Just caught up, glad Bulgaria/Ukraine/Latvia went through and most of you liked them <3
-Denmark's song is honestly insulting to everyone that had to listen to it, holy shit. It was like the 2nd worst song at Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and that contest was bad this year, it's even worse now. Goddamn I hate that song and everyone involved in creating it.
-how does G:son do it? Cyprus, Georgia???? I mean I liked Georgia's kinda but how???
-Laura Tesoro gets huge props for doing that entire dance routine AND singing live, wow. I still think the song is the bad side of corny and the plagiarism is a bit too much even for Eurovision, but damn that girl has stamina, that shit isn't easy.
-I feel like if Poli had a better stage show she could have been a potential consensus winner a la Azerbaijan in 2011. Nobody seems to hate the actual song and her vocals are actually quite good when she isn't doing the chicken dance.
-I still don't really like the Australian song but jesus, Dami Im is a professional.
-I see why the press went nuts for Jamala, her performance was intense and her vocals were really good imo
Anyway: I really hope Russia doesn't win, and while I like Ukraine's song a lot, I feel like it's too politically loaded. I don't know how I'd feel about Eurovision being hosted by either of these countries - Russia especially after its even harder crackdown on homosexuals and annexation of Crimea. And if Russia does win, I hope a lot of countries decide to skip that year in order to protest against Russia hosting, so the EBU is either forced to host it somewhere else, or there being only 2 countries in Russia that year (those 2 being Russia and Belarus).
I agree that it's a bit loaded, but political songs (or songs with a political message, even obliquely) have won or done well before, like "Insieme: 1992" or "Ein bißchen Frieden" or like 4-5 songs every year in the finals. Last year Armenia, Hungary, Romania to an extent had somewhat political entries. Ukraine's would certainly be the darkest winner ever, for sure, but it would be a deserving one imo.
Russia wouldn't be boycotted. Like Azerbaijan, which also treats gays like shit, it's in Russia's interest to hold a big gay festival and have it go off without any issues. It may sound crass but anti-gay legislation isn't enough to stop any country from participating, just like Conchita winning wasn't enough to have several of the countries boycott last year's contest. Besides, Sergey is a good dude and doesn't deserve to have his win disgraced like that, if he wins.
No. The Eurovision rules stipulate that the Eurovision Song Contest must be held in Europe. Australia would have to partner with an EU broadcaster and host it in their country
Eurovision can be held anywhere; it was held in Jerusalem twice. Australia would have to be joint-hosted in a European country mostly for logistical reasons.
