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

[auretz]

Genuinely agog at the high concept screaming from Slovenia making it !

 

[Kratz]

Yay for BAMBIE FAG!

 

[win_the_game]

Poor Polish girl looked like she was having a panic attack

Bit of a shame to keep cutting the camera to her.

 

[Madison]

First five countries all qualified. 6 out of the first half qualified.

 

[dmlaw]

First five countries all qualified. 6 out of the first half qualified.

Daddy’s choice rendered even less necessary than it already was.

 

[Madison]

Luxembourg joins Ukraine in having a 100% qualifying record.

 

[RS]

Azerbaijan not making it when they for once have a really good song is a bit :/

 

[Tisch]

There are some shocking qualifiers but also no shocking non-qualifiers . Shows that semi 2 (and the big 6!) are stronger.

But overall, yay exciting Eurovision's back!

 

[Madison]

Azerbaijan not making it when they for once have a really good song is a bit :/

Should have hired Swedes.

 

[Alex]

Azerbaijan not making it when they for once have a really good song is a bit :/

It was SO DULL

 

[Bypass]

Thrilled for Bambie.

I'm guessing was top 4 was Croatia/Ireland/Ukraine and Finland

 

[Marina Salty]

Azerbaijan not making it when they for once have a really good song is a bit :/

Iceland too

Spoiler

 

[Apoca]

Got everything bar Slovenia - but 9th and 10th felt pretty open.

 

[Lucille]

Azerbaijan not making it when they for once have a really good song is a bit :/

That staging was a DOG EGG! It should’ve been ETHNIC and SULTRY, not, whatever that was?

 

[Lucille]

 

[Lucille]

OPEN WITCHCRAFT!

 

[Tisch]

Love her contributing with all the CORRECT hashtags

#crownthewitch

 

[RS]

That staging was a DOG EGG! It should’ve been ETHNIC and SULTRY, not, whatever that was?

The ETHNIC (cleansing) they’re so good at

 

[VoR]

Poor Poland. The staging was a disaster, but the INDIGNITY of failing to live up to the amazing stagecraft of

 

[Kratz]

Poor Poland. The staging was a disaster, but the INDIGNITY of failing to live up to the amazing stagecraft of

Never let it be forgotten that Blanka entirely filled the brief when push came to shove

 

[Tisch]

Press conference TWO MINUTES LATE I see

 

[VoR]

Sad for Iceland, but I saw it coming (oooh!)

I knew the game was up when my friend from home text me during her performance; ”This sounds like the interval music between the other entries”.

Thrilled for Bambie, Luxembourg and the SLUTTY SLOVENE.

 

[Tisch]

Never let it be forgotten that Blanka entirely filled the brief when push came to shove

The brief being literally this smilie on a piece of paper

 

[Dark Carnival]

Finland should have been left to rot in the semi but I guess we’re in THAT era of Eurovision now
Poland but then perf was really a whole lot of horseshit.
Serbia and Portugal
Studio version Slovenia gave me nothing, but on stage she was serving tonight mama

 

[VoR]

Slovenia summoning more votes than Poland is such a win.

 

[Raining on Me]

I am so fucking THRILLED for Portugal. What a perfect vocal and contrast to everyone else's cosplay chaos routines. I am fairly certain she's doomed televote wise in the final even if the juries love her, but I'm just so happy she's in the mix.

 

[Suomi]

Overall, a strange show that felt like a bad Melodifestivalen semi-final in places.

Eric Saade and Bambi Thug true artists

 

[Lucille]

I completely forgot about Olly.

 

[Dark Carnival]

I completely forgot about Olly.

I didn’t

 

[Kratz]

Overall, a strange show that felt like a bad Melodifestivalen semi-final in places.

Eric Saade and Bambi Thug true artists

Agreed - an oddly flat atmosphere too.

 

[Raining on Me]

Mr RoM really enjoyed Serbia, and I must admit it did come across a lot better on screen than it had any right to. Surely that scraped through though, along with the shrieking Slovene. That they both triumphed along with Portugal is just

 

[Bypass]

Croatia seemed to have pulled away from everyone else in the odds a bit.

Babies has drifted slightly

 

[Lucille]

Come on Silia give us nothing!

 

[Lucille]

Croatia seemed to have pulled away from everyone else in the odds a bit.

Babies has drifted slightly

Spain have shortened to 400/1!!

 

[Lucille]

 

[Kratz]

Does the Producer have the discretion to put Serbia on the bus home?

 

[Lucille]

Not the RuPaul question! “What would you say to little Silvester?”

 

[Tisch]

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Love that they're not making us stay up for this

Just turned over for gay journalist asking gay Silvester Belt what he would say to his inner child. NO, off to bed.

 

[Raining on Me]

Ukraine were everything. Not sure I like the ending though, you can't really see them on stage in the backdrop of bodies

Luxembourg seemed very random and nonsensical? The tigers (or whatever they were) looked so cheap and pasted on "just because". Great singer but there was zero choreography, clearly to preserve the voice, but I think on balance, even if Cyprus missed a few notes, I'd rather have that energy put into it.

Bambie...I've truly been won over. So has Mr RoM. They have entirely transformed whatever it started out as. Stole the show tonight in many ways.

 

[Kratz]

Not the RuPaul question! “What would you say to little Silvester?”

Woe betide him if the response doesn’t include a reference to his ‘inner saboteur’