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[theyhavetakenovermylife]

Their Favorite Eurovision 2024 Songs (Headcanons)

(Rise!Turtles + Bonus!)

A/N: I just HAD to do this! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, and I thought it was very fitting to do it for the Rise boys, because, well, they have made it obvious that they love music (and I just couldn’t focus on anything else before I had made this…). And with the running order of the semi finales being revealed today, I just thought it was fitting.

Warnings: Flashing lights💚

Raphael:

1 points: Georgia🇬🇪 Firefighter - Nusta

2 points: Moldova🇲🇩 In the Middle - Natalia Barbu

3 points: Ukraine🇺🇦 Teresa & Maria - alyona alyona, Jerry Heil

4 points: The Netherlands🇳🇱 Europapa - Joost

5 points: Belgium🇧🇪 Before The Party Is Over - Mustii 

6 points: Lithuania🇱🇹 Luktelk - Silvester Belt

7 points: Sweden🇸🇪 Unforgettable - Marcus & Martinus

8 points: Switzerland🇨🇭 The Code - Nemo

10 points: Albania🇦🇱 TiTAN - Besa

12 points: Austria🇦🇹 We Will Rave - Kaleen

Leonardo:

1 points: Armenia🇦🇲 Jako - Ladaniva

2 points: Malta🇲🇹 Loop - Sarah Bonnici

3 points: Cyprus🇨🇾 Liar - Silia Kapsis

4 points: Belgium🇧🇪 Before The Party Is Over - Mustii

5 points: The Netherlands🇳🇱 Europapa - Joost

6 points: Greece🇬🇷 ZARI - Marina Satti

7 points: Portugal🇵🇹 Grito - iolanda

8 points: Switzerland🇨🇭 The Code - Nemo

10 points: Spain🇪🇸 ZORRA - Nebulossa

12 points: Italy🇮🇹 La noia - Angelina Mango

Donatello:

1 points: Latvia🇱🇻 Hollow - Dons

2 points: Australia🇦🇺 One Milkali (One Blood) - Electric Fields

3 points: France🇫🇷 Mon amour - Slimane

4 points: Slovenia🇸🇮 Veronika - Raiven

5 points: Luxembourg🇱🇺 Fighter - TALI

6 points: Lithuania🇱🇹 Luktelk - Silvester Belt

7 points: Sweden🇸🇪 Unforgettable - Marcus & Martinus

8 points: Switzerland🇨🇭 The Code - Nemo

10 points: Belgium🇧🇪 Before The Party Is Over - Mustii

12 points: The Netherlands🇳🇱 Europapa - Joost Klein

Michelangelo:

1 points: Sweden🇸🇪 Unforgettable - Marius & Martinus

2 points: San Marino🇸🇲 11:11 - Megara

3 points: Finland🇫🇮 No Rules! - Windows95Man

4 points: Estonia🇪🇪 (nedest) narkootikumidest et tea me (küll) midagi - 5MIINUST, Puuluup

5 points: Australia🇦🇺 One Milkali (One Blood) - Electric Fields

6 points: Armenia🇦🇲 Jako - Ladaniva

7 points: Switzerland🇨🇭 The Code - Nemo

8 points: Greece🇬🇷 ZARI - Marina Satti

10 points: The Netherlands🇳🇱 Europapa - Joost

12 points: Croatia🇭🇷 Rim Tim Tagi Dim - Baby Lasagna

Bonus!

Splinter:

1 points: Luxembourg🇱🇺 Fighter - TALI

2 points: Germany🇩🇪 Always on the run - ISAAK

3 points: Iceland🇮🇸 Scared of Heights - Hera Björk

4 points: Sweden🇸🇪 Unforgettable - Marcus & Martinus

5 points: France🇫🇷 Mon amour - Slimane

6 points: Portugal🇵🇹 Grito - iolanda

7 points: United Kingdom🇬🇧 Dizzy - Olly Alexander

8 points: Latvia🇱🇻 Hollow - Dons

10 points: Azerbaijan🇦🇿 Özülne Apar - Fahree (ft. Ilkin Dovletov)

12 points: Ukraine🇺🇦 Teresa & Maria - alyona alyona, Jerry Heil

Baron Draxum:

1 points: Ireland🇮🇪 Doomsday Blue - Bambie Thug

2 points: United Kingdom🇬🇧 Dizzy - Olly Alexander

3 points: Slovenia🇸🇮 Veronika - Raiven

4 points: Ukraine🇺🇦 Teresa & Maria - alyona alyona, Jerry Heil

5 points: Norway🇳🇴 Ulveham - Gåte

6 points: Azerbaijan🇦🇿 Özülne Apar - Fahree (ft. Ilkin Dovletov)

