As there has been some interest in a live thread such as the ones on r/eurovision, here is the live thread for the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Sadly, I didn’t find any Lemmy equivalent to https://reddit-stream.com/. But as this community is still pretty small, I think refreshing the website once after each song should be okay.
You can click on the Chat button to sort all comments by newest, even replies to other comments.
Curious what/who decides which former Eurovision contestants are shown on the intro montage? Like for Finland, I fully expected Lordi since they won in 2006. I am not familiar with EV (esc?) overall to know which others were/were not former winners.
That’s a really good question! I was wondering the same. I noticed that basically every postcard had one classic / older and one more modern / newer entry (the only noticeable exception being Australia for obvious reasons). I think the artist themselves might have selected some other things.
But because I got curious, I just looked it up and on the Eurovision website introducing the new format, they say
The Postcard will not only introduce the performers, but also the countries that each act is singing on behalf of. And this will also extends to the context of our participating broadcasters’ most memorable moments at the Eurovision Song Contest. “We also added some public service – a graphic map to see where all the countries are located in the world. And then we wanted to celebrate the rich and incredible history of the Eurovision Song Contest by adding a couple of previous great entries from the Eurovision archives of each country.”
It sounds to me like the EBU has a big influence and can determine how the selected videos should be. The national broadcaster might decide the specific country and ask if it’s okay. But of course that’s just my speculation.
9 of the 10 songs getting through were in my top 10 :O
Only my 10th and 11th place got switched (and honestly I wasn’t even sure in which order I should place the two).
Can you tell me some examples of what he said? I’m German (too?) but I’m watching the YouTube livestream because I wanna see it without moderation (and because I’ve heard bad things about the moderator, but that was the one back then, I think since last or this year we have a new one).
I feel like the new commentator is trying really hard to copy the style of Peter Urban.
I’ll probably watch the next semi final without the German comments
He basically got a script written for Peter Urban, so that’s why the style was so similar. I still have some hope it gets better once he gets a little used to it.
Finnland really nailed the performance. It’s silly, but it was pretty funny and refreshing in a way, I definitely enjoyed it more than the national performance.
Help what was UK 😭 The song was my second place beforehand but the vocals were really bad and the staging… I mean I’m gay and I like seeing handsome men on the stage, but it was… really much.
I thought the staging was awesome. It’s Eurovision, so you got to have shirtless men, right? And the “shifting gravity in a room” trick is a classic but was well done here. The vocals were indeed weak, but maybe they’ll get better after this practice run.
All the stagings have been so high quality so far! And the production quality is just insane! I know that the last years have not had the best quality, from the camera people to the stagings and such. And now it just seems so much better. I feel like Sweden just really has the ESC experience which makes it even much more pleasurable to watch tbh.
It also makes me like the songs more than previously / without the live performance.
I am in the states so I have not been able to watch the performances yet. But from what I saw from their previous performances, your top tier matches with mine. I really like Croatia’s.
It is unavailable in the states. Which is why I subscribed to peacock thinking I could watch the stream afterwards. I will mess with my vpn today and try and get the YouTube working.
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