Eurovision 2020

[Levin]

I was not expecting that. Although much of Little Big's normal repertoire probably wouldn't be broadcast by eurovision

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Belgium's, "Release Me" by Hooverphonic is pure Adele Bond Theme.

[Ray de Galles]

The BBC are showing all 41 songs in a methadone Eurovision tomorrow night as part of a weekend of dedicated programming.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I saw that when I bought my "Have a Shit!" TV guide so didn't watch last night's live on youtube. Signora Rogin and I will be watching, and chatting online to the other two couples we normally have a house party with. I'm still not entirely sold on the idea that you can actually enjoy a musical performance without being able to score it in some arbitrary way.

[pebblethefish]

The only fun of Eurovision is working yourself up into a righteous fury about all the people voting for the songs you don't like, while ignoring the ones who are clearly superior. Take the voting away and it's just a bunch of shit songs.

[Gangster Octopus]

We need more than 30 seconds for each one.

[Gangster Octopus]

There's been a couple of good ones, which only get half a minute, and then some tedious singer songwriter cunt who gets to dirge us all to death. Twat.

[Gangster Octopus]

Effie got bored, so we stopped watching.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

There were two or three really good pop songs (Ireland, Lithuania, Azerbaijan) and a few really good ballads (Belgium, Italy, ours). But thIs would have won.

https://youtu.be/L_dWvTCdDQ4

[Ray de Galles]

Them or Iceland would have been worthy winners.

I didn't post here as I was having a watch party with some people but really enjoyed it. Parts of it were genuinely emotional, especially the landmarks of each country, some of the singalongs and the Italian performance in a deserted amphitheatre.

Loads of dogs in the videos and interviews too, which is a bonus.

[gavc23]

After a 13 year sabbatical from attending Eurovision to have 4 kids, my wife had tickets for this year and is still fuming it appears they’ll re-do the ballot for 2021.

The heady days of dressing as cabin crew and a schoolgirl to match the U.K. entry seem long gone now, this year she would have resorted to the drunk middle aged teacher costume presumably.

[Sporting]

How many of the songs weren't sung in English?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

France, Italy and Serbia I think. Well, and that Russian one.

[Sporting]

France had to be one of them!