7 points: Portugal🇵🇹 Grito - iolanda

8 points: Serbia🇷🇸 Ramondo - Teya Dora

10 points: Latvia🇱🇻 Hollow - Dons

12 points: France🇫🇷 Mon amour - Slimane

April:

1 points: Norway🇳🇴 Ulveham - Gåte

2 points: Georgia🇬🇪 Firefighter - Nusta

3 points: Czech🇨🇿 Pedestal - AIKO

4 points: Poland🇵🇱 The Tower - LUNA

5 points: Cyprus🇨🇾 Liar - Silia Kapsis

6 points: Portugal🇵🇹 Grito - iolanda

7 points: Luxembourg🇱🇺 Fighter - TALI

8 points: The Netherlands🇳🇱 Europapa - Joost

10 points: Italy🇮🇹 La noia - Angelina Mango

12 points: Switzerland🇨🇭 The Code - Nemo

Cassandra:

1 points: Latvia🇱🇻 Hollow - Dons

2 points: Poland🇵🇱 The Tower - LUNA

3 points: Ukraine🇺🇦 Teresa & Maria - alyona alyona, Jerry Heil

4 points: Lithuania🇱🇹 Luktelk - Silvester Belt

5 points: Azerbaijan🇦🇿 Özülne Apar - Fahree (ft. Ilkin Dovletov)

6 points: Slovenia🇸🇮 Veronika - Raiven

7 points: Czech🇨🇿 Pedestal - AIKO

8 points: Portugal🇵🇹 Grito - iolanda

10 points: Norway🇳🇴 Ulveham - Gåte

12 points: Ireland🇮🇪 Doomsday Blue - Bambie Thug

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2024: #23

23. POLAND Luna - "The Tower" 29th place

Decade Ranking: 85/153 [Above Luke Black, below Tvorchi]

POLITICS CLAIMS ITS FIRST VICTIM!!! ORACLE NATALIA WAS RIGHT!!

JK, I wish that were canon, but I cannot reverse-engineer our reality into a fiction where Serbia qualifies over Poland by a hair because they blanked them after Xi's visit hijacked the live broadcast.

Anyway, this section of the ranking is always chaotic and inconsistent. Bad songs with acts that made me lol, alongside kind of charming hopeless filler, alongside great songs with painfully bad lives.

Enter "The Tower". People been saying it's a bland, generic song and as is often the case in a democracy, the people are fucking WRONG!!!! Quirky indie wenches with brittle voices singing metaphorical build-me-up synthpop is MY safe zone and you won't make me leave it!

This came with the addition of Luna having the best warbled pronunciation since Maggie Burger ("BREAUXKEN BAWDEEZ SCAATERT FRUE MAHISTERRY" OB*SESSED*.) and being relatably bad at chess (same, girl.) I refused to believe Luna was birthed into this world. She emerged fully formed from a pod, (designed by the same crazy medical students that have now captured Slimane to use his live voice as ethical (for the patient) cancer therapy), created with the sole purpose of fitting the template of a Bubblecore Fave. Luna represents EXACTLY the sort of act I would love to overrate at my leisure.

Sadly... nope. It all kinda went the way of Roxen in Malmö. It was badly performed and badly mixed. I feel like a lot of Poles (I'd say "people" but do "Poles" count as such? Isn't selling your entire soul for the first bad banger a mandatory initiation for Eurofan Poles?) would just scapegoat Luna because THAT WITCH BEAT JUSTYNA, but I disagree. I sympathize with her and I think her team did her dirty. This Polish NQ was a group effort and Luna was only one cog in that machine. 🙂 Besides, Justyna deserved a break from the spotlight so she can enjoy her four remaining Christmases.

The capital mistake was to not recognize the level of performance maturity Luna had. She's fairly inexperienced and not the most powerful vocalist. She's also NOT a dancer. At the time of the contest she was at a level of "can hold a tune when standing still, on a good day."

So if she struggles to perform the act you've planned, somebody's got to step in and make it so she can perform it every time.

Simplify and practice it until she's able to do it.

and do not, for the love of Sennek, make her MOVE WHILE SINGING?!!

LET HER CONCENTRATE ON HER VOCALS, YOU SHITS.

WE ALL SAW HOW ROXEN MURDERIZED FOUR SONGS INTO AN EARLY GRAVE FOUR YEARS AGO AND THEN DIED THE FOLLOWING YEAR WITH AMNESIA UNDER AN ELABORATE CHOREO.

HOW HAVE SOME DELEGATIONS STILL NOT LEARNED THIS EASY, ESSENTIAL STAGING LESSON?!

