Eurovision 2024: Semi-Final 1 (8pm BCT) (1 Viewer)

The rise of Ireland is the only thing maintaining my interest.

Naturally I'm getting a bit excited, but this will be one of the all time worst Eurovisions.

I honestly think, Ireland aside, there's just no new ideas and I refuse to believe Europe has run out of fresh material.
 
I'm sad this season is almost near an end - it's a solid year of entries (whilst not a brilliant one), but the last couple of months has been an absolute riot at times. Nothing will top that demented evening a number of us spent watching the entirety of Una Voce per San Marino.
 
Una Kratz per San Marino said:
I'm sad this season is almost near an end - it's a solid year of entries (whilst not a brilliant one), but the last couple of months has been an absolute riot. Nothing will top that demented evening a number of us spent watching the entirety of Una Voce per San Marino.
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Oh God, I'm not cancelling the joy of qualification season, but it's resulted in very little to show for it.

I hope to be proven wrong.
 
Hopefully we get a Croatia win and events are behind us next year so that we can have a Eurovision in a new place without baggage. I'd definitely be making the effort to go again if they do.
 
Madisön said:
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This seems a completely reasonable way to judge a song contest.
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I’m going to see if I can vote tonight using the UK number in Sweden. I can’t remember whether or not it worked in Italy.
 
Suomi said:
Same. I’ll be watching, but I honestly can’t wait for the whole thing to be over
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My interest has been piqued slightly over the last couple of days but the contest basically hasn’t existed for me this year. It all just feels overshadowed and completely ruined by toddler fans trying to politicise something we’ve been maintaining for years isn’t political. Plus, so many of the songs broadly fall into ‘Cha Cha Cha’ knock off or ‘Fuego’ knock off territory without being anywhere near as good as the source material.
 
Wir Butter 'ne Tarty said:
It all just feels overshadowed and completely ruined by toddler fans trying to politicise something we’ve been maintaining for years isn’t political.
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I think people are trying to cope their best with what is exposure to a lot of trauma and suffering, and inevitably people do that in different ways.
 
Wir Butter 'ne Tarty said:
trying to politicise something we’ve been maintaining for years isn’t political.
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It's always been a fantasy that it isn't political though. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Israel (and I'm sure others) have all either used Eurovision politically or benefited politically from it. Not to mention the various jury stuff that has gone on for years. Normally it's background noise and doesn't massively affect the outcome, but we just need to look at 2022 to see when politics does.

This year, the politics is much more divisive (but still as high profile) than it was two years ago, and the choices made by the EBU and it's membership have, I would argue, brought the contest into disrepute. I think it's unfair to decry those critical of the situation as toddlers.
 
While Croatia isn't my favourite, I can't deny it absolutely hits and I would love a new nation winning. Hopefully some of the Eastern nations might come back if it's held nearby.
 
Poor SertAg (39) said:
While Croatia isn't my favourite, I can't deny it absolutely hits and I would love a new nation winning. Hopefully some of the Eastern nations might come back if it's held nearby.
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It’s not my favourite either but I would take it any day over Switzerland or the Netherlands.
 
Una Kratz per San Marino said:
I'm sad this season is almost near an end - it's a solid year of entries (whilst not a brilliant one), but the last couple of months has been an absolute riot at times. Nothing will top that demented evening a number of us spent watching the entirety of Una Voce per San Marino.
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I'm really not up on all the entries this year. This is probably partly due to the wider circumstances but also think I haven't fully recovered from the hysteria of the demented Una Voce per San Marino all nighter.
 
I'm excited because I'll be in Malmö tomorrow and we've never ever been to a Eurovision, but right now we are frankly knackered from driving across however many countries to get here (whose dumb idea was this) so the enthusiasm is somewhat MUTED. I can barely muster the energy to TYPE on my phone, and I'm not even the driver!

I'm sure we'll perk up tomorrow when we get to witness what having a ruthless banker parent can do for one's soul.
 
Obvs I’d love a shock Ireland or Greece victory, but would lean towards a Croatian victory from the faves, as it’s been so long since we’ve had a contest in Eastern Europe.
 
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This will be another year when I go into this without having heard (almost) any song.

Mostly excited about having Luxembourg back (not heard the song yet), but also mostly afraid that something bad might happen this week and I frankly just want it to be over.
 
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