Charles ☭ but you can call me the fediverse bloke<p>Did you know? <a href="https://lgbt.io/tags/Eurovision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eurovision</span></a>'s primary business activity is as a TV news wire. The song contest was designed to show off their ability to use satellites to broadcast from all of the countries they cover at once. This is still a core part of the contest! When every country "calls in" their results, all of the representatives are broadcasting via satellites!</p><p>The song contest helps the news wire in other ways as well, in terms of access for reporters. Every country in the contest is also covered by the news wire. When they could no longer do news from Russia, then Russia also was excluded from the contest. Indeed, their ability to report on news in some countries would be very negatively impacted if those countries were excluded from the contest, as it's become very prestigious in it's own right.</p><p>Follow me for more facts and history about <a href="https://lgbt.io/tags/NetworkMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkMusic</span></a>!</p>
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From the vids I've seen so far on YouTube, the theme of the songs for this year's #Eurovision is "pretty boys with high pitched operatic voices singing over rejected Faithless instrumentals"
Re #Eurovision:
Music is art. Art is always political.
Home alone practicing the Bara Bada Bastu dance.
So… is that the reason why there were no signs of Måns in last year’s #Eurovision?
#Eurovision / Israel still allowed to maintain access to platforms of cultural diplomacy despite an ongoing genocide
Israel's strategic deployment of cultural representation in the face of allegations of genocide is relentless. While facing #ICJ investigation and scholarly condemnation of a genocide that has resulted in over 46,000 Palestinians deliberately and systematically murdered by the #IDF (using U.S.-supplied weaponry,) Israel's Eurovision participation—featuring a survivor of the October 7 attack—is attempting, once again, to instrumentalize personal victimhood in service of state legitimation.
It’s difficult to ignore the fact that this centering of Israeli suffering within international cultural forums occurs simultaneously with the systematic marginalization of Palestinian perspectives and experiences. The disproportionate media attention given to Israel's Eurovision candidacy, relative to, say, coverage of ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, not to mention a brutal occupation, reflects broader patterns of narrative control that obscure accountability for actions against an occupied population.
As one Israeli commentator wrote, “the song written for her [Yuval Abraham] by Keren Peles lacks even a trace of originality and freshness, resembling something more on the level of a young talent night at an unpopular brasserie - and conveys an oppressive sense of extra effort to be appealing.[…] And if that doesn't help either, one can always say that the problem isn't the lyrics, the melody, the French, the clip, the Keren, or the Peles: in the end, everyone is antisemitic.
Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/entertainment/article/bjkqmw3s1x
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ynet · האם המתחרים היו כה איומים שזהו השיר שבחרנו לאירוויזיון?
Re: #Eurovision
Our children like the Swedish entry.
What they like most is the start of the chorus and the chorus itself.
However, being children from the #Kollum, #Fryslân area, you can't expect them to hear everything right
'Uksi, kaksi, kolme, sauna!' has been interpreted by them as 'ik zie kak zie Kollumer sauna!'
For anyone not understanding either okay of these languages
'1, 2, 3 sauna' was turned into 'i see poop see sauna from Kollum'
Just listened to the UK entry for Eurovision and honestly? Still slaps. It might be my favourite this year lmao
Maybe I'm not being overly critical about the UK this year. Maybe the song really is that great.
No clue but I like it.
@jess@blop.socialYksi, kaksi, kolme, saunaaaaaaaa!
@jess@blop.socialBara Bada Bastu’s a total bop tho.
(Måns appears to have sour grapes as well, that makes me quite sad.)
@Siph@meemu.orgSweden picked a really fun song for #ESC2025 #Eurovision this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3HOMhAeQY
Nothing groundbreaking in this era of the contest but such a nice change from the kind of stuff Sweden has been sending since forever. This is the first song in Finnish they send since 1998, and they only did it then because the rules forced them to. It’s the first time they send a song in Swedish in an edition of Eurovision without a language restriction
Funniest is that they’re not Swedish nationals, they’re a comedy group from the Swedish-speaking part of Finland, which is reflected in their song