IF YOUR PEFORMER CANNOT SING + MOVE, PICK ONE ("sing" unless she's Kaleen) AND STICK TO IT. FIND SOME OTHER WAY TO ADD IN MOMENTUM.

(lol sorry for the rant but i'm writing these late at night on whatever energy reserves I have left so I can to keep up with 1 update per day. Anger's all I have left. 😔)

It's not like the MV didn't offer an easy way into good Eurovision-friendly staging. Dear TVP, what exactly was wrong with this?

Just stick her in the middle of the cross on a podium, and drape finery around her until she resembles the titular tower. The song was about self-discovery and growth, and that would send the message across with minimal confusion.

But Poland went with what they went with and sigh. It was the opposite of Slovenia, really - it looked AMAZING but didn't really compensate from the fact that it sounded VERY BAD.

But if the staging looked that good, then why was it bad? Well, Poland had a concept, an idea and it could have worked, but it didn't.

Conceptually, this is good staging. The backdrops and floordrops were rad and the chess-themed styling worked gave it a beautiful and unique feel like we'd never seen before.

However, it came across as Poland making an attempt at directing the part of Europe that weren't on Xi Jinping's visit schedule away from their song, and this an erroneous display of disrespect. Visualize according to what the song needs in order to shine as a song. Don't obfuscate it with flourishes that don't synergize with it.

There were too many elements. You don't need three chess piece dancers, AND LED sorcery AND an elaborate choreography AND two giant rook props AND two fucking dress changes (one of which happened in wideshot because ofc it did).

The beauty of Art is knowing what elements you can keep and which you can (and should) take away. (does not apply to "minimalist art" which lands somewhere between "decoration" and "scam".) Simplify, rather than complicate. Don't thrown in all the ideas you have as a Hail Mary (notice that this route is often taken by desperate countries that are notoriously shit at Eurovision - Poland, Denmark, Malta, etc). Test out which elements work, and choose those that suit the artist the best.

Poland's failure is choosing excessive staging that pushed too hard for (1) a performer who was not ready to execute all the pieces (2) a really simple, fun basic synthpop song. It overwhelmed both Luna and "The Tower".

It was not Luna's fault. Not entirely. The Polish creative team had a series of lapses in judgement, and it ended up in a shock NQ that I didn't see coming until it actually happened. Even though I like the overal package (the song's really that good!) I didn't feel it was an undeserved elimination.

What killed Poland wasn't just inexperience, politics or overambition.

It was foremost a lack of confidence in their own product.

THE RANKING

[thisismyobsessionnow]

Okay, let's go, my top 36!

Based mostly on studio versions and vibes at this point. Really it's still just my first impressions to be honest. Very much subject to change because I've not spent enough time with these songs yet but putting it out there today so I can still catch the change as we go through the last week up until the semifinals.

Switzerland - Nemo - The Code

Slovenia - Raiven - Veronica

Italy - Angelina Mango - La Noia

Croatia - Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim

Poland - Luna - The Tower

Latvia - Dons - Hollow

Serbia - Teya Dora - Ramonda

Norway - Gåte - Ulveham

Lithuania - Silvester Belt - Luktelk

San Marino - Megara - 11:11

11. Czechia - Aiko - Pedestal 12. Portugal - Iolanda - Grito 13. Armenia - Ladaniva - Jako 14. The Netherlands - Joost Klein - Europapa 15. United Kingdom - Olly Alexander - Dizzy 16. Estonia - 5miinust & Puuluup - (Nendest) Narkootikumidest Ei Eea Me (Küll) Midagi 17. Ireland - Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue 18. Spain - Nebulossa - Zorra 19. Luxembourg - Tali - Fighter 20. Moldova - Natalia Barbu - In The Middle 21. Ukraine - Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil - Teresa & Maria 22. Finland - Windows95man - No Rules! 23. Austria - Kaleen - We Will Rave 24. Belgium - Mustii - Before The Party's Over 25. Australia - Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood) 26. Denmark - Saba - Sand 27. Greece - Marina Satti - Zari 28. France - Slimane - Mon Amour 29. Germany - Isaak - Always On The Run 30. Sweden - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable 31. Iceland - Hera Björk - Scared Of Heights 32. Azerbaijan - Fahree & Ilkin Dovlatov - Özünlə apar 33. Albania - Besa - Titan 34. Georgia - Nutsa Buzaladze - Firefighter 35. Cyprus - Silia Kapsis - Liar 36. Malta - Sarah Bonnici - Loop

[jackhkeynes]

All Change

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[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2005: The Scoreboards

This year's scoreboard is an unfussy affair. The graphics are utilitarian - back to the spreadsheet chic of 2000 albeit with little wormholes in the graphics for the spokesperson and the voting country's flag.

