Eurovision 2023

[PFVA]

I was running late yesterday and by the time I turned it on was already Czechia in pink.

I liked Czechia, Norway, and Moldova from what I saw.

I didn't even know Portugal had made it there with a woman singing about her heart.

[Foozwah]

Skimmed through the broadcast on streaming this evening, skipping over the commentary and fluff - it still amuses me that we're (Australia) even in the event, let alone that we came ninth - and would have definitely put Finland ahead of Sweden for my money, just for the sheer bonkers quotient, and the WTF-ery of the day-glo pink human centipede action. Also just found the Swedish entry a bit dull really.

And a few of them - Germany, Australia - just feel horribly robbed, as they were way better than the votes suggest. Particularly Germany, which does, indeed, almost feel like it's some kind of "punishment vote" or something.

Totally agree it feels like Germany was robbed - as a nominally "metal" act (for a Eurovision value of synth-heavy pop-"metal" song) I thought they were on a par with Australia, so one scraping into the top-ten while the other is dead last is... probably down to politics or something, I guess...

[Misfit]

Totally agree it feels like Germany was robbed - as a nominally "metal" act (for a Eurovision value of synth-heavy pop-"metal" song) I thought they were on a par with Australia, so one scraping into the top-ten while the other is dead last is... probably down to politics or something, I guess...

Germany, the UK, Spain and France usually do badly, we seem to be disliked by the public in general. Well demonstrated by Spain who did fairly well with the juries, went down well in the venue but managed 15 points from the public vote.

[KlaxonCow]

Germany, the UK, Spain and France usually do badly

Worth noting that, if you just add Italy to that list, then you've got "the big 5" there.

Maybe folks are just pissed off that "the big 5" get the automatic qualification to the final...

(...and, umm, somehow forget that Italy is also part of "the big 5" that they get away with it? Or something?)

[skab]

That's a D#4 to an F4, according to my vocal analysis tool.

That's not that big of a range, is it?

[skab]

So. Just flicked through my recording, and boy, was that a weak ESC. Not a single strong hook. Basically musical junk.

If I concentrate hard enough, I can at least recall the Swedish song... no wait, that's actually "Euphoria". Oh well...

[KlaxonCow]

That's a D#4 to an F4, according to my vocal analysis tool.

That's not that big of a range, is it?

Sorry. What I meant was that he starts at a D#4 and then glissando-s up to an F4. I didn't mean that was his entire range - just his range on that "high note" (one note, but as he slides, it's two pitches).


For those wondering, the app I used is this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... tchmonitor

A guy on YouTube was using it to demonstrate "autotune" vs. real singing, and showing what "autotune" does. It's an Android app, so you can just stick it on your phone and conveniently measure the pitch of anything.

[venusian]

conveniently measure the pitch of anything.

Huh?

https://www.omnicalculator.com/construction/roof-pitch

[Dio]

Totally agree it feels like Germany was robbed - as a nominally "metal" act (for a Eurovision value of synth-heavy pop-"metal" song) I thought they were on a par with Australia, so one scraping into the top-ten while the other is dead last is... probably down to politics or something, I guess...

Germany, the UK, Spain and France usually do badly, we seem to be disliked by the public in general. Well demonstrated by Spain who did fairly well with the juries, went down well in the venue but managed 15 points from the public vote.

I like my rock - I thought Australia was about ten times better than Germany. I was a little surprised the Metal vote didn't split a little more towards Germany, but it's quite obvious Australia's harder Duran Duran was a lot better than the mess that was Keith Flint Does Rammstein-Slipknot.

[Dio]

I wasn't a fan of the UK's entry this year. But it wasn't second-to-last bad, I feel. Like, it had a melody, a hook and so forth. Not my favourite, sure, but it was a decent enough song and it was musical.

Naah, it was always in danger of bombing badly. First time I heard it I said it looked like we were back to picking second-rate X-factor contestants again. "Probably not nul points, but probably not much more". It did actually grow on me a bit, but in the end the first impression was spot on.

If you want baffling, though, Lithuania? Our public vote gave that ten points. I had that one down for a possible big fat 0, most tedious of the night.

[Vargol]

Got to agreee with Dio's last two posts Germany's entry just did nothing for me as a metal fan, the Australian entry was the best out of the "rock" songs, Slovenia had a cracking Bass line though.
The UK entry is a bit of a ear worm if you hear the recorded version it a few times, but the performance on the night wasn't that good and apparently the rehearsal was even worse (for those that don't know the judge's base their opinions on the rehearsal).

[Vargol]

Someone on reddit has done the ranked results (scoring 1 to 25 based on where they ranked in the full voting results)

[Orava]

"If you want baffling, though, Lithuania? Our public vote gave that ten points. I had that one down for a possible big fat 0, most tedious of the night."

There are a lot of Lithuanians living in the UK, they will always vote for their country. I will always vote for Finland, it is not about the music but more of politics.

[merman]

Bizarre. Auction house in my town had a load of Eurovision 2023 props & costumes on sale yesterday.

[Orava]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM98WEUxAAU

EUROVISION Conspiraraccy


Sweden always the winner? Finland music is much better. Not bland Euro-pop.