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[–] [email protected] 35 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (6 children)

This is an excellent time to mention my best friend The Eurovision Song Contest! It's the longest running international music contest show and it gets hundreds of millions of views.

Here's last year's crop of music videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGULUJYEhh-EUa32rEcHuNXO7

Croatia's Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a real banger. It's about the stress of moving to a richer country or city for work and losing your culture.

Italy's La Noia is amazing. Angelina Mango's live performances are stellar, and if she's not huge internationally in a few years I'll be super disappointed. Her new song (not part of the contest) Melodrama is exceptional too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF0MSpPcj8

Switzerland sent Nemo, who became the first non-binary person to win the contest. It was said that if he could nail the vocals from the video in the live performance, there would be no stopping them. And they did! Amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8cQpGNplc

I have so many recommendations, if anyone wants more!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Oh nice, I only knew about [email protected]. Subscribed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yo just because Europapa was disqualified doesn't mean it's not a banger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Totally agree, and he performed it very well live! The story of the song is so good too. It's about watching ESC as a kid with his parents, but more his parents have passed away and their old house burned down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I like the song, and this is a catchy backstory, but I've got to admit - the actual lyrics are actually pretty terrible 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Eurovision got in trouble last year for allowing Israel to join. Israel is in the middle east of Asia, not in Europe. The only thing European about Israel is that white people are committing a genocide to steal land.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

More the hypocrisy for having denied entry to Russia while allowing Israel's to remain.

The actual terms for entering are being a part of the European Broadcasting Union; which includes Israel and Australia, despite the "European" in the name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well, Australia is also in the Eurovision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

White people committing genocide to steal land. Checks out. That's the criteria for entry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Israel being part of Eurovision isn't a new thing. The only difference is that they've been going mask off on their genocide aspirations lately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit that Nemo song was so good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

It is SO GOOD!
My inner city Philadelphia friends even like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Will Ferrell did a Eurovision movie I enjoyed. Probably not everybody's cup of tea, but it was fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Updoot for ESC and Melodrama! I've had some of Mango's songs on rotation lately