There's no room for the hearts of last year, this is a scoreboard that means business and promises no messing about, let's get straight to the results. Of course, the voting sequence takes just as long as it always does with the same tomfoolery from all taking part.

For the semi-final there is one small innovation. The envelopes are still present with the names of the countries who've qualified for the final, however this time as the hosts randomly select envelopes the successful acts are added to the running order of the final sequentially.

The first drawn country gets the first available slot. If you're drawn first, you have the relief of knowing you're through, but you get an early draw - possibly even the death slot! If you're last out, then you've had a minor heart attack, but you get the prime later running order slots. Genius!

It's 2005 Spoiler Time!

The ten countries that qualified are (in a very particular order):

Romania - 235 points

Moldova (on their debut!) - 207 points

Denmark - 185 points

Croatia - 169 points

Hungary (on their return!) - 167 points

Norway - 164 points

Israel - 158 points

Switzerland - 114 points

North Macedonia - 97 points

Latvia - 85 points

Poland missed out by only four points in eleventh place. This is also probably the place to point out that the two smallest countries taking part, Monaco and Andorra finished second-bottom and third-bottom in an televote semi-final. For countries without large diasporas or huge numbers of neighbourly friends, it would appear that the televote has drawbacks.

As is going to become the norm, the points scored were revealed only after the grand final. The contents of the envelopes were the only place I noticed where the heart symbol appeared this year - the flags were printed inside hearts on those cards.

In the grand final, once again, the voting sequence was not that tense. At around the halfway mark, there was no clear leader, in fact the country that qualified from the semi-final in tenth place, Latvia, was leading but after that, Greece slowly pulled away. The result was obvious a long way from the end.

Although there were no nul points this year, there is one glaring aspect of the final scoreboard to address. The bottom five places were occupied by the host country and the Big Four. In fact, of the bottom twelve in the voting, that is the entire right-hand side of the scoreboard, eleven of them hadn't performed in the semi-final. Is this a new and perhaps unexpected aspect of the semi-final system? It's something to keep an eye-on. It's not going to stop some commentators yelling it's all about politics though.

Here's the full rundown of the 2005 Eurovision final scores:

Greece - Helena Paparizou - "My Number One" - 230 points

Malta - Chiara - "Angel" - 192 points

Romania - Luminița Anghel and Sistem - "Let Me Try" - 192 points

Israel - Shiri Maimon - "HaSheket SheNish'ar" - 154 points

Latvia - Walters and Kazha - "The War Is Not Over" - 153 points

Moldova - Zdob și Zdub - "Boonika bate doba" - 148 points

Serbia and Montenegro - No Name - "Zauvijek moja" - 137 points

Switzerland - Vanilla Ninja - "Cool Vibes" - 128 points

Norway - Wig Wam - "In My Dreams" - 125 points

Denmark - Jakob Sveistrup - "Talking to You" - 125 points (joint 9th)

Croatia - Boris Novković feat. Lado members - "Vukovi umiru sami" - 115 points

Hungary - Nox - "Forogj, világ" - 97 points

Türkiye - Gülseren - "Rimi Rimi Ley" - 92 points

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Feminnem - "Call Me" - 79 points

Russia - Natalia Podolskaya - "Nobody Hurt No One" - 57 points

Albania - Ledina Çelo - "Tomorrow I Go" - 53 points

North Macedonia - Martin Vučić - "Make My Day" - 52 points

Cyprus - Constantinos Christoforou - "Ela Ela" - 46 points

Sweden - Martin Stenmarck - "Las Vegas" - 30 points

Ukraine - GreenJolly - "Razom nas bahato"- 30 points (joint 19th)

Spain - Son de Sol - "Brujería" - 28 points

United Kingdom - Javine - "Touch My Fire" - 18 points

France - Ortal - "Chacun pense à soi" - 11 points

German - Gracia - "Run & Hide" - 4 points

[aijamisespava]

THE EUROVISION 2024 RANKING!

The time has finally come for me to rank the Eurovision songs we have this year. But before I do, I do want to make a couple of points because there are, I feel, a couple important comments that need to be made.

For one, you'll notice that I ranked only 35 countries while the list has 37 songs. There are 2 countries that should not be competing this year, and I decided not to include them in my ranking or any other posts I make here on Aijamisespava, especially as a heavily opinion-based platform. Second, this was a REALLY hard year to rank. So if you see a song ranked super low, it's not that I hate it (I don't really hate any of these songs), it's just I liked some more than others. And finally, I won't be providing explanations for my rankings quite yet. I have a fun 2023 vs. 2024 post for next week planned where I will explain things.

