Eurovision 2024: A Drama-Palooza

[lurkymclurkson]

Eurovision, the yearly song competition between (mostly) European Countries is having a time right now. Most of the drama so far is surrounding Dutch entrant Joost Klein:

UPDATE: RTL news (a legit Dutch media network) has just announced Joost has been disqualified and will not be participating in the Finale tonight. Wow.

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[ladychips]

do we think people actually like their song, or are people coming out in force just to vote for israel specifically?

[picturemegone]

It's gotta be politics because that song is NOT good. It's very dated. I know people like to say Ukraine 2022 was politics too, but Stefania was a bop.

[solsty]

Yeah, Ukraine is always good. Plus, they were the ones actually getting invaded.

[tinurix]

It's VERY fishy, tbh. Israel is in the top 5 odds for winning but that only just happened within the last day or so. I still believe Sweden wasn't the real winner for 2023 and they just wanted to bring the ESC back to Sweden for the 50th anniversary of ABBA's win, so they aren't beyond messing with the results.

[therearewords]

The positive outcome of this should be that everyone sees what a political rat nest (sorry rats) this is and sponsors and views drop like a brick.
Realistically even more people will tune in because "omg I heard about this online" and no-one gets punished except for possibly Joost.

[lily_ghost]

It's a rat nest partially because of the sponsors. Moroccanoil (which is Israeli despite what the name suggests) is Eurovision's biggest sponsor. TikTok hopped on the sponsorship train a few years ago and no one likes that either.

[therearewords]

Yeah, and people still not knowing that EBU is a commercial party and "but Israel isn't Europe??", please everybody do a bit of homework. It's all commerce and network.

[merel_93]

I had no idea Moroccanoil is Israeli. I was fooled by the name. Never purchasing products from them again. They´re overpriced anyway

[anachan87]

"When Italy revealed their televoting for the semi finals, it also showed the voting percentages of each country and the results were something... Israel received 39% of all televotes with The Netherlands following at 7.3% Was this a leak or accidental?"

Not saying this is absolutely the reason behind such a high vote but apparently some italians thought they could vote for Italy and they ended up voting for Israel instead (basically, usually the qualified countries would just show small snippets of their songs during the semis, but this year they gave them the full performance spot among all the other countries. I don't know if they were kept during the recap but I saw tweets about how some people's relatives/neighbours assumed they could vote for their own country and voted for #14 which was israel).

FYI, I know enough italians who would do that. (but again, not saying this is the main reason why was the vote results so high).

[lurkymclurkson]

lol I would love it if this is actually the real reason. Italian's love Italy more than Nonna's spaghetti, so it tracks.

[anachan87]

I know some italians who are outraged at the idea that they can't vote for their own country so I can absolutely see someone just trying, seeing that the vote got through and do it again.

[lily_ghost]

On a slightly nicer note, Ukraine is keeping it classy with their response to their unfavorable finale position:

We are performing at number 2 in the GRAND-FINAL TOMORROW. Everyone says this is a «death spot» (a deadly position in the performance context because, according to the regularity of TV shows, participants who perform later have better voting results).

The show’s producers choose this number for us. Who better than Ukrainians to know what it’s like to go for your goal AGAINST ALL odds?

Let’s unite and make history TOGETHER!

Vote for number 2.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6yQ_7eIFck/?img_index=1

[solsty]

I love them. Their song is my second favorite.

[asnindie]

Israel will probably get alot of votes tbf. Since many are boycotting and the others will tactically vote. But there's a bunch of desperate to show support. I saw alot of white celebs dissing pubs that are refusing to show Eurovision. And it's funny how democracy and free speech only works when it's them bombing brown people.

[xdecadentx]

Yeah there's been a lot of 'I don't usually vote but I'm voting for "Israel" because that poor girl has been so bullied!'

[asnindie]

Lmao yeah while they scroll past news of Palestinians dying. Honestly at this point White supremacy truly is back in vogue.