part of the Eurovision Song CONTEST?

[veilchenjaeger]

Feeling high amounts of "They should get rid of the jury votes" tonight

[spagkeitti]

I just know theyre always gossiping

[suspiciouslandlady]

Sweetheart, Swedes aren't upset at all. We don't care about winning in the first place, it's fucking Eurovision!! 😂😂

We are just amused by the hysterical meltdowns people are having because Finland didn't win. It's absolutely insane behavior, you know that right? You people are pissing your pants over a music competition. Celebrate your second place, truly, be happy! That is not a problem ever. The problem is when Loreen gets threats, people claim conspiracies 😂😂 and act like lunatics.

Just look at yourself. You're 26, a grown woman, this upset over E-u-r-o-v-i-s-i-o-n. Unless you're chronically online you should probably have other priorities. Right?

Also, I think Loreen's song sucked. I also think Finland's song sucked just as much. Obviously others liked them. Deal with it.

Sincerely,

A Swede baffled by the unhinged hysterics over shitty songs

You're right. I'm a grown woman who has other priorities right now. But I'm not upset about Eurovision, I'm upset about the xenophobia your media is doing against my country because of what? Finnish televoters didn't give points to Sweden.

Is that a reason to attack verbally Finland? Be okay when YOUR media says some colonist shit that has no room in the year 2023. And to Finland, who's been standing on its toes ever since Russia attacked Ukraine because it's reminding us about our own war against Russia. There's not even 100 years yet when the Winter War between Finland and USSR happened.

Every Swede who doesn't feel bad that their media is calling Finland "the former eastern part of the kingdom". Or if you want it to be written to you as the journalist said, "Tv-tittarna i tidigare östra rikshalvan gav nämligen Sverige noll(!) poäng under Eurovisionfinalen på lördagen." is being the problem here.

Even if it's only one yellow media journalist writing stuff like that, it's sowing the seed of hatred between these two countries. And every single Swede who is okay with shit like that appearing in their media without saying a word about how stupid and unnecessary that was are agreeing with this colonist shit.

Calling another country a dumb nation over televote points is in my books the epitome of pettiness. Especially when the said bully even won the competition.

This is becoming more political because of a song competition. And it's SWEDEN that's making it all political at this point. Not Finland.

[mevmeryem]

The crossover I didn't know I needed – official Instagram of SIX giving a heart to Norway's song at Eurovision 💜💜💜

[suplexingsteve]

Um actually is feeling more like a comedy panel show and less like jeopardy. On one hand that feels much more like the brand of dropout on the other hand I love trivia and I'm kinda missing the vibe. It's ifys first season so I won't make any type of generalization

[upsidedowngrass]

was looking at some wiki pages, and saw it noted that season one wouldve only had 2 episodes. and. that made me think about how, if THATS how one was presented, if those two had been given episodes on their own? as an object show, without any other context? i think thatd like. legitimately be extremely horrifying

(put under a readmore bc it IS a bit lengthy. notes are ALSO a bit lengthy bc i am talkative)

like, airy is already a terrible host, but hed be even LESS good at it than in the actual series. the plane in season one doesnt seem to even have the grass blades, so i imagine theres no trees anywhere, either (geographic details and weather, stuff along those lines, seem to have been hard to figure out, given that he seems excited to add the clouds, and likely wouldve added them already if hed already known how to make them), which, with the added realism to the characters, would probably be far more uncanny (assuming theres also a stinger showing one-two of the contestants Actual life). it doesnt stand out much in terms of object shows, of course, but if presented with the reality of how empty it is, and how odd it is compared to real environments? i think that it wouldnt seem Right

nobody would know why theyre there, and probably wouldnt want to be there. at the very least, airy had concepts and lines to tell the contestants in the series. judging by what he says in ep 17, though, they didnt get this. there is even less clarity. add to that that julien is likely Extremely Confused And Alarmed, the others would probably be more inclined to share that stress. there would be.. a Lot less clarity, and a lot more unease among the contestants. add to that, that based on what oscar says, airy kept almost accidentally killing them. without any reassurance that theyll be brought back

by the end of the first episode, nobody is dead, of course. but its unlikely that anyone is especially happy with the situation theyre in (even if airy brought up a prize, he wouldnt be reassuring, and there is far more risk than there was for the actual series’ contestants, so even a contestant who wants to compete would probably not feel especially safe). i cant imagine what a post credits scene would involve, but it probably wouldnt change much in terms of tone

the second episode would certainly start out normally. oscar would go home, cool. no new contestants are introduced, so airy starts the challenge. and then they all die. and the episode ends (there COULD be a post credits scene, but i dont imagine it could be reasurring)

and that would simply be the end of it.

[britneyshakespeare]

you know i don't know if everyone else watched alter ego (2021) the shitty competition singing show where everyone is a vtuber. no in fact i know nobody watched it but me. but i can't get over how bad it was, how it was just the worst version of itself it could've possibly been. how it was both strange and unsettling and yet mind-numbingly boring and predictable at the same time. how will.i.am and nick lachey, who have very different musical capabilities and philosophies, were both for some reason judges even though they and the rest of the panel would somehow have completely incompatible views of what kind of performer should go forward. how grimes was one of the judges, but they called her a "producer and innovator" because i guess "influencer" isn't pretentious enough to describe the then-partner of elon musk. how alanis morissette was there for some fucking reason. i can't stress to you enough idk why alanis was there. how the least interesting contestant who could've possibly won, won. how

[because-its-eurovision]

It’s true though, you look great in your new shirt and I’m glad someone said it first cos I got too shy 😅

Also I still can’t believe you got to go to the show, it sounds like it was amazing and I’m loving the pictures and videos everyone who went is posting ♡

you are too nice 💞

I still can't believe it either, feels like a dream. It gets even better because we heard someone saying at the queue that 15.000 people had tried to get the tickets, and I just saw Radio Rock's ig story that said that there was only one hundred winners O_O

@thisisntaparty is the luckiest mf in the world

[itseverydaybear]

✨ Happy Eurovision week folks! ✨

Remember that a Eurovision blorbo is for life, not just for Eurovision! Many of them have made music before, and plenty of them will make music after (often around Eurovision time)..

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Just rewatched Promare again for the first time in years and it is still so deeply soothing and cathartic for my soul :')

[ayoyoungg]

the funniest thing about peak time is determining whether the group is nugu because of money/reseources/management or because the music sucks 🙃

[alanaisalive]

Now that Eurovision is over, I want you all, especially the Americans, to take a good hard look at how the voting results turned out when people boycotted the event.

In the UK, the viewing figures were down about 2 million people compared to last year. Up to 2 million people made the conscious decision to not watch and not vote because of Israel's inclusion.

The final results of the public vote, Israel came in first place in the UK and got 12 points. Because the only people watching and voting were people who backed Israel or at least didn’t care one way or another.

This doesn't matter. It's a music contest. The boycott was still the right thing to do because it is just a show at the end of the day, and the viewing figures have more impact than the results.

But it is also a good object lesson to show you what happens if you boycott a vote over something that does matter. Choosing not to vote in, let's say, a presidential election will have similar results.

[lost-generation-lights]

Jess Mariano walks into the Stars Hollow Gazette after at least 4 years of not seeing Rory Gilmore and just...??? Has her opening up immediately, confessing her whole messy life, oversharing with him about underwear as if they talk all the time, AND THEN gives her (another) dose of life-altering advice that shapes the course of her future hahahahahah what the frick