Eurovision 2025

[Istar]

Albania doing a passable impersonation of The Addams Family. Both Morticia and Fester looking good.

[funkstar]

Welp, I’m not sticking around another two(?) hours for the voting.

Not the strongest year. A few good entries but a lot of mostly forgettable tunes…

[Istar]

But the voting's the best part! Will Switzerland vote for France? Will Ukraine still get sympathy votes? Is the UK still sufficiently persona non grata after Brexit that we get nil points again?

You can't bail out now just when it's getting interesting! You've got to grit your teeth and settle in for the long haul. Do, or do not. There is no try.

[KlaxonCow]

I tried voting, but it just instantly did "call ended". No idea if it didn't work or not.

[NorthWay]

Oh dear. This voting is, as usual, not what I would suggest. Nevermind, I have no big favourite that is being outvoted so let the dice roll any which way.

[NorthWay]

Oh dear. This voting is, as usual, not what I would suggest. Nevermind, I have no big favourite that is being outvoted so let the dice roll any which way.

[KlaxonCow]

The thing that's interesting is that the 12 points are going to many different countries, and this is the jury vote which is more disciplined than the popular vote.

Like, it feels like, as none of them were particular stand-outs, there's quite a chunk of randomness thrown into the mix.

[Istar]

I just don't understand what we've done to upset Europe so badly...

[Istar]

Well there we are, another year done. Not an especially outstanding competition but fun nonetheless.

Same time next year, eh?

Night all.

[NorthWay]

See you next year. Let's hope for a bit more outrageousness then.

[KlaxonCow]

Brexit.

I mean, we literally told Europe to fuck off, basically. And a clean break, not even retaining the customs union or single market, and Boris took us all the way to a potential "no deal" Brexit - which reads as "we're so desperate to leave Europe at all costs, we'll smash ourselves against the economic rocks to have nothing whatsoever to do with you ever again".

Like, maybe many Brits don't realise just how offensive Brexit racism - because, come on, it was taken over the line by votes against immigrants - reads to its targets.

And it wasn't a good song, sorry. The constant tempo changes might work in a musical, but not for a song. In a SONG contest.

Zero for the popular vote was harsh. But, even if it were fairer, it should only get low to middling points, for not being a good song.

I was saying that even if they open up voting for the UK to the UK, I don't know that it would have gotten too many votes, even from its home audience.

[KlaxonCow]

But, yeah, good night all. See you next year.

[Dio]

I just don't understand what we've done to upset Europe so badly...

Doesn't help that we weren't in the semis. The other 0 for Switzerland is also notably a non-semi team. But ours wasn't very good. It's just a hook in search of a song.

[KlaxonCow]

But ours wasn't very good. It's just a hook in search of a song.

This.

Brexit politics doesn't remotely help matters. But, primarily, it just wasn't a good song.

Indeed, with its constantly changing tempo, it never settles to the point that I'd even question its designation as "a song". Like, movie soundtracks aren't "songs", per se, they are musical accompaniment and, similarly, movie soundtracks often don't have a steady tempo either. We didn't enter "a song" into the contest, but a stage performance that had some musical accompaniment to it.

Granted, in the Eurovision, everyone's increasingly more optics than earworm melodies these days, but the UK went too far - it was all optics and the audio was a very last minute afterthought to it all.

In that respect, we didn't enter a song into the contest. There wasn't a song there. We just participated with an uninteresting stage performance that had some musical accompaniment.

[Dio]

I actually thought it came across OK in the live performance, better than when I'd heard it before the show. So I was pretty surprised it scored nowt at all. I thought it's jury vote performance was roughly deserved.

Most baffling thing of the night though was that out of the two bits of novelty nonsense they picked Estonia over Sweden. (Either of those isn't there and I suspect the other wins, they clearly split the vote for the crazy stuff, although Sweden was just a bit too knowingly CRAZY for me, like a song sketch from Horrible Histories or something).