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foxmulderautism · 10 months ago

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omffggg so bashar murad, the palestinian artist who collaborated with hatari (iceland’s eurovision act who held palestinian flags during the voting) and is now trying to represent iceland at eurovision, he had his first performance and qualified to the final of their national selection and HIS PERFORMANCE IS SOOOO GOOD he did amazing. it’s full of palestinian flag colours, watermelon imagery, the choreography is inspired by a traditional dance, and like i’m just so happy for him i’ve been following his music since 2021 (maskhara is a great ep btw!!!!) and the idea that there might be palestinian representation at eurovision, on such a massive stage that has also been used for such vile propaganda that the ebu welcomed, i just wish him nothing but the best

#it sounds like the icelandic broadcaster is v supportive of him bc apparently he talked about what’s going on during the show #the song is called Wild West you can find clips of it on twitter #he learned icelandic for the semi final performance and you can tell how much it means for him to have qualified #as for Them the current rumour is that they’ll get disqualified over their song lyrics #which btw their propaganda song is literally called OCTOBER RAIN what the fuck #the lyrics got published and they are vile. but apparently they refuse to change them #fuck the ebu and eurovision either way because like yes disqualify them but it’s too little too late #but I would love to see that stage be used for something positive. keeping an eye on updates #there’s also quite a few artists representing other countries who have protested Israel’s participation #but have said they thought it was better if they still participate #which has me curious like are you guys organising something?? because that doesn’t matter unless you do something #you’ve got one chance with one of the biggest states and platforms if you’re going to go up there actually. do something worthwhile!

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