My girl and her family has this tradition where they gather for each eurovision final and watch it. Been with them for 3 years straight, not wanting to be the one saying no to their invite every year
But my god. I have never, ever been so amazed by how so many ”professional” songwriters, producers & singers manage to suck so hard. I cant think of one single song worse than anything ive heard at Eurovision and i grew up in the era of Cotton Eye Joe & eurodance.
The lyrics are mindblowingly stupid, the sound is some generic aintelligence generated crap without originality or soul, the artists voices laughable, songs are either boring or anoying or both, trying hard to win by either ”funny”, a victim, gay or binary.
Its the final destination of the shittiest music that can possibly be produced
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This is a very popular opinion. It’s considered campy and lowbrow. It doesn’t even take itself seriously.
It’s really more about the drama and the theatrics. Very few acts come out of Eurovision and become successful and respected. Celine Dion was probably the last.
ABBA
It’s not even a real singing contest because all of them use autotune
I mean, this year I would agree with this statement. None were really memorable or strong. Other years it’s been much better.
There are a few gems that do come out, like “Queen of the Kings” or “Sound of Silence”. But recently yeah things have definitely gone downhill.
Edit: everyone has their own tastes. Doesn’t make OPs post invalid, or my comment
The movie was pretty good
Kinda same, but just watch it as comedy musical show, not a song contest. The cringe suddenly becomes funny, the horrible singing becomes laughable, and the terrible hosts’ jokes become… nothing, those are the worst.
The confused sound of a straight guy discovering camp.
This was my first year watching the contest and I was entertained. Did you even watch Espresso Machiato, Mi amore, por favore?
Europapa by Joost was really good. Silly? Yes. Still a good song? Also yes
Fr, its fucking embarassing
Bambie Thug was great last year.
How dare you dismiss John Oliver’s favourite from last year like that!?
You think that’s bad you haven’t heard Brazilian Phonk
I was just yesterday thinking what would happen if we had the choice to vote for nobody in each country preliminaries. Like, with votes of 91% we shall send nobody.
It doesnt help that pretty much every song uses the same style four on the floor drum beat, its almost like Europe never left the 90’s when it comes to music lol
Eurovision is an institution God dammit! I mean, it’s awful, but how dare you.
Im from New Zealand, but my partner is English, so that’s how I first heard of it. She watches it every year with her family, it’s a nice tradition they have and I respect that. So it’s on in the background while I do other stuff.
But, my god, it’s almost cartoonishly bad, like when you watch a movie and there’s fictional bands with fictional music in the movie. I dont even like top 40 pop music, but I wouldn’t even consider this music up to even that standard, There’s something so amature about the music I can’t put my finger on it. I feel like I’m watching a parody movie about European people.
Abba still slaps, though, so there’s that, at least.
I agree most of it is trash but some are really good. I love rim tim tagi dim.
I don’t even know what Eurovision is. It keeps showing up on Reddit.
Tbh last year had some bangers, but this year was kinda crap imo.
I feel like it’s not really supposed to be “good music”. Just a fun spectacle to watch.
i like watching it in the UK because graham norton does the commentary. he takes the piss the majority of the time, so you don’t take it too seriously.
i live in liverpool so when it was hosted here a few years ago my mate had a big party where we all dressed as countries and watched the final, and then went into town afterwards. it was a great night!!