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Since I can't pin @[email protected]'s comment:
The article is new. However, it is about ESC 2024 rather than yesterday's event.
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This article is about last year's performance, not this year's. Just FYI.
There was a great bit in the UK broadcast where Graham Norton gave the game away by saying "I don't know what you can all hear at home. A very mixed response here in the arena" 😆
Big Graham gives zero fucks. Love it.
Eurovision is a farce anyways. There is no way Germans are dumb enough to vote crappy musicians that get last place every time.
I've heard that it's because their selection process is dumb and dominated by a handful of out of touch "experts" and the public only votes in the finals.
That's basically it.
A famous example was a few years back when Electric Callboy wasn't even invited to the national finals for selecting the song because the selection committee knew they would win but "didn't feel the song was fit for radio"
The song in question, it would've been glorious.
Ufff, hurts to see because it would have definitely had at least a chance at winning the whole thing!
They don't want to win because then they would be on the hook for hosting the event.
There is also a satirical song about Germany always getting 0 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfnlkiPCVA
We should send Böhmermann next time with "Germany 0 Points"
Too late. The song has to release in the year of the event.
Hey, at least this year they didn't get last place!
Let's just say there have been some prospective bands that tried to represent germany in the past few years, namely Electric Callboy and Feuerschwanz. Both have been disregarded by some undemocratic processes through "experts" deciding against them. So, we understand it as german broadcasters being unwilling to win, either they refuse to host the next episode of the ESC or want someone else to get that PR boost. Maybe Israhell, which is lacking any kind of positive news due to their ongoing genocide in gaza?
Last I checked, Germany did not get last place this year and even got more points than last year.
I missed Eurovision's finale this year, because I watched the 803th Interstellar Song Contest
they censored the crowd during one small part of Malta's song
Jizzrael tries so hard to make itself look like a legitimate country
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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