Ready? Set? Here are the first Aijamisespava Eurovision Rankings!

35. Finland: "No Rules!" by Windows95Man 34. Latvia: "Hollow" by Dons 33. Albania: "Titan" by Besa 32. Cyprus: "Liar" by Silia Kapsis 31. Ireland: "Doomsday Blue" by Bambie Thug 30. Luxembourg: "Fighter" by Tali 29. Sweden: "Unforgettable" by Marcus & Martinus 28. Netherlands: "Europapa" by Joost Klein 27. Austria: "We Will Rave" by Kaleen 26. Australia: "One Milkali (One Blood)" by Electric Fields 25. Iceland: "Scared Of Heights" by Hera Björk 24. Germany: "Always On The Run" by Isaak 23. Malta: "Loop" by Sarah Bonnici 22. Czechia: "Pedestal" by Aiko 21. Moldova: "In The Middle" by Natalia Barbu 20. United Kingdom: "Dizzy" by Olly Alexander 19. Spain: "Zorra" by Nebulossa 18. Greece: "Zari" by Marina Satti 17. Portugal: "Grito" by Iolanda 16. Armenia: "Jako" by Ladaniva 15. Estonia: "(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi" by 5MIINUST & PUULUUP 14. Italy: "La Noia" by Angelina Mango 13. Ukraine: "Teresa & Maria" by alyona alyona/Jerry Heil 12. Denmark: "Sand" by Saba 11. Switzerland: "The Code" by Nemo 10. France: "Mon Amour" by Slimane 9. Poland: "The Tower" by Luna 8. Lithuania: "Luktelk" by Silvester Belt 7. Georgia: "Firefighter" by Nusta 6. Slovenia: "Veronika" by Raiven 5. San Marino: "11:11" by Megara 4. Norway: "Ulveham" by Gåte 3. Croatia: "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" by Baby Lasagna 2. Serbia: "Ramonda" by Teya Dora 1. Belgium: "Before The Party's Over" by Mustii

Final Verdict: This year started off a tad underwhelming. Maybe this was my saltiness at my national final winners not winning. However, as I listened to some songs more and more, I started really liking a lot of the entries. And then the internally selected songs came out and I was utterly blown away by some of the songs we got. Was this a good year? Absolutely. I can't wait to see all these songs fight it all out in May! *oh yeah, may I note that my opinions may change? My winner has been flip flopping between Serbia and Belgium for a while and may continue to do so until the end of time*

Congrats to Belgium for winning my personal Eurovision so far, and scoring their 2nd victory in my rankings (having been my winner for 2015).

Okay, I'm gonna go now, bye!

[cruger2984]

Hetavision '24 - The 1st Semifinal of Deathly Surströmming!

From here on out, the contest's slogan will be… UNITED BY MUSIC!

Last year is a husband-wife battle in Liverpool, but Sweden (Su-san) takes the title and the hosting rights! Our favorite annual tradition is now here and this year will be held in Su-san's house for the first semifinal in Malmö! And without further ado, here are your semifinalists including the returnee Luxembourg!!

Oh, and take note. In addition to the competing entries, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden (this year's hosts) will perform their entries during the show, appearing on stage after the entries from Ireland, Iceland, and Moldova, respectively.

Cyprus: Silia Kapsis - Liar

Serbia: Teya Dora - Ramonda

Lithuania: Silvester Belt - Luktelk (Wait)

Ireland: Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue

Ukraine: Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil - Teresa & Maria

Poland: Luna - The Tower

Croatia: Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim

Iceland: Hera Björk - Scared of Heights

Slovenia: Raiven - Veronika

Finland: Windows95man - No Rules!

Moldova: Natalia Barbu - In the Middle

Azerbaijan: Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov - Özünlə apar (Take Me with You)

Australia: Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood)

Portugal: Iolanda - Grito (Shout)

Luxembourg: Tali - Fighter

Set up and prepare your clocks at 8PM BST (21:00 CEST) or on your timezone on the show's official YouTube channel (some are region-locked) and join the conversation at @hetaliadiscord tonight!

