#ESC Germany

[menneskeforbruger]

still laughing at la zarra, lord of the lost and marco mengoni being asked what they can’t live without and la zarra and lord of the lost said their respective children and marco mengoni said his plant (singular)

[copper-sands]

my two personal winners

[hextechmaturgy]

EVERYONE LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW

[aquareegia]

Thought I'd share with everyone, who doesn't speak German. In yesterday's livestream with ESC Kompakt, LOTL shared some thoughts about the voting system and the impact of juries in Eurovision. I think they speak for a lot of us here, bc these are issues we point out every year.

Chris: "Generally I have an opinion about the ESC, specific things and the voting system. I don't say this because I'm searching for excuses or I want to say "yeah, but we were actually in sixteenth place in the televoting and blah blah blah". I'm not trying to sugarcoat the result but generally I think if I were responsible for the ESC and could make changes, I'd firstly get rid of the big 5. We realised it backstage at the semi finals, everyone was so happy, they fought hard, they did it and you walk along and... nobody gives you dirty looks but everyone is congratulating eachother and you're just there and feel bad because you're automatically in the final. That's the first thing.

Secondly that only the first ten get points. When 26 countries are competing, it would be nice if we could implement a system where everyone gets points. Maybe weighted differently but still get points. I think that would be nice.

And finally, sorry if I'm getting ahead of myself, I don't want to start arguing but I'm a big fan of the people's choice! I think it doesn't matter how good and professional a member of the jury is, we're all human and we all have different preferences. And maybe there's someone (in the jury) from country xy, like a great schlager singer that won the ESC in the 60's confronted with a guy like Käärijä. Maybe she doesn't understand why an entry like this is a smart, artistic, great entry in today's ESC world, and says "What's this trash? He doesn't even sing." You know what I mean? Those are three things I'd change."

Pi: "You have... how many was it? 136 from all countries? And you have millions of audience votes and the fact that this is weighted 50/50. A small handful of people have the same impact as millions of people, in direct comparison, they actually have more impact. I think it's always problematic when a small group of people have the most power. For example, without trashing the rich, but the billionaires of the world, as few as they are, have more influence than regular people. And that's... I think that's questionable."

Despite the criticism I really like how positive they are and say that they'd participate again anytime, just because of how much they enjoyed the general experience.

[thefairyquill]

'scream for me liverpool' was the hardest way to enter this madness of a song

[chuuyxs]

On a not so angry note like all my last eurovision posts.

It's really touching to see that so many people that aren't German agree that we had a good song for once and deserved higher points.

[melodianaartist]

“Why are you so angry. You should boycott the Esc anyway.”

I mean I’m not gonna pretend it doesn’t feel very concerning that in this international competition the public is beeing more and more disempowered and now the chefsache Jury can just censor people before wr even get a choice even though the favourite is obvious.

But like a powerful man was blatantly sexist on tv, nobody fucking said anything (even though Schöneberger had just been appreciating the band in question, she suddenly agrees with him) and he is beeing lauded as some sort of national treasure.

I just..of course I know sexism is still a thing but seeing it happen so egregiously on tv and it going unchecked still feels very dystopian idk. It makes me feel hopeless.

[kamomillen]

Swedish commentator about Germany's entry:

If Germany comes last place this year as well it will be a record.

[13-wonder-writer]

Honey wake up, der NDR hat die Verantwortung für den ESC abgegeben

[beliefinthepossibilityofmagic]

Unpopular opinion but Germany was better than Sweden and deserved better

[bluemoonpurpledragon]

Germany can’t be last this year, like come on people 😭

[silverraes]

My only two moods rn:

- Cha Cha Cha

- Cha Cha Cha (LOTL cover)

[visenya-targarye]

manifesting high placements for Austria, Albania, Finland , Czechia, Australia, Moldova, Germany, Slovenia and Croatia 🕯️🕯️🕯️

[silvaradragontear]

I don’t hate it & he does have a great voice. But not one of my top 5.

[chuuyxs]

AS A GERMAN IM SO PROUD OF OUR ENTRY THIS YEAR I LOVE IT