#maria sur

[under-the-ladder]

Congrats to M&M, I'm so happy for them but the truth is Jacqline, Dotter and Maria didn't deserve getting so few points ://

[notesofseptember]

'Cause I gave it my all

But I don't even think of you

[silvaradragontear]

Good start with Maria Sur. I also loved the groupsong of the last years eurovisionwinner. So far the final is of to a great start lets keep this energy up.

[stella-rose91]

And that was all six perfomances of second semifinal. The main question is who is the finalists?

And this is... LIAMOO!!!

And.... MARIA SUR!!!

Dear Sara and Fröken Snuske is at the Second Chance. Honestly, instead of Dear Sara i would gave a place in Second Chance for C-Joe. Song of dear Sara seemed for me a little boring.

Well, that's all for today's review. I wonder what will happen in third semifinal? We'll see. But for now, thank you for the reading and bye!

[dance-your-vision]

Maria has such a good voice, I just wish it could be used for something other than standard Mello Pop

[lunlumo]

beautiful

[laforzadelvoila]

My favorite songs of 2024

🇺🇦 Jerry Heil - #AllEyesOnKids

🇺🇦 Jerry Heil, Alyona Alyona - Подоляночка (Get Up)

🇵🇹 Rita Onofre - Criatura

🇮🇹 Annalisa - Sinceramente

🇦🇱 Elhaida Dani - Zemrës

🇮🇹 Clara - Diamanti grezzi

🇺🇦 Jerry Heil - Virgin Maria

🇺🇦 Jerry Heil, Alyona Alyona - Teresa & Maria

🇫🇮 Sara Siipola - Rakasta mua, rakasta mua, rakasta

🇫🇮 Sara Siipola - Paskana

🇫🇷 Barbara Pravi - Fantasme moi

🇫🇷 Barbara Pravi - Bravo

🇱���� ASKIN - Crystal Heart

🇸🇮 Raiven - Veronika

🇷🇸 Teya Dora - Ramonda

🇸🇮 Raiven - Elektrino srce

🇳🇴 Margaret Berger - Oblivion

🇺🇦 Maria Sur - When I’m Gone

🇵🇱 Luna - Alive

🇮🇷🇳🇱🇧🇷🇫🇷 Sevdaliza, Pablo Vittar, Yseult - Alibi

🇺🇸 Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather

🇺🇸 Billie Eilish - Chihiro

🇺🇸 Lady Gaga - Disease

🇺🇦 Jerry Heil, Julia Sanina - Wabi-Sabi

🇸🇮 Joker Out - Šta bih ja

🇹🇭🇪🇸 LISA, Rosalía - New Woman

🇱🇺🇭🇺🇨🇺 Naomi Ayé - Paumée sur terre

🇨🇦 Alessia Cara - Dead Man

🇦🇺🇺🇸🇦🇱🇲🇰🇸🇪 Kylie Minogue, Bebe Rexha, Tove Lo - My Oh My

🇺🇦 Jerry Heil, Volodymyr Dantes - Губи у губах

Other years: | 2023 |

[escinsight]

Melodifestivalen 2024: Everybody's Andra Chansen

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[bisexualrhee]

verserna är så mycket finare än refrängen js

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Interior de la Basilica de Maria Auxiliadora y San Carlos Borromeo en Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

[under-the-ladder]

And Maria Sur so low??

8 points for Dotter WHAAAT

[allgirlsareprincesses]

Hi. Not sure if you've answered this before, but do you have a list of books to recommend on fairytale/mythic analysis?

So I finally have a real response to this question, but it's LONG, be warned:

First, it depends what you want to get out of your folklore study, what lens you'd like to use for analysis. And second, it's important to know that the practice of folktale analysis has changed over time, especially in the last ~15 years or so as the scholarly consensus has evolved toward decolonization.

For example, the common historical starting place was Bruno Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment. Candidly, I haven't read it yet for a few reasons: 1) It focuses fairly exclusively on Western European fairy tales like those of Grimm, Basile, and Perrault. 2) It assumes the primary audience for such tales are children. 3) It's a white man's perspective, and there are already enough of those to go around. That said, it's considered a foundational text for folklore study, so I'll probably get to it eventually. There are some modern authors who might be considered scholarly successors of Bettleheim, like Maria Tatar. I haven't read her books yet but I know she's also a powerhouse of Western fairy tale analysis.

Some other popular perspectives include the works of Carl Jung and his protégés in psychoanalysis, Marie-Louise von Franz and Erich Neumann. These are wonderful sources for learning about depth psychology and the universal unconscious which causes certain motifs to recur in storytelling across the globe and over centuries. Another popular author in this field is Robert Bly, who dove deeply into the concept of the Shadow as it appears in folk tales.

But for me, my favorite sources have been a collection of feminist authors who were active in the late 80s and early 90s, notably Barbara Fass Leavy and the incomparable Clarissa Pinkola Estes. While their work is pretty firmly grounded in second-wave feminism and therefore not very intersectional as we understand it today, they were the first to begin exploring interpretations of folk tales outside of a patriarchal context. I personally refer to Leavy's In Search of the Swan Maiden and Estes' Women Who Run With the Wolves more than any other books.

A lot of the most current perspectives are only accessible via blogs, like Jeana Jorgensen AKA The Foxy Folklorist, who often explores fairy tales through a Queer lens. Another brilliant voice working today is Helen Nde of Mythological Africans, who is doing the long-overdue work of decolonizing African folklore.

And while all these sources will help you develop a framework for analysis, still one of the best things you can do is read the tales for yourself. One of my favorite series is that of Heidi Anne Heiner of Sur La Lune Fairy Tales, who has amassed impressive collections of folk tales of the same type from around the world, making comparison easy. She also provides excellent footnotes that offer context to the versions and translations she's selected, and every tale has a source.

Outside of that, I like to read regional collections from indigenous scholars and native speakers: some editors will even include a copy in the original language along with the English translation, thus allowing others to "check their work." One of my favorite folkorists like this is Inea Bushnaq, who collects Arab folktales and again provides accessible cultural context. It's important to remember that most oral folktales which are now available in English were first recorded by colonizers, so the versions we have may be edited, mistranslated, or even maliciously altered to suit Western tastes. This is why seeking out versions from actual members of indigenous communities is critical.

Right now, I'm reading The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan by Hayao Kawai, and I'm next going to try Oral World and Written Word by Susan Niditch. I tend to just go where the spirit moves me, journal a bit, go down a research rabbit hole about a particular topic... it's fun. But whatever you're looking to get out of your folk tale study, rest assured you will never run out of material!

[silvaradragontear]

Hmm I like Maria’s song! I don’t know if it’s gonna be a favorite yet.

[stella-rose91]

1)Maria Sur-When I'm Gone.

Super beginning. I love this song and Maria perfomed very well, although she was nervous, but she did a good job. I give full 10 points from 10.

[dance-your-vision]

Ngl Maria has an excellent voice, would not be upset if she went dtf

[les-larmes-d-eros]

Série «Emancipation of Light» (2023), par Serhii Kovbasyuk