[goalhofer]

2024 olympians representing non country of residence part 9

Samoa: Kaiya Brown, swimming (Auckland, New Zealand); Samalulu Clifton, canoeing (Auckland, New Zealand); Tuva'a Clifton, canoeing (Auckland, New Zealand); Akazawa Gaku, wrestling (Tokyo, Japan); Lalomilo Lalomilo, rugby (Auckland, New Zealand); Eroni Leilua, sailing (Auckland, New Zealand); Tom Maiava, rugby (Sydney, Australia); Alamanda Motuga, rugby (Auckland, New Zealand); Alex Rose, athletics (West Branch, Michigan) & William Tai-Tin, judo (Melbourne, Australia) San Marino: Myles Amine, wrestling (Novi, Michigan) Saudi Arabia: Abdulrahman Alrajhi, equestrian (Marburg, Germany) Senegal: Yves Bourhis, canoeing (Gouesnac'h, France); Ibrahim Diaw, table tennis (Paris, France); Ndèye Diongue, fencing (Saint-Maur-Des-Fossès, France); Oumy Diop, swimming (Grenoble, France) & Matthieu Seye, swimming (Aix-Les-Bains, France) Serbia: Yvonne Anderson, basketball (Columbia, Missouri); Tijana Bošković, volleyball (Bileća, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Strahinja Bunčić (Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Saša Čađo, basketball (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Sara Ćirković, boxing (Bratunac, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Angela Dugalić, basketball (Des Plaines, Illinois); Tina Krajišnik, basketball (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Aleksandr Komarov, wrestling (St. Petersburg, Russia); Nemanja Majdov (Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina); Nikolay Pimenov; Jr., rowing (Moscow, Russia); Ivana Raca, basketball (Athens, Greece); Natalia Shadrina, boxing (Yakutsk, Russia); Velimir Stjepanović, (Dubai, U.A.E.); Khetag Tsabolov, wrestling (Vladikavkaz, Russia) & Nemanja Vico, water polo (Kotor, Montenegro) Seychelles: Simon Bachmann, swimming (Nice, France) Singapore: Caroline Chew, equestrian (London, U.K.) & Shannon Tan, golf (Charters Towers, Australia) Slovenia: Eugenia Bujak, cycling (Sosnowiec, Poland) & Elizabeth Omoregie, handball (Bucharest, Romania) South Africa: Kayle Blignaut, athletics (Rome, Italy); Matthew Guise-Brown, field hockey (London, U.K.); Antonie Nortje, athletics (College Station, Texas) & Nic Spooner, field hockey (Hamburg, Germany) South Korea: Byeong-Hun An, golf (Orlando, Florida); Mi-Mi Huh, judo (Tokyo, Japan); Ji-Su Kim, judo (Himeji, Japan); Jin-Young Ko, golf (Frisco, Texas) & Hee-Young Yang, golf (Orlando, Florida) South Sudan: Sunday Dech, basketball (Perth, Australia); Majok Deng, basketball (Adelaide, Australia); Wenyen Gabriel, basketball (Manchester, New Hampshire); Kacoul Jok, basketball (Des Moines, Iowa); Carlik Jones, basketball (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bul Kuol, basketball (Canberra, Australia); Anyiarbany Makoi, basketball (St. Louis, Missouri); Khaman Maluch, basketball (Kampala, Uganda); Lucia Moris, athletics (Nairobi, Kenya); Anunwa Omet, basketball (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Marial Shayok, basketball (Ottawa, Ontario) & J.T. Thor, basketball (Norcross, Georgia) Spain: Lorenzo Brown, basketball (Roswell, Georgia); Gerard Clapés, field hockey (Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Andy Criere, surfing (Hendaye, France); Megan Gustafson, basketball (Port Wing, Wisconsin); Marc Miralles, field hockey (Bloemendaal, The Netherlands); Jon Rahm, golf (Scottsdale, Arizona) & Carmen Weiler, swimming (Singapore) Sudan: Yaseen Abdalla, athletics (Austin, Texas) & Ziyad Saleem, swimming (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Suriname: Irvin Hoost, swimming (Miami, Florida) Sweden: Ludvig Åberg, golf (Tallahassee, Florida); Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, equestrian (Breitenburg, Germany); Therese Nilshagen, equestrian (Niedershachen, Germany); Alex Norén, golf (Jupiter, Florida); Louise Romeike, equestrian (Meyn, Germany); Sofia Sjöborg, equestrian (London, U.K.) & Henrik Von Eckermann, equestrian (Peel En Maas, The Netherlands) Switzerland: Alexandre Dällenbach, pentathlon (Saint-Denis, France); Nikita Ducarroz, cycling (Sonoma County, California); Albane Valenzuela, golf (Dallas, Texas); Zoé Vergé-Dépré, volleyball (Berne, Germany) & Felix Vogg, equestrian (Weiblingen, Germany) Syria: Hasan Bayan, judo (Berlin, Germany) & Lais Najjar, gymnastics (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Thailand: Jai Angsuthasawit, cycling (Adelaide, Australia)

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My Eurovision2024 Ranking

I will be honest, I didn’t keep up with the entries for this year. I have been catching up on anime and I’m currently addicted to Stardew Valley. The only entry that I actually checked out and was actually excited for was United Kingdom. I like Years and Years so I was so happy to see Olly Alexander. So yesterday I listened to all the songs while playing Stardew Valley (I have been listening to vtuber karaoke streams while playing). The ♥ next to the entries are rehearsals I liked after watching a compilation video.

Top Favorites

France - Slimane - Mon Amour ♥

Iceland - Hera Björk - Scared of Heights

Ireland - Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue ♥

Ukraine - alyona alyona & Jerry Heil - Teresa & Maria

United Kingdom - Olly Alexander - Dizzy

Love It!

Czechia - Aiko - Pedestal

Germany - Isaak - Always On The Run

San Marino - MEGARA - 11:11

Switzerland - Nemo - The Code ♥

NGL, I enjoy this!

Armenia - Ladaniva - Jako

Australia - Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood) ♥

Croatia - Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim

Georgia - Nutsa Buzaladze - Firefighter

Italy - Angelina Mango - La noia

Netherlands - Joost Klein - Europapa

Spain - Nebulossa - Zorra

I’m still vibing’

Belgium - Mustii - Before the Party’s Over

Denmark - Saba - Sand

Estonia - 5MIINUST x Puuluup - (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi

Finland - Windows95man - No Rules! (Rules Applied Version)

Latvia - Dons - Hollow

Malta - Sarah Bonnici - Loop

It’s okay

Albania - Besa - Titan

Austria - Kaleen - We Will Rave

Azerbaijan - Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov - Özünlə Apar

Cyprus - Silia Kapsis - Liar

Greece - Marina Satti - Zari

Israel - Eden Golan - Hurricane

Lithuania - Silvester Belt - Luktelk

Luxembourg - Tali - Fighter

Moldova - Natalia Barbu - In The Middle

Norway - Gåte - Ulveham

Poland - Luna - The Tower

Portugal - iolanda - Grito

Serbia - Teya Dora - Ramonda

Slovenia - Raiven - Veronika

Sweden - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable

Honestly, I don’t think I’ll be watching this live. Because of the heat, my sleep has not been good. So if I fall asleep, I’ll just sleep and watch, or rather listen, to the Eurovision stream while playing Stardew Valley.

I know I don’t really have to watch the competition to know what happened and where my favorite entries would land but I’m interested in what would happen during that one song. I was in chat when that song was scheduled to be released and it was an honest reaction from the public. I know that the artist has nothing to do with her government but still the fact that Eurovision still allowed that country to participate is wild considering that when Russia attacked Ukraine, Russia was not allowed to participate.

[royalsofhistory]

Natalija Obrenović, née Cheșcu/Keshko, Queen Consort of Serbia (1882–1889).

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Pre-semi top 36!

Last update to my top before we get to see the first performances in semi 1! A couple of songs really grew on me from getting some more time and the first visuals in the rehearsal clips (Read: Yes, Bambie got to me like they got to everyone else).

Switzerland - Nemo - The Code (-)

Croatia - Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim (+2)

Italy - Angelina Mango - La Noia (+1)

Slovenia - Raiven - Veronica (-2)

Serbia - Teya Dora - Ramonda (+2)

San Marino - Megara - 11:11 (+4)

Ireland - Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue (+10)

Norway - Gåte - Ulveham (-)

Latvia - Dons - Hollow (-3)

Lithuania - Silvester Belt - Luktelk (-1)

11. Portugal - Iolanda - Grito (+1) 12. United Kingdom - Olly Alexander - Dizzy (+3) 13. Poland - Luna - The Tower (-8) 14. Armenia - Ladaniva - Jako (-1) 15. Austria - Kaleen - We Will Rave (+9) 16. Czechia - Aiko - Pedestal (-5) 17. The Netherlands - Joost Klein - Europapa (-3) 18. Ukraine - Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil - Teresa & Maria (+3) 19. Estonia - 5miinust & Puuluup - (Nendest) Narkootikumidest Ei Eea Me (Küll) Midagi (-3) 20. Luxembourg - Tali - Fighter (-1) 21. Spain - Nebulossa - Zorra (-3) 22. Moldova - Natalia Barbu - In The Middle (-2) 23. Denmark - Saba - Sand (+3) 24. Germany - Isaak - Always On The Run (+5) 25. Belgium - Mustii - Before The Party’s Over (-1) 26. Finland - Windows95man - No Rules! (-4) 27. Australia - Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood) (-2) 28. Iceland - Hera Björk - Scared Of Heights (+3) 29. Azerbaijan - Fahree & Ilkin Dovlatov - Özünlə apar (+3) 30. France - Slimane - Mon Amour (+2) 31. Sweden - Marcus & Martinus - Unforgettable (-1) 32. Albania - Besa - Titan (+1) 33. Greece - Marina Satti - Zari (-6) 34. Georgia - Nutsa Buzaladze - Firefighter (-) 35. Cyprus - Silia Kapsis - Liar (-) 36. Malta - Sarah Bonnici - Loop (-)

[magicmalcolm]

If Hurricane hadn't brought a wind machine to Eurovision I would have been devastated.

[nonsense000]

The ones I want in the finals in no specific order:

San Marino

Switzerland

Moldova

Iceland

Serbia

Albania

Finland

Latvia

Denmark

[aijamisespava]

My Ideal Eurovision 2024

Well, we've had all of the competing songs for a while now. We've ranked them, we've pit them against the 2023 songs, we've even commiserated over the Semi-Final Running Orders.

But...there is one question that I've noticed is in most Eurovision fan's head, myself included: What if MY National Final Winners Won? And that's what I'm here to share. Below, as you can see from the title, is the Eurovision 2024 had all my National Final winners were selected.

DISCLAIMER: This is not a ranking. I'll have conclusions toward the end of the post. Countries are listed in alphabetical order. I won't change internal selections because that takes up way too much time that I really don't have. And, since this is FOR FUN, if a country has 2 songs that I liked equally, I include both. LET'S GO!

Albania: "Jetën N'skaj" by Erina & The Elementals (unknown placement) Armenia: "Jako" by Ladavina (Internally Selected) Australia: "One Milkali (One Blood)" by Electric Fields (Internally Selected) Austria: "We Will Rave" by Kaleen (Internally Selected) Belgium: "Before The Party's Over" by Mustii (Internally Selected) Croatia: "Rim Tim Tagi Dim' by Baby Lasagna (1st in NF)/"Voljena ženo" by Damir Kedžo (4th in NF) Cyprus: "Liar" by Silia Kapsis (Internally Selected) Czechia: "Red Flag Parade" by MYDY (3rd in NF) Denmark: "Sand" by Saba (1st in NF) Estonia: "My Friend" by Ollie (2nd in NF) Finland: "Dancing With Demons" by Cyan Kicks (4th in NF) France: "Mon Amour" by Slimane (Internally Selected) Georgia: "Firefighter" by Nusta (Internally Selected) Germany: "Naiv" by Marie Reim (6th in NF) Greece: "Zari" by Marina Satti (Internally Selected) Iceland: "Scared Of Heights" by Hera Björk (1st in NF)/"Wild West" by Bashar Murad (2nd in NF) Ireland: "Love Me Like I Do" by Erica-Cody (4th in NF) Italy: "Tu No" by Irama (5th in NF) Latvia: "Heaven's Raining Down On Me" by Patrīcija Spale (NQ in NF Semi) Lithuania: "Luktelk" by Silvester Belt (1st in NF) Luxembourg: "Drowning In The Rain" by Krick (2nd in NF) Malta: "Wild Card" by Gail (11th in NF) Moldova: "In The Middle" by Natalia Barbu (1st in NF) Netherlands: "Europapa" by Joost Klein (Internally Selected) Norway: "Heart On Fire" by Myra (NQ in NF Semi) Poland: "The Tower" by Luna (Internally Selected*) *I know some songs were released, but it was an internal selection* Portugal: "You Can't Hide" by Filipa (10th in NF Semi, NQ) San Marino: "11:11" by Megara (1st in NF*) *I didn't rank the NF songs since UVPSM happened in a literal blink* Serbia: "Ramonda" by Teya Dora (1st in NF)/"Duga je noć" by Filip Baloš (10th in NF Semi, NQ) Slovenia: "Veronika" by Raiven (Internally Selected) Spain: "Sé quién soy" by Angy Fernández (3rd in NF)/"Here To Stay" by Sofia Coll (7th in NF) Sweden: "Awful Liar" by Lisa Ajax (11th in NF) Switzerland: "The Code" by Nemo (Internally Selected) Ukraine: "Teresa & Maria" by alyona alyona/Jerry Heil (1st in NF)/"Dreamer" by Mélovin (3rd in NF) United Kingdom: "Dizzy" by Olly Alexander (Internally Selected)

Conclusions: Even with my NF winners, it still would have been a stacked year (bad bias joke, you can laugh now). But being honest, I think out of all of these, Belgium still would have been my winner. Serbia still would have scored well. The only threat I see to Belgium would be if Luxembourg had chosen Krick.

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Aph Slavs as stupid